Chapter 97: The Nation and the State
Seeing that even if this group is given candy, even if it is given bread, even if it is a fair trade, they still look at them as "foreigners" differently. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Russian Gothic Empire diligently and earnestly propagated "Gothicism", as well as "the creation of a great Gothic nation-state, the unification of all Goths."
It seems that if these shouts in the streets and alleys of the Russian Gothic Empire can get 95% of the people's response, some young people will even burst into tears of excitement, and then they will go to the nearest recruitment center and join the army to sacrifice their youth and children for their empire.
Here, however, the routine doesn't work at all.
It's for propaganda's sake. It must be for propaganda.
Obviously such a good, so pleasant, so ...... Beep propaganda mouth. Obviously, this slogan was blessed by all the Goths all over the world, and they cheered. Even the Breton guys in the north are the same. The Bretons also had some Gothic ancestry. Although this Gothic lineage is a little subtle. It's often complained about by the purer goths that they're half-breed mongrels or something. They were mixed with the indigenous people of Briton and all sorts of mixed blood.
But think about it. Ninety-nine percent of the Goths in the Old World were half-breeds. The pure-blooded Goths consisted only of William's Hereford family and had no male heirs, and were on the verge of extinction...... Maybe they will have to borrow two Normandy heirs from William.
Others inside. William didn't dare to make sure absolutely not. But most of the time it's really gone. Even if there were, William couldn't find it. That is, none of the Goths were of very pure blood. Even the term Gothic is closer to a cultural concept than a bloodline concept.
And culturally, it's hard to say Visigothic vs. Ostrogothic. And the vast majority of the blood that currently inherited the Ostrogothic Empire was of the same race as the legal Russian Gothic Empire.
After all, hundreds of thousands of years have been separated.
Such a long period of time, as well as geographical barriers, were early enough for the emergence of two or even more ethnic groups.
In fact, in this case, it is quite surprising that two countries still bear Gothic names. All sorts of surprises came. It is even a pleasure to say that William is still able to use the Gothic national unification as a casus belli.
Think about the world in William's previous life. At that time, the Frankish Empire was as strong as it was. But what about the end result?
The Dutch, the Swiss, and the two most hated beings in the world, the French and the Germans.
What was once a family was torn apart. Kill each other. Millions and millions of people died on the battlefield, in the cold trenches and in the cold ditches, and they were sent to the sky by artillery bombardment.
Who could have known that the two camps that had vendetta against each other to such an extent on the battlefield were actually one family hundreds or thousands of years ago?
I can't think of it at all.
Hundreds of years, thousands of years later, the original family has become two completely different and hateful peoples.
Culture, beliefs, and even religion and living habits, national habits. Everything is different. There is no way to get it back.
Of course, there is no hope for that world anymore. In the end, the result of that continent was by no means to continue to embrace each other, and then integrate and become one of the most powerful countries in the world. Instead, they continue to drag each other down and continue to pit each other very pleasantly. Continue to want others to work hard to support themselves, and continue to live happily and happily.
That's pretty much it.
Uh-huh, yes yes, that's it, that world is hopeless. And at present, William's current world is also on the verge of being hopeless. If it continues, if this republic continues to exist, then the future will definitely become like that.
Because of the existence of this republic, the Visigoths awakened to nationalism and nationalism in a large and general way. In this day and age, this is a very hopeless thing to do.
"Ahh That's it. In other words, it has to be won. Even a defeat would give the people of this land hope that they should not have. It will also affect and hinder the great cause of my unification. ”
William thought so in his heart.
So, the core of the problem now is: We want freedom and democracy, or we want a country and a nation.
Or rather, whether a unified nation-state ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship and tyrant is acceptable. Or will a new individual of democracy and freedom be split out of it, leaving the country and the nation in a state of division?
To this, William's answer, of course, is the former.
And William doesn't think of himself as an evil and authoritarian tyrant.
In fact, after that, William will have to work hard to promote the democratic process of the country.
