NOVEL WEB Conquering the Heavens: Beginning at Hogwarts
Chapter 84 The City of Rome Like a Sieve
Chapter 84 The City of Rome Like a Sieve
That was shocking!
A major disadvantage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, oh no, it is a major disadvantage in the entire history of civilization——
embezzling military expenses!
They have done too much, it is so outrageous here that no one can bear it!
Pan De didn't understand, what kind of greed could make them do such a thing in a semi-isolated state from the outside world?
Pan De knew that it was inappropriate for him to do it directly,
After all, he's only here for the first day.
Even the so-called battle outside the city and the basic situation of the city of Rome are not very clear, let alone how the city of Rome operates.
Originally, he wanted to sort out a base of his own, so he made a drastic move to kill those moths directly.
But I didn't expect it!
Those moths who stand in official positions and do nothing are not bad!
Pan De looked at the intelligence record in his hand, shocked!
Verolian introduced him the detailed situation of the whole city of Rome.
The Roman Empire is the largest slavery empire in the world. The military merit system and slavery system are very complete. Slaves can be redeemed as civilians through the arena, and then promoted to citizens through military merit.
Commoners can become citizens by studying and taking exams, citizens can hold elections, become officials, and then become nobles.
This is similar to the system of Daqin, which gave ordinary people room for improvement.
But that was before.
For thousands of years, with the reduction of wars and the unfettered continuous development of nobles, all the channels of ascension have been blocked.
Soldiers who are fighting abroad can only go to the outer city when they rotate supplies, and the standing army defending inside can only be a standing army for a lifetime.
The internal officials are inherited from generation to generation, and the high positions are all controlled by the nobles, and the citizens can only be small staff like office officers, without any chance of advancement.
Not to mention slaves.
Verolian gave Pender the data ten years ago. As for why it was ten years ago, because no one has counted and updated the data in the past ten years!
Ten years ago, the city of Rome had a population of nearly 5000 million.
Among them, 2000 million are slaves. They are in the outer city. They are the population plundered by the troops who are fighting outside. They are responsible for repairing the walls and serving as laborers when the inner city needs to build buildings.
2000 million civilians live in Ercheng. Ten million citizens and nobles live in the inner city.
But please note that this data is ten years ago!
original,
The descendants of the slaves will be taken away, and the children taken away will be raised intensively, and it will take almost only one generation to become Roman civilians through study.
This is how the population of Mirror Rome grew.
But now, ten years from now,
These slaves in the outer city have been bred for almost three generations, and the three generations of reproduction, plus the troops who went out to fight brought back some new slaves from time to time,
Its real population is terrifyingly doubled, more than the combined population of the two cities in Rome!
Three generations have passed and they are still slaves!
How terrifying is the backlog of hatred and contradictions?
If they rebel, how can they compete with the population of the inner city alone?This is a crisis at the door!
This is not over yet,
There is also the issue of corruption!
Rome collects poll tax. Because of its developed commerce and high per capita income, 15-year-old adults receive one gold coin a month, and high income such as commerce is charged separately.
For the poll tax alone, there should be a base of 3000 million per month, right?
But in the past ten years, it was only less than 2000 million per month, and it was all paid by civilians.
In other words, these aristocrats, even citizens, are blatantly evading taxes!
In December of this year, it was 2000 million, ten years!
There are even more outrageous, commercial taxes and military spending.
Let's talk about military spending first.
The last normal military expenditure ten years ago, the standing army was 500 million gold coins a year, maintaining a standing army of [-], and added a million patrols.
The three troops fighting abroad, plus pensions, equipment updates, and personnel supplements, cost only 800 million a year.
That's only 900 million.
But later, less and less, less and less!
Now that Pan De came here, last month, an army of 10 people only received 100 million gold coins. This is not even enough for pensions, let alone updating equipment!
No wonder the stormtroopers had only rags left on the battlefield.
If this was Pender, he would have rebelled long ago!
This is simply not going to survive!
Then there's business and taxes.
There is no commercial tax at all. Foreign caravans have tax payment records, but they never see where the money is.
In terms of city tax,
Just counting the payment, 2000 million a month, military expenses plus other expenses in the city, and half a year's tax, 2000 million,
What about the remaining 2000 million?Where did the ten years of taxes go?
There are only 5000 million gold coins in the treasury, which is too outrageous!
Although the city of Rome is semi-closed, but judging by the level of prosperity in the conquest, there should be many cities similar to it.
