What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

Since there is no channel for cursing at each other, the competition field is inherently unfair, and Fran certainly has no interest in engaging in a war of public opinion with the elves. If she has the energy, she might as well make a few more guns and try to kill you on the battlefield. After all, battle reports can lie, but the battle lines are there.

But in recent years, the public opinion field seems to be a little different.

Although the city of Orila is still excluded in various international organizations and is even regarded as the remnant of the demons, the elves and dwarves have tried every means to exclude the city of Orila from the forces of the main plane and completely isolate it.

But the fact is that the city of Orilla is home to the international trade and financial center of Biesson Port.

Every day, chambers of commerce from all corners of the world come here to buy and sell goods. People of all races and forces mingle here, and countless intelligence and rumors gather here and spread out. This makes the city of Orila very closely connected with other forces, and it cannot be ruled out at all.

As a large number of factories were built in Bieson Port, a large labor force was in short supply. The population of the Holy Roll Empire alone was obviously unable to meet the development needs of Bieson Port. Therefore, Fran established the Bieson District. As long as one paid taxes here for three years, one could obtain the right to reside in Bieson. After five years, one could obtain permanent residency in Bieson. After eight years and if one met certain requirements, one could obtain the rights of a citizen of the Holy Roll Empire.

In the past, the Holy Roel Empire would have been a nobody.

But the situation is different now. Fran's series of education and social welfare are definitely much better than those of the lower-class people in his own country! In some poor areas, the living standards of the citizens of the Holy Roll Empire even exceed those of ordinary small nobles.

This naturally attracted a large number of young and middle-aged people to the Bieson District to pan for gold and look for job opportunities. As a result, the entire Bieson District became the busiest and most densely populated place in the Holy Rohr Empire, even surpassing Vienna.

These young people who came to Biesund naturally would not completely cut off contact with their hometowns, and would always find ways to communicate. Although the power of one person is weak and the content that can be spread is limited, with so many people gathered together, Biesund became a natural voice.

A little joke or incident could spread very far, even to the entire main plane.

Of course, Fran must firmly grasp such a window of public opinion in her own hands.

So she started something called 'newspaper'.

Fran's predecessor had no knowledge of the newspaper industry and had only a vague understanding of its operations.

Although she didn't understand, her subordinates understood it very well. After all, as long as the technology and market demand existed, the emergence of newspapers was inevitable.

In the following months, Fran's subordinates started several newspapers at once, including the Financial Times, which was closely related to commodity trading, the Sun, which was related to various anecdotes, and the most influential, the Orilla Daily, which involved the policies of the city of Bieson.

These newspapers initially only served to aggregate news, but as time went on, the content on them became more and more extensive. At the same time, newspapers also accepted contributions from ordinary citizens to share their own stories.

In the past, this would have been simply impossible.

All the news was either about the empire's major events or the nobles' family affairs, and had never been relevant to the common people. But now they found that their own affairs could also be posted on the "bulletin board", so their enthusiasm for newspapers suddenly increased.

Compared with the consumption level in Biesund, the price of newspapers can be described as low. People are happy to spend a little money to learn about news from all over the world (although many of the news are false). You should know that such things used to cost money and time, and you had to sit in a pub for a while to know them.

Now, with only one Roll coin, you can get a piece of paper containing today's important news, and browse it at your leisure time, and even watch it repeatedly without worrying about missing the news.

There are so few entertainment activities in this world. The various jokes, side stories, and anecdotes in the newspapers can fill everyone's lack of life in an instant.

The literacy rate of young people from outside the city is generally low, so it is also a pleasure for workers to get together and listen to literate people reading newspapers. This has greatly improved the status of literate people and indirectly promoted Fulan's literacy plan.

Before long, newspapers became a must-have item for the citizens of the Bieson district. Some chambers of commerce that came here every few months would even buy a long batch of newspapers in one go, then sit down and read through them slowly to see what major events had happened while they were away and what fun they had missed.

In order to prevent Fran's products from destroying the national economy, the Elf Empire naturally would not send the Chamber of Commerce to Bieson Port to trade, and the old-fashioned elven nobles did not know about newspapers.

Not only the elves, most forces have not yet realized the power of newspapers and only regard them as a tool for entertainment.

