"If the ratfolk's struggle wanted to succeed—at the very least, to reach a relatively fair agreement with the Clan Warriors and win more rights for all ratfolk—it couldn't be like the previous life, just a chaotic rampage that ended up killing everyone, including all ratfolk."
Meng Chao thought, I have to find a way to steer the Ratfolk Rebellion in a direction more favorable to the ratfolk—and, naturally, more favorable to Dragon City as well.
Leaving aside the innate justice of helping the weak against the strong.
Fostering an emerging faction within the Turan Civilization to counterbalance the old nobles and ambitious schemers, then playing the game of supporting one faction while striking another.
That would also make it easier for Dragon City Civilization, this "Offshore Balancing Hand," to infiltrate the Turan Civilization with its own influence.
Besides, ratfolk accounted for more than ninety percent of the Turan Civilization's total population and formed the main body of Turanze's consumer market.
If Dragon City Civilization wanted to dump industrial products into Turanze to sustain its own economic operations, it had to awaken all ratfolk to their rights and turn them from "slaves, servant soldiers, cannon fodder" into consumers with sufficient purchasing power.
The high-and-mighty Clan Lords could consume a few luxury goods at most. That was nowhere near enough to solve the employment problem of tens of millions of Dragon City citizens, nor could it bring the Turan Civilization into Dragon City Civilization's industrialized and information-based economic system, thoroughly resolving Dragon City's economic crisis.
The tens of millions of diligent ratfolk, crying for food, were the finest customers in Meng Chao's eyes.
Therefore, he was determined to help these Ratfolk Rebel Army members who dared to rage, dared to resist, dared to raise the banner of revolt, and dared to wave