Chapter 34 Feasibility Analysis
After listening to Li Wei’s analysis, the students felt as if the clouds had been cleared and the sky had been revealed. They felt that everything ahead of them suddenly became clear!
They finally knew which way to go.
Have the Zauns rebelled before? Of course. They have rebelled more than once in their history.
However, 10 years ago, the Zaun people, led by the black alley leader Vandal, launched an organized armed uprising against Piltover with fighters from several major Zaun gangs as the backbone.
But that rebellion was just like any other one in the previous 200 years. They couldn't even cross the Sungate Canal Bridge, and they didn't even have time to invade Piltover's territory. They were slaughtered by the law enforcers and returned in defeat.
Why do they always fail?
The students didn’t understand before, but now they do.
Because the people of Zaun in the past have always acted blindly based on their emotions, they look too closely and too shallowly.
They only thought about pushing down the people of Picheng who were oppressing them, but they never thought about what to change or achieve after pushing down the mountain, nor did they seriously analyze the enemy situation and the feasibility of the action.
Without goals or plans, the result is that there will be chaos every ten years or so, and then after being slapped in the face by the Piltover people, they will immediately "gather like a ball of fire and scatter like stars in the sky."
Such resistance will not scare the business owners of Piltover.
They might even hope that the Zaun people would come here every once in a while so that they could regularly clean out the troublemakers among the Zaun people who dared to resist.
But now, Levi is here.
As soon as he arrived, he made clear to everyone the ultimate goal: to achieve universal harmony in the future.
Then he set a short-term goal for everyone: to achieve victory in Zaun in the near future.
Now, he explained the feasibility of the action to everyone: Janna, the goddess whose power is theoretically infinite, is the greatest military guarantee for their future actions.
After analyzing this, what they need to do next can be clearly seen:
"We need to spread the Janna ideology to more people, attract more believers to join us, and help Goddess Janna regain her power!"
Lina, who sat among her classmates, once again became the class representative.
Her eyes were extremely focused, her face flushed with excitement, and she was so absorbed in the activity that she almost forgot that the person standing on the stage was her once clumsy and rude brother.
"That's right." Levi looked at his sister with appreciation: "What we have to do next is--"
"Mobilize the masses to the maximum extent possible!"
"Mobilize...the masses?" This sentence seemed to have a natural combativeness. When the students heard it, their faces turned red with excitement and their blood boiled.
"Yes, but everyone must pay attention!" Noticing the overly enthusiastic atmosphere, Levi immediately lowered his tone and emphasized to the students:
"At this stage, what I mean by 'mobilizing the masses' is to spread our ideas to the masses and attract them to us and to Janna—"
"Rather than blindly mobilizing the masses to fight and engage in confrontation."
"That would be impractical and even meaningless."
Li Wei always adheres to the principle of seeking truth from facts.
He knew that some methods worked well on Earth but not in Runeland.
Mobilizing the masses to fight sounds very passionate and exciting. It seems that once everyone wraps their heads in yellow scarves and rises up, the year of Jiazi will come and the world will be blessed.
But what if this really happened in Runeterra?
The human environment of Runeterra is still in a very primitive and brutal era.
The power of life and death over the Demacians is still in the hands of the nobles, while the Ionians are controlled by various clans and sects.
Zaun, Shurima, Bilgewater, and Freljord are simply in a state of disorder where the strong prey on the weak. Only the fittest survive in the survival of the fittest, and the weak deserve to die.
As the world's largest slave farm and war merchant, there is no need to say much about the situation in the Noxus Empire.
In this world, human life is very worthless.
The humanitarian spirit does not exist at all.
If you dare to resist, they will kill you.
Kill as many as you can, even if you kill them all.
After all, Piltover is a city that the world desires. They don't even have to work hard, cheap laborers will come from all over the world with the "Piltover dream" in their hearts.
Not to mention harvesting the leeks, you can never even pull them all out.
As for the power of the general public… In this world, the power of 10,000 ordinary people may not be comparable to that of a powerful warrior or a skilled wizard.
With more ordinary people, the enemy will not only not be afraid, but may even be excited.
Just like using Sivir to clear 100 waves of soldiers in one go, it is both exciting and stress-relieving, and the more people you kill, the more fun it is.
"The power of the masses is indeed endless, but we cannot dogmatically take this sentence as the bible to guide all battles. Instead, we must find a way to reasonably mobilize and use this power according to the actual situation!"
So what is this method?
Janna, of course.
In this extraordinary world where all power is concentrated in one person, only magic can defeat magic.
"We must mobilize the masses, let the power of their faith belong to Janna, and create an extraordinary and powerful person who belongs to us ordinary people!"
"And Janna is a god shaped by the power of faith. Her existence is destined. It is impossible for her to deviate from her own beliefs and abandon the humans who follow her."
Yes, this is Janna's basic setting and it will never change.
Just like a dog is born a dog, a human is born a human... Janna was born from the belief of "protecting humans". As long as she is alive, she will always protect the humans who follow her.
Levi can use his "evil contract" as a summoner to order Janna to do things she doesn't want to do.
