Chapter 4 Pull out the unity
In order to unite the people of Newsar as much as possible, and to make them willing to follow the nascent Newsar regime, Dussart first had to solve a fundamental problem.
Who is their own person and who is the enemy.
The poor, who make up more than ninety percent of the population of Newsar, should of course be the main uniting force, they have long been ignored by the imperial and colonial institutions, and every capitalist, aristocracy, or even a freedman naturally draws benefits from them.
The poor have been oppressed for a long time, and there is no one willing to speak for their interests. None of the more than 100 members of the House of Commons relied on the votes of the poor – on the contrary, Androni and Dussart would do something for them.
They make up the vast majority of the population, but their strength is extremely weak. They are the overlooked group and the one who is most easily won over. As long as it can bring some change and hope to their lives...... They don't even need to be fed and clothed, and they will follow Dussander with all their hearts.
Give hope to a group that can't even live to achieve it, and a real and visible change, and they will do everything they can to support it.
But it's not enough to buy with small favors. In the end, the organizations and regimes thus established will still degenerate into a "dragon" that seeks its own personal interests and deceives and extorts the poor. And the vast majority of poor people who were bought by "small favors" and found themselves deceived will not continue to endure it.
No matter how small the favor is, the poor can also get some benefits from such a purchase. And such benefits will provide them with "strength". It could be economic power, it could be political vision...... In short, they will no longer be as weak and deceitful as before.
From the point of view of "domination", buying the poor would threaten the future of the rule, so the empire did not think about providing any benefits to the poor from the beginning.
But Dussander doesn't see anything wrong with that.
The rule of the empire is fundamentally to maintain the rule of the royal family. Of course, they will do whatever it takes to restrict those who pose a threat to them, and to co-opt and divide other groups that already pose a threat to royal rule.
There are costs to being divided, and when those costs are borne by the foundlings of the empire, the pauper, the royal family will at least feel that the business is being done shrewdly.
The core content of feudal rule is to share the poor and land with the lower nobles through the higher nobles, so as to obtain the submission of the other party.
As a traverser, Dussand's pattern is obviously higher than that of the rulers of the feudal dynasty.
Newsal's most needed ...... In fact, it is not that the rule is secure. Dussart himself had little interest in "10,000 years" of rule. He had only one purpose.
Dussant wants to make Newsar burst with unprecedented vitality in the shortest possible time, so that Newsar can completely overwhelm the Empire, and then kill Orin, drag the goddamn emperor and the agency out of their old nest, and cut a thousand knives in honor of Androni.
This goal is not at all easy to achieve, in fact, it is even close to a pipe dream. In any case, the empire is still a super-behemoth that occupies thirty-seven colonial stars and has a total population of more than ten billion. Although the war with the alliance lasted for more than 400 years, the empire never fell into the dilemma of "life and death", and this behemoth has never really taken it seriously.
Dussaint had no doubt that a truly mobilized empire would be able to take out a hundred nyusars. And if the Empire really kills the Alliance, after freeing up its hands and starting to feast on the corpses of the enemy, the Empire's strength will probably increase to at least one hundred and eighty Newsard.
Therefore, if you want to kill the Empire, you must first be fast - before the Empire can kill the Alliance, Newsar must expand her strength at least a hundred times.
Dussart had no other option, and if he followed the safest and at the same time least aesthetic, his great-grandsons, if any, would not necessarily be able to curry favor with the Empire.
Case...... Why not make it bigger?
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Dussand's job is very hectic and not easy.
Giving orders is of course simple, just move your mouth. But when Dussart set himself a goal and became the supreme ruler of the whole of Newsar, the act of "giving orders" was preceded by a lot of complex mental activity.
Is this directive appropriate? Will it lead to bad results? Can the lazy administrative bureaucrats below carry out their orders well?
Dussaint is busy, and stressful. He was now not only the captain of a ship, but also the first mate, second officer and helmsman of the ship, and most importantly, the observer and chart room.
It's not a question of whether you're busy or not, it's a problem where the ship doesn't know when it's going to hit the reef and sink.
To solve this difficult problem, Dussand met with the two candidates for the director of the "chart room" brought by Orwell in the director's office.
A small, thin-looking, stooping old man. And...... An acquaintance.
