Chapter 221 Propaganda War
The people in this alien world are not unwilling to compile history . In fact, slightly older institutions will consciously record history. For example, the Ivory Tower, a legal organization of spellcasters, has recorded all the outstanding spellcasters who have emerged on the continent in the past three thousand years. For example, the Alchemy Room has a detailed chronicle of all the alchemical products made by alchemists that can influence and change people's living habits.
Well... this is also the limitation of non-governmental organizations. They only care about things within their circle and don't pay much attention to things in the outside world. At most, they will record something major when it happens.
A small inland country like the Kingdom of the Rhine, located in the east-central part of the continent, has little chance of appearing in the chronicles recorded by private institutions.
The Rhine Kingdom's own history is limited to the royal family, the capital, and people and events that are closely related to the royal family or the capital. Anything related to the royal family's dark history will never be clearly recorded.
This is not to say that the Rhine royal family is despicable. No matter which dimension, the nature of human beings is actually not much different. The Chinese feudal dynasty, which was overthrown every two or three hundred years, would certainly record the bad deeds of the previous emperor without any courtesy, but the royal family of a certain island country that has been passed down for hundreds of generations would not really leave behind the dark history of their ancestors for future generations to laugh at.
It is unlikely that the Rhine royal family and the country's great nobles would compile a detailed chronicle .
In order to divert domestic conflicts, the small northern country launched a war against the Rhine Kingdom. In half a month, it captured Tachia, the largest earldom north of the Rhine, and within two months, it fought all the way to the capital along the Barcelo River. The strongest archduke's army at that time was unable to quickly march to the defense of the king because of the stagnation of the rear. The then leading marshal was forced to put together a death squad with civilians drawn from various territories, escorting the prince's empty carriage and fleeing westward to lead the enemy away... If this matter were recorded in full and in detail, would the royal family and the upper-class nobles of the Rhine still have face?
How many nobles who have nothing better to do than brag about the glorious history of their family will be tarnished by this matter?
The great-great-grandson of the prince who "personally led the army to fight" at that time is now sitting on the throne!
The ruler of the once-conquered northern earldom of Tachia has never changed his surname...
In short, for so many reasons that cannot be made public, the important National Protection War more than two hundred years ago, like many events in the history of the Rhine Kingdom, has been intentionally or unintentionally blurred; people with better family backgrounds and who have received education know that there was such a war, but not many people know a little bit of details or even a clear timeline of events.
Even if there are people who really want to find out the truth about that war, they can only look for clues in the popular legendary novels on the market - there are four or five legendary novels that have been "artistically processed" with the then-leading marshal as the protagonist, and there are already four or five of them circulated in Inadeli alone.
Yang Qiu obviously did not need an aristocratic marshal whose name would be recorded in the royal annals and whose family would prosper after his death. After comparing several heroic legend novels with the National Defense War as the background, he and Zhao Zhenzhen found four civilian soldiers from these exaggerated narrative legend novels who they both thought were very suitable to be the "protagonists".
These four civilian fighters have names recorded in history.
Susan Kenradison, a rare brave female soldier, was from Innadri. In the desperate battle to lure away the enemy, she insisted that the residents of Innadri town should not be implicated. She has appeared in many legendary novels set against the background of the National Protection War.
Whenever Susan Ken Radisson appeared in a novel, the female warrior's close friend Webster Jack would always show up as well.
The reason why Matthew Belt and Thomas Blood appear in the novel is because of Thomas Blood's identity - this civilian soldier was a well-known bard in the territory of Tachia before he was conscripted into the National Garrison with his fellow countryman Matthew.
These four civilian soldiers, together with many of their comrades whose names were not recorded, undertook desperate missions and contributed their precious lives to prolong the life of the royal family of the Kingdom of the Rhine. However, because they did not have a glorious enough family history and a surname that could carry honor, they were not qualified to be the protagonists of a legendary novel.
Even if you leave your name in this form...it's just a name.
This kind of civilian hero, whose details cannot be verified but who actually existed, perfectly meets the needs of Yang Qiu and Zhao Zhenzhen - vindicating the hero and sending his spirit back home has never been just a face-saving project, but a real event that can unite people's hearts!
En Buzeng conscientiously sorted out the content that she thought could complete the task, and Yang Qiu happily started the propaganda machine.
After she had spent all her online time on this matter, she was satisfied and went offline. She sent the text materials she had sorted out and the "evidence" that Yang Qiu had "screenshotted" to the Innadeli Weekly Newspaper...
It is January 4, 1032 in the alien world, and there are still three days left before the traditional winter celebration of the Rhine Kingdom.
Claire, a maid working at the Gerry family in St. Joseph's Street, got up before dawn as usual, washed up in a hurry, and then tidied up the master's study neatly.
The host, Mr. Gerry, has been in a bad mood recently. He always drinks alone in the study after dinner. Claire must tidy up the study before the hostess gets up, otherwise the couple will have a big fight before breakfast. Mrs. Gerry is not a good-tempered person. If she is in a bad mood, Claire will not have a good day.
After mopping the floor, wiping the wine stains off the table, putting the wine bottles in the kitchen, and opening the window to disperse the smell of alcohol in the room, Claire was done with all this, and the housekeeper, Ms. Will, was about to go shopping for groceries.
