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In fact, it is not surprising that they only found out at this time.

Because even at this time, if people who are interested in listening to the lectures held by the Alliance members in the factory, it is difficult for them to find a just right time to stand up and accuse the Alliance people of spreading pagan beliefs. Almost no worship of any kind - except for the sorcerer alone.But the way they worship him is to vigorously educate the workers and common people, telling them that reading makes people sensible, paying attention to newspapers is good for their wealth, and that there are no real difficulties in this world, and all problems have their solutions.

Who would have imagined that the real heresy lies in this last sentence—all problems have their solutions?

Due to its own situation—it is located in the extreme north of the world, its business is prosperous, and the current ruler, Grand Duke Colson, looks very much like an unbelievers, so people in this land have weaker beliefs than other places. The theory does not allow them to create a commercial sub-god by themselves, which also makes it easy for them to accept the doctrine of the alliance people: what people can really rely on is their own strength.

Whether it is fighting against the tricks of fate or satisfying the desire of the heart, as long as people find the right way, they can overcome all difficulties.

It may be just a weak consolation to others, but here in the Alliance, they themselves are the evidence of the existence of this belief, so few people can refuse to be seduced by this specious theory.

Only a very educated theologian can see the pitfalls of language: if everything is human, where is God?

How can people know what is right and what is wrong without God's guidance?Without the presence of God, how can people maintain morality outside the crowd?Without God to determine the order of this world, how can human beings create civilization and continue it for a long time?

But the Alliance never talked about God.

They are very cunning and never directly deny that there is a supreme and omnipotent existence in the world. They didn't even say anything at first, they came to Zhdan like ordinary people, and brought those ignorant people to mine mineral deposits , built factories, threw stubborn stones into the flames, and exchanged heavy metal ingots for everyone's rich life. After their prestige was established, they added praises to "magicians" in their daily teachings, and respected the alliance. Advocating, convincing men that they could have a better life elsewhere, like water soaking sand, these Confederates, by their material convenience, recommend their dress, food, and entertainment to those attracted by pomp. , forming one after another small groups that only isolate the owner of the other half of the industry.

These groups have their own routines, their own secret language, and even the language is unified towards those alliance members!

But—but, in the contract signed at the beginning, both the chamber of commerce and the nobles promised that the alliance members have the right to form associations in Zhidan without affecting production, and for these rights in black and white, the alliance members have the right to use them when necessary A certain amount of force.

Now that the tricks of the Alliance people are already known, can these locals who are about to be domesticated by the Alliance people wake up in time and return to the embrace of Zhengxin without doing anything?If the factory owners give better treatment, care about the families and lives of these workers, and let people teach them the right things... Actually, it is not that no one factory owner has tried to do this, but the cost is very, very high, and the result is also It is not very satisfying, and more importantly, it did not cause any blow to the alliance members. They acted very happy to see the factory owner improving the life of the workers, not only actively cooperating, but also giving advice from time to time...

There are even factory owners who have been deceived by them, thinking that wealth is created by laborers, and they deserve everything...

Even if the factory owners finally know how to distinguish traitors and unite with the church, it is too late for them to correct the ethos. The faith is always firm and pure, but as long as they return to the factory area, they will still hang shoulders with the alliance members, call them brothers, accept their things, sing their songs, and take their classes. If someone stops them, they will be beaten severely by them go out.

People of insight can see this desperate situation very clearly, because people live in this world now, no matter how eternal the paradise after death is, they only see this short life in their eyes, and their fragile bodies make them want to eat now. If they are full, they need to dress warmly, stay away from illness, and their battered souls need to be comforted now.

For a long time, only the church can give them these things, and it can't give too much. After all, the church has limited conditions, and if it gives too much, it will only encourage people's greed.

