27. Long live the emperor! (8)
Historically, there are not a few countries where ethnic minorities rule the world, but there are very few countries that can last for more than 100 years. Powerful empires such as the Macedonian Empire, the Mongol Empire, and the Timurid Empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa were only a generation short and only more than 90 years long. In the dark, these histories seem to verify the claim that "Hu Lu has no luck for a hundred years", but it is not.
Not to mention that after the Age of Discovery, Spain and Britain successively became empires on which the sun never sets, and the beacon of democracy, the United States, jumped from a place of exile and Puritans to the Roman Empire in the new century. The so-called "Hulu has no 100-year luck" is only a discussion with certain reference value under specific circumstances. Basically, as long as they do not deliberately commit suicide and excessively provoke the majority of the ruled, making them feel that they have no other way out, and there is no other choice but to rebel, there will generally be no civil strife. Even if there is instigation by foreign forces, the people lack motivation and enthusiasm, let alone fight with cold bayonets.
Solving the minimum problem of food is the first step in consolidating the rule, and the second step, which can be said to be more important than war, economic warfare, and pacifying the people, is the issue of education.
If you want to destroy your country, you must first lose its history.
If you want to destroy their people, you must first destroy their culture.
This is an eternal truth. Only a complete distortion of a nation's basic values and identity at the cultural and historical level can completely destroy a country and a nation. The fastest and most direct means to achieve this kind of value export is education and propaganda, supplemented by bloody and cruel massacres, and only by physically eliminating the intellectual class that refuses to abandon national consciousness and tradition, and then going through a long period of assimilation education and propaganda, as well as pervasive indoctrination of values, can we cultivate generation after generation of loyal and obedient "obedient people" and "imperial people". In this regard, the Qing Dynasty, which created a "literary prison" after entering the customs, and the old Japanese Empire, which colonized Taiwan for 50 years, can be described as relatively prominent cases (and also extremely unpleasant).
Imagine, a Charlemagne who has lived in an elven environment since he was a child and grew up with the values of Alfheim, if he is asked to answer, Charlemagne, who no longer exists, and Alfheim, who is closely related to his life, when he has a more intimate sense of which side, as long as he is not a refined or non-mainstream middle two disease, the answer is obvious. And as education and advocacy continue, with each passing generation, respondents identify less with Charlemagne and more with Alfheim.
Therefore, as early as the planning stage of Charlemagne's war plan, how to control the education in the occupied territories and what kind of education to implement were already put on the table. During the meeting, all parties had in-depth exchanges and fully expressed their respective opinions (read in accordance with the black language of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Among them, there are extreme opinions of "shooting all Charlemagne's intellectual class, burning all Charlemagne's books and all cultural products, and making all Charlemagne's illiterate or semi-literate to serve as laborers and serfs." There are also views on "making use of the experience of Argentolaton and Lorraine to promote Alfheimization and assimilation education in the occupied territories". There is also the strange idea of "separating Charlemagne's children from their parents and concentrating them in a militarized boarding school for closed education, so that ideas can be instilled at will, and students who resist and resist can be quickly discovered and dealt with". Generally speaking, it was either full of emotional nonsense, or the continuation of existing policies, coupled with disputes between various departments over the right to speak and the scope of business, no one could convince anyone, and in the end, like all indecisive bills, it was pushed to the big boss to ask for a holy decision.
Li Lin's answer fully demonstrated his usual high-efficiency style, and in the face of that concise and concise reply, the officials once again bowed their heads deeply.
Charlemagne's intellectuals should be carefully screened, killed, imprisoned, and released. The full implementation of compulsory education and "happy education", the gradual implementation of the assimilation policy, fundamentally put an end to any possibility of Charlemagne's revival and independence.
Li Lin knows very well that Charlemagne's intellectuals are also all kinds of people, including villains who are willing to flatter the strong, tough guys with iron bones, scholars who play with power and monopolize academics, and real wise men who pursue truth and take educating the next generation as their own responsibility. In the face of such a complex group, any one-size-fits-all approach is impractical and meaningless. It's the right thing to do with a strategy for different goals.
Most of the die-hard nationalists and anti-elven intellectuals have fled abroad, and the rest are either too late to flee or are too old to die, and even if they die, they will die in their homeland, trying to awaken the martyrs of the majority with their own blood. Stasi's Einsatzgruppen is searching for these people, and it is believed that it will not be long before these people and their families will disappear from the world, leaving no trace, as if they never existed.
As for the "intellectuals with a conscience", they are subjected to "preventive arrest", and after careful screening, it is decided which ones will go to the execution ground and which ones will go to the labor camps for reform, and their minds will be corrected through the baptism of labor. If you're lucky, you might make it out of the labor camp alive and spend the rest of your life under surveillance. If you're unlucky, you'll slowly disappear in endless hard labor.
After these two layers of screening, what is left is the "Junjie" who knows the current affairs. These people know how to please their new owners, what to do to extend the life of themselves and their families, and they also have a certain level of execution and academics. They are the best tools for Alfheim to instill the ideas of "goodwill and unity" and "co-prosperity and coexistence" in Charlemagne's people and the next generation, excellent engineers of the soul of National Socialism, and forges of the bottom parts of the state apparatus. They will produce generations of excellent, loyal workers for Alfheim.
So, despite his sincere contempt for the man in front of him, Nidhogg still maintained a minimum of formal respect.
Whether this respectful and friendly working atmosphere can be maintained depends on the performance of the university professors themselves.
"Yes, Your Excellency. ”
Professor Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier placed his hands on his knees and nodded vigorously.
"No one will sympathize with those fools who don't know how to behave. ”
Nidhogg's eyes narrowed, and for the first time he looked around with interest at the man in front of him with a sincere face.
Professor Lavoisier gave him a very interesting answer.
If he replies that the speculators who have been killed by Jarfheim are heinous and deserving of death, and that the dictator is wise enough to eradicate them in one fell swoop, then he is only a perpetrated speculator who is not worthy of attention, if he shows sympathy or sorrow, then he is a potential nationalist or a peripheral member of the speculative syndicate, and the soldiers at the door will immediately pull him outside and shoot him; if he only nods and responds to the story, he is at best a weak echo worm that is still not worth the task of any important task.
However, the professor gave a very good answer - he did not know how to advance or retreat, he was stupid, and he did not deserve sympathy.
There is no right or wrong, and there is no sadness of the rabbit and the fox, it is reasonable, the words are ambiguous but they show their position, and finally pat the new master's ass without a trace.
is not too flattering, but also knows how to leave a way back for himself, and knows how to please the strong.
This man is indeed a truly intelligent man.