Be a good person yourself, and then find someone like you to be your friend. In this way, friendships can grow steadily.

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

Oscar's simple but fulfilling military school life finally came to an end at the beginning of the new year, and the new Augustus Military Academy had been built next to the academy; So, after the officers on rotation in the corps finished their education, Oscar sent the remaining 800 cadets to a closed military school. Because of the extension of the teaching cycle, it is impossible for Oscar and the generals of the legion to go to the military school every day; Oscar went once a week, and the Legionnaires went two a week.

With the arrival of the new year and the graduation of the cadets of the family academy and the graduation of the cadets, Oscar decided to officially implement the reform while maintaining the teaching plan of the military academy and the academy. What is the same lesson plan? In fact, it is a continuous talent training plan, after the graduation of the first phase of accelerated training of students from the two schools; Oscar decided to continue training talent for the Augustus family within the school.

However, the scale and method of cultivation are more detailed than those of the first phase; Because after solving the urgent need for talent, Oscar's demand for talent was not big until the Augustus family expanded further. Therefore, Oscar also has plenty of time to slowly cultivate talents, and the first premise of cultivating talents is loyalty; To this end, Oscar developed a new school development plan.

The first is the Augustan Family Academy, which will certainly require a large number of grassroots officials trained in professional reform policies when the Augustan family expands outward and carries out reforms in other newly occupied provinces in the future; In addition, Oscar also needs these cadets to be absolutely loyal to themselves. So Oscar decided to raise the academy's study cycle to one year, and the number of students in each term was set at 500.

The nature of the Augustan Military Academy is different from that of the Academy, and the existence of the Military Academy is to train a large number of loyal and excellent mid-level officers for the Augustan family; It was the most important thing for the House of Augustus. Therefore, in order to be able to better train more and more loyal mid-level officers; The study cycle of the military school will be two years; Similarly, the quota for each session is set at 500 people.

The reason why the number of cadets in both schools is set at 500 is also from practical considerations, because the study cycle of military schools is two years; Therefore, every year, the Augustan family has to train 1,500 cadets at the same time. Although the number is not very large, the use of funds can be called horrifying; That's about three brigade-sized cadets. 100,000 gold coins will be consumed in a year! That's more than a Roman legion of 7,000 men in a year!

However, it is also a good value investment; With an annual investment of 100,000 gold coins, it is not a loss-making transaction to obtain the absolute allegiance of all the armies and every territory under the rule of the family under his command! Recent times. In addition to the military school matter, Oscar solved two other things; That is, the Lion Legion and the Guards Infantry Legion have been formed.

While Oscar spent the day in the military academy with the cadets through thick and thin, Decius, in order to show the full support of the Maxentius family for the Augustus family, sent 7,000 recruits and the weapons and equipment of the two legions that should not have been provided this year to Sardinia. Plus a thousand Spartan hoplites and a kilogram of Ritter archers that Lucas sent from Crete; The two legions under Oscar's command were officially formed.

Even the veterans drawn from the Sixth Legion for the formation of the Guards Infantry Corps were replenished with the arrival of new recruits; As a result, Sardinia now has a full number of eight legions. Licinius's cavalry corps could only train on the island all day with hundreds of cavalry in the name of the legion because it did not have enough cavalry resources, and Spartacus's Samonai corps only maintained the size of 2,000 men because there were not enough gladiators.

On the occasion of Oscar sending the first corps cadets out of the military academy. There was another event that brought good news to the Oscars; That is, the intelligence officers of the Tragic Dead were in contact with Governor Alexander. Alexander himself was very interested in Oscar's proposal to exchange the horses of the ironclad cavalry and the full set of armor forging techniques for the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman legions, and proposed his own price for it.

Taking into account his own actual situation and the excellent Roman standard weapons and equipment, the price offered by the governor of Alexander was: every hundred high-quality war horses were exchanged for the weapons and equipment of a thousand people, of which the heavy infantry weapons and equipment and the light infantry weapons and equipment accounted for half each; The forging technology of a full set of armor is exchanged for all the weapons and equipment of a standard Roman legion at once (the old legion has a strength of 4200 men).

When Oscar heard this exchange condition, the whole person was happy; Although the asking price of Governor Alexandria was not low, the meaning of the ironclad cavalry to the Augustus family was completely different. Therefore, Oscar immediately agreed to the price of Governor Alexander; And ready to send their own first trading transport fleet. But the trading fleet had to pass through Sicily, which was Hannibal's territory, and he would not let the Roman convoys pass.

In order not to attract Hannibal's attention, the size of the transport ships was limited to ten; And all will use Carthaginian transport ships, under the banner of the Carthaginians. Why could Oscar use Carthaginian transports? Every era. There is no shortage of black-hearted businessmen in every country who disregard national interests for private interests, isn't there? As long as there are enough interests, they can do anything; Just in case, Oscar also arranged twenty warriors of the Samonai Legion on each ship, and no one would be unable to live with his wealth and life.