Dussander looked at Gustavo Gutierrez in front of him, and after a moment of silence, he said, "It looks like you've been well taken care of in the dungeon for a while. ”
Gutierrez was now covered in wounds and bruises all over his body, and one eye was completely covered with blood scars, and he couldn't tell if he was blind or beaten like this.
But the tall priest still maintained his original posture, his hands naturally drooped, his feet slightly apart, and he looked at Dussander without saying a word.
"The idea of liberation theology is also heretical within the church, so few people are able to preach it publicly." Orwell said, "The traditional church view is that the royal family is a child of God. But liberation theology fundamentally rejects this notion – they argue that ......"
Before Orwell could finish his words, Gutierrez suddenly spoke, "The current royal family is the source of all the pain and darkness of the entire empire. God brought His children into the world in order to take the place of suffering and ultimately liberate all people through the Sunnah of His children. The royal family has become a source of suffering for the people, and the royal family cannot be the children of God. ”
Orwell shrugged his shoulders, "That's what they thought. ”
"But you still followed the royal orders and slaughtered the people of Newsar." Dussaint suddenly raised his voice, "What liberation theology, isn't this what you just believed in in order to survive?!" ”
Truth be told, Dussaint didn't want the bishop to live first. The bishop was close to his family, and whenever Androni went to church to hear Mass, she would definitely visit Mr. Bishop. With this kind of frequent relationship, he should also find a way to leak the news to Androni in advance.
"I ...... After learning about this incident, he immediately found His Excellency the Speaker. In the face of such questioning, Gutierrez showed a hint of "apology" for the first time. He replied with his head down, "But I wasn't alone at the time, and I couldn't say much......"
Dussander fell silent, and after a moment, he waved Orwell to take Gutierrez down first.
He still has a hard time accepting this fact. He didn't even understand why Gutierrez survived – a month earlier, Gutierrez's envoy had indeed delivered the news to Dusander...... But before he could react further, Dussart was relieved of all duties by a furious Duchamp.
Duchamp executed more than 20,000 people during his month of rule in Newsar, but he did not attack Gutierrez. This left Dussander feeling a little baffled.
Driven away the bishop, the shriveled old man standing in place looked even more slender. Orwell took Gutierrez to the dungeon, leaving Dussant and the old man in the room.
"Your doctrine is 'Newsar Single Nationalism'...... Right? Dussander flipped through the paperwork sent by the Ministry of Management in front of him and asked casually, "What does this single nation mean?" ”
"Old ...... Sir, mono-ethnic means that the Nyusar should be a separate people. The old man answered Dussand's question with a standard phrase of "nonsense literature," and then said, "The history and development of the Nyusar people is different from that of the other colonies of the Empire, and from a scholarly point of view, the Nyusar people deserve to be a separate people." ”
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In the Empire, "nation" was an outright foreign word. And the term was coined by the "only enemy" alliance of empires.
The League is a state founded by the subordinates of the rebel Salvador and the descendants of El Salvador, and this "country" has always maintained its previous "character" - it has always been a rather loose alliance within itself.
The descendants of El Salvador have the most colonies and military power, while the descendants of other subordinates occupy some colonies according to their strength and resources, and have their own military power independent of the descendants of El Salvador.
In Dussand's view, the political structure of the League was simply an excellent stage and hotbed for civil strife. But the alliance miraculously, or inevitably, maintained internal relations, and even flourished and grew rapidly. And the root cause of this spectacle is the empire that has been "eyeing the tiger" outside the alliance.
As the empire sustained its strategic offensive, each political entity within the alliance had to rely on the descendants of El Salvador, the most militarily powerful in the alliance. And they also seized the opportunity to continuously improve their position within the alliance, demanding colonies, resources, population, and even complete submission from other political entities.
As the empire goes on the defensive of contraction, these political entities, which are relatively weak to the descendants of El Salvador, will unite and force their Führer to concede to them.
In the long-term "tug-and-pull" of the Alliance, these weak political entities have invariably chosen nationalization in order to more effectively gather their internal forces—they have developed their own living habits, cultures, and customs. And people who share the same habits are naturally more united.
The vast majority of political entities in the League have benefited from the path of nationalization, and thus related research doctrines have gradually been born.
Professor Morgan, who teaches at Olympian Imperial University, was exposed to the doctrine during his first visit to Newsar.