Chapter 58: Declaration!
Civilization in the Great Steppe is non-existent. What they have is culture. And not a thriving civilization. For a civilization to grow, they need to unite first.
Someone had to bring the law and have the power to enforce the law. Only then could there be civilized discussion.
But the nature of the people around the Great Steppe and the hatred accumulated had make all of this difficult.
Who knows how it started? The Yan said it was the people of the Great Steppe that ride down from the North and raid and pillages cities and villages.
The old folklore told it was the people of Yan who came up north, came to a tribe, slaughter them and force them into slavery.
Those who did not were killed and humiliated
And so, they keep fighting and killing and the hatred accumulated. A few decades ago, a general from Yan came to the north and kill so many tribes and he created mountains of skulls on every place he goes.
He would erect such mountain of skull and then when they go back to the Yan empire, he was awarded and honoured and that give them a sense of superiority over the people of the Steppe.
But two decades after that massacre, someone from the Great Steppe ride down to the north and he slaughter the entire city and created the same scene that the general has done.
However, all they remember is their pain, their suffering.
They put it in words and change history, painting it like it was the aggression of the people of the Steppe when in fact it was them that started another cycle of death