24. One week (Tuesday)
"If anyone were to ask Roland now, 'Why did you do such a stupid thing as fighting a Divine Will Agent,' he would surely answer, 'I did it because I didn't like what he did.'" ”
Li Lin showed a gentle smile towards the fitting mirror, and the beautiful young man in the mirror also showed him a people-friendly expression, and his gorgeous coat looked inferior to that peerless beauty.
The dictator nodded, and the exclusive tailors in the gown bowed, carefully folded the magnificent royal robe and put it into the cart, put on the fitting mirror, and walked out of the audience room with solemn steps.
Divine Agent, Great Man from Heaven, Guardian of the World, Re-Builder of Order and Justice, Patron of Orthodox Religion, Leader of the Powerful Ministry, Dictator of Alfheim, First Citizen, Liberator and Grand Duke of St. István and Ostoria, Charlemagne's Punisher, Iron Father of All Good and Obedient People, Leader of the Promised People, Duke of Auschwitz, Count of Birkenau, Tribune of Moravia, Bohemia, Wallachia - Siegfried Otto Lelin will soon be in accordance with the will of the gods. Two more titles will be added to the powers conferred by the law and at the request of the people, and there will be one more phrase in the surname, and the title will also be changed.
Caesar, all the citizens of the Holy Gilmania Empire, God bless His Majesty Siegfried Otto Lilin Augustus, Emperor of Gilmania.
It was originally intended that after the war on the Rhine Front was settled, it was planned to march to Lüdders, hold an official coronation ceremony in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, and then hold a grand military parade and entry ceremony in front of the Arc de Triomphe to announce the establishment and legitimacy of the new empire. As to the legitimacy guaranteed by bayonets and cannons, how many admit whether such an approach would provoke resistance among Charlemagne—these are the minutiae that the elves who have been repressed for too long are not happy to consider.
However, the complexity of the church makes this arrangement unrealistic.
According to tradition, the final coronation should be conferred on the emperor by the pope or saint to declare the divine right of kingship. But Ymir has already finished playing, it doesn't matter if there is such a link or not, surrounded by civil and military officials, there is nothing wrong with the divine will agent wearing the crown himself, anyway, in the past Old Kingdom era, as long as there is a token of the divine sword, the ceremony can be carried out. Even if someone asks, it can be said that it is a retro way to highlight the historical inheritance between the new empire and the old kingdom, so as to highlight the legitimacy of the empire.
Now the church has created a mess that Li Lin can't clean up without going to the scene himself, and all the trips can't start until they are all killed, and until the garbage dump they left behind after the carnival is cleaned up.
The original schedule has been thrown into the trash, as is the step-by-step plan for the enthronement. Instead, it's an alternative that's a bit of a rush, and a bit of child's play. It is believed that the whole world will be dumbfounded, and the way to ascend the throne that cannot be found in the history books will be deeply imprinted in everyone's mind, and will be repeatedly mentioned by people, becoming one of the representatives of many historical moments.
However, this is not the point of conversation now.
"Because I don't like ...... So revolt?"
Nidhogg's answer was somewhat uncertain.
Although there are many inducements for this outcome, such as oppression, hunger, and discrimination, it is basically emotional factors that ultimately contribute to resistance.
I can't live anymore -
We can't take it anymore -
I can only resist -
It is as if when the accumulated pressure reaches a certain limit, a volcano erupts, the earth shakes, and when resentment and anger accumulate to a certain extent, it erupts in the form of resistance.
"But under our new order, the so-called oppression is nothing more than a rational administration based on the normal functioning and overall well-being of the state, and there is absolutely no reason to tolerate and accept the grievances of a single person, let alone to give up a golden opportunity for permanent peace. ”
In Nidhogg's view, Roland's actions were simply vexatious.
The so-called fairness, the so-called justice, the so-called freedom and basic rights of the individual are, first of all, premised on the establishment of the right to exist. Under the new order, even though there is a division of national hierarchies and corresponding treatment based on race, we should also see before questioning and denouncing differential treatment that it is precisely on the basis of such differences that the unemployment rate can be suppressed to the greatest extent, authority can be guaranteed, and order can be maintained for a long time. On the contrary, what would happen if everyone was treated equally? Obviously, everything would return to square one, the world would fall back into chaos, and stupid and ugly strife would fill the world.
And just because Roland doesn't like it, he wants to deny everything that has been built up with great difficulty after decades, countless riches and painstaking efforts?
It's crazy.
"He should have had a brain doctor get his brain checked. ”
The captain of the pro-guard said hatefully.
The dictator has a different view of the personal sentimental statements of the captain of the pro-guard forces.