But the Confederates—these unbelievers, these heretics—their contempt for faith was evident in their words and deeds, and they cared for themselves, never abstinent, never patient, and refusing to accept the sufferings that life deserves.This kind of life is the envy of those who are weak, and to those who aspire to it, the Confederates are like a group of rich farmers, doing everything possible to fatten their livestock.They say to the ignorant people that we have clothes, we have food, we can cure diseases, we have many of your partners here, people have similar experiences and common pain, and you will never be alone here.

Who can hold it?

The factory owners couldn't even stop the Unionists from organizing trade unions, and Grand Duke Colson, the principality's biggest traitor, allowed them to become a legal production organization at an extremely fast speed. This is simply a fatal backstab. After a long time, the factory owners found that their control over the industries that should belong to them had become further weaker-the factories did not want their support, refused their management and all "unreasonable" orders, and sometimes Not even Unionists needed, the workers themselves would keep the factories running smoothly under the union organization.

Factory owners have gradually changed from "owners" to "shareholders". They can still get generous dividends, which only increase compared to before. They don't have to go to dirty and hot factories to deal with various trivial matters, and they can make more He spent more time and experience on the increasingly prosperous northern business road, but none of the bourgeois was happy about it.They feel precarious.

The prosperity of the commercial routes in the northern region, the rapid development of Ridan, and the wealth growth of the bourgeois are all brought about by the trade between the alliance and Ridan.Because of the needs of the alliance, the annual metal output of Ridan has been so high that no country in the Northern Territory can eat it, even if all these countries add up. Due to the technological improvements promoted by the alliance people, these productions are still increasing. Once the alliance says they no longer need these metal ingots that can't be eaten or worn...even if they just delay the payment...

Who can accept such consequences?Since the alliance can take away their factories so easily under the rules of the contract without any commercial reputation, can you believe that they will not do such a thing?

Even if they won't do this... a more terrifying thing is waiting for them: After several years of rapid development, one-third of the population of the Principality of Zidan has been converted into production workers.

Now there is only one question left, does Grand Duke Colson want to incorporate Zhdan into the Industrial Alliance?

Regarding this question, we must go back to the envoy’s visit that year. We should ask the businessman who proposed to the alliance and received positive responses and strong support. Who is he and which chamber of commerce he is from?What happened to him?

He is the agent of the chamber of commerce under the name of Grand Duke Colson, and plays an important role in the semi-finished raw material-industrial product trade system with the industrial alliance. Now he is in a high position and has a sense of presence in the alliance.Among the rumors that have not been verified, it is said that he revealed to the alliance a chamber of commerce that competed with him, saying that they had too close a relationship with the old orc nobles, and that the extremely wicked idea of ​​lying on the rails was provided by them.Since the league took some effort to deal with this matter, everyone will know the result later.

This is Archduke Colson's answer.

In fact, judging from the handling methods of the Orc Empire and the Principality of Zidan, it can be seen that the expansion of the alliance is relatively gentle. It is not like the fifth administrative region developed in the desert area on the east side of the Raus Mountains. Fight all the way and kill decisively. , in fact, in the development process of the Central and Western District, the number of times the alliance fought was not much, and only when the conflict was really unresolvable would it choose to use force, but this did not improve the alliance's reputation in the outside world much.In the eyes of many people who have only a preliminary understanding of the alliance, although this emerging industrial alliance has developed to a size comparable to that of the Central Empire in a very short period of time, as its founder, "Sorcerer" is an out-and-out tyrant.

There are indeed many examples in the alliance that captured cities without bloodshed. They did not massacre, surrender, or torture prisoners. They rescued the wounded on the battlefield without discrimination. The family lives together.As conquerors they were more merciful than ever, yet as rulers—

They are killing civilization.

They killed institutions, they killed classes, they killed languages, they killed art, they killed philosophy... They killed everything older and weaker than this newborn monster of the League, a massacre no butcher ever did.By mass of merchandise, mass of printed matter, they invaded like a flood the territories they intended to occupy, and force, indeed, was not chief among their means, but it was often the straw that broke the camel's back.The brutality of the Alliance people is that they not only want to occupy the land, but also occupy people's minds in the spiritual realm. Through their so-called basic education, through the promotion of hatred, they plant mold-like thoughts into people's ignorant hearts, In a short period of time, they will be changed beyond recognition.