But there is no point in doing so.
Because if Janna strays from her own beliefs, even if she is forced to do so, the power of faith she gained from those beliefs will no longer be of use to her.
The result at that time will only be: the power of human faith will turn around and abandon her as a traitor, and then naturally create a brand new "New Goddess of Janna" who will always protect mankind.
And Levi will also completely lose his power along with Janna.
"So Janna's power is the power of us ordinary people."
"She will always stand on the side of the suffering, and that will never change!"
Levi's explanation of the fundamental reason for Janna's existence made Victor and the students even more excited:
A goddess with infinite power who will always stand on their side!
What they are doing is definitely hopeful!
"Then, how should we start promoting it?" A student asked excitedly, "Where should we start? Who should we promote it to? How should we promote it?"
After the ultimate goal, short-term goals, and feasibility analysis, it is finally time to talk about the specific operational steps.
In the minds of these Zaun students, Levi was just like the laboratory teacher they had seen at Hextech College.
He did not seem to be talking about politics or the overall situation, but rather guiding everyone to complete a scientific experiment that was scientifically planned, rigorously designed, and with every step clear and complete.
Sure enough, Levi did not disappoint everyone this time:
"Where should we start the advocacy and with whom? That's a good question."
"And to figure this out, we have to first figure out the most important question—"
“Who will sympathize with us and who will oppose us in Piltover and Zaun?”
"This..." The students fell into deep thought.
Someone quickly answered: "The Piltover Council and the wealthy families that control the Piltover Council are our enemies!"
"Also... those Zaun Alchemist Barons who look like they are from Zaun but are actually in cahoots with Piltover's business owners are also our enemies!"
"Well said!" Levi agreed and added, "I have already analyzed the evils of the big merchant class in Piltover in my previous article."
"The comprador class in Zaun, represented by some chem-barons, may seem independent, but in reality they are completely economic vassals of the Piltover merchant class."
"These people represent the most backward production relations in Zaun. They only want to rely on Zaun's cheap labor forever, supplying low-value-added minerals, chemical raw materials, and mechanical parts to Piltover to earn a little bit of leftovers."
"They don't want to develop science and technology or achieve industrial upgrading, because that would offend the Piltover masters who firmly occupy the high-end market and affect their stable position in this spoils-sharing system—"
"So in a sense, these Zaun compradors are even more evil than the big merchants in Piltover."
"The big merchants in Piltover at least promote technological progress, but these Zaun compradors only guard their own little piece of land and hinder the development of productivity!"
Levi's explanation exposed the ugly faces of the enemies one by one.
Everyone clearly understands who their enemy is.
However, some students asked:
"What about those civilians in Piltover, Mr. Levi?"
"Are they our enemies?"
As soon as this question was raised, opinions began to diverge.
Because Levi had learned from the original owner's memories and Baku's narration that the oppression that the Zaun people in Piltover could feel most directly was not from the high-ranking big business owners, but from the Piltover civilians who appeared before them with discriminatory eyes every day.
Say these Piltover people are friends?
The people of Zuan were the first to curse.
But to say that these ordinary citizens are the enemy... doesn't feel right.
"Ordinary people in Piltover are certainly not our enemies."
"But we can't be so naive as to regard them as friends."
"If you view the two cities as one, you may understand that these so-called bottom of Piltover are not actually the bottom. They are actually higher than the poor people of Zaun. They are the middle class occupying the middle of the pyramid."
After Levi said this, everyone reacted.
The Twin Cities only appear to be two cities; they have always been one.
Those Piltover civilians who are theoretically at the same bottom of society are actually born superior to the Zaun people.
"They are not our enemies, but they have been bought by the powerful business class in Piltover, who have relied on their technological and financial hegemony to extract excessive profits from Zaun and around the world."
“These middle-class people who live in houses and eat steaks are also the ones who don’t want to change the status quo. So it’s difficult for them to understand the struggle we are going to wage—”
“We can try to win over some of them, but we must never regard them as the focus of our early propaganda and struggle work.”
The enemy has been identified, and it will be difficult to win over the civilians of Piltover in the short term.
Next, it is easy to distinguish who are the friends:
Those are the poorest of Zaun.
Due to the extreme situation of Zaun's semi-colonial and semi-primitive society, except for the alchemist barons and their followers who are a very small group of people, the rest are almost all impoverished people, and they are all progressive industrial impoverished people.
"They are concentrated, have a low economic status, have almost no hope of getting rich, and are treated extremely cruelly by the chem-barons and the merchant class. These people are our natural allies."
"But we are in Piltover now. Our business is just starting and our strength is weak. We are unable to gain a foothold in Zaun and start working, so..."
Li Wei pointed out the specific work direction:
"What we need to do now is to try every possible means in Piltover to promote our work to Zaun's international students, Zaun's apprentices, and Zaun's new immigrants!"
"While trying to accumulate manpower, financial resources, and material resources, we will also expand Janna's strength by promoting faith, and finally at the right time—"
"Return to Zuan, to the place where the conflict is most acute!"
