Chapter 2402 Distant Beacon Smoke
No matter how busy he is at work, Joan always finds some time for exercising and reading newspapers every day, which are two indispensable pleasures in his daily life.
The dairy farm is located in a remote place, making it inconvenient to buy newspapers and periodicals. Joan now relies more on the information obtained from the "cloud network".
In fact, as early as a year ago, Yunwang opened up a column dedicated to reprinting newspapers and periodicals from various places, throwing out "olive branches" to journalists from various countries in Vares, seeking cooperation.
The cooperation model proposed by Yunwang is very simple. The newspaper office provides a copy of the latest proof every day, and the editorial department of Yunwang News reprints the full text after review, and provides paid subscriptions to Yunwang users.
Users can preview newspaper headlines for free, but to read the full text, they have to spend two copper coins to buy the online version of the newspaper - which is cheaper than buying a physical newspaper.
Initially, traditional newspaper organizations were generally resistant to the new thing of "online news" and regarded Yunwang as a disruptor who broke the industry rules, especially those big newspapers with certain influence in the local area, with a conservative and arrogant attitude. With a mentality, he dismissed the cooperation emails from the news collection department of Yunwang and threw them directly into the trash can.
However, just one year later, the ecology of the news industry has undergone tremendous changes.
Now it is no longer Yunwang seeking paid reprints from major newspapers, but major newspapers lower their stance and ask Yunwang to give them a hand and help poor friends.
The change in the status of the two parties stems from the rapid expansion of the cloud network.
Today, Yunwang has no fewer than 100,000 users, and apart from a few "cloud card" users, more than 70% of users are spellcasters.
While cloud network benefits spellcasters all over the world, it also cultivates the broad class of spellcasters in the Vales world into a "petty bourgeoisie" in a broad sense.
Even if the user is just a small level 1 mage, he can automatically get at least one level 1 spell slot every day. According to the trading market of Yunwang, it is equivalent to 10 well-known Jin Du plus net income. I don’t mind spending two copper coins to subscribe a Newspapers of interest.
Ordering newspapers online is not only cheaper, but also more convenient. It takes less than ten seconds to transfer two copper coins from your own cloud account, which is especially suitable for users like Joan who live in remote places and cannot order physical newspapers.
It is not a difficult goal for a high-quality newspaper to have an average subscriber of over 3,000 after being reprinted by Yunwang.
If this is a daily newspaper, the newspaper office can earn more than 10,000 gold talers every year just through authorized reprinting!
In the entire New World, there are only a handful of newspaper giants such as the Leiden Post, the Midgard Tribune, and the New Avalon News whose annual net income can reach this level.
The most valuable resource of the cloud network is the 100,000-level high-quality users. With such a large amount of traffic, you can make a lot of money by doing just about anything.
No one does the losing business, and the profitable business is ruined. In recent years, the traditional newspaper industry has been severely impacted by the cloud network. In order to make a living, it has to lower its proud head, pick up the cooperation invitation letter from the trash can, and put on a flattering face to seek cooperation with the cloud network. What a shame.
Make money, don't be shabby!
Qiao An has subscribed to a total of hundreds of newspapers on the cloud network, and the daily subscription cost is only two gold coins. You can read through hundreds of newspapers in half an hour.
This reading method is actually not difficult at all, as long as the intelligence attribute reaches 50 points, elementary school students can learn it.
Most of the news published in the newspapers are worthless text snacks for readers to enjoy, but occasionally there are important news related to the current situation.
On the morning of July 24, Qiao An saw a piece of news that disturbed him through Yunwang News:
The two armies of the Far East have completed their assembly at the Fortress of Olivier. His Royal Highness Roland came to the military parade in person and vowed to march west!
Ever since the Imperial Expeditionary Force retreated across the board, Joan was worried that the Far Easterners would turn from defense to offense and march into the mainland of the Empire.
Originally, he hoped that the regent of the Far East would accept it as soon as it was good. Now it seems that His Royal Highness Roland and his generals' ambitions are not limited to regaining the lost land, and even sent troops to invade the former suzerain country.
The flames of war are about to spread to the interior of the empire. When will this dispute end?
Although the Far Easterners have won successive victories on the battlefield, and they seem to be strong and strong, with strong morale, Joan does not think that the Far Eastern troops are capable of breaking through the layers of passes from Harrenhal to Coastal City, advancing all the way to the holy city of Ashan, let alone It is possible to annex the Holy Ashan Empire with a population of 200 million and a territory of tens of millions of square miles!
The size gap between the two sides in the war is too large. The Far Easterners launched military operations against the empire. It was purely greedy and insane. This war, which started with fanatical cheers, will most likely end in a miserable defeat.
Qiao An really couldn't figure out, why would His Royal Highness Roland, who is recognized as a heroic hero in the world, make the same low-level mistakes that the rulers of the empire made before, and didn't understand the principle of how to stop?
Advocating peace after expulsion of the Imperial Expeditionary Force is the wisest decision. Regardless of the Empire or the Far East, lack of greed and militarism will never end well!
Closing the news page, Joan sighed, feeling that Roland Kolas, the regent of the Far East who rose like a comet, would also fall from the altar and fade away because of impulsively launching this war to counterattack the inland of the empire.
Should we discount the bond before the Far Eastern Army suffered a defeat in the interior of the empire, or fell into a guerrilla war where the people of the empire spontaneously resisted the invaders?
Joan secretly calculated.
The bond has not yet matured, and now discounting will definitely lose part of the interest income, but at least it will not lose money, which seems to be the most reasonable choice.
After hesitating for a long time, Joan still couldn't make up her mind, and felt it necessary to ask Professor Moriarty, Mrs. Josephine, and Rebecca for their opinions.
Professor Moriarty and Mrs. Josephine are more experienced in the business of financial speculation, and they can also obtain inside information that is not known to the public in advance through certain special channels.
Rebecca may not be called well-informed, but she has a magical talent derived from faith, and occasionally can predict the future with extremely developed intuition, or it is more appropriate to call it "divine revelation".
Joan and Rebecca got along with each other for a long time, and she felt more and more how powerful and terrifying her intuition was.
If the conclusion he deduced according to common sense is inconsistent with Rebecca's judgment based on intuition, it is necessary for Joan to re-evaluate the seemingly irrational military action of the Far Easterners this time.
Thinking so, Joan took out the communication crystal and planned to send a letter to Rebecca first.
At this moment, there was a sudden wave of magic power in front of him, and a ball of red light emerged.
Joan held the ball of light to read the information, and frowned involuntarily.