After becoming the supreme ruler, he cannot do whatever he wants, then the attraction must be much lower.
Of all the countries in the world, only a few supreme rulers can do whatever they want, and that is based on the premise that all violent institutions belong to the supreme ruler, and those who wield the force of force naturally have the right to do whatever they want.
Although Augustus on the Roman side was armed, such as those legions, not all legions were allegiance to Augustus, and each family had its own private army.
The same is that the force is in the hand, not that one party is holding a knife and the other is paralyzed on the ground, and if you want to do it, you are waiting to be ruined, so you naturally have scruples.
In many countries, as long as the financial resources are sufficient, they can form a family private army, and the ruler can easily exterminate one or two families that control the family private army, but once they do it, it will inevitably cause panic, so that I don't know how many families who control the private army will unite, and even if the ruler wins, he will not be able to gain much, and if he loses, he will be overturned to the ground.
The cost of doing it is too great, and it becomes a rational choice not to do it without doing it, which constitutes a political equilibrium, and the ruler cannot be powerful and does not want the country to be in chaos, and usually has to learn to compromise.
"So for a long time, each family has its own direction of expansion" Wang Meng was very curious about the rise of Rome, and had asked a lot, and talked about the most critical place: "Caesar, Sula, and Crassus, they laid the foundation for the strength of Great Qin" "Publius Cornelius Scipio is the sage."
Marcus Marca refers to this man as a famous Roman general in the war with Carthage: "The most crucial war of our rise was the victory over Carthage and the final destruction of Carthage." ” In short, the immortality of Carthage will always be an obstacle to the expansion of Rome, and if Carthage is not solved first, the rise of Rome will not be able to talk about it at all, and there will be nothing to do with Caesar and others, and Rome will always be a regional power trapped in the Italian peninsula.
"You're talking about the Roman law of expansion."
"We all have our own responsibility, which is to use the sword in our hands to open up more land for Rome and get more slaves," said Murus. ” "We're doing that right now."
Cai Mian thought of the Indochina Peninsula, lowered his voice and said, "Now all families, they are also doing the same thing. ” Wang Meng knows one thing, although the situation is similar, there is a fundamental difference in nature.
As the ruler of the Han State, Liu Yan encouraged each family to go out to find their own interests, the wealthy and capable families in the south formed thousands of armed personnel to go to the Indochina Peninsula to spread joy, and the families in the north could go to the Western Regions or the grasslands, but even if they had the financial resources, they could not recruit people endlessly, and the armed personnel had strict quantitative restrictions, and even the armed forces formed belonged to the national sequence in terms of legal provisions, and were not family private armies in the true sense.
It's different here in Rome.
The private army of the family is the family's, and each family recruits and selects people to form a private army, provides weapons and equipment, all kinds of food and drink, and also gives military salaries, and the object of the soldier's sworn allegiance is also the family or a person in the family.
There is even a situation where the state does not have enough money to pay the legion, and the corps commander who commands the army pays the military salary out of his own pocket, and the soldier who holds the corps commander's salary will consciously change his allegiance, and even if the legion still maintains the national name, it has actually become the personal army of the corps commander.
"So we're in a civil war."
Marcus Marca smiled bitterly and said, "There are more than twenty legions in Constantinople, but in fact, more than half of them have only a number sequence. ” To put it bluntly, the legion commander is still loyal to Constantius, so the legion will naturally still fight for Constantius.
When the legion commander no longer wants to fight for Constantius, the direct neutrality of the army is the best outcome, and perhaps as the legion commander turns to the enemy of Constantius, then the legion will definitely not hesitate to attack Constantius's forces.
By the way, there is no such thing as a military salary on the Zhuxia side, in fact, ordinary soldiers do not have military pay at all, only when the position reaches a certain level, and the soldiers who want to get rich can only rely on the capture or whether the state rewards them.
However, when a soldier enlists in the army, he has already received benefits, such as land, which is equivalent to a buyout type.
"What we envy most is that you don't need to pay soldiers."
Malus Utansis was genuinely envious, probably complaining, that is, "The Utansis family is a great burden just to distribute military expenses every year, two years ago our family was able to maintain three legions, and now it is almost impossible to maintain even one legion." ” It seems that the trade from Rome to the Gupta dynasty was really profitable, and it was able to maintain the Utansis family to raise three legions Wang Meng and others have understood, for example, Marcusmarca's family has a large area of land, but they don't have their own legions, at most they can maintain a family armed force of two hundred people, even if there are few families in Rome that can form three legions, they can understand how dissatisfied the Wutansis family should be with the Han State.
"They have used force to intimidate each other and have been maintaining a fragile balance."
Wang Meng waited until there were no Romans in the vicinity before he said, "Compared with us, Rome needs enemies more." ” "yes."
Cai Mian fell into thought, and pondered for a while before saying: "They pay attention to bloodline, but they don't pay attention to bloodline, but they don't block the road to progress." ” No one can say clearly whether the system on the Zhuxia side is good, or the system of which country or nation is better, no matter what the system is, in fact, it is people who create the rules.
On the Zhuxia side, whether it was the ancient period when the family had a private army, or the stage when there was no family private army, with the rules that have been formed for a long time, opposing the Son of Heaven is also opposing the country, especially after the Han Dynasty became the family of the world, the authority of the Son of Heaven has been strengthened to the greatest extent.
The state is the property of the Son of Heaven's family, and anyone except the Son of Heaven has become a domestic slave.
It's just that whether the Son of Heaven really treats him like a slave or not, the results will be different.
If the Son of Heaven wants you to be good, I am good, everyone is good, and naturally they will be fine, but once the Son of Heaven really doesn't treat people as people, chaos will definitely be indispensable, and the most serious thing is to be overturned.
