Way of Overlord
Chapter 303: Did Not Dare To Bet

Chapter 303: Did Not Dare To Bet

The night is deep, the wind of the Steppe is blowing gently, the flapping curtain create a rhythmic sound, and the night of the Steppe in the Brolgadhr tribe seems peaceful

But inside one of the tent, a young man wrote his admonishment, wrote his advice, wrote his strategy for the world, looking at the world like a chessboard and the people of the world as its pieces.

A plan for the world unveiled, a direction determined.

Jayeux sighed as he look at what he had written.

Then he stop writing for a while, look at the map that is on the side of the table and studied for a second and then nodded.

His eyes mostly focused on Yan and not the Great Steppe.

His strategy have a lot to do with Yan. And the Kan strategy mostly to take the Great Steppe first.

This alone had made Jayeux discouraged. What Jayeux wanted is to use Yan to conquer the world.

Conquer Yan, split the land of Yan, populate the land of Yan with the people of Steppe, destroy the exploitative culture of Yan, exploit the fertile lands, and conquer the world in all four direction.

To Jayeux, the Yan people is poisoned people. They would never accept goodness, they fear the strong, oppress the weak.

It would not change even when the weak become strong.

The weaker they are in the past, the more oppressive they would become when they become strong.

This is the characteristic of Yan people.

Profit over people and there is calculation in everything.

There is no sincerity in their hearts hence why Jayeux rarely ask Aeryon to be sincere in his admonishment.

When they learn the words of Great Teacher, they learned it not to bring harmony to the world but to blind the eyes of the ruler, block the ruler ears, promote their own people and oppress the people.

The scholar of the Yab people always blamed the barbarian for the ills of their nation. But Jayeux understand it.

In time of political instability and chaos in the nation, it is very helpful to label people as the enemy so that everyone could unite together

It is like in the village.

When it is time to determine who got the water from the river to irrigate the field, two families could fall out with one another that could even lead a battle between two families.

But introduce an outsider and create reason to hate them, then the leader of the village could unite the squabbling family while beating the outsider.

Pour all the black water onto the outsider and the people would think that the problem of the nations is already solved

Is this method dirty? It is. But it is the method of governing. And those who studied it understand it. And the people fall into it every time.

A small nation could do this but an empire couldn’t do it for long if he wanted the world

Xang Yu killed surrendering armies and he lost the righteousness of the world.

But Jayeux plans is a little bit different.

He already have the people that would replace the dead.

So, killing become his method of choice.

Jayeux also wanted to kill the scholars of Yan and wipe out al the famous families in Yan.

Not only that, he wanted to wipe the north from all of Yan people just like the Yan people massacre tens of thousands of the Great Steppe.

When the entire Yan is filled with blood, he would ask the people of Yan, when you killed those innocent people a few hundred years ago, would you think such a thing would happen to you.

Yes, to punish someone descendant because of a deed a hundred years ago is absurd. He knows it.

But does the people of Yan does not know it? If they know it and they do it, that means they were the ones that sow this seed of conflict.

And this is just Karma reaping the blooming seed.

If they don’t know and they do those things because they don’t know, then this race of people that called themselves Yan should be eradicated from the world, lest they bring harm to the world

Killing someone, hating someone because of what their father did and their great grandfather did is not logical.

But Yan people had taught their people to hate anyone different than them since their birth

They are the educated people, and everyone that is not Yan are uncivilized and barbarians.

Even in modern times, this sickness is hard to eradicate.

And what is this sickness?

The sickness of the heart.

As for Jayeux, his limited understanding of the world and his own dark experience also led him to craft dark strategies and cunning schemes

Is there no one in Yan that have a good heart?

Probably there is.

But how many people would find it easy to follow the words of the Emperor and look down on people rather than celebrating differences and finding common ground?

Alexander when presented with the problem of the Gordian knot, simply cut it with a sword. And that is how Jayeux wanted to solve this problem

With bold actions. Jayeux only experienced pain and suffering in his life and those dark moment, he promised himself something

He would get his revenge. And all of his action till now has always been about taking revenge

For his mother. This is the reason why Mayeux took him in.

Mayeux is reminded of himself when he looks at Jayeux.

But Mayeux and Jayeux is different. Jayeux wanted to do great damage to the world and then pull up a micro to the world and ask them, "Is what I am doing right?"

The answer is already known beforehand.

But the people of the world would not answer it before.

But if Jayeux manage to do the things he wanted to do, then the proof is in front of them ad they could no longer hide from seeing the reflection of that proof.

Jayeux is someone with grand ambition, desire for revenge, youthful idealism....the most dangerous kind of man

Especially when this kind of man even have great ability to turns decay into magic.

It is a pity someone of such ability could not find his favoured lord.

"A wise lord for the tribe, for the Steppe, for the world, a great commander and surely he would be a great conqueror. It is a pity that this lord and me do not have fate" Jayeux sighed again.

The Kan wanted to unite the Steppe, destroy Western Zhou and conquer Yan.

Yan is the last puzzle. All of this takes time.

By that time, the Kan might have even died and his sons would be the one fulfilling his ambition.

But Jayeux could not wait.

Because he has his own personal agenda to fulfil.

And time and opportunity would not come again when it has passed. Jayeux did not want to break up with Aeryon had the Brolgadhr tribe and from his teacher

So, he think about it carefully.

But he also knows that he could not know how long it would take to unify the Steppe.

Even if the Steppe could be pacified in five years or less, the Kan then would set his sight toward Western Zhou.

If nothing unexpected happen, it would probably take ten years to destroy Western Zhou.

Then, how many years before Aeryon sit on that highest seta before he pass down his throne.

In the case that Aeryon did not die, what if he would be involved in the battle of princes?

By that time, Aeryon might already gotten old and loses his edge.

The young wolf and the old wolf is different.

One still have the daring heart to conquer the world and the old wanted to preserve what he had built up

There is no right and wrong. The young create a legacy and when he is old, he wanted to preserve that legacy to give to his young.

But that is Aeryon family matters

And Jayeux wanted something else

If that happens, more time would be squandered. The Kan at that time would be old. And he? Wouldn’t he also be old at that time

At that time, he must have many more fetters, more connection, more people that would drag him down.

And when he is old, would he still remembers those tears and the pain, the lashes mark on his back, the promise he make?

Or would he already lose the youthful heart?

He did not dare to promise that he would always remember these things nor would he dare to promise that he would not change

Time washes away everything. All grudges and resentment, all contradictions and everything is swept away by it.

It is rare not to lose one original intention and that is why such person would always be highlighted in histories and stories.

Because such person is rare in the world and become an anomaly.

Now.

He must do it now, when his heart is still strong and his ability is still there.

Of course, this is just speculation that the Kan would not be able to fulfill his ambition in his lifetime

There might also be differences.

Like maybe if the Kan could quickly unite the Steppe, such thing would not happen.

And he would have the chance to use his talent to destroy Yan

But....Jayeux did not dare to bet in such uncertain matters.

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