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[thefirstemperor]

[On the one hand, this is the fundamental trouble, isn't it? The first trouble. Not the more vicious conclusions that came after his return and betrayal, but the first trouble, the one that drove him to exhaust himself and step out of the world for a few centuries. Can't make mortals happy.

On the other hand, there is an answer.]

Small concessions to a just authority protects from the privations of many cruel ones. The village in a peaceful empire may proceed free of the world for most of their days, concede a fair portion of their most prolific resources and receive from others what they lack, and suffer neither attack nor harassment by squabbling powers with no motive but greed.