420: Limitations of the Ti 420: Limitations of the Ti Genghis Khan created the foundation in which his sons and grandsons would use to then conquer the world Genghis Khan is a military commander that rise from nothing.
He is not like Alexander the Great who has his father to pave the way for him.
Alexander started off with a very powerful and capable military that was perfectly poised for conquest.
Thanks to Philip, when Alexander assud the throne, the military machine is well oiled to perfection This is not to deny Alexander the Great many military brilliance but to not credit his father for his earlier conquest and at which he could quickly expand is disingenuous Genghis Khan is not like these other military leaders that have everything handed to them He had to be the one that created it.
A trial of right and errors He created his own thod of managent.
And promoting people based on rit and not nobility is a revolutionary concept to the world back then Even when, when Aeryon is the one doing it, he knows how revolutionary it is.
He knows it from the loyalty of his n.
Even now, in Yan dynasty, only the scholar class controls the promotion and upward social class.
One could basically say that the battle of these warlords is nothing but the battle of aristocratic families.
Genghis Khan, in his world, in the Steppe, where everything had to be found out by himself, he innovated and even included both technology and skilled people into his army Not based on pedigree but rit He did not mind his enemies serving under him and trusted them Mongols did not start as the pinnacle of military excellence.
Genghis modified his army and his way of governing people as he grow more experienced and more powerful But the real edge that Genghis Khan tribe have over other steppe tribes was that, his tribe have self-cohesion Granted it ant everyone having to get together and hash out their differences when the khan dies but at least the empire survives and did not fracture like the empire of Alexnader which fractures almost imdiately after his death The fracture of Genghis khan empire took a long ti and if any of those rulers have enough strength, the empire of Genghis would have lasted even longer And in shirty even though the Yuan fell in the Central Plains, the remnants of the Mongol empire stills rules in other parts of the world.
Aeryon wanted to be better.
Better than Genghis.
He wanted to cut short the ti he needed to unite the Steppe.
He wanted to create a better world, sothing that Genghis Khan probably did not have in mind when he started conquering and pillaging all over the world “This is because the limitation of their tis” Aeryon mutters to himself while sighing Genghis, no matter how brilliant he is as a statesman and as a strategist, a governor and a king, or an emperor, he is constrained by the ideas of the ti He beca all of the way history described him not because he wanted to create a better world or benefit the people of the world, or bring peace or any of those value stuff.
Because those values are not the values of a Mongol warriors.
Genghis is born in harsh situation and the way he treated life, he treated it harshly.
And so, it brought about a generation of harsh n Aeryon is basically replicating many of Genghis Khan thod.
But his way, and Genghis Khan way is different He wanted to create sothing else.
The legacy he wanted to leave the world…would be a shining one.
That even if one day, he falls, people would want to emulate him.
Aeryon sighed.
“I have too many dreams” But he smiles.
Before, these dreams are unattainable.
But now, now he sees the path to where this dream could be realized and that is good enough for him He put down the report and close his eyes for a second.
He massages it a back Then opening it back up he took another report but he only needs to read one line o the report and he put the report back down.
All of the reports around him are mostly military report.
The report itself is very unprofessional.
But it get the gist of the information that he needed to know and that is the most important part “What should I do with the Nogai tribe?” He sighed when thinking about this tribe.
It’s not that he didn’t know what to do.
It is more like he is thinking about what is the best course of action to take and how to take it Norgai son of Baha the chief of the Nogai tribe had surrendered to him.
Surrender.
This is what shocked him.
He did not even attack Nogai tribe and he is not even planning to attack But Norgai co to him, saying that he wanted to speak to him Aeryon at that ti is quite wary.
Norgai co with his soldiers but he is not coming to attack him At that ti, it is reasonable for Aeryon to be suspicious.
After all, Norgai is the neighbour of the Wustkazan on the north Aeryon thought that Norgai co to him to know what he is planning next or maybe to persuade him to stop or maybe even to threaten him He was ready for all this What he was not ready about was that when they talk to each other, Aeryon got the feeling that Norgai did not have an of those intention Instead, Norgai shocked him by kneeling down to him and bow his head towards him and loudly proclaid that he would like to follow him in creating immortal achievent It took him so ti to make sense of that scene in his mind before he finally understand that Norgai was surrendering to him And the next mont, he felt joy.
This is the first ti that soone surrendered even before fighting with him.
It is sothing that he wanted form the tribes of the Great Steppe for a long ti Even Durka fight with him first before surrendering to him.
As for Khagai tribe, he is more of a shareholders believing in his vision and submitting to him in that kind of capacity like a partner But…this is the first sti a chief lowered themselves to truly submit to him.
“And that has delayed ” Aeryon mutters as he shakes his head.
This is what happened a few days ago.
And this is the reason why he is still in the Wustkazan region and did not return to Brolgadhr tribe.
Aeryon has think for many days on how to treat the Nogai tribe.
And what he decided on was to honour him.
Aeryon actually has been waiting for such a person to a papers.
If these chief knows the situation and quickly surrender to him before fighting, it would not only save ti, it would save resources and the lives of his n.
The only reason why Aeryon find it hard was that the chief never surrender even if the circumstance is against them.
Even as small tribe would want to fight his generals before surrendering It is like this convention and ritual that has to be perford before the surrender could be done.
In the eyes of the surrendering tribe, if they surrender without a fight, they would be looked down upon by their conquerors.
It is also a way of showing their fighting spirit to their conqueror.
Yan people and Roma people would not understand this Even Aeryon did not understand this.
In his world, the Steppe people might fight to the end but there is no such ritual before surrender.
When an overwhelming force is about to smash you down, the people of the Steppe in his original world would always surrender.
When Genghis Khan co to your small tribe with ten thousand horsen behind him, the chief would quickly surrender But in this world sothing very different is happening.
If you brought tens of thousands of horsen, while they do have the desire to surrender, they have to finish this ritual firs.
They would ask for a duel, asking for a great warrior of the conquering tribe to fight with their tribe warrior.
The battle would not be to the death And that is when the force is truly have a great gap.
If it did not have a large gap, then, a few battle would be executed before the loser surrender This is wasting ti in Aeryon eyes.
But he alone could not change the culture.
He could just slaughtered any enemies like this but that would only create more resistance.
But if he started doing this, he would not be able to stop The resistance to his rule would beco even harder and wherever he goes, he would eb resisted.
It would not be like it is today, where the tribes would thought to surrender.
This is the difference in policy of treatnt of the defeated soldiers that differentiate chief like Aeryon and chief like Dama.
>> CREATORS’ THOUGHTS Keikokumars Aeryon and Dama would have to sqaure off soday.
If so of you have a hint of what jayeux is planning and why he is helping Aeryon instead of Dama, feel free to comnt
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