After the conquest of Spain, Aloyos had planned to launch an offensive in North Africa immediately. But when he gathered the three armies at the southern tip of the Spanish peninsula, he changed his mind.

Because the conquest of Spain was far from over. As soon as the troops withdrew from their garrisons, the indigenous Spanish people began to rebel. The entire Iberian Peninsula was filled with smoke.

King Aloyos was keen to continue south, but the current situation did not allow it, and no wise general would leave a hidden danger in the rear. The planned attack on North Africa would be their forward supply depot. In the event of a rebellion, the lifeline of the expeditionary force is threatened. In that case, the offense is weak.

Conflicts between the occupying forces and indigenous peoples can arise for a variety of complex or simple reasons, but hatred incited by culture, religion or ethnicity is too tricky. The revolt will last for a long time in the form of guerrilla groups, and it will be very stubborn. The Spanish mountain people were particularly stubborn, which caused trouble for the Macedonians.

The more stubborn the Spanish resistance, the greater the pressure on Macedonia. The struggle between the two sides dragged on, and Aloyos was troubled.

In the past, in Greece and Eastern Europe, battles were fought on the battlefield, duels between armies. The conquest of towns and cities was well underway, and even the people there were eager to be liberated.

In Central and Southern Europe and Western Europe, the struggle against the Germanic, Gaul, and Roman peoples was also manageable. There is always a way to solve the dissatisfaction of citizens, and the means are soft or hard once and for all.

The Spaniards were the only ones who resisted. The activities of the mountain guerrillas were repeated one after another, and together with the rebels of some towns, attempted to rebel against Macedonian rule.

The headache is that the Spaniards are all soldiers, and many ordinary people who are simple on weekdays are actually guerrillas. It is impossible to execute all the common people, and it is impossible to distinguish which ones are obedient and which are rebellious. Such a resistance movement really takes time and energy to quell. Aloyos was very depressed, and he wanted to gallop across the battlefield and fight happily, rather than compete with these wild men hiding in the mountains. It's simply a cannon to fight mosquitoes, making a big fuss.

But the reality is that he can't withdraw his troops from here, let alone continue to march. Podare Rios had advised him to return to his squad and leave a few credible generals to continue suppressing the rebellion. Aloyos strongly disagreed, and he asked the prince to transfer him three large security regiments to replace the main force. Podare Rios immediately set about forming a police force, recruiting, forming, training, transporting, it took time.

Aloyos was idle, and once again the situation stalled his aggressive plans for military adventure. His right-hand men were enough to crush the Spanish partisans. So how did the king vent his excess energy? He became obsessed with beauty.

This accomplished martial monarch has conquered all kinds of territories and is now trying to conquer the beauties of various countries. In a way, this hobby was deliberately cultivated by Anaxaxos. His good nephew would pay him tribute every once in a while, and it was ingenious that he made all the gold, silver and jewels into ornaments and wore them on the beauties and gave them to the king. In order to please Aloyous.

In this way, Anaxaksos paralyzed the king, and in this way, consumed Aloyos's body, after all, he was already a handful of years. He thought that his uncle, who had been put into the hero, would be invincible himself, but he did not think carefully about the usually quiet regent, who was an even more dangerous opponent.

The prince of Macedonia, the heir to the faction, Podarre Ríos, is now the governor of the capital of Rome. His talent and abilities were recognized by all, and with his previous experience assisting the regent Abrias, the kingdom was governed in an orderly manner and the country was more peaceful than ever.

However, Podare Rios was not satisfied with this, and he began to gradually implement the plan and enact new policy measures. A trickle of change turned into a drastic change, which caused ripples on the water, and some people were not satisfied. Why did he muddy the waters?

Podare Rios is centralizing. He wanted to concentrate the power of the whole country on the central royal power.

He wanted to change the Macedonian kingdom to an imperial system, and he himself was to become the apex of the highest centralization of power, the emperor.

The ** tools "Matrix" and "Eagle Eye" formed earlier immediately highlighted their important role at this moment, they are the emperor's eagle dogs, the vanguard of the empire, and the tentacles of the imperial system.

The "Matrix" has made the best interpretation of disarming, secret arrest, and assassination, and with the "Eagle Eye" well-informed intelligence and cooperation, this special guard force has unimpeded passage under the protection of the new law, almost to the extent of the exaggeration of omnipotence in the heavens and the earth. For a time, many big nobles in the kingdom were restless, and everyone was in danger. "Matrix" became synonymous with fear.

Thessaloniki, once a democratic republic, and the Greek peninsula had to succumb to the harshness of the world.

Originally, Greece and Upper Macedonia had always been dissatisfied with the relocation of the capital to Rome. By the time Podarerios introduced the October New Deal, Thessaloniki, Athens, and Corinth began a joint statement stating their strong opposition to the New Deal. As their protests expanded, Hawkeye even revealed to Rome that Greece was about to rebel.

At one point, Podarerios's plan included a military arrangement to lead troops to suppress the "Greek Three-City Alliance", but after evaluating and examining the situation, he believed that the matter could be quelled in a special way with minimal negative impact.

Sure enough, after sending out the "Matrix" and "Eagle Eye", through a series of secret operations, the "Greek Tri-City Alliance" was dismantled. The threat of unrest in Thessaloniki and Athens was snuffed out in its cradle, and the region was pacified.

The focus of the reforms promoted by Podare Rios was to weaken the power of local governors and nobles, and to strengthen the imperial power of unified command. The Governor's administrative, judicial, and military powers were completely separated.

The new decree changed the conscription order that the local governors could conscript the army, stipulating that the conscription and training of the army could only be carried out by the decision of the central government; Local governors and nobles could only recruit police forces.

The construction of the cities must be arranged by the king; Fiscal and tax revenues have also been adjusted accordingly.

The new way of ruling Podare Ríos was gradually established, and the people received mixed reviews, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the kingdom was on the way to an imperial system.

But can a momentary evaluation really be used as a final conclusion, whether it is good or bad is all up to oral evaluation?

No! The union of kingdoms and the way of ruling by vassals was no longer beneficial to the great Macedonia, so that the new way of coercion would be more suitable for it, and Macedonia would be more centripetal rather than loosely united.

It didn't take long for time to prove it.

(End of chapter)