Sweep the World

After becoming the supreme ruler, you can't do whatever you want, so the attractiveness must be reduced a lot.

Among all the countries in the world, only a few supreme rulers can do whatever they want. This is based on the premise that all violent institutions belong to the supreme ruler. Those who have control of force naturally have the power to do whatever they want.

Although Augustus on the Roman side had mastered the arms, such as those legions, not all the legions were allegiance to Augustus, and then each family had its own private army. The same is the force in his hand, not that one party is holding a knife and the other party is paralyzed on the ground.

In many countries, as long as they have enough financial resources, they can form private armies. The ruler can easily wipe out one or two families that control the private armies. However, once they do it, they will inevitably cause panic. The families of the private army unite, and even if the ruler wins, they won't get much, and if they lose, they will be overthrown.

The cost of hands-on is too great, and it becomes a sensible choice to be able to do it without hands-on. That also constitutes a political balance. Under the ruler's inability to dominate and blessing, they usually learn to compromise if they don't want the country to mess up.

"So for a long period of time, each family has its own direction of expansion?" Wang Meng was very curious about the rise of Rome. He had already asked a lot about the most important points: "Caesar, Sura, Crasu... Did they establish Daqin's strength?"

"Pubulius Cornelius Scipio is a sage." The man Marcus Marca said was a famous general in Rome in the war with Carthage: "The most critical war for our rise. It was the victory over Carthage and the final destruction of Carthage."

In short, Carthage’s non-destruction will always be the obstacle to the expansion of Rome. If Carthage is not solved first, the rise of Rome will be impossible to talk about, and there will be nothing like Caesar and others. Rome will always be. A regional power trapped in the Italian peninsula.

"What you are talking about is the law of Rome's expansion." Marus Utansis said very seriously: "We all have our own responsibility, which is to carve out more land for Rome and obtain more with the sword in our hands. slave."

"We are also doing this now." Cai Mian thought of the Indochina Peninsula, and said in a low voice: "Now all families, they are also doing the same thing."

Wang Meng knows one thing, although the situation is similar, there are fundamental differences within.

As the ruler of the Han Kingdom, Liu Yan encouraged families to go out to find their own interests. The financial and capable families in the south organized thousands of armed men to spread joy in the Indo-China Peninsula. The families in the north could go to the Western Regions or the grasslands, but even if they had the financial resources, People cannot be recruited endlessly. Armed personnel have a strict number limit. Even the armed personnel formed belong to the order of the country from the law, and are not a family private army in the true sense.

It's different here in Rome. The family private army is the family. Each family recruits and selects people to form a private army. It provides weapons and equipment, various food and drinks, and also pays military salaries. Soldiers swear allegiance to the family or someone in the family. There is even a situation where the country does not have enough money to pay the corps. The commander in charge of the army pays out the stipend out of his own pocket. Soldiers with the corps commander’s salary consciously change the object of allegiance, even if the corps still maintains the national designation. , But it has actually become the personal armament of the corps commander.

"So we are breaking out a civil war." Marcus Marka said with a wry smile: "Constantinople has more than 20 legions, but in fact, more than half of them only have a serial number."

To be clear, the commander of the legion is still loyal to Constantius, so the legion will naturally fight for Constantius. When the legion commander does not want to fight for Constantius, direct neutrality of the army is the best result. Maybe as the legion commander turns allegiance to the enemy of Constantius, then the legion will definitely attack the king without hesitation. The power of Stantius.

By the way, there is no such thing as military pay in Zhu Xia's side. In fact, ordinary soldiers have no military pay at all. Only when the position reaches a certain level can they get salary. Soldiers can only rely on seizures or whether the country provides rewards. However, the soldiers actually got the benefits when they enlisted in the army. For example, land is equivalent to a one-time buyout type.

"What we envy the most is that you don't need to pay soldiers." Marus Utansis is really envious. He may be complaining, which means: "The Utansis family's annual military expenditure alone is huge. Two years ago, our family was able to maintain three legions, but now it’s almost impossible to maintain even one legion."

It seems that the trade from Rome to the Gupta dynasty is really profitable. Can they maintain the Utansis family and raise three legions?

Wang Meng and others have understood that, for example, Marcus Marca’s family has large tracts of land, but there is no army of their own. At most, they can maintain a family of two hundred armed forces, even if the entire Rome can form three There are not many families in this legion, and you can understand how dissatisfied the Utan Sith family is with the Han country.

"They used force to frighten each other and have been maintaining a fragile balance." Wang Meng waited for the Romans to disappear before saying: "Compared with us, Rome needs more enemies."

"Yes." Cai Mian lost his thoughts, and he indulged for a while before saying: "They pay attention to ancestry, and they don't pay attention to ancestry, but they didn't block the way to progress."

No one can tell whether Zhuxia’s system is good or which country or nation’s system is good. No matter what system it is, people create rules.

On the Zhu Xia side, whether it was in the ancient period when the family had a private army or when there was no private army in the family, according to the long-established rules, opposing the emperor is both opposing the country, especially after the Xianhan became the home of the world. The authority of the emperor has been strengthened the most.

The country is the property of the emperor's family, and everyone except the emperor has become a slave. It's just that if the emperor really treats him like a slave, the results will be different. The emperor wants you to be hello, I’m hello, everyone will naturally be in peace, but once the emperor really doesn’t treat people as human beings, disturbances will definitely be inevitable, and the most serious thing is to be overthrown.

