The world in the book is real and exciting, and although Cai He is not a qualified storyteller, he can always record the most critical parts.

They stayed on the island of Britain for a few days, exchanged some furs, met a Roman slave, and finally set sail into the Mediterranean.

The situation in the Mediterranean Sea is described here: there are few winds and steady, and the speed is getting faster.

The mysterious trip to Rome has finally begun.

Readers can't wait to turn the pages and read more.

Rome is not the strongest in the Mediterranean, but it is the country with the most potential, a democratic slave society.

At the beginning of the book, Cai He's impression of Rome is relatively simple: warm, comfortable, and enjoyable. Reading between the lines, it can still be seen that Cai He has a good impression of Rome.

Of course, the days in Rome are not short, and Cai He's impression of Rome is constantly changing.

The prosperity of the city of Rome was supported by countless slaves behind it.

Slaves and slaves are slaves.

Since the discovery of the New World, the word slave has accompanied the entire story of the Great Voyage. The reader will not understand, no matter whether the civilization is primitive or advanced, how can it be all slaves? Although there is still human trafficking in Daqin, it is all carried out in secret, and the law has long prohibited human trafficking, and slaves have slowly withdrawn from the stage during the Zhou Dynasty, I did not expect that slaves would be so popular in the outside world, I can't imagine it.

Then it was seen that Rome had no emperors and kings, and that they had governors in each city, and these governors were decided by the senate and the citizens' council.

Such a novel system baffled the people of the Qin State.

The ministers thought: If there is no one who is in charge, how can they 'shake the pot'?

The nobles thought: how can there be no king?

The commoners thought, "There is no emperor?" Isn't this abnormal? Is there not even a Ming monarch in that place?

Each class had a different idea, and the book records the Roman political system.

After the debate in the Senate, Cai He immersed himself in studying the Roman political system, and finally found that Roman society consisted of two kinds of people. At the bottom of the ladder were the slaves, and then there were the freedmen.

And among the freemen there are citizens and commoners.

A citizen is a person who has Roman nationality, which is a very important identity, because with this identity Rome will not ignore citizens, even if citizens are not talented and virtuous, they will support citizens. Of course, if a citizen is poor but talented, he may become a governor, an executive, or even a nobleman, just like winning the lottery.

Commoners mean free people who do not have citizenship, who cannot enjoy the rights of citizens, who cannot participate in citizens' meetings, and who are naturally not promoted.

In fact, citizens are equivalent to a privileged class, and only those who have citizenship rights can have the right to vote and inheritance, and citizens are given priority to be protected.

If citizenship is so good, how can you get it?

First of all, of course, it is the generation that lived in the city of Rome, and the city was superior and the outside was inferior, it was as simple as that. Of course, there is also military service, and after 25 years you are a citizen if you don't die, yes 25 years.

Of course, there will be an emperor in Rome in the future, so the emperor also has the right to give citizenship, and for a period of time in the future, all the free people in Rome will become citizens, but in this way, the rights of citizens will naturally be diluted, and the citizens will not be so good.

Another opportunistic way is that you find a Roman citizen and ask him to take you as his slave, and after a while he releases you, and you become a citizen immediately, but you are only a third-class citizen, and you do not immediately or get all the rights of a citizen.

It's the same as going to Hong Kong and the United States to have a baby, so that the child can get a local identity.

There are other options, such as spending money on a citizenship, provided you are rich enough. If you really have that much money, you can be as happy as anywhere else, and you don't have to ask for citizenship, unless you are really very rare to be a Roman citizen.

There is also the possibility of exposing corruption, and if you catch evidence of official corruption, then you can also become a citizen. But I'm afraid it's difficult for ordinary people to take this path, and if you're not afraid of being killed, you can still try.

As I said before, there are also hierarchies of citizens, the first class is of course Roman citizens, the second class is Latin citizens, and the third class is the third class citizens who opportunistically obtain civil rights.

The customs and language of the Latin citizens were exactly the same as those of the Romans, but because they were not born in the city of Rome, they could not participate in elections, could not inherit the property of Roman citizens, and certainly could not fall in love with female Roman citizens.

Only Roman citizens could marry Roman citizens, but male Roman citizens could marry other girls. It's so capricious.

However, becoming a citizen naturally comes with certain obligations, not to say participating in politics, because most citizens are ignorant and short-sighted, and citizens can speak loudly, but if they do not become officials or parliamentarians, they cannot affect the political situation. If you become a citizen, you can't surrender if you join the army, and if you surrender, you lose your citizenship immediately. Unless you 'escape' from the enemy, if the enemy releases you, you will also lose your civil rights.

At the same time, citizens have also lost the right to be 'shameless', if you are exposed, have a relationship with a young girl, get involved in the entertainment industry, frame others, etc., although you are still a citizen, you will not be able to get married and have children normally, and even a job cannot be guaranteed.

So it's okay to be a citizen, but you can't be shameless, because shamelessness is guilty, and the crime is 'shameless crime'.

Cai He apparently investigated very deeply, showing the entire Roman society in front of everyone, a country with a high degree of social class division.

Then there was the introduction of Roman slaves, who were less glorious than the opulence of Roman citizens. There are no rights, and even the most basic life and property are not protected, which is why the profession of 'gladiator' has emerged.

Not to mention freedom, even life is nothing more than a tool to please citizens.

The life of the slave was miserable, Cai He described: the sound of shackles in the countryside drowned out the chickens and dogs.

The slaves who were captured were completely shackled to work, and they were real slaves, and readers living in the Qin State could only use the analogy of forced labor. When they were sent to the conscripts, they were afraid that the coolies would escape, so they would usually tie them to the bamboo with ropes.

But it is unimaginable to work in the farmland and wear shackles, at least not in the farmland of the Qin State.

In the end, Cai He wrote: There are as many enemies as there are slaves in the country of Rome. It's even more deafening.

"It's unheard of to have such a country. Juzi couldn't help but say, this is too far from the Mo family's policy of loving and non-attacking, only loving citizens but using slaves as inhuman labor, which is appalling.

Other people are not very comfortable, this kind of country is too evil, no wonder there has to be an emperor, I am afraid that whoever becomes an emperor will be stinking for 10,000 years.

But more readers are still attracted only by the rights of citizens, and ignore slaves, as if they must have been citizens rather than slaves when they went to Rome.