The sunlight was bright.
After spending two hours handling the official business at hand, the Governor-General glanced at the bright sunlight outside the window and decided to reward himself.
Of course, not that kind of reward. He was rewarding himself by leaving the office and going out for a stroll.
The defeated Peng Joe Empire was permeated with something indescribable, an atmosphere of sorts.
Society seemed to have split into two parts.
One part remained fanatically devoted to the Empire. Moreover, these people were still the mainstream of society, accounting for roughly seventy-five to eighty percent of the whole.
Another fifteen to twenty percent were indifferent to the Empire and the current system.
They believed that the Empire's system bore all the responsibility for this defeat, and they also hated the imperial family for blindly declaring war on the outside world.
Another five percent, or perhaps less than five percent, belonged to a faction somewhere in the middle. They were not completely fence-sitters.
Sometimes they leaned a little to the left, and sometimes a little to the right. They were not truly neutral.
What gave people a headache was that these Radical Reformists used the Federation to make their case.
They cited the Federation as the most prominent example, comparing its society during the period of escapism with its society during the current period of radicalism.
They spoke through data in every aspect and intensely drawn comparisons.
People were simple, blind, and self-deceiving.
When lengthy arguments appeared alongside numbers and comparisons that clearly yielded conclusions, people often focused their attention on the numbers and the comparisons that led to obvious conclusions.
They did not try to spend hundreds or thousands of words interpreting, analyzing, and understanding in their own way why Peng Joe had lost and why the Federation had