The Great Bogar Empire is actually just an abbreviation, but the focus is not on its name but on the empire, which is the only empire in the Tambro continent.

In fact, there is no legal definition or standard of empire in the continent of Tambro, but if these countries call themselves empires, they will inevitably be ridiculed by their neighbors.

The so-called empire has at least one necessary condition - the absolute strength of the monarchy.

In non-imperial countries, although the relationship between the king and the vassal is also that of the monarch and the vassal, the rights and responsibilities between each other are clear, and the king cannot do whatever he wants to the vassals. The obligation of the vassal to the king, in addition to paying taxes, was mainly to send troops for the king's disposal in times of war. As for the second lord and the county lord in each county, it is rewarded by the county magistrates themselves, and they are vassals of vassals in terms of identity, but their king is the county magistrate, not the king, and the king can't even directly punish the vassals of these vassals. This shows how weak the monarchy of these kingdoms was.

And in the Grand Bogar Empire, the situation was completely different.

The supreme chief of the Great Bogar is called the Emperor of the Gods, which is an ancient word in the Boul language, meaning "the man who owns a vast land", do not think that this name is meaningless, on the contrary, this name reflects the biggest difference between the Emperor and other kings and the heads of the allied states, that is, the land belongs only to the Emperor and not to any vassal.

Of course, there were nobles in the Great Bogar Empire, but even close nobles such as the emperor's son and emperor's brother could only receive the taxes of the fief, and could not control all the power of the fief. The real management of the specific affairs of the state is the large number of professional officials who are loyal to the Emperor.

Since the rise of the Great Bogar Empire, they divided the territory into a relatively vast number of areas called Sakai, the area of one Sakai is equivalent to several counties, Sakai has a number of districts, one has jurisdiction over several circles, and one has a number of subordinate departments, which is the four-level administrative division of the empire.

Sakai is the highest level of administrative division, and the three supreme governors of administration, military affairs, and law are in charge of Sakai, that is, Sakai chief, Sakai governor, and Sakai Zhong, and these three positions are collectively called Sakai ministers, and there are corresponding administrative officials at all levels below. The reason why the Great Bogar Empire was able to avoid the excessive local autonomy of other countries and despise or even confront the central monarchy was that the rotation system of magistrates was the rotation system.

From Sakai to the head of the Sakai Dynasty, the chief and deputy officials of the local military and political affairs are in principle transferred once every four years, and the transfer of local officials is only allowed to bring their families and slaves to their posts, and the transfer of joint subordinate officials and private soldiers is never allowed. The continued implementation of this transfer system has basically eliminated the possibility of local officials entrenching themselves in one place for a long time and establishing a huge private power.

The Great Bogar Empire brought this system to all the places it conquered. Judging from the past history, even if the fiefdom who surrendered the castle, the best outcome was to be sent to the rear as a Sakai retainer. Then you will be given a private plot of land the size of a manor in another place as a place to retire in the future.

Because of this, the kingdom of Miredang was able to fight desperately when the border had been lost, and even agreed to the king's urgent collection of special taxes for the first time in nearly thirty years. They all believed that even if they surrendered voluntarily, even if they could keep their status as nobles, their fiefs and their freedom as vassals would never be preserved.

So the question is, since the vassals can't afford the consequences of defeat or surrender, why is Ferran Valley still indifferent here?

The answer to this question is no secret, and Ao Yue will know it with a little questioning of the two locals - because the county of Ferran Valley is in a dangerous location, and the Imperial army cannot get in.

The Genguyi Mountains, which span most of the Tambro continent, have created countless rivers, and the widest to the strongest of the many rivers that run through the kingdom of Miledan from north to south is called the Shan Don River, and the natural danger of the Ferry Valley County, which is more than a hundred feet high and more than one taekless, is the ancient river channel of one section of the Shan Don River. For thousands of years, the only way for the carriage to pass through the Ferran Valley was on the Jaao Valley Road, which was also the only place in the eastern front of the county that needed to be heavily garrisoned.

It's just a valley, find some earth mages to collapse it, and then the army will not be able to climb the mountain through the gap? It is indeed not too difficult to make a gap, but it is very difficult to mobilize the army to the bottom of the valley without alarming the other party, although there is no such army stationed on the edge of the valley, but there are many monitoring posts, and if the army is not discovered by the monitoring posts, it will have to be far away, and once it is far away, the effect of assault and mountaineering will not be good. This is just a means of defense without the use of spells, in fact, since the Imperial army entered the neighboring county, the entire Ferran Valley has been greatly strengthened. It's not as easy as you imagined to sneak attack and break the level.

At present, there are 2,000 county soldiers stationed in the Zaao Valley Road, and once the forward theater is lost, the number of troops here can be increased to 6,000 within two days. With a defensive force of this size, as long as the commander is not stupid, the imperial army does not pay several times more casualties, and does not want to break through.

If the weather is not broken, the peace in Ferran Valley County is not too dangerous, but for ordinary people who want to enter and exit the war zone, the tight security is certainly not good news.

