Swallows are everywhere in summer, but in winter, they move away. The same is true of hypocritical friends, who appear on the sunny days of life, but when they see that the winter of disaster is coming, they all run away without a trace.

- Marcus Tulius Cicero (Roman statesman, orator, orator, jurist, and philosopher)

The House Pair affair is just a small episode in Oscar's busy life, after all, they are too young now; By the time they grow up to be Oscar's right-hand men, it will be many years. Until then, Oscar's attention could not have been placed on them; Moreover, there are too many examples of geniuses dying in ancient and modern times, and geniuses who can grow up are real geniuses.

From the 23rd of October, Oscar toured the whole of Sardinia with Tuka and Raka; From the city of Calarys to the weapons and equipment manufacturing area not far away, to the new military port and shipyard, and finally to the eight county-level administrative districts initially divided by Vipsani. Oscar is still quite satisfied with the work in the previous regions, because Vipsani and Lucquis not only fulfilled their requirements, but also did many things better than they imagined.

However, the division of administrative districts made Oscar very unhappy; However, this dissatisfaction is not directed at Vipsani, but at the indigenous people of Sardinia. The indigenous inhabitants of Sardinia, who had been a source of headache for the governor of Carthage during the period of Carthage's rule in Sardinia, were now replaced by the House of Augustus in Rome, but they still went their own way; Even the decrees of the House of Augustus were not taken into account at all.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Sassari and Olbia; Sassari is a small place of several villages, which were supposed to be divided into other districts in the previous administrative division of Oscar. However, their so-called village leaders, in the name of being inseparable, brought several villages together to form a large-scale settlement with a population of more than 5,000.

The situation is even more serious in Olbia, where the population of the region has even surpassed that of Calaris, reaching a staggering 20,000 in Sardinia; This is mainly due to the fact that the original town in Olbia was the second largest city in Sardinia after Calaris, and its leader even had an armed militia of more than 500 people!

Therefore, after Vipsani's order was given, he used Vipsani's official decree to forcibly concentrate all the nearby villages near his town; An unusually large district of Olbia was formed. Before Oscar did not return to Sardinia, in order to maintain stability in Sardinia. Vipsani and Luquis, among others, chose to turn a blind eye to his actions; Just wait for Oscar to come back and then make an example of the monkey.

It was already half a month after Oscar and his party toured the whole of Sardinia, and finally at noon on November 10, Oscar and others returned to Calaris. Unlike the last time, when the generals were on one side, this time all the generals of the Augustus family gathered in Calaris; So. After a brief lunch with the generals, Oscar took the generals to the conference room for the first family meeting since returning to Sardinia.

This family meeting was much larger than the previous one, with twenty-one generals on the left and right sides of Oscar; On the left are Luquis, Gumos, Cassilo, Ronkina, Spartacus, Licinius, Tuca, Raqqa, Vepsani, and Narsi, and on the right are Quintus, Segudus, Tetius, Marcus, Scori, Ulles, Gabriel, Shixiu, Mary, Gatesi, and Anne.

Looking at the conference room full of talents, Oscar stood up and bowed to everyone and said, "First of all. Before convening the family meeting, I would like to thank all of you here for all that you have done for the House of Augustus; It is precisely because of your efforts that the family is in a grand situation today, thank you. The generals were naturally moved by the posture of Corporal Oscar Lixian, and they all stood up and bowed to Oscar and said, "All for Augustus!" ”

After this ceremonial exchange between the monarchs and ministers, Oscar said to the generals present with great ambition: "Although we lost the last battle of Lili, the profound heritage of the republic is our undefeated capital; Now that the army of 40,000 is once again assembled in Sardinia, we will soon be in a war of revenge. But before we can do that, we need to get Sardinia in order, so the main topic today is how to govern Sardinia. Of course, I will announce your appointment before we deliberate. Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll scold me behind my back! ”

Oscar's jokes were exchanged for a full house of happy smiles; However, it cannot be denied that some people's joy is not because of Oscar's jokes, but because of Oscar's upcoming appointment. After all, everyone is an ordinary person, and they are not tools without desires, and it is natural for them to want to be promoted and get rich and get a higher position; I am not afraid of having ** subordinates, but I am afraid of not having ** courtiers. So, Oscar also said with a smile on his face:

"However, before announcing the appointment, I would like to announce a few changes: in terms of the Legion, the original First Legion was reorganized into the Sixth Legion, and the Wolf Legion was renamed the First Eagle Banner Legion. and the addition of the Eleventh Legion; The Red and Blue Armies will merge to form the new Lion Legion, and the Guards Regiment will be abolished to form the Guards Cavalry Regiment and the Guards Infantry Regiment respectively. In terms of fleets, the family will organize three fleets; A purely combat fleet. A purely transport fleet, a landing fleet responsible for corps landing operations. ”

After talking about these organizational changes, Oscar looked at the generals with different faces and said: "Because the Republic has adopted a new standard legion establishment, the legions of the Augustus family will be a new type of legion with a full strength of 6,840 people in the future. However, the Samonai Legion, the Guards Cavalry Legion, and the Guards Infantry Legion, which were part of the family's private army, were not among them; The Lions take this setup.