What power can a piece of paper filled with marginal stories and unreliable rumors have?

However, in the following period of time, they will fully appreciate that the lethality of newspapers in the battlefield of public opinion is even more powerful than firearms.

The day after the elf unilaterally accused Fran, newspapers throughout Bieson Harbor published Fran's response in large print.

Fran first recounted what the elves had done to the trolls, and then said that she had not sent any troops at all, but only helped repair the trolls' collapsing cities and supported the improvement of people's livelihood in the Troll Empire, for which she was rudely abused by the elves.

Regarding this troll crisis, Fran also clearly pointed out that this was clearly a war unilaterally launched by the Elf Empire! Elendil was ambitious and shamelessly raided the border of the Troll Empire, broke through the Three Stars City of the Troll Empire, and then burned, killed, looted, destroyed countless villages and towns, and left a large number of troll people displaced.

The people in the Vienna Alliance could not bear to watch this any longer, so they volunteered to go to the Troll Empire to join the war and fight against the elves.

The newspaper described it in a very convincing manner, even marking the key time points of the war, the offensive and defensive maps of both sides, etc. Compared to the elf unilaterally producing someone's diary, Fran's evidence was obviously more convincing, and it was obvious who the public believed.

Afterwards, Fran said bluntly that this is how elves are. They act righteous before the fight, but when they lose, they make all kinds of excuses. It's really shameful! The war was obviously started by the elves, but they put the blame on others!

As soon as today's newspaper came out, it immediately triggered a sales frenzy.

Even people who didn't care about the Troll Crisis were willing to buy a copy for fun, and some even took the newspaper back to their own countries to spread the word. Soon, everyone in the main plane knew what the so-called Troll Crisis was all about.

In the following days, Fran would publish extensive articles in the newspapers to expose the scandals of the elves. They had so many colonies that if you just asked a young man from an elf colony in the Bieson District, you would get a lot of scandals, which gave the editors enough information to report.

You don't know until you see it, and you'll be shocked. They didn't expect that the elves, who seemed to be righteous on the surface, were actually so bad behind the scenes. They burned, killed, and looted in the colonies all day long, and they also liked to make an improvisation.

So disgusting!

These cheap newspapers were all brought to other countries in the main plane through various chambers of commerce.

Looking at the whole process of the Troll Crisis, the elves are not moral enough!

Taking the initiative to attack others, and then pretending to be righteous when unable to defeat them, is really inconsistent with the impression of the glorious and powerful Elf Empire.

The Elf Empire, far away on the other side of the sea, did not know about this until several days later. It is said that after the Elf Queen saw the so-called newspaper, she was so angry that she smashed her table and spilled her breakfast on the floor.

Fight back! You must fight back!

The Elf Queen issued several directives, ordering all the elves in the empire who were the most eloquent, the most poetic, and the most skilled in writing to go to the Biesong District and have a good talk with Fran. The image of the Elf Empire must be changed.

[Picture: How can an elf stay in a pond?]

Chapter 331: The Sucker Who Gave Money and Got Scolded

After receiving the Queen's order, several of the Elf Empire's top intellectuals confidently boarded the speedboat bound for the Bieson District.

In their eyes, the people of the Holy Roel Empire were all uncivilized barbarians and a cultural trough. When the time comes, I just need to publish a few articles in that newspaper, which will make the other party speechless and bow down to the feet of the Elven Empire with a rich cultural heritage.

So on the ship, several writers wrote more than ten articles one after another. The articles quoted classics and were written in a flourishing style. If they were put in the Elf Empire, they would definitely be good articles sung by countless nobles. Of course, the articles were not only well-written, but also very sharp, like a knife. If Fran suffered from migraine, she would be scared to death after reading these articles, and her migraine would be cured instantly.

These elven writers could not wait to set foot on the land of Bieson District, and then crush Fran to death with page after page of text, and then return home with glory and dignity.

People from the Holy Roel Empire also understand literature? And diplomacy?

How can a fallen nun like Fran talk about literature?

Under the constant urging of the scholars, the divine magician on the tree boat used all his strength to continuously infuse divine power, and arrived at the port of Bieson in just two days.

