18- Compromise
Objectively speaking, it is not uncommon in history to force those in power to complete compromises and thus complete their own ascension to power.
Of course, in Teyvat's history, this is relatively rare.
This is because in the Seven Kingdoms of the Human Race in Teyvat, the power of the upper echelons is usually given by the gods themselves.
Of course, you can make them make mistakes, and then report them to the gods, and then let them come down and replace you.
After all, the Seven Gods love people and will not allow a group of errant people to continue to sit on the throne of power.
But you must go through the proper channels to prove their guilt to the gods and judge them, and it is absolutely impossible to force them to back down and give power to you by killing and dying.
For this power is not theirs, but something God-given.
What doesn't belong to you, you naturally can't take it from them.
This kind of thing is basically unprecedented, but in the desert where the gods have been lost, it has become a normal event.
There are no gods in the desert, as Rama described, they taught the lower desert dwellers to love the rest of the tribe while fighting each other in the upper echelons of the tribe.
However, there is no need to record the history of the desert people, and the Akademiya of Sumeru obviously doesn't care how the desert people play with power in the desert.
As far as Rama is concerned, this kind of thing is not unfamiliar.
Therefore, the compromise of the elders is not a big problem, and it cannot be taken for granted, but it is not surprising that they compromise with the "evil party" for the sake of their lives.
A small number of individuals will be able to fight to the end, while the majority will choose to compromise.
Of course, they themselves probably have the intention of "bearing the burden of humiliation", feeling that they are only temporarily compromising for the sake of a bright future.
But it doesn't matter.
Rama only needed to drive the wheels of war once.
Once later, most of his plans were successful.
The next is a very common link.
When a group of people compromise with you over their lives or more, you have to reassure them that they don't have the idea of dying.
Even if they know that you actually plan to liquidate them when you get power, you also know that they plan to find an opportunity to stab you instead of actually surrendering.
Everyone has their own thoughts, but they still have to be harmonious on the face.
"I'm talking to you about my dreams, and I don't think the elders will believe it."
Rama looked sincere.
He said to these elders, in fact, I just watched the desert people being oppressed, but I was not very satisfied with the [oppression] thing, so I wanted to take the desert people to the Akademiya.
I just want to be a hero, that's all.
I'm afraid no one will believe it.
They have decided that Rama is an evil party that will do whatever it takes for the sake of power, and that the evil party should have more despicable goals and actions, and that it does not deserve any noble reasons and pure answers.
"I don't have any allies, so I wonder if this answer will satisfy you?"
The elders looked at each other.
They looked at Babel, and then saw the same surprise on Babel's face.
"You're saying you're the only one?"
Theya asked tentatively.
It's a big joke in the world, one person dares to set off change, this person has a problem with his head, right?
"You may think that Elder Babel and I are allies, but they are not." Rama shrugged, "I'm competing with her for the same power. ”
"At best, I can only promise her a temporary seat of the Lady of the House, but what I want to build is a kingdom like the one established by Olmaz, and the master of this kingdom can only be me."
"Obviously, I am fighting with her for power, not an alliance."
"Besides, no one in the entire tribe has really sworn to follow me."
There are already people who want to shoot the case.
They thought it was a general who had staged a coup d'état, but they never expected it to be an assassin who wanted to use violence to break into the house.
The situation is different for the two.
There is no shame in compromising with a general who staged a coup d'état.
Because the other party does have the ability and possibility to be on top.
But compromising with an Assassin leaves no explanation other than greed for life and fear of death.
How could an Assassin rule a kingdom?
A mortal does not have the strength to defeat all enemies, and if he is not surrounded and alone, then the power in his hands is limited.
The gods, of course, don't need a power structure to aid their rule, but mortals do.
However, when he saw the two corpses lying at Rama's feet, his face suddenly turned grim: "That's a good answer." ”
"I believe Rama doesn't want to put the tribe in an embarrassing situation, since he doesn't have an alliance, then he has to rely on us to rule the Tanit tribe."
"He will have time to show us what he is capable of, and we will also have time to see if Rama is to be chosen to lead the tribe to a glorious future."
He looked serious: "What do you think?" ”
His conversion was not entirely out of fear.
If you want to show that you have no intention of hurting someone, the best answer is never to say that I am a good person and that I will never hurt you.
What can make a person fully believe that you will not hurt him is not feelings or commitments, but that he knows that you will never be able to do it.
It's far more reassuring that you can't do it than if you don't.
In the same way, based on the fact that Rama wanted to control the tribe, the fact that Rama relied on violence to seize power was itself wrong.
No warrior will recognize his power, and it will take time for these people to admit that his path is not right, but that he himself deserves respect.
Until then, he needed the elders of the tribe to maintain his power.
That's the disadvantage of being alone.
If he has enough allies and enough prestige, he can fill the void with his own people and complete the reign of Tanit at once.
But he didn't.
Therefore, he also needed someone to support the original tribal structure, and until the people of the Tanit tribe recognized that his rule was justified, at which point the elder was considered to have lost all value.
Conversely, before he became powerful, because his atrocities had broken the rules, he relied more on the elders to maintain his tyrannical rule.
Unless he was lying in the first place, and he didn't want the Tanit tribe at all, his compromise was inevitable.
Objectively, this answer is reassuring.
Except for Babel, the rest of the elders were at ease.
It's hard to say, but that's the way it is.
Rama suddenly ascended to the throne without prestige, and a tribesman would be angry in his heart.
He needed the help of the elders.