"My family recently unearthed the mark of an ancient god..." Fabius stood up without hesitation and ended the silence. Then a group of senators, including Caesar, all spoke in high spirits about summoning the ancient god.
Dangerous things, like the meeting has ended.
As for Pompianus, he stood on the podium and was trembling. He feared that the country was not about to end, but that it was already over!
At this moment, including the elders who once coveted the position of Treasurer, they all silently gave up this position. Now everyone is holding the idea that Pompianus, you should just die in the position of Treasurer. I am afraid that this position has already been
No one can take it, it’s not a loss, you can do it, you can do it! From now on, you can take it until you die, this position will be given to you, who would be crazy to take over!
If the difficulty of the position of financial officer during the Five Wise Emperors was C, then it was almost B during the Commodus period. By the time of Severus, it was probably A due to the expansion of the army. However, it is already so difficult, you Pompeanu.
Si was still able to play around with a surplus, which made Severus ecstatically expand his army and distribute food and pay indiscriminately.
After you stepped down, a comparison between the two parties revealed that the difficulty of this position was probably immeasurable. For a while, no one dared to take the blame. I originally thought that with the wealth plundered from Anxi, it would not be difficult to take the financial officer position.
After a period of time, you can seize the opportunity and knock him out of power with a wave of attacks. Changing someone else will have no impact.
Now, haha, Pompianus is probably beaten to death. They and the Senate have to work together to find a way to fill the hole for Severus. The food and salary for the 400,000-strong army is already over-paid, and there are also rewards. Who wants to torment whom?
Come on, no one with brains will fight against Pompianus anyway. Whoever kills Pompianus at this time will raise the food and salary of hundreds of thousands of people that year.
Even if there are only half of them Roman citizens, Severus's habit will not trick the barbarians who serve as soldiers. Even if there is a small number of soldiers, it is a bit too scary under such a huge base. This pot must not be used.
Take that, Pompianus, it would be better for you to die in office.
Looking at the senators below who had begun to take out the seals and summoned them on the spot, and at the group of senators gathered in twos and threes to comment on the summoning ceremony, completely ignoring the tiredness in their hearts, Pompianus felt a strange feeling
idea.
[Perhaps His Majesty sent this news on purpose just to let these senators understand that they cannot touch me now, right?] Pompianus comforted himself, but for some reason, he still felt it from the bottom of his heart.
To a kind of sorrow, this country! This Senate!
The ancient god was finally summoned, and then he was captured by the Tenth Eagle Banner Legion using Miracle Mode. God and whatnot, the strength is indeed there, but it also depends on the opponent. Compared with the time in First Italy,
An old god overthrew the Roman Senate, and Rome, guarded by the Tenth Knight, directly grasped the connection with the summoning ceremony at the moment when the ancient god went berserk.
There is no way that even if it is a conceptual thing, as long as the Tenth Knight forcibly touches it, the miraculous state can still grasp that concept with a human body.
To put it simply, if the Tenth Knight wants to force time to stay, as long as they have this awareness, then they can do it. The difficulty is very difficult, and the time that can be forced to stay is very short, but whether they can do it or not can not do it completely.
They are two concepts.
The way to capture the ancient god this time was that the Tenth Knight forcibly dragged away the pitcher who was the link between the summoning rituals, and the ancient god was also captured by them. After a group fight, the ancient god was captured alive.
It is extremely simple and the effect is extremely cruel, but the members of the Senate think it is natural. After all, he is the tenth knight in the presence of Caesar, a mere ancient god...
Dion silently took out the papyrus, recorded what the Senate had done today, and finally made a comment - Rome is a beautiful and sunny city, and it is extremely peaceful today.
In short, no one will measure up to Pompianus, and no one is willing to feel Pompianus' current grief. The Senate is still going further and further on the road of seeking death.
After the Ancient God was taken down, the Senate started the second issue, regarding the request for assistance after the Kushan alliance. To be honest, since colluding with the Han Dynasty, the Senate has no interest in forming an alliance with the Kushans.
In the past, the greatest significance of Kushan was the Maritime Silk Road. Relying on the sea route, Kushan could transport a lot of silk from the Han Dynasty every year. But that was in the past. Now, Rome has killed Anxi, and the Han Dynasty has also decided to
Contact with Rome overland.
Value Roman also obtained the pricing power of silk, and the price dropped to one-third of the previous price. There was no interest in the high-priced silk of Kushan. After all, the silk obtained by Kushan was not a very good thing.