They even say that they respect their beliefs—however, after such utter corruption, people have destroyed even the foundation of their loyalty, how can they maintain the stability of their beliefs?

In fact, the alliance's reputation wasn't that bad at the beginning. Their aggressive behavior was too confusing and corrosive. Those things created with strange skills and tricks were pervasive. Even if the nobles and the church could control no alliance Pieces of paper appear in their own jurisdiction, and they themselves cannot control themselves from enjoying a better life-the life that only the goods of the Alliance can bring them.

It’s just that a set of comfortable clothes doesn’t matter, a set of fine steel weapons doesn’t matter, drugs with amazing effects should be kept on hand, even if there are no allies, they will continue to chase gorgeous jewelry and physical stimulation.No matter how many times the tragic destruction has happened elsewhere, these foolish nobles still believe that as long as they don't listen to the words of the Alliance, and don't look at the cultural products of the Alliance, they are invulnerable-but what about the human body and soul? Can it be completely separated?

Some areas want to increase the resistance of the noble class to the alliance plague through religious reforms, but like many people who have been completely swallowed by the alliance's trap, they discover the danger too late, and the way of resistance is neither correct nor resolute , Some people who want to make a difference try to block everything about the alliance by cutting off communication, but this approach often fails, and people are always easily slaves to money.

I simply don't know what kind of devil's incubation pool the alliance is, and the members born from it are so good at grasping the weaknesses of human nature. When people are determined to form an alliance against the alliance, actively promote its realization and are only a few steps away from success The Red Devils suddenly signed the so-called "mutual assistance" pacts with several countries that have no direct conflict with them on the condition that they only transport goods and do not exchange people.

Just like a board game spread from the alliance, these countries and regions are the "eyes" that have been carefully calculated and settled. The existence of these betrayers has made the "anti-alliance alliance" never reappear.

It seems that because they don't want to make the game too boring and destroy people's union, these killer monsters suddenly propose to open up their voices and allow the opponents of the alliance to express their attitudes through newspapers, radio and books. The specific correct way , is to sell paper and stationery at cost price to those in need through the alliance's propaganda departments in each administrative region, regional offices outside the administrative region, and transportation units such as Baichuan, and send the received manuscripts to the industrial city for sorting out. and published after selection.

Although some people are annoyed that this is another trap, newspapers and broadcasting are the two major weapons of the alliance to control people's thoughts, and it is absolutely impossible for them to share the channels of communication. The so-called openness of speech and acceptance of criticism, who can guarantee that this will not lead to targeted retaliation ?Although the nobles and priests in many areas picked up the study of grammar and logic again in order not to become the laughing stock of those low-class people who turned over under the stimuli of the alliance, but in just a few years There are still a small number of people who have achieved something, and they are all very precious talents.

So in the beginning, only profit-seeking businessmen would find someone to fool with an article and hand it back after buying these non-attributed stationery for a little bit of "cost price"—well, it's actually a big discount.

Soon enough, this shit was in the Confederate newspapers, not only in the papers, but being recited over and over again on the radio, and besides that, the Confederates paid whoever wrote it A lot of royalties, praise his articles for their groundbreaking significance, and they will be included when the book is published——

Don't ask why staunch opponents of the alliance are so quick to learn about the process, no one with any knowledge can bear the insult anyway.

Manuscripts like snowflakes flew to Industrial City from all over the country, which was different from what some people slandered. Except for the previous few issues, which were mixed in good and bad, the manuscripts selected by Industrial City were basically above a certain level.These selected articles have accurate language, beautiful grammar, and most importantly, "they got it right", "this is our point of view".

But the alliance opened up the battlefield of this spiritual world not to let itself be beaten.They have never been beaten by the world.

They are here to beat people.

