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Chapter 711: Leverage for Publicity
Schneider's debt crisis was resolved.

Ah Fu clapped his hands and someone immediately brought the gold coins.

The gold coins of the city of Berlin are similar to those of the Rhine Alliance, containing 3.5 grams of gold each, so the gold coins produced by the Principality of Wessen can also be used directly.

But today everyone's eyes were opened.

The gold coin that the followers took out first was a little over 15 cm in diameter, 1 cm thick, and weighed 3.5 kg. One side had Frederick's profile, and the other side had Frederick's castle.

Such a gold coin is equal to 1000 florins and is made for the convenience of counting. It is generally only used between governments at all levels and large enterprises within the Principality of Wessen. Some wealthy people also keep them at home or use them to show off. It has basically not been leaked and there are only rumors outside.

Rumor has it that there is also a large gold coin equivalent to 10000 florins, with a diameter of about half a meter. It is mainly stored in the vaults of the Wessen government and the Wessen Bank. It is said that it is made so large to prevent someone from kicking the gold coins into their pockets and taking them away.

This kind of gold coin is only a rumor within the Principality of Wessen and has never appeared in public.

Today, Ah Fu brought two extra-large gold coins and ten large gold coins, and everyone in Borling City was shocked.

Not to mention them, Frederick didn't expect him to play like this.

"Is 30,000 florins enough?" Alfu asked Schneider.

Metzger said, "If that's not enough, I brought five thousand florins for pocket money."

Casimir just came to his senses and was frightened again.

As a king, although his total annual pension was large, his fixed expenses such as castle maintenance were also high, and his annual pocket money was less than half of Metzger's.

Schneider immediately said, "That's enough, but I can't find it."

At this time, the banker in the city immediately jumped out and said that he would take over the task of making the change without charging any service fee.

Ah Fu suggested that he should open an account here for Wessen, deposit the money into it, and then transfer the money to Schneider using wire transfer.

The bank manager and staff came immediately, opened an account and transferred money on the spot, and Schneider also issued a bill of exchange to repay the money.

When Schneider handed the last bill of exchange to Baumgart, the reporter closest to the door immediately ran out and ran to the telegraph station to send the incident back to Weissenburg as quickly as possible.

Other local reporters also rushed back to the newspaper office and began printing the latest special edition.

Late at night, Frederick met with everyone in Alfu's room.

Ahfu said: "I have arranged that all cities with newspapers east of the Elbe will report this incident for five consecutive days."

Frederick said: "There may be a lot of water behind this incident, so we must report it in a way that is favorable to us, and we can exaggerate it appropriately."

Luo Meng smiled and said, "The gossip nowadays is already exaggerated enough. Some people say that I used tailor's scissors to force the master to pay."

Everyone laughed together.

When Eusebio saw Roman and Frederick joking like this, he became nervous for a moment, fearing that Frederick would get angry.

He saw Frederick laugh, and he laughed along in slow motion.

After Frederick finished laughing, he said, "Just play here for a few days and consider it a vacation on public funds."

"By the way, I heard that they are going to build a new bridge on the river here, and they are collecting donations. You can consider it."

Metzger said, "Someone told me about it tonight at the dinner, and I can make up the rest of the money."

He felt that there might be some deeper meaning behind Frederick's mention of the bridge, so he accepted it as a military order.

Frederick just said it casually, and joked: "You might as well donate more, maybe you can erect a bronze statue at the bridge head."

Metzger thought he understood, and this was to do his own advertising.

Although the Weisen Army is prohibited from engaging in commercial activities, he wants to advertise his own Fuqiang powder, but this is political propaganda, not commercial behavior, so it is not illegal. Frederick didn't know that he had so many psychological activities, and continued: "In a few days, the guild here will hold a cake competition. You can go and try it. Just don't recognize me when you see me."

This time Frederick's instructions were simple: things had to be wrapped up properly, everyone had to establish a good image, and have a happy ending.

"But be careful," Frederick said finally, "because this city is politically sensitive, so don't take any political stance."

Eusebio tried to be serious and said, "Although I don't know much about the history and politics here, I can pretend not to understand when I realize that something is wrong."

With his IQ, it would only take him half a year to learn the language here, and now he has no problem bargaining with people at the vegetable market in Weissenburg.

But he is from the southern coast of the inland sea. If he says he doesn't understand and then speaks a lot of his hometown dialect, others really can't do anything to him.

Frederick smiled and said, "Yes, that's it."

"You can talk about food, drink, entertainment and academic issues, but you can't understand political issues."

What he was most worried about was Eusebio, but now that the big guy said he would play dumb, there was nothing to worry about.

Eusebio had a plan in mind and understood what kind of boss Frederick was and how he liked to talk, which made communication much easier in the future.

After chatting for a while, Roman, Metzger and Eusebio returned to their rooms, leaving only Frederick and Alfu.

Next, let’s talk about things on the hidden front.

Ah Fu said: "We have heard that the city government conducted an investigation into last night's fight today and has preliminary results."

"Half of the weapons the deceased had came from the Piast Kingdom, and the other half came from surrounding cities. I judged that they had been in this city and used foreign weapons specifically to confuse people."

"I have a guess that the people who use weapons from the surrounding cities are long-term sleeper agents, and the other half are recent arrivals from the Piast Kingdom."

After thinking for a moment, Frederick said, "The struggle here will be fierce in the future. I suggest arranging several lines, which are independent of each other and have no control over or knowledge of each other."

"They will need to be kept in cold storage for a long time."

"The war in the Kingdom of Danmar has delayed the Rhine Alliance's eastward advance. If our king makes another mistake, this time will be in the unit of ten years."

"What happened last night has revealed that we have people here. In that case, let them attract the enemy's attention and clean up the enemy's grassroots and middle-level forces after the reinforcements arrive."

"First, to warn the other party, and second, to facilitate the subsequent work."

Ah Fu said he understood and would arrange the work later.

"Oh, right!" Frederick remembered something, "Do you know where the old house of the Wesson family is here? Buy it if possible."

Alfred said, "I came to this city many years ago with the old Earl, and he looked up the municipal archives."

"The house was sold then, and was later resold several times. It was abandoned after a fire. The urban development center has changed several times in the past hundred years. A church was built on the land fifty years ago."

Frederick was speechless. There was nothing he could do, so he said, "Then please donate some money to that church for me."

"Well, how about this? I can entrust that church to build an orphanage, and I will donate it from my own pocket every year."

"You can look up the newspapers these days. An orphanage had an accident because of a collapsed roof beam."

"Use this as a start, and then see if there is anything else in the city that can be funded. If you don't have enough money, borrow from the Dawn Chamber of Commerce first."

Ah Fu said, "I understand. I will arrange for a reporter to follow up on this matter."

He thought Frederick wanted to publicize these things, but Frederick really didn't think about it, but he soon understood the meaning and agreed.

(End of this chapter)