Some things are really very interesting to say, just in the eastern part of the land of China, when all kinds of vertical and horizontal scenes were staged, and some very interesting things happened to Ruan's Roman Empire at the western end of the Eurasian continent, which felt like a deliberate echo of the excitement of the Eastern Continent.

On New Year's Day in 193 AD, the self-proclaimed emperor Hercules, who liked to wear gladiator costumes and had personally participated in gladiatorial fights, finally lost his life.

Yes, the son of Aurelius, the Roman emperor who ruled diligently and respected the senator at the beginning of his reign, finally ended his life of repeated betrayal.

The reason for these betrayals is, of course, very simple, this guy has violence in his bones.

So in 1822 A.D., his sister Rugira and some of the senators tried to assassinate him, but it was an unsuccessful assassination, because Commodus had not yet shown his violent factor at that time, so he was surrounded by a group of quite loyal people.

So it seemed to this group of loyal people that Rukira and his elders were tantamount to another ambitious judgment that they would not be admired, and the brave men thwarted their plot.

It has to be said that what this group of people are doing is in line with the universal values we know well, and even their understanding of the patriarchs and Rukira is not necessarily wrong.

But unfortunately, they kicked off a tragic prelude to the chaos that had lasted for more than a hundred years in the Roman Empire. It wasn't until Garrianus, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great that all this was barely brought to an end, and of course, after Constantine the Great, the crisis in Rome plunged into an even greater abyss, which eventually led to the demise of Western Rome.

But that was all later, and now is the beginning of the abyss, and even those intellectuals in the empire did not find this sign.

They just thought that after the assassination of the Emperor, there were some strange emotional changes, such as that he began to stop trusting the senators around him as much as before, thinking that it was possible for them to unite with others to deprive him of his power, so he gave more power and tasks to his favored courtiers, and of course, during this period, the Guards also gained more power, and it was at this time that the Janissaries began to slowly win more power, and finally brought deep bitter consequences to the crisis of the third century, Guiding Gallienus to establish a system of separation between military and political affairs, this phenomenon was theoretically curbed, of course, even Gallienus himself died in a military coup, not to mention how much difference there is between theoretical containment and actual restrictions, after all, until the 21st century, military coups in some small countries still appear in the news media from time to time.

However, no one can see the problems caused by this aspect now, and even if someone can see it, it is impossible to correct the emperor's practice.

So the emperor began to become brutal and unkind, he began to show off his strength in various ways, whether he was real or fake, he began to call himself Hercules, began to be superstitious about all kinds of sports activities, began to participate in gladiator comparisons, put on their costumes and participated in them personally.

People began to cheer for their emperor in the arena, but this did not mean that they would praise the emperor's decree when they returned home, more and more people began to oppose the emperor's rule, more than one group of people wanted to assassinate him in secret, but because of the assassination of the former Commodus, he arranged more than one layer of security around him, which allowed him to avoid the assassination of others one after another.

But its security situation is very different from that of 182 A.D., when he was surrounded by mostly terminated support, and now even those around him are influencing him to assassinate him. So someone finally came up with the idea of using Commodus's closest people to complete the assassination mission, so a cup of poisoned wine was sent to his mouth by Kang's mistress, and he began to become weak in his limbs, but by the time he realized the seriousness of the problem, things had become out of control, because the officers of the Praetorian Guard sent a gladiator to fight the emperor who was good at duels and loved to make a final fight to the death.

The Emperor, who was already paralyzed, was certainly no match for a sturdy gladiator, so he ended his life with this great irony.

In fact, at that time, he was also thinking of using another very ironic act to do something embarrassing to others, because when he died, he was still wearing the costume of a gladiator, which she had prepared for the upcoming ceremony. This ceremony will determine the new consul this year, and of course there will be no other candidate for this kind of thing for the emperor. So it became that the emperor was going to wear the gladiator's costume and serve as the consul of the year, which was an excellent excuse for the senators and those who were not used to his behavior.

The seemingly deviant Emperor Kant was cleaned up in this way, and the officers in the Praetorian Guard were ready to support a more elegant-looking fellow, this person's name was Petinax, because there was a city governor who had experienced the ups and downs of the sea.

Immediately after coming to power, this benevolent brother took various measures to actively quell the various negative effects that Commodus brought to the empire. He was indeed as elegant and upright as the Praetorian Guards wanted to see, at least much better than the deviant Commodus.

Then this man seems to have gone too far in this good direction, he has just fallen asleep, restoring the power of the Senate, yes, every upright person thinks so, they are not prepared to let the influence of a faint monarch like Commodus continue in the empire, so those former emperor's favorites began to be elected, and the Praetorian Guard, who was also favored by the previous emperor, turned out to be the top priority of Petinax's autumn reckoning.

Thus began a campaign to rectify military discipline, but the officers of the Praetorian Guard were clearly not prepared to allow their freedom to be constrained by others.

So they did the same trick and killed the new emperor again, but this time they didn't use gladiators.

After this military coup, even the Senate was clearly aware that the era of military control of the throne had come, so they simply did not take place in the next appointment of the emperor, because according to the original rules, the Senate could elect the emperor, but now the Praetorian Guards used their own swords and guns to deprive the Senate of this right.

