Chapter 13: The Last Chance at the Flamelands (5600)
The full name of the Flying Flame Land should be the Alliance of the Thirteen Kingdoms of the Flying Flame, which is roughly divided into two alliances based on the Nemathas bloodline and the Abasarom bloodline, and according to ancient customs, the location of the fifth energy level will be called the Royal Court.
The six places of Yuguang, Qinglin, Tengsha, Kongyu, Canqiu, and Gray Ridge under the Nemasas blood system are the Upper Flame Lands, while the seven places of the Arasea, Tianhong, Qingting, Yanli, and Sacrifice Rock under the Abasarom Blood System are the Lower Flying Flame Lands. The two sides were divided by the Shalsa River and ruled the kingdom together for a long time.
This generation of fifth-level powerhouses of the Flame Land, Salvaga Nemasas the Chrysalis the Molder, was born in the Tensand Land, and Dustil Abasarom, the King of Ember, was born in the Flame Abyss.
The relationship between the two sides can't be said to be bad, that is, when they were young, they beat each other and had a little friction.
But it's just two people who have a little friction, but they've been worrying about the same thing recently.
That was the 'public opinion offensive' from Yinfeng Ling.
Public opinion offensive - this term has been around for a long time, and its most important purpose was to deny the four major Orthodox churches a chance to intervene, and to inspire the local people to avoid troublesome management.
If there is no need for inheritance, no need to take care of future generations, and no need to think about the family, then the sublimator has almost no need for ordinary people. But after all, the sublimator family in this world is the norm, so the state and other social forms still exist in the world, and controlling public opinion is still a small thing that needs the attention of the ruler.
But now, in the generation after this perpetual motion machine declaration, everything has changed.
The power of public opinion is growing, and sociology is becoming more and more important, but many of the sublimators in the ruling circles have not noticed this...... Just like the Flying Flame Land, in the face of the continuous propaganda offensive of the Silver Peak Leader, their weak media was simply unable to confront it.
If it was in the past, it would not be able to be defeated, and it would be a big deal to silence the whole field, and wait for the topic to pass for a while before continuing - but now, it is not so simple for the officials of various countries to kill the mouthpiece of the media, and in the past it is only necessary to threaten the silence or the future generations of future generations.
And now, it's a big deal to pack your bags and apply for political asylum...... Do you dare to kill someone?
Kill someone and pull the soul back to life, or will you be pulled up and resurrected by a perpetual motion machine going back to time and space in the future, and directly make a news announcement, do you still want a ticket?
What's more, the silence of the past is nothing more than a lie to oneself, the problem is not solved, and the anger and disappointment of the population are only diluted rather than disappeared. But now, when it comes to voting, lying to yourself is really lying to yourself.
Theoretically speaking, no matter what Yinfeng Ling's public opinion says, the Flying Flame Land side should calm down, deal with it silently, silently solve the problem itself, and then try to reverse public opinion - after all, they are all Flying Flame Land people, and everyone is willing to believe in Flying Flame Land.
But in fact, the public opinion war of Yinfeng Ling is far from that simple.
The first to speak out were some of the people of the Flying Flame Land who had been to Yinfeng Territory for work, travel, or visiting relatives and friends. When they return to the Flame Land, they will be impressed by the cleanliness and civility of the Silver Peak Collar to their relatives and friends around them - there, there are no thieves or bandits, elegant music on the streets, free food and drink, and amiable and enthusiastic Silver Peak Leaders.
These statements will be accurately captured by the relevant media, and then extended, amplified, and then begin to 'question' some of the local actions of the Flying Flame Land.
- Why are there still so many thieves in our local area?
- Why don't we have convenient public transport yet?
- Why are our roads so old and dirty that haven't changed for decades?
- Why are our inspectors so unreasonable, so impatient and intimidating?
These are all old problems that actually exist and have plagued the people of the Flying Flame Lands for a long time.
The local media directly borrowed the current situation of Yinfeng Ling to question some inherent stubborn diseases in the Flying Flame Land, which is completely normal operation, the only problem is that the intensity of this propaganda is too great, and it is obviously the driving force of other forces behind it.
It's just that this kind of attack and questioning is now full of countries among countries, and since Feiyandi has no ability to solve it, even if he knows that there is a lot of hype behind it, he can only swallow his anger.
After all, he can't break the defense, right? If you really break the defense, that's hilarious.
- The officials of the Flying Flame Land have broken their defenses, and they are furious all day long because of their domestic media statements!
- Why? Did the media say any fake news and make false reports?
