Cao Mao had yet to see those masters of deadly powder arrive, but Yang Hu's memorial reached him first.
Yang Hu proposed a series of views concerning this incident with the Wa raiders.
Over the past few days, Cao Mao had hardly gone out at all, spending almost all his time in his residence reading Yang Hu's memorial.
The more Cao Mao read, the more astonished he became. This fellow really had something to offer.
Yang Hu's memorial resolved almost all of Cao Mao's concerns about Wa Island.
Yang Hu believed that a multilayered approach to governance should be adopted for Wa Island.
His approach immediately dispelled Cao Mao's confusion and made the way ahead clear.
The method was simple enough to explain: multiple systems operating side by side.
Yang Hu believed Wa Island could not be treated as a single whole. The sea separated them, and they had not had much contact before.
From the perspective of people in the present day, the various states of Wa Island were still different from the Xianbei and Goguryeo.
That difference lay in their dealings with each other. Take the people of Goguryeo: they had a long record of submitting and paying tribute to the Central Plains, with frequent exchanges between them. Their nobles all had to study the culture of the Central Plains and draw on its policies.
As for the Xianbei, their nobles were even more thoroughly assimilated into Han culture. In cases like the Duan family, there was practically no difference between the two sides.
The Tuoba Tribe had relatively little contact with the Central Plains, but that had not prevented years of trade between them. Both sides knew each other inside out... As for Wa Island, even communicating with its monarchs required interpreters.
Its common people knew absolutely