Chapter 165 Magazine(1/2)
"Then do we want to contact the eldest prince? He has retreated to the south and should be in the area of Gerkada."
The other earl, Lerus Faite, spoke.
His age is the oldest among the four earls, almost seventy.
As we all know, the reason he said this is because he is a member of the great prince.
His wife comes from the same family as the eldest prince's wife.
The other people exchanged glances with each other and did not express their opinions.
"I won't mention the past. The biggest question now is, among the three princes, where should we Faralin stand?" Earl Hera said.
It is said to be three princes, but the only ones for them to choose are the eldest prince and the third prince.
At this time, Bishop Aslan knocked on the table and attracted everyone's eyes, and then said loudly:
"What I want to say next is related to this! Faralinburg, the people of Faralin, will not be inclined to any prince!"
Regarding the prince's issue, most of the earls had their own tendencies because of various personal relationships.
Not to mention Earl Fitt, Cross has a good relationship with the third prince, and Torres was originally closer to the fifth prince, and only Earl Hera is relatively neutral.
Bishop Aslan's words made several people a little confused.
"Does...we want to remain neutral?" asked Count Torres.
"It can be understood so!" Bishop Aslan nodded and said in a deep voice, "In the future, not only will he not be able to publicly express his opinions on the throne fight, but he will not even secretly support a certain prince!"
Cross and Hera looked at the nose and the nose, and looked at the heart, looking at the thing that was nothing to do with one's own affairs.
Fitt and Torres looked at each other and looked at Bishop Aslan again with puzzled eyes, obviously not quite understanding the reason.
"If you can't do this, you can pack up and leave Faralinburg!"
Bishop Aslan's tone was unprecedentedly serious, which made several people understand that this was definitely not a joke, and there was no room for negotiation.
The atmosphere in the room was a bit dull.
Several of the Counts were from Faralinburg, and their assets and homework were all in Faralinburg.
Leaving Faralin is equivalent to giving up half of the family, which is something they cannot bear at all.
At this time, Earl Cross took out several documents at the right time and distributed them to the other three counts, saying:
"Although we have defended this raid in the Kingdom of Lance, we have also exposed many problems. Therefore, in the next period of time, we will carry out drastic reforms to the garrison."
"In addition to the garrison, the government departments also need to make appropriate adjustments. Here are some general guidelines, please check it out. If you have any questions, you can provide timely feedback."
There were three copies of the documents, and they were only distributed to the three other counts except Cross.
The two bishops, Grande and Aslan, did not.
The three counts immediately understood that the two bishops had already learned about this in advance, and even the two bishops were probably involved in the policy...
The document is not long, it is just a streamlined summary. After a while, the three of them finished reading it.
One of them, [Fararin's garrison will be split... to form an army with combat capabilities.]
This made the three counts understand that Faralin is not just about being neutral, but about being independent!
"No matter which prince ascends the throne, he will not agree that Faralin has his own army, right?"
After reading it, Earl Faite asked with a frown.
Earl Cross looked at him with a cold look and said, "You don't have to worry about this. The temple has already handled this matter."
...
The earls didn't know what kind of conflict had occurred far away in Coretta, but the reforms in Farelinburg seemed to be no longer allowed to be changed.
When leaving, Earl Faite deliberately walked with Earl Cross.
He raised his hand, shook the documents in his hand and asked, "Earl Bosen, are these your thoughts?"
"Not all of them, but if these policies continue to be implemented, it will be beneficial to the development of Faraline." Cross replied calmly.
After pausing, Fatt said earnestly: "Earl Bosen, although Faralinburg is your territory, you and I are the nobles of the Gapher Empire after all, and the Counts canonized by the king."
Cross smiled, and looked back at Fat before boarding the carriage, and his tone suddenly became sonorous and powerful:
"I am the Count of Faralinburg and I will always belong to Faralinburg."
...
In the factory with a strong ink smell, Martin watched the workers press down the printing plate and then a brand new newspaper came out.
Martin took the different newspaper, and after the ink dried, he cut a large newspaper into book size paper, and then bound them into books.
The first mathematics magazine was published like this, and the title was "Mathematical Problems".
Martin flipped through the magazine with only sixteen pages of content, but was still a little unsatisfied.
There are only words, no illustrations, and although the content has been carefully arranged, the paper and ink will inevitably appear a bit rough in his eyes.
Same as Martin's exercise book when he was a child.
"The content is very interesting, and many businessmen should buy it." Gress, who was standing next to him, flipping through the content and said sincerely.
John from the printing factory was also next to him, but he was a little worried.
"Mr. Martin, this thing is so low, aren't you afraid of losing money?" He hesitated for a moment and reminded with some concern.
A magazine is priced at five copper coins, which is about half a pound of black bread in terms of purchasing power.
Ninety-nine percent of people in Faralinburg can afford it.
But John calculated that five copper coins were just enough for paper, ink and workers' expenses.
But every time you change the layout, you need to take advantage of the extraordinary people from the Craftsman Temple, which is expensive.
Although they have a cooperative relationship with several extraordinary people in the Temple of Craftsmen, they also need to pay twenty gold coins each time.
This time it was the layout that Gress helped to adjust, and it didn't cost any money.
But Glace is the deacon of the temple, and he can't bother him every time.
Therefore, the printing cost will rise after that, not only will there be no money to make money, but you will also have to pay for it.
Martin smiled indifferently: "It doesn't matter if you can't recover the cost, and the purpose of issuing this thing is not to make money."
The Count had already ordered the cost of printing the magazine to be recorded separately.
If it cannot be sold and the printing factory loses money, he will make up for it.
But in that case, the printing factory will not have any profit...
As the person in charge here, John certainly has reason to make some of his own suggestions.
Even before this, the Count had specifically instructed that he should fully trust Martin in printing magazines and follow his instructions.
Of course, Gress would not care about these things. He didn't care whether the ink was dry or not, so he picked up a copy and opened it, looking at the last page of the magazine.
There are three math problems above.
The first two are geometric problems and the other can be solved by multiple equations, which are all questions that Martin has mentioned.
But the third one made him a little curious.
In short, the title is as follows:
[Calculate pi and express it in the standard way possible.]
Someone has studied Pi a long time ago.
The approximate value is 3.14.
The extraordinary people in their craftsman sequence have a little more understanding, and Glads remembered the four decimal places - 3.1416.
But to make precise calculations, Gries thought of the "calculus" that Martin had just explained to them.
However, Martin said in class that pi is an irrational number with infinite non-cyclical cycles, so how should we express it accurately?
For a moment, Glace fell into thinking.
The main content of the magazine is presented as short stories in life, and it really ruined a lot of Martin's thoughts when arranged.
On the last page of the magazine, there are three questions.
These three questions still have prize questions and answers.
If you can solve the answer, you can send the answer to the editorial department - that is, Glads' home.
After verifying that the answer is correct, you can get a bonus worth twenty gold coins.
If different solutions can be given, each solution will have ten additional gold coins.
Currently, the only editors of this magazine are Martin and Gress, so Gress has to trouble doing the work of reading letters.
Not only did Gries not have any opinions on this, but he was reluctant to ask for it.
He thought these things were really interesting, and he would not even refuse if they could be regarded as a lifelong career.
This marketing method is so common in later generations that the public is disgusted.
To be continued...