Way of Overlord
Chapter 359: Karma

Chapter 359: Karma

Aeryon did not find much doctor even among the Yan people slave.

It is rumoured that Roma slave has many medical expertise. But Roma slave could only be bought from the north.

Just like Yan people did not venture far to the Northern Great Steppe, the Roman people had never even reached the Central Great Steppe.

So, he wanted to compile medical studies and create a medicine corps for his tribe. Ashana alone is not enough

There is many other things he wanted to do but could not like education and cultural preservations. Culture and race and all of this is important so that when eh conquers people later, he could use these to quickly pacify the conquered region

He did not want to repeat the same mistake of the Yuan dynasty nor is he content in just conquering the Great Steppe.

But the welfare project would mostly be injected into entrepreneurial support.

Aeryon wanted to provide small amounts of capital to individuals or group that shows promise in creating new business or craft.

In other words, Arion wanted to kickstart the merchant class in his tribe.

There is merchants in his tribe, and while their position is not as humiliating as it is in Yan, it is not that high either.

And Aeryon himself did not want the merchant class to be one of the highest class in the tribe.

Business wanted profit.

And that is good.

But business also ignores morale and humanity.

And living like that is not living at all.

It only benefited one percent and sacrifice ninety nine percent of people. If that is not hell of earth, then Aeryon does not know what hell is.

Heaven is only for those one percent and they are so good at using their powers to convince the rest of the ninety percent that they live in heaven and not hell.

Aeryon believes that the merchants could be raised but could not be raised too high and as a class must be controlled so that their power does not touch the royal power.

The merchant benefited the world and the ruler keep them in check and the people and the ruler should have one mind and one heart in this matter.

At least before he died, he would want to create a countermeasure against the usurpation of this class so that it would not lead to the disintegration of the empire.

This is only a few of the things that Aeryon wanted to do.

Some of it Aeryon has already done and some of it is in the backburner.

Right now, he is also stimulating trade by using his resources to promote trade both within the tribe and the neighbouring tribe

And he is also stimulating trade on the vassal tribes.

He has many resources but not all the small tribes under him has many resources. Duhai tribe and Zlata tribes for example is trading with his tribe extensively.

They want food and Aeryon wanted labour and at the same time strengthening the Zlata and Duhai tribe is conducive to his rule in the west.

Not to mention the loyalty of that tribe has risen.

With the money and resources entering the market, there is more marketplace in the city and there is even more caravans and partnership with the small tribes create a virtuous cycle for his tribe where they rely on his tribe and not before long, they would then surrender under his banner.

And the other way he inject the economy with money is by creating large scale projects. One of them is this city.

And in this city, there must be roads, there must fortifications, irrigation systems and all of this create jobs, stimulate the economy but at the same time also improve the entire tribe capacity for war and defence.

And there are some encouragement of development of craft and technology.

Some of it is through the welfare system. Some of it is by patronage by him. Funding directly the artisans, the blacksmiths, the engineer

Not only could they probably find something new and research something new, this diversify the tribe economy and create new avenues for wealth generation

Aeryon is in the opinion that if one day, the martial spirit is gone, and it is a problem that would plague any empire that established itself with martial virtues

It is that when the world is peaceful, people become lax.

And the more prosperous an empire is, the more it become weak. It is a truth that is shared by all empires. Prosperity in both life and military is rare.

Not to mention, when people are born in harsh environut the stronger they become. But if these wolves are tamed, then it is like a dog.

What is the solution to maintain small army but be able to enjoy prosperity without decadence. The culture is one. But the other one is overwhelming advantage in technology.

Of course, Aeryon understood that not everything would go according to plan.

But he at least have a plan.

Encourage craftsmanship and innovation, monetary distribution, share prosperity regulate wealth

Not all of the people of the tribe is able to fight.

The old, the children who is just a few years old, and the people who engage in production.

Most if not all people of the Great Steppe could fight.

But not all.

There is always farmers and there is others that did not know how to fight.

And when Aeryon said that these people did not know how to fight, it did not mean that they did not know how to wield a sword.

In this era, in this Great Steppe, even a five-year-old child knows how to wield a sword and swings it.

What Aeryon mean is warriors that is not afraid to charge and not afraid to die, ones that could fight in life and death battle.

Aeryon might be leaning toward militancy at this moment, but he also knows to pay attention to the people of his tribe.

He uses force against his enemies and uses the combination of both force and benefit to make sure that his people hearts are with him

So, that nobody in his tribe wanted him to fall and all would want him to rise higher.

The higher he goes, the more benefit he could give them, the stronger the people, the stronger the army.

Aeryon redistribute his wealth to the people by using construction program, and relief for work program

But, there is a limit to the construction. Too much and it is a waste. Now, he needs more war to feed the treasury.

Maybe later when his rule is more stable he would create a castle.

And if he wanted to create a castle, he would create near the river, near the Central Great Steppe and not here in the Southern Great Steppe.

But even though he is not building a castle right now, the residence has many empty space marked for him.

If there is one thing that the Steppe did not lack, it is land.

Like the sea, only a sea of grass and occasional streams of the water of the Empatarah River.

The space is marked for development so that if he wanted to expand his residence, he could easily afford the space.

There is granary and warehouse that belongs to him and there is granary and warehouse that belongs to the city.

Even though the city seems grand to the people of his tribe, he had seen larger city in his life and this to him is just the standard of a small city.

"Later" he mutters to himself.

Aeryon believe if he was not transmigrated into a chaotic era, he would be very good at expanding the city and creating things

He likes the kingdom building more than kingdom conquering. But he is born in a chaotic era and an era of great contention, in an era that lacks any human rights

It is a violent era.

"Focus on the good news" he thought to himself. He shakes his head like he wanted to clear his mind from all disturbing thoughts.

Aeryon had heard many good news these past couple of days.

There is many caravans of warriors that would go down to the south and unite with the Songnu and Sirong people to create chaos all over the northern region of Yan.

They capture Yan people, men and women.

The young was captured and the old is killed.

The woman is also brought back.

When they go down to the south, many more were killed than they were enslaved. In the past, they would surely have slaughtered everyone.

The hatred of the Yan is instilled by many people of the Great Steppe. They did not forget how the Yan people slaughter their people, create mounds of skull all over the Great Steppe.

Huo Qubing.

His soldiers kills many tribes of the Great Steppe.

Whether they were innocent or not is irrelevant.

To the eyes of the Yan people, the people of the Steppe, the people of Sirong, Songnu and the rest of them, Xianbei, Jie, Qiang Di are all an inferior race and should be exterminated like cockroaches.

Hence, the people of the Great Steppe did not have mercy for the people of the Yan.

What goes around comes around.

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