Lugdunum, the city was a damp and lifeless scene after being watered by the autumn rains. Crowds of people www.biquge.info walked through deserted streets, with the occasional horse-drawn carriage or two squeaking across the stone pavement of the city boulevard. Appis stood on the steps in front of Julius' Great Hall, looking at the cold city square, gloomy and sad. Reminiscing about what he had done in the three years since he entered Gaul.

"...... Apis"

Little Crassus walked over, under the eaves of the Great Hall, put a hand on Appis's shoulder, and asked with concern. He had been seeing Apis standing there melancholy for days, his eyes solemn.

"Thank you for your concern, my brother. I'm fine, don't worry, I'm just thinking and summarizing my past. The failure of this trip to Spain made me see my own recklessness and naivety. ”

Appis said with a sad recollection.

"What do you think of again? My old friend, the war is not over, you have not yet lost, Gaul, Germania and Britain are still under your rule. You have enough capital to build more clans. ”

"No, it's not a matter of the Legion. It was the preparation, and the underestimation of the opponent, and that was the fatal mistake I made. ”

Appis replied calmly.

"Octavian? Yes, he was very intelligent, cunning, even cunning like an old fox, which was very different from his age. ”

Little Crassus sighed.

"So, I despised him. During the three years we were in the German, I didn't pay any attention to what Octavian was doing, and it was a fatal mistake. For the past three years, Octavitanus has been cleaning up our eyeliner. And, it is a covert cleanup. He is like a skilled hunter who casts a net on his prey, pretends not to see it, and waits until the prey is not vigilant, and then reels in the net and wins. This is Octavian, who, in the past three years, seemed to have done nothing, but in fact re-baptized the whole of Italy. And he was only twenty-one years old, which is why Caesar valued him and wanted him to be his heir, so that such a person could control Rome well and continue Caesar's ruling ideas. ”

Appis said seriously, telling all his thoughts and thoughts for a while to the strong Roman man in front of him. Crassus the Younger is the only remaining general from the Gallic Wars to the present. DJs like Brutus, Rabinus and Fabius are long gone. And every time he thought about it, Apis felt a little sad. The cruelty of reality, the heroes who once conquered foreign races, when it came to infighting, became the first victims.

"That's one thing, I ignore what my opponent is doing. The second point is that I didn't do enough preparation before I went to Spain. This is also fatal. I even simply hoped that the henchmen in Italy would receive reliable information, as they had done in the past. So, he easily believed the letter sent by Cicero. But in reality, Cicero had long since failed to convey any useful information in Rome. So, I surrendered Marseille to my opponent. Yes, Gaul and Germania, plus Britain, are not as strong as Italy proper. Octavian also owns Spain, Sicily and Africa. Even with the strength of the hard screen, we can't achieve long-term and sustainable combat. Yes, I was ill-prepared. I cannot blame anyone else for what I have encountered today, but only for being reckless, carried away by the joy of the conquest of the Germans, who were not the Germanic savages. I have to learn my lesson, look at my enemies anew, look at this war, look at the situation now. ”

Appis did self-reflection in front of little Crassus, summing up the experience of the past three years. The lesson was painful, and even Tertila and Nevia were taken away. But there is hope......

"Yes, it was you who despised Octavian......"

Little Crassus sighed.

"But there's still a chance. I've been thinking a lot about it these days. The more this time, the more you can't rush to turn the tables, it's like a game on a chessboard, your anxiety is easy to show flaws, Octavian took Tertila to provoke me, make me more anxious to fight against him, so that his carefully prepared strategy and tactics can be used again. This time, however, I won't be fooled again. ”

"Do you have a new idea? Apis, you always have a way of thinking, and nothing can defeat you, even in a desperate situation, I believe. Back in northern Gaul, in Britain, you relied on your courage and wisdom to escape death again and again. Let's be honest, if you have a good family background, you can be above Octavian. Then, the current heir may not be the arrogant boy of Turinus. ”

Little Crassus encouraged his old friends, and after many years of fighting with his comrades, little Crassus had long regarded Apis as if he were his own brother. In fact, Crassus's eldest brother and father had already died in the Parthian War. Apis and himself are not only allies of interest, but also years of comradeship.

"Yes, I have a new idea. However, it will take your cooperation to put this idea into practice. To be exact, it requires the cooperation of you rich people. ”

Appis said, like a gloomy earth ushering in the sun that had not been seen for a long time. Appis silently swore in his heart that he would make Octavian pay, so let's start with this bold change.

"Say, Appis. No matter what you have to do, I, Crassus, will always have your back. ”

Little Crassus returned seriously and seriously.

"I'm going to make a change, a new reform of the agricultural land law, so that every citizen can own their own land. Gaul needed to develop and could no longer be stuck in the status quo, otherwise it would not be able to keep up with Rome for ten or twenty years. ”

Appis swore by it. However, as soon as such words came out, they were strongly opposed by Crassus Jr. This is not an ordinary decree, and Crassus the Younger knows what the Agrary Law means, an ideal that generations cannot buy with blood. The aristocracy would have prevented such a reform, and even under Caesar's reign, it would not have been possible to fully implement this policy. Moreover, every time this reform is proposed, it always provokes serious social contradictions. To put it bluntly, the contradictions between the commoners and the nobility can never be reconciled.

"Are you crazy? This is completely unrealistic! ”

Little Crassus jumped almost immediately. In his opinion, Appis is absolutely crazy, and after thinking about it for a long time, he came up with such a idea? This would only exacerbate the social unrest in Gaul, in the opinion of Crassus the Younger.

"Hear me out, brother. In my mind, the new Agrarian Law will be different from the old Agrarian Law proposed by Gracchus. Gracchus' idea was to confiscate the illegal land of the nobility and officials directly from the state, and then distribute the land to the bankrupt peasants. In this way, the core issue of this decree touched the interests of the aristocratic class, and naturally it could not be implemented smoothly. But what I want to do is not so simple and rude, confiscate the illegal land of the aristocracy. In fact, in my plan, the provisions of the new Agricultural Land Law will stipulate that the land will still belong to the nobles, but the right to contract will belong to the commoners. I will give the extra land in Gaul to the peasants and the common people to manage. In fact, there are so many civilians that we need to distribute large quantities of wheat and food rations every year if we do not solve the problem of their employment. This reform gave the surplus land of the nobility to the commoners and peasants to develop and cultivate, and the commoners who contracted the land had to pay a certain percentage of the crop harvest to the owners of the land, that is, us, every year. The rest of the harvest is theirs. What are the benefits of this? Over the years, I have conquered a large number of barbarian lands, but they have been left uncultivated and almost deserted. Allowing poor and bankrupt civilians to contract these lands accelerated the development of Gaul. Moreover, we have a regular income every year, and we do not touch the interests of the aristocracy. In addition, civilians who own land will no longer be given the minimum subsistence food to them, which reduces the pressure on the national treasury. Finally, the commoner who has been allotted the land will redouble his efforts and take good care of his field, because the annual harvest of the land is closely related to the income from their wealth, and if it is cultivated well, the agricultural products will be the richest, and the surplus will go directly to their private property. Think, brother, what will be the whole of Gaul, our territory, when all the people join in this drastic change? ”

Apis said, his eyes glinting with gold. Then I suddenly remembered a classic quote from later generations - the most glorious moment of life is not the moment when he achieves the highest glory and achievement, but when he falls to the bottom and strives to be strong. At this moment, Apis is full of confidence, and these so-called reform measures are just the means used by our great Grandpa Mao when he fought for the world. The land reform made countless civilian classes the main force.