Way of Overlord
Chapter 304: Scorch the Land and Welcome the Benevolent Lord

Chapter 304: Scorch the Land and Welcome the Benevolent Lord

The Kan could conquer the Great Steppe before he is old.

This is very possible.

If his teacher plan works, then the south could become a strong base for the expedition toward all the direction of the Great Steppe.

The Steppe had long not had a unifier. But when there is one, the unifying process could be fast if the ruler took the right step.

Do not cut the vassal prince, but move them toward the rest of the world.

This is his strategy if he wanted to quickly the Great Steppe.

Once a dominant leader arose, the other would quickly bow their heads and kneel down to support the ruler, give them benefits, power and influence and this disparate forces of the Great Steppe could become the strongest fighting force in the world.

All over the world, the horses of the Great Steppe would trample!

Jayeux could only plans according to the circumstances that he could see and speculate.

This also has something to do with his own personal desire and his own personal Way.

So, he will and must target Yan.

This is one of the reason why Jayeux would not be able to serve under the Kan.

In his meeting with the Kan, he could see that the Kan recognise his talent. But he did not want to use his method and could not use his outline of conquering the world.

They did not have bad feeling against each other, instead they admire each other. Jayeux is from Yan so he had always thought that all of this Great Steppe people are simple.

At least that is what he thought until he had spoken with the people of Sirong, Songnu, and other discriminated clans and tribes of the Great Steppe inside the land of Yan

He himself was discriminated and so he could see that all it takes for this discontent of the masses to explode is when Yan empire is unstable.

From the moment, Zhuo Bufan took the capital, Jayeux feel like he could see the general trend of the world.

The princes fight each other, the common people suffer and chaos reigned. And in that chaos, opportunity would rise.

Discontent that has been building up and suppressed would explode.

All the bad treatment that the Yan gave to the people of different race from them would be returned a hundredfold.

The Yan humiliated the people of other races. They claim to be an enlightened race and treats other people like animals.

But the way of heaven and earth is that there is rising and fall, waxing and waning, and nothing escapes from this cycle of rising and falling waxing and waning.

Time destroys all things and no matter how glorious an empire is, it would fall.

For men are not Gods and men make mistakes.

The Yan make mistake and did not think of a backup plans. The resentment of the world would pour into them

Jayeux do not like to talk about righteousness and benevolence but he does acknowledge something more powerful than love, and loyalty and righteousness.

It is hatred.

Anger.

Fear

What unites people has always been a common enemy.

Not because they love each other, not because of loyalty and righteousness but because they hated the other person more than they hated each other

It is because they were angry at that other person more than they hate their other enemies

It is because they fear that one other enemy more than they fear this other enemy. This what unites two enemies and allow them to ally with each other

Hatred.

Anger.

Fear.

This is the thought of Jayeux.

And this is how he craft his strategy.

Use hatred, incite anger, induce fear, unite the undesirables, the impoverished, the discriminated, the angry people, the fearful people and unleash these to the enemy.

And then when the biggest enemy is destroyed, divide and conquer, uses the same tactic again.

This is the most impervious tactics of all. This is the tactics of the heart.

And Jayeux could see the crux of this when he learns from Mayeux. And because of that he seems to be able to see the trend of the world

And he is waiting for it

A chaotic period where the barbarians princes would rise would come after. This is his conclusion.

Whoever won in the Central Plains could not reverse this trend. Yan has too many problems and military of Yan is not the only problems

this is a cause and effect that has been waiting to be fulfilled. This seed of destruction has been sown a long time ago.

The Yan emperor and the people of Yan discriminate against other races and treated them like slaves.

Forcing their culture of Yan, turning "barbarians" into Yan

This might have worked but the superiority of the Yan people toward other races make this move destined to not work

Because even if these barbarians turns themselves to Yan people, to the Yan people themselves, these are the descendants of barbarians.

People of different race has different heart, that is the motto of the Yan people.

They were beaten by barbarians in the past. The barbarians was strong and their ancestor fled like a child peeing.

They were humiliated by strong barbarians. At that time, all of these people were cowards. But then when these strong barbarians died, suddenly they become brave

They did not dare beat the barbarian in the past, and calling the past people a humiliation.

When the current generation of Yan look at the past, they easily said those people in the past that surrendered were cowards.

It is so easy for them to judge people of the past. They do not live in that era so they do not know the difficulties of that era

They then slander that soldiers of Yan that die were actually weak Yan people. And instead of fighting the barbarians they beat the bar brains that already become Yan

They castrated these barbarians. As for the woman, they sterilized it so that they could not bring more barbarians babies using drugs and poisons.

They wanted to break the lineage of the people of the Steppe, they wanted to erase them while smiling and laughing, talking about the great principle in the book

The Great Harmony they pursued has no other race in it. Only Yan.

Other races are just animals to them. And it is for this reason Jayeux knows that one day the reckoning will come and what they’ve done in the past would bite them back.

Hence, the Sirong and Songnu tribes become angry and hence a new cohesive force of the barbarians was established and in the north these barbarian people as the Yan called them banded together, creating an unstable element in Yan dynasty.

These unstable elements would surely explode when the right moment appears.

This is something that Mayeux had predicted. And he also has the intention of using this element.

Jayeux then sighed.

He looks back at the parchment on the low table in front of him and he thinks for a while of what he wanted to write.

Then after thinking for a bit, he already have some words he wanted to say and convey.

And even if the Kan might not understand what he is trying to say and what he is trying to hint, Jayeux expected that the Kan would show the Advice to the Kan to his most trusted person.

And the most trusted person by the Kan side is Mayeux, his teacher. And if it is his teacher, Jayeux is rest assured that his teacher would understand what he wanted to do and able to see the hint

Then he put down the writing tools on the bamboo slips and begin writing again.

[To welcome a benevolent lord, a tyrant must first scorch the land. Only then a benevolent rule could be enacted.

Hence, tyranny is necessary for people to known benevolence.

Benevolence of the rule of Yan is not suitable to rule the Steppe and it is for this reason, the "virtue" that the Emperor of Yan tries to impose toward the Steppe people had failed.

If the Kan could listen to my words, rules the Steppe people with discipline and loosen it when necessary, then the Kan would won the support of all tribes and win every battle.

Learn from the Xun, both its strength and its weakness. The people of the Steppe is mobile and did not stay in one place for long, hence the equalization of land is not as effective for the Steppe is the belonging of the tribes of the Steppe]

[Create a banner for which they could fight under you. Point the hatred toward the Yan and the great empires that surrounded the Great Steppe and forget old grudges of the tribe. Unite the Steppe, and the world could be conquered]

[The people of Yan are unruly and they would not accept one that is not their own. Their policy has always been to use barbarians against barbarians.

They underestimate the people of different races. They think that the "barbarians" could not see what they are doing. They do not understand the people of the Steppe and that is why they will and never be able to pacify the Great Steppe. The Five Great Tribes inside the the Yan Wall could be used for the Kan ambition.]

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