Roman Slave Owner

He kept all the children of the family, slaves, freed slaves, tenant farmers safe, and they were a safety to protect and be protected.

When these diners encounter difficulties, such as financial difficulties and legal disputes, the patron should help them tide over the difficulties.

When the patron encounters difficulties, these disciples should also provide various kinds of help. In addition to this, there is politics, and these disciples must provide unconditional political agreement with the protector.

They have to support whoever the patron tells them to support.

Up to now, the client system still exists, and all free slaves automatically become the client of the original slave owner.

This relationship is extremely complex and can even be hereditary.

Labinus, Caesar's most trusted right-hand man, betrayed Caesar and defected to Pompey during the civil war with Pompey.

The reason is that his family has been tenants (mentors) of the Pompey family for generations, which shows how strong this relationship is.

In the war between Sulla and Qinna, Pompey pulled up the strength of three legions at a time, relying on his tenants (mentors).

This relationship of protecting and being protected can even be extended to dignitaries and a kingdom.

In the Third Punic War, Scipio the Younger, who eliminated Carthage, formed a relationship of protection and protection with the Kingdom of Numidia.

Scipio the Younger must fully understand the thoughts of the King of Numidia, oppose all resolutions unfavorable to the Kingdom of Numidia in the Senate and Citizens Assembly in Rome, and support resolutions beneficial to the Kingdom of Numidia.

It is also necessary to provide various Roman news to the Kingdom of Numidia, which will become a special link between Numidia and Rome.

The Kingdom of Numidia will also provide various supports to Scipio the Little, whether it is financial or military support. Later, due to the death of Scipio the Little and the King of Numidia, the bond was invalidated, and Rome and the Kingdom of Numidia The famous Jugurtha War broke out between them.

At the moment those gladiators became freed slaves, Livi gave the gladiators his clan name of Bocius.

For example, Carus, he can use Livi's first name Lucius and his clan name Bocius, plus his surname, so that Carus' Roman name is Lucius Bocius Carus, this reflects their inseparable connection with the Levi family to protect and be protected.

As long as he can infiltrate his industry into every aspect of Capua and have a large number of followers, then he will have a huge influence in Capua.

After all, the administrators of Capua and the elders of the Senate were all elected. Even Sulla, the great dictator, had to hold arena games to please the citizens of Rome. These administrators were nothing.

Is 2000 guards too many?

Geta said with a look of shock.

not much!

Li Wei shook his head and said, 2000 guards are not many at all.

Rome has been in great turmoil these years, mainly because of Marius and Sulla.

The relationship between the two can be described as a sea of ​​hatred. Since Marius reformed the military system, Rome has become war-prone.

First, more than a million Germanic barbarians went south with their families, and the number of soldiers alone reached 300,000. The Romans and Germanic people fought in a dark, bloody river. Rome finally defeated the two Germanic tribes.

Then there was an alliance war waged by many tribes in Rome in order to obtain Roman citizenship. The whole of Rome was divided into two parts, and both sides played out their brains.

Later, the conflict between Sulla and Marius broke out completely. Sulla ran back to the Capua garrison and cried, and finally led his men into Rome and drove Marius out.

At this time, something happened in the east, and the Greeks turned against it. The king of Pontus massacred the local Romans, and Sulla conquered the east. Marius, Cinna, and Capo immediately took the opportunity to return and recapture Rome. The massacre that lasted for five days and nights really killed people's heads and blood flowed like rivers.

Among them were a large number of civilians, senators, knights, and even consuls and tribunes, simply because they failed to stop Sulla's proposal.

Even Mario's relatives and the two uncles of Julius Caesar were ordered to be killed by Mario, which is really crazy to the extreme.

But before long Marius died, leaving a mess behind.

Li Wei traveled through this period of time, but he knew that this was not the end, it was just the beginning.

After Sulla pacified the war in the east, he returned to Rome and fought again and again with Marius' allies Cinna and Capo, and finally succeeded in occupying Rome.

Sulla immediately copied the scene of Marius, and the massacre was even more tragic than Marius.

A total of more than 130 senators and 2,600 knights died in the hands of Su and Marius, and almost half of the 300 senators were killed by them.

Is this the end?

Endless!

Not only the uprising of Sparta, but also the war between Caesar and Pompey, and the war between Antony and Octavian.

This is only the major wars that took place in Italy, excluding some small-scale wars, other provinces of Rome, and foreign countries.

Because there were too many wars in Rome, a famous Roman historian also wrote two thick Civil Wars.

Thinking of this, Li Wei let out a long sigh.

It's not good to fight too much, isn't it good for everyone to sit down and make small money together?

In addition, we also need a huge castle, which can accommodate hundreds of people for production and labor and nearly ten thousand people to live in.

Levi said.

It costs a lot of money, and a lot of land around it is not ours, we don't have enough land.

Gaita said.

Don't worry about money, we will have more and more money. What we have to do is find a way to acquire the surrounding land, and leave this to Yulia.

Levi said.

OK.

Yulia took this matter to heart.

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Capua is located in the Campania region, where the land is fertile and spring-like all year round, with plains rarely seen in Italy.

The entire Capua has a population of about 100,000, which is a rare big city.

Enter Via Albon, which divides Capua in two, and turn towards the labor market.

It was a very noisy place, with Capuans in various shorts waiting to be hired.

Since the Punic War with Carthage, the nobles and knights of Rome have become richer and richer.

Like the ancient Chinese, they were full of love for the land and invested a lot of money in the purchase of land.

In the event of natural and man-made disasters, those Roman citizens had to sell the land in their hands.

Therefore, the land in the hands of Roman civilians is getting less and less, but those nobles and knights still like to use slaves. After all, slaves don’t need to pay, they just need to take care of food, which is really good and cheap.

So the Roman citizens were tragic, and more and more Roman citizens went bankrupt, and they couldn't even be tenant farmers.

Throughout the hundreds of years of the Roman Republic, it has never been able to form a class of tenant farmers like China.

Hence the reforms of the Gracchi brothers, which unfortunately failed.

Although the nobles made some concessions, and Marius also carried out military reforms and absorbed some poor people into the army, the fundamental problem could not be solved for the increasing number of bankrupt troops.

Just as Geta came here with a few people, a person surrounded him.

Excuse me, do you need someone to work? I can be a carpenter, and I can also farm and raise cattle.