"I had a couple of weird ideas. ”

"Do you want to hear it?"

"Blue Dream. ”

......

From Alexey's point of view, it would not be difficult to convince Nglane, or even any of the Northlanders—people are born with a desire for beauty and comfort.

If you have stayed in Norve and never gone out, the frog at the bottom of the well is more likely to stick to her own opinions and be difficult to convince in most cases. After all, based on the description of words alone, under the premise that Alexei is clearly resisted, it is difficult for an ignorant frog to imagine the prosperity of the outside world with a few words, so the so-called promise has become an unattractive pile of garbage.

But Ngeline is different, he has the basic conditions to be convinced.

Although he was captured as a slave, the warm sun of the kingdom must have left a deep impression on his mind.

He has no shortage of desires for a good life, and that's enough.

Even if he is very defensive of Alexey, as long as there is a reason to accept it. It was hard for him to refuse the temptation that came his way.

Not without Norf barbarians who wanted to settle in the cities of the empire. However, with the exception of a few naturally intelligent people, most of the barbarians who have worked hard to find a job in other places will find it difficult to integrate into the local society because of the education and cultural relationship they received since childhood.

Discrimination, oppression, language barriers.

Although the empire did not specifically set up oppressive laws against the barbarians, the spontaneous rejection of the people allowed these Norf barbarians, who had retained some of their barbaric customs, to serve only as mercenaries in the mainstream culture, or at the bottom of the work chain.

Physically strong, they were not even militarily superior to the Buraku people of the Southern Continent.

Alexey's proposal really moved Ngellen's heart. He could understand the deep meaning of the mage's mouth, a city where most of the inhabitants were made up of Norf barbarians, so it was self-evident which direction the city's dominant culture would be?

The living conditions of the barbarians will be greatly improved.

Forgive him for his low vision, but Englaine can also see these tangible benefits, and he also hopes that his people can truly become citizens of the empire, and no longer be captured and enslaved by slave groups on the grounds of inhuman (meaning people who are not protected by the law).

He accepted.

Accepting Alexey's offer, he is willing to lead the way for the mage to find the scattered tribes in the depths of Norf, and will act as the mage's spokesman among the tribes, responsible for introducing the barbarians to live in the city and obtain legal imperial citizenship.

However, most of the details were actually Nglane's own brains, and Alexei had only promised to give the barbarians the status of citizens, not citizens.

He himself was not yet a citizen of the Reich.

In the Empire, emperors were elected by the electors, and once crowned, they were for life. Perhaps in the early years when the elves still occupied a place on the continent, the empire was still a loose confederation of major vassal states and municipalities, but as the emperor's position as a mediator of the princes' conflicts became more and more important, and after the elves were defeated by humans, some of the princes defected from the empire and established a kingdom independently in the old land of the elves (the king was nominally on the same level as the elector), and in order to prevent more betrayal and division within the country, the emperor's authority was greatly strengthened.

The position of governor, appointed and dismissed by the emperor, was born.

A real center of power emerged in the empire. Most of the municipalities were vested in the emperor, and the electors began to pay taxes and provide military service, and at this time, in order to prevent the electors' families from enriching their own families after they ascended to the throne, the system of citizens and senators was put on the table.

Each Elector had an equal number of citizens, and they could grant citizenship to those with imperial origins as they wished. At the same time, every four years, the citizens would meet in the capital of the empire at that time, and the citizens would regularly elect and replace a total of eighteen senators in the imperial senate, each of whom could only serve once in his life, but the senators could be elected without citizenship.

The Senate, which was the embodiment of the will of the elector, held half of the empire's central government and half of the emperor's power. The judicial and financial powers, as well as the dispatch of the local armies, the taxes paid by the electors, and the military service in the territories provided by law, were all supervised by the Senate.

When the emperor needed to wage war and carry out large-scale construction projects, he could use his own private treasury and private soldiers without the permission of the Senate. But most of the nation's tax revenue would go to the treasury, which was under the supervision of the Senate, and he would have to convene a meeting of the eighteen senators to vote, and if half of them passed, the treasury would be mobilized.

And so did the Empire's armies.

In other words, in the Empire, citizens are not actually citizens. The vast majority of them were composed of large and small nobles in the Elector's domain, and it was only natural that in the eyes of the barbarians who did not know the truth, the citizens of the empire were basically equated with privilege.

And in Englain's consciousness, he mistakenly grouped citizens and citizens together.

Alexey was destined to disappoint him.

However, his future is not yet known. Perhaps, Engrain's dream-like ideal at this time will one day be realized.

But the impermanence of fate does not take into account the suffering of mortals.