They have trade, and if there is trade, there will be interests, and people will want to enjoy it, but this swallow is too outrageous, right?
Rome has been beating others, aren't they afraid of being beaten one day?
What a pig!
There was no vitality in the entire city of Rome. No wonder when Pender just arrived, everyone looked at them with fear.
There is also a reason for this!
Pan De rubbed his head, it was too difficult.
It is also necessary to rectify officials, amend laws, improve taxation, combat corruption, stabilize the morale of the army, and appease slaves.
This is something that is already known, so there is no need to talk about those public grievances.
"It will take complete control of the city of Rome. I don't know how long it will take. I don't know what happened to Hermione and the others. The plot of the Chamber of Secrets has also changed. I don't know if something will happen..."
……
Hogwarts,
Hermione was lying on the bed. She was very tired recently. She had to go to class every day. After class, she helped Professor McGonagall sort out the documents, then studied, and refined gold and medicine at night.
Now she knew how Pender lived before, it was simply not human.
In front of Pan De, the kind of life-stricken reading that I used to do was like pediatrics. How easy it is to read and learn, but it is difficult to practice while learning!
You have to use your brain to learn, and you have to be distracted from experiments.
Whether it's magic spells, alchemy, or medicine, it's all extremely complicated and mind-consuming. It's okay to fail if you don't pay attention, but if it explodes...
It is said that there was a freshman in Ravenclaw this year, and her mother died in a magical experiment.
That is to say, after knowing this, Hermione understood why there are so many strange magic circles arranged in Pendor's room,
Those are used to prevent accidents.
"Really, it's been a week. Why hasn't Pender come back? A lot of things have happened recently, and more people have been involved. Even the duel club at night has been suspended, but there are still no clues."
While writing the diary in the notebook, Hermione muttered and looked out the window, which was the direction of the Forbidden Forest.
Hermione knew that the place they went to was the Forbidden Forest, which meant that Pendor was still inside.
"If Pan De was here, would he take care of this matter? It seems not. He seems to be afraid of trouble, but wouldn't it be a bigger trouble if he left it alone?"
Thinking of this, Hermione suddenly became happy.
He happily wrote in his diary,
"Sure enough, Pender's habits are different from mine, I still like to join in the fun!"
(End of this chapter)
That was shocking!
A major disadvantage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, oh no, it is a major disadvantage in the entire history of civilization——
embezzling military expenses!
They have done too much, it is so outrageous here that no one can bear it!
Pan De didn't understand, what kind of greed could make them do such a thing in a semi-isolated state from the outside world?
Pan De knew that it was inappropriate for him to do it directly,
After all, he's only here for the first day.
Even the so-called battle outside the city and the basic situation of the city of Rome are not very clear, let alone how the city of Rome operates.
Originally, he wanted to sort out a base of his own, so he made a drastic move to kill those moths directly.
But I didn't expect it!
Those moths who stand in official positions and do nothing are not bad!
Pan De looked at the intelligence record in his hand, shocked!
Verolian introduced him the detailed situation of the whole city of Rome.
The Roman Empire is the largest slavery empire in the world. The military merit system and slavery system are very complete. Slaves can be redeemed as civilians through the arena, and then promoted to citizens through military merit.
Commoners can become citizens by studying and taking exams, citizens can hold elections, become officials, and then become nobles.
This is similar to the system of Daqin, which gave ordinary people room for improvement.
But that was before.
For thousands of years, with the reduction of wars and the unfettered continuous development of nobles, all the channels of ascension have been blocked.
Soldiers who are fighting abroad can only go to the outer city when they rotate supplies, and the standing army defending inside can only be a standing army for a lifetime.
The internal officials are inherited from generation to generation, and the high positions are all controlled by the nobles, and the citizens can only be small staff like office officers, without any chance of advancement.
Not to mention slaves.
Verolian gave Pender the data ten years ago. As for why it was ten years ago, because no one has counted and updated the data in the past ten years!
Ten years ago, the city of Rome had a population of nearly 5000 million.
Among them, 2000 million are slaves. They are in the outer city. They are the population plundered by the troops who are fighting outside. They are responsible for repairing the walls and serving as laborers when the inner city needs to build buildings.
2000 million civilians live in Ercheng. Ten million citizens and nobles live in the inner city.
But please note that this data is ten years ago!
original,
The descendants of the slaves will be taken away, and the children taken away will be raised intensively, and it will take almost only one generation to become Roman civilians through study.
