C3137 Propagandas Three Axes (1/2)

Xiao Letian had a clear idea on how to promote the media, brainwash the people, and continuously create hype.

First of all, he had to make the first move first. Humans always had a profound impression of first place, and there was an interesting point about human nature. After he made a predetermined judgment on a certain matter, the difficulty of modifying it would increase.

This was a weakness of human nature, and it was called refusing to admit one's mistakes!

If Spain was the first to divulge the news, then the Spanish media would follow their own pattern to induce the public, and the public would always be emotional. They would be easily influenced by some radical words and ultimately come to the judgment of the propagandist.

Once the majority of the population had seen the Spanish report first, even if the Chinese started to explain later, the majority of the people who made the first judgment would not bother to change their minds.

Only a small number of people were able to see the chain of evidence of the Chinese calmly and rationally, and then compare and make the correct judgement!

Most people find it hard to change. In fact, the simple truth of the matter is that vanity is a source of pride.

In the heart of a self-centered person, since I have already made a judgment, it would be too disgraceful for me to change my name. For my face, I would rather make a mistake to the end.

In real life, there are a lot of people like this. They know they are wrong but they just won't admit it.

This kind of person was a typical boiled duck with a tough mouth!

However, Xiao Letian would never fight with human nature, he was not a moral saint, so he did not have the obligation to help others change their wrong personality habits. What he needed to do was to make use of this human nature's weakness.

It had to be known that there was a very lucrative enterprise within Xiao Letian's Chinese company. It was the East Asian Hua Clan Telegraph Company, which was already the largest telegraph company in Asia. It controlled over 90% of the submarine cables in East Asia.

The business of this company cooperates with many other countries around the world. In fact, this company even has a lot of shares of British and American capitalists!

Doing something was too simple. It would not be difficult to send a telegram from another country to Europe a few days later. Countless telegrams sent to Telegraph operator would be able to detain a telegram from Spain, the Netherlands and other countries for 24 hours!

In this era, telegraphic transmission from Asia to Europe was not directly connected. It required countless countries and telegraphic stations to transmit the message nonstop in order to transmit it across the hemisphere with great difficulty.

When Xiao Letian had gotten the number 7 telegraph, it took him a whole five days to send the victory telegram!

It would have been lagging far behind the speed of information transmission in the twenty-first century, but in those days, five days of telegrams from Asia to Europe was the highest efficiency.

I'm afraid the Dutch and Spanish telegrams have just arrived in India!

It was because of this that the Chinese had become the first organization to spread the news of taking a stroll. Since it was the Chinese who had said so, then there was no need to explain the propensity of this news.

It wasn't enough to be the first to strike, but he still needed to use the drummer's ability to fan the flames!

At this moment, even the British Thames had regretfully said, ”... ”No matter how serious the conflict between the Chinese and Spanish is, we should first engage in rational diplomatic negotiations. This kind of undeclared assault is extremely despicable …”

”On the New Year's Day, when the people are celebrating the happy occasion of 1871, sending out warships to ambush Brunei's Bay, this kind of barbaric behavior is the shame of the civilized world!”

Thames was not so easy to bribe. They had always been very neutral, even a newspaper like this could speak such biased language, let alone other media that were close to the Chinese.

”War criminals! A beast that should go to hell! To cover it up, firing at a neutral diplomatic corps is not enough. You actually declared that you will not fight against the Chinese! ”

”The shame of Europe! Does Spaniard still think that I am the overlord of the seas three hundred years ago? Do they still think that the Armada exists? ”

”Such an abuse of sea power, this is a provocation to my British Empire's sea power!”