Second update today: Chapter 2500! 2/4!
Yang Guang grew anxious upon hearing this. He did not understand why Yang Yao would refuse.
"Your Highness, after my father's sage governance, the Yang Clan Xianbei has ten million registered households, a population of over fifty million, and one million armored soldiers. If Your Highness does not accept us, others will. Yang Guang cannot bear to watch our ancestors' foundation be handed over to others. I hope Your Highness..."
Yang Yao raised a hand, stopping Yang Guang from continuing.
Yang Guang had brought out Great Sui Frost. What tempted her most was the value of Great Sui Frost itself as a national artifact. The authority symbolized by this national artifact, on the other hand, held little temptation for her.
It was not that his bargaining chip was not large enough, but that the two stood at entirely different heights.
As Yang Guang had said, he offered the artifact and surrendered authority in the name of seeking protection. Aside from the national artifact, Great Sui Frost, which only he could wield, the only bargaining chip he possessed was the Yang Clan Xianbei Yang Jian had left him!
A population of fifty million, one million soldiers, and all the resources and territory of the Yang Clan Xianbei.
Once Yang Yao accepted them, the entire Yang Clan Xianbei would effectively become her personal fief.
Other than undertaking the corresponding duties owed to the human race, all other deployments would be decided by Yang Yao alone.
This was, in truth, no different from the family-based model built upon a race: race before family, public before private.
Developing the race was every clan member's duty, but steering its direction mainly rested in the hands of the few in power. If that was public, then the interests of