The tree boat had just arrived and immediately attracted the attention of others. After all, elves rarely come to Biesong Port to buy and sell goods, and most of their goods come from smuggling in the Feruman area. However, this also made the elves noticed by Fran as soon as they arrived.

The citizens of the entire Bieson District were eagerly waiting to see what kind of counterattack these proud elves would have. For a time, the price of melon seeds in the Bieson District skyrocketed.

The next day, the elves woke up early and went to the editorial office of the most famous Aurora Daily, wanting to publish an article to fight back.

In their opinion, they represent the top of the entire main plane literary world, and their works are worth a fortune. Taking the initiative to publish them is to give face to your newspaper president, and they are not grateful.

However, to their surprise, the editorial department of Orila Daily directly rejected the elf's request! They also said that the articles for the next few days had already been arranged, and if they wanted to submit an article, it would take at least half a month for it to be published.

Of course, you can still jump the queue if you pay, but the price...

When the elves saw that the price for cutting in line was as high as two thousand magic crystal coins, they got so angry that they turned around and left.

It's not because I have no money, but mainly because I feel my self-esteem has been hurt.

However, after they went to several newspapers, the answers they got were almost the same: I'm busy right now, so either pay or wait!

These elf writers were so angry that they started to curse. It was a pity that this was the Biesong District, not the Elf Empire, and no one would pamper these writers.

Finally, they actually found a newspaper that was willing to accept their manuscript and put it on the front page. And this newspaper was not a tabloid, but the best-selling newspaper in the entire Orila City, even much higher than the official newspaper, the Orila Daily.

It’s just that the content of this newspaper…well, to put it more politely, it’s a newspaper specifically set up to increase the population.

The name of this newspaper is Hualiu Community, and it has classified sections such as campus autumn colors, urban life, martial arts classics, and novels.

However, the most popular section is still the ethnic section, which is always on the front page.

This section mainly tells stories about the characteristics of each race, as well as various cross-racial love stories.

As for the frequent visitors of the ethnic special section, it is undoubtedly the elves. The stories in the special section are full of elves and orcs, elves and trolls, elves and goblins, etc. These are touching cross-race sadomasochistic stories that make readers cry and become physically weak.

The current ethnic feature area is also a special section for elves, because recently a novel called "Elves Are Not Things in the Pond" was published there. This novel is popular among the masses, straightforward, and well-known, which has greatly increased the sales of the entire Hualiu community.

If the articles by those elven writers were to be published, they would be placed on the left and right sides of the front page together with "Elves Are Not Things in the Pond".

The newspaper owner would wake up laughing in his dreams at the thought of such a grand occasion.

The elf writers didn't understand why at first, and thought they had finally found an editorial department that was not afraid of power and was willing to remain neutral, so they agreed without hesitation and said that they would personally write a plaque for them in the future.

At night, an elf female writer was returning to the hotel. She saw a newsstand and bought a newspaper from Hualiu Community. The newsstand owner looked at the beautiful and talented elf woman with a strange look, and then handed her the newspaper.

It was because of this that they finally knew what kind of newspaper this so-called Hualiu Community was!

This is the most vulgar and obscene story to attract attention!! And the elves are not just animals in the pond, which completely turns elves into the lowest commodity!!

After the elf woman finished reading the newspaper from beginning to end, her face turned blue with anger. She finally understood why the newsstand owner looked at her in such a strange way.

This! This! This is a great shame for the elves.

And the article they carefully compiled was actually published on the front page alongside such vile stuff! This was an insult to the entire elven literary world! Several angry elven writers knocked on the door of the editorial office at night, scolded them for an hour, and flatly refused the cooperation.

Ultimately, these articles were never sent out.

Seeing that Fran's attacks on the elves were getting more and more fierce, and more and more explosive materials were dug up, they knew they couldn't delay any longer, so they gritted their teeth, spent money, and selected an article with the highest gold content to publish in the Orila Daily.

Although the Orila Daily is the official newspaper of the city of Orila.

But they are not biased because of hostility. Since the money is on the front page, they will naturally put you on the front page.

Unfortunately, this article did not receive widespread recognition after it was published.

