Volu 1 Chapter 83 Hannas’ ambition
The mysterious guest stood up and opened the cloak that even wrapped up her head, revealing a beautiful face with a heroic feel to it, as well as a pair of long and sharp ears.
It was the female elf Agnes Xu Yi had t in the Angola Tribe last ti.
“I still don’t believe in humans now.” Agnes ignored the taunting tone in Xu Yi’s voice and her face was calm, “If it wasn’t for the fact that the elder said that the blueprint you gave us could help the problem of our tribe, I wouldn’t have been sent here.”
Xu Yi revealed a smile and didn’t waste more ti on aningless words. He asked Agnes to sit down and poured a cup of cold water for her according to her request. He then sat down across from her and took out the blueprint Alex had handed him from before.
That blueprint was the one Xu Yi had left with chief Monto when he left the Angola Tribe, having him give it to Agnes. So when he saw this blueprint and heard from Alex that this guest wouldn’t show her face at all, Xu Yi imdiately knew that this guest was Agnes.
“Miss Agnes, based on what you said, not only have you seen these blueprints, you even showed them to the elders of your tribe?” Xu Yi asked.
“Yes. The elder looked at it and felt that there is a high chance of this thod working, so he had co looking for you. To implent this thod, what do we need to do?” Agnes said with a nod.
Xu Yi looked over the blueprint. This was a thod created by mixing many similar cases back on earth, so of course it was very likely this would work.
“I’m very sorry, miss Agnes, I’m afraid I can’t tell you what you need to do.” Xu Yi shook his head, “I had only heard a bit about your problem from chief Monto and only gave an approximate solution based on my own experiences, but because I don’t know the exact situation, I can’t give you a concrete thod. Unless I could inspect the area in person, I wouldn’t be able to tell you what you need to do.”
Agnes considered this a bit before asking, “Your aning is that you want to go to our tribe to look at the situation?”
“That’s right.” Xu Yi confidently said.
Agnes was silent for a bit before shaking her head.
“I’m afraid not. It’s been several hundred years since our tribe has hand any humans enter it and we don’t welco humans either.”
“Then even if I want to help, I can’t do anything.” Xu Yi stretched out his hands and helplessly said, “Miss Agnes, I think you must admit that solving the problem with the river is a large project and I can’t give you a concrete solution with just my imagination. If you can’t let inspect the area, I can only say I’m sorry.”
Agnes was silent for a bit before suddenly standing up. She placed the index and middle finger of her right hand on her chest and gave Xu Yi a slight bow, “Since it’s like this, I will be leaving first. I hope you receive Elune’s blessings in your dreams.”
After saying this, Agnes left without even turning back.
Xu Yi opened his mouth and wanted to call out to stop her, but he let go after thinking about it.
The elves had this kind of personality, so he couldn’t change Agnes’ thoughts even if he called out to stop her. It was better to let the elven tribe make their own decision.
Anyway, Xu Yi was not in a rush for this matter, the one in a rush were the elves.
After thinking about so things in the office, Xu Yi stood up to leave. He gave so more requirents for the new factory to manager Riley before getting onto a horse carriage and heading to a small yard to the north of Banta City.
When he walked into this yard, Xu Yi heard Baron Hannas roaring out.
“Millet, move faster! If can’t finish the drafts by dinner, we might not even get to sleep tonight!”
“McCovey, stop standing in a daze, why haven’t you taken the prepared drafts over to printing yet? What are you standing there like a fool for?”
“ghan, are those fellows responsible for collecting news back yet? It’s almost ti to finalize the draft! If you don’t co back, they should give up on their wages today!”
…...
Hearing this voice that was a bit hoarse, Xu Yi never would have connected this voice to Baron Hannas who had seed quite shy when he t him for the first ti.
It seed that being the chief editor for the ?Banta Tis?, it had changed Baron Hannas quite a bit.
Looking around the small building in the yard, he found that it was quite busy.
There were over ten young n and won bent over desks, desperately writing sothing. There were people organizing docunts and people running back and forth sending sothing…...
Standing in the middle shouting and pointing while looking over the docunts in his hand was Baron Hannas.
It was unknown if it was because he was too busy, but Baron Hannas’ face was currently covered in a large beard. He looked quite rough and his clothes were a bit disorderly, while many places were stained with black ink from who knows where. He was a completely different person from the person Xu Yi t the first ti.
“Hey, your excellency Baron, are you still busy?” Xu Yi raised his hand to wave at Baron Hannas.
