On Cao Cao's side, because Liu Ba needed to anchor the relationship with Rome, the output of the sugar factory was basically all supplied to the eastern border counties of Rome. Sugar was a strategic material, and the conditions offered by the eastern border counties were very good. This matter was mentioned by the Roman senator.
The hospital also knew about it, and even made a fuss about reducing the sugar ration in the eastern border counties, but nothing happened in the end, which is enough to show how big the matter was.
Let's put it this way, without the support of Duke Ganassis, the sugar industry purchased from the Kandahar area by the minions in the eastern border counties would have been taken back by the Senate group long ago.
By the way, this is why the plan to open up the Atlantic Ocean requires Duke Nigel to personally lead the team. Without the Duke to lead the team, it will be confiscated if it succeeds, and it will be nothing if not successful.
But precisely because the Duke was behind it, the matter was messed up, which put great pressure on Gelius, so when he sent the urgent secret message to the eastern border counties, he elaborated on the current situation and hinted
It is necessary to organize troops to exert pressure, etc.
After all, this is not a small amount of money, 90 million denarii, even if it raises the Roman Eagle Banner Legion, it can support almost ten people. Now the upper and lower lips of the Han Dynasty touched like this, and the matter stopped with a chirp, but
Where’s the money? Where’s the sugar? Where’s the human investment?
This is not because Grius is irrational, but because this matter is really big, the nobles and citizen groups involved in this matter in the eastern border counties will definitely be furious when they receive the news.
Gelius didn't understand at all why the Han Dynasty's Minister Pushe could so easily say that this matter had been revealed in advance, and he also wanted Rome to withdraw 200 million denarius in supplies first!
How big a face is this? You must know that this is 200 million denarii in supplies. Even Pompianus needs the consent of the entire Roman Senate to pass it. The problem is that the Roman Senate has a brain in the head to agree to such a thing.
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However, he cursed in his heart, and he still had to do what he was supposed to do as an envoy, so Chen Xi's letter was delivered to Pompianus in the most efficient way.
"Pompianus, you are also a member of the Claudius family, so it is not good for the current head of the family." Caesar sat in the Senate and watched Pompianus scrawling and correcting the year-end settlement report.
Know that this is not real data.
"It's okay. If you need money, you can get it from the Claudius family's private treasury. It's better to use less of the country's money." Pompianus said calmly.
Pompianus has recently stopped resisting the fact that he is a member of the Claudius family, because it is meaningless. Except for the outsiders and businessmen who have sneaked in, the remaining 80% of the Senate are with
Claudius has nothing to do with him. In the past, everyone cooperated with the new emperor and pretended to suppress Claudius. Now the emperor is also Claudius, so he still pretends to be a hammer! Me too!
"Is there really any difference?" Caesar asked in confusion. The difference between the Claudius family's private treasury and the national treasury is probably that the Claudius family's private treasury has more money than the national treasury.
There's really no difference other than that.
"I just realized that there are other ways to hide money, so that the country looks like it has no money, but in fact it always has money." Pompianus said with a bit of a smile, "Besides, the lack of money in the treasury does not matter.
The head of state used money from his private treasury to continue to pay bonuses to soldiers."
"Treasurer, the urgent secret report from the Han Dynasty needs your personal review." The guard took the secret report from Grius and conducted a series of checks before sending it over.
"Let me see, it's rare. Did something happen to the Han Dynasty?" Pompianus said gently with a smile on his face. Compared with Zhengshi's hard work, there were only a few years left before he was buried.
In this life, Pompianus was well maintained and could live for more than ten years.
After receiving the secret letter, Pompianus read it. It was not the secret letter from Grius, but the letter from Chen Xi. Pompianus had obtained the highest-grade telepathic beads from Kushan, and also
I have studied Han Dynasty writing, and by combining the two, I can accurately understand the meaning of Chen Xi's letter.
As soon as he opened the letter, Pompianus was still laughing after reading the beginning, thinking that the servant of the Han Dynasty had asked him, the financial officer of Rome, to help him as long as the matter was not too big. But then,
As the content of the letter progressed, Pompianus couldn't hold back his smile, and even his face gradually became ugly.
It's not a material worth 200 million denarii. For Pompianus, there would be no difficulty in either agreeing or disagreeing with this kind of thing. What really made Pompianus dignified was what Chen Xi said in the letter.