At present, the Zo Valley Road is basically only allowed to carry people and vehicles with the orders of the county magistrate or the king, and all other entry and exit are prohibited. Those who need to enter and exit the war zone will either choose to detour to the neighboring counties to the north and south, or choose to cross the valley through the secret passage.

The so-called secret passage is said to be a tunnel secretly dug by the Principality of Cheltuo in order to break through the natural danger of the Ferran Valley hundreds of years ago, which was destroyed by the Great Bogar more than ten years ago. But this tunnel has not been dug yet, and the principality has withdrawn for other reasons, so no one has mentioned the tunnel anymore, and it was not until the recent closure of the Zha Ao Valley Road that some people began to spread that the tunnel had almost been dug back then, and now it has been opened by someone with a heart, as a secret way to enter and exit the Ferran Valley.

Ao Zongheng heard the news about the secret passage in the tavern of Zarang Town, when he was planning to jump directly into Ferran Valley at nightfall, as for the Evil Beast, because this thing is not absorbing traditional mana, so the evolution direction is probably different, Ao Zongheng has no doubt that it will jump faster than himself.

So the secret path or something, it's not attractive to Aozong, what kind of secret way, can I jump off the cliff directly?

However, the ring spirit came out to make suggestions at this time - how boring it is to jump off the cliff, maybe there are some novel discoveries in the secret passage, like you went underground before, you found the ancient relics, and also received the love of others, which is a proof of friendship.

Arrogantly thinking about it, this is not completely unreasonable, anyway, it is all over the valley tonight, and it will not delay much, so he decided to listen to the ring spirit.

"Hey, how do you go through this secret passage", Ao Zongheng patted the man who was looking for a guest in the corner, this guy had just negotiated two votes, and after taking the person away, he returned to the tavern.

The man vigilantly glanced at Aozong, after the small turmoil in the hotel last time, in order to cause unnecessary trouble, Aozong took the initiative to put away the mage's badge in taverns and inns, so the man did not find out his "mage" identity.

Seeing the face of a foreigner and the usual ruffian of the county soldiers, the man no longer doubted, "Be quiet, how many of you are leaving?"

"I'm the only one", of course Ao Zongheng won't take the deer to the tunnel, let the thing jump off the cliff by himself.

"Do you want to bring the goods?" the man asked again, seeing that Ao Zongheng shook his head, he replied: "Six Cui Bai for one way, and three Cui Bai more for two trips." ”

Six Cui Bai is almost ten days' income for ordinary people, ten days' income for a trip to the secret road, and half a month's income for going back and forth. This fee seems so expensive, but in the eyes of those organizers, this is not how the account is calculated - it is a war zone outside, and the people who have to go to the war zone secretly at this time will care about those Cui Bai? Why do you ask why? Why don't you organize smuggling and ask so much?

Ao Zongheng didn't care, so he didn't make a counteroffer, he directly took out six Cui Bai, the man smiled and took the money into his arms, and then took Ao Zongheng to a stone house with a small courtyard not far from the tavern.

The whole house was pitch black inside and out, there was no sound, and it seemed uninhabited, but the man knocked on the door twice, and the door opened. Of course, all this is not surprising to Aoheng, not to mention the one in the courtyard, even the eight people in the basement of the house he has already discovered.

There was a light in the basement, and two of the eight people in it were the ones Aozong had just seen in the tavern, but none of them seemed to recognize Aozong, and only sat quietly on the chest. The others raised their heads, looked at Ao Zhu with indifferent expressions, and resumed their previous posture, and there were eight people sitting in the basement the size of a dozen ridges, but it was surprisingly quiet.

The man took Ao Zongheng to the basement and left, nodding his head as he said hello to a man who seemed to be leading the way. Ao Zongheng noticed that the man didn't take out the six Cui Bai, it seems that this middleman should have cooperated with them for a long time, and he doesn't know how much commission he can take with a person?

After that, no newcomers came to the basement, and at about five o'clock in the water, the leader suddenly stood up and whispered: "It's okay, bring everything and go." After that, he didn't care about the others, opened a door in the corner of the basement and walked in.

Behind the door is a long Yongdao, the Yongdao is about two times high, one is more than one wide, and an oil lamp is hung every ten or so on the wall of the Yongdao, and the road can barely be seen. Four of the seven men were carrying goods, three of them seemed to be companions, close together, and the others kept a distance of about three arm's length and followed the leader, walking slowly and proudly.

After walking about two hundred times, we came to a vertical ladder above which was outside the town. After the leader had climbed to the ground, he took the planks with dirt and grass on the side to seal the hole, and continued to lead the party north, which was full of long grass except for the scattered trees, and was still some distance from the edge of the Ferran Valley, where the sentinels who were watching on the edge of the cliff could not see it, and the night patrols did not pass through it, so the group walked through the grass without stopping, until they came to a conspicuous depression.

There was still dense grass in the depression, but there were more than 30 people standing or sitting in the long grass, and they could see clearly through the shade, and they were also silently watching the arrogant line.