A person with a generous bearing, no matter whether the fate he encounters is good or evil, can respond to it in moderation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info success is not happy, failure is not sad, the outside world is praised and degraded, I don't mind, just do what you should do, do what you can do.

- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

The domination of the Augustan family in the western Mediterranean successfully led to the union of the Julius, Scipio, and Marius forces in Rome, as well as the Brutus family now in the Greek peninsula. However, the union of these four forces did not have the slightest impact on the Augustusian family's domination of the Western Mediterranean.

In particular, the instigation of these four forces to the Kingdom of Spain allowed the Augustus family to successfully complete the unification of the Iberian Peninsula; Coupled with the trump card of Joan of Arc, the entire Iberian Peninsula became a solid ruling area of the House of Augustus.

After realizing that it was impossible to suppress the rise of the Augustan family through a third party, the Roman powers focused their respective families on how to improve their own family strength; Marius and Scipio chose to increase their power by expanding their navy, while Julius and Brutus both saw expansion as the best way to increase their power.

Unfortunately, the path to outward expansion is not necessarily a smooth path; The Julius family gathered heavy troops to launch an attack on the Germanic barbarians, but the result was that the Germanic barbarians were defeated all the way back to the Norikum region, and now even the Julius family itself is suffering from the invasion of the Germanic barbarians.

The only capital of the Julius family to show off may be the expansion of Calabis in Gaul; Since Carabes's army marched west across the Alps, he has won several great victories one after another, and half of the entire land of Gaul has become the spoils of Carabes, and has also become the territory of the Julius family.

Just when the Julius family suffered several heavy defeats in the Germanic land, the Gallic army under the command of Carabis once again made a meritorious achievement, including the core of the Gallic barbarians in Greater Gaul and the most prosperous Belgian region in the barbarian world into the Julius family, and the Julius family came under the rule of the Julius family, which is also a proud achievement of the Julius family.

After all, the Gallic barbarians were a powerful barbarian force that had threatened the north of the Roman Republic for hundreds of years, and it was rare that they could be beaten by the Julius family. Even if all the land of Gaul was conquered by Calabis alone, and even Calabes was a member of the Julius family, wasn't the territory he fought still the territory of the Julius family?

On the whole, the expansion of the Julius family was quite fruitful, at least the citizens of the Roman Republic in the city of Rome were still excited to cheer for the Julius family after learning of the victory of the Julius family in Gaul.

Compared with the expansion of the Julius family, which had both gains and losses, the expansion of the Brutus family on the Greek peninsula was much smoother; Ever since the Thracian barbarians started a war against the Macedonian kingdom, the situation on the Greek peninsula has been moving in favor of the Brutus.

First, the Brutus family successfully brought the province of Thessaly of the Macedonian kingdom under the rule of the Brutus, and then the Brutus family defeated the Greek alliance led by the Athenian and Spartan city-states; Then the most prosperous regions of the Greek peninsula, Attica, Peloponnese, and Laconia, became the new provinces of the Brutus family.

Although during the expansion of the Brutus family also happened something as frightening as a massive plague, there was also the desperate resistance of the Spartan city-state in Corinth; However, the Brutus family still succeeded in unifying the entire Greek peninsula, which was the success of the Brutus family and the foundation for the future development and growth of the Brutus family.

Marius himself and the leader of Eulianus of Scipio were also anxious about the outward expansion of the Julius and Brutus families; When dealing with the Augustan family, the four major powers of Rome are naturally close allies, once the Augustan family is eliminated, are the four major forces not potential enemies of each other?

Seeing that the Julius family and the Brutus family are getting stronger and stronger, can Marius and Julianus, who are trapped in Rome mainland and unable to expand outward, not be in a hurry? The basis of the cooperation of the four powers is that they are equal to each other, and if the Julius and Brutus families have a power that is superior to Rome itself, who knows who they will choose to deal with first?

To be sure, Marius felt that it was important for him to maintain friendly relations with Rome if he was the head of the House of Julius; However, if the Julius family really had the power to completely surpass Rome proper, why not first annex the weak Roman proper, make Roman properness a part of their own family, and then concentrate their strength against the Augustan family?