The economic operation described by Liu Ba under the command of Cao Cao, the Han Sikong, is as visual as Pompianus himself.
However, now there was a thunderstorm in Liu Ba. How big the thunder was, Chen Xi also wrote in the letter, and Pompianus even had the feeling of seeing himself in the future.
"Fetch Dio!" After reading the letter, Pompianus couldn't help but tremble and his face turned pale, but he immediately asked the guards to notify Cassius Dio.
Dio soon rushed over and looked at Pompianus with a strange expression. Although he was also a member of the Senate, he had very little contact with other people.
Dio's hobbies were organizing historiography, collecting contemporary materials, and writing diaries. It was this guy who collected and organized the history from the Roman Empire to the Age of Severus, and it was this guy who compiled the first half of the history of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
"Caesar the dictator, Pompianus the quaestor." Dio bowed slightly and saluted the two of them. Caesar waved his hand perfunctorily, and Pompianus bowed in return.
"I remember that you manage all our external and internal intelligence." Pompianus asked Dio.
"Ah, I don't manage intelligence. I just collect and summarize expired intelligence. To understand the intelligence, you need to go to Herodian." Dio said very calmly. He is not in charge of intelligence. He just goes there every day.
While collecting and sorting out expired information, I can write a diary.
"Bring me all the information about Cao Sikong of the Han Dynasty." Pompianus ordered decisively after confirming that Dio had this thing.
"There is quite a bit of this." Dio nodded and said, "I'll get it for you."
After speaking, Dio left, and Caesar looked at Pompianus with a strange expression, "Why do I feel that something is wrong with you?"
"Something happened. Although the letter from the Han Dynasty gave a certain explanation and is indeed logically consistent, I need to check the information carefully to make sure there are no omissions." Pompianus said solemnly.
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Liu Ba's early path was almost exactly the same as his, and the same was true for both parties in raising funds to develop industries. However, Liu Ba's sudden thunderstorm made Pompianus shiver. He never thought that he would do it again.
With such a result, even Pompianus understood to some extent that Cao Cao's fate was the result of Liu Ba's serious overshoot. He was very rational and restrained in this aspect.
But just thinking about the situation Liu Ba faced, Pompianus was a little panicked. He really couldn't guarantee that the bastards in the Senate didn't do this, especially the Claudius family. In Rome,
In this place, the Claudius family can do anything!
As for others not being able to do this in the name of Pompianus, is this a problem for Claudius? It’s as if your Pompianus name is not Claudius!
If there were no direct descendants of the Claudius family in the past, such as Pompeianus and other close nobles, and other members of the Claudius family basically had no way to touch porcelain, then now, Severus is crowned by Caesar
As the legitimate direct descendant of Claudius, is it okay to mess around in the name of Pompianus?
Just thinking about it, Pompianus's head grew three times. If Severus dares to do so, he definitely dares. If Severus takes the lead, the other Claudius members will have nothing to do.
Don't dare, the great Claudius family unites around the new head of the family, and the whole family becomes invincible, what is there to be afraid of!
Just thinking about it made Pompianus' hair stand on end. If this thing really happened, Cao Cao's today would be their Rome's tomorrow!
No, it will only be worse than Cao Cao's situation today. At least Cao Cao still has the Han Dynasty and Rome to help him out. If Rome sends three times more money, it will be useless even if the Han Dynasty is filled!
Thinking of this, Pompianus's heart skipped a beat. He didn't say that this damn loophole must be closed today. Thank you to Chen Hou, the Minister of the Han Dynasty, for your advice.
Based on this letter, even if the information Dio brought did not show Liu Ba's death, Pompianus decided to help Cao Cao. Two hundred million denarii was indeed a lot of supplies, but it was not impossible for Rome to get it.
When you come out, you should treat it as a return of favors and a return of favors.
Dio quickly came with a few guards carrying a thick stack of information. The papermaking technology of the Han Dynasty had completely destroyed the clay tablets and papyrus of Rome. Of course, Rome did not think this was a cultural invasion. They were
I really think this thing is useful.
So Rome spent a lot of money to purchase papermaking technology from the Han Dynasty. As for printing, the Han Dynasty these days also used engravings, not movable type. Rome said that printing was fine, and it was better than engraving technology in the world.