However, it was absolutely impossible for Huang Wei to inform them for a long time, and he had to find the right person to carry this burden, so an ugly thing happened in the history of the world.

The Praetorian Guard decided to put the throne up for auction, and the highest bidder was won.

Yes, you read that right, in this world, there are not only emperors who sell official titles like Emperor Liu Hong, but also courtiers who dare to directly auction Huawei. If such an act were introduced to Middle-earth, it would inevitably cause fierce opposition from the scholarly class, but in the Roman Empire, which advocated the establishment of a state by force, this matter did not attract too many people to openly oppose it, because everyone had to worry about your neck inadvertently appearing in the mouth.

So after they announced the auction of the throne, this matter went smoothly, and there were many participating intelligences, and even the competition was quite fierce, and finally a guy named Julianus bought the throne at a relatively satisfactory price for the Praetorian Guard.

But the throne he bought was nothing at all, because he could neither be loyal to his ministers nor to be ignored by the army. For an army that can even auction the throne, it is really easy to change the emperor. So this Julianus is an emperor who is not even as good as a puppet.

In this context, the central administrative system of the Roman Empire began to become ineffective, and the perverse actions of the Praetorian Guards spread throughout the Roman Empire, and finally caused some people to revolt.

Yes, there were some who resisted, and of course they could not be the nobles in the Senate, because the courage of these guys had already been broken. And those who have the power to compete for the throne are, of course, the warlords of all walks of life, who have the same strong military advantage as the Praetorian Guard.

First of all, the governor of Syria, Nigel, was the first to proclaim himself emperor, and then the governor of Pannonia, Severus, a North African, also declared a rebellion.

The capital of the Empire, under his leadership, came into range of their attack after a rapid march, and the Praetorian Guards of course noticed the approach of this powerful force, but they were too low to resist. Even if he pulled out and started a fight with them, he quickly broke up under the intimidation of the other party.

Seeing their embarrassed appearance, the Senate finally felt that it was time to make a voice, and Severus, a benevolent brother, also needed to be legally recognized, otherwise he would be besieged by others like the emperor in the imperial capital. So the two sides hit it off, and the Senate immediately declared Severus emperor.

Under the threat of Severus's soldiers, the Praetorian Guards certainly did not dare to be as aggressive as before, otherwise they would have cleaned up all the disobedient senators.

But with Zailord's army eyeing them around, they had no choice but to be honest, and even took the initiative to kill Julianus, who had previously purchased the throne, in order to gain the understanding of Emperor Severus.

This incident also shows very well that things like the throne can only be won by one's own strength, and must not be purchased by money, because money is the most despised thing. At least until the formation of the corporate system, the wealth of the merchants, which could not compete with the state organization, put them in a rather weak position, both politically and in other fields.

Of course, the later generations of large companies obviously go hand in hand with the government, at least in the Western world, they are very worried that those super companies are slowly gaining the power to control the world, and at this point, the governments of the East are often underestimated, at least after the rise of some companies that master the core technology of big data, the government has not fulfilled the corresponding regulatory obligations, according to common sense, big data should be in the hands of the government as a matter related to the privacy of every citizen. While not everyone in the government can be trusted by the people, the big corporations don't necessarily have the moral bottom line.

This point had become a topic of discussion for their so-called intellectual elite before Suning crossed over, but the final answer to this discussion may have been lost to her, because he had traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and faced this complicated world situation.

The choice he could make was precisely to use the organizational structure of the commercial company in later generations to pull up a force of his own, so that the court at that time could see the actual power of the company.

This is obviously the greatest irony no less than Commodus's death, but for Suning, who studied the pros and cons back then, there is no better way than this.

Because he not only wants to get power, get leadership, I have the baton to move forward, but also use my own personal experience to prove some theories of development, these things can not be well arranged through administrative power, so he can only inspire those who have the dream of making a fortune through his own successful deeds, of course, these guys will also be under the supervision of the government, so he must have a company, but he must also get the administrative baton.

Therefore, Suning first founded his own group and company, then entered the bureaucratic system, and finally became the prime minister of the Han Dynasty under one person and above ten thousand people.

But it is clear that Julianus could not have had a similar resume, because his business group was not yet able to operate with the precision of a company.

So his ultimate fate was to be executed by the Praetorian Guard, who had received enough money from him. Of course, these capricious Janissaries could not get the forgiveness they wanted, and as soon as Severus entered the capital, he executed all the original Guards on charges of treason, leaving none behind, and then formed a new and larger Praetorian Guard with his own soldiers.

At the same time, he also began to actively prepare for war with the Syrian governor Najel, who had already rebelled against the emperor.

However, the war between the two has not yet started at this time, and they are ready to divide the results, I am afraid that it will have to wait until next year.

Suning, who only understands the historical process, has been fully prepared for this, he knows that this guy called Severus will also declare war like the Severant Empire in the near future, and he is even fully prepared to divide the territory of the Severing Empire with the Emperor Severus, who is about to win the civil war.