Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 367: Another fascinating moment for journalism

Figesin doesn't enjoy publicity work.

In her opinion, publicity work is just a job that involves talking but not doing anything.

Perhaps because she had lived in the barren northern territory for many years, pragmatism became her code of conduct.

It is inevitable to have some prejudice against propaganda, a job that is not so "direct" in practicality.

But Drogo's big claws didn't care.

There is no one who wants to overthrow the old royal family without doing propaganda work.

It is not enough to just be a righteous army, you also have to let the whole world know, only then can you be justified.

"Be happy, be happy when you are on camera. There are not many opportunities to shoot under my guidance." Looking at Figlin with a dead fish face, Drogo was trying hard to mobilize the "actor"'s emotions.

Figesin seemed completely unmotivated, like a wooden stake, passively manipulated by the makeup artist. "I never felt happy during the shoot."

As a princess, she doesn't actually wear makeup very often, let alone full makeup for camera use.

The only good news is that she doesn't have to wear those complicated dresses, because her character is capable and tough, so she will appear in light armor in the promotion.

She really hated those dresses that were designed to make the waist look thinner but made her feel suffocated when she put them on.

"I have a lot of things to do in the city. I don't have time to waste on this."

She was trying to find a legitimate reason not to film. She always felt a little awkward being in front of the camera. Moreover, the voices in the filmed footage would sound different from what she heard, which was doubly embarrassing.

"The orcs are doing the civil engineering, and your lieutenant can also take charge of the city defense. You don't lack this time," Drogo directly rejected Figsingh's excuse, "and your image in the hearts of the people is as important as the civil engineering and city defense. Here, the script."

"And the script?"

Figesin took the script in surprise.

"Of course, you have to memorize the lines and let your acting skills show. I believe that as someone who has been raised with aristocrats, your acting skills will not be bad."

Figithin always felt that Drogo was being treacherous, but she had no evidence.

She looked through the script and found that it was not a continuous content, but many separate scenes.

For example, the Northern Legion helped the residents of Dronburg to repair their homes, and Figesin inspected the work on site and reminded people to be careful;
Figesin experienced a day as a quarryman in Dronburg and delivered an important speech on how to improve the working conditions of quarrymen. He pointed out that masks are a necessity to protect the health of quarrymen and all quarrymen can receive free masks regularly.
Figesin visited the children in the orphanage and proposed that the orphanage be run by the government as part of social welfare, and that children are the future;
Figesin personally distributed free lunch boxes to people, and anyone without a job could receive them;

Figesin expressed his condolences to all the prisoners of war...

A series of these things.

Figgin was stunned. "This, this, isn't this fake?"

"Well, how can this be called fake?" Zhuo Ge said seriously: "You do these things, and then we follow them."

"Then you are doing this for publicity."

In her opinion, although these are good things, doing so is not pure, as good intentions should be pure.

"First of all, have you ever heard that good deeds are judged by deeds rather than intentions? Secondly, it's not like we haven't done these things before, and we are still doing them now. It's just that you are the image spokesperson, so we are taking some summary shots."

Just as Drogo said, various construction works are being carried out rapidly in Dronburg, just like the North in the past.

Figesin's reputation has grown to the point where some people display her portrait in their homes.

The common people may not fully understand the royal disputes and the complicated background of the war, but they can clearly understand which lord is good to them.

After the arrival of the Northern Legion, life became better day by day. As for Medellin buried under the rubble, it was immediately forgotten and no one missed it.

Figosin also somewhat understood the purpose of these propaganda, just like many people in history who would create some "magical" background for themselves when they started an uprising.

Dreams of gods, predictions by riddlers, strange phenomena in heaven and earth at birth, and seeing magical creatures as a child.

All of this is to make their uprising sound more reasonable.

In comparison, the propaganda planned by Drogo is much more practical than traditional methods.

Those methods all exploited people's awe and even fear, but Drogo's thinking, at least, was to truly stand with the civilians.

