Chapter 318: Population Strategy
Although Caesar has fallen into a deep sleep, the activities of empire-building have not stopped, and both economic development and economic construction are thriving under the guidance of the wise Miss Luna (in fact, Hogg), embarking on a broad road of sustainable development.
Today, the Blackwing Empire has occupied almost the entire Northland, and has included all the untouched areas into its territory, but it is faced with the dilemma of being vast and sparsely populated, and the total number of human beings in the empire has not yet reached three million, according to a rough census of the near time.
If you want to develop in the early days of the empire, you must have enough labor support, and the labor force of many industries is irreplaceable by the monsters of the current Black Wing Clan, and can only be carried out by humans, so in order to accumulate energy for the rise of the empire, the royal court on the one hand encourages the people to have children, on the other hand, it also liberalizes the entry standards of foreign population, and at the same time uses the long-established propaganda department to advocate and drain the flow to the outside world.
The drastic geographical changes have flattened, but the earth's crustal movement has caused the reformation of the Northland topography, and it is clear that the marginal plates of Elradia have collided, and after a series of violent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, the original Tuhala margin has uplifted peaks, and now it has become extremely steep and tall mountain ranges, and the hills between the mountains have also been raised into plateaus, and the temperature of the plateau, which is completely surrounded by mountains, has plummeted, and the oxygen content has dropped by more than one level.
The "Despair Barrier" is the name given to the newly uplifted mountain range by the inhabitants of the northern border, which not only creates the plateau and desert, but also blocks the connection between Eladia and the north, and now there are only two ways to enter the Blackwing Empire - either sail south along the coastline from the Northland port of the narrow sea, bypassing the Despair Barrier, or cross the desert through the steep and narrow road between the mountains and hills, and the plateau is completely Jedi and forbidden to pass.
But even so, in the next period of time, the Black Wing Empire still had a continuous influx of foreign population, and houses began to appear in some newly opened urban areas, taverns, brothels and B&Bs were the first buildings to appear, because the Black Wing Royal Court collected much less than other countries on the mainland, many farmers and merchants came to settle here after observing for a period of time, risking being neighbors with monsters.
For the foreign population, the royal court has made a perfect resettlement policy for a long time in advance, and the peasants can rely on leasing and pledge to obtain land at a relatively low price, but they must plant in full accordance with the royal court's orders, and cannot act arbitrarily according to their own wishes. At the same time, the grain trade, as a commodity under the high-pressure control of the empire, was not allowed to trade privately, and the peasants' surplus grain could only be sold for one royal family.
In addition to farmers and merchants, the new empire also attracted a large number of adventurers, many of whom were outlawdoers, but unfortunately the adventurers who were interested in the wealth of the black dragon basically became decorations for the lizards to hang on the towers outside the royal court - these greedy adventurers tried to infiltrate the palace of the black dragon, and then they were very easily culled, and the corpses were erected with two metal poles, five or six in a row, and hung on special iron hooks on the tower.
The corpses of these creatures gradually decomposed, and along with other prisoners who had defied the laws of the Empire, they finally turned into skeletons, still hanging from the towers, their empty eyes looking at the city ahead.
At night, the skulls and the glow of the philosopher's stones make the building a unique sight to the Black Wing Empire, affectionately and enthusiastically called the "beacon of democracy" by the blackshirts who serve the royal court.
As for the other honest adventurers who want to collect some materials nearby and sell them for money, they are living in this place quite well, there are enough houses in various cities for them to rent, and there are no other fierce wild monsters in the Northland except for the black dragon and his family.
In this way, collecting materials in the field became a relatively safe job with a decent income, as the merchants in the city settlements provided a market, and they were responsible for buying these materials and shipping them to other places, as well as selling all kinds of goods from the continent of Eladia.
The biggest advantage of all this is that the royal court promulgated a large number of tax exemption regulations at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the black dragon sleeping in the hot springs actually did not rob and did not expropriate the cities that belonged to him, especially did not ask them merchants to confess, which was also a surprise to the outsiders.
However, the open population strategy will also bring a lot of trouble, more forces need to be deployed for control, the royal court needs to teach the guys outside how to abide by the rules here, in fact, this is still simple, under the threat of blood, human memory is unlimited, the real trouble is the believers of various gods.
In fact, Caesar had already rejected them once a long time ago, but a country that integrated the resources of the population was a fertile field waiting to be cultivated in the eyes of any god, and the nascent empire gave them enough attraction to tempt their followers to make a request to the imperial court.
But such applications were basically ruthlessly rejected, Caesar said first, whether it was good or evil, powerful or not, it was strictly forbidden to spread faith within the empire, and the black dragon, as the ruler, did not want to see the people he raised become servants of the gods.
Moreover, Caesar had always had a bad view of the gods, and in his view, these gods, who built temples and nurtured believers in sovereign states, were in fact no different from blood-sucking parasites.
However, whether or not it can be done is another matter, although no god is nominally allowed to spread the faith within the empire, but in reality, Caesar is not too afraid to do it completely.
Because if that is the case, he is tantamount to challenging the rules of operation of Eladia and even the entire astral plane, and he will soon be defined as a heretic and become the common enemy of the gods of good and evil, and the black dragon will not be able to do such a thing at this stage, and he will not dare to do it for a long time in the future.
Therefore, before falling asleep, Caesar still told Hogg to make a few openings, and let some innocuous gods spread their faith in the territory, such as Woking, the goddess of wealth, Ogmar, the god of knowledge, Eubaihai, the god of nature, and so on.
During this time, the ancestral blue dragon Alex's injuries had fully recovered, the dark blue dragon scales shimmered with an arc-like luster, and the slightest scar could not be seen, at this time, the young ancestral dragon turned into a tall half-elf beauty, her existence had been exposed in this war, so Tiamat no longer had to seal her and force her to fall back into an unconscious sleep.
Alex withdrew from the Northlands, but did not go far, but built a nest in the southeast of the Blackwing Empire, and after the end of the war, she forced a large number of colored dragons to swear allegiance to her, and formed a new power group with these evil dragons, and then took root in the desert plains of the southeast.
Accompanied by several tall rock giants, Alex returned to her lair, where she had been hidden in layers of yellow sand, but with its horns protruding from the sky, just now the "Tyrant" had completed another process of conquest, capturing and enslaving all the clans of the nearby region.
"Caesar Targaryen."
Alex, who turned into a human body, took the parchment paper in his palace to sketch and draw, while whispering the name of the black dragon, although the alien black dragon stayed in the territory for this time, but there were still countless pairs of eyes staring at his every move, Alex had already learned the news that the alien black dragon was safe and sound, and at the same time understood that the joint efforts of the color dragons and His Majesty Tiamat had failed, after that, the Black Wing Empire occupied the vast soil of the Tuhala Desert, and burst out with strong vitality and began to develop rapidly.
As Caesar Targaryen's enemies, the Dragons of Color have lost a lot in previous wars, and they no longer have the strength to wage another war on a massive scale, not to mention the intrigues between the dragons, making it difficult for them to join forces to impose sanctions on the enemies of the Mother of Dragons.
Alex looked at his territory, and if she wanted to deal with Caesar, she had to absorb more power.