The introduction of barbarians to settle the city was a move that Alexei had to do as a last resort.

Even he himself knows that the climate on the mainland has been mild and pleasant for more than ten years, and most of the people who have not experienced a great famine caused by a reduction in grain production for a long time are still above the subsistence line, although they are not very rich, and a very small number of people who are struggling on the line of life and death are probably unwilling to leave their homeland to settle in the bitter and cold land of Norf.

In general, without the introduction of local barbarians to fill the grassroots, the city of Northland in Alexay would be a castle in the sky with no infrastructure.

And without people, no matter how perfect his plan is, it is impossible to carry it out without the basic conditions.

Under this premise, the various shortcomings of the barbarians had to be forcibly accepted by pinching their noses.

At the very least, as drudgery in the mines, they are still qualified.

.......

"Say it. ”

Lan Meng raised his eyes slightly, lacking interest in Alexey's seemingly far-reaching story and the vast career. But in order to prevent the Alexian madness that threatens to expose her to inexplicable danger, she feels it is necessary to listen to it so that she can prepare for an escape as soon as possible.

"Spread the word about your last princess. How about using the great Son of the Sun Wheel to glorify the northern realm? Ha, do you think there will be an old minister of the kingdom who will come to help you restore the country?"

"Don't think about it, it doesn't exist. Lan Meng put down the book, stared at Alexei, who took out a pen and was writing and drawing on the paper with some distress, looked at it for a while, sighed and said, "Even I don't have hope anymore, do you think there will be such a fool?"

"Even if there were, it was just two or three rotten fish and shrimp. There was a palpable look of disgust on her face, "Back when I didn't go to Glio Davido, it was only my brother...... Forget it, there's nothing to say, it's just a bunch of garbage in the pile, and no matter how much you pick, you can't find a useful material at all. ”

"Looks like you've had some things that make you unhappy. ”

"Yes, yes, just as disgusting as you are. ”

"That's really lucky, you must know that people like me only have half a hand in this world. Alexei laughed, "Would you like to share it with me, my princess?" ”

"It doesn't matter if you tell you, it's just a few pieces of. ”

Lowering his head, Lan Meng unconsciously touched his cheek with his hand, and there was an obvious look of memory in his eyes: "I can't remember how long ago it was, anyway, I was still very young, we were hiding in a sewer, me and I...... The guards were separated, and I didn't know where I was going, so I walked and walked, and met a group of robbers who claimed to be the Restoration Army in a small village. ”

Speaking of this, Lan Meng disdainfully let out a nasal voice from his nasal cavity: "It is indeed a group of robbers." ”

"They hid in the village in the morning and disguised themselves as peasants, and at night took up arms and plundered the caravans on the road. ”

"I met them, and luckily I had a token with me. Some of them recognized me as a wanted princess, and at first, they all laughed at me, calling me a princess, a future king, and I really thought they wanted to embrace me. ”

"And the result?" Alexei interjected casually, "They took you to attack the city?"

"Attack the city, even then I was not as naïve as you are now, Your Highness, Son of the Elements. ”

Lan Meng deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of the word "His Highness", which made him even more ridiculous.

"They put me in the village at night, and left me in the care of two peasant women, and they forbade me to go far, let alone see more in the village. ”

"House arrest?"

"I think it would be more appropriate if you used the word imprisonment. Lan Meng pointed to his own brain and said, "If I were smarter, I wouldn't have been caught by you now." ”

"Oh, so you want to say you didn't notice they had bad intentions toward you, did you?"

"Yes. ”

Lan Meng continued: "One day, they found two people to take me to the city, and lied to me that they were going to find my lost 'guards', and I didn't expect that they directly gave me to a wealthy local merchant in exchange for thirty Adri. ”

"Thirty Adri!" she shouted with uncontrollable anger, "Thirty Adri! I'm a princess, I'm a princess!

After Lan Meng took two breaths and his mood stabilized slightly, Alexei, who listened with relish, then asked, "And then, how did you escape?"

"It's ridiculous to say that as soon as the robbers sent me away, the kingdom's army hanged them all in the square the next day. ”

"The rich merchant is also a coward. As soon as he heard that the robber was dead, he wanted to send me out secretly. ”

"So, the rich merchant is also a man of reinstatement? I thought he bought you to be a maid. ”

"Yes, it's also a piece of garbage who wants to sell me for a high price. ”

"So I advise you. ”

As he spoke, Lan Meng leaned closer, pressed the white paper that Alexei was writing with one hand, pulled it out violently and tore it in half, and summarized the conversation between the two of them very seriously: "Alexey, don't put your hope on those garbage, they are not reliable at all." ”