Way of Overlord
Chapter 233: Grand Strategy

Chapter 233: Grand Strategy

The Western Zhou might be eyeing Yan for now, but if they sense a weakness in the border of the Great Steppe, seeing the tribes crumbling, they might send large force to settle the west.

There is another more terrifying consequences even if he won.

And that is, he might be stretched too thin and then lose the most opportune moment to unify the Southern Great Steppe.

This is not a turn-based game. When he does things, his rivals and his enemies would also do things.

Dama o the East is someone that he doesn’t need to be worried about for now.

But if he relay did what Mayeux suggested doing, then Dama, if he plays his card right could quickly take any tribes that is in his way and marches toward the west.

And then there might a trend of divining the Southern great Steppe into two. If that is the case, then Aeryon plan for the unification of the Great Steppe would take too long.

In that brief moment Aeryon could think all of this and so he shakes his head

"I...could not do that. That would waste all of the planning we made. I .... This is why..."

But Mayeux stopped him before finishing his word as he said

" I understand your worry, Aeryon" Mayeux did not address him as Kan right now but instead saying his name to calm him down.

Mayeux chuckles a bit and then said

"of course, doing such a thing would leave a lot of our area undefended and the other tries would take some of our lands if we go head-to-head with the western border tribes. But would they dare bet that we would not go crazy like that? These chiefs could only see the immediate danger, immediate benefit and so they would think small. They would pay every grudge and they did not know how to be patient. But it is precisely because they are like this that they will believe that if they destroy the Khagai tribe you would go crazy"

"because they would act like that if it were them" Aeryon answer and Mayeux nodded

"Evil people judged the action of good people according to what they would do. A kind man could invite an evil man out of the sincerity of his heart to eat and drink. But in the minds and thoughts of an evil person, even an act of kindness, when look from the lens of his eyes, is an evil. He might even think the kind man is trying to poison him."

"people see themselves in other people and they try to fit other people to their mould of their world and they predict things according to the experience that they experience. Hence, there is distortion and dissonance

Aeryon nodded and feel a little bit more confident of Mayeux plans.

He did not mind losing some time but he wanted to take the talents of the world under him. To him Valgrun, Durka all of these are talents.

They might be old, but their talent is undeniable. And their sons are near his age, and a tiger father does not beget a dog son.

There are some talents he could use and some talents he could not use.

There is a difference For example, he knew about Xu Bailong, Xu Shu and many other great strategists in Yan

But he would not rush to take this talent under his rule.

Why?

Because he knew he could not get them. He is the people of the great Steppe.

The Yan people only uses the people of Great Steppe like a breeding tool.

He heard all about the Yan people treatment of people they called foreign. They called them barbarians.

And treats them like barbarians.

They could never trust a barbarian. All those talks about civilizing them, teaching them words is all bull.

All they want is disposable warriors or labour force that they could manipulate easily

When the scholars of Yan laments the fate of the common people, the common people they talked about is not the the Songnu, Xinbei, Kiang, Tie, Volgda and Sirong people.

It is the Yan people

And the people of Yan, the ministers of Yan, the rulers of Yan always uses the foreigners as an easy scapegoat when there is a problem

Whenever there is problem with their empire, they would blame it on the barbarians. The border cities are raided? The blame lies on the barbarians

But did they not see that the military pay is withheld, the weapons are all old, the armor no longer could be used?

Did they not understand provoking the tribes as the reason why the people of the so-called barbarians attacked them?

The ministers and generals also uses the barbarians to plays their games of empire.

They killed the people of the Steppe even those that did no provocation to them simply because they wanted to tell the emperor that they are doing a great job.

They would send report to the Emener saying that they killed these enemies for the emperors.

When it is that kind of act that gave reason for the Great Steppe to raid toward the south.

There is so many of this kind of occurrence all over the empire and all the blame lies on the feet of the "barbarians"

It is easier for them to dump the blame to someone else rather than owning up to their mistake.

A common thread in the annals of history

Aeryon has these memories. And he also reads the books that Mayeux shows him and his anger toward the Yan people increase

That is why he knows that the talents of Yan could not be used by him. They looked own on him

And for talents he could not use, Aeryon would not hesitate to destroy them.

There is a silence in the tent. Aeryon is thinking, deliberating, pondering if there is something that he had missed.

Mayeux waited patiently.

A minutes passes and then two minutes passes, only the sound of the winter winds slapping the curtain sometimes break this uncomfortable silence.

Aeryon then look at Mayeux and nodded toward him and Mayeux knows this is telling him to move on.

"I know what you are worried about"

Aeryon takes a deep breath

"If we lose this, then my plan would be delayed for...." And he paused for a moment before sighing

"Decades"

"Decades" he repeated.

He shakes his head

"I could not wait that long"

Mayeux understand his lord concern and he decided to give Aeryon some confidence. He smiles and then explain

"But we would not lose this. Bolghar is attacked so those two tribes of the western border would also render aid. That is the prediction"

Aeryon nodded at this.

Mayeux did not stop smiling as he added

"But what if we could incite conflict there beforehand, making those two tribes unable to respond when the times"

Hearing this Aeryon raised his eyebrows.

And Mayeux smile grows larger and then he said.

"We still have time. If we coordinate with Khagai, when the dust settles, the Khagai would take over Bolghar tribe"

"This is the first step"

Aeryon look at the map and took the reed pen on the edge of the table and mark the Bolghar tribe with one

He uses Arabic numerals and it is something that seems similar to some other nations on the east.

But right now, Mayeux did not pay attention to the map, he is already very excited right now

"With Bolghar taken, the first step would be the base of our plan. This would make the Khagai tribe the dominant tribe in the western border of the Southern Great Steppe"

"The second step began the moment Bolghar is destroyed or subdued"

"When that happens, the balance between the tribes in the western border collapses completely. Even if the other western border tribes wanted to make any fuss about it, it would already be too late."

"The moment Khagai tribe break the order of the western border tribes, the rest would fall like dominos. Then we only need to pick them one by one. With the combined might of our tribe, Khagai tribe and even the occasional help from Chagai who could leverage the Cha-Ner-Ul alliance, we could take the west in a year."

Mayeux then went silent for a while and let Aeryon make the decision.

Aeryon close his eyes and stands there in front of the table thinking about the strategy that Mayeux had made.

This is a grand strategy.

It would take at least a few months to establish relations with the nearby tribes near the Tare, Toghrul and Aoshi tribes.

There is also the spies that needs to be allocated there.

Aeryon spy department is still very barebones and is not as complex or as powerful as the spy department of the empires but it is enough for him to send some ears and eyes toward the west

Which means he would be completely blind to what happened in the east.

He needs to reallocate the spies and merchants in the east to go to the west.

Some could still be left in the east but the information quality that would come out of there would inevitably suffers

From what Mayeux tell him, he could tell there is always other things that would pop off when they enacted this plan.

But that is minor details and would appears as they go along.

In a way Mayeux is providing him a layout.

The large part of the plans.

As for the details, they could perfect it when they enacted the plan.

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