Chapter 2064: Hot Land in the West (Ⅱ)

After reading the article published in the newspaper, Qiao An's mood was a bit complicated.
The New World is like a "melting pot", immigrants from all directions bring their respective cultures, customs and traditions into this "melting pot", allowing them to spread freely, and the official ideas that should have occupied the mainstream ideology of society-whether it is The colonial government representing the empire, or the Peiro church representing the state religion-compared to the ancient empires and kingdoms of the old world, neither is strong enough.
In this environment of multi-cultural interaction and interaction, due to the absence of authority, there will inevitably be a force to take advantage of the situation and try to seize the power to guide public opinion. On the east coast of the New World, the role of opinion leader is news. Publishing industry.
Most colonial governments in the New World did not have the power to carry out strict news control. In this relatively loose environment, the press and publishing industry is booming and developing rapidly. In Midgard alone, hundreds of large and small newspapers are published every week.
These various newspapers and periodicals have a strong political inclination. Even if they report the same incident, they will interpret them from their respective standpoints. They cannot be rational, objective, and fair in the true sense.
It has always been the consensus of the press to propagate political opinions and guide readers through reports. As the saying goes, "It is important to expose the truth, and more importantly, it is the interpretation of the truth."
Whoever has the right to interpret public events is the true "uncrowned king" of this era.
The "Midgard Tribune", as the largest circulation newspaper in the New World, has five-figure long-term subscribers. Its skills in guiding public opinion and outputting political opinions are proficient.
Take the article that Qiao An just read. He sat firmly on the side of the colonists, enthusiastically praised the colonial movement of the west, and praised the new immigrants for their diligence and simplicity, with a yearning for a better life. When I came to the New World, I used my sweat and wisdom to create a home, and I am realizing my dream of getting rich step by step.
This kind of propaganda has a strong driving force. As a descendant of the colonists, Qiao An can't help but feel a sense of pride after reading this article.
Regardless of the second and third generations of immigrants whose parents have already taken root in the New World, or the new immigrants who have just arrived in the New World, although they come from different countries and have different cultural traditions, they have the same skin color and belong to the civilized world. They all have diligence, The virtues of courage and pioneering efforts are dedicated to spreading civilization. In this "melting pot," interdependence and mutual influence will surely merge into a new nation over time, and even establish a new nation greater than the sovereign state.
The pride that readers have after reading it can easily be transformed into a simple concept of friend and friend: we colonists are a group, and we should unite against the enemy.
So who is the enemy?
All forces obstructing the colonial movement are the common enemy of "us", no matter the beasts in the wilderness, the aboriginal people, or the bureaucrats or even the emperor trying to curb the expansion of immigration to the west through legislation, all can enter the hostile camp!
Who dares to prevent us from occupying more land, who wants to take away the "cake" in our hands, we must unite and smash his dog's head!
If the reader's thoughts stop here, this report will achieve the purpose of propaganda.
However, Qiao An did not stop thinking about it.
He was soberly aware that news reports deliberately avoided a key issue, which was the "legitimacy" of the colonial movement to the west.
If going to the west to open up wasteland is inherently illegal, it is damaging the interests of the legal owners of the land. The colonists who are enthusiastic and eulogized in news reports are essentially robbers?
If
legitimacy
is not important, everyone follows the law of the jungle, and whoever grabs the land belongs to him, then the colonial movement is nothing more than a barbaric act of regressing to primitive society, and was killed in the process of westward pioneering. The colonists killed by the indigenous people of the Sa people deserve no sympathy. Where does the so-called "spreading civilization" in news reports begin? What position does the reader have to empathize with a group of bandits?
Unless people subconsciously agree with the "bandit logic", but refuse to admit it, it would be too hypocritical.
Qiao An certainly knows that the actual western colonial movement is very different from the positive description in the newspaper.
Before the war, the Midgard authorities publicly made a promise: If the Walsung tribe assists the Midgard militia against the Feizhen people, then after the war, the colonial government will return large tracts of land in the Vimur Valley in the western Dusk Plain. To the Asa people.
However, after the war in 1622, when the Wallsung family asked the Midgard government to fulfill its original promise and return the territory, the current situation has changed dramatically.
The prosperity dividends brought by peace stimulated the surge in land prices, and the huge appreciation space prompted everyone to eager to plunder more land, thus setting off a new wave of colonization from the west, and the fertile land of the Vimur Valley is a hot spot for colonization and pioneering. one.
Governor William Nichols and Lord Dandridge Castis both advocated fulfilling their promises and returning the land stipulated in the agreement to the Assans, but they were met by a majority of parliamentarians and the army headed by Baron Benedict Laval. The generals resolutely opposed.
Behind the colonial parliament and the military, there are also vested interest groups headed by land developers and large estate owners. They are wealthy and politically powerful. The governor dare not offend these big figures. The demarcation signed before the war The agreement has not been implemented for a long time.
The Asa people in Shizhu Town don't want to suffer dumb losses. Logan Wallsunger originally advocated uniting with the Midgard, but now he has been unable to fulfill his promise and is being reprimanded by the elders of the clan. Logan couldn't help but drove into the Vimur Valley area with his family, and established a settlement there. After two years of development, it became the "River Valley Town" today.
At the end of 1622, the imperial emperor issued an edict to temporarily curb the expansion of colonists to the west.
But the good times didn’t last long. After a year, the imperial reform was frustrated and a large number of peasant families in the country went bankrupt and went into exile. The tide of exile spread to the New World. Last year alone, more than 100,000 new immigrants came to the New World, eager for land to settle down, and naturally joined. In the wave of westward movement, disputes arising from land grabbing increased sharply, and conflicts between colonists and indigenous peoples became increasingly fierce.
Qiao An vaguely felt that the death of Captain Bob Anderson was not an isolated incident, but a dangerous sign of the escalation of ethnic conflict in the Vimur Valley!
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