Way of Overlord
Chapter 348: Patience Is Necessary To Achieve the Grand Cause

Chapter 348: Patience Is Necessary To Achieve the Grand Cause

Right now, the conflict is still going on.

A year wasted is a year late to unify.

So, not all measures could be implemented perfectly and there would be mistakes and there would be errors.

But they must do the best they can with the circumstances that they are in.

The measure that Aeryon wanted to establish was the system of checks and balances.

Double agents to monitor loyalty and have severe consequence for betrayal to deter disloyalty.

A lot like a secret Internal Affair department.

But Mayeux proposed that this department should not be established fully at this moment.

All of this takes time.

It is not like a game where you built and agency and then next day, there is already qualified personnel.

All of this takes time.

It is the same for the spy agency and the same for the department surrounding it.

Not only it needs time, it also need resources.

And then there is the infrastructure that needed to be there for these spy thing to even succeed

There needs to be at least safe houses

A network of this places.

Of course, this is the Steppe.

There is not many houses but more tents than houses.

These all needed to be step up.

Safe places for the spies and informant along the major trade route and within rival territories.

Aeryon also thinks that since safe houses could not be established, he just needed to modify it a bit.

Since they are a nomadic tribe, he could use the nomadic mobility to his advantage by having movable bases of operations.

It suits the Steppe even better

Aeryon doubts anyone in the Southern Steppe right now is even thinking of building a spy agency.

Most of their spies are still in the stone age.

There is no true organization.

Aeryon knows better than most if these spies could be coordinated, given a direction, the burst of power that they could give the frontline would be immeasurable.

Knowledge is power.

These words are not empty words.

There is other measures that Aeryon would roll out after the first batch of spy is produced.

One of them is secret communications.

At first Aeryon himself wanted to develop these secure methods of communication but after a few days, he gave up.

Not because it is that hard for him but because he found out he did not have enough time.

He could not train; he could not focus on other things and it is a waste of his energy to do it when he could order someone else to do it

And of course, the only one he could think of is Mayeux.

Mayeux himself is trying to find someone lese so that he could focus on some other work.

Aeryon realized that he might have put too much plate in Mayeux plate.

And it is burdening him.

But Aeryon did not find many talents that veered toward administrative duties.

Maybe if he met more Roma people he could use the Roma people , as bad as they are recognized when an enemy could surpass them and they also lacks certain of the hatred that Yan people have toward the people of the Steppe

This is people that they could work with.

There is still some of his ideas that he did not yet present.

Maybe he did not even need to present it.

Mayeux sometimes sent him reports and it is clear that he understand that information gathering is important.

It is not only important to him but also to Mayeux himself.

As a strategist, what he relied on to create effective strategy is information.

Why would he hate it.

He just didn’t like creating this agency because it would take too much time.

From what Aeryon could see he could tell that Mayeux knows how to start with the information gathering

Some of it is old method that has been tested true and proven since a long time and that is integrate information gathering with trade.

Aeryon was not the first that did such a thing but he was the first to organize it and expand this method.

Utilizing merchants and traders as sources of information. They are like a walking information brokers.

They travel widely and interact with various groups and they would know the pulse of that tribe.

Whether they were confident, scared, whether the confidence of their chief is real, or the perceived image of the tribe and the enemy.

All of this could be inquired by the merchants. Een fi they did not inquire it; these merchants could tell a lot of thing when they got to a tribe.

Other option for information gathering also includes local intelligence, locals who are familiar with the rival warlord’s territory to gather specific details about terrain, supplies, and troop movements.

And then form a small team of trusted advisors to analyse gathered intelligence and provide strategic recommendations.

Out of these three steps, the last step is the hardest

"All of this could wait after the first batch of spies come out" Aeryon thought. It is not that he could wait. He had no other choice but to wait.

Aeryon does however wanted Mayeux to rush on certain parts of the spies agency. For this, they have to use their current spies.

It is counter espionage. Misinformation campaign, to mislead rival spies and create confusion and internal surveillance.

Since the agency is not yet created, for now, this kind of task is put on the spies that they have just acquired.

Aeryon knows he would set himself up for failure if he tries to do all of this by himself so most of his work is delegated to Mayeux

The good thing about having a capable subordinate is that you could delegate power and responsibility without worrying too much

There is many modern knowledge of spies he wanted to integrate with the new spies agency after it is created.

This is the second step for him to dominate the Southern Great Steppe. First, used diplomacy.

Then make sure there is spy agency that could train spies.

Third is the use of force. Capture key resources, subdue the enemy quickly and maintain low casualties.

These are all connected to equipment and training of the soldiers.

To expect uniformed discipline like modern army is absurd but Aeryon had noticed that the people of Steppe is a born fighter.

The more they fight, the longer they survive the battlefield, the faster they become more powerful

Even Yan use these kind of technique of pig charge. Basically, just people charging each other and fighting to the death

The one that survives become an elite. But that is not what Aeryon wanted for his soldiers. He wanted them to survive.

As long as the armour is sufficient, the weapons is sharp, the enemies would die and his people would survive.

And as they go through more and more battle, they would become more and more disciplined and cultivate an invincibility aura.

It is the belief that they would not die. Invincible.

As long as there is this belief even an impossible situation could be turned around.

Aeryon noticed that when the morale is low the battle line falls even more easily.

But if they actually held on, and maintain a belief that they could tide through it, they could always turns back around and stage a comeback.

Aeryon sees it many times when he was fighting the tribes.

If only they could muster some kind of discipline, they could have won.

Aeryon himself know that to create any kind of discipline like the one in modern army would require a professional army. Which he could not create right now.

That would require a powerful centralized authority and at the same time educated people. No matter how strong he is and how powerful his influence is Aeryon knows that this kind of thing had to be taken step by step.

One by one. Reform must be done but it should not be done rashly.

It did not mean that Aeryon wanted to slow down the reform but not doing two at the same time.

There is many things you could multitask in this world.

However, if the thing you wanted to multitask, is changing how the world works, touching the interest of many people, changing lives and everything that is familiar to the common people, what you should not do is multitask this thing

If you want to reform the military, reform the military and focus on it. Finished doing that reform the economy.

So on and so forth.

One step at a time

As he keep reforming and the effect of these reform started to show, Aeryon believe that this strength would accumulate and added to the comprehensive strength of his tribe

He did not need to worry about it. He does not need to be impatient about it. He did not need to be rash about it. Taking on step at a time did not mean that it is slow. What is more slower is if he rashly implement so many reforms at the same time

Nothing good would happen when one is rash in doing things like this. If because of his rashness, these reforms failed to show its effect, these reforms would be abandoned or had to be scrapped

That would mean all the efforts and time invested in the atter is a waste. Then that would take even more time.

Mayeux reminded him of this.

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