For the first time, Oscar prepared four complete old-fashioned legions' weapons and equipment, which were enough to exchange for a full set of armor forging techniques, and could also be exchanged for 1,200 high-quality war horses. Although the number of war horses is not very large, this transaction is also tentative; If Governor Alexander hadn't deceived Oscar and had really offered a quality warhorse, the deal would have expanded soon.

You must know that this time Oscar obtained a full 100,000 old-fashioned weapons and equipment from Marcus, which is the standard weapons and equipment of a full twenty-five legions; Coupled with the weapons and equipment of the three legions in the inventory of the Augustus family itself, Oscar now has twenty-eight legions of standard weapons and equipment in his hands. So. As long as Governor Alexandria doesn't get out of the way; Then the trade between Oscar and him will bring him countless high-quality weapons and equipment.

Of course, in the more than a month before the arrival of the New Year, Vipsani also put the newly divided eight districts and one government in order; Originally, those who were unwilling to obey the House of Augustus, or who had no fear, Sardinian power. All of them have been wiped out under the joint attack of Vipsani and Jinyiwei. Among them, the worst is the leader of the town in Olbia.

The Olbian chief felt that after annexing the nearby villages, the more than 20,000 people under his rule were enough to support him in a fight with the Augustus; I even felt that I just had to raise my arms and exhale. The people of Sardinia would unite to drive the Roman invaders out of Sardinia. Why could a small Olbian leader have such whimsical self-confidence?

Then they are to blame for their own intelligence lagging behind, they themselves are the original inhabitants of Sardinia; So they also have a lot of access to intelligence. According to Olbia's intelligence, the Augustus family is at the lowest end of its military power at this moment; The army of the House of Augustus in the entire island of Sardinia will definitely not exceed three thousand people! An army of less than 3,000 men also wanted to rule Sardinia, which had a population of more than 100,000 and more than 40,000 young people. This seemed to the Olbian chieftain to be simply self-defeating.

In order to be able to expand the strength rapidly. The Olbian chief quickly expanded his militia from 500 to 2,000; and in other ways he made contact with the chief of Carbonia, who was next to him, in the hope that the two sides could cooperate and lead the people of Sardinia to drive out the Roman invaders. Originally, this was also a good strategy, and the strategy of uniting the locals to expel the invaders was indeed good.

Unfortunately, the Olbian leader chose the wrong man; Although the leader of Carbonia, who is second only to him, has 20,000 people under his rule, he also has a son with an infinite future. It turned out that the leader of this Cabonia was none other than Dulles' father. For the Chieftain of Carbonia; He is only a small leader with 20,000 people, and his son is the best in the Augustus family academy.

And Vipsani's comment that Dulles will definitely become the best governor of the Augustus family in the future was also told to his father by Dulles early, do you think that this Carbonian leader will destroy his son's future for the sake of an illusory future? Moreover, the chief of Carbonia was not a man of inaction himself; He knew very well that the policy of the Augustan family, although it had not yet been implemented, had bought the hearts of the entire Sardinian plebeian class.

More importantly, because of Dulles' important position in Vipsani's heart, the leader of Carbonia learned some information through his son that ordinary people did not know. Like what; The House of Augustus has already stationed six full-fledged legions on Sardinia, an elite army of more than 40,000 people! Therefore, in the eyes of the head of Olbia, the idea of the leader of Olbia is simply a mantis arm, and he is not able to measure himself to the extreme.

But. The chief of Carbonia does not alert the chief of Olbia just because everyone is Sardinian; For the sake of his son's future, he told Dulles about it, and asked Dulles to report it to Vipsani. In fact, Vipsani had known about this in the Jinyiwei intelligence for a long time, but the performance of Dulles and his son still satisfied him; In the end, the entire family of the Olbian leader was hanged by the guards.

As for the so-called militia of more than 2,000 under the command of the leader of Olbia, they turned into birds and beasts and scattered under the rain of arrows of the hundred-man guard; A group of farmers who put down their farming tools also want to compete with the most elite guards of the House of Augustus, and they are simply looking for death. After dealing with the affairs of the Olbian chieftain, Vipsani's decree on the relocation of the wealthy to Calaris; Wealthy people from all over Sardinia flocked to Calaris with their families.

The local forces that had planned to compete with the Augustan family also disappeared under the suppression of the guards in various districts, and even the so-called militia formed by them to protect themselves and prevent robbers was disbanded on the spot under the pressure of the guards. In short, the blood of the family of the Olbian chieftain made it clear to the whole of Sardinia who was the new master of Sardinia; At this time, the news that the Augustan family had nearly 50,000 troops stationed on Sardinia also spread.

While the rich and the old-fashioned chieftains were in a state of panic, the ordinary people of Sardinia were grateful to the House of Augustus; Although the reform measures of the Augustan family have not yet been officially implemented. But the policy of land division that has already been implemented is enough to impress the people of Sardinia. Oscar divided two acres of land per capita, regardless of gender, age or child, so that the people of Sardinia finally lived a life of abundance and food; Naturally, they are indebted to Oscar and the Augustan family.

(To be continued.) )