In early June, newspapers throughout the Stantin Duchy, the Lampari Kingdom, the Rulson Kingdom, and all the surrounding countries suddenly began running extensive publicity coverage of the Xinfei Merchant Guild in unison.
This coverage concerned not only the various kinds of magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Merchant Guild, but also the guild itself.
The reports took all sorts of forms. Some were news stories, some were introductions to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, and others were simply assorted anecdotes about it.
Most ordinary people knew only the broad outlines of these matters. Very few knew the details.
For instance, almost no one besides those involved knew the details of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's earliest days, such as how Vice President Heinz and Xu Yi had met, or how they had decided to establish the guild...
This time, however, many newspapers carried detailed accounts of those events.
Ordinary people had always welcomed this sort of gossip-like reporting.
All the more so when the reports concerned the Xinfei Merchant Guild, the most closely watched merchant guild in the surrounding countries.
As a result, newspapers in every country that covered the Xinfei Merchant Guild had recently seen their sales soar. Many had even begun disregarding the facts, inventing supposed details of their own and embellishing their accounts of little-known events.
Regardless of their content, however, not a single newspaper took a negative stance toward the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Of course, from its founding through its subsequent rise and development to the present, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's actions over more than seven years had been plain for everyone to see. There was scarcely any negative news to report.
On the contrary, countless people had seen their lives improve dramatically because of the Xinfei Merchant Guild. They had gone from struggling to feed themselves to