- No, just repeating what they did in the past.
In order not to turn himself from an incompetent person into a laughing stock, the public opinion department of Flying Flame Land can't even fight back.
This is also the reason why the King of Ember asked a group of ministers to come over and hold a meeting.
But until the end, the Ember King did not hear any valuable advice from his ministers.
As for the counterattack? What are you kidding, he didn't study journalism or sociology, how did he know how to fight back against such a frivolous offensive that was not at all forced?
In order to avoid being seen as making a big fuss, the Ember King can only hold back this breath and wait for Flying Flameland's own reforms to satisfy the people.
As long as the reform of the Flying Flame Lands can go smoothly and solve these problems left over from the past hundreds of years within a few years, then the local people of the Flying Flame Lands will still be willing to believe them.
As long as you calm down, Flying Flame Land doesn't need to fight a public opinion war at all, and naturally you can win!
But, is it really calm?
Hard.
Because at this moment, the second wave of the Silver Peak Leader's offensive appeared.
This time, it was the large-scale dumping of cheap goods by Yinfeng Ling.
Deliberately targeting the seven places of the Abasalom bloodline, the Silver Peak Territory has built a large market located on the outside of the national border through the original 'Western Mountain Gap', which is also a port for exchanges between the two countries today.
This market does not sell any luxury goods, but sells all kinds of daily products, all kinds of furniture and electronic products, and even a lot of cheap fresh food.
How cheap is it?
It's so cheap that even if you pay taxes across borders, it's more cost-effective to buy things!
This is not surprising, because there is a lack of high-quality arable land in the Flying Flame Land, and the pressure on food is already very high, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, except for a few areas that can be purchased at a reasonable price, most of the other areas are quite expensive.
As for the intake of meat and protein, most of the people in the Flying Flame Land are mainly fish and beans, and those who can really eat meat every day are definitely rich people in the Flying Flame Land.
And all kinds of practical furniture, such as electric fans, dehumidifiers and mosquito repellents, etc., have been praised by the majority of people in the Flying Flame Land - the climate of their place is similar to Nanling, as hot and humid and insect-like, similar products have always been in demand in the market, but most of the people who can make these appliances are the capital of knowledge, and the knowledge is sold at the price of special products, which is very expensive.
Yinfeng Ling is a normal commodity sales, reducing some functions and efficiency, mass production and sales, small profits and quick turnover, in an instant to capture almost all the target user groups in the Flying Flame Land, the Yinfeng Ling product "cheap and practical" label in the hearts of everyone.
But that's not the scariest thing.
The most terrifying thing is that Yinfeng Ling vigorously supported the local workshops in the Flying Flame Land, invested in production in the Flying Flame Land, established a large number of factories and workshops, and created a large number of jobs.
It's not about building a branch, it's about really teaching the locals how to make their own production lines...... But how to teach? The technical level is not so easy to bring up, and even if you want to teach, Flying Flame Land does not have enough resources to teach.
Therefore, the core workers and technicians of these factories, and even all the senior managers of the workshop, have to go to Yinfeng to 'study abroad'.
And these people who studied abroad, after seeing and experiencing the life of Yinfeng Ling, are willing to return to the Flying Flame Land, which can be said to be extremely patriotic.
But no matter how patriotic they are, they will all admit that the current Flying Flame Land is too far from the Silver Peak Territory.
Moreover, the Silver Peak Collar is indeed extremely friendly. What they saw and heard in the Silver Peak Territory, and all the civilized order they felt, made them feel deeply impressed.
Merchants are profit-seeking, but Yinfeng does not want profit, as long as fame.
At this point, the public opinion media within the Flying Flame Land can hardly compete with the influence of the Silver Peak Leader's public opinion legion, and there are even many Flying Flame Land media that have been bought by the Silver Peak Leader and become their mouthpiece.
But this mouthpiece doesn't need them to tell some pure lies with their conscience - they just need to follow the pace of the Silver Peak Leader's Public Opinion Legion, post some Silver Peak Leader Advertorials, or reflect on the system problems of the Flying Flame Land.
The final blow was the 'network' from the silver peak collar.
Terminal network. This originated in Canaan Moore, then spread to the empire and other places, and finally carried forward in the network management system of the Silver Peak Territory, which is the key to the rapid growth of the Silver Peak Territory.
Although the other forces are well aware that the real reason for the rapid development of the Silver Peak Leader is Ian Silver Peak himself, as well as the legacy of Inaga II, the terminal network does allow the Silver Peak Leader to manage a large number of people with a very small number of people, and this kind of auxiliary management prop is undoubtedly something that cannot be abandoned.
