Be A Sultan In Another World

7: Introduction of Newspaper

01-02-1794.

Bandung, the palace of the sultanate.

Slowly, gradually, Ahmad took care of his sultanate and began to see changes in terms of infrastructure and capital for Sundanese traders.

On the other hand, firearms research continues to be conducted by ahmad and defense training with scholars.

"coach jafar, are there only 40 scholars in our country?"

"really noble, they are the best scholars we have and their knowledge is assured and also their loyalty is the highest"

"then order them to speed up our weapons research, also we must make an announcement about the mass opening of job openings to produce our new weapons later"

"good sire"

"hey did you forget my speech yesterday? As the military superior of our sultanate are brothers with our juniors"

"ready sire!"

"good, get used to it because you're the second most influential man in the military after me and before the five wars"

"ohh yeah what about the development of our best quality mass production paper?"

"highly salable, the merchants of gujarat and qing dynasty were the most buyers for paper sizes A (regular textbooks in real life) and sizes B (drawing books A3).

Ohh good enough, then what about the size of C(1X2 meters)?"

"because the C-size paper was very large and the price was also high, the buyers only came from large merchant families as well as high-level nobles"

"ohh good, then what about the Europeans?"

"for now they buy a lot of A-size paper only he s"

"hmm, okay you can go. Ahh all of you call a castepta coach to meet me"

"ready your king"

Ahmad went back to his room and picked up a paper-making book and read the newspaper section.

After finishing reading ahmad also wrote down important points how to mass production at a much lower price.

Shortly after writing came the patih, the jayatra caste. An economic and financial coach who regulates the turnover of money in the sundanese sultanate, even so he is the most supervised by security training and corruption hunting agency or BPK.

"the servant comes to face him"

"sit down" he sat in the appointed chair to the left of the Ahmad desk.

Ahmad got out of his chair and sat facing him.

"i called you here because there's 1 thing you should do"

"i'll do it as soon as possible, sire"

Ahmad just nodded.

"this is a cheap papermaking method that will be used as a medium of general information delivery"

"i mean, this type of paper will be used by the public as an informer"

"yes, then I want you to recruit again the sultanate people to produce this paper"

"ready to do it"

"oh yes also this, this is a special ink that the production cost is cheap with good quality. We'll use it for that paper, too"

"ready your king"

The economy left and Ahmad continued his activities as usual.

15-02-1794.

2 weeks later, mass production of newspaper was started by a company owned by the sultanate named Sunda newspaper.

Newspapers were introduced and made many traders interested in advertising.

This was initially quite exciting because the idea is still new but over time newspaper was often purchased because it contains many things other than stories such as novels, pantuns, advertisements and state festival schedules.

At a restaurant, bandung.

some local traveling merchants in plain clothes appear to be taking a break on their way peddling their sales of clothing, spices, and even ready-made fabrics.

They are enjoying eating on the side of the road in a restaurant that is quite simple in order to save money.

"Just look in the papers, there's news of another European assassination"

"It's the same as before, they always demean us natives but end up just being corpses"

"But here's something strange, there's a part of his innards that was lost when it was found by patrolmen"

"Is that so? Looks like it's for offerings or stuff like that"

"It could be, then what about the culprit?"

"Until now there is still no, but it seems that the military leadership of the sultanate is also not too concerned with the case of these Europeans"

"Haha! That is precisely why the sultanate army is loved by the people, oh yes speaking of murder, in my newspaper there is also but this is a merchant from kediri"

"Ehh really?! Try where I want to read"

"It's please"

"....hhh! The culprit could be caught even before 2 days after the carcass was found? The sultanate's army is incredible!"

"But doesn't this show that the sultanate's treatment of the Europeans was very bad?"

His friend who was asked also nodded.

"Don't Europeans also consider us pests? They will do anything to make a profit. What a disgusting nation!"

"True, I hope that the European nation can be overhauled by someone in the future"

"Yes I agree, their continent is always undervalued even they call as the best nation, in fact they actually experienced a disaster that never experienced the sultanate"

"Hahahaha, I also remember when many of the students from the continent came in their strange clothes, it was even funnier than the kids who got into the gutter!

Their talk continued while eating the dish in plain sight and discussing the topic in the newspaper.

02-20-1794.

2 weeks 2 days later, newspapers were increasingly in demand and several times made Europeans want to use it as propaganda but could not because newspapers were only available to traders and people from the sundanese sultanate, he said, the qing dynasty, the joseon dynasty, the archipelagic kingdoms, the ottoman sultanate, the persian empire, and the mughal empire.

This was of course strongly criticized by the Europeans by glorifying the culture and appearance of the clothes but they were silenced by a head of a Chinese noble family who visited the sultanate and said "your clothes are more ludicrous than the clothes of a eunuch who has lost his manhood" and of course this makes the great nations of Europe angry and the relationship between the qing dynasty and Britain more heated.

But it did not last long when the emperor of the qing dynasty announced the confiscation of all kinds of European assets in the canton, guangzhou, and also tianjin and beijing.

After their property was taken over, the Europeans were angry and wanted to invade the qing dynasty, but that did not happen because warships belonging to the qing dynasty and mughal empire and sundanese sultanate united and destroyed the fleet in the Indian ocean.

And this was also a crushing blow to European domination of Asia as their large combined fleet was sunk and taken over.

The major European powers entered into peace treaties with the qing dynasty for fear that their assets on other continents would be taken over.

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