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Joseph said in a deep tone: "Then she saw the gun, surrounded by blood, and in the mirror, she had a hideous wound on her head with a burned edge! Yes, it had obviously been hit by a bullet.

Barre's eyes suddenly widened: "Oh God, this is so incredible! She's not dead?!"

"Yes," Joseph said, "Moreover, she also discovered that she has divine power and can float in an endless gray mist..."

"That's amazing! What's the name of this novel?"

“It’s called ‘The Lord of Girlfriends’.”

…

After Barre left, Joseph continued to the next writer: "You are going to write a story about a nobleman who was imprisoned in the Bastille because of mental illness.

"This young man's name is Phil Lee. He claims that when he closes his eyes, he will enter a magical world.

"There was an evil wizard there who captured many boys and girls with deformities or diseases and used them to refine immortality potions. And Phil Lee was also captured..."

…

When Joseph set his sights on Beaumarchais, the most famous old writer in France was already a little impatient: "Oh, your highness, what is my story?"

Joseph immediately thought of Tian Haishan, his favorite online writer in his previous life. Each of his books can quickly become popular across the country, and he is only 100 million steps away from the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he is also extremely handsome.

Joseph was so familiar with every book in Tianhaishan that he immediately blurted out: "This novel is called "Lady, Please Stop"..."

The day passed quickly. At dusk, Joseph received four manuscripts.

Beaumarchais and others are indeed great writers who are famous in France. The novel is extremely vivid. Whether it is the characterization or the description of the plot, everyone's style is revealed between the lines, making people read it like drinking wine.

However, Joseph found that each person submitted only 4 pages of work, with a maximum of 2,000 words.

He had to tactfully suggest that several great writers should write more every day.

Beaumarchais and others looked at each other. You know, because the story was so exciting, they were so fascinated by it that they didn't even eat lunch. This is already more than double their usual volume of publications.

And the crown prince seems to be too little!

After several people returned, they called in their disciples or writer friends to help, not just to earn more royalties. These great writers are not short of money, mainly because they want to write faster so that they can listen to the crown prince narrate the subsequent plot as soon as possible.

On Joseph's side, he sent someone to send the manuscript to the "Paris Business" newspaper overnight, asking Denic to print it as soon as possible.

At dawn the next day, Denico rushed to the Palace of Versailles with a sample of the magazine to report to Joseph on the first publication after the revision.

Joseph first roughly flipped through the two newspapers.

One is "Paris Business". The overall style is still based on the previous "freedom and ideals", introducing market trends, business insights and so on. The difference is that the entire second page is devoted to a novel called "Refining the Sky". The third page is an explanation of the content of the new tax bill.

The other is the newly published "News and Pictures" - the publishing license can be obtained at noon. Of course, this is a speed exclusive to the Crown Prince. It usually takes at least two months to apply for a license.

"News and Bild" was not so polite. The title on the front page was "Exploring the deep-seated reasons for repeated failures to register the new tax bill." The second version is "The Lord of Girlfriends". Most of the other pages are related to tax bills, with some hot news from across France interspersed.

As for the pictures, since lithographic printing is not yet online, we only include some Paris landscape paintings that have been engraved on the plates before. In the future, a large number of news illustrations will be published, but in this era there are no photos, so we can only ask artists to draw illustrations.

Joseph is quite satisfied with Denico's work, as he deserves to be a member of a family with three generations working in the newspaper industry.

Once these two newspapers appeared in the hands of the Paris people, the big aristocratic group would no longer be able to monopolize the channels of public opinion.

When Denic saw that the Crown Prince had read the sample issue, he immediately reported: "Your Highness, according to your instructions, the monthly subscription price of both newspapers is 3 livres.

"I feel I must warn you that at this price we will be seriously losing money."

Most daily newspapers nowadays cost 6-8 livres a month, and weekly newspapers cost between 1 livre, 10 sous and 2 livres.

"Paris Business" and "News and Pictures" are daily publications, and the price of 3 livres is definitely a loss.

Joseph nodded calmly: "It doesn't matter, just sell it at this price. Once the lithographic printing is completed, the cost should be reduced to less than 3 livres per month."

In fact, it doesn't matter to him even if he loses a little - once the sales of the newspaper increase, he will definitely be able to turn losses into profits by relying on advertising revenue alone.

Seeing that he was very determined, Denico had no choice but to continue reporting the next thing: "Your Highness, of those 'newsboys' you mentioned before, I have recruited more than 40 people here."

He hesitated and said carefully: "I think there may not be many people willing to buy newspapers on the streets of Paris."

The newsboy is the new newspaper sales method prepared by Joseph.

At present, the newspaper industry in various European countries basically adopts the model of ordering newspapers in advance and then delivering them to customers by "paper delivery boys".

And the newsboy that would be familiar to later generations had not yet appeared.

One of the important reasons that restricted newspaper retail sales in the past was the high price. On average, a newspaper costs 4 to 6 sous. The average craftsman's daily wages are only 5 to 10 sous. Few people would buy a newspaper on a whim.

Now, Joseph has lowered the price of a newspaper to 2 sous, and in the future it will be reduced to 1 sous, or even lower. At this price, many people can afford it.

Joseph knew very well that street retail was the best channel for selling newspapers!

The newsboy shouted out the highlights of the newspaper, and passers-by who seemed interested could easily buy a copy. Moreover, the newsboy can also sell other items and use the profits to lower the cost of the newspaper.

As for “child labor”…

There is no such thing as this in this era.

At present, in every country in Europe, there are many children working in workshops at the age of seven or eight. They are the important breadwinners of the family.

Selling newspapers, a relatively easy and high-paying job, is expected to be filled by people soon.

After Joseph gave Denic some more instructions, the newspaper manager said goodbye and returned to Paris.

What they didn't know yet was that the two newspapers had already caused quite a storm in Paris.

On the streets of Paris, children waving newspapers were heard shouting:

"Read the newspaper! 2 sous per copy! There is the latest novel in the newspaper - an alchemical boy suddenly breaks off his fiancée's engagement! Can he seek justice after three years?"

The man had just received his salary yesterday and bought a newspaper out of curiosity. He was immediately attracted by the wonderful story on the second page. He looked around as he walked, until he hit a tree and realized that he had gone the wrong way.

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