Claire left the clean rags to dry on the kitchen windowsill, picked up the basket, and followed Ms. Will out the door with her head lowered.
Mary Street Market is still very busy, but now the butlers in the St. Joseph's district are no longer limited to purchasing on Mary Street. The delicatessens on Pub Street have also opened in the morning after discovering that citizens like to serve side dishes or even main courses.
When Claire and Ms. Will hurried to Bar Street, there were already crowds of people in front of the six delicatessens lined up in a row.
In most cases, ordinary people are rarely willing to buy ready-made meals outside, because it is more economical to buy vegetables at the market and cook them by themselves. However, if they can buy ready-made meals that are both affordable and delicious, housewives in ordinary families will often not refuse.
The "appetizers" in the bar area are not only cheap and plentiful, but the heavy (seasonings) that are served as if they were free are especially suitable for the needs of ordinary wives. A plate of potato chips with bread for two copper coins can feed the whole family, not to mention that you can save on butter and jam. The heavy oil and salt taste can also satisfy most family members.
——There is no race in this world that likes to eat original and light food (the people of island countries actually abuse spices more than the Chinese). If any nation has a very primitive way of cooking food, it is only because the history of civilization of this nation is too short, people have not lived a good life for hundreds of years, and their food culture has not yet developed.
The housekeeper, Ms. Will, had eaten the cooked food here and she also thought that the ready-made dishes were very delicious, but she did not dare to serve this kind of cooked food that ordinary housewives flocked to on the Gerry family's table - if Mrs. Gerry knew that Ms. Will made her and her husband eat cheap dishes that cost two copper coins per portion, then Ms. Will's career would be over.
Fortunately, the owners of these new bar areas are well aware of the needs of the city's middle-class families and have timely introduced high-end dishes that are priced far higher than "cheap dishes".
Ms. Will walked to the store that was crowded with housekeepers and maids from various high-end neighborhoods. The dishes on the display cabinet were very different from those in the affordable store next door. Of course, the prices were also different - the lowest price of a dish was more than five times more expensive than the store next door.
Claire carefully protected the basket of cutlery and followed Ms. Will to the counter. When Ms. Will took a liking to the dishes, she cleverly took out the cutlery and asked the waiter to serve them.
Twenty copper coins bought a fragrant river fish (fried and then braised tilapia, a frozen product from Earth), fifteen copper coins bought a plate of eggplant (braised eggplant prepared by Mrs. Hank, an excellent chef from the Logistics Department), and twenty-two copper coins bought a plate of square meat (Dongpo pork), and that was all the main dishes for the three meals of the day for the Gerry family.
The maid Claire carefully protected the basket filled with almost a silver coin's worth of vegetables and returned to Gerry's house with Ms. Will.
Next, Ms. Will began to cook breakfast for the host's family.
A vegetable salad sprinkled with a lot of salad dressing, a bowl of corn soup with the popular super concentrated spices (that is, instant noodles packets), sliced white bread and served on a plate, and the sweet cubed pork divided into two portions, this is the standard breakfast of the middle-class couple Mr. and Mrs. Gerry.
Before Mr. and Mrs. Gerry sat down, the housekeeper, Ms. Will, did not forget to place a cup of milk with dried fruit cereal on the hostess's seat, and put the latest weekly newspaper brought by the newsboy in a convenient place for the host.
When the couple was eating, the little maid standing beside them couldn't help but look at the square meat on her master's plate.
The leftovers from the master's meal belonged to the servants. Unfortunately, the masters loved the dishes in the delicatessen in the bar area. Although they ate very elegantly and never uttered a word of praise for the dishes, there was never much left... Claire could only smell it.
Mr. Gerry had just had an argument with Mrs. Gerry yesterday, and even after a night had passed, he didn't feel like talking to her. As soon as he sat down, he picked up the weekly newspaper.
Mr. Gerry had just turned to the first page irritably when he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Eh!"
Mrs. Gerry probably thought that her husband was trying to find an excuse to get her to speak up and reconcile, so she rolled her eyes and continued to eat with her head down.
Mr. Gerry no longer cared whether his wife was still angry or not. He stared at the front page of the weekly newspaper with his mouth opened in an uncontrollable manner.
The headline on the front page of this issue of Innadri Weekly is: "Amazing Discovery! The remains of the legendary hero of Innadri were unearthed in Tarantan!"
Under the oversized title are several lines of bold text:
"The remains of Susan Kenradison, the Innadri hero who unfortunately died two hundred years ago, were recently found by the Tarantan Undead in the depths of the Tarantan Wasteland. Also found were Susan's friends Webster Jack, Thomas Blood, and Matthew Belt!"
"The City Hall has confirmed that the remains excavated by the dead belong to these four national heroes of the Rhine people!"
"The legendary hero who has been dormant for over 200 years has returned to Innaderi!"
Under the eye-catching black text description was a high-definition black-and-white photo. In the photo, a group of armored and weapon-wielding undead soldiers, who were familiar to the locals, were walking towards a solitary stone tablet standing in the frozen water.
On the stone tablet, there is an inscription in vigorous and powerful handwriting: "We will eventually return to our hometown."
