Codex Pirates

Chapter 31 The Godfather

The sea calendar is 1508.

In the meeting room of a newspaper office in Donghai, a tall, thin, bald middle-aged man stood in front of the blackboard and shouted loudly, "News! News! I want exclusive news!"

"Sales have already fallen below the red line. If this continues and the newspaper goes bankrupt, I will kill you one by one, and then kill myself by swallowing the gun!" Like a vulture, it barks its teeth and dances its claws.

Xu Shi's editor-in-chief looked too frightening, and an editor raised his hand tremblingly like a good student.

"Say!" The editor-in-chief of Vulture waved his hand.

"The sea train of the great route has recently been completed...."

Before the good student editor could say the word "了", the editor-in-chief of Vulture had already thrown the chalk over.

"Next!"

"...The president of No. 4 Shipbuilding Company of Seventh Water Capital, due to lack of supplies, caused fifty people to die in the sea during the process of purchasing timber, resulting in the closure of No. 4 Shipyard."

The editor-in-chief of Vulture looked at the editor with an unpredictable expression, and asked, "What is the name of our newspaper?"

"... Donghai Daily."

The editor-in-chief of the vulture was furious, grabbed the chalk and threw it over, and it seemed that throwing one was not enough, and threw a few more chalks one after another, cursing incessantly: "I know it's the 'Donghai' Daily, and you keep giving me News of the great route! I make you a great route, I make you great!"

"I want Donghai news! Exclusive news! I want readers to see the first word of the title so that they can't walk!" The vulture editor let go of the editor who was smashed at one end, and shouted, "Or Like last year's Mary Joa attack, it's a popular news that can resonate with readers!"

Last year's Mary Joya attack was indeed a boon for journalists, and it was also true for local media such as Donghai Daily.

First of all, the people like to hear about the fact that the Tianlong people were deflated, and secondly, they are also very curious about the extremely rare murlocs in the East China Sea.

Although "Donghai Daily" has a formal name, it is actually just a gossip tabloid with no integrity. Increased newspaper sales.

It's a pity that this kind of gift package from heaven is not available this year!

All the editors who participated in the pre-editorial meeting had to lower their not-so-arrogant heads in the face of the editor-in-chief's majesty.

The corners of Gesetta's mouth curled up, feeling a little smug in his heart. He had made preparations long before this meeting.

"I have received news that the prohibition of alcohol in the Kingdom of Navia has actually existed in name only this year!" Gesetta tapped the notebook with a pencil, and after attracting the attention of colleagues including the editor-in-chief, He said confidently, "According to my information, at present, except for the strict supervision in the royal city of Kalma, the underground black market of the entire kingdom has never run out of alcoholic beverages."

"It's not enough...," the editor-in-chief of Vulture recovered from the popping bean state, propped his chin with one hand, muttered to himself, then stared at Gosetta and asked, "Is there any more specific news?"

Gesetta said somewhat unnaturally: "It is said that there is a complete line that spreads production, transportation, and sales, and there are people escorting alcohol smuggling."

"Nonsense!" The editor-in-chief of Vulture said unceremoniously, "You don't need to think about it to know that there is such a line, I want to explode!"

"The amazing profits of smuggling?"

"Local officials are colluding!"

The editor gave a suggestion at the first time.

The editor-in-chief of Vulture walked back and forth. These were actually enough for them to make up a series of news, but he still felt a little unsatisfied.

"Can we extend the topic to the king of the Kingdom of Navia?" Gesetta said unwillingly after being robbed of the right to speak.

The editor-in-chief of Vulture clapped his hands, and said happily: "Yes, we can install him into a popular figure gradually in several installments! A clown!"

He glanced at everyone: "What impression do people have of him?"

"Idiot!" An editor with a rosacea said bluntly.

"Harsh." Humane again.

"Should he be a Christian?"

"His ideas are too unrealistic."

While listening to everyone's words, the editor-in-chief of Vulture wrote words one by one on the blackboard: "Harsh, religious, divorced from reality..."

