It had taken the Imperial Family hundreds of years to establish its authority in the eyes of the people. If they wanted to make the monarchy a thing of the past, the first thing they had to do was make the people lose their awe of the Imperial Family.
This was crucial. Gefra could be extremely conservative and rigid in some respects.
If they rashly changed things that had existed for a long time and that everyone had followed, it would provoke fierce resistance from the people.
The Imperial Family's authority came from centuries of education, in which the Imperial Family had always appeared as a positive and magnificent presence.
According to the history books of Gefra, the Imperial Family had ended a chaotic era of constant wars that had been like the apocalypse, bringing complete peace to the entire island.
People no longer lost their lives to wars that could break out at any moment, nor did they have to endure lives made miserable by the nobles' harsh treatment.
Everyone should be grateful to the Imperial Family. The reason people could live as they did today was that the Imperial Family had bravely stepped forward at the most critical moment.
Most of the time, "history" was like this. It would never tell people how the Imperial Family had cunningly and treacherously seized the Joint Council's power.
Nor would it tell them that the Imperial Family had also launched many dishonorable wars. In the history books, however, all of those had become "putting down rebellions."
People believed in everything the Imperial Family did. They believed in the Imperial Family's contributions to the country, and they believed that only under the Imperial Family's leadership could the country once again find its path toward glory.
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