"Main God as my witness! Outside faith in the gods, the deterrence of violence is almost the fastest way to establish order. And once an existing violent order begins to operate, the members who join afterward, whether they are the executors of violence or those it is executed upon, will have no choice but to take part in it, making the chain of violence even more solid. Because loose individuals will always find it very hard to resist a group. When people's hearts all turn one way, even an unrivaled fierce general like Totek still cannot resist the great tide, and can only choose to cut his own throat..."
"Therefore, what can threaten an existing ruling order will always be another kind of order. And the earliest form of order is the consensus in people's hearts. This is the most dangerous ant nest, capable of causing the first collapse of the dike! So if someone can, among a group of people, bypass the deterrence of the kingdom's violence and establish a unanimous consensus among the masses... then he is the kingdom's greatest threat, a figure who must be given priority attention and dealt with!..."
"Main God bless us! Black Wolf, my most trusted general, you must remember my words: no matter what short-term oppression the kingdom's violence brings, as long as it can establish stable order and let the Maya Tribes settle down, then the tribespeople of every tribe will slowly choose to accept it! This stability is a kind of expectation for the future, and when put into concrete action, it is steady spring plowing and autumn harvests, above all else! With grain, people's hearts settle. People with stored grain, tribes that can survive, usually will not rise up in revolt and risk everything in a desperate throw..."
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