The editor-in-chief dropped the chalk, looked at the content on the blackboard, and fell into deep thought. The other editors also gathered around and expressed their opinions:

"What about the image of a devout believer?"

"It's too positive, readers won't buy it."

"The fanatical believer?"

"Almost mean."

The editor-in-chief of Vulture recovered from his contemplation and said loudly: "Religious madman, from now on, he is a religious madman in our writing and in the eyes of readers! A religious madman king who banned alcohol!"

Everyone was stunned, and then the horses were like a tide, and only a voice that didn't fit in the group said weakly until then: "However, it seems that only a few branches of the Protestant religion have strict support for prohibition of alcohol. The kingdom of Navia spread."

The meeting room was silent again, and after a long time, someone said in a strange voice: "People like you, sooner or later you will go to eat the bark, who cares about these things except boring guys?"

The editor-in-chief of Vulture nodded appreciatively to Gesetta and said, "Your news is good. Is there any material that can be excavated into news?"

Everyone in the room looked at Gesetta jealously, which made him somewhat overwhelmed. He only hesitated for a moment, and then said: "There is a piece of news, but it's just hearsay, without any actual evidence. Those who smuggle the Internet are just a group of young people who may not even be in their twenties..."

The reason why Gesetta hesitated was because the authenticity of this news was not even comparable to the rumors about Norton I. It was all just hearsay and had no basis at all.

But the editor-in-chief of Vulture has bright eyes. If he wants to attract readers, novelty and eye-catching are the most important things.

The editor-in-chief of Vulture waved a chalk and wrote a few large characters on the blackboard:

"Religious lunatic and godfather of youth", he also drew a circle on the word "juvenile", regardless of whether the other party is still a teenager or not.

...

In the palace of Kalmar City, the capital of Navia Kingdom, the early dynasty ended as usual.

Arcadio had recovered from his humility since he left the palace.

So what about ruling thousands of miles of territory and seas in name, the king who was born in the palace and grew up in the palace can actually see and touch it all day long, but it is only the local personnel in this radius.

Other things have to be described by the ministers around him. From this point of view, Arcadio, as the Minister of Finance, has been very careful.

Norton I is of course not the editor-in-chief of "Donghai Daily", who is about to fabricate a character like a religious lunatic. He is just too whimsical, and he also cares about his own country and people, so he is divorced from reality. Finally, he chose to use " It was actually Arcadio who "cared" for the people and the country in such a ridiculous way as "Prohibition".

Those who are hovering on the fringes of politics and want to enter the political center but cannot obtain them will profit by selling policy information, while Arcadio, a real important minister of the country, will choose to promote policies by himself to profit.

Out of caution, even though Arcadio successfully implemented the alcohol prohibition, he still didn't get involved in the premeditated smuggling business immediately, but waited for a full year, almost eliminating alcohol in the entire royal city.

On the one hand, it was to cultivate the needs of customers in the largest market in the kingdom, Kalmar, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was to completely paralyze and deceive King Norton I, making him think that the prohibition order he issued was indeed effective, so he could relax Focus on this aspect, divert attention.

Now, it's time for Arcadio to reap the bountiful fruits.

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(There is Christianity in the world of One Piece. It can be seen from the cross in Hawkeye, the nuns in Luo’s memories, and the church. From the perspective of nuns, Catholicism is more likely, because Protestantism has a higher probability than the Holy Communion. Except for branches such as Lutheranism and Lutheranism, most of them do not have nuns and monastic systems.

The Prohibition Law in the book is based on real events that happened in the United States in history, but the old American religion is mainly Protestantism. The Prohibition Law actually appeared against the background of events such as the Puritans and the women’s movement. heroism".

I don’t believe in religion, so there may be some mistakes. Readers who believe in religion don’t shoot me, and please don’t ask me how I know these things, I’ll gnaw on the bark.

The last chapter marked is a foreshadowing, and you can remind it when you dig it out later, and this chapter is the same. Since the pursuit of rationality and IQ is online, we need to fill in the details. Using cooking as an analogy, I don’t know if this book is a good dish, but I want to make a good dish for everyone to taste, and please give me some time to prepare the dish. )

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