At the main gate of Steel City, the grand metal gates stood wide open as Wild Boar cavalrymen filed out through the main entrance and four side gates on either side.
This morning's target was the "Freedom City" watchtower. Steel City and Freedom City were not far apart, so there was no need to bring the Sun Fortress. It had been left beside Steel City to continue converting Sun Citizens.
After negotiating with He last night, Su Xiao exchanged 100,000 vassal soldiers for 700,000 Pigheads. These Pigheads had been sent over from "Freedom City" overnight.
The number of Pigheads in vassal territory was difficult to calculate. The official figure was no more than six million, but in reality, the number of Pigheads in vassal territory had probably already reached a one-to-one ratio with the vassals.
Why was that? Because vassals were lazy by nature. Judging from the time involved, the vassals had been exploiting Pigheads in this manner for at least two hundred years.
By now, a certain trend had formed in vassal culture. Any vassal who engaged in manual labor would be scorned, looked down upon, and even bullied by others.
It was no wonder the vassals had become this way. From birth, every one of them associated physical labor with Pigheads. Vassals formed this impression in childhood: only Pigheads did manual work.
This created a shortage of labor among the vassals. The vassal higher-ups at the time had two choices. First, they could guide public opinion through newspapers, media, education, and other means to correct this misconception. The drawback was that the people would strongly resist.
The second option was to relax restrictions on the Pighead trade and issue permits allowing Pigheads to work in a wider range of industries.
The drawback was that the Pighead population would