Yu Xiaogang truly was a talented man.
By studying the Red Assembly's model, he unified the ideals of the people within the Star Luo Empire?
No!
He was controlling the thoughts of every Star Luo citizen.
As long as someone grew curious, they would think and resist, but such people would ultimately remain few. Especially when the entire Star Luo Empire was implementing these measures, those who dared to think would only meet an even more miserable fate than the protagonists in the old story Lu Qibin had once told Zhou Qing.
After all, the Star Luo Empire was an empire belonging to one family and one surname.
The Red Assembly, however, belonged to everyone.
The former would never wish to see others resist the empire's rule.
The latter constantly changed with the times, adapting its systems to the progress of the age. It could even foresee the arrival of the next era, allowing it to improve or even change its systems in advance.
And what were the Star Luo Empire's measures for?
They were mainly meant to control the thoughts of everyone in the Star Luo Empire. It was like creating a mold and treating people as creations made of mud and water, pressing them into it so their thoughts would gradually become identical—cutting away what was excessive and filling in what was lacking.
That way, everyone could naturally achieve a crude, literal form of "telepathy"!
Why do this?
For faith.
Yu Xiaogang had once visited Tang Chen, who had become a god. In hopes that more deities would arise in the God Realm, Tang Chen had told him something: the more complicated a person's thoughts were, the less pure and absolute their faith would be. Most people were like this.
In other words, only by making them pure