Hearing this voice, Baron Hannas looked over in a daze. After he saw Xu Yi, his brows jumped up and he revealed a look of joy.
“Chairman Xu, it’s great that you’re here, I was looking for you!”
“Oh? Looking for ? Do you need sothing?” Xu Yi was a bit surprised, “Could it be the Magic Printing Press is broken?”
“No, no, no, the Magic Printing Press is our treasure, how could it break? But finding you is related to the Magic Printing Press. This…..Chairman Xu, look, the sales for our ?Banta Tis? keep increasing and just relying on a single Magic Printing Press, we’re already having trouble keeping up. Can you help make another…...No, it’s best if it’s two, oh, no, it’s best if it’s three! How about it? Three Magic Printing Presses? It should be that hard for you, right?”
“Are you certain you want three?” Xu Yi looked at Baron Hannas in surprise.
The Magic Printing Press he made was based on the movable font printing press from earth. Because the Sines Continent used a character language system, using the ancient Chinese movable font printing system was the simplest. Adding in a Wind Attributed Magic Array to power it, it could finish printing two thousand sheets in just one hour.
The ?Banta Tis? had ten pages and if you count both sides, it was only twenty pages.
This ant that if a Magic Printing Press was operating at full power, it could print one hundred copies of ?Banta Tis? in an hour.
Xu Yi knew that Baron Hannas decided the contents of tomorrow’s ?Banta Tis? by dinner ti, so counting from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, there was a full twelve hours of ti to print ?Banta Tis?.
Even if one removed the break tis and so accidents in between, there was enough ti to print a thousand ?Banta Tis?.
Now Baron Hannas was all of sudden asking for three Magic Printing Presses from Xu Yi, this ant that the amount of ?Banta Tis? printed each day would be over three thousand copies!
This was a very shocking number. It had to be known that there were less than thirty thousand people in Banta City and if they were divided into households, that would only be five thousand households.
With the education level of Banta City’s people, it was impossible for each family to purchase a copy of ?Banta Tis?. It was already good enough for a tenth to buy it, so a single Magic Printing Press was enough.
“That’s right, three machines.” Baron Hannas gave an assured nod, “Xu Yi, you haven’t been here lately, so you don’t know so things. Right now just in Banta City, the ?Banta Tis? can sell a thousand copies each day and I have sent people to establish selling points in the villages outside the city. Even if each village only buys one or two copies each day, that will gradually accumulate. I can guarantee that not long after, we can sell many ?Banta Tis? in the villages outside the cities. This is because there are many more people outside Banta City, so the sales for outside Banta City for the ?Banta Tis? will reach a thousand copies in the future.”
“This still isn’t enough for you to request three Magic Printing Presses at once, right?” Xu Yi said in a confused voice.
Baron Hannas laughed, “Xu Yi, do you know that outside of the ?Banta Tis?, I have already set up two branches in Saltan City and Karma City?”
Xu Yi was stunned as he asked, “You moved this quickly?”
Baron Hannas gave a proud laugh, “It’s just this fast. If nothing unexpected happens, I can guarantee that in just a week, the ?Saltan Tis? and the ?Karma Tis? will be on sale! When that ti cos, I will know everything about those two cities! Moreover, I will spread these newspapers to every part of the Lampuri Kingdom, even across the entire Sines Continent!”
Seeing Baron Hannas beco even more proud and filled with zeal towards work, Xu Yi couldn’t help sighing in his heart.
When he saw Baron Hannas for the first ti, Xu Yi thought he was a normal noble with a good family education. He never thought that after bringing out his gossip side and Xu Yi threw out a ?Banta Tis? for him, a large chance would occur with him. He beca this passionate worker and this reporter with outstanding energy.
The reason why the ?Banta Tis? could develop so quickly was related to the enormous amount of energy Baron Hannas had placed into it.
Based on his family background and his relations, Baron Hannas didn’t encounter any unexpected hindrances when setting up the ?Banta Tis?. This new thing was naturally welcod by countless people, so it could develop to this state in a short period of ti.
“Eh…...Actually, Hannas, the nas of newspapers don’t all need to be called tis. You can call them things like ?Saltan Morning News? or ?Karma Herald? or things like that.” Xu Yi gave a small suggestion and saw a look of joy appear on Baron Hannas’ face, but he suddenly changed the topic, “But speaking of this, Hannas, are you really prepared to stay in Banta and not return to Anvilmar?”
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