The same goes for Blazinglands. In fact, before the declaration of 777, the Flying Flame Land had already obtained the manufacturing method of the terminal network through various means, and they cooperated with the Spirit Order, and the technical level in this regard was actually not low.
With the passage of time, the terminals inside the Flame Land also gradually began to spread, although they are still valuables that can only be used by the middle class, but the small watch-type terminal invented by Silver Peak Ling is cheap and practical, portable and simple, which soon accelerated the popularity of the terminal inside the Flame Land.
This popularity is incredible.
In the Flame Lands, many people don't really know how the rich and powerful live—like in the remote parts of the empire, many people have lived in poor places all their lives, not knowing that the world they live in is actually the seat of a post-apocalyptic civilization, they don't know how tall the imperial capital is, and they don't know how magnificent the mobile royal court is.
But now, with the popularization of terminal networks, people at the bottom can also know the lives of others on the other side of the world.
Soon, half a year after Yinfeng Ling announced the nine-year compulsory education, in the late spring of Terra 778, the last wave of public opinion offensive kicked off.
Thanks to the many functions that the pre-era civilization and Canaan Moore have already done, Ian doesn't even need to spend much effort to easily create a large number of functions he is familiar with on the original architecture, and he can even directly use the heart of Terra as a server for video uploading, which is impossible for anyone to ban, focusing on a real life sharing.
In just three months, Yinfengling's video sharing network was launched.
The fishermen of Whale Song Cliff, the chef of Silver Peak Collar. The shamanic ritual of the Nine Cold Silent Mountains, the daily ...... of the craftsmen of Ganter Righam
The more unsatisfactory a person is, the more he will be stimulated by the lives of others.
The more people who know about the possibilities, the more angry they will be at the present reluctance.
It is precisely because they know the goodness of others that the people of the Flying Flame Land are calling for the reform of their own government higher and higher, and more and more rapidly.
At this point, the Flying Flame Land officials, which were steadily improving, have been completely drowned out by bad reviews and criticism—and they have a hard time speaking, because just a few years ago, they were indeed the 'old government' that ignored the people's voices, suppressed the people's movement, and openly conducted human experiments to buy lives in poor areas.
On the battlefield of public opinion, the Flying Flame Land lost extremely thoroughly.
But in fact, for Ian's previous life, this kind of public opinion offensive can only be said to be flat A, and there are many big moves that are useless.
It's just that just flat A is enough to beat Terra's flaming flaming ground in this era.
"No, if it goes on like this, when the Grand Duke of Yinfeng comes over and raises his arms, at least half of the people on our side will go to him!"
Keen officials quickly noticed the number of immigrants in recent times, and the number of dissatisfied people was growing - many people were strongly demanding that the Silverpeak Territory be opened to duty-free grain imports, but if this was really opened, the Flying Flame Land, at least the Abasaroma bloodline would really lose its independence.
When the grain was pinched in their hands, the Flying Flame Land simply changed its name to be under the Grand Duchy of Silverpeak, and the province of Abasarom was saved. Ian Silverpeak can also have several more titles, and the roll call time can be more than ten seconds.
At this point, even if you know it's a bad choice, you have to do it.
In order to fight back against the increasingly powerful Silver Peak Leader, Flying Flame Land can only pick up the topic of 'historical contradictions' and 'war hatred' again.
Some of the supported Flameland media began to hype up the Empire's biological warfare and the damage caused by various special operations attacks, urging the people to remember the historical contradictions and not forget the difference between friend and foe.
But these words, it's okay to deal with the Imperial family, but it's really a bit wrong to deal with the Yinfeng Collar.
The Silverpeak Commander's Political Bureau expressed great disappointment with the hostile propaganda of the Flying Flame Land, saying that everything was a problem left over from history, the empire of the war no longer existed, the Emperor Axel had now abdicated, and the predecessor of the Grand Duchy of Silver Peak, Nanling Province, had never taken the initiative to attack the Flying Flame Land, and was even a victim of the Flying Flame Land attack.
None of them mentioned the food disaster caused by the attack on the Silver Peak Territory of the Flying Flame Land back then, and the hatred left over from various biological warfare, dare to ask you, where did the Flying Flame Land get the courage to bring up this topic?
This is indeed more reasonable on Terra, and it is indeed the Silver Peak Collar.