In addition to this, the Falcon Legion of the Captain of Segudus and the Boar Legion of the Captain Tetius, as well as the Fifth Eagle Banner of the Deputy Commander of Quintus, will also join our battle sequence; I hope that in the coming days you can love each other and help each other. Instead of being hostile to each other. Because you will be comrades in battle together, you will also want to be able to rely on each other when facing Hannibal and his elite.

Well, I won't say much about the rest; I now formally announce the appointments: Luquis will be the other lieutenant commander of the coalition forces and the commander of the First Eagle Banner Legion; Gumos would be the commander of the Sixth Legion, and the lieutenant of the Legion would be Narsi; Cassiio would serve as the commander of the Eleventh Legion, and the corps lieutenant would be Marcus; Spartak was to serve as the commander of the Samonai Legion, and the lieutenant of the Legion was Ulles; Ronkina will serve as the captain of the Lions, and the lieutenant of the Legion will be Skorry; Licinius was to be the commander of the Guards Cavalry Corps, and the lieutenant of the corps was Gabriel; Mary was to serve as the corps commander of the Guards Infantry Corps. There is no adjutant general.

Shi Xiu will serve as the commander of the family battle fleet, commanding ten triremes and twenty twinships; Anne would be the commander of the landing fleet, commanding four triremes and twelve twinships, as well as twenty transports; Ghatsi would serve as commander of the transport fleet, commanding ten twin warships and twenty-four transports. Don't be disappointed either. Soon the size of the transport fleet will continue to grow; I promise you will have more and more ships under your command. “

As soon as Oscar's appointment was announced, it brought different feelings in the hearts of the generals, except for Gatsi, who was not promoted, everyone else was basically promoted; So Oscar also deliberately added a promise to Gatsi at the end of the end, which made Gatsi's face look good. Others, including Ulles and Gabriel, have actually developed further. Even if the position of the corps commander did not change, the number of troops commanded increased; After all, the current legion has increased by 2,000 people compared to the original!

After the announcement of the appointments, it is time to discuss the internal affairs of Sardinia. Oscar admits that it is too early to implement the New Deal reform plan; Moreover, Oscar himself did not plan to implement the New Deal until the first batch of Augustus cadets graduated, so this time he only discussed some basic affairs and administrative divisions. And Vipsani had already done this well, announcing directly to the people: "Before the reform, we, the House of Augustus, would divide the whole of Sardinia into eight administrative districts and a capital; The capital is, of course, Calaris, with a population of 30,000. The other eight administrative districts and population distribution are: Sassari, 5,000 people; Nuoro, 12,000; Oristano, 9,000; Carbonia, 20,000; Sanluri, 6,000; Lanusei. 17,000 people; Olbia, 21,000, and Tampio Bosania, 12,000. “

As soon as Vipsani announced it, everyone looked at each other a little; Oscar naturally understood what the generals were thinking. So, he explained: "The population of Calaris is now less than 20,000, but I will soon forcibly relocate all the rich people of Sardinia to Calaris; As for the disparity in the population of the other eight districts, I would change that with 100,000 Roman immigrants. At that time, the population of each district will be roughly equal; There will be no more disparities like this.

In addition, in order to maintain law and order in each district in the future, the family will recruit 100 militiamen in each district; They will use the weapons and equipment of the old youth army and become the militia responsible for the security of each district. However, they will be trained in the barracks with the regular legion for two months before they officially become militiamen; Before that. Each district will be guarded by a hundred family guards, who will be responsible for policing and relocating the wealthy. ”

Oscar's last sentence had already made the generals feel murderous, and since Oscar chose to use the most loyal and elite family guards under his command to serve as the militia of these eight districts, it already showed Oscar's determination to suppress the old forces in the region and forcibly relocate the wealthy. Whoever dares to rebel against the Oscars' decision. Then these 40,000 troops on Sardinia will tear them apart at any moment. Although Oscar had not yet mastered the six legions that had been formed, the enemy was nothing more than the unarmed natives of Sardinia; They won't be soft at all.

After settling these matters, Oscar announced the dismissal of the meeting; However, Oscar will also hold a military meeting tomorrow, so none of the generals will leave Calaris. Oscar, on the other hand, left Vipsani and Lucis as well as Tuka and Raqqa after the meeting; For them, Oscar still has something to arrange. First of all, there is Luquis, and Oscar wants to discuss the idea of establishing a military school with Luquis. Enlist the support of Luquis.

When Oscar and Lucis talked about the establishment of a military school, Lucis easily saw the benefits of training massively trained centurions and captains; So he immediately expressed his support for Oscar, and hoped that Oscar would establish this way of establishing a military school in the form of a system. After that, Oscar asks Lucquas to take care of Tuka and Raqqa; Because Oscar wanted to send his two younger brothers to Luquis's First Eagle Banner Regiment as captains.

Originally, Luquis did not approve of Oscar sending Tuka and Raqqa to the First Eagle Banner Legion, because the Augustus family did not prosper; And now is a time when war could break out at any time, and it is not wise to send all the family members into the army. But despite Oscar's repeated requests and the two brothers' bitter pleas, Lucis still agreed to Oscar's request.

(To be continued.) )