Mage Veja

Chapter 725
The rumors stop with the wise.

But truly wise men are definitely a very small number in this world.

So by analogy, how many wise men are there in the city of war?

Although there is no specific figure, it is thought that it will not exceed 0.01% of the total population, or even lower.

"Your Majesty, I think I understand what to do."

Coverdale said a little excitedly: "I'm going to let the people in the intelligence organization spread rumors that the Imperial Army's promises are false, so as to guide the public opinion in the entire city of war, but will it really work? The civilians will really Support us again?"

"It seems that you still don't understand how to do it."

Vega said with a kind of hatred of iron and steel: "It is possible to succeed only by spreading rumors, but the success rate is actually less than 40.00%, because rumors have no factual basis after all, not to mention that most civilians are still alive. In the dream of believing that the empire will fulfill its promise, you and I alone cannot wake up those who pretend to sleep."

That's right.

Such a thing as human nature.

Once they believe something, even if you put the truth and hard evidence in front of them, they will not choose to believe it.In his previous life, Veija had seen too much news about certain organizations, some brainwashed people, and a certain idea was so deeply ingrained that no relatives recognized it.

In other words.

Even if the rebels spread rumors... no, even if the rebel intelligence department is telling the truth and lists a lot of evidence, some civilians will unilaterally think that this is a means for the rebels to deceive them, and then influence other people quite wisely .

So as Vegar said.

Based on rumors alone, the success rate is less than half. In addition, the rebels have no evidence, and the empire can give a lot of evidence at any time to secretly guide the public, so the success rate will drop even lower.

"Your Majesty, please enlighten me."

After listening to Vega's series of analysis, Coverdale realized that it is not so simple to play with people's hearts. It is not just making rumors casually, so that civilians can change their concepts and ideas, and then support them again.

"As I said earlier."

Vega continued to analyze Coverdale: "When a person believes in a certain idea, even if you put the truth in front of them, you can't change their mind. This situation may be beneficial to the Imperial Army, but if they turn And since we started to believe in it, does that mean that even if the Imperial Army lays out the hard evidence in front of them, they will think that this is the method of the Imperial Army?"

"The answer is unquestionably yes."

Veigar said sharply: "So what we have to do is to thoroughly brainwash the civilians. As for how to brainwash, it is really simple-play hard to get!"

"Playing hard to get...?"

Coverdale's eyes were still confused.

But this is irrelevant, because Vega saw that Coverdale really didn't know how to operate it. In order to be safe, he had personally issued a series of orders to Coverdale, asking him to follow these orders directly.

First the first command.

Through the hands of Coverdale, Vega ordered the intelligence organization to cooperate with the city defense forces to close the city gates, thoroughly investigate the organization of the Imperial Army in the city, and pull out all the ones that can be pulled out, and pass through the gates that cannot be pulled out. The method is to prevent the outflow of information in the short term.

This is temporarily blinding the empire's eyes in the city of war.

under this premise.

In the next few days, a rumor gradually spread in the city of war——

The imperial government had no intention of fulfilling its promise at all. The soldiers and civilians who had surrendered not only did not receive war subsidies, they were not even exonerated, and were directly reduced to third-class citizens who were not even as good as slaves.

"Fake! This must be the method of the rebel army!"

The initiator of the parade said angrily: "The defeat of the rebel army is doomed. Their leaders are greedy for power and refuse to surrender. Now they are starting to spread rumors that the empire did not fulfill its promise. It is obvious that they want to drag us into the water and make us victims of their struggle for power."

"Yes, it must be so."

"It is impossible for the Empire to deceive us."

"Surrender one day later, and enjoy the empire's war subsidies one day later."

"Let's not be traitors."

"..."

The civilians were filled with righteous indignation, and everything was just as Vega said. The rumors spread really couldn't wake up those who pretended to be asleep. The commoners unilaterally believed that the empire could not deceive them.

But this is only the first part.

After it was determined that the rumors were unable to influence civilians, a series of evidences of the Imperial Army's broken promises were thrown out the next day.

Among them are not only human witnesses, but also all kinds of physical evidence.

Evidence is essential to make a falsehood come true, and rumors must be combined with evidence to have a real effect, even if these evidences are only forged by Vega, but at this time, no one will go to the empire's territory to verify, right?

Even if we go to seek evidence, when the truth is found out, I am afraid that the war will be over.

This combination of spreading rumors and hard evidence has finally begun to have some effect. It is no longer like the rumors of the past few days, and no one is willing to believe it.So under this set of combined punches, the number of demonstrations gradually decreased.

But that's not enough.

Some people who have a deep-rooted concept of 'the empire can't deceive us' don't take the evidence at all. They choose to ignore the evidence, continue to do their own way, and continue to influence other people who already believe in the rebels.

"All of this is a conspiracy by the rebels!"

"Those evidences are simply forged!"

"If you don't stand up and resist, you will all be traitors in the end."

"That's right, it will be too late to surrender after the Empire takes the City of War."

"..."

These crazy people stared at the blood-red eyes. While marching, they threatened the civilians who watched the excitement on both sides of the road, or who had begun to believe in the rebels. The civilians on both sides of the road seemed to be shaking again, not knowing who to trust.

Things turned around on the fifth day.

At daybreak, a piece of news shocked the entire city of war——

The rebel army officially announced that it would formally surrender to the imperial army in seven days in accordance with public opinion.

This explosive news made the people and soldiers in the whole city not come back to their senses. Those diehards who chose not to believe the rumors or the evidence started running around telling the news that the rebels were about to surrender, as if they had won a battle. Promoting it as a great victory after their disdainful efforts.

The oppressive atmosphere in the entire city finally completely disintegrated on this day.

Even the soldiers began to pack their bags, preparing to formally surrender to the Imperial Army seven days later, and then receive the Empire's pardon and war subsidies from the Empire to live an ordinary and comfortable life again.

But what they don't know is.

Veigar's hard-to-catch public opinion guidance plan is finally coming to an end.

just now.

Just one last step.

(End of this chapter)