"Your Excellency!" Rhodes called out to Victor, "what are you doing?"

"Foster Son...... Uh, I mean Rod!" The baron was a little surprised, and immediately approached with the officers on horseback, "What a coincidence, but the mutiny has only happened recently, and you are traveling now, I am afraid that you will have fewer guards with you." ”

A few days ago, the military department underwent an unprecedented purge, and many officer positions were vacant, and Baron Victor was naturally not suspicious because he took the initiative to ask for help, grabbed the beautiful errand of escorting the Foster sisters and brothers back to the imperial capital and successfully completed the task, but instead fished in troubled waters in this mess and picked up a big bargain, and obtained a considerable promotion.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and Victor has always believed in that, and this time, he undoubtedly seized the opportunity.

"Thank you for your concern, but I'm not here to play. Rhodes leaned out and looked at the other two officers beside the Baron, who he had just heard talking to Baron Victor about how to deal with the Antelli Resistance: "They are?"

"The heroes and rookies of the army who have returned from the counterinsurgency front in the southern province of Andrew, the young of these two Imperial officers, have led their strange soldiers through the dense forests full of traps, climbed over the high walls, breached the largest and most impregnable Jac fortress, and ended this disgusting war, and I am responsible for taking them to the military headquarters to be ready to receive their awards. Baron Victor said happily, "Let me introduce you, this is Rod Foster, son of Marshal Foster, this is Sir Basten Morgan, and this is Sir Thelma Freud." ”

Rhodes has been busy inquiring about the trial of Ryan these days, and even the news that the civil strife of the Jak tribe that has lasted for months has finally been put down has been ignored by him.

"I'm finally getting some good news. Rhodes looked at the two young officers and sighed with satisfaction, "I wonder what kind of treatment will happen to the Jiak?"

"Half of the young adults were executed. Sir Morgan, who had a young baby-faced face and looked no more than twenty years old, said, "The rest have been forcibly moved out of the woodland where they originally lived, and settled on a newly cultivated flat land hundreds of miles away. ”

"Half a young man?" Rhodes originally just asked casually, not expecting to hear such scary news: "How much is that?"

"It's not half the exact number, we decide the number of executions based on the casualties of the counterinsurgency army, for every Imperial soldier killed, ten young and strong Gaks are executed, and finally counting those who died in the battle before, the Gaks have died at least 20,000 people, the population has decreased by one-fifth, and most of the survivors are old and weak, women and children. At the cost of losing thousands of good soldiers, the Imperial army taught these barbarians the truths that even a few children could understand: first, you must exchange enough gold coins or equivalent goods for what you want, and second, you can't touch the buttocks of other people's wives casually. 3. Persons who violate the law shall be severely punished. ”

"Is this an order from His Majesty the Emperor?"

"No, but Your Majesty has already secretly acquiesced and even authorized this practice when he gave the counterinsurgency order. Freud added, thinking that the other party was the son of the marshal, and there was no need to hide some things: "For various reasons, the Imperial side lost more people than the Galks in the counterinsurgency war, which was unacceptable to the command. This war would have ensured stability in the southern part of the empire for at least fifty years, and the sacrifice was worth it. ”

Rhodes was in a trance, General Carlyle, who had given the order to slaughter the village and mutiny against himself, had been hanged, although he was sorry, but this was a reasonable punishment after all, who knew that in the south, an even bigger bloody case had happened, and this time the person who gave the order was considered to be the hero: "This ...... It must be a massacre. ”

(Isn't that nonsense?) Baron Victor thought so, shrugged his shoulders and did not speak: "The Gak have long been a cancer in the south of the Empire, and unlike the people of some other provinces or conquered lands in the north, they are already doomed to be unable to submit them to the rule of the Empire in a normal way. If the Empire used a policy of gentleness and preferential treatment on the civilians of the conquered lands of Antaili, they would be grateful...... But in the case of the Arks, they will see the concessions and compromises of the empire as cowardice, and they will intensify them. The bloody bazaar a few months ago was just a fuse, but in fact, His Majesty had already decided to rectify these barbaric peoples. ”

"Young adults may be executed at a ratio of 1 to 10...... That's a bit too much, isn't it? ”

"Sir Foster didn't know enough about the situation in the south, so he thought it was inappropriate, but the situation had deteriorated to the point where he had to deal with it with a heavy blow. The proportion of the population of the Gaks is not very high in the local area, but they are surprisingly united, and when a Gaks clash with outsiders, more than a dozen or twenty of their own people will jump out to help in an instant. As a result, when everyone is at odds with the Garks, they are actually dealing with the entire tribe and the group. Sir Freud explained: "It is in itself admirable that they have benefited from this unity, and they will spontaneously promote its maintenance, but it has gradually turned sour over the course of a hundred years...... Eventually, it has evolved to the point that no matter what a Gark does to outsiders, he will be given brainless favor and help, believing that all non-natives are inferior to them and that they are born to serve them. Recklessly, ignoring the law and the imperial army, saying that it is a nation, it is actually like a huge underworld force, and other tribal peoples around them can benefit from this, and they can also learn from it...... In the long run, the empire will not be able to control the southern frontier at all. ”

In fact, some generals even thought that they should make an example of the Gak tribe and let the Gak disappear from the world, but after discussion and deliberation by the command, they did not do so in the end. ”

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"To build and maintain an empire, strong means are indispensable, war, expulsion, massacre, and domination ......," Roy, who was sitting in the carriage, spoke, "Not to mention anything else, at the beginning of the establishment of the Erikon Empire in the Eastern Continent, there were hundreds of ethnic groups within its borders, but now, more than half of them are difficult to find...... Did they stop breeding and disappear automatically? Of course not, they were forced to identify with the empire either dead or assimilated and annexed. The expansion of the empire will be in vain, but it will be followed by a golden age of order, civilization, and development in the wake of bloodshed. Throughout history, most of the famous killings and bloodshed have been committed by powerful empires, but at the same time, the most splendid cultural and social progress has been made during the same period and under the rule of the same empire. ”

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