Paper, this small thing could help immensely once it is popularized and become low cost.
And the government would become efficient because they could now maintain vast archives, census data, tax records, military rosters and laws without the burden of weight or cost, cutting god knows how many redundancies and free up money
Communication across province would be improved, it would also be easier to standardize the laws and procedures, which would only gave an immense advantage over nomadic societies in terms of governance, stability and policy enforcement
And that is only a few of the benefit of paper.
There is many more.
And it is because Aeryon knows this, he extinguishes the idea of making paper or even sharing it.
This world does not allow him to become benevolent and generous to the enemy.
The Yan people is like the Han people, always swearing and always wanting to kill people that is different from them
