231 Public opinion stick
The British Empire's ignorance and even laissez-faire, and the military threat of the Indian Federation (India in this parallel world is composed of states, not a unified country), made the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane have to choose to compromise.
The royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane knew that their family was difficult, and the republican revolution in suppressing the country was already in a state of great difficulty. Facing the Indian Federation, which was originally stronger than the Kingdom of Vientiane (India has a large population, so the army is large and looks stronger), he really dared not fight.
Especially the performance of the army of the Kingdom of Vientiane in the war with the Annan Republic has caused the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane to lose confidence in their own army, and they only seek to pull allies internationally to destroy the Annan Republic. They no longer expect to fight to destroy the Annan Republic alone.
In today's Kingdom of Vientiane, not only the royal family has no confidence in the army, but the whole country believes that the army of the Kingdom of Vientiane has become corrupt. Otherwise, how could so many people rebel with the republican revolutionary army?
This is like a gunshot in the late Qing Dynasty, and provinces across the country responded to the same truth.
It’s not that the Qing Dynasty was really out of power, but that everyone felt that the Qing army was very weak in combat. Since there was a pioneer to challenge the Qing court, it would be better to sit down and wait and see what happened.
Many times, a country's prestige is basically reflected in the expressiveness of its army.
Foreign wars have been defeated repeatedly, and the achievements of the country that will be with you will be with you even if you are far away, how can it not leave the people with the impression that the Qing army is weak?
The Qing court was preparing for the new army and repeatedly tolerating the new army. Isn’t it because the Qing royal family itself was not confident in the army?
The result was that the Xinhai Revolution made the last little demeanor of the Qing court disappear, and he had to bring out Yuan Shikai, a figure with ulterior motives, to stabilize the situation.
Then the facts proved that although the Qing army was abolished, the Beiyang Army raised a lot of money was still good in combat. As soon as Yuan Shikai took office, the Beiyang Army immediately stopped fighting and pushed forward all the way, causing the revolutionary army at that time to retreat step by step. Even the great leader Sun had to bow his head and compromise with Yuan Shikai.
Later generations said that Leader Sun's concession to Yuan Shikai was a kind of political wisdom, and to put it bluntly, it was a helpless move. If the Revolutionary Army was not beaten by Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army and pushed all the way to Beijing to directly establish a unified Republic of China, why would there be a later warlord melee?
Most of the chaos in the warlords was caused by the split of the Beiyang Army.
Now, the royal family of the Annan Republic, which was thought to be very weak, achieved a fierce battle record, is similar to the Qing Dynasty royal family.
Of course, the situation has not collapsed to that point, but the population and territory of the Vientiane Kingdom are far inferior to the Qing court in the past!
With a poor family, the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane cannot afford to lose!
However, the royal family of the Vientiane Kingdom agreed to the conditions of the Indian Federation, which was also inclined to the Indian Federation to promise to help the Vientiane Kingdom to quell the rebellion.
For the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane, the threat of the republican revolutionary army far exceeds that of the Annan Republic. Even if the Annan Republic invades and occupys the capital of the Kingdom of Vientiane, it is impossible to overthrow the rule of the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane.
The Annan Republic does not have that much appetite and ability!
However, the Republican Revolutionary Army can indeed perfectly replace the regime of the Vientiane royal family, and its national base is very deep.
After all, this is an era when nationalism has long awakened. The monarchy itself means backwardness. If it is labeled as a decay, why should the people support it?
The royal family of the Vientiane Kingdom ruled smoothly in the country because the economic development of the Vientiane Kingdom is quite good. Although the gap between the rich and the poor is larger, at least it will not starve a large number of civilians to death.
Most people can eat and drink enough to maintain the stability of the regime.
However, as soon as the war broke out, the prices in the Vientiane Kingdom were getting higher and higher day by day. The large number of death notices on the front line also made the anger of the people who were already in difficulty in life rising steadily.
On the one hand, there are death notices from relatives and friends, and on the other hand, there are rising prices and wars that cannot be seen. The civilians will naturally expel their anger on the government.
At this time, with the republican revolutionary leaders' remarks, it would be no surprise that the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane became the scapegoat.
Fortunately, the British Empire did not want to see the fall of the royal family of the Kingdom of Vientiane. After all, the two sides signed many unequal treaties. Even if the debts between countries are not the masters, they still have value.
If the republican regime is replaced and the previous treaties are not recognized, wouldn’t the British Empire be in vain?
With the support of the British Empire, the royal family of the Vientiane Kingdom would not have to worry that the Indian Federation would fool itself and not help it quell the domestic rebellion.
As expected, after the Indian Federation army entered the country, the people of the Vientiane Kingdom, which had already been full of public grievances, exploded again.
At this time, videos and photos of the "unprecedence" behavior of Indian Federation soldiers entering and leaving the country to the people of the Vientiane Kingdom where they passed, spread throughout the Vientiane Kingdom and even the whole world through shortcuts circulating on the Internet.
It just poured fire on the domestic situation in the Kingdom of Vientiane.
From this perspective, the previous concerns of the Vientiane Royal Family were very correct. No matter which country's army was, they would more or less ignore the law after they arrived in other countries.
Not to mention the Indian San soldiers with a strange specialty.
Many Indian Federation officers and soldiers even regarded the Kingdom of Vientiane as a vassal of the Indian Federation. It is conceivable that their attitude towards the people of the Kingdom of Vientiane is.
A group of officers and soldiers with inexplicable sense of superiority faced the weak ordinary people of the Wanxiang Kingdom with guns in their hands. The operation of buying things without paying for food is really nothing. Even in the reports of paparazzi bribery that were bribed with a lot of money, the vicious and powerful incident was exposed.
There is no way. There are more men and fewer women in the Indian Federation, and fewer men are superior to women. There are few women in the army. A group of energetic Indian soldiers finally entered the territory of the "vassal state". How could they control their crotch?
This was not a big deal, at least there was no murder, but after the exposure of those paparazzi, they were immediately placed on the table, and both the royal family of the Indian Federation and the Kingdom of Vientiane felt embarrassed.
So the big stick of public opinion control was knocked down, and such reports began to be banned on a large scale within the Kingdom of Vientiane.
The effect is still there. After all, the people of the Vientiane Kingdom who can browse the foreign network are only a minority. There are only a few cities in the area that have been destroyed by the three soldiers of India. Once the Internet is banned, most of the people of the Vientiane Kingdom will naturally be kept in the dark.
Those forces that secretly fuel the fire are ultimately ground rats and cannot confront the national public opinion machine head-on.
Chapter completed!