In this way, the democratic process of the country is promoted, and its influence is reduced. In William's opinion, far from being a bad thing for his family, it was a very pleasant good thing.
Yes, yes, yes.
First of all, it would give a general bonus - that is, the benefit of William to be remembered by all the people in the country now. William, the Hereford family drove the democratic process in this country. Wilhelm von Hereford was a great emperor who understood the righteousness of the divine and wise, and who was compassionate to the heavens and the people.
If any of you dare to say a bad word about His Majesty the Emperor, everyone in the whole empire will fight with you.
Other than that, the benefits are: The great Kaiser Wilhelm was decentralized. In this way, if everyone wants to attack, they will not attack the great Kaiser Wilhelm. It won't be like a place where there are all kinds of natural disasters, or some man-made disasters, some kind of corruption, aristocracy and trouble, or something. William had no responsibility - before that, the locals would scold the emperor if the relief work was a little slow.
Corruption, scandals of the aristocracy or something, of course, the emperor must be scolded.
All in all, with great power comes great responsibility. If the monarchical dictatorship is maintained, it is only natural that a large amount of discontent will accumulate.
Of course, any system accumulates a great deal of discontent. Whether it's a democracy or a monarchy. But democracy has a pleasing tactic. It's a general election. Or even directly publish impeachment, directly distrust and then impeach the other party or something.
In this way, something went terribly wrong or something. Just let the cabinet fall, let a scapegoat stupid prime minister and his stupid cabinet members all run. It's OK to calm down the people's grievances.
And the emperor's words will not work - the emperor, he cannot step down. Otherwise, you'll have to go to the guillotine. In this way, a very, very, very important means of quelling public grievances has been lost.
Although a large number of bastards in later generations have proved that the various parties are actually in a mess, in fact, they have a terrifying and terrible invisible hand behind their backs to happily manipulate everything, in fact, all these general elections or something, in a sense, are the policy of fooling the people, that is, to make the common people think that this country has their part. The fate of the country is actually dictated by them, and they are an illusion that they are the masters of the country.
But in many cases, people would rather be deceived, and people need this delusion.
So, William's tactics are like this.
William has a large royal estate.
William could happily become the largest capitalist in the world.
William happily pursued partisan politics, as well as a general election, happily appointing the victorious party as his best bearer.
Then happily hiding in the shadows, happily continuing to manipulate the fate of the country.
If there is a benefit, you can get it happily. If there is a disadvantage, let the back-handed man happily come out and take the blame.
In this way, if there is an earthquake or flood or something, everyone will scold the government.
If there is any bribery, bribery, corrupt officials or other things, everyone will scold the government.
Everyone says that the capitalists are bad people, and the capitalists manipulate the country.
The royal family is super innocent about this.
The royal family has no power at all.
The royal family is the legendary rubber stamp and the legendary mascot Kouya.
So, the royal family for disaster relief, everyone has to thank the Lord Longen, because this is not the responsibility of the royal family, the royal family is using its own assets, not the country's assets to provide disaster relief!
At the same time, if there are corrupt officials, or if the government's policies are not good. Or the government's policy is actually good. But it takes a long-term vision to see. At present, it is misunderstood by the people as something harmful to the people. Then the royal family will definitely stand on the side of the people, and then scold the government with the people.
Even the royal family may lose the power to scold the government in the future.
Because the royal family can't get involved in politics.
In this way, the royal family is truly transcendent.
It can really be peaceful for a long time.
Relying on the pleasant partisan politics that anesthetizes the people, and the endless back-the-pot men to calm the people's grievances. The national glory of the empire, as well as the lifespan of the royal family, will surely be long enough to make people feel so happy that they show their black faces.
In fact, even now, William is immensely happy at the thought of such a pleasant result......
Yes, who in this world doesn't want that. There is still power, and then there is no responsibility. He has great abilities, great strength, and can intervene in anything he wants to do. But there is no responsibility.
Uh-huh-hmm......mm
This is William von Hereford. What William considered perfect, and most beneficial to his family, was the political model of the future empire.