Pictures are always more intuitive than words, and photos are more convincing than various fantasy prints. The Chinese's second round of attack immediately put Alexander II on fire.
What are the contents of the two leather bags that Pierre regards as his life? In fact, it’s just a lot of articles, a lot of confessions, and countless photos and illustrations.
To use a professional term from Xiao Letian's previous life, this is actually a material library, a very large material library.
There is information in it, and you can find a lot of professional data, such as population, resources, roads, climate... etc. These professional data will make your text more convincing and appear more scientific.
There are also pictures and photos, which are the favorites of media people. If you say ten thousand words of truth, it is better to show photo evidence. You say that the Far East belongs to Tsarist Russia? Then let's go straight to work and let the European people see with their own eyes who the aboriginal people are.
There are also third-party witnesses, many European and American captains, and the written records of explorers. These are all evidence that can be used in the media war.
Material library! For people who are accustomed to living in the Internet age, it feels like it is worthless at all. Sitting on a computer or picking up a mobile phone, you can easily search the huge and boundless data in this world.
Sitting at home, you can see humpback whales in the Bering Strait, penguins in the Antarctic glaciers, South American style documentaries, North American TV series, whatever you want is available.
There is so much material at your fingertips that there is no end to it!
But in 1869, even telegraph technology had just become popular. At this time, the newspaper media’s own material library was not as small as a USB flash drive for future generations.
Humanity's information transmission has just barely achieved globalization, and even the Pacific cable has not been completely laid. These days, it is a miracle to be able to send a telegram from Beijing to London with only five or six words.
Still want photos? Still want details? Just dream, not even Alexander II had any information about the war in the Far East, let alone The Times.
This kind of visual impact was undoubtedly huge for ancient people. Many people could read this newspaper full of photos for a whole day, forgetting to drink a cup of coffee.
"Oh God, the Far East is so beautiful. It's completely primitive and undeveloped! What kind of nation is this? Their faces are close to those of the Mongolian steppe... Oroqen? This sound is very strange when translated..."
"Ice fishing? They use mules and horses to fish under the ice. My God, it rains so hard..."
"Wild ginseng? Herds of deer? Black bears caught in nets... What wonderful photos, so beautiful! They all have Chinese faces. These Tsarist Russian liars are indeed lying. The aborigines over there are Chinese!"
When people look at the scenery of a foreign land, they seem to imagine that they have led the expedition team to that land. However, just when they are immersed in the exotic customs and beautiful scenery and cannot extricate themselves, the style of painting begins to change from the second edition.
Kill! A rusty bayonet poked into the ground, and there were thick bones among the grass. There were burned wooden buildings in the distance, there were closed mines in the mountains, and there were wooden gold mining tools in the creek.
"This is Daqingdao off the coast of Vladivostok. There is a gold mine on this island. The killing took place here..."
Evidence, if you want evidence, then I will give you evidence. The ammunition boxes left by the Russian army have Russian letters on them, standard bayonets and bullets that military experts can tell the nationality at a glance.
There are even European faces in the photos. Xiao Letian knows very well that it is easier to win people's trust if Europeans take such photos, so Leo has always maintained friendly relations with many explorers around the world.
Most of the people who could be called explorers at that time were aristocrats who had no worries about food and clothing. Their faces were very convincing in Europe, and even the mere mention of a last name could shut up many critics.
For example, in Prussia and Germany, Feng is an aristocratic surname. If an explorer with this surname publishes an article and photos, the entire aristocracy with this surname will support him, and anyone who causes trouble will be regarded as an enemy.
Let the Europeans personally prove this war, which completely blocked the Tsar's mouth to refute.
Photos full of gore, as well as the crying faces of countless victims, atrocities that were originally unknown to Europeans were now made public.
In the colonial era, Europe's external colonization process was always bloody, but internally it was a different face. Those citizens who were sitting in their motherland enjoying the wealth brought by the colonies had no idea what their troops were doing in foreign countries.
Any country's internal propaganda is always kind and righteous, and the government will create a tall, warm and affectionate image of imperial expansion in the minds of its own people.
No one would take the initiative to lift the toilet seat under their buttocks. As a result, those citizens who have lived in Europe for a long time and have never gone out to see the world will have a strong moral obsession.
It doesn't matter that I enjoy the bloody colonial interests. I didn't see it and I could choose not to know, just like I love to eat tender steaks, but I dare not look at the bloody slaughterhouse.
Isn’t that what noble ladies and gentlemen are like? She munched on veal in the restaurant, but she would cry when she saw the calf being slaughtered.
What Xiao Letian wants today is to visually stimulate you young ladies and dandies, including the innocent and kind-hearted people. I just want to show you the bloody scenes so that you can see with your own eyes what barbarism is.
Europe was suddenly shocked. When had they ever seen such atrocities? This set of photographic evidence was like a nuclear bomb in the media war. After being detonated, it killed everyone in Europe.
After a brief period of sluggishness, the direction of public opinion shifted crazily towards the Chinese, and the voices of rebuke and censure in the media became louder and louder. Tsarist Russia's national image suddenly fell to the bottom.
"Shameless! Liar! Didn't that land belong to your Tsarist Russia from ancient times to the present? Why do the aboriginals write Chinese characters with Chinese faces?"
"Didn't you say there was no killing? Where are the parents of the crying little girl next to the lonely grave? Look at the miserable cry of the little angel. Who did this? Despicable..."
"What a slap in the face! The Tsar actually slapped himself in the face. Didn't he promise to ask the Chinese to provide evidence? The evidence is now out, please give us an explanation!"
"Explain, we need to explain! Alexander II...give an explanation to the people of all Europe!"
Alexander II's intestines were filled with regret. He had never calculated this. Who would have thought that what Pierre brought back to Europe was such a powerful weapon that it could directly push the Tsar's face into the toilet. .
"You French trash! Why did Napoleon III raise a group of incompetent spies like you! Why did you release such sharks back to Europe! Damn it..."
