Jiashi sat on the seat, a little silent, the oil lamp on the table made a "crackling" sound, and the tent lined with a quieter and quieter sound.

The land at the foot of Jiashi, once called the Kingdom of Blago, is now called the Province of Blago, and there is a group of people living on this land, called the Blago people, this is their homeland, here they are invincible, and any enemy who wants to offend will pay a huge price.

The northern part of the province of Blago is still relatively close to the Empire, so logistics can still be transported at a huge cost.

In order to obtain this strategic land, it took a huge amount of imperial energy to break through the Blagog Kingdom, and even buried an ultimate army in the reckless mountains.

For so many years, the empire had been building the Southwest Corridor, leveling the roads, paving the ground with stones, supplemented with mortar, and then compacting it until the chariots could pass through.

But for the southern part of the province of Blago, the Empire no longer wants to fight like that, and the policy of the entire Empire has shifted to subduing the Blago people.

In fact, the best way to accept is to grant citizenship, and no ordinary person can resist the temptation to become a citizen of the Emerald Empire.

But this path is actually the real one that doesn't work. Because the Emerald Empire has actually stopped expanding the number of citizens for a long time.

The vast majority of the citizens of the empire today are citizens of their ancestors during the republic, and they are naturally citizens.

The so-called time shift, each period has its most suitable method, so it is natural that this national policy will be changed.

The initial decree to expand the number of citizens was fundamentally due to the insufficient population of the Emerald City-State. It is not possible to effectively rule over a large area.

The political power of the Emerald Capital was no longer able to resist the forces from the other seven provinces. Because the other provinces were also highly civilized peoples, they finally simply relaxed the restrictions on citizenship and promoted a large number of people to become citizens of the empire.

This move almost immediately eliminated the main contradiction in the country, and after many years of running-in, the chariot of the Emerald Empire finally began to show its hideous minions in all directions.

Over the years, the citizens have become one, and the Emerald Citizens have become similar to a nation.

Roughly like the Han people in a broad sense, whether it is culture or blood, you have me, I have you, and it is already an inseparable whole.

However, it was the last time that the empire granted citizenship on a large scale, and the conquered regions were no longer treated like this.

Because the empire is strong enough, the number of citizens cannot be expanded indefinitely, otherwise the privileges of being a citizen of the empire cannot be guaranteed.

Hence the term "free people", which was to distinguish them from slaves.

Freedmen have no rights, but they have freedom, and this has unlimited potential for development. They can also be meritorious through war and then granted the status of citizens of the Empire.

The official registered population of the Emerald Empire is about 25 million, of which 5 million are citizens and 20 million are freemen.

In fact, the population of the Jade Empire is definitely more than 40 million, but for the 15 million slaves, the empire does not recognize them as human beings.

Slaves were basically the most tiring of work, and the freedmen were mostly peasants, and the citizens were mostly small and medium-sized landowners, and even if they were poor, they were generally rich peasants, and these were the cornerstones of the empire.

So in the empire, all the freemen and slaves wanted to be citizens, and to be citizens, it was difficult to say, and it was easy to say that it was easy to say.

Make contributions!

As long as you have made meritorious contributions to the empire, you can become a citizen, and this is the only way to go at present.

Without this path, only His Majesty the Emperor can directly grant a person citizenship. Except for the Emperor, even the Imperial Chancellor or the Guardian Duke did not have this right.

The empire subdued the Blago people, firstly, to educate the barbarians, and secondly, to deal with their kindred, the so-called "barbarian rule by barbarians".

The implementation of this plan was relatively smooth, and the former Blago people were called "barbarians" by the empire, and after years of indoctrination, they have now become roughly "savages".

The so-called "barbarian" refers to the Blago tribe, which was still in the tribal era, although it formed a country, but various places still maintained all kinds of bloody traditions, and there was no trace of civilization.

The so-called "savage" refers to those Blago people who are subordinate to the Empire, who have largely abandoned their original low-class way of life and gradually moved closer to the Empire. And many empires considered barbaric and obsolete culture, and they also gave it away.

In general, the empire has done a good job in terms of education, but the most important part of the empire has not been done very well.

After all, the fundamental purpose of the empire for the Blago people in the first place was to "rule barbarians with barbarians".

Arm the Blago people with the Empire's powerful comprehensive strength to strike at the Blago barbarians in the Southern Mountains. As a result, the plan went awry.

The original Blago Kingdom had a population of about three million people.

According to the Emerald Empire's rough division of countries, the population is between one million and five million, all of them are middle-level kingdoms, and as a tribal kingdom, the Blago Kingdom can also be called a hundred thousand with armor.

Later, the Kingdom of Blago was destroyed, and in addition to the more than 600,000 people who returned to the Empire, more than 2 million people fled to the southern part of the former Blago Province, which is now the southern part of the current Blago Province.

The remnants of the Blago kingdom have re-established five kingdoms in the mountains, all of which are small kingdoms with a population of one million.

Although the Blago people are not strong in terms of physical fitness, they cannot stand up to their high talent, and in this mountain, their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the regular army of the empire.

On the other hand, the Blago people, who had submitted to the Empire, had a decline in combat effectiveness. This is not a very strange thing, although they have more powerful logistics and more powerful weapons, but their will is reduced, they consider themselves traitors, and their talents are covered with a thick layer of dust.

This made the Jade Empire feel very pitted, the psychology of the Blago people was too fragile, and because of this, their hearts were covered with dust, and then their combat power was greatly reduced.

It can only be said that the Mandate of Heaven is not in the empire, and this kind of half-probability thing happened to happen, and there is really no way to be unlucky.

If the Blago could be like the Slavs, the empire might not be so entangled.