Way of Overlord Chapter 584: The Power of Food

Chapter 584: The Power of Food

Yes, it was only after Aeryon learns of the origin of this person, only then he understood why that person would give him such loyalty

In the ancient tis, food is power. What is the heart of the people? Food!

As long as you have food, you could win the hearts of the people. And winning the hearts of the people is winning the world.

These farrs that he had bought are also not ordinary farrs. Many of them are ordinary farrs but the farr that have bow and kneel to him co from a Shennong sect.

It is one of the one hundred school of thoughts during the ti of Xun dynasty

That farr who kneels and worship him ca from the Shennong sect. The Shennong sect dwindled during the ti of Xun where Legalist scholars hold powers

It has so opportunity of resurgence during the reign of Jiang Han who advocated Huang Lao doctrine but fell into obscurity again during the ti of Emperor Wu of Yan

Most of the studies of the Shennong sect is about agriculture and plants. But their earnest desire, a wish of the sages of the Shennong sect is to make the people full and not hungry again

Aeryon himself did not know much about this sect so when he learned of it, he summons this farr

This farr is called Xu Yan, and he was a descendant of the Shennong sect. He learns a lot of farming technique from his grandfather and have the teaching of the Shennong sect about land, terrains, seeds, plants and herbs of all kinds

It is a pity that the Shennong sect decline and this practical knowledge of the Shennong sect is not look favourably by the people of great power.

And Xu Yan himself is not a famous person in the world, and he is a poor farr. he did not have the desire to spread Shennong teaching because just living for himself is hard enough

But this did not an he abandoned the teachings of his ancestors and the sect.

Instead, he practices it since he was young and never dare forget it

Even in his village, he is the farr everyone asks for when they are choosing a place to farm or when their farm have a problem

He is a wise man of the village, the person they would go to when there is in infestation on their farm or when their livestock’s have illness.

Xu Yan admitted to Aeryon that if nothing happened to him, he would just pass down this thod of farming to his sons and future generation in his family.

In other words, even though he does practice Shennong teachings in his life, he himself never desire to revitalize the sect.

Because he knows there is no one that wanted to listen and the more knowledge he has, the more dangerous life is for him.

The knowledge is all manipulated by the noble family

Out of the many inventions in the world, how many of it is the noble family taking credit for so poor young person in the world?

There is too many.

Knowledge that he has is like a precious jade. He is poor and have no power. Having the precious jade itself in the eyes of those powerful people is a sin

Xu Yan said he did not learn the thod of governing the country or the thod of governing the people or learns the thod of the School of Horizontal and Vertical Alliance, learning the thods of intrigues and scheming of officials but even he could see that the chaotic era is about to co

In his eyes, in chaotic tis, the one who has more food would be able to conquer the world.

So, when he saw the miracle of the vegetable he could not help but feel that if the Kan could plant all these fruits all over the world, he could conquer the world.

And he becos devoted and loyal to Aeryon as long as Aeryon could give this rcy to the world. Aeryon was astounded by this display of loyalty, and he ask back

“Did you care that I am the people of the Steppe?”

Xu Yan said he did not care.

People in Yan dies under the blade of the bandits or the taxes of the empire.

Every ti an empire falls, it is rely because the internal problem has reached a tipping point.

It is not because of one person mistake or one person greatness that allows great empire to fall

It is the internal organs that is suffering and so, the pillars are rotten and rotten pillars is the easiest to break

That is his explanation.

Aeryon when he heard about this could not help but agree and at the sa ti knows that this Xu Yan, a re farr knows so many things and infer many things, and he is wiser than most scholars in the world

So scholars think that the Yan dynasty could still be saved. Xu Yan did not hold that hope because he has lost hope for the empire

He sees thing more clearly than the other people and it is precisely because of this; smart people are always depressed.

He sees things clearly, but everyone is in a dream

Xu Yan could see that the Yan dynasty is about to end

“Not a common person” Aeryon thought to himself. The reason Aeryon did all of this, daring to be the first to try to unite the people is none other than because he believes that the Yan empire is weak and could not spare enough energy to deal with them in the north

His entire plan is predicated in the Yan dynasty is weak.

The “barbarians” would ride through the pass and cleanse the world of the Yan dynasty and the old killings of Huo Qubing toward the people of the Steppe and the people of Xianbei, Songnu and others would be avenged in a way the Yan dynasty would understand

If not the Brolgadhr people bringing it down, it would be the Xianbei.

If not the Xianbei, it would be the Songnu, if not the Songnu it is the Nanman

If not that, they would kill themselves and, in the end, it would still be them taking that land.

Aeryon see the world not belonging to one ethic group.

The world itself belongs to everyone.

The ambition of emperor always wanted them to grab more lands believing that having more lands ans having more power.

The power of the world lies in mastering the truth of the world and the rules of law of nature.

Using the power of thunder to create fire, using the power of water to cut through stone.

The bigger the land, the bigger the problem. Uniting the land does not an uniting the heart, uniting the hearts doesn’t an the hearts could not be divided

The fall of Yan dynasty is not only because the emperor is incompetent, but also the accumulation of many ills.

The current emperor is the unlucky one to be born under such adversity.

And the people did not benefit anything.

Whether the imperial army regains back the world, whether the nobles regain the world, whether the barbarian army invade the world, the common people would always suffer.

Xu Yan sees this as nothing more than that and he could not change these things.

His knowledge is not about fighting for the world or defending the world.

All he wanted, all his sect ever wanted was a ruler who could make the people not suffer the pain of hunger.

Xu Yan himself experience great famine when he was young, and he knew how terrible hunger really is.

He had experienced eating tree bark and eating mud and grass to relieve hunger

He had seen how bloated the belly of a child dying of starvation and he had seen how callous the officials of the yan dynasty treated human lives.

The Yellow Turban rebellion is called a rebellion that is evil by the governnt. But Xu Yan himself did not think it was evil

If you oppress the people, and supress their thought and their words, then don’t be surprised when they resisted disregarding life and death

In the end, what do these rebels want when they started their rebellion? Only one thing!

Food!

Food!

The great Sage Teacher had tried to cure the ills of the world with his dicine.

He could save ten people, but a thousand people would still die tomorrow.

So, the Great Sage Teacher ask himself, what is the real sickness of this world?

What is the real disease plaguing the Yan dynasty?

Xu Yan did not learn the thod of court, or the thod of learning the heart of the emperor.

He learns the thod of the earth, learning to determine the fertility of soil, learning the thod of how to match certain plants and trees to its rightful place but this learning also let him learn the thod of knowing the hearts of the people of the world

Not the hearts and minds of those aristocratic families, or those imperial families but the hearts and minds of the people

And so, he thinks he believes he knows what the Great Sage Teacher Zhang was thinking in his heart

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