Way of Overlord-Chapter 444: Language As A Method of Hatred

As for the reason why, he hated Yan more after he learned their languages, the reason is because he now understood the way the Yan people called them

And from language comes thought.

And if the language is evil, then the thought would also be evil

Tuge made a vow to the Sky that if one day he has the power, he would eradicate the words of the Yan people, full of characters that is evil and spawn evil

The written Yan language transcribed one of the tribes of the barbarians Yao. But they use the character jackal

The Rong people are birds and beast.

To them, they pictured the people that does not worship their weird culture of worshiping emperor like a god as distant savages hovering on the edge of bestiality

There is also the Di, a northern tribe, were likened to a dog, the Man and the Min, people from the south, is said to be like a reptile

The Qiang had a sheep radical

They called everyone different than them with contempt.

Aeryon a chief on the Steppe if he knows this would only laugh

Because someone who is like this could not be a global power.

Because the world is not populated by one race and it is not populated by one culture

The Yan called many disparaging name for the Songnu people. They called them Xiongnu which is fierce slaves.

Guilau (devil men, western barbarians)

There is a great nation, an island nation that is looked down upon by the Yan dynasty.

But some wise men could see that this small island nation if given the right direction could gather the people and create a strong force.

But Yan as always like to look down on anyone different than them

The Yan called this island nation Wa. The Yan dynasty scribe wrote the exonym as Wo. These words itself shows how they look at other culture and civilizations.

The meaning of this words is "submissive, dwarf barbarians"

The time has not come for this small island nation. But if Aeryon knows about the existence of this small island nation he would surely shouted

"Isn’t this island nation, Japan?"

The land that would later be called the Root of the Sun.

Even in their words, there is ethnic contempt

The four barbarians surrounding Yan, Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong and Beidi are all names given by the Yan people to these tribes.

They themselves does not call themselves like that

Why? Because the name that the Yan gives them is stripping the dignity of these people.

Two of these tribes are defined militarily and two other are defined bestially.

Yi,"Level; flat. From 大 ’big (person)’ and 弓 ’bow’ radicals. Eastern people."

Man "Southern Man, a snake species. From 虫 ’insect’ radical and luan 䜌 phonetic."

Rong "Weapons, warfare. From 戈 ’dagger axe; halberd’ and 甲 ’helmet’ radicals."

Di "Red Di, originally a dog species. Calling the Di dogs refers to licentiousness and depravity. From 犬 ’dog’ radical, which is also phonetic."

"Barbarian tribes, unlike the civilized yellow and white races, were the biological descendants of lower species, the Di had been generated by dogs, and the Jiang could trace their ancestry back to sheep."

This is the official belief of the Yan dynasty

How could then the people of barbarian tribes lives in peace under such a regime that believe them as nothing more than unthinking animals?

Tuge knows his people

Most of them are quite peaceful. They have like and dislike. Hate and love. Happiness and sadness.

But he also learns that because they were peaceful, all of his villagers died. If they fight they are called nightmares, a terror, a troublemaker, not knowing grace.

They would be slapped by all kinds of labels. But if they did not fight, the Yan would called them cowards.

So, since you die if you do not fight, Tuge raises his hand, pick up the sword and fight against the Yan people since he was young

The deep hatred for the Yan dynasty and an unyielding determination to free his people from this Yan dynasty did not suddenly come

It is from his experience that he become like this.

Who is Qianrong Tuge and how he rises?

He was raised by his mother and his tribal elders. From young, he mastered Sirong traditions of horsemanship

Nurshira is not considered part of the Great Steppe at least not in the maps of Yan but before the Xun and Yan rise into power, Nurshira has always been considered as one of the lands of the Great Steppe where the nomads of the Great Steppe would stop before going south or east.

Tuge himself is a talent in archery.

This serve him well when he rebel against the Yan officials. He mastered the use of guerrilla tactics after being defeated and winning. Each fight trains him to fight better.

