1792, Tagge Family (Part 1)
Volgograd-Kanidi watched expressionlessly as the military police moved out and arrested all the protesters.
He had long known that ever since the last bloody crackdown, his image in the minds of the Modell Sector's people had completely collapsed. He had been prepared for that. He had no intention of caring about such things now. He only felt that if the people had to hate someone, then they should hate him. That would be enough...
If they hated Tang Xiao instead, the situation might become even worse.
On Annaj Planet, with the establishment of those new temporary transit cities, all immigrants would undergo six months of labor reform and indoctrination. Combined with the strict control over public opinion and the widespread expansion of education, liberal ideas would be considerably weakened.
However, considering that such ideas were now mainstream throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, especially in the Outer Rim Territories, the clashes between the Duchy of Dawn's centralized autocracy and liberal thought would continue without end.
Kanidi now had the feeling that Tang Xiao seemed to have deliberately allowed such events to happen in the Modell Sector. Compared with this, the Duchy of Dawn's other two sectors, the Hoth Sector and the Sith Vena star sector, had far fewer problems. Liberal ideas existed there as well, but they were kept under tight control.
Tang Xiao even allowed the liberals in those two sectors to form their own political parties and speak freely in the Duchy of Dawn's parliament, which existed only in name—though it was utterly useless. Yet to those liberals, it was like a cake forever dangling before them, always out of reach.
Given some of Tang Xiao's previous misdeeds, Kanidi felt that while he might not have actively fanned the flames behind the earlier riots