Commoners will choose her too.

However, it is precisely because of this "high popularity" that the filming work has been slightly troubled.

In order to get a free lunch box distributed by Figosin himself, the stall where she worked saw an unprecedentedly long queue. The staff repeatedly advised people to go to other stalls to get a free lunch, but to no avail.

There were also many people who had already found jobs but still wanted to join the team just to see this unique new lord up close.

As a result, the filming work was seriously slowed down, and something that was originally planned to be completed in half a day had to be filmed until late at night.

Drogo's post-production team demonstrated amazing work efficiency.

In the afternoon, the morning’s material is made into a film, broadcast in time for the evening news program, and uploaded to the online platform simultaneously.

incredible.

It seems that those who work in post-production have endless energy.

Back at their residence, thanks to the hard work of the orc construction team, more than half of the Northern Legion were able to live in houses. Although they were a bit simple, they were much better than sleeping on the streets.

Figgin threw herself on the bed, she was exhausted.

I didn't expect that filming was more tiring than fighting in a war. I had to keep a professional fake smile at all times, my attitude had to be friendly, and I had to pay attention to the camera to ensure that the key scenes could be captured while not being seen as deliberately looking for the camera. It was too difficult.

She had planned to sleep until tomorrow morning, as she still had to deal with the affairs of many minor nobles in the area, but curiosity got the better of her so she started up the host and logged into YouTube.

I don’t want to see what my photos look like, but I want to see the response on the Internet.

How do netizens in Sutton, and those in other regions, view her?

After all, she is still charged with regicide and patricide. With the help of Drogo, many opinions have appeared on the Internet pointing out the suspicious aspects of this charge, but she has not been completely cleared yet.

And no matter how you look at it, what she is doing now is considered rebellion, and it is a rebellion against her own brother.

She cares a lot about her reputation. Everyone will die, and all that will be left behind is a posthumous reputation.

Drogo said that rebelling against his own brother was a trivial matter, and gave the example of a very powerful and wise king in history who also killed his own brother with his own hands, but later generations did not pay any attention to this incident, and a large number of people even thought that it was a good thing.

Figesin thought he made it up to comfort himself, because she had searched through history books but could not find such a wise ruler.

On YouTube, the news video about her distributing free lunch boxes in Delongburg has become a hot search.

She clicked carefully, then immediately paused and scrolled to the comments section to avoid seeing herself in the video.

Most of the comments were positive.

Something like "A real good lord."

"Much better than her brother." "I think she should be Sutton VII."

"You are asking for your life. You dare to say that. Aren't you afraid that the current Seventh Incarnation will come after you?"

"I'm just saying, just tell me what happened. Maybe he was the one who killed the Sixth and framed Figgin. Anyway, I'm not in Sutton, so what can he do to me?"

……

Figxin browsed and found that most of her supporters' addresses were in the North or Waterdeep, a few were in Twin Towers, and other addresses were very rare.

In addition to the voices of support, there are naturally opposition and doubts.

"It's all a show. No one will really believe it, right?"

"All nobles are alike."

"When one family fights, all of Sutton suffers."

These are still relatively mild, but there are also many direct and merciless remarks.

There are usually many threads of argument and endless insults under these posts.

I am indeed a very controversial figure.

Figgin sighed.

However, these bad reviews did not dampen her fighting spirit.

The more this happens, the harder she has to work. She wants to prove to those who are scolding her that she is the right one.

Just as she was about to go to bed, she suddenly saw a comment, which was a shared video.

The Evil Deeds of the Northern Legion, the Truth of the Dronburg Massacre

what?
Figesin was completely confused. Where did this come from?

She immediately clicked on the video and heard a tragic and eerie background music.

The first scene shows a large group of prisoners squatting outside the city with terrified looks on their faces. Several close-ups of their expressions make it seem as if these prisoners have been subjected to some kind of abuse.

