[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

Rome prospered more than war, but it was also destroyed by war.

Relying on war, Rome is like the empire on which the sun never sets more than 1000 years later. It used violence to pry open the doors of other countries, relied on trade and absorbed the blood of the colonies to achieve its own prosperity, and finally became the first choice for immigrants from all over Europe.It can be said that compared with Rome at this time, some lighthouse countries in the Kneeling Clan are like younger brothers.After all, although everyone knows the double standard of the Beacon Country, on the surface, they still want to pull a rag called "equality" to somewhat cover up the inherent racial inequality and violence.

But in ancient Rome, such rags did not exist.

Because the existence of the "Citizenship Law" and the "Law of Peoples" is to show the inequality in front of everyone without reservation, and tell everyone directly that your class is set as early as birth, so you just To obey it, not against it.

In this respect, the Romans are also quite mysterious-a country that pursues a republic takes hierarchy for granted.

As for what these have to do with the destruction of Rome, it can only be said that as an empire grows bigger and stronger, its centrifugal force will also increase.

Just like you can't manage a big factory or a big company with the same way you manage a small workshop.

Nor can you govern a country with a population of several million in the same way that you manage a city-state with tens of thousands of people.

As Rome's trade grew larger and its wars farther and farther away, its travel costs, logistical costs, and military costs were slipping out of the control of the system at an alarming rate.

Regardless of the fact that ancient Rome has been "advanced" to have banks, lenders, and various financial institutions, but compared with the modern monetary system, the ancient Roman currency that abandons various titles and gold content is actually only divided into gold coins and silver coins. , its existence will not only cause various depreciation problems due to the passage of time, but also cause poor currency circulation due to its weight, which cannot satisfy the existing trading market.

And considering the sensitivity of the Romans to the state apparatus and freedom, no one dared to engage in the operation of a big bank except for the temple.Even if the emperor himself, if he does not want to be labeled as a tyrant who plunders the people's property, he has to "discuss" with various forces before using the treasury.

In this regard, considering that increasing taxes will cause public grievances, the routine operation of ancient Roman politicians is to wind up the water - reduce the weight of the currency by reducing the gold and silver content, thereby alleviating the difficulties in military expenditures, but it will also cause inflation. .

Julius Caesar used high-purity gold coins to stabilize the currency market, which made all walks of life in Rome develop greatly.

During the reign of Octavian and Tiberius, the further optimization of the financial system and the restriction of unnecessary expenditures eased Rome's treasury, which was exhausted from military expenditures, and even further strengthened the Roman market to some extent. Stablize.

However, when Caligula was in power, his tyranny in just three years tore a big hole in the expenditure of the treasury. Even though Claudius eased after he came to power, the blue is better than the blue. Lu directly used a Roman fire and the fall of Pompeii to accelerate the devaluation of ancient Rome's currency unprecedentedly, almost turning ancient Rome into Germany after World War II or Venezuela, which is printing money like crazy.

In this regard, Octavia, who had time to do something, frantically collected better gold and silver coins before, because her ambition was to control the currency power and most of the circulation channels in ancient Rome, just like As Mayer Rothschild once said - "As long as I can control the currency issuance of a country, I don't care who makes the laws."

Throughout history, the political circles in Europe and America are actually controlled by plutocrats behind the scenes.

As with the Medici, so with the Rothschilds.

Octavia's ambition is to turn the Lepidus family into the Medici of ancient Rome.

But the question is, with the money, how does she start?What means should be used to prevent the counterfeiting of currency or tokens?

You must know that at the moment when metal currency is popular, some people spend a lot of manpower and material resources to counterfeit currency, fill the inner core with cheap metal, and then coat it with a thin layer of gold and silver to fool people's eyes.

If Octavia really wants to get involved in the banking business and open a bank with various value-added services instead of a small treasury in the temple, then the emergence of checks and anti-counterfeiting methods, policy support, and enough customers are the most important things. The huge capital reserve is also a headache for Octavia.

If obtaining the right to recast currency is only something that can be done by coaxing Nero, then what Octavia is going to do now is not to be able to be turned a blind eye by the Senate or the Citizens Assembly by coaxing the emperor Close one eye and let it go.

Just like she used military pressure to force the tripartite forces to pass the power modification to Roman women.

This time, Octavia also wants to create an environment suitable for bankers to survive for her own ambitions, and she can even secretly recruit a wave of competitors to prevent "short-sighted" rich men from robbing her of business.

It was at this moment that Vespasian with a gloomy face came to the palace on Mount Palatine, waiting for a new round of negotiations with Octavia.

"Do you have to punish me so far?" Due to his private contact with Aurus Vitellius, Titus, the successor of Vespasian, was selected into the priest reserve of the temple and received monitoring and Octavia's remote control: "You should know that I have no intention of being your enemy."

Considering that her mother has been in the Matrona salon again and again, she gradually favors Octavia.Wei Pasian has no doubt that if his heir dies in the hands of Octavia, then his mother will quickly launch a puppet to inherit everything of him—as long as Octavia can drive one for her Satisfactory price, then Weissang's mother does not mind letting other children replace Weissang.

"Okay, don't play this trick." Octavia sneered: "Whether you are my enemy or not, I know it, and you know it too. If that's the case, let's stop talking nonsense."

After finishing speaking, Octavia clapped her hands, signaling for a long-awaited guest to appear in front of Vespasian.

Narcissus, Claudius' most trusted secretary, and Akdai, who had served little Agrippina.

It can be said that the appearance of these two people gradually replaced Weissang's gloomy expression with fear.

If it weren't for him, Octavia, and these two people in the room, Wei Paxiang would suspect that his head had fallen to the ground.

"What do you want to do?" At this moment, Wei Paxiang clearly realized that he was not negotiating with Octavia for his son, but negotiating with Octavia to save his family from being destroyed.

"I obtained very beneficial things from the relics of the young Agrippina. For example, some report documents after your father fled the battlefield. For example, the Flavius ​​family once funded Tiberius the Younger to fight for the throne. Evidence." Octavia smiled and said, "These things alone are enough to cleanse the Flavius ​​family a thousand times."

"I thought you were the one who disdained using informers to bankrupt political opponents." Wei Paxiang licked his lips and said calmly, "An upright monarch would not use such methods."

"The upright monarch was assassinated by his confidants under the statues of his political enemies, while the not so upright monarch would use unscrupulous means to achieve his goals." Octavia retorted: "History will not remember the losers, so I don't mind that."

Weissang's breathing became rapid, and the hands on his knees gradually tightened, and finally turned into a long sigh: "I see."

"Please tell me what you want to do."

"I remember that when you were a public security officer, you seized a lot of low-level litigation documents. There were many things about counterfeiting currency, yin and yang contracts, and deduction of military officers' interest, and forcibly expropriating the real estate of loan repayers." Octavia nodded lightly. Looking at the table, he said without a doubt: "No matter who threatens you, you must send someone to review these lawsuits and give justice to the poor."

"If those blind guys come to threaten you, you can let them come to me."

"I believe they will, like you, be willing to make the right choice in the midst of financial disaster and family destruction."

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"The upright monarch is assassinated by his confidants under the statues of his political enemies, while the less upright monarch will use unscrupulous means to achieve his goals." ——The former refers to Caesar, and the latter refers to Augustus.