Way of Overlord
Chapter 261: Uniting The Hearts

Chapter 261: Uniting The Hearts

Mayeux himself is a very opportunistic and selfish person. But he also has a conscience and he also has feelings and hearts

Aeryon convinces him. Convinces him that he, a person who could be very selfish, would sacrifice his life for him

This shows how great the Kan charisma that he could even convinces someone like him to die for him.

But, even though the Kan never hides thing from him, there are some things that the Kan did not say but he could deduce it.

The Kan did not say it but Mayeux is confident that the Kan ambition probably would not end with just uniting the Great Steppe.

This could be seen on how much care he gave to the Yan and the Western Zhou.

One of the reasons why his Kan wanted to go to the west is also because the Western Zhou.

There was another alternative method to strengthen the tribe and then unify the Steppe.

It is something that he had once debated with his lord.

But none could convince the other.

And that is after uniting the Southern Great Steppe, instead of attacking the Central region of the Steppe and making the entire Great Steppe alarmed, they should focus their attack on western Zhou, unifying the tribe in heart, ask for a Qurultai and lead an expedition toward the Western Zhou.

Using the slogan of "Retaking back the Land of the Steppe" the Brolgadhr tribe could become the leader of the expedition weakening the Western Zhou and then when the objective of the expedition is accomplished and the other tribe retreated back to their region Aeryon simply need to send an invasion force to take Western Zhou that has been weakened

Then they only need to wait for a few years, consolidate the forces, make sure the food is ready and then using this accumulated force to sweep all resistance in the Steppe, finally accomplishing the might feat of unifying the Steppe

This is another strategy that is considered by them when they were thinking about how to quickly unify the Great Steppe and make sure that it could successfully accomplished.

Bu since the west is not yet pacified, this plan is just a barebone plans.

Because while it is exciting to talk about such thing on appear, the truth is, they did not yet know much about Western Zhou. How many people is there in Western Zhou, how would their military power would be when they are tested to the limit, and whether they could pacify the Western Zhou as fast as possible

All of this factors that made them scrapped that plan for the time being. Only if they managed to take the west, they would revisit this idea again

Until then, they would maintain their current objective.

But it is clear that his Kan not only pay attention to Western Zhou and have ambition of conquering it, he is also look at Yan. And from there, Mayeux could tell the ambition of his lord

His ambition lies in the world. And not only in the Great Steppe. Yan. Western Zhou, probably Roma and Yindu too.

But his Kan is also realistic.

Yan is weakened right now.

But not weakened enough.

And before uniting the Great Steppe, any moves toward any foreign nations need to exercise with caution. Nurshira on the other hand is different.

It is the fact that is teeming with people of different tribes and the control of the imperial government rarely extend that far away toward the north that Aeryon could successfully create an expedition and won the battle

Aeryon take this opportunity of the weakening Yan forces to plunder the north of Yan and this would create custom for the other tribes to plunder Yan dynasty.

But the main objective has always been to unite the Great Steppe, accumulate a powerful force and them mowed everything that is in their way.

This is the path of Overlord that Mayeux had crafted for Aeryon. Using Force to conquer the whole world, using mercy and benevolence to pacify the world.

Even though the conquering is harsh and cruel, Mayeux had formulated a strategy to pacify the world after the conquest.

Using war to enrich the nation, the richness is used to then consolidate power and make sure that the dynasty of his lord would last.

There is a principle of force, but also a principle of benevolence.

The benevolence that Mayeux speak about is not the same kind of benevolence that those scholars in Yan always preached about

But the end result would be the same

A prosperous world, a stable world, the people is happy, the ruler is good. It is an ideal world.

Mayeux of course understand that under man, nothing last forever.

But it would not be hard for the dynasty to last for a few hundred years if there is no large natural disaster.

But Jayeux held a different view. Since the Kan has already embarked in the Overlord path, he should be forceful. Conquer the world, and rule with the law

The law must benefit the people of the Great Steppe.

Why?

Because this is the base of the Kan power.

What about the people?

The people.

What use is it to the Great Steppe dynasty that the Kan is trying to build?

Aeryon uses the Marynku people and from what Jayeux understand from what his teacher told him, the Kan would also use the Ashran and the Eresian.

Since that is the case, this is the base power of the Kan. The power of the Great Steppe to conquer the world

And to unite these people, what should you do? Preach to them that uniting with each other is the best way to survive?

Persuade them to relinquish their power and give it to the most capable person?

No.

None of this could unite the people of the Great Steppe. Preaching to them will not work because there is interest involved.

How could those chief would tore down their own legacy and just give it to someone else?

Preaching does not work.

Persuade them to relinquish power? With what? A mouth? The Steppe respect the strong.

In the end, it is only through force that one could unite all of these people. Strength demanded respected and respect could easily turns into awe.

But that alone would not be enough to truly unite the Steppe.

Because the use of force could unite territories, could unite land, and could unite the ruling powers but it could not unite the hearts

The hearts of the people also needs to be united if Aeryon is to embark on the desire to conquer the world

Jayeux also admire the Kan because the Kan knows how to use the people under him

And he knows the pulse of the people under him.

The method that Jayeux think of is uniting against a common enemy.

And who is the common enemy of the Great Steppe?

The Western Zhou? Yindu? Roma?

No.

None of them

Do the people of the Great Steppe have conflict with these empires and nations? They do.

But it is not to the point of hatred that spans generation.

There is only one group of people that satisfied the prerequisite to become the unifying force of the Great Steppe

The Yan people.

The Western Zhou attacked the people of the Great Steppe. And the people of the Great Steppe also attacked the people of Western Zhou.

This battle has also been going on for a few hundred years. But there is also cooperation. There is an understanding There is also mixing of blood.

There is intermarriages between the people of Western Zhou and the people of the Great Steppe.

There is even times when they lived peacefully with each other until a certain faction of Xia obsessed people that would talk about the purity of blood of the Xia people

Before the Yan dynasty, there was another dynast before them called Xia. So, the people at that time called themselves the people of Xia.

It isn’t until Yan ruled the world for hundreds of years that most people called themselves Yan people

However, the Western Zhou people has never called themselves the people of Yan. After all, it splits against Xun during the contention between Yan and Chu.

Western Zhou is the successor of the Zhou state during the Spring and Autumn Period.

But there was never a case where the people of Western Zhou rides toward the Great Stpepe, slaughter the people of Great Steppe without sparing the young and old and create mountain of skulls, rpped the woman of the Great Steppe and use the skull of babies as their drinking cup

What about the Roma?

The Roma enemies has always been the northern great steppe where the snow falls and the land is white.

They also never reach so far into the Great Steppe. Their conflict is merely in the north and most part of the Great Steppe did not feel the threat of Roma.

As for Yindu, the mountains between them prevented any conceit.

All three of these nations did not invoke enough feeling for every person of the great Steppe to hate.

But Yan?

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