Chapter 50 Promotional Focus

How to promote? How to unite?

Victor paused in deep thought for a long time.

As a reclusive scholar who was not even familiar with his colleagues in the academy, this problem was even more of a headache for him than calculating the constraint equations of the Hextech artificial gravitational singularity.

"Professor Victor..." Lina tried to ask: "How about we start with the conflict between Zaun and Piltover and begin propaganda?"

"After all, you know that the only thing that can unite Zaun people regardless of age, gender, identity, region, and cultural level is our hatred for the Piltover people."

"We can first tell them that we are all from Zaun and we are here to help the people of Zaun seek happiness."

This is a practical suggestion.

Although the concept of "Zuan people" did not exist before.

This is an artificially created group.

But it has been made.

The Twin Cities are like a cake cut in half, one half is carefully preserved in the refrigerator, while the other half is thrown into the garbage dump to rot and mold.

After more than two hundred years have passed, no matter how people of insight shout "We are all cakes", they have become two completely different cakes that cannot be blended.

Piltover’s oppression and discrimination against Zaun has never stopped.

The people of Zaun naturally have a deep-rooted hatred for Piltover.

To the people of Zaun, no matter who you are, as long as you curse the people of Piltover, I will definitely come to help.

The reason why Viktor was able to gather so many Zaun students together in the morning was actually because he took advantage of the Piltover people's rejection of them and their resentment towards the Piltover people. He started from the conflict between the two cities and successfully launched the subsequent in-depth propaganda.

“No, we can’t just copy our previous experience.”

After careful consideration, Victor rejected the method he had used before:

"I was facing you before, the best, most talented, and most thoughtful college students in the Twin Cities."

"What we are facing now are apprentices, ordinary Zaun workers who lack cultural knowledge and thinking habits."

Students are good at thinking and have strong comprehension abilities.

So after arousing their anger, Viktor was able to use the ideological theories in the article "Where Does Zaun Come From" to make them think and understand, and finally realize where their anger came from and who they should be directed at.

Will the same method work for apprentices?

uncertain.

Because the article “Where did Zaun come from” is actually not interesting at all.

The article begins with Levy extracting key theories and writing a serious academic outline for intellectuals.

It is not a popular science book like "The Twin Cities", "The Secret History of Piltover", "All About Shurima" and so on.

The article does not only contain those few widely circulated and popular slogans and sentences.

On the contrary, in addition to those fresh historical secrets and those thought-provoking classic quotes, the article also contains long passages of philosophical and economic theories that seem obscure and profound to ordinary people.

It is quite difficult for most people to chew it.

It requires patience and thinking.

Victor didn't think that the apprentices, who had no time to study and think, could understand Janna's theory in a short period of time.

"If we just teach them theories verbatim like in class, then I'm afraid..."

Victor thought about his time as a lecturer at the university. Because the lecture content was too profound and boring, the students in the audience were bored and sleepy.

"I'm afraid the workers will fall asleep after listening to it?" He smiled helplessly.

That is, there are no smartphones in Runeterra.

Otherwise, the lively scene that Levi saw in the philosophy class in college, with four consecutive extraordinary, five consecutive peerless and six consecutive destroying the heavens and the earth, would most likely be repeated here.

"Then we can skip the lecture for now." Lina suggested thoughtfully: "First, use the conflict between the two cities to unite everyone, and then slowly find a way to explain the meaning of Janna's thoughts to them."

"In my opinion, this is the easiest way."

Focusing on the conflicts between the two cities to unite the people is indeed the simplest and most feasible method.

Because it is the easiest to understand.

Whether it was a knowledgeable university professor or a barely literate factory apprentice, everyone could be distinguished from each other by culture, customs, and regional origin, and it was easy to tell.

Moreover, even if you can't distinguish or don't want to distinguish, the people of Piltover will help you distinguish.

Those voices of "Zuan people", "gutter rats", and "Go back to Zaun" are simply the best identity education for Zaun people.

In comparison, the Janna thought that discusses class distinctions is very difficult to understand.

One must have a certain cultural foundation and be willing to think in order to understand and accept this theory.

After accepting this theory, different schools of thought split into different groups as to how to put it into practice... and they debate with each other until the end of time.

Unlike simple Zaun supporters - they only need to tell their compatriots that Piltover is the enemy, and then work together to defeat the enemy.

Low threshold, high mobilization, high cohesion, direct and clear goals.

This is also the reason why this trend of thought still has unstoppable vitality and is popular throughout Runeland.

So when it comes to the word "unity", the lengthy Janna thought is currently not as effective as a simple slogan "We are all Zaun people".

"No, that won't do!"

After careful consideration, Victor's expression became serious:

“It is precisely because it is difficult for these apprentices to understand Janna’s thoughts that we should help them understand, rather than simply using their dissatisfaction with Piltover to unite people.”

Victor was not worried that this trick was useless, but that it was too useful.

If the workers fall into the trap of simply identifying with the Zaun ethnic group, they will naturally seek Zaun people's priority in the future.

"Lina, your brother emphasized in his lectures—"

"The theory of one city winning is not the theory of Zaun priority. What we should pursue is the community of destiny of all intelligent species in Runeterra, rather than simply the rise of Zaun."

"Zaan should not be the second Piltover."

“It should be a beacon for Jannah believers around the world, a benchmark that inspires them to awaken and guides them forward.”

"This..." Lina pondered for a while.

In fact, she thinks that many of her classmates feel the same way:

Before their generation dies... it would be great if they could build Zaun into the second Piltover.

Eat your meal one bite at a time.

If the people of Zaun could live the life of the people of Piltover, they would laugh in their dreams.

Levi also said that other areas of Runeterra were still in the feudal and primitive society, and there was no soil for an immediate struggle.

Isn't it a bit unrealistic to rush to deny Zaun's priority and prepare to export this idea abroad?

"No, Lina, you are not being realistic." Victor looked at me firmly, "Let me ask you, what is the fundamental guarantee for our victory in the struggle?"

"Force," Lina replied.

"Where does the force come from? "

"Janna." Levi had analyzed this earlier. In this world where human power is more important than anything else, if you want to win, you must defeat magic with magic, and use the faith of the masses to create an invincible and extraordinary strong man.

"Yes, our greatest military support is Janna."

"And the more believers there are, the stronger Janna's power will be."

“Although Zaun’s population of 2 million is not small, their power is ultimately limited. Only by gradually awakening the suffering people across Runeterra can Janna gain the power to fight all enemies.”

"so--"

"Thoughts, thoughts are our most powerful weapon!"

"If we fall into the trap of putting Zaun first and temporarily put down this most powerful weapon, then under the hatred, blockade, competition and confrontation of vested interests around the world..."

"We may not even be able to maintain our victory in Zaun."

Victor sighed with a far-sighted look.

"I see..." Lina finally realized her mistake -

Yes, they have Janna protecting them!

There is no need to worry at all, just spread the faith, develop companions, and help Janna upgrade!

If we want to spread Janna's beliefs, we can't focus on promoting Zaun's ethnic identity, but should...

"Class! We must prioritize awakening everyone's class consciousness through propaganda!"

"But..." Lina frowned.

As the conversation went on, the topic turned back to:

“How can we publicize it so that everyone can be aware of this?”

I don’t know.

No one has tried it.