Culture and Propaganda

The Department of Culture and Propaganda was established with Grand Commander Lynn's approval.

Gerd was so adept at this that he immediately designed a standard for Lynn to review.

Lynn understood what he was trying to do, so on the spot, Lynn designed a flag to replace Gerd's overly complicated standard.

In short, it was a tricolor flag.

The three colors were blue, white, and red.

They represented freedom, democracy, and fraternity.

You ask why Lynn, having already established dictatorship, would still play with freedom, democracy, and fraternity?

Why don't you go ask Eagle Sauce why they want freedom and democracy?

Extreme privatization becomes public ownership.

Besides, Lynn didn't mention equality; he changed it to democracy.

Ideology serves politics.

Freedom of thought opposes slavery.

Democratic thought selects officials.

Fraternal thought unites the various races.

Add collectivism—every country in the world is slave-based; we must unite, we must become a collective!

We are a democratic collective; our officials are elected democratically!

We are a fraternal collective; as long as you identify with our ideology, you are an Aningsbe person!

Because you are an Aningsbe person, we are one collective, and we will surely support each other!

Lynn and Gerd discussed the core of the ideology and how to implement it through the night.

The next day, Gerd requisitioned a batch of supplies and produced a stack of standards.

First, all party members wore the tricolor flag, and the streets were hung with tricolor flags.

At the same time, Gerd constantly gave speeches on the streets, propagating what freedom, democracy, and fraternity meant.

Since the city wall construction was complete, Lynn reduced the slaves' workload, having them work only half a day to save on food.

Because they no longer did heavy labor, they didn't need three meals a day, returning to this world's normal two-meal pattern.

The people had no complaints about this; in fact, Lynn's provision of three meals a day was the anomaly.

So, after the slaves finished their work, Gerd would give his speeches among them.

Not the coercive kind—Gerd, as a former religious figure, knew well that no one wanted to listen to forced speeches, so he directly immersed himself in the crowd to speak.

Lynn now felt as if he could see his national policy running automatically.

National policy [Freedom, Democracy, Fraternity.] completed: stability increases daily, non-core manpower +5%, war support increases daily, recruiting officials comes with a built-in stability boost due to democratic election, administrative efficiency improves.

Lynn watched from his room as Gerd gave his speech below.

Gerd was in full knight attire, a tricolor flag tied around his arm, holding a speech manuscript in his hand.

"Grand Commander Lynn's declaration of abolition is for freedom!"

"Everyone here, I want to ask, I want to ask you all: who among you was born a slave?"

"Is there anyone?"

Gerd repeated his words over and over again.

Some of the numb slaves ignored the Knight, staring blankly into space or playing around.

Others listened to Gerd's words but made no move.

"Abolition isn't for us; it's for you, for everyone, to defend freedom, to resist those who enslave others!"

A slave owner buying a bunch of slaves and then preaching abolition—a very ironic scene; everyone was on guard.

Finally, as the sun set and people began to disperse, someone came to ask Gerd a question.

It was a girl from the demi-human race, a Dog Demi-human.

She had flaxen hair and was quite pretty, but she wasn't wearing a maid outfit. Dania became a maid mainly because she was an S-rank talent, and Lilim used that as an excuse to keep Dania by her side.

Anna, being close to Dania, had a relatively better life in the female worker team, as Dania often looked after this benefactor older sister.

Beautiful people always leave an impression; Gerd recognized her—she was close to Miss Dania.

"Knight Gerd, what you said about people willingly becoming slaves being the darkness of this world—why is that?"

"Miss, what is your name?"

"My name is Anna."

"Alright, Miss Anna, why do you think forcing people into slavery is not evil?"

"Because we had no money and couldn't survive. If we willingly became slaves, we could live, couldn't we?"

"Miss Anna, then why do you think you couldn't survive? And why did you become slaves?"

"Knight Gerd, it was because orcs invaded my village and the nearby town. The village chief and people from other villages all fled together. That's why we had no money, no food. My mother was pregnant with a child, my older sister was also pregnant, and I had a little sister. I had to think of them, so I and the other children sold ourselves." As Anna spoke, painful memories resurfaced, and her words grew more vivid: "If we couldn't sell ourselves as slaves, we would have starved. If slave trading is banned, the people who would starve will truly starve to death."