Chapter 543: Beginning of the Troubled Tis III [Introduction]
In this era, those who give you food is your benefactor. The concepts of the modern people could not be applied in the ancient tis
One sotis did not understand why certain people betrayed and why certain people be loyal
Because the value of loyalty and the value of their own lives is different from the value of loyalty in the future
In the future, the states and the kingdoms and the governnts all have their own thod of making the people under them be loyal to them while at the sa ti squeezing their people dry
People called these people sheep.
When winning foreign war, the one who won is never the people but always the ruling power.
They would use every trick in the books to justify war so that they could send their own people to war while they reap the profit
In the ancient tis, it is very different. Loyalty must be earned sincerely and those who is charismatic could fight for the world
If you have charisma, you could convince the people. What is the will of heaven? It is nothing more than the will of the people!
Hence, the sayings, you won the people, you won the world!
So simply beco the people of the grassland.
When one enters the grassland, one beco the grassland people and when one enter the Central Plains, one beco Yan.
Hence, so people toiled for the Kan. Simply because the Kan gives them what the Yan dynasty could not give them
And because of that, the farming around the city has prospered, and the city construction has also speeded up.
The city itself is remarkable.
There is bricks and carved stone, there is elegance yet it also serve as so kind of fortification so watchtowers and forts could be seen all around the design of the city.
In so hills there are watchtowers and post stations that have guards guarding it.
If there is a large force that ca without any notice, one could ride the horse and quickly relayed the report to the city.
There is many posts station scattered all over area that the Brolgadhr has influence on.
It is one of the thods of how the Brolgadhr maintain controls over the regions.
If one region is full of rebellion, even before the one in charge of that region could send new to the Brolgadhr city, the news would arrive from the post station.
This post station could also be used by the people that Aeryon had sent to control the regions.
So, it stretches from the furthest border to the nearest large settlents.
And if one region is attacked, then by the next morning the news would already arrived.
The horse are not exhausted because there is post station that could relay the news.
But that is about the post station. What about the city itself?
The capital city
It is no doubt that Aeryon created the city in Brolgadhr because he wanted to make it his capital.
He had always thought that his ancestors picked a great place to set their people down.
It is just a pity that after a few hundred years the Brolgadhr have grown weaker along the years and fell into decline.
Whatever the plans that his ancestors had planned, they clearly picked the right spot to pick as the base.
And now, the city that Aeryon had created take advantage of this great foundation. There is the palace compound
And there is paved roads leading to the palace.
Not all roads have paved roads and there is no plan yet to pave all roads.
But a paved road toward the palace, it added grandeur and majesty to the Kan.
This construction project did not burden the people. There is money to be made, and resources to be given
Aeryon himself had a business caravan under him that travels from the south to the north and sotis to Yan and Yindu.
It is one of the first thing he did when he first got his bounty. The things he did not need he traded.
Then there is the wealth he got from the system.
The more he had such things, the harder it is for him to explain it but by trading it certain things could easily be hidden.
And then it snowball.
The more he trade, the more he gets, the more he gets, the wealthier he beca
It almost felt like he got a system for trading instead for pursuing hegemony.
But hegemony could not be separated from people, weapons and money.
To get weapons and people, money is most important.
Money is just resources at this point of ti.
It is not yet, the era of paper money.
Hard currency like salt, gold, silver and other valuable resources could be traded and sought after
money in this era is not like the paper money in the future. Not to ntion, rchants in many parts of the world is despised.
And Aeryon understood the logic. rchants that is given free rein brings disaster to the world. Even in his modern world, it is the sa. Greed run without a leash is nothing more than like letting a hungry beast roam unsupervised.
It needs a power to cage this greed so it would not harm the people.
Greed is in everyone.
This is true.
But the degree of greed in everyone is also different.
If everyone in the world is greedy, and if that is the true nature of humans, then they would be no monk and wise man that would advocate cutting off the six desires
If everyone is as truly as greedy as so thinkers think, there would be no civilization and there would be no culture.
Because sharing itself is the foundation of any civilization to thrive.
It is only the distorted view of humankind that would lead to such thinking that greed is good.
Desire could not be extinguished but thinking that rampant desire is good is a fallacy.
All the disaster and tragedies of the world has always originated from excessive desire.
Control of oneself is advisable. But if one could control themselves, there must be others to control these dark desires from going rampant.
Hence, Aeryon could understand why many dynasties all around the world put all kinds of restriction to rchants.
Aeryon himself had nothing against rchants. But even he understood that there needs to be a leash to these monsters.
This Yan dynasty is like Han dynasty and there is no yet practice of using paper money. rchants are suppressed and agricultural is prioritized which is the right path considering their situation and culture
And also considering that at this point of ti, paper itself is rare. It would need so advancent and innovation in the creation of paper before paper itself beco accessible to the common people and could be used as a paper money
At the sa ti, it needs a vibrant trading scene for paper money to have an effect.
So, Aeryon uses his resources tow in people
with the resources he have, he uses it to feed the people.
He did not think of hoarding it like so kind of a mythical dragon.
Instead, he uses his own money to spread the money into the city.
Rolling back the money that only he have to the economy that is just begin to germinate in his part of the world.
And he gave it to people who did not have resources before.
Most of his soldiers are poor people and the people who he picks to work for him have nothing, hence giving them resources is the right thing.
Giving it to the people who already have sothing would not added much.
Nobles in the Steppe rarely have to worry about food unless it is during winter.
Even in the most desperate straits, they would still have so food to eat. And they would hoard the resources they have
Hence, why Aeryon practice of even giving his bounties made his n so loyal to him because the practice of the chief taking the lion share of the bounty is prevalent.
Aeryon did it because he never felt attachnt to the resources that he already have.
It is like so people who view money is the most important things.
For a poor people who have little understanding of what money is, they would treat money as the most important thing.
To those who understand it, money is nothing but a dium to get a more permanent asset.
Whether it be land or power, money should be used to do things and not to be hoarded.
Aeryon wanted to be the ruler of the land and those who have ambitions like him would not see the bounty as that important.
It was more important for him to win the hearts of his people and to make his people loyal to him
As long as he has a loyal base, he could do things in this world.
The other chiefs are not idiots.
It is just that their ambition is different.
For so chief, they just wanted to guard one piece of their lands and maintain their lifestyle.
For a chief like this, the bounty of a tribe battle is very important.
Hence, they do not care about the people hearts.
Aeryon who have a higher vision then everyone else of course would not make the sa decision.
It is not that the others were stupid, and Aeryon is like this enlightened being, it is just that the desire is different, so the thods is different.
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I am leaving for so relaxation on so days. But I have stcoked up on the chapter. Hope you like the story
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