This is how the population of Mirror Rome grew.
But now, ten years from now,
These slaves in the outer city have been bred for almost three generations, and the three generations of reproduction, plus the troops who went out to fight brought back some new slaves from time to time,
Its real population is terrifyingly doubled, more than the combined population of the two cities in Rome!
Three generations have passed and they are still slaves!
How terrifying is the backlog of hatred and contradictions?
If they rebel, how can they compete with the population of the inner city alone?This is a crisis at the door!
This is not over yet,
There is also the issue of corruption!
Rome collects poll tax. Because of its developed commerce and high per capita income, 15-year-old adults receive one gold coin a month, and high income such as commerce is charged separately.
For the poll tax alone, there should be a base of 3000 million per month, right?
But in the past ten years, it was only less than 2000 million per month, and it was all paid by civilians.
In other words, these aristocrats, even citizens, are blatantly evading taxes!
In December of this year, it was 2000 million, ten years!
There are even more outrageous, commercial taxes and military spending.
Let's talk about military spending first.
The last normal military expenditure ten years ago, the standing army was 500 million gold coins a year, maintaining a standing army of [-], and added a million patrols.
The three troops fighting abroad, plus pensions, equipment updates, and personnel supplements, cost only 800 million a year.
That's only 900 million.
But later, less and less, less and less!
Now that Pan De came here, last month, an army of 10 people only received 100 million gold coins. This is not even enough for pensions, let alone updating equipment!
No wonder the stormtroopers had only rags left on the battlefield.
If this was Pender, he would have rebelled long ago!
This is simply not going to survive!
Then there's business and taxes.
There is no commercial tax at all. Foreign caravans have tax payment records, but they never see where the money is.
In terms of city tax,
Just counting the payment, 2000 million a month, military expenses plus other expenses in the city, and half a year's tax, 2000 million,
What about the remaining 2000 million?Where did the ten years of taxes go?
There are only 5000 million gold coins in the treasury, which is too outrageous!
Although the city of Rome is semi-closed, but judging by the level of prosperity in the conquest, there should be many cities similar to it.
They have trade, and if there is trade, there will be interests, and people will want to enjoy it, but this swallow is too outrageous, right?
Rome has been beating others, aren't they afraid of being beaten one day?
What a pig!
There was no vitality in the entire city of Rome. No wonder when Pender just arrived, everyone looked at them with fear.
There is also a reason for this!
Pan De rubbed his head, it was too difficult.
It is also necessary to rectify officials, amend laws, improve taxation, combat corruption, stabilize the morale of the army, and appease slaves.
This is something that is already known, so there is no need to talk about those public grievances.
"It will take complete control of the city of Rome. I don't know how long it will take. I don't know what happened to Hermione and the others. The plot of the Chamber of Secrets has also changed. I don't know if something will happen..."
……
Hogwarts,
Hermione was lying on the bed. She was very tired recently. She had to go to class every day. After class, she helped Professor McGonagall sort out the documents, then studied, and refined gold and medicine at night.
Now she knew how Pender lived before, it was simply not human.
In front of Pan De, the kind of life-stricken reading that I used to do was like pediatrics. How easy it is to read and learn, but it is difficult to practice while learning!
You have to use your brain to learn, and you have to be distracted from experiments.
Whether it's magic spells, alchemy, or medicine, it's all extremely complicated and mind-consuming. It's okay to fail if you don't pay attention, but if it explodes...
It is said that there was a freshman in Ravenclaw this year, and her mother died in a magical experiment.
That is to say, after knowing this, Hermione understood why there are so many strange magic circles arranged in Pendor's room,
Those are used to prevent accidents.
"Really, it's been a week. Why hasn't Pender come back? A lot of things have happened recently, and more people have been involved. Even the duel club at night has been suspended, but there are still no clues."
While writing the diary in the notebook, Hermione muttered and looked out the window, which was the direction of the Forbidden Forest.
Hermione knew that the place they went to was the Forbidden Forest, which meant that Pendor was still inside.
"If Pan De was here, would he take care of this matter? It seems not. He seems to be afraid of trouble, but wouldn't it be a bigger trouble if he left it alone?"
Thinking of this, Hermione suddenly became happy.
He happily wrote in his diary,
"Sure enough, Pender's habits are different from mine, I still like to join in the fun!"
(End of this chapter)
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