The Son of Heaven of Zhuxia, as long as the subjects do not want to rebel, the Son of Heaven has always been only bound by morality, and theoretically no one can restrain the Son of Heaven.
In the Western Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu came up with the set of heaven and man induction, in order to further restrain the Son of Heaven, but where is Liu Che a person who can be restrained, the result is naturally that Confucianism, who holds high the banner of great unification and shouts revenge, is supported and valued, but Dong Zhongshu, who proposed the induction of heaven and man, has not been reused in his life.
In terms of political power, in fact, the prime minister of the first Han Dynasty was used to restrain the existence of the Son of Heaven, the problem is that the Son of Heaven felt very bad, for example, Liu Che repeatedly suppressed the prime minister's power, and the prime minister became an ornament, and there was an absolute power imbalance, and the loss was that the Xiongnu had not been resolved, otherwise the country really didn't know which direction it would rampage.
In the current Han Kingdom, Liu Yan is of course the supreme existence, and it has to be said that he is in a very special period, he has mastered both force and divine power, and there is no constraint.
The results have already been revealed, the whole country can do anything according to Liu Yan's will, even if countless people feel that the war should be stopped to recover the country from the ruin after the war, but as long as Liu Yan feels that it is necessary to continue to expand abroad, the army's conquest will not stop.
Holding absolute power is for a wise ruler to free his hands and feet to make the country strong and powerful, but not all rulers who have absolute power will do the right thing, then the ruler will suffer the consequences of decision-making mistakes again and again, for example, people really can't stand the ruler will get into trouble, the country will become full of smoke, and then the ruler will become the king of the country.
As they talked, they walked through the market area of the docks, but they entered a residential area.
I don't know if Rome didn't have the habit of planning cities, or if the officials here were negligent in their duties, but the market was not the most chaotic place, but it was not in any place that looked in any order, and it was like this with people and buildings.
The buildings in the residential area are in a mess, resulting in the fact that there is no straight road at all, and even many places have to take small alleys, but the alleys are so blocked that you don't want to detour and move away from the road.
"It's going to be a nightmare for an invading army."
Dou'a was already disorienting himself as he turned around: "There are alleys everywhere, things are placed indiscriminately, it is difficult to find the way in the chaotic buildings, every house needs to be fought for, and if you run into a determined defender, you will have to pay a great price." ” The Romans actually had a very good idea of urban planning, and the city of Rome was built quite magnificently, but the problem was that it was divided into high, middle, low, and lowest areas.
The high-class area was naturally inhabited by large aristocrats, and buildings and facilities were planned in the form of manors, and there were certainly wide roads and passageways.
Medium is a smaller manor with less land and facilities than a high-end manor.
The low-level houses are very ordinary, and the appearance will not be easy to see, and the passages will be mostly small roads and lanes.
The lowest area looks like where they walked now.
The most unbearable thing for the Han people is that the air is full of the smell of feces and urine, and if you are not careful in the alley, you can step on the poop, and there will even be people who will splash feces and urine without looking at whether there is anyone below.
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"It's a city of and pee."
Cai Mian had already wrapped a cloth towel around his mouth and nose: "If you just compare the hygiene of the city, the Persians are more civilized than the Romans." ” Everyone subconsciously looked at the muddy road, and many people vomited at a glance, which looked like it was full of filth.
In any city in the Han Kingdom, you can't see this situation like this anyway, not that there is no and urine in the corner alley, it's not so terrifying.
In addition, the excrement of residents is collected by someone at a fixed point, so it will not be splashed on the streets indiscriminately, and the city will definitely not be filled with the smell of feces and urine.
After a while, everyone finally came to a road paved with stone slabs, and the key point was that the stone road was full of footprints and dirt, and it was really not clean, and it was better to not have to step on those dirty mud anymore.
The stone path leads to the temple of the goddess of wisdom, and after a period of residential quarters, you can see a rather large square with a number of very thick and tall pillars supporting the roofs of the buildings.
The square was filled with fountains and several erected statues, and if the Romans hadn't been in a hurry, it would have been crowded with people coming to relax.
The temple is located on a high platform, and to go up the temple from the square, you need to go up three steps, and there is a statue on the left and right sides of the main entrance, one is a female knight riding a horse in a charging posture, and the other is standing holding a stone mold.
"The goddess Athena can dress up as a warrior and spread wisdom with a book in her hand."
As soon as Malus Utansis introduced this, everyone came to their senses, and it turned out that the two statues were different postures of the same deity.
"Athens has always been one of the largest cities among the Greek city-states, and the local people are all devotees of the goddess Athena."
Marcus Maccabi made an inviting gesture and continued as he walked: "Athens is a city with a very long history, with a resident population of about 100,000 and a very prosperous business. ” When everyone was shuttling through the alleys just now, they had already seen a lot of handicraft workshops, making everything, and it was indeed clear that the business atmosphere was very high.
"A city of 100,000 people is a little more than Constantinople."
Marus Utansis added: "She has always been the most populous city in Greece. ” Cai Mian was very interested in the distribution of the population under Roman rule, so he kept asking questions.
According to the Romans themselves, the city of Rome was once the most prosperous place, with a permanent population of nearly 300,000 people, but now there are only more than 100,000 left.
Within the boundaries of Rome, there were very few cities with a permanent population of more than 100,000 people, most of them were still coastal to this size, and even fewer of them could be called cities, and the vast majority of people lived in towns or villages.
"Constantinople has only been the capital for twenty-seven years, and it was a very ordinary city before."
It was from Marcus Marca that he learned that there were at least three cities in Han with a population of more than one million: "We have been working hard to build it, and it will become a prosperous city." ” Now, Wang Meng and others have at least learned that the territory of the Romans is very large, but there are very few big cities, and the Romans are in a state of distribution, and the population is not excessively concentrated
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