The Secretary of Finance Office.

Old Maselli had just come out of the study, washed his face and sat in front of the dining table, and started to have breakfast.

The empire has developed very well over the years. Although it has some friction with the Shawell Empire, it has never suffered much.

But only Old Maselli, who was the Minister of Finance, knew that the empire's finances were already in danger, because of the expansion of the empire's emperor Coker Rupert, the empire's finances were under great pressure.

What Rupert said is good-looking is called a talented and strategy, but if you cross the boundary a little, you will become a poor soldier. Rupert is very ambitious and always wants to expand the empire's territory. Especially the empire lacks enough sea outlets. Nowadays, sea transportation is becoming more and more developed. Many countries have made enough gold coins in sea transportation, but the Silver Sword Empire cannot get a share of the pie, which makes him feel a little unhappy.

As the imperial minister of finance, Maselli is not very popular with the emperor now because in terms of finance, he is compressing expenses most of the time and cannot give enough support to the emperor's expansion plan.

However, Rupert also knew that in terms of the empire, there was no more suitable person at the moment. It was much more difficult to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

As soon as Old Marcel sat down, he saw his son Yubote walking in hurriedly with something in his hand.

Before Old Marcelie could speak, Yubote walked to his father, handed the thing in his hand to the table, and said, "Father, I saw a new issue of newspapers coming out. I bought it for you, and there were also white papers."

"Newspaper?" Old Maselli picked up the top newspaper.

At first glance, he found that this newspaper was different from what he had seen. The front page headlines were not the original news about the white paper. He carefully looked at the date marked on the newspaper. The time and the number of periods were different. He calculated the time.

[They really need to publish an issue in half a month?] Old Maselli felt a little shocked.

When the first issue of the newspaper was published, he was very surprised and was always paying attention to the development of the newspaper. Although there are magazines now, the distribution is irregular because they cannot receive enough manuscripts in time. Sometimes the manuscripts are too concentrated and the intervals are very short.

When Old Maselli saw the newspaper for the first time, he thought of the newspaper's propaganda function. If he could master a newspaper, then public opinion and propaganda would be greatly saved and the effect would be better.

"I know you like newspapers very much. After hearing this, I immediately went to buy it for you." Yubot said while pleasing.

Old Maselli turned his eyes away from the newspaper and turned to look at Yubote: "Did you buy it yourself?"

"Hehe..." Yubote smiled embarrassedly, but did not speak.

He did not buy this newspaper. He asked his servant to get up early and went to the Valoca Chamber of Commerce to grab it. He only got up after the servant bought it back and sent it to Old Maselli. Otherwise, he should have not gotten up yet.

"Father, since you like this newspaper so much, you might as well ask the Valoca Chamber of Commerce for coming. The newspaper is of no use in their hands, and there are white papers. This thing is also very good and should be in our own hands." Yubote said in a low voice when he saw that his father was not angry.

Old Maselli shook the newspaper, turned it over, and said without raising his head: "I know you have some holidays with the Valoca Chamber of Commerce, but don't make such a bad idea. The newspaper is run by Longgen College. If the college comes forward, even Your Majesty will not be able to protect you."

Yubotnono said, "No...no, how could I have this idea?"

Old Marceli ignored Yubote and said to himself: "It's white paper. In the first phase, it was said that it would be open. I just don't know what form it will be. Then you can get authorization and set up a workshop specializing in the production of white paper."

"I don't want to be like others. What money can I make when I open up? It's boring." Yubote said disdainfully.

Old Marceli frowned and looked at Yubote, but said nothing. He also knew what his son was and stopped talking about him.

He was going to observe for a while. If possible, he hoped that the empire could also run a newspaper and a paper mill. However, he didn't have much clues on how to print it, but he thought that the palace mage would have a way.

Continuing to read the newspaper, he suddenly saw a news about the Shawell Empire. It did not rain much in the west of the Shawell Empire throughout the summer, and a large area of ​​drought occurred. Due to the heat and drought, the western part of the Shawell Empire not only had food failures, but this summer, many civilians died under the influence of famine and heat. Now, there are signs of plague.

Now the entire empire is making every effort to provide disaster relief, especially to prevent plagues. Even the newspapers remind that the Shawell Empire must do a good job in preventing and controlling plagues, otherwise it is likely to threaten the entire western part of the empire. And it is not just a plague, because the disaster is serious, and there are even signs of rebellion now.

In addition to disaster relief, the Empire not only sent a palace to worship the wizards, but also drew a small team from the Imperial Knights to lead a regiment to the affected area.

Old Maselli's eyes lit up, and he quickly put away the newspaper, stood up, and said to his son: "Don't call the Valoca Chamber of Commerce recently. Their relationship with the academy is closer than you think, and it is not something you can mess with. The Jiayi who came last time is said to have a close relationship with the badge of the Mage Association, and his teacher is even more purple-robed wizard. Don't mess with them."

After saying that, he left in a hurry without even having breakfast.

Last time Yubote asked the palace mage to take action, he secretly slandered Jiayi, but Jiayi escaped and involved the president of the mage association. It was impossible for them to investigate Jiayi's background.

Yubote was worried for a long time and did not see anyone taking revenge, so he slowly jumped up again.

......

Jiayi and the others returned to the chamber of commerce from the factory, and Eunice immediately came over. She said proudly, "Jiayi, the newspapers are sold very quickly. Do you have more? Give them all to me."

Jiayi shook his head and said disdainfully: "Don't think about it anymore. The remaining newspapers I have to take to different locations along the way. You have the most. Are you selling them out now?"

"Of course not. There are still some people who don't know very well, but looking at this, they can be sold out in three days at most."

This time is actually not too fast. If it is a daily newspaper, it is already unsalable, but this is also because the publicity and market have not been cultivated. There are no newspaper boys selling along the streets, and many people don’t know that the newspaper has started to be released in the second issue, and the habit of reading newspapers every day has not been developed.

Eunice leaned closer to Jiayi and asked, "Jiayi, do you still have the first newspaper now? Especially the first edition of the newspaper, the handwritten one."

"Sure." Jiayi recalled, "I remember I had a newspaper in the study. Did you move Machi?"

"No, we have it too, why do you need to touch your newspaper?" Mackey said disdainfully.

As a nearby building, Jiayi and the others got it as soon as the newspaper was published, which was faster than the others.

"Then I have it."

Eunice immediately said, "Can you give me this newspaper?"

Jiayi was a little surprised: "What do you want newspapers for? Don't you? You sell newspapers."

The first edition of the newspaper Valocca is also available for sale, but the quantity is small, and there is a second edition or even the third edition. Even if the sales are good, Eunice will not be able to sell all the newspapers and leave no one left.

"The sales volume was so good at that time. I collected a portion of the newspapers from our chamber of commerce employees and gave them to my partners. Now that the second issue of the newspaper is released, it means that the first issue is out of print and the collection value has increased greatly. Many people come to me to buy, and they are all partners. Of course, I have to try my best to maintain a good relationship with them."

This is a trend that has just begun. In fact, it is still too popular, but there are already signs of this, especially for the first edition of newspapers. This edition is handwritten fonts, not only rare, but also different typesetting and fonts from subsequent reprints. It is like a misprinted RBM, which is particularly valuable for collection.
Chapter completed!