There are thousands of teachers enrolled in the alliance, and tens of thousands of primary school graduates every year-whether people outside the alliance believe it or not.They have five radio channels, two newspaper offices, one magazine office, and the publishing department publishes dozens of books every year. There are stable outputs throughout the year, as well as their content. If you can face up to their content, you can see that behind these cultural products there is a larger group that needs them.

It is normal and reasonable for some people to dislike the alliance, and for some to oppose and hostile to the alliance. The alliance people know and fully accept it.

It doesn't matter.

Because the Leaguers don't like them either.It's not just individuals they dislike, they dislike almost everything "out there".

For the Alliance, it's not their fault that they don't like the world, it's the world's fault.

If anyone asks where this feeling comes from, let us tell you why.

The alliance gives opponents the right to speak, and they reserve the right to refute. The so-called communication is the long-term way. Therefore, it does not take a long time from the full-text publication to the abstract selection to the special review issue. From a moment to a place , until the battlefield spread to half of the western states, and all the areas related to the alliance have heard of this fierce debate, until the flames of war were blown by the wind to the central and southern regions of the former Central Empire, causing various degrees of conflict in several countries The response is only a matter of a few months.

Liard walked through the veranda, the wind blowing from the valley, swaying his long hair, the wind brought not only the fragrance of flowers, but also some vague but intense words, no need to distinguish carefully, Liard knew that they were arguing What.

He walked into the hall, took off his cloak and threw it on the screen, passed the study, turned around and walked into the bedroom, and saw Georg sitting on the couch with a stack of newspapers beside him. He didn't wear any armor, and the soft fabric formed beautiful folds on his smooth body. Liard looked at him for a while, and then walked towards him.

Georg sighed, put down the newspaper, raised his hand, and gently grabbed his hairband.

Then Liard smiled and asked, "Interesting?"

Georg straightened his clothes meaninglessly, and asked a little reluctantly, "...what's interesting?"

"This war." Liard said, resting his head on his arms and looking at him.

"I'm not as good at riddles as the elves are."

“Don’t you think it’s interesting that this war is taking place verbally and on paper, using ideas and words as weapons?” Liard said. There are so many forces involved, and the things involved are so important, but they didn't directly kill anyone. It's not because we humans have developed such a reasonable civilization that it has reached a period when it should appear, and someone needs this war. So it came out."

"They were arguing quite loudly," Georg said, "but I don't think it makes much sense. The outcome of this war is decided before it begins, and victory will go to the Confederates. They choose the battlefield, their weapons Yu, it’s no different from reality, since their opponents can’t win on the real battlefield, do they think they can reverse the situation by changing another dimension?”

"The purpose of the debate is not to conquer the opponent." Liard said with a smile.

“But people outside the debate, no matter which side they lean towards, are ultimately driven by their own interests,” Georg said.

"That's true." Liard said, "But human beings are 'social' animals. We can't live on our own. If we don't want to drink blood, we have to live among the crowd, so our interests or positions are not a flat field. , They are more like a polyhedron, which side is the largest, which side is our foundation. As far as the number and number of people currently represented by the industrial alliance are concerned, at least morally they can be invincible.”

"Moral..." Georg whispered.

"Morality," Liard said, "a lot of the time, it's a very hypocritical, very easy thing to throw away. But there are times... that remind me of our past. Honey, you think the Alliance believe what they say Those things?"

"Don't talk about them, I'm willing to believe them all." Georg said bluntly.

Leah laughed.

"Then they'll keep winning."

"What about us?" Georg asked.

Leah sat up from the couch.

"We have to survive first."

"Don't make it sound like you're weak, it's not easy to kill you." Georg couldn't help but said, "The Queen may not be able to solidify as many spells as you... How many spells have you solidified?" body technique?"

"I don't think it's enough." Liard said, "Five years ago, the Queen told me about her prophetic dreams. At that time, we could still say that this may not be the future. Five years later, it's my turn to dream. "

Georg was visibly taken aback.

"What kind of dream was that?"

Liard approached him, pressed his forehead, and said softly: "A dream of one world falling into another world."