Way of Overlord
Chapter 360: Win-Win Situation

Chapter 360: Win-Win Situation

There is many chief in the Southern Great Steppe in the past who declares that if they ever reach the Central Plains, they would burn all of their cities and kills all of the Yan people so that they would experience the pain, the screams and the despair of the innocent lives that the people of the Steppe had experienced before.

Not all tribes of the Great Steppe was combative against the Yan people in the past.

But Huo Qubing expedition and the Emperor Wu disregard of the people lives of the Great Steppe has instilled this hatred that will never disappear even after hundreds of years.

An Ashana once foretold, that one day, five great tribes would come down to the south and the people of Yan would face despair like they never felt before.

They would be enslaved and they would reap what they have sown. Hatred does not eradicate hatred.

Love eradicate hatred.

And since what Yan felt for other races is only hate, then hate would be their doom.

Now, that the Yan empire is in chaos, warlords rising all over, the imperial court is weak, the people of Yan hiring barbarian people, the opportunity is ripe.

In the story, it was also like this.

The barbarian people occupies the north in the story that Aeryon had read before he was transmigrated into this world.

But there was never an attack from the Steppe deep into the Yan dynasty and when Xiahou Cao managed to gain power in the north, he subdues the barbarians tribes and lead these tribes to die for him.

That is because, Aeryon was not there in the story.

There was no Aeryon that leads a coalition of four tribes to attack Nurshira and sound the death knell for the myth of invincibility of the Yan soldiers.

But in this new story, Aeryon leads three allied tribes to Nurshira, broke the city, hoarded gold and resources, captures countless slaves and kills tens of hounds of people of Yan and broke the image of the invincibility of the soldiers of Yan, the story changes completely.

Not only Aeryon shows that the army of the Yan dynasty is weak, he also shows that the risk is appropriate for the reward.

There is many riches more than they expected.

Now, rather than being the slave of some other tribes, if a tribe is ambitious enough and could create a coalition among other small tribe and raid the norther side of Yan, they could even have the chance to become strong and famous in the Steppe.

Ayron show them benefit

The risk is there. But the benefit is bigger.

To the clan of warriors that usually fight among themselves, they are now united.

On the Southern Great Steppe, the trend of unification is already there. Small tribes that did not want to be assimilated into the large tribes that is carving their realm in the Southern Great Steppe choose to attack the Yan dynasty northern region.

And when one goes, and returns with great rewards and bounty, it inspires more of them to go.

The north of Yan is a chaotic place and the imperial court did not have the manpower to gather people to attack the scattered warrior clans that is attacking all over the northern region.

Since they are not unified, they are decentralized.

And even if you defeated one of the warrior clans horsemen that is an attacking on one region, on the other side of the north, there is other Great Steppe warrior clans that is making havoc.

The Wall of Yan is already a thing of the past as the area of the wall is controlled by these warriors clans that camp around the area of the wall and inside the wall.

Yes, after Aeryon passes through the Wall of Yan he not only stationed one unit inside the wall, he also allow other tribes that wanted to raid the Yan to garrisoned there and make camp there.

Some small tribes that did not want to be involved in the great battle between competing warlords in the Southern Great Steppe all goes South and make a new home in the northern region of Yan

It is what Aeryon want.

The northern region of Yan should be the home of the Great Steppe people

It should return to the people of the great Steppe.

And with many more people of the Greta Steppe going there, it would be easier for Aeryon if he ever go down south in the future.

In the past, if there is such a large force of the Great Steppe people entrenched in the northern region of the Yan empire and they raid vial legs and cities, none of the people of Yan would be spared.

But nowadays, even if the people of the Great steppe attack or raid a village or cities, they would not kill all of the people there.

Instead, they would send it back to the Great Steppe.

For the imperial court of Yan, they simply categorized the barbarians as people that lives outside of the Wall of Yan or out of the reach of their influence.

Aeryon take all of these Yan people into his fold.

Most of these Yan people that lives in the north does not even know who the emperor is and their loyalty toward the empire is not like in the future where nationalism is strong

Even though the Yan empire is an imperial bureaucracy, the power of the Emperor is actually very limited

Hence there is a saying that the power of the emperor did not extend to the countryside. This is not yet an era where the state has all the power over its citizen.

And the people knows who are good and knows who are bad to them.

The scholars might like to take all the good things and attribute it to the emperor, but the people desire and hearts is not the same as the scholars.

They know who is good to them and who is bad to them.

Scholars could change books, change history, lie to the world, covers the heaven with their words, but the people living in that reality knows whether the words in the book are lies or truth

The scholars could turn black to white, white to black, but that is only on paper.

The people living in that reality knows that just because you turns it black, does not mean it is black. Just because you turn it white, doesn’t mean it is white.

They live in that black and white world.

And they know better which is black and which is white.

And loyalty, and all of those virtues that those scholars likes to spew out from their mouth is not as precious as food and a chance to live to see tomorrow.

Poor people could not afford to think of those great cause and great ambition of those princes.

There is someone that "Ask not what your country can do for you but what can you do for your country"

Is there any quote more manipulative and exploitative like this.

Work for the country, for the wealth of the rulers, for the class who benefit from the system of this exploitation, and ask not your country to be responsible.

Push the common folk to work for a system without questioning if the system goat their back.

A one-way street, where the State extract all the benefit of the people they should have sworn to protect.

Being too busy being the "good citizens" it discourage wise people from calling out when things aren’t right.

This quote only benefit the few at the top, oppress the common folk

In the end, the one who would become the flesh that rotted on the roadside would be the body of the common people while the noble people would get the credit.

Xiahou Cao is like this, and Dugu Yi is also like this. Jiang Bei is probably the only one among them that truly cares about the people.

Since the Yan people did not want these people, and only treated them like pawns and disposable meat, Aeryon would give them something to live for and something to strive forward.

Most of them is taken to Aeryon and Aeryon would reward the people that send slaves to him and his tribe with gold, and food and other resources

Aeryon got many resources not only from the system but also from other tribes.

And the Tayak and the sheep’s that he have now is more than before because of some modern method of rearing them that Aeryon had tried.

Aeryon wanted population. Without population, he could not do anything. The rulers that is fighting all over the Yan dynasty did not realize it yet.

Population brings problems but without population those who wanted to conquer could not conquer the world

With population, one could raise an army and move the economy.

And these people of Yan could build houses, could farm and if their loyalty is high enough, Aeryon would create a foreign division of the army.

And that is why, the warrior tribes that raided the Yan region no longer kills all of the people of Yan

Instead, they look at the people of Yan, like they look at free money.

What those warrior clans wanted is resources, What Aeryon wanted is power.

With power, he would get resources.

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