People in the 19th century had never seen the news hype methods of the 21st century. This ordinary small-scale war in Southeast Asia quickly became hot news across Europe.
In that era, the entire earth was in constant war, and there were wars almost every day on several continents. There were many wars in the millions level, let alone hundreds of thousands of people.
At that time, the Crimean War, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War in the distant Qing Dynasty, the Civil War between the North and the South in the United States... I have never seen European people take so much interest in these large-scale battles!
After all, the media people at that time did not know how to speculate on hot topics. They were not even half as capable as Xiao Letian!
If you want people to pay attention to a certain news, in the final analysis, there is a certain relationship with the nature of the news, but there is no absolute relationship. News with high stimulation is certainly attractive, but when the stimulation level rises to war, there is nothing to improve.
At this time, you need to hype up the news in a planned way. You have to feel the humanity of the readers and add information!
What do humans like most? When people are looking for strange things, such as vampires, vixens, angels and demons, etc... This kind of late-night ghost story is scary but definitely exciting, everyone loves to listen!
In addition to the pursuit of novelty and excitement, the more important thing is of course pornography. Eating and drinking is a great desire of men and women. Otherwise, why would people pay attention to it on food channels?
And pornography is even more mysterious because it is suppressed by the laws of various countries, and it is even more tempting to people!
Xiao Letian needed 100 million people in Europe to pay attention to this headline news. This was half of Europe's population at that time. Europe had only 200 million people at that time.
How can we do a mission at such a distance without doing some evil tricks? At this time, don’t be too moral!
Countless writers who were bribed with money and lost their conscience began to make up nonsense, and poured buckets of their dirty water on the Spanish colonists!
What Spanish garrison strengthened the native savages! Even the female orangutan won't let go of the forbidden love of #animals!
There was also a Spanish governor who established a Philippine harem, hiding more than a thousand women, and having fun every night!
These irresponsible news are all labeled with legends, rumors, etc. In fact, they are clearly telling readers that I am also listening to other people's nonsense, and I am not responsible!
But readers just love to read and listen. In this day and age, there is no specific law on pornographic publications, let alone this kind of soft pornography that is borderline!
The newspapers in Europe are selling like crazy at this time. People may not care about the war halfway around the world, but they are curious about these bizarre stories, especially if there are things about men and women in the stories, which is even more attractive. !
Starting from January 11th to January 15th, it is impossible to count how many newspapers were sold in Europe!
You can clearly count the big newspapers in major cities, but how do you count the number of local tabloids? Are there 100 million people paying attention to this war? No one can say for sure, but all European politicians know it very well!
The number of European people paying attention to the Philippine War has far exceeded that of the Crimean War!
All the politicians took a breath. They had to look at this war again. They finally realized that no one in their constituencies was paying attention to this war!
Those citizens are their own vote bank. What on earth do they think? Do you prefer Chinese or Spanish? I have to be clear about it. I have to be careful in what I say and do in the future. I am not afraid of offending Xiao Letian, but offending my own bank is a big deal!
Amidst such concerns, the European political arena became strangely quiet. Many loud-mouthed MPs who were famous for firing cannons suddenly stopped raising their voices.
At the beginning, when the news first spread back to Europe, there were indeed many European supremacist politicians who ignored the facts and blindly attacked the Chinese.
This is all driven by habit. They are used to scolding Chinese people, and even the people who support them like to hear them scold.
But from the time the public opinion war began on the 8th to the 15th, in just one week, those loud-mouthed congressmen suddenly shut up, and even they felt a different taste.
Because their men conducted feedback visits among the citizens, and the results surprised them!
In just one week, more than 90% of the people in his constituency are paying attention to this war, and more than 60% of them have made remarks that favor the Chinese!
This is great! How sensitive is a politician's sense of smell? Votes are their lives!
The voices scolding the Chinese suddenly became much quieter, which made Spain's rebuttal sound even more weak and ridiculous!
At this moment, the actual controllers of the Spanish government, General Juan Prim and General Francisco Serrano, have become ants on the hot pot.
They continue to put pressure on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately unite the major European countries and form an alliance to fight against the Chinese aggression!
And he also wrote a handwritten letter and sent it to Her Majesty the Queen, hoping that Britain would help Spain out of favor with the Western civilized world!
Domestically, they began to assemble a limited navy, select elite forces from the army, and even held a military parade. The purpose was to prove to the world that Spain is ready to send reinforcements to Asia, and we must be tough to the end!
Even Juan Prim publicly made remarks in newspapers, saying that all the responsibility for the war lay with the Chinese, and the Philippine fleet was forced to attack Brunei Bay.
It was the Chinese who conspired to use the Arowana to frame Spain, and this led to the subsequent war!
It was the Chinese who first declared war, not Spain!
Spain must fight to the last soldier, the powerful Philippine defenders will control every inch of Luzon, and the European reinforcements are destined to completely wipe out the Chinese invaders in the South China Sea!
Xiao Letian looked at General Prim's hysterical barking in the newspaper and couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha... See, he has to put on such a tough stance, otherwise he will not be able to control the situation in their country!"
"These two rebellious generals launched a coup to expel the Queen and plunged Spain into a state of military control. Countless people in the country have already opposed it!"
"There is a huge active volcano under their butts! The internal strife has not been eliminated, and they still want to open up to the outside world?"
"Be tough. They can only be tough at this moment! Because as long as they show weakness in front of us, the opposition forces in Spain and the royalists will attack in groups!"
"When the time comes, these two generals will die without a burial place!"
"Just wait and see! The next step for them is to find a scapegoat! A scapegoat!"