- If you have seen those stupid white sweets who pursue "political correctness", if you have seen those "white leftists" and "virgins" who demand that the government open its borders to accept refugees in large numbers and vigorously advocate the abolition of the death penalty, Niedhogg may not be so fiercely critical of Roland. Compared with those people, Roland's appeal is actually not excessive.
Freedom, equality, fraternity - these basic spiritual slogans of modern social values have not yet spread at this time, because the consortium did not provide a corresponding ideological awakening environment when it launched the industrial revolution, and also introduced expansionism and **** in order to suppress any ideological emancipation, "clear classes, born unequal" is still the mainstream values at this time. Although people have stepped into modern times at the level of life, the ideological foot is still stuck in the feudal era, which is almost a copy of the Showa era in Japan.
In such an environment, it is absolutely impossible to give birth to the emancipation of the mind, and even if there is, he will inevitably be regarded as an alien and be suppressed and excluded. What? Conscientious literati and thinkers? Not to mention how many of these people became "friends of the king...... Write a few articles, draw a few pictures and think you're amazing? Would you like to go to the gendarmerie for a cup of tea? Have you ever tried diving with 100 kilograms of cement? Have you ever tried to get a bag full of lead from foot to head until every bone is slag? Haven't tried? It's okay, you have a lot of time to try.
After all, the idealists who dare to confront the violent institutions are only a minority, and those who can leave a life from the hands of the violent institutions and continue to persist in pursuing their ideals at the cost of their lives and lives are even more of a minority of the minority.
It is often this kind of person who drives history forward, starting from the childish feeling of "disliking", growing up persistently all the way, and finally achieving the great cause of celebrities in history or leaving a reputation for thousands of years.
Will Roland be the miracle worker, a revolutionary mentor, a pioneer, or one of the many unknown martyrs who fell halfway through?
It seems a little too early to assert now.
Although he was constantly controlled and stimulated in the process of growing up, he was deliberately led in a certain direction. However, human beings are creatures with too many uncertainties, and using rigid formulas will only end up with results that are far from what is expected. Until the final result is clear, conclusions must not be drawn lightly.
"Don't underestimate your opponents at any time, especially ideologically and ideologically. It's easy to destroy a person who spreads ideas, all it takes is a command, a knife, a bullet, a bomb. However, ideas are intangible, and when an idea is widely spread among a population, violence alone is counterproductive. ”
Someone once said: After all, the sword is better than the pen.
Violence may work for some time, but long-term repression is a costly approach with low feasibility and benefits. As long as the confinement of violence is loosened, once-suppressed trends of thought will resurge and spread at a faster and deeper pace than before. In the end, the use of violence is tantamount to promoting the spread of ideas and the awakening of the people in disguise.
Moreover, the slogans of equality, freedom, and fraternity are more likely to penetrate into the hearts of the people than the churches that oppose God, especially the fourth-class citizens, who have no resistance to such slogans at all. What are we going to do when everybody demands change and promotes equality? Do we shoot everybody, or do we all end up in concentration camps? So we have to do all the killing and arresting every day, and nothing else. ”
"The subordinates are not well thought out. ”
"Don't mind, Nidhogg. ”
Li Lin waved his hand, got up and took out a bottle of brandy and a wine glass from the wine cabinet, and said while pouring wine into the glass:
"It's a question you're not good at, and it has nothing to do with your authority, even if you get it wrong. But I want you to remember that violence alone will not work to deal with ideological problems. ”
The best way to deal with an ideology aimed at overthrowing the regime is to raise the standard of living and welfare of the people, so that everyone is busy earning money to support their families, and there is no time to think about what they have and what they don't have. Even those who distribute leaflets in public or in the community proclaim with great vigor that "all nationalities are created equal", "increase the right of the people to participate in politics", and "increase the proportion of parliamentarians and administrative officials of the third and fourth classes". Most people will just think that these people have something wrong with their brains. But in this way, the goal of maintaining order by dividing the national hierarchy is tantamount to bankruptcy.
It is a self-contradiction to implement differential treatment to achieve long-term peace and stability and to prevent the spread of the idea of equal rights, which cannot be achieved by conventional means.
"It is true that ordinary administrative means, political operations, and intelligence operations cannot solve this kind of problem. But what if there were miracles, divine punishments performed by God's will, to 'persuade' the world to accept an unjust fate, to take unreasonableness for granted?"
Dangling his wine glass and staring at the swaying liquor, Li Lin shrugged his shoulders and put on a mischievous smile.
"Then all the problems will be solved, and everyone will shut up and silently integrate into the new order, except Roland. He's going to say, 'That's what I'm not used to!'"