Chapter 409: The Blade of Public Opinion and Justice or Not
The Eastern Kingdom Continent, the open and secret struggle of this old world, is no less than the star-gazed Pandaria Continent.
Fort Riptide has officially been restored, and this country of the inheritance of the Arathso Empire once again stands tall in the world of Azeroth.
The country was shattered and in ruins, and Prince Tolbain first asked Lordaeron to support a large number of daily consumables and food supplies, and then ran to contact the Black Sol chaebol and took out a large low-interest loan from the goblins.
After all, money is needed everywhere, and the current Riptide Castle can't break one gold coin into two flowers.
For the state-level forces, the loans of the black suo chaebol are all approved quickly, and there are few approval jams.
Heisuo, a black-hearted capitalist, is not afraid that the state-level forces will not pay off the money or repay the debts, this is not because there is a dark night empire behind him, but because the major news media controlled by the Heisuo chaebol can completely bankrupt a country's reputation within a month, and make a king become a person of inferior character who everyone shouts about.
The weapons of the capitalists do not have the smoke of gunpowder, but they are more terrifying than the smoke of gunpowder and kill more people.
Whoever controls the media is the powerhouse of the new era, a phrase that is widely circulated among the upper echelons of the world of Azeroth.
Therefore, the major forces now look at their media reputation extremely preciously.
They are not afraid of mages or warlocks with strong individual strength to fight against them openly, after all, no matter how strong an individual is, they can't do an entire mainstream force.
But the media can quickly make a force disgusted by the world.
There's already a bloody example of this in front of everyone: Kurtilas.
Ever since Kurtilas began to organize fleets to attack Theramore's trade fleets, an enraged Lordaeron has begun to fight back against the members of his Northern Alliance.
Statements of condemnation and threats of war were already in the beginning.
Lordaeron mobilized the country's royal scholars to begin writing articles, and sent the image crystals sent by Theramore to the world's major news media along with the articles, and held a press conference in Lordaeron to tell the story of Kul Tiras's atrocities.
So the sharp blade of world opinion began to kill.
Kul Tiras's national credibility is largely on the verge of bankruptcy, and the once leading trader has become a bloody pirate that everyone now hates.
Theramore is a victim, Gianna is even more of a victim, especially Gianna has stood up many times and pitifully begged Kurtilas to forgive and forgive her past mistakes in front of reporters and media.
At this time, no one blamed Gianna for her mistakes, and Dalaran, who was the victim back then, also began to blame Kurtiras, saying that they didn't care about the overall situation of the world, and they also killed brother and sister.
Kurtilas is now riding a tiger, and the news media has kidnapped the country into the wheel of the chariot of moral opinion, and then it has been crushed over and over again.
Especially after the two big goblins, Hesso and Gary Vix, secretly met with the messenger of Theramore in their luxurious estates, the news media of the two plutocrats also went full swing to portray Kul Tiras as a country of sin.
That's the bloody reality.
People are sentimental and extremely empathetic.
They don't care what the cause of this is, even if everyone knows that it started because of Gianna's naΓ―ve ignorance when she was younger.
But so what?
As the news said, everyone makes mistakes sometimes, so should everyone apologize with death?
And you, Kul Tiras, have no regard for the world as a whole, and openly attack the fleets of Theramore, which have no Gianna on them, only civilians who are sailors and merchants.
The war ended with a resounding victory for the Northern Alliance and Theramore.
Even the people of Kul Tiras themselves began to oppose what their new king, Drake, had done.
It's okay to avenge your own sister for your dead father, but it's taboo for you to attack a trading fleet.
To put it mildly, you are not politically correct in the current environment of the world of Azeroth.
Don't you see that even the two major powers, the Alliance and the Horde, have long since banned this kind of attack on civilian or trade fleets?
Even if it's a warship, as long as they have legitimate reasons and documents, you can't just go up and fight it.
This is not the time it used to be.
Rough war, in a way that war decides superiority, no longer works.
Now, apart from the unofficially recognized brawls and arms between the adventurers on both sides or small groups of soldiers, large-scale or even local wars with open swords and guns are no longer visible.
Although the contradictions between the two sides have not decreased, but have increased a lot, it is no longer the first choice of the bigwigs of the two sides to solve them by war.
I have to say that in this regard, the Night Empire has taken a good lead.
Kul Tiras's assault stopped, which was also the expected outcome.
After all, as long as your country wants to continue to mingle in the world of Azeroth, make some friends, and trade with the world, then you have to abide by the current rules of the game, even if they make you feel extremely humiliated and angry.
King Drake personally issued an apology to the major news outlets, and was willing to pay all the bereavement and treatment costs for those killed or injured in the attack.
In the end, His Majesty the King, who was trying to control his emotions, said that Kurtilas had forgiven Gianna and welcomed her to return to his country at any time to pay respects to the old King Dalein.
The news media were satisfied, the people of the world were satisfied, and they let Kul Tiras go.
As for King Drake's anger and unwillingness, who cares!
"You're kidnapping public opinion, you're playing a lot of fun. β
In the Eternal Night Palace, Hu Feng, who had temporarily returned to deal with the affairs of the empire, looked at Hei Suo in front of him and shook his head with a smile.
Hei Suo immediately bowed, "As long as the mainstream media is still in the hands of Hei Suo's chaebol, who do you want to die, master, this weapon without gunpowder will instantly break his heart." β
"It will be soon, get ready, for the current chief of our tribe, in addition to war, the news media will also fight a battle that will kill him at the first time. β
Hu Feng shrugged his shoulders and threw aside the last document that needed to be approved by himself.
"To be honest, I hope Thrall will quickly get rid of the of the Earth Guardian and come back to lead the tribe... Compared to Thrall and Durontan, except for Voking, who can barely sit in this position, the others are not convinced. β
With that, Hu Feng waved his hand to let Hei Suo retreat, and he returned to the Pandaria continent again.
In the Fairview Valley, a grand celebration is about to take place, and Garrosh's plans are probably not far away.
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