He himself is young and full of potential

At the age of only sixteen, he organized a small group of brothers of other Sirong tribe. All of them is disillusioned by the Yan settlers and the Yan dynasty.

They just wanted to live but the Yan people would not let them live. Since they would not let them live, then they would fight and resist.

Using guerrilla tactics, Tuge began raiding supply limes and military outpost helping the Steppe tribes to enter the land of Nurshira. Tuge himself allied with some raiders from the Steppe

It was then he learned that there is a change of power structure in the Steppe.

There is a young chief in the Steppe that is uniting the tribes of the Southern Great Steppe.

Tuge himself did not know that the area that is north of them is called the Southern Great Steppe.

To him, and to most tribes living in Nurshira the land beyond the Yan Wall is the Great Steppe and all of it is the same

It was then that he knew how vast the world is and how vast the Great Steppe really is and he learns about other empires on the edges of the Great Steppe.

It is no wonder the yan dynasty could never control the Great Steppe. Because it is too vast and the people there could not be tamed like they tamed their own people

That is also the first time he heard the name Aeryon. He learned that this young chief had won every battle and subdue the powerful tribes and created a large tribe relying on his own strength and his brother fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

Hearing this Tuge is inspired. He also learns about Dama. This one hated Yan people as well and once promised that if he could down south, he would burn every city of Yan and would create a mountain of Yan bodies so that he could repaid the massacre of many tribes during Huo Qubing time

Killing villagers and innocent people to prop up false immortal reputation is not something that the people of the Great Steppe look fondly on

Huo Qubing in Yan dynasty is regarded with high regard. But in the Steppe, he is not considered a hero at all.

They hit weak people, small people, villagers of the Great Steppe and small tribes that could not even resist and yet when they write it in their stories, they describe it that Huo Qubing rides his horse against the Steppe and win every battle

If the people of the Steppe were told to fight toddlers, they could also win every battle.

The land that they said they conquered are just empty lands. In the end, the nomad simply come there again and create settlement again and the Steppe take back that land

They know how to use hard force, mistaking fear for love, mistaking suppression with virtue and thought that if they could keep abusing and terrorizing the people of the Steppe, the people of the Steppe would always be cowardly.

The rule of the world is that it is not constant and always changes. And when the changes come, the result of the changes depends on the deeds done before.

When revenge is replaced with revenge, the cycle would continue. And if you are unlucky, this time, the one coming for vengeance would not be half-hearted.

If the Yan could have pacify the people of the Steppe, be lenient and understanding, while they would always be rebellious tribe, after a few hundred years, they would probably regard themselves as people of Yan.

Roma is the far north has even more ethnic groups.

Their methods is a bit different. They promote one group and put down the others

The group they promoted is the biggest among the barbarian and they supported this big tribe

and this tribe suppress the other small discontent group for Roma

But this too would someday erupt.

Humans are a curious creature.

They would always find ways to solve things. If one could not solve it with fist, then one uses the mind.

They would always rebels against something that would threaten their survival if they are awakened

And then there is the factor that humans could not divert or change but would always be there

The factor of time.

Time would wash away all empires.

When it is about to crumbles, all the problem they suppress would erupt. If the problem had been solved it would not erupt at all.

The world yearns for a benevolent ruler for only then they could survive.

Suppressive measures should be done sparingly for there is always a chance that it created more and more problems down the way

It is better to be feared than loved. This is true. But fear could not keep people down forever. When a rat is cornered, they would even have the courage to fight the cat

It is better to have both.

Benevolence on one hand, and fear on the other.

Benevolence could not be given without limit, and fear must not be given till the breaking limit

There is a way to rule and there is a way to be human. But most rulers forget that they are also mortal and human and only practice the way of rulers.

And then when the time come for them to answer the call of the Skyfather, they would look back and see the emptiness that is left behind in their ruins.

Some would regret and some would not

Hence, this is always the end of an empire

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