You can’t get genuine Shu Brocade at all.
Since the Han Dynasty has an official camp, there will be some very rare items that are equivalent to tributes. After all, the Han Dynasty also wants to be proud. It’s not true that they don’t give out any top-quality goods. If this is the case,
If so, I'm afraid this trade won't last long.
Therefore, now the Roman nobles can basically buy silk of a higher level than before at one-third of the previous price, so naturally they have no interest in Kushan.
The main reason is that Rome has now seen the situation clearly. Their own legs are short. Although the Han Dynasty has long legs, the distance between the two sides is too far, and there is no way to fight. At most, it is local friction. Although the empire is so huge, a friction
The strength is enough to make some small countries ascend to heaven.
But on the level of Rome and the Han Dynasty, it was friction.
Besides, Rome and the Han Dynasty are still in the honeymoon period. Rome even wants to sell all the horse farms recovered from Parthia to the Han Dynasty. However, because the distance is too far, it would be awkward for Rome to send them back.
The Han Dynasty wanted to do it, but driving hundreds of thousands of horses across thousands of miles was really a bit crazy.
So the horses that Rome got from Parthia are now in their hands. Recently, the Romans are fooling their own legion commanders into getting cavalry. However, in terms of effect, it is basically useless. The Romans are not very suitable for cavalry, except for cavalry.
A few legions are in need of war horses, and other legions...
If it weren't for the fact that the Han Dynasty would definitely move here, these horses might still be available for sale. Rome now wants to sell these war horses to citizens at low prices as mounts.
In short, what is the current situation in Kushan? Rome has no interest in it. If Kushan wants to hire Roman legions, Rome has no interest. Now the Roman Empire does not have anything extravagant. Many problems can be solved by force, and force
If it can't be solved, Kushan can't do much to help. It's just such a reality.
Therefore, after this issue was raised, most of the elders in the Senate abstained from voting and expressed their disinterest in participating. The rest were thinking about the interests involved, but in the end they all felt that there was really no point in forming an alliance with the Kushans, and it was better to hook up with the Han Dynasty.
.
"I think we can continue the relationship with Kushan. We are under a lot of financial pressure now." Pompianus suddenly said, and the others just shut up, and then looked at Pompianus with a complete expression.
, you said it with the expression you said.
However, the working senators in the Senate also understood what Pompianus meant in an instant. There are only two biggest problems in Rome now. One is that Severus is always expanding his military strength, which makes the country's finances increasingly difficult.
One is that the number of barbarians is increasing, which will sooner or later have an impact on the current civil system, leading to the collapse of the Roman civil system.
Therefore, after Pompianus spoke, the elders who were actually working all had their eyes flickering, and they understood Pompianus's meaning almost instantly. This guy seemed to want to consume some of the barbarians and make the country's situation worse.
Ping Ping, on the other hand, I am afraid that he also wants to reduce some expenditures to help Guishang fight. He cannot let Rome pay for them.
Maybe they could get some of the profits from this group of mercenaries. After all, in Pompianus's situation, the main ones sent there were barbarians.
However, this issue was still removed and was not passed. Although the senators in the Roman Senate understood the value of this matter, they also had to think about the impact of doing so, so this matter was shelved first.
Pompianus didn't say anything else. He knew that this issue was only shelved and not taken down, which meant that it would be very likely to be passed in the future, especially as time went by, the Senate became more and more
After feeling that Rome's foundation is unstable, it will definitely pass.
The prosperity of the Roman Empire was due to the strong centripetal force of the civil system, and the decline of the Roman Empire was also due to the limitations of the civil system. It is not possible that no one could see this, but it is just that it is hard to recover.
At this level, it is absolutely impossible for the Romans who enjoy the treatment of Roman citizens to give up the interests in their hands. And when the barbarians find that they cannot get into this system even if they sharpen their heads, I am afraid that the Roman Empire is still close to collapse.
Not far away.
But now Roman citizens still retain most of the country's power and most of its finances, and can still rely on other means to maintain the country.
As for the future, even Papinian, Ulpian, Pompianus, and Severus will not be able to do anything. Anyone who knows can see the crisis in Rome, especially with the Han Dynasty as a
After comparison, many senators knew that Rome had gone astray, but after so many years, even the foundation of the empire rested on it, and it was no longer possible to reform.
Because if Rome wants to transform into the Han Dynasty, the first thing that must be touched is the interests of six million citizens, and Roman citizens are the foundation of Rome. This is an endless cycle!
