Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"With the thought of the impermanence of life, you can be not too happy when you are successful, and not be too depressed when you are frustrated."

——Isocrates

For these educated people, as their 'school years' get older, their beards get bigger and their heads get balder.And since our protagonist has long flowing hair, it is inevitable that he will often receive jealous looks in a place like Athens where academics are prosperous.

Thinking that when he became famous in the battle on the Acropolis a few days ago, all the scholars in Athens could not help but scratch their heads. Pyrrhus walked into the workshop door and saw four bald middle-aged bearded men under the colonnade.

——Cinus, Democharles, Desiachus, Stratton.

In just a few days, the papermaking, printing, and ink matters have been almost completed. People can't help but sigh at how powerful the power gained from sacrificing hair is!

So many people gathered today to discuss the first newspaper.

The first newspaper in human history in this time and space was finally named "Bright Eyes Times".

This was the opinion of Charles Demo.The 'bright eyes' here is another name of Athena, 'Γλauk?6?6πi?0?9', whose original meaning is 'owl-eyed'.

The name is good, but Pyrrhus thinks you are too arrogant to play around with it. Even if the temple does not say anything, are you not afraid of those fanatical believers doing something to you?As a result, Democharles said that he had already talked with the temple and would give the temple one-third of its shares in exchange for the right to use it.

This is tantamount to pulling the temple forces onto their public opinion chariot, so that when it comes to trolling people, they can speak out without any scruples.

Pyrrhus sincerely said that this method was very good.

Speaking of shares, Charles Demo was quite generous. Although he provided the money and land, he felt that Pyrrhus had the greatest credit, so he, Pyrrhus and the temple each owned one-third; as for the papermakers We simply gave up the shares in the printing and printing workshops and only collected rent.

Even though Pyrrhus was generous, he didn't want to be stingy.

So Pyrrhus approached Theophrastus and expressed his willingness to donate the profits of the printing workshop to the Lyceum Academy - after all, the people in the academy had contributed a lot from machinery to ink.

But Theophrastus was unwilling to accept it. He felt that such a significant invention, even if it was not original to Pyrrhus, should be profited by him to encourage future generations.

Pyrrhus was very moved when he heard this, and told Theophrasto the story of "Zigong redeemed a man, and Zilu received an ox". After hearing this, the leader of Pyrrhus heartily praised this colleague named "Concius".

Pyrrhus also offered to give Desiachus and Stratton a salary.

Although Desiachus was not as rich as Democharles, he had always been willing to accept these extraneous things, so he accepted them;

But Stratton raised his face and said:

"I am only helping you for academic purposes. It does not mean that I will become a slave of an autocratic monarch for money."

What?Unwilling to serve an absolute monarch?

Great, someone is willing to work for me for free!

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Now Pyrrhus came to discuss the layout with them.

In order to show the strong advantages of 'artificial paper', the newspaper uses a large opening of more than one meter wide and nearly two meters long, cut into a rectangle according to the golden ratio. Papyrus paper is limited by raw materials and cannot be made into such a large size;

It was also decided to smoke the first newspaper with sulfur to the whitest color regardless of cost. The paper was also made of thick paper mixed with long fibers.

Above the folded and exposed front page are the registration and issue numbers decorated with embossed patterns. Between the words "Bright Eyes" and "Times" is the image of the goddess of wisdom in the form of an owl, wearing a helmet and holding a spear high in the air;

In the middle is the notice for submissions from the "Mingmu Times" newspaper - tentatively scheduled to be one issue on the 10th and three issues per month, based on the full moon day; as well as the investment announcement for the papermaking workshop and the printing workshop.

Democharles and his friends prepared a large collection of political treatises, including various poems and some speeches, as well as a congratulatory message from Phericles, the current consul;

Zinas collected a lot of international news throughout the Mediterranean, from the causes and consequences of the Rhodes War, to Agathocles Leipari Islands in Sicily, the progress of the Samnite War, and the succession of the Bosporus throne. Waiting for a lot of overseas news;

Desiachus wrote a series of short articles about customs and customs in various parts of the world, including some Greek city-states in the Mediterranean and major peoples such as Phoenicia, Gaul, and Illyria, as well as records from Pythias. From the Far Islands to the Mauryan Dynasty at the foot of Mount Himaeus, there is also a 'first draft of the world map' that occupies half of the page;

Stratton led the students to sort out various popular academic sciences, including various "proven" academic results in geometry, physics, and natural philosophy.