The reason is simple. What Elf wrote is too difficult to understand. It is full of uncommon words, inverted sentences, and long and difficult sentences. It is impossible for anyone to understand it.

The onlookers finally queued up and bought the newspapers, but when they saw what was written on them, they started cursing. At the same time, the Orila Daily that day continued to criticize the elves, and the elves' articles became clowns, being pointed at and called pedantic.

Several elf writers had no choice but to revise the article overnight, making the text as easy to understand as possible.

The next day, after spending the same huge amount of money, their article made the front page again.

The effect this time is pretty good, at least the public can understand it

The logic of the elf writers was quite rigorous. They listed several pieces of evidence of the crimes of Orila City. They said that Orila City supported the Troll Empire on the surface, but in fact it disregarded the lives of the trolls, provoked wars, and targeted the elves everywhere. It was not a friendly act at all... They said it passionately, righteously, and full of officialdom.

Fang's accent.

Unfortunately, although the people could understand it, they did not like to read it. It seemed to be no different from the tax notices and conscription notices posted by the nobles in the past. Not only was it boring, it also brought back bad memories for them.

Next to the elf's article, there was an article written by Fran.

Since she had obtained the elf's article in advance and knew the content in advance, Fran could calmly refute the elf one by one, and used very mundane sentences every day.

Ah, yes, yes!

The elves sent troops to the Holy Roel Empire to show friendship. We sent engineering teams to the Troll Empire to provoke war.

Ah, yes, yes!

The elves sent people to conscript young men in large numbers and delayed spring plowing, which was a contribution to the local area. We helped the trolls repair cities and build roads, which was a disregard for the lives of the trolls.

The elves are the best race in the world. They go to the local area to burn, kill and plunder. In fact, it is all for the good of the local area. It is selfless! After all, burning and looting is physical work.

Elves are the best! Other races should kowtow to elves when they see them. Everything other races do is wrong, they are born with original sin, elves are really amazing.

............

The article is full of witty remarks, sarcasm and jokes, but people love to read this.

As a result, Elf's article became a perfect target for Fran and was criticized harshly.

[Picture: How can an elf stay in a pond?]

Chapter 332: The Afterglow of the Empire

In the following days, the elves and Fran continued to clash in the Orila City Daily, which led to a several-fold increase in the sales of the Orila City Daily, and the supply actually exceeded the demand. Some business-minded people took the opportunity to hoard the newspapers of the past few days, intending to sell them to other chambers of commerce at a high price when they arrived to eat the melons.

The confrontations of the past few days have made the elven writers realize what it means to be unable to express one's reason, to be unable to speak one's pains, and to have countless talents but no one is willing to listen to them.

Moreover, the elves had fought many battles for public opinion. In the past, they had always controlled the channels of public opinion and could speak without restraint. Others could only listen to their preaching, and there was no chance for them to compete on the same stage. This time on Fran's territory, they didn't know what to do.

Why can't you just sit down and listen to me quietly?

Little did they know that the times had changed, and the previous generation's information dissemination methods were no longer suitable for this version. As a result, every time they wrote an article, they would be criticized by Fran's new way of disseminating words.

The elves were not in the right to begin with, their level was not very good, and they could not keep up with the version. In addition, the big bosses behind these newspapers were all Fran, so a complete defeat was inevitable.

Of course, despite losing so badly, these elven writers still refused to admit defeat and wanted to continue talking nonsense, but they had no money to publish any more articles, and several writers were so angry that they fainted in the inn. Their production capacity was seriously insufficient, and they couldn't even update once a day.

This left Fran feeling a little unsatisfied.

The quarrel over the past two days has made Fran earn a lot of money and increased her popularity. She is also considering whether she should waive the other party's publishing fee so that they can continue to update.

It's a pity that after these elven literati calmed down, they realized that they could only act as clowns in the Bieson District and there was no way they could win the argument. This would only ruin the reputation of the elves, so they could only leave in disgrace.

Before leaving, Fran also sent a gift to these elf writers:

One hundred magic crystal coins as manuscript fee, several medals for excellent authors, and sample manuscripts of the newspapers in the past few days. They are also expected to submit more articles to the Aurora Daily even after returning to the Elf Empire. The Aurora Daily welcomes excellent writers like them at any time.