"No! No.! No.! British East India Company intends to sell the Cape Town Colony. It is said that the Dutch East India Company intends to take over, and the two parties have begun negotiations at present."

"In June, the King of England formally asked the Scots to withdraw from the occupied English territory unconditionally, otherwise he would send an elite Wang family model army to attack him."

"The Spanish Navy and Army suffered consecutive defeats and were at a disadvantage in the battle with France."

"The Dutch Navy Fleet left the port and was ready to find the main force of the Spanish Navy to fight a decisive battle!"

"For the first time after the Smolensk War, the Tsar admitted in public that he would order a large number of weapons from the East Coast to re-improve the Russians' military preparations!"

"The Polish-Lithuanian Federal Government expressed uneasiness about Russia's irresponsible military expansion."

Outside the Rodriguez shopping mall, a newspaper boy about ten years old walked and shouted while walking. This is the "Prince Truth" that was just published this week - the only legally published newspaper in the East Coast Republic. The newspaper is sponsored by the Ministry of Education and published once a week. It lists famous news happening at home and abroad recently. What the newspaper boy shouted in front of him were the headlines of the new issue of newspapers to attract the attention of passers-by.

In the middle of this year, Education Commissioner Du Wen proposed at the Executive Committee meeting that the Ministry of Education would host a national newspaper to guide domestic public opinion, purify social atmosphere, unify thoughts, and enhance national cohesion. After a brief discussion, the members of the Executive Committee passed this suggestion and issued a document to appoint a new institution under the Ministry of Education - the Publishing Office. The Publishing Office is a specialist in managing various books and publications published in China. The first thing after its establishment was to approve the Ministry of Education's request to apply for Pravda. At the same time, some "pheasant publications" originally run by time travelers (such as Meng Hu's National Geographic Magazine) were formalized and given their legal publications as their identity.

After the establishment of the Publishing Office, anyone who wants to publish any publication in the future needs to obtain a license issued by the Publishing Office, otherwise it will be an illegal publication. Establishing an illegal publication is the same as spreading a cult. Depending on the severity of the circumstances, he will be fined, imprisoned, exile or even hanging. Along with the Publishing Office, there is also a newly established news inspection system, that is, the Publishing Office will conduct random inspections on all the contents of the publications under its jurisdiction at any time, and those who violate the regulations will be held accountable.

It can be seen from this that the East Coast Republic has very strict control over public opinion, and there are actually very realistic considerations. The people on the East Coast come from all over the world, and are originally a hodgepodge of nationality. Now they rely on propaganda brainwashing and high-pressure control to change customs. Forcibly assimilate immigrants from various countries to enhance the new immigrants' sense of identity with the country. In this process, if people with ulterior motives advocate freedom of belief, national habits, etc., it will inevitably cause great chaos to the national thoughts and cause irreparable losses to the government's assimilation cause. Books, newspapers and other publications have always been the most effective way to spread illegal ideas. The travelers from the 21st century understand the importance of mastering the public opinion front, so there is a current news inspection system.

Alvarez shouted, and the newspaper boy's eyes lit up and rushed over after hearing this, asking, "Sir. Do you want to buy a newspaper? The new "Prince Truth" is only five cents. The content is very detailed. Including the current situation in Europe, it is definitely worth buying a copy and reading it carefully."

"You little kid understands the situation in Europe?" Alvarez was a little funny and reached into his pocket to pay.

"Why don't I understand?" The child suddenly became a little angry and said, "I am already in the fourth grade this year and I know most of the commonly used words. The teacher said that it will not be too difficult to understand these articles."

The smile on Alvarez's face was a little frozen. In Europe and the New World, where most adults are illiterate, they may never find a country or region that attaches so much importance to national education like the East Coast Republic. Adult citizens of the East Coast Republic have to regularly attend night school cram schools to learn cultural knowledge at night; while children of appropriate age must receive compulsory primary education, and the teaching staff and teaching materials are issued by the state. Families who send their children to school will also receive a small subsidy issued by the Ministry of Education. On the contrary, if parents refuse to send their children to school, they will receive certain punishment.

