NEUOFFENBARUNGDeutscher Text · Volume contents
[01] For the already completely dehumanized slaves, this phenomenon was inexplicable, and they did not know what will come of it.
[02] The senior priests said to the ten: "Well, the first task is completed! All slaves, male and female sex, from all parts of our empire are redeemed. Our great palaces along the walls of our city are filled with the slaves and cared for there. But what happens now?"
[03] And the ten said: "Well, give us four thousand men experienced in handling arms! Accompanied by them, we want to go to the redeemed slaves and explain to them why they were redeemed. And secondly, we want to assign four weapon experts to every palace, to train in the shortest possible time all slaves of both sexes in the handling of the weapons, whereby the males will use heavy arms and the females trained to use light weapons; for without such training they are of no use at all!"
[04] But the senior priests said: "It's all right, but where do we get at once so many blunt weapons? For it would be really somewhat unwise and uneconomical and even dangerous to use the new sharp weapons from our large armories! For this caste is still very angry with us. If all of a sudden they are given sharp weapons in their hands, we might be in great danger!
[05] Therefore, in our opinion, they first should be trained using ordinary dummy weapons of wood and straw; once they know how to handle these and obtained the right discipline of a fighter, only then should they be entrusted with real weapons! Do you not agree?"
[06] And the ten said: "Too much caution is as bad as too little! If you worry about a possible revenge from this caste, with four million people it doesn’t require any weapons! When they stand up against us, they already overwhelm us with their mass; and if the slaves had this in mind, they had already invaded us!
[07] Just leave the whole matter completely in our hands, and we stand in with our lives that in the course of one month you will see all slaves well armed and trained leave the city without harming a fly!"
[08] Upon these words the senior priests agreed to the use of real weapons and also assigned the four thousand weapon experts to the ten.
[09] Already the next day, accompanied by the weapon experts, the ten went to the awaiting slaves who were full of expectations, for they did not know, as already mentioned earlier, what was the meaning of their redemption.
[10] The ten deployed themselves so that each one was assigned one-hundred palaces, and the same day also the weapons trainers were allotted.
[11] When the ten allowed the slaves to come and see them, they were immediately stormed with anxious questions of what will happen to them.
[12] And the ten said everywhere: "Be patient; we are your saviors and liberators from your hard chains of slavery!
[13] You will now be trained in the use of weapons for a month at good food; then we will go out to conquer a great nation, which is worse than all devils, but otherwise very cowardly, stupid and effeminate! And then we will, as now the least, become the masters of the world! Once you will be fully trained in the use of weapons, only then you will learn more!"
[14] This message brought about that the slaves were almost beyond themselves with joy, and the ten were nearly worshiped by them.