"Establishing a Barbarian Khanate on the Human Empire's border? Do you think His Majesty the God Emperor would agree? Would the Grand Council approve it?" Yavenni asked from where she was curled up on the sofa in Landen's guest room.
"They will. Letting the Barbarians establish an independent country under the same arrangement as the Gallop Kingdom—one government, two names—will bring enormous benefits to both Gallop and the royal family," Landen said confidently.
Landen was so certain because he had a very clear understanding of the current population of the Gallop Plains:
"Whether they're nobles from the Dragon Kingdom or the Imperial Capital, they don't consider Barbarians or Beastmen their own kind or fellow citizens. Yet these races, whom the nobles don't even regard as people, make up the majority of the Gallop Plains. Even after I brought in nearly two hundred thousand human slaves, I still couldn't change the population structure.
Night-Kirin City can't treat them as outsiders, so someone needs to take responsibility for managing these traditionally stateless residents of the Empire."
"What you're doing is downright risky. You'd be better off bringing in commoners from the Imperial Capital. At least they wouldn't form a separate ethnic group." Yavenni was skeptical of Landen's argument,
"But after all that you've said, what's in it for the royal family? Does the royal family need a bunch of Barbarian private soldiers?"
Landen shook his head. "First of all, these Barbarians are all followers of the God Emperor. To educate these believers, you'll need Priests, Bishops, and an army to defend the faith, right?"
When Landen had met the God Emperor's incarnation, Alexei, a few days earlier, he had specifically pitched his idea: establish a separate Khanate for the Barbarians, with the official posts divided equally among the Barbarians under Landen, the