Chapter 344: A Divided Rome
In the world of the great controversy of the Han Dynasty, thousands of miles to the west, there is a country, which is Rome. (Pinyin for biqi u)
Rome is a strange country that is difficult for the Han people to understand.
It is nothing short of a miracle that Rome called the Roman Republic, had a senate, and had a centuries-old republican history.
It was only after the Spartacus revolt that Rome entered the era of military power.
Theoretically, the state was a republic presided over by the Senate, and even the emperor had to confer titles from the Senate, but in practice the power was transferred to the emperor alone.
Although the early emperors were not officially called emperors, but in fact they already have the characteristics of the imperial system, the emperor has become a dictatorial ruler, monopolizing military, judicial, administrative, religious and other powers, in fact, it is no different from the **** monarch, so the entire government and government are actually led by the emperor and operated.
This state began in 27 BC.
In 27 BC, Octavian announced that he would remove all power and restore the republic. On the other hand, he pretended to be forced by the request of the Senate and the citizens to accept absolute power completely contrary to the republican system, and became the chief senator (i.e., the head of state, from which the head of state system is derived), the supreme consul, and called himself "First Citizen" and Supreme Commander, and received the titles of "Augustus" (meaning "holy") and "father of the fatherland" conferred by the Senate.
Octavian proclaimed the creation of the Roman Empire.
But even so, the Senate had a lot of power, and at least nominally, the Emperor needed its authorization, even though the Emperor controlled the Senate.
Even after that, there were two emperors in Rome who ruled together and coexisted peacefully, which was a fantasy in the Han Dynasty.
In 180 A.D., Commodus became Emperor of the Roman Empire, and this Commodus was not surnamed Kang.
Commodus was named Caesar at the age of five, commander at the age of sixteen, and at the age of seventeen he received the same title as his father, "Augustus", and became a co-ruler of the empire, running the empire with his father.
Aurelius worked hard to nurture his son, recruit him as a teacher, and take him with him to participate in the Germanic wars to increase his prestige in the army.
In 182, the third year of Commod's official reign, Commodus was nearly assassinated by assassins in the theater, and after torture, he discovered that the mastermind behind the assassination was his own sister Rukira.
Commodus was then weary of the Emperor's efforts to govern, and was constantly suspicious of a conspiracy against him by the upper echelons of the Empire. He asked the Guards to help him with his affairs, while he indulged in hunting and recreation, and was quite enthusiastic about gladiatorial activities.
In 183, the year Yang Xi and his party came to this world, the son of a guard commander named Zoff, jumped into Commodus' sight.
Commodus often dressed himself as a gladiator and played some dangerous games, but when he met the clever and clever Zoff, he immediately fell in love with him, and Zoff was thirteen years old at this time, exactly the same age as Yang Xi.
Five years later, Zoff became the new Captain of the Guard, took control of the court, and became Commodus's governing microphone.
Exactly ten years later, on New Year's Day 193, when Commodus announced that he would be a gladiator as the consul of the year, his mistress gave him a cup of poisoned wine and was subsequently strangled to death by a wrestler.
The Captain of the Guards, Zov, had by this time taken full control of the court and proclaimed himself emperor, and the Senate was forced to recognize it.
But Commodus's rule was so absurd that it had a great negative impact, and after his death, all localities became self-reliant.
The governor of Syria, Nigel, was the first to proclaim himself emperor, and then the governor of Pannonia, Severus of North Africans, rebelled, and he led his troops on a rapid march towards Rome.
The Senate instead proclaimed Severus emperor.
According to normal history, Severus was supposed to be the Roman emperor, but he faced Zoff, a bottomless and courageous opponent, and the war became confusing.
Severus was born in North Africa, west of Egypt, and after his army passed through Egypt, a newly emerging tribe called Midow in southern Egypt declared itself the Republic of Midow, breaking away from Roman rule.
On the island of Britain, Governor Paloster proclaimed the Republic of England from the Roman Empire and united the Quart tribes, a newly rising tribe in northern Scotland, against Roman rule.
Zoff knew what these people were.
In addition to Severus being a native historical figure, then Meadow in Egypt, Paloster in England, and Quart in Scotland are all characters who are just like themselves.
Not only that, Zoff also knew that there was a Germanic named Jenny, although he did not set himself up as emperor, but he actually controlled the Rhine Valley in the north of the Roman Empire, and his army was not a few, and the entire territory of Germany could not be intervened by himself.
The most tragic is Severus, the most eloquent emperor in history, who was confused by the whole pot of porridge.
He didn't know that after he left the Nile in Egypt, he was the vanguard of Midor in the rear.
As soon as Severus left, Midor led the army to hold Arabia, cutting off Europeans from land access to Africa and taking possession of all of North Africa, which belonged to the Roman Empire.
Severus went north, encountered a head-on blow, lost his way out, and sadly disappeared from the stage of history.
England, Scotland and Rome were separated by the English Channel, and Zoff did not attack for the time being, but also began to prepare ships, while Jeanne of Germany, because she was the first to start industrial production, accumulated a lot of food and force, and after several unsuccessful wars with Zoff, he also recognized the actual status of dividing the Roman Empire.
For more than a decade, Europe was divided into five parts, but Zoff still occupied the northern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and the territory was the largest.
By 208, the year of the fall of Amir's 300,000-strong army, the Roman Empire controlled by Zoff had a population of 8 million, and the rest of the countries had a population of 2 to 3 million.
Scotland, the least, has a population of about 1.5 million, but the situation has entered a balance between four small countries and a large country.
After more than 20 years of war and peace, cooperation and development, the countries of Western Europe and North Africa have developed rapidly, but at the same time, they are facing a problem, that is, the intermediate level of the technology tree has not been activated.
Everyone knows that the steam engine and the internal combustion engine will come out next, and everyone knows the principle of this thing.
But no one knows how to design the operation, this has to have a drawing, everyone is not an engineer in this area, before coming to this world, no one is a talent in the field of science and technology.
Science and technology could not progress in a short time, and countries set their sights on long-term plans, so Rome went east to Parthia, preparing to seize the territory of the Rest Empire, Midor went south to Central Africa, England and Scotland sailed to West Africa, and Jeanne sent troops to Eastern Europe.
The vigorous enclosure and population grabbing competition began in 208.
By 209, that is, in the fourteenth year of Jian'an, Zov defeated the Rest Empire, walked out of Armenia, and began a plundering journey in Asia.
Yang Xi faintly felt that it was time to come.
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