Roman Slave Owner

Their family's power in Capua is deeply entrenched.

It is not difficult to become a Capua administrator as long as you unite some nobles and knights.

In fact, the administrators of Capua are basically held by several nobles and knights in turn. If Saiyanus hadn't turned to Qinna and relied on Qinna's sudden emergence, it would be basically impossible for him to become the administrator of Capua.

In the eyes of Tullius and his son, Saiyanus is just an upstart.

I suggest you don't do that yet.

said old Tullius.

why?

The movement in Tullius' hands paused, and he asked curiously.

I'm afraid...

Old Tullius' eyes showed fear, I'm afraid that Sulla will come back. Now Rome is undergoing a major change. Think about those famous families who were executed by Mario, which one is not far stronger than us The Tullius family, but they all died under Mario's butcher's knife.

Many of those famous families were the ones he couldn't even curry favor with, but they disappeared almost overnight.

More than once, he thought painfully, what happened to Rome and how it came to be like this.

Tullius' hands were also trembling slightly. Marius had become a murderer and tyrant in the eyes of many nobles, completely ignoring Roman law. Since the founding of Rome, there had never been such a large-scale massacre of nobles and knights.

Not only did he kill the enemy, he even killed his own relatives, the Caesar family. Even he hated Marius, a warrior, but he was more afraid of him.

Fortunately he is dead, but his allies are still there, and Cinna and Capo are also true tyrants.

If you become the administrator of Capua, when Sulla returns to Rome, you will inevitably be involved in the dispute between Cina and Sulla. What are you going to do then? Help Sulla or Cina?

said old Tullius.

Little Tullius fell into deep thought. The administrator of Capua holds great power, so he must be the target of the two sides.

At that time, the two sides will force him to make a choice. If he makes a wrong choice, it is likely to plunge the Tullius family into an unstoppable situation.

We should shrink some unnecessary actions recently, so that the family can get through this chaos safely. With the strength of our family, as long as we don't participate in the dispute between the two parties, I believe they will not do anything to us.

Old Tullius said with great confidence.

Although the Tullius family is weak and cannot be compared with those great Roman nobles, they still have strength.

Tullius nodded thoughtfully. Several families withdrew from the administrative dispute. It may not be without consideration in this regard. It is because he did not think carefully.

Okay, I withdraw from this administrator contest.

said Tullius.

By the way, I heard that there is a little guy from Capua who recently made a fortune and is recruiting family guards.

said old Tullius.

Yes, his name is Li Wei, and he opened a gladiator training school. Dio has been coveting his family property. It is said that he beat him up secretly and killed several of his guards.

Little Tullius knew almost everything about Capua.

Look back and inquire about his news, if it is valuable, try to win him over, maybe it will be useful when.

said old Tullius.

OK.

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In Li Wei's villa, Li Wei was talking with Geta and others about the progress of various tasks.

Our guards have recruited more than 2,000 people. Do you want to stop recruiting people?

Gaita said.

He is probably the most excited person now. Managing dozens of people and 2,000 people are obviously two different concepts. He is equivalent to half of the legion commander.

Just stop, first divide these people into three groups,

Train exactly the way the military does.

Levi said.

How to train, we are a little short of manpower.

Gaita said in distress.

Let them be divided into groups freely. People who are familiar with each other stay in a small team. Every ten people choose two people. After they report their names, we will decide who will be the tenth commander and deputy tenth commander. Let them train in units of ten first.

Levi said.

Deputy Commander?

Geta looked confused, what is this?

He is not surprised by the election of the captain of the ten men, because the head of the Roman legion was always elected in the past.

We may recruit more people in the future, when the time comes, we will directly let the Deputy Chief of the Ten Commandments be the Chief of the Ten Commandments.

Levi said.

His idea comes from the double officer system of some armies in later generations, which has the advantage of being very easy to expand the army. As long as there are officers, the shelf of a legion will be set up.

It turned out to be like this, but why did the Patriarch recruit so many guards? But he didn't intend to think deeply about the issue.

no problem.

Gaita said.

In addition, select some officers with rich war experience from the guards. I plan to hold an officer training class to train our officers.

Levi said.

As a writer, he had read a lot of novels before and collected a lot of information, especially the Germanic officer corps. He was very interested in this, or he would create one himself.

Patriarch, you...are you going to set up...a ​​military academy?

Geta asked.

Li Wei thought about it, and it was incredible that Rome already had a special military academy. Maybe I can send some people to train in the future.

It's not a legion, it's just a training class. If there is a chance, we will hold one in the future.

Levi said.

Geta's face was shocked. Was it because the head of the family had too much money to run a military academy? Don't you know how much it costs to set up a military academy?

What he didn't know was that Li Wei had really established a military academy in the future, and it was the most famous military academy in the entire Mediterranean.

He didn't take this seriously, thinking that Li Wei was just bragging.

Yulia, how is the acquisition going?

Levi asked.

A few days ago, Naples gave him a large sum of dinars, and he finally started his own acquisition plan.

I bought two wineries these days, these two can produce wine and mead, and they both have 500 yogs of vineyards (one yog is a day's land for cattle, about 1/4 hectare of land) , but the cost is 20% more than the market price.”

Yuliya said, In addition, 800 yogs of land were acquired sporadically, including 500 yogs of private land, 300 yogs of sublease state land, of which 20 yogs were planted with sugar beets.

Some of Rome's land was state-owned land, and Rome leased these lands to Roman citizens for a small fee.

This kind of land can also be sublet, in fact, it is not much different from private land.

However, there are restrictions on this kind of land, and the state-owned land owned by one person cannot exceed 500 yuge.

A smile appeared on Li Wei's face. If only he could have so much land in his previous life, he would be able to live a leisurely life as a big landlord.