So far, the House of Julius has invested twelve legions in their homeland and against the Germanic barbarians, plus the family of Julius has at least eight legions in Gaul; The Julius family already had a strong army of twenty legions, and even if the discontent factor was removed, the army of the Julius family would not be less than 150,000.

After the unification of the Greek peninsula by the Brutus, there were hardly any frontal enemies on land, not even enemies to fight; Even so, the Brutus family had a full army of 140,000 troops in fourteen full formations.

This is still a military arrangement made by the Brutus family to focus on the development of the Greek peninsula, and it is conceivable that after the development of the Greek peninsula after several years, the Brutus family will have a strong military strength.

The total strength of Marius's forces and Scipio's family was only nine legions, and the total strength of these nine legions was about 80,000; In other words, the combined military strength of Marius and Scipio is not half as strong as that of Julius and Brutus, so how can such a situation not worry Marius and Iulianus?

You know, the Marius forces and the Scipio family have joined forces to force the Brutus family to give up their family's centuries-old roots, don't the Brutus family want to recapture these two provinces that have always belonged to the Brutus family in history?

Although Julius had no direct conflict of interest with Marius and Scipio, wars between the strong and the weak sometimes required only one reason; If Marius and Scipio were not powerful, then their occupation of the rich Roman mainland was in itself the greatest sin.

If these disparities in military strength were unsettling and worrying to Marius and Iulianus, the performance of ordinary citizens of the Roman Republic in Rome itself became a fatal straw that directly stimulated Marius and Iulianus; When the news of the successful expansion of the Julius and Brutus families came, the citizens of Rome could not help but cheer for them.

This was unacceptable to Marius and Julianus, who spent their days trying to buy free food supplies at high prices for these citizens; How could they sit idly by and watch the citizens under their rule identify so much with the Julius and Brutus families, doesn't this mean that even if these two families rule them in the future, they will silently accept it?

In fact, when the citizens of Rome proper, when they learned of the defeat of Hannibal and his army by the House of Augustus in Sicily, they also held great celebrations for the House of Augustus and the Oscars throughout Rome itself; Marius and Julianus didn't think much about this, after all, Hannibal had done too much damage to the Romans, and it was reasonable to celebrate it.

However, it was only after the euphoria of these citizens became the Julius and Brutus families who had successfully expanded outward that Marius and Julianus realized the gravity of the problem; Perhaps, for those citizens of the Roman Republic, it was not the Marius and Scipio families who recognized at all, but all the forces of the Roman Republic, including the first two!

For Marius and Iulianus, such a reality was really difficult for them to accept, and it was the last thing they wanted to see; In order to change this mindset among the native citizens of Rome, Marius and Julianus decided to take action over the issue of the names of the various families.

If only the Marius forces and Scipio can represent Rome itself, the Julius, Brutus, and Augustus families outside Rome itself cannot represent Rome itself; So, will the citizens of Rome still cheer for the outsiders?

As long as the sense of identity of the native citizens of Rome with other Roman powers can be successfully eliminated, the terrifying number of native Roman population will become the wealth that belongs only to the Marius forces and the Scipio family, and this Roman native is the Roman native that Marius and Iulianus want; Otherwise, what was the point of not being loyal to Marius and the Scipio family in Rome natively?

It is not difficult to change the sense of identity of the native citizens of Rome with the House of Augustus, after all, the history of the House of Augustus is still too short to be remembered by the Romans who like to use history to remember the great men; However, the families Julius and Brutus were two of the four greatest families in the history of the Roman Republic, alongside Scipio.

The reason why Marius's power was recognized by the Romans was not how much Marius contributed to the Roman citizens, nor how many Romans won the hearts of the Romans; It's just that all the Romans saw Marius as the representative of the Maxentius family, and the Romans respected not Marius, but Maxentius, who had been in charge of the Senate of the Roman Republic for hundreds of years! (To be continued.) )