Way of Overlord-Chapter 491: Seed For Future Trouble

Aeryon wanted to leave a legacy and a strong foundation.

Aeryon have the system but life and death is unpredictable.

It is not like the system made him invincible. One day, if he is unlucky, he could die of a stray arrow. Or of sickness.

So, he already planned a few foundation. Some of it are just seeds he planted hoping that someday, this seed could bloom beautifully.

Right now, the caste system is still there.

And Aeryon is not eager to quickly abolish it.

Not only because it is beneficial for him but also because doing it right now without the proper resources would make him capsize first before he could even have any chance of doing anything

But if he managed to unify the Steppe and conquer the Central Plains, at that time even if he could not abolish racial caste system, he would dilute it.

Discrimination is just one of the reason why Yuan dynasty was not looked favourably upon by the Song people.

It is also because there is no chance for anyone to make improvement in their life.

You could oppress the people so much until they could no longer bear it.

When words could no longer work, and when screams and curses is ignored, people would take arms.

If you could not let the people live, then the people would take your head.

If he was the emperor of the Yuan dynasty he could even use the scholars into advisory roles to win over the literati class and encourage intermarriage and cultural exchange to integrate the people of Yan and the Steppe

And then he would make a bureaucratic reform.

A merit-based exam system could be considered if at that time the resources and the control over the Central Plain is strong enough.

Train his Steppe people in Yan administration to reduce dependence on Yan advisors.

Establish a central audit ministry to monitor corruption, and create regional autonomy area with check allowing Yan governor manage Yan province under the watchful eyes of Marynku military governors.

The power of the military must not be given to the Yan people in the early reign

And then rest.

Recuperate.

Consolidate.

There is no need for him or descendant to do unnecessary foreign conquest.

Aeryon does not know if there is Japan in this world, or Java or Vietnam but even if there is, there is no need to do conquest.

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But if at that time Aeryon or Aeryon descendant control both the Steppe and the Central Plains, that land itself is very vast and full of resources

What is needed then is not more land but consolidation and development.

Aeryon would not worry about technology if he is still alive at that time.

At that time, he could brought out the technology bit by bit that he have so that he could maintain the advantage of his empire over all others

Want to conquer the world?

Aeryon did not object.

But let it be with a plan and reasonable.

War seems to be the way to make people rich,. But the one rich because of war is not the people

The war does benefit.

But it benefit certain people and not all the people.

This is why when a general dies, unless that general dies because of fighting hated enemies, most people would forget about such general in just a couple of years.

The benefit of the war is not as many as trade or cooperation. But any empire should have the ability to protect itself when war is near.

One should not actively seek it but one must be prepared for it. This is the way of large empire.

A small nation wanting to become an empire, war should be seek, because in danger lies opportunity.

But a stable empire with large lands and many people, should focus on stability, accumulation of strength, trade and innovation

When one is stable, and there is a need, and the reason is right, supported by the people and the world, then waging war is recommended.

As long as his dynasty did not close itself off from the world and knows when to attack , when to retreat, then a longevity of dynasty could be ensured.

There is other military strategy that he wanted to accomplish if he managed to take Yan

He would build strong frontier defense which could use his army and would not lead to mass disarmament

And the most important thing to do was to invest in a standing professional army with long term loyalty through better pay and land grants

Is it bad right now? Not all. Most of the warriors under him are loyal and they would not hesitate to follow his order.

Right now, their loyalty is also because he always win.

But after their interest is tied with the rise and fall of Aeryon tribe, even if he loses in a campaign in the future, these soldiers and his army would not abandon him just after one loss and would fight together with him until the bitter end.

But, when he dies, what would happen to Aeryon children?

At that time, things would be different.

The interest would also be different and the demands and desire of his people would also be different than it is today

It is good if they could surpass him but if they could not, they need a different way of managing the army. And a professional army is suitable for them

As for economic policies, he would create paper money just like the Song dynasty had done but he would have to control the issuance of the paper money.

There is not much gold and the few gold that Aeryon had he got it from the system. Even though there is also trade going on there is more silver than gold.

The scarcer the gold, the more valuable it is.

If he really wanted to use paper money, he would have to tie it to grain reserves or silver to stave off inflation.

He would encourage agriculture, create work for relief program to create irrigation and flood control projects like dams, canal and dike.

Make the inland trade hubs prosper, and open up a road like the Silk Road.

Then there is some other measures that Aeryon believe important to be addressed.

Aeryon himself notice that the winter is colder, the land is slowly losing its fertility

There is a chance that this world is in its own Little Ice Age.

Disaster management then become important. Not only important but vital if the dynasty wanted to survive.

He needs to establish many granaries. Famine would hit and the first thing the people would ask, if there is food

As long as there is food, even if one could not live leisurely, as long as they could survive, they would not think of rebellion.

Even though Aeryon planned this for the future, there is also a few of them in his new city that he created.

Disaster response units had to be established across provinces and train officials in famine response local logistic.

And propaganda would also help bit Aeryon did not like using the exact same destiny spiel. Because it could always backfire.

But all of this has to be established early. This is the seed that he wanted to sow. Because once these systems appears, his descendant could use it to stabilize their reign

If his deduction is correct and the Little Ice Age is coming to the Steppe and the world, then all of this is lifesaving methods to longevity of dynasty and to the people of the world.

There is also other methods he thinks of like promoting culture and increase legitimacy of his rule over the Central Plains and succession planning that would increase harmony

Many long-term vision and ideas that would take at least three generation to see all of it bear in fruition.

Aeryon could plan for so a long-term vision because there is already a template in his world and he learns from his predecessor mistake

But all of this, all of this plans and vision could only be realized if there is no problem in the second generation

And that is why he has a killing intent toward Ayera right now.

If he did not kill her, the second generation....if this choice fell into Genghis Khan, he would not hesitate to kill her.

He would just found another woman to marry.

But even Genghis Khan have some affection for Borte. And this woman.....this woman has many uses

But the more he uses her, the more entanglements.

And Aeryon could not just cut relations as easily as other people.

Aeryon after all, still come from the future.

He is more generous and he is more forgiving precisely because he had seen what the world could be.

In history he had seen the worst of times and he had seen the best of times.

So, he wanted to kill. But his heart could not be steadfast.

This woman...and Mayeux, Aeryon could even predict that things would go awry sometime in the future

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