They had clearly been squatting outside the city on the night of the siege, and were transferred to the prisoner-of-war camp in batches the next day. The treatment in the northern prisoner-of-war camp was absolutely the best it could be. There was even a sports meeting being held in the camp.

The rest of the video made Figesin laugh even more.

Cut together the older houses in the residential area, the houses that were demolished to build barricades, and the completely destroyed military buildings.

It was as if these were all residential areas, and the disasters in the residential areas were all caused by the Northern Legion.

That’s not all. Even the dozen or so dead civilians were all found, and the footage was extremely horrifying. The footage of the twenty or so wounded was also there, and they specifically looked for their appearance before treatment. They were all bloody and mangled, and it was very horrifying.

If you only watch this video, you would definitely think that Delonburg is now a living hell.

No, hell is developing well now. As long as you don't go to the levels where there is a risk of fighting, other places are now even popular tourist attractions.

After being angry, Figosin suddenly realized a problem. The person or team that made this video must be either from the Northern Legion or the Drogo Group.

There's a mole!
Otherwise, how could you possibly have so much information!
After realizing this, Figosin was no longer sleepy. He immediately got up and headed straight for where Drogo was staying temporarily.

"Oh no, Drogo, we have a traitor here!" Figosin said excitedly.

She just hoped that there was no traitor among her own people. She didn't want to believe that the army she had trained with her own hands would betray her.

"What do you mean there's a traitor?"

"There's a video on YouTube," Figosin said, "The content inside is definitely information that only insiders can know, and the video is very professionally produced. If you're not someone who has been working in this industry for a long time, it's impossible for you to be so good at it..."

She couldn't think of a suitable word to describe this way of making videos.

"Are you good at quoting out of context?" Drogo said.

"Yes, out of context, that's what I meant."

"Of course. That video was carefully produced by our marketing department."

"?"

Figosin wondered if he had fallen asleep and was now having a nightmare.

"Our marketing department is..."

"It's the marketing department of Drogo Group." Drogo replied.

Figgin gestured with his hands, and the child became so anxious that he couldn't speak.

"You want to ask me why I asked someone to make such a video?"

Figgin nodded vigorously.

"In fact, it's not just the video, there are also promotional copywriting and a series of other smearing content waiting to be released. As for why they did this."

Zhuo Ge's online communication class has started. "Have you noticed that the positive content we produced did not receive a particularly good response?"

"seems like it."

Figxin thought about it and realized that most of the people who supported her on the Internet were people who had already come into contact with her and knew her, while in other regions, there were more doubts.

"Because people have a rebellious mentality. The more you exaggerate and promote positive content, the more people will instinctively think there is a problem, especially when the person being promoted is a princess. People have a natural resistance to aristocrats and will assume that aristocrats are not good people."

This default is not really a prejudice, because to say that all traditional aristocrats are bad would be an exaggeration, but to say that 90% of them are not human would be a bit conservative.

"So when we release this fabricated trolling, it gets more attention and people think 'ha, I told you she's not a good person'."

"So?" Figxin didn't understand what the benefit was of making the negative information he fabricated gaining more attention.

Could this be the legendary black and red?
"But the negative information is all fabricated! Controversy brings discussion, discussion brings heat, and when the heat reaches its peak, it will be proven that the negative information is all fabricated. At this time, a considerable number of people who originally doubted you will no longer doubt you out of rebellion, and may even double their support because of their previous misunderstandings."

Drogo said proudly: "Perfect whitening. Besides, you don't need to wash it, you are already very white."

This was completely beyond Figosin's understanding. "No, this, it..."

How can news be played like this?

The more I looked at Drogo's dragon face, the more sinister it seemed.

He is thousands of years old and I can't beat him.

"Don't worry, don't panic. According to the plan, your reputation will turn around in about a week. Now, you just need to continue to do your job well, and leave the rest to time." Zhuo Ge said, "Public opinion is mostly based on following the trend. Independent thinking has never been an easy thing."

(End of this chapter)