One, blah blah blah and the like.
Of course, this is not a lie. Roman carving technology is indeed quite outrageous. There is really nothing to say about this. So after acquiring papermaking technology, the Romans, like the Han Dynasty, converted a lot of previous materials into paper.
, and due to the convenience of paper books, the Roman side, like the Han Dynasty, also recorded many things that had not been recorded on clay tablets and bamboo slips before.
However, compared to the Han Dynasty, the Romans obtained papermaking technology and first printed a Latin common standard for citizens. They spent a lot of money, but the effect...
Well, it strengthened the unity of the text and further made the barbarians realize that only citizens were the core idea of Roman orthodoxy.
Then because Latin was too difficult for Roman citizens to learn, the commonly used characters in Latin were not changes in glyphs, but a complex system of twists and turns, with complex internal and external twists and turns. As a result, after citizens got this common standard, they felt that Chinese characters
On the contrary, it is better to learn.
In fact, after Latin was popularized back and forth by Rome and Christianity, the reason why it still failed was because it was just too difficult.
After the Roman citizens realized that they really couldn't learn this kind of writing and it was just fine to be illiterate, they decisively gave up on themselves. However, after careful study, the citizens who were somewhat motivated found that this thing was too difficult to learn and felt that it was too difficult to learn.
Other high-end writings were enough to prove the high-end Romans, so the Thousand-Character Chinese Characters were used for study by the Romans.
After all, the scale of trade between the Han Dynasty and Rome was huge these days, and there were many people traveling between the two sides. The races of Rome and the Han Dynasty were very close. As for the Romans, they had black hair, black eyes, and white skin, while the Han Dynasty had black hair and black skin.
Yellow eyes and skin, in this era without soap, a ghost can tell the difference.
The natural habit of human beings is to divide people into groups. Compared with the barbarians, who are a race that is a bit different from themselves at first glance, they come from another powerful empire and are of the same race as themselves. Naturally,
Will take the initiative to get closer.
Over time, not even the professionals in the Han Dynasty learned Latin, let alone read and written. However, a large number of people in Rome had learned Chinese. Most of the Romans who were engaged in trade in Chang'an were
I can even read and write Chinese characters.
No way, compared to Latin, English, and French, which require constant addition of new words and continuous extension of structures, as long as you can recognize and write a thousand common characters in Chinese characters, let alone read and read newspapers.
, you can even write novels...
So the Romans found that Chinese characters were easier to learn, and the Han Dynasty was a high-end empire like their own. Learning Chinese characters could make them a top student in the country. Many motivated Roman citizens wandered around the Han Dynasty for a few years. Really
After learning Chinese characters, I almost learned them as well as the locals in Chang'an.
Rome did not realize the impact of this kind of thing, and still had exactly the same attitude as before in terms of promoting Latin learning. So Roman citizens who returned from the Han Dynasty and members of the Han Dynasty who were hanging around in Rome began to
Actively convey Chinese.
According to this pace, in about a hundred years at most, Chinese will be able to be mixed into the Roman mother tongue. Who makes Latin so difficult to learn? It is extremely painful for linguists to learn it.
The Roman citizens were badly mistreated. Think about it, they were originally from families that could receive education, but they were forced to become illiterate by the anti-citizen language Latin popularized in the Roman Empire.
I can still speak, but I can't even read and write.
This is also the reason why there were very few philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians among Roman citizens. They were all abused by Latin. Latin was popularized in the Roman Empire. After studying hard, the vast majority of Roman citizens realized that Latin
Seriously anti-human, you can’t learn!
I couldn't even learn to write, and I couldn't learn the advanced content later on, so I gave up. As a result, many Roman citizens, who clearly had the conditions for universal education, were illiterate.
The author went to work. It was painful. By the way, I discovered that there seemed to be a serious separation between my translation and the current translation. In my translation back then, the Roman historian was named Cassios Dion, a Christian-reformed version.
That one was called Cyprian, and the boss of the eastern border county was called Ganassis. Now the version has changed to Cassius Dio, Cyprian, Galeuses, and a bunch of others whose translations have changed.
It makes me read as if it is a fake book. Fortunately, I can search it online. It’s amazing. Please vote quickly and save the cute new author.
