Way of Overlord Chapter 659: Deeds and Faults of Monarchs

This settlent of Ultar tribe, the biggest and largest of them is not a simple place.

There is a reason why this place has beco the tribe centre every sumr and it has grown larger over the years with traders from the Central Great Steppe around that area coming down from this area.

There are many rivers crossing, and there are many narrow valleys.

This place is said to have been a battle site between a warlock and a god, and it is their battle that created such weird geographical features in the Steppe.

There are many places that are hard to do the common battles that the people of Steppe are used to

And Ultar tribe uses these places to defend and attack

It is at this mont, fighting an external war that Burchu and Mukhulai talent is shown to the people

Everyone knows that Mukhulai is talented in leading an army.

But Burchu is known more as a vanguard general.

He would ride with his n on the front lines and would attack inspiring his n while fighting alongside them

His spear stab always at the weak position of a formation and there are many battles is won by Burchu by employing this kind of thod

He is a vanguard general.

And Mukhulai is versatile.

He could fight as vanguard, and he could stay in behind sitting in his tent and strategizing inside a tent

This is sothing everyone in the army had acknowledged. There were tis when Mukhulai would pick the banner and rush toward the front line

Each ti Mukhulai did this, the n behind him would follow him. How could they let their general die for them?

He is a Noyan.

How could they explain to the Khan that the Noyan fought bravely inn front while they the common soldier cower behind.

The Khan would take their heads in one slash if they dare such absurd word? Noyan Mukhulai is a Noyan that the Khan promoted.

Letting this Noyan die because of the army cowardice?

The Khan would blow his top and ten thousand n would probably die just by being executed.

It is one thing for the Noyan to abandon his army; it would be different if the army abandon the Noya when the Noyan himself ignores life and death

If the Noyan abandon his army, the Khan will not hesitate to cut off the head of such a leader.

It is not like this has never happened before.

In the early days of the conquest, there were so people who wanted to curry favour with the Khan.

The man was from Brolgadhr. It is soone that live in the sa tribe as the Kahn, once eat at and drink mare milk with the Khan when he is a child.

The Khan then said "you are not a brave man and that is fine. You could help your father farm or help the army in a different way"

Thinking about it, the Khan already knows this young man ability, but this young man was stubborn.

This young man went to the elder and the elder plead the Khan. The Khan could not ignore the pleading of the elders.

Even now, even though the Elders did not have any powers to dictate the Khan, the Khan still respected them very much

It is for this reason there is a trend for the young to respect the old and the old to love the young

For any budding nations, the founding leader influence, would determine how the nation would grow

A nation built on the sword and only the sword, would also fall by the sword and such nation would perish quickly and would perish pitifully.

Rites...that is what the Khan wanted to introduce.

Rites have always been there in the Steppe. It might a different kind of rites than the one in Yan, but the rite of the Steppe is also there

What Aeryon is doing is systematizing the rites. Rites and religion sotis contradict each other.

The difference is religion is hard to change, but rites is malleable and flexible. If religion is the words of deities, then rites are created by mortals

Between changing deities rules and mortal rules, changing mortal rules has always been easier.

Rites are cultural accumulation.

It is invisible power. The common people did not understand it, and the warriors did not understand it but for those born in the ruling class they understood the invisible power of rites.

With sword on one hand, and righteousness derived from rites, such nation could persist even if one day the capital is ransacked

Create a powerful nation with great ideals and even after it fall, people would yearn for it.

Of course, to the mindset of the common people and the soldiers, they could not understand or knows the intricacies of the kingdom building that Aeryon is doing

All they could see was the simple conflict between the Khan and the young man.

The Khan simply wanted to let the young man gather experience and assigned him to beco a soldier.

But the young man said as he is a Brolgadhr, he should lead the army.

Because these soldiers are of different tribe and if they are elected leader, they could not be loyal to the Brolgadhr tribe.

At that ti, the Khan rebuke him for saying such things that would alienate him and his people.

Once again, this young man goes to the elder and plead the elders.

The young man enurated the dangers of letting outsiders without insider surveillance and the elders agreed.

Once again, the elders plead the Khan.

The Khan said only these words "Only once" that is what he said and he allowed the young man to lead the army.

Then one day as he fights an enemy tribe, he was outnumbered.

And in a panic, he abandons his army.

The army returns.

Only ten of them return out of a hundred.

When the Khan found out about this, he sends Burchu to hunt this young man. The young man was brought to the tribe

And the Khan said

"This is the result of not following proper rules. He is a young man who had never led n to war and from the beginning I saw he had no talent for it"

"Instead of gathering experience and learning from the experienced, using his sweet tongue and eloquence, he uses the love and affection of the elders to secure a position of power, and when great responsibility is given to him, instead of honouring and upholding that responsibility, he ran away" the Khan then shed his tears and spoke

"I have eaten at with you; we drank from the sa bowl. We sang the sa songs. We sleep under the sa sky, and we heard the songs of the plains. This heart of mine.... who would understand. Those of our tribes are not many, and each of them are like my own relatives, all are like my closest brothers. Your father watched grows up and I have grown up alongside many of you. Which one of you have not taken care of ? Which one of you did not dance and sang with ?" the Khan at that ti paused for a mont and from that mont on, his voice cracks and shows how distressed he was

All of this is witnessed by the army and the elders and the people of the tribe

"I have given you chance after chance. You wanted to achieve much...but with too much haste. Forceful asure without experience and calculations would always backfire. Great strategy without great execution is unwise"

"Today, I would behead you to uphold the laws and show my determination to rule the military with discipline. No rit goes unrewarded, and no fault would go unpunished"

Then the Khan look at the elders and the elders at the ti all look down on the ground, whether it is out of sha, out of pity or out of fear no one knows

"Only once" the Khan suddenly said.

And it is only then that everyone understood what the Khan is talking about

When he said only once....it ans he would only give an exception once.

This exception is not the exception of the rule.

But the exemption where one could be promoted without doing great deeds.

That is what the Khan ans when he said only once.

Only once that he would listen to the elders and promote soone that he did not approve and did not rise through the channels

Mukhulai was promoted without going through the proper procedure but the reason he is not despised is because he had done a great deed.

That great deed is the proof.

Following the law is good. But everything that does not bend, would break when it is too rigid

Hence, the law also has burrows.

Even more so in governing.

Governing in orthodox way is stable, but when the nation is in danger so unorthodox way could break the deadlock

The power of appointnt, of promotion must solely rest on the monarch for the monarch to feel safe in their position

The honour and disgrace, this power to determine it depends on the monarch.

And because of this, the glory is attributed to the monarch, and the fault also is attributed to them

The officials could wash away their hands, but the monarch could not. The fault is magnified and the great deed is sotis forgotten

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