There are a total of 8 sections. Currently, in addition to the headlines, there are the above 4 sections. Rhetoric and advertising sections will be added in the future.

Here we can see from one thing Stratton’s noble character who does not care about personal gain or loss for the truth:

He had just been slapped in the face by Pyrrhus two days ago in front of half of Athens, and now he actually proposed:

"The copper ball experiment and the hypothesis of universal gravitation are the most significant discoveries in natural philosophy in recent decades. They must be placed on the front page so as not to disgrace Athena's name."

Pyrrhus was a little regretful at first, but unfortunately Aristotle's physics is not yet as prominent as it would be hundreds or thousands of years later. He could only convince a few Athenians in front of him, and finally heard about Stratton. A shameful statement.

What else could Pyrrhus say?

Brother, you are so open-minded!

So after some operations, with bold sans-serif characters, 'The commander of Epirus, the king of Molossia, the current winner of the Olympian games, the triple crown Pyrrhus, the son of Aeacides, recently overthrew the copper ball experiment in Athens. Aristotle's "Old Theory of Gravity" "Bright Eyes Times - Issue 1 -" quickly spread throughout Attica, and spread to the entire Hellenistic world along with the coming and going of merchant ships.

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Dmitry is here.

From the smallest single-row speedboat to four-row heavy warships and transport ships, a total of more than 300 ships formed a mighty fleet - the forward has entered the port of Piraeus, and the rearguard is still there. The island of Aegina in the distance.

A steady stream of soldiers came off the ship, more than 1000 cavalry - mostly Thessalians, nearly 3000 Macedonian infantry armed with Sarissa spears, more than 4000 heavy infantry recruited from various Greek city-states, and 1 mercenaries. More than 6000 light infantry and miscellaneous troops such as pirates and tribesmen, as well as no less than 1 craftsmen and laborers.There are nearly 4 troops in total, not counting the sailors of the fleet.

When about half of the soldiers had landed, the Demetrius army began to line up outside the city, and then launched an attack on Asilius's Cassander army with superior force.

As dusk approached, Cassander's army began to flee.

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Pyrrhus and others also stood at the top of the city to watch the excitement, but after waiting for a long time, they saw Dmitri's soldiers getting off the ship in a steady stream, and never saw Dmitri's own guard of honor and royal flag.

When he returned to the newspaper office, a soldier happened to come to see him.

This man claimed to be Dmitri's friend, and then handed him a pair of fine iron breastplates.

The shape of a common muscle breastplate is divided into two pieces, the front and back, and the straps are tied with delicate brass shapes;

The polished surface is as bright as a mirror. The chest is gilt and decorated with an eight-pointed star and sun pattern originating from Persia. The back is a silver-plated pattern of a seven-pointed star nested within a five-pointed star. I don’t know where the style is from.

Even the head is made.

Pyrrhus complained in his heart, and then said to Demetrius' messenger:

"Thank you King Demetrius for your kindness. Did he say anything?"

Didn't you bring a letter?

The friend rolled his eyes and recalled carefully for a long time: "Yes! Yes! He said it was a 'triple laurel' gift."

Then he raised his hand and walked away gracefully.

That's it?

Pyrrhus and Zenas looked at each other.

"It's so unusual," Pyrrhus said. "I have a pretty bad feeling about it. There must be something going on that we don't know about."

Zenas thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, let me go to Dmitri's army and ask."

"Do you have any acquaintances?"

"There must be an acquaintance. Demetrius has so many Thessalian cavalry, so there must be someone I know." Zenas was confident: "Please give me a fast horse and two thousand drachma silver coins."

There must be someone you know?Co-author Lao Qi, you are expanding your list every day during your study tour!

Pyrrhus replied: "I will give you three thousand drachms, and you will ride on my horse."

As expected of a Thessalian, Zenas carried half a talent of silver on his back, mounted his horse, and chased Demetrius' army all the way.

It was not until midnight that Zenas, covered in dust, finally came back.

"Bad news, Your Majesty." He said to Pyrrhus with a dark face:

"Dmitri broke off the engagement."