According to convention, a large duchy with a fifth energy level, or a small power with a fifth energy level among the large powers, can be regarded as relatively independent individuals. Nanling was indeed part of the empire before Ian's fifth energy level, because it was normal for the two countries to be attacked in a war, but with Ian's fifth energy level, all of this had to be counted separately.
Theoretically, the Ember King of the Flying Flame Land would have to apologize to Ian, the Silverpeak Prophet, for the loss of Southridge!
"Too much deception!"
At this point, let alone the fifth energy level, even the low-level civil servants are about to come to the fire, and the King of Ember crushed his terminal on the spot after seeing Yinfeng Ling's response on the terminal text message - this is not to blame for his big temper, but as a fifth energy level, when has he ever been so aggrieved?
Counterattack? How to fight back? Yin Feng Ling didn't do anything, they just told the truth, reasoned, helped the people of the Flying Flame Land find jobs, sold cheap goods and food to the people of the Flying Flame Land, and pointed out their trivial practical problems by the way!
Even if it is in turn to promote all kinds of bad news about Yinfeng Ling in China, everyone doesn't think it, because no force in this world is perfect, relatively speaking, Yinfeng Ling has done a good job, especially the first batch of compulsory education children have completed the first semester, all the policies of Yinfeng Ling have been successfully completed, everything is thriving, how to lose, how to blame?
Solve your own problems? How to fix it? There are so many problems in the Flying Flame Land, the inequality between the rich and the poor, and the overpopulation, can it be solved in a moment and a half? The ascent channel of the Flying Flame Land is actually quite good, ordinary people can also be cultivated, and then become sublimated, and there are even many designated places for civilians in the major royal legions, and nobles are not allowed to interfere.
But all of this, compared to Yinfeng's all-people arcane path education, seems bleak.
The Ember King is not stupid. On the contrary, he is one of the smartest people in the world.
"I see."
The dark red eyes looked at the southeast of the earth, the defense line of the silver peak leader, the man took a deep breath, and his emotions calmed down: "This is the purpose of Ian Silver Peak...... So far, I've lost. ”
"Your Majesty, we haven't lost yet!" Hearing this, some ministers wanted to come forward to explain, but the Ember King just waved his hand in annoyance: "If there is no perpetual motion machine voting, winning or losing is indeed still a matter of two things—most of the people of the Flying Flame Land don't have the courage or determination, just because life is good elsewhere, they will move and emigrate with their whole families." ”
"As long as we slowly reform, learn from the practice of Yinfengling, equally popularize the arcane path, strengthen the national medical system, and carry out compulsory education for all, then within ten years, the people will regain our confidence."
"The public opinion between the two countries is not so simple to completely overpower one side, there are too many people who will rise to pride just because of the name of the Flying Flame Lander, and the more the Silver Peak Territory promotes, the more it will make them want to build this country well."
"But—it's too late."
The reason for it all was this, and the Ember King slowly stood up.
He was an old man with gray hair but red eyes. He didn't look old, he even had the muscles and face of a man at his strongest, and the king in a black-on-black robe said in an unquestionable tone: "Perpetual motion machine voting is within a year and a half at the earliest, and within five years at the slowest at the earliest." ”
"That's long enough time for another generation to grow up...... Another generation of people living in the shadow of the Silver Peak Collar has grown up. ”
"At that time, are you looking forward to the future led by Yinfeng, or the future led by us? Even if you are the most supportive of me, I'm afraid you won't be able to make a choice against your will. ”
"Don't forget, Aiqing...... Our real goal is a perpetual motion machine. ”
"We've lost on this core goal."
How can these ministers not know the words of the Ember King?
However, they had long been completely bound to the interests of the kings of the Flying Flame Land, and they had no possibility of jumping back into the Chengyin Peak Realm...... Even if they knew they had already lost, they had to hold on until the last minute.
"But, that kid from Yinfeng, he still gave me one last chance."
Lowering his head and staring at his palm, the Ember King said slowly, "Or rather, he did so much to force me to choose this opportunity." ”
"A decent opportunity."
"The prophet who does not fail...... The holder of the best public opinion in the world. Haha, he's forcing me step by step, like blocking my prey into a trap, forcing me to use the last resort of civilization...... That is, 'force'! ”
At this, the Ember King even burst into laughter, clenching his fists, and the invisible flames burned the magnificent robe around him, revealing the armor made of red gold crystals beneath the robe.
"In this world that reveres the strong and reveres the strongest, as long as I can propose a feasible enough future and defeat the Silver Peak Prophet, I can turn defeat into victory!"
"This is the last chance he left me."
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(End of chapter)