A bloody lesson stresses the importance of seeing is believing, and the Great Emperor of the Wujiang Empire paid with the lives of half his Imperial Capital to illustrate this point.
Earthlings are not to be offended, must not be provoked, cannot be provoked!
Moreover, they must be subjugated, one cannot simply go through the motions.
"Rest assured, Divine Dragon Emperor, I shall immediately return to inform my tribe. The compensation will not be short of a single penny!"
"Our empire has long since been happily submissive, it's just those old-fashioned conservatives who fail to see the situation clearly. I will go back and tell them that from now on, Earthlings will be our sovereign lords of the Western Regions!"
"That's right, the Divine Dragon Emperor is our master, our Heavenly Emperor!"
