Fast, Soruman Bronzebeard, Mr. Victor, Francois, Leila, Ingrid, Evelyn, Martin, and even Michael and the Bard temporarily returned to Star Moon Bay
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Anyway, friends who are still in Xingyue Bay are all sitting around the round table at this time. The last time everyone gathered together so neatly was... last time.
"But why are you here?" Annan looked at Martin sitting between Fast and Bronzebeard in confusion.
"I saw the boss coming while I was sleeping, so I followed him."
"Can you tell Aunt Susan for me that I want lamb stewed with peas for dinner?"
"oh."
Martin left happily. Annan looked at the remaining people and spoke out the two ideas he had born in Breeze City: The first one is to let all the residents of Xingyue Bay master the common language of receiving magic.
"It is expected to cost about 2,000 gold coins. It would be better if you can find a way to save some money."
"Why?" Bronzebeard asked everyone's doubts.
Annan said what he and Olmedo said: Workers without knowledge are just workers, but workers with knowledge will have unlimited possibilities-in addition to becoming professionals.
Mr. Victor's dissatisfaction is clearly visible.
"As long as the school is built, we can achieve similar results in just a few months, so why spend so much money?" Ingrid's pain was clearly visible.
"Because compared to 2,000 gold coins, we are short of time."
As long as Annan thinks about it, if he goes to Breeze City to attend a banquet and holds the hands of ladies and ladies at the banquet and prays, he can sell more than a dozen magic stones. In a few months, Bethal City will become like this.
At that time, the two magical images had already spread in other towns, and then Fenghuo City, other city-states in other provinces...
Annan couldn't ask all the nobles to give him a gold coin, but he could ask the nobles he saw to give him 100 gold coins.
Michael and the others, who knew how fast Annan was making money, didn't care, but the old orcs who were not familiar enough thought it was a waste. Annan looked out the window while they were arguing——
As the month entered March, the weather became warmer and warmer. Even standing outside at noon a few days ago was warm in the sun. As a result, the next day, a cold wave crossed the snow-capped mountains and swept across the north without any hindrance.
From the approaching spring to the bitter winter, the snow on the eaves and streets is nearly half a meter thick.
Xingyue Bay was not affected, but Glacier Port had no time to react. Not only did the ice that had been cleared a few days ago refreeze, but the wooden frames that stood there were also frozen. If they wanted to thaw, they could only wait for spring or directly break them and rebuild.
"What was your second thought?"
Annan's attention returned to the room: "Have you discussed it yet?"
"You are the lord anyway, you earned all this money." Fast said lazily.
Then Annan talked about the second thing: spreading news.
"Michael, is it difficult to make a painting move?"
"Magic is time-sensitive, and the only way to make magic effects last is with magic props..." Michael's implication is that all magic props are expensive.
The cheapest one is the Claudia magic stone, which costs one gold coin.
If spending 2,000 gold coins to make all the people in the territory proficient in the common language is a sign of success, news like news from an alternative tavern is incomprehensible to them.
“What is it used for?”
"Promote Xingyue Bay. When many people jointly praise a place as good, then it is good, even if they have never met."
You look at the magical images of Xingyue Bay, watch the news about Xingyue Bay, and listen to people around you saying that Xingyue Bay is good... you will naturally yearn for it. And when others ask you if you know Xingyue Bay,
You might also say, "Yes, it's a beautiful place. I really want to see it."
The bard clapped his hands and agreed: "Just like the Principality of Keating, we all say that there is a strong business atmosphere, the twin ministers are lawful and friendly, and the merchants value contracts, allowing countless gold diggers and merchants to try their luck. In fact, they are all liars and devils.
Let the trainee devils go there for testing."
"Really?"
"Fake, how can the trainee devil be the opponent of those profiteers?"
As a "newspaper", and a newspaper for Breeze City, the most important thing is to choose news. The Annan plan is divided into news from Breeze City and the northern region. From murders to new laws in the city-state, but the news is just too boring.
Adding a weather forecast? It just so happens that they have the old Zoron, but the inaccurate forecast will make the "newspaper" questionable.
"We can teach them to blacksmith!"
Bronzebeard suggested, to which the bard quipped: "Your ideas are as tall as your height."
The tit-for-tat Bard and Bronzebeard each contributed a good idea: a joke session and knowledge popularization.
The bard told a dwarf joke, and Bronzebeard didn't react much, but Ingrid frowned and said: "This kind of joke will destroy the reputation that Xingyue Bay has worked hard to accumulate."
"But maybe an angry dwarf will come and discover that the houses here were built by dwarves, and the largest blacksmith shop belongs to dwarves."
"Using the cautious nature of the dwarves to lure them here?" Fast remembered something and laughed.
"We just hold grudges, not being petty."
"It's almost the same."
Annan adopted this suggestion and joke. Then he told elven jokes in the second issue, humans in the third issue, orcs in the fourth issue... Offending all races once meant that no one was offended.
"These are not worth a silver coin," said Michael.
"So I'm prepared to do it for only 5 copper coins, the price of a glass of sweet ale."
"It's too cheap...Are you going to withhold the money from Claudia? Or let it be shown in the theater like the magic image?"
Hundreds of people reading 'newspapers' in a theater? That seems a bit weird...
Annan just said: "You are a Breeze City bakery owner and a loyal 'Jack' fan. When you heard that 'Jack' was making a new thing but needed money, you took out the ten dollars that you had saved for a long time.
Mekinnall, when you opened the door the next day, you found that the outside was crowded with customers who wanted to buy bread. From their conversation, you learned that 'Jack' promoted your bakery in the 'News'..."
This is Annan's idea - to recruit advertisers. He has already thought of the first early adopter, the wine lady.
Evelin raised her hand at this time: "I think it's very interesting, but can this be as popular as the magic image?"
"So I plan to test it in Xingyue Bay first and adjust it based on the feedback of the people."
To prevent being caught first, they had to hide it from the merchants traveling to and from Xingyue Bay - but the cost of recording the magic stone prevented them from taking it away.
"One last question, what do we call it?"
Francois's question made everyone look at Annan at the same time.
"Magic...newspaper?"
"This is neither magic nor paper," Michael said.
"It will look magical if you add magic, and I am a warlock."
"A sorcerer who can't even use a mage?"
"I am a warlock, why do I need to know the hands of a 'mage'?"
