Chapter 84

In fact, the production of a large number of cheap paper not only solved Donne's long-suffering toilet paper problem, but also gave him a voice to control public opinion.

Yes, it's the newspaper.

He has got out the simple printing press, and now there are a lot of cheap paper to use, so it is natural for the newspaper to be launched.

In prandar, which is controlled by the apocalypse, ordinary people's life is still in the feudal period, and all news transmission is seriously lagging behind. Often, what news happens in one place may not be known in another place until a month later.

Of course, this only refers to ordinary news. If it is very important news, it will be transmitted to the end of the continent in the blink of an eye by means of magic communication - unfortunately, this method is extremely expensive, and ordinary news will not be transmitted by this method at all.

In this environment, launching newspapers is one of the best ways to master public opinion in the territory. Donne can learn from those politicians on earth, let the people see what he wants them to see, guide public opinion and consolidate his rule here.

Originally, Donne wanted to discuss with Fiona who would be responsible for the newspaper, but looking at her just now, it is estimated that looking for her will only be boring. Donne simply decided to make the first page of the newspaper by himself.

As for those who sell newspapers, those young people who are energetic and have no place to vent all day have a job. No one here will sue him for employing child labor... [E1]

So, the residents of Ellington suddenly found a strange thing. These days, the children who usually run and play all over the street suddenly became very strange. They ran all over the street to inquire about some strange things. When they came home at night, they were mysterious and their faces were full of excitement, as if they had encountered something very exciting

The adults asked them, but they didn't say it. They just giggled, which made everyone very strange.

And the answer was answered three days later.

"Sell newspaper! Sell newspaper! Fresh Datang daily!"

"Why did one eyed buck die in the street? Why did hundreds of wild animals scream in the middle of the night? Why were the soaps in the shops repeatedly blackhanded? Why did the maids and clothes in the Lord's house disappear collectively? The old widow's door was knocked every night. Is it human or dead? What is hidden behind the death of the former Lord Hogg? Is it the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality behind all this? If To know the answer, please pay attention to Datang daily! "

On the street of Ellington, a little boy ran with a satchel on his back and shouted. His words attracted the eyes of both sides of the road.

"Isn't this Victor? Why didn't you play with those little guys today? Instead, what newspaper did you sell?"

Witt grinned: "Uncle Renard, would you like a copy of Datang daily? There are a lot of interesting news on it."

Werther remembers that uncle Renard is literate and should be a good customer.

"Datang daily?"

Leonard asked curiously, "what's that? What's the news?"

"Datang daily is a newspaper with the hairstyle of Datang newspaper established by the Lord. It publishes a lot of interesting news. These interesting news recently is news. How about you? Are you interested in buying one? It's very cheap. Just one silver coin."

"A silver coin!? good boy, this newspaper is worth ten good candles I sell!"

"You can't say that," Witt retorted to Renard with an unusual glib, "No matter how good the candle is, it can only be lit at night, but this newspaper can let you know the latest news of Ellington. It even publishes the Lord's latest decree and all kinds of work information. These information is priceless, not to mention that the newspaper is made of paper! It usually costs ten silver coins to buy a piece of paper, but now so many papers only need one silver coin After reading it, you can still use it. Do you think it's really expensive? "

Leonard didn't really want to buy it, but it makes sense to listen to victor. Usually a piece of paper is so expensive. Several of these newspapers add up to a silver coin. It's very cost-effective!

"OK, then give me a newspaper!"

Leonard runs a candle shop, which is relatively rich in Ellington. It's nothing to take out a silver coin to buy a newspaper.

Several people nearby saw that Leonard bought a newspaper and immediately gathered together: "Hey, boss Leonard, what's written on the newspaper?"

Leonard enjoyed the attention so much that he opened the newspaper and read aloud.

"In today's front page news, Datang steel plant is about to be established, and new jobs are vacant. According to Lord Donne, Datang steel plant is under construction and will be completed in a few days. The steel plant has recently been established and needs a lot of staff. Therefore, it is widely invited all over Ellington. Anyone who has the ability, ideas and intention is between the ages of 16 and 50 All men can go to the recruitment office outside the Lord's house to sign up for recruitment. Once they are successfully recruited after training, the minimum salary will start from 10 gold coins a month! In addition -- "

When I first read the headline here, there was an uproar around.