With a multi-pronged approach, the literacy rate in the East Coast Republic is actually very high. With the literacy rate, newspapers, impurities and other journals have become more popular. Of course, ordinary people are not willing to spend money to buy newspapers and read them. They are more willing to listen to the interesting stories and anecdotes orally told by the tour propaganda team. Moreover, newspapers worth five cents per copy are definitely not cheap, and they can even be said to be a bit expensive. However, most people who are willing to buy newspapers are concentrated in government departments, military, and factories. These people generally have strong purchasing power. Spending a few cents a month to buy newspapers and journals to read them can not only get a lot of useful information, but also look very fashionable. Therefore, the sales of Pravda is still OK.

Alvarez took out two five-cent coins from his pocket, stuffed them to the newspaper boy in front of him, and then took the newspaper. With the development of the East Coast economy, the circulation of commodities, and the gradual increase in purchasing power of ordinary people, the demand for auxiliary coins such as cent coins in the market began to gradually increase. In order not to hinder the development of business, the mint began to mint several styles of cent coins in a row, with face values ​​of one cent, two cent and five cents respectively. The shape is round, the material is copper, but it is doped with a large amount of base metals such as tin and lead, and the weight is also very light, and the quality is far worse than that of coins such as one cent and two cents.

After this currency appeared, it was difficult to see one cent or two cent coins in the market again. Nothing else, bad coins drove out good coins. Everyone kept the coins at home and took out the coins to use them. Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Finance decided to exchange all the one cent, two cents and five cents coins for silver coins after application, which slightly stopped the momentum of this bad coins driving out good coins.

The topic is too far-reaching. As the relationship with people from the East Coast over the past five or six years has become increasingly close, Alvarez, the eldest grandson of the Rodriguez family, has worked hard to learn Chinese, and he is currently able to read Chinese documents without much obstacles. Therefore, after he took the newspaper, he began to read it carefully.

The first three editions are usually European news. Alvarez flipped through it casually and found that most of them were war news such as you beat me and I beat you. It seemed that he had never stopped over the years, and he had been numb for a long time. Only the fourth edition will publish some news about the New World, including Brazil, Peru, New Spain, and La Plata. On the contrary, there are not many news about the East Coast, and even if there are, most of them are editorials and other commentary articles written by the upper class of the East Coast.

After reading the news, Alvarez found that there was a supplement in the newspaper. There was only one page of the supplement, called "Businessman's Special Issue", which published some market supply and demand news. For example, someone asked for twenty cows, someone wanted to sell ten barrels of wine, and someone hired some orchard gardeners. These small businesses, Alvarez naturally looked down on them, but he still thought it was very interesting. After all, newspapers are still new these days, and the behavior of willingness to publish commercial information in the newspaper is even more fresh.

Only the East Coast people can always give people a sense of freshness! Alvarez smacked his lips, then grabbed the newspaper under his armpit and quickly walked into the mall.

"Have Captain Leo got up?" Alvarez asked, taking off his hat and handing it to the servant.

"Yes, he has finished his breakfast and is waiting for you in the inner room." The servant hung his hat on the hanger and said respectfully.

Alvarez nodded, then quickly walked through the living room and entered the inner room. Captain Leo was lying on the table and writing something. After seeing Alvarez come in, he nodded slightly and asked, "Alvarez, have you found something?"

"No." Alvarez shook his head in frustration and said, "My dear friend Wang, has been sent to the Northwest region as a circuit judge, and the president of the local court has been replaced. The Bai, who is said to have been a big man, has now lost his power and is now doing a scholar-like job, and basically can't help us."

Captain Leo paused the pen in his hand, then frowned and said, "Then let's go to the East Coast military headquarters directly. If the East Coast people want to sell naval equipment to us, they will definitely not be able to avoid their military headquarters. Unfortunately, Xiao, who I know, seemed to have been sent to South Africa last year for beating his superiors - uh, it seems that he was beaten by Bai -, otherwise he could ask him for help."

"My father meant that too." Alvarez nodded in agreement and said, "I am still a little surprised. The bureaucrats in the West Indian House, who have always been high, would turn to us one day. In the past, we were the only one who flattered them."

"The situation is different." Captain Leo sighed, "The Kingdom Navy suffered a great loss in the continuous struggle with the French and Dutch people, and it is urgent to supplement it. The local shipyards lack wood and have insufficient construction. And the shipyards in the New World such as Havana do not have time to replenish so many warships in a short period of time. There is no way, now there is only one who can turn to the East Coast people. The East Coast people's shipbuilding technology was well-educated by the Franmans, and more importantly, their naval naval guns are quite outstanding, which will surely add powerful combat power to the Kingdom Navy."
Chapter completed!