Players are the easiest to fool because they are too realistic. They envy, are jealous, and hateful, but when they realize those feelings are useless, their mindset changes, and that's when you toss them a bit of bait.
It naturally can't change the players' attitude, but it can divert it, easily causing internal divisions among them.
NPCs largely discovered that this trick works well on players, and Li Yao naturally noticed this too.
He was planning to lead the players in the campaign on Daisom; although the players' army wasn't elite, they had a fair number of skilled troops.
If he let them keep being jealous of him, it would be very detrimental to the battle against Jessie.
After all, they'd think, we're fighting for our lives yet can't even earn a thousandth of what this guy gets, which is very demotivating and would affect their enthusiasm.