The emperor of Zhu Xia, as long as the subjects do not want to rebel, the emperor has always been restricted by morals. In theory, no one can restrain the emperor.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu came up with the system of sensation between heaven and man, in order to further restrain the emperor, but Liu Che is a person who can be restrained, and the result is naturally that the Confucianism who holds high the banner of unification and shouts for revenge is supported and supported. Pay attention to it, but Dong Zhongshu, who proposed the induction of nature and humanity, has not been reused in his life.

In terms of political power, the prime minister of the first Han Dynasty was actually used to restrict the existence of the emperor. The problem was that the emperor felt very bad. For example, Liu Che repeatedly suppressed the power of the prime minister. The Huns have not been resolved, otherwise the country really doesn't know in which direction it will rampage.

In the current Han country, Liu Yan is of course the supreme existence. It must be said that he is in a very special period. He has mastered both force and theocracy, and there is no restriction.

The results have already emerged. The whole country can follow Liu Yan's will to make any move, even if countless people think that the war should be stopped to recover the country from the ruin after the war, but as long as Liu Yan feels that he needs to continue to go abroad. Expansion, the army's conquest will not stop.

For a wise ruler, mastering absolute power can let go of his hands and feet to make the country grow stronger and stronger, but not all rulers who master absolute power will do the right thing, so the ruler will After making mistakes in decision-making time and time again, we have suffered bitter results. For example, if people can't stand the ruler, they will get into trouble, the country will become turbulent, and then the ruler will become the king of subjugation.

While talking, they walked through the market area of ​​the pier, but entered a residential area.

I don’t know if it’s because Rome didn’t have the habit of planning a city, or the officials here were negligent.

The buildings in the residential area are messy, and the result is that there are no straight roads at all. There are even small alleys in many places, but the small alleys are so blocked. If you don't want to detour, you can only remove things that stand in the way. .

"This place will be a nightmare for the invading army." Dou'a turned around and was messed up: "There are messy alleys everywhere, and things are randomly placed. It is difficult to recognize the way in the chaotic building complex. Any house needs to be contested, and if you encounter a determined defender, you will have to pay a great price."

The Romans actually had a good set of urban planning. The city of Rome was built quite magnificently, but the problem was that it was divided into high-level, medium-level, low-level and lowest-level areas. The high-class area is naturally inhabited by the great nobles. Buildings and various facilities are planned in the form of a manor, and there must be wide roads and passages. The medium is a smaller manor, and its land area and various facilities are inferior to the high-grade manor. The low-level houses are very ordinary houses, which are not easy to see, and the passages are mostly small roads and laneways. The lowest level area looks the same as where they are now.

The only thing that Han people can't stand is the smell of poop. The air is full of **** and poop. If you accidentally step on papa in the alley, some people even pour **** and pee without seeing if there is anyone underneath.

"This is a city of feces and urine." Cai Mian used a cloth towel to surround his mouth and nose: "If it is only for the sanitation of the city, the Persians are more civilized than the Romans."

Everyone looked at the muddy road subconsciously, and when they saw it, many people vomited. It was all filthy at first glance.

In any city in Han, you can’t see this kind of situation anyway. It doesn’t mean that there is absolutely no feces in the corner alleys, it is not so scary. Secondly, the feces of the residents are collected at designated points, so they will not be thrown into the streets indiscriminately, and the city will never be full of feces and urine.

After a while, everyone finally reached a road paved with stone slabs. The key is that the stone roads are full of footprints and dirt, which is really not clean. The better thing is that you don’t have to step on the dirty mud anymore. .

The stone road leads to the temple of the goddess of wisdom. After passing a section of the residential area, you can see a large square, and you can see a lot of very large and high pillars at a glance, which support the roof of the building .

There are fountains and several erected statues in the square. If the Romans hadn't driven them out in advance, it would have been crowded with people coming to relax.

The temple is located on a high platform. If you want to go from the square to the temple, you need to go up three steps. There is a statue on the left and right sides of the main entrance. One is a female knight riding a horse and the other is standing and holding hands. A stone mold.

"The goddess Athena can be dressed as a warrior, and she can also spread wisdom with a book in her hand."

Marus Utansis introduced like this, and the crowd dazzled, and it turns out that the two statues are different postures of the same god.

"Athens has always been one of the largest cities in the Greek city-states. The local people are all believers of the goddess Athena." Marcus Maccabi gave an inviting gesture and continued to introduce as he walked: "Athens is a history A very old city with a resident population of about 100,000 and very developed commerce."

Just now when everyone was walking through the alleys ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, they have seen a lot of handicraft workshops, and there are all kinds of productions, and we can indeed see that the business atmosphere is very high.

"The city of 100,000 people is more than Constantinople." Marus Utansis added: "She has always been the most populous city in Greece."

Cai Mian was very interested in the population distribution under Roman rule, so he kept asking questions.

According to the Romans themselves, the city of Rome used to be the most prosperous place. The resident population was close to 300,000 at one time, but now there are only more than 100,000 left. Within the territory of Rome, there are very few cities with a resident population of more than 100,000. Most of them are only coastal cities. There are even fewer places where they can be called cities. The vast majority of people live in towns or villages. .

"Constantinople has only been a capital city for twenty-seven years. Before that, it was a very ordinary city." Marus Utansis would say such a thing, he learned from Marcus Marka. In Han State, there are at least three cities with a population of over one million: "We have been working hard to build it, and it will become a prosperous city."

Now, Wang Meng and others understand at least that the Romans have a large territory, but there are few big cities. The Romans are distributed and the population is not excessively concentrated.