"How can this steel mill be treated so well!?"

"Ten gold coins! I signed up when the Lord recruited craftsmen, but I only recruited 13 girls. I thought the LORD was partial and only gave girls a chance. I didn't expect that we have a chance now!"

"My God! I must have a try!"

"Boss Renard! Keep reading!? what else?"

Leonard saw everyone looking at him anxiously, coughed proudly and continued to read another news.

"According to our investigation, the farmers' subsidy plan promoted by the LORD before has been widely praised. Farmers in the villages around Ellington have generally received real benefits. Iron farm tools have greatly accelerated their work efficiency, allowing them to have more time to accompany their families and enjoy life, and even spare no effort to participate in the construction of Ellington and earn a second bucket of gold..."

"The caravan established by Datang chamber of Commerce has taken our specialty mint candy, soap and other products to Beiyin, the mountain city. It plans to open shops in Beiyin and establish a business road to bring more rich products and business opportunities to Ellington..."

"One eyed buck and his men died miserably in the street because miss Fiona used a precious fourth-order magic scroll, which is worth..."

"According to our exclusive news, Miss Tina, who did not want to be named, recently there was a crazy incident in the Lord's house. All the maids' clothes in the Lord's house were poisoned. Among them, all kinds of clues pointed the suspicion to the Lord..."

"What!?"

"Impossible!"

"How?"

As soon as the gossip news came out, it immediately ignited everyone's enthusiasm. Everyone stared at Leonard and continued to read.

"Cough, please wait for me to have a rest and read slowly."

Leonard felt very good and deliberately caught their appetite. He wanted to continue to enjoy the feeling of being noticed for a while.

Seeing this, Victor turned his eyes and shouted, "there are all the news you want to know in Datang daily. If you buy one, you don't have to squeeze together and read it slowly!"

After listening to Victor's cry, everyone came back and ran to him to buy newspapers. Renard woke up and found that everyone had already bought newspapers, so he had to read them bitterly.

"What?! sold out!?"

Some of the slow-moving people couldn't buy newspapers, so they were in a hurry.

"Don't worry, everyone! I don't have it here, Marshall. They may have it there!"

Witt shouted, "we Ellington Newsboy will bring you an issue of Datang Daily every day from today! The quantity is limited. Please buy early!"

After shouting, Victor slipped away.

As it was the first issue of the newspaper, Donne didn't print a lot because of everyone's habits. However, after getting the report from Witt in the evening, Donne found that he underestimated the acceptance ability of Ellington residents.

All the 1000 newspapers printed on the first day were sold out!

This was much more than dawn expected. In fact, when he finished printing the newspaper, he thought of a very important thing.

That is, newspapers take words as the main content carrier, and there are not so many literate people in Ellington.

Now, Ellington's literacy rate is not too low.

However, considering the popularity of writing, after thinking for a moment, Donne decided to start with the second issue of the newspaper and set up a literacy column to teach everyone to read and how to read the newspaper.

In this way, we can not only publicize policies and control public opinion, but also popularize words, so as to improve the average cultural level of Ellington, which can be said to kill many birds with one stone.

"Well done. These are your wages today."

Let Witt sell newspapers. One person's salary is ten silver coins a day, and a thousand newspapers are 100 gold coins. After deducting the cost of the paper mill, the profit is amazing - unfortunately, don doesn't see this profit at all. He cares more about controlling public opinion and increasing the efficiency of news dissemination.

After they got the silver coins, Witt left happily. Selling newspapers can make money faster than digging Mint grass. They can earn three gold coins by selling newspapers for a month, which was a huge sum of money that they couldn't imagine before!

Fiona exclaimed on her face, "newspaper, is this the way you think of!?"

"How does it work?"

"Great! Just now more than 50 people have applied for jobs in the steel plant! Now the headache is how to screen them."

"Leave this to me. Remember, we don't have too many workers now!"

The steelmaking plant is the top priority. There are many people and high efficiency. Of course, don doesn't mind hiring a few more people.

But at the same time, he also needs to find someone else to be responsible for the operation of Datang daily - as the Lord, of course, he can't stay there all day as a newspaper editor and write gossip news

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