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- Homer (Homer, the blind poet of ancient Greece)

No matter what new developments there were in the situation on the Eastern continent, and no matter what new developments in the confrontation on the North African continent, the development of the Roman empires was the most important thing for the Augustan Empire; This is also what Oscar is most concerned about in the past five years, in addition to the development of his own empire.

The Roman Empire, with Marius and Julianus as emperors, was the slowest of all the Roman empires; For five years, the Roman Empire, which occupied the rich and prosperous Roman mainland, had achieved nothing in the development of its army, and its navy was only an additional fleet of twenty triremes and twenty-two duplexes, and forty transports.

Since the establishment of the Roman Empire, the focus of the entire Roman Empire has shifted to internal political struggles; The members of Scipio's family, who had ascended to the throne of hereditary governors and hereditary prime ministers as the supreme rulers of the Roman Empire as the two emperors became the supreme rulers of the Roman Empire, had all severed their ties with Scipio within three months of becoming important ministers of the Roman Empire.

As one of the emperors of the Roman Empire, Julianus naturally did not tolerate such a thing, and he wanted to take some harsh measures to punish the imperial ministers who betrayed the Scipio family, but was stopped by Marius, who was also the emperor; Marius's reason is also very simple, that is, those who betray Scipio's family are, after all, important ministers of the empire, and the emperor cannot punish those people at will.

Marius's help caused the imperial ministers who were supposed to be with Julianus to fall into Marius's arms, and after gaining the allegiance of these important ministers, Marius began to use these people to overthrow Julianus; What happened to Yulianus was exactly what these ruthless ministers who hated Yulianus wanted to do.

As a result, these important ministers of the Roman Empire joined forces with Marius to slowly empty up Julianus, making Julianus a nominal emperor; After completing the overthrow of Iulianus, Marius is still a certain distance away from monopolizing power, after all, the six hereditary ministers of the empire still have a lot of power in their hands.

At this time, the head of the Scipio family, who had no connection with hereditary ministers, became the most advantageous weapon in Marius's hands; Marius secretly instigated these people to criticize the hereditary ministers on various occasions, and constantly let people expose some ugly things about these important ministers to scandalize these important ministers, and even organized several citizen demonstrations to attack these imperial ministers.

The public opinion attack on these six important ministers in the entire Roman Empire gave Julianus, who had been jointly overthrown by these six people, the hope of regaining power; At such a critical moment, Julianus, in his capacity as Emperor of his own empire, suddenly announced that he would strip the six hereditary ministers of their hereditary powers and remove them from all their positions.

In the face of Julianus's sudden attack, these imperial ministers once again turned their attention to Marius, hoping that Marius, who was also the emperor, could stand up and speak for them; It's a pity that this time Marius didn't stand up for them and didn't even think about them.

The six hereditary ministers of the Roman Empire were thus deprived of all power by Julianus, who thought he had won the final victory in the struggle; But no one expected that after the dismissal of these six important ministers, Marius secretly put Iulianus under house arrest again, and appointed the six principals of the Scipio family that year as the six important ministers of the empire.

Because the six important ministers of the empire were all core members of the original Scipio family, everyone else believed that it was still Julianus who was still in charge of the supreme power of the Roman Empire; But no one knew that these six important ministers with no hereditary power were just pawns in the hands of Marius, and that Julianus was just a tragic and pitiful man.

At this time, the power of the entire Roman Empire was all in the hands of Marius alone, and Marius truly became the supreme person in the Roman Empire; Julianus, who was under house arrest, and the six great ministers of the empire, who were only in charge of Mario, had completely surrendered the Roman Empire to Marius, who had become the sole master of the empire.

In fact, Marius himself can be regarded as a man of great talent; Unfortunately, the infighting in the Roman Empire took up the most regular five years. Five years later, when all the other powers had already developed, and the Roman Empire was just starting to develop, was it too late?

The Roman Brutus Empire should be the most rapidly developing empire among all the empires established by Roman forces, since the Brutus Empire unified the Greek Peninsula, it has used the fertile land and convenient maritime trade on the Greek Peninsula to develop the economy of the Brutus Empire; In just five years, the Brutus Empire has become the richest country in the world, and there is no one!

Even the kingdom of Egypt, which produced an astonishing amount of grain, could not have earned tens of millions of gold coins a year; However, the annual trade income of the Brutus Empire reached a staggering 13 million gold coins, and what was even more terrifying was that this was only the pure trade income of the Brutus Empire, excluding other income.

If all the income of the Brutus Empire is taken together, the total income that the Brutus Empire can obtain every year will be as high as a terrifying twenty-five million gold coins; Such a huge financial revenue is enough for the Brutus Empire to raise an army of more than 500,000 people, and they are all elite divisions with extremely well-armed weapons.

However, the Brutus Empire was not a militaristic empire, nor was it an empire that blindly expanded its army; In the five years of rapid development of the empire, the army of the Brutus Empire was only half expanded, and this was the preparation of the Brutus Empire to deal with the chaos on the eastern continent and the Dacian barbarians in the north.

The current Brutus Empire has a strong military strength of fifteen regular legions and four imperial legions; However, the most powerful elite division in the entire Brutus Empire was the Emperor's Guard, which was formed by Emperor Tiberius himself, which was a super elite unit composed of 3,000 ironclad cavalry, 3,000 royal cavalry, and 4,000 royal pikemen.

Originally, Tiberius planned to keep the secret forces such as ironclad cavalry, royal cavalry, and royal pikemen as the emperor's secret weapons, but after another thing happened, Tiberius decided to let all these powerful special forces come to the front and directly become the most elite troops to protect the imperial family.

At the time of the unification of the Greek peninsula by the Brutus Empire, the Kingdom of Alexander also annexed the Phrygian region where the city-state of Pergamon was located, and even the last city-state of Rhodes, the Greek city-state alliance, was annexed by Cretan forces; At this point, there were no expansion targets of the Sulla and Pompey families in the entire Aegean Sea.

The military strength of the Kingdom of Alexandria is not weak, coupled with the alliance between the Kingdom of Alexander and the Kingdom of Pontus and other kingdoms, even the Brutus Empire does not have the strength to provoke this kingdom alliance, let alone the Sulla family and the Pompey family; The Cretan forces did not have many armies, but the Cretan forces had a naval fleet that the Brutus Empire could not compete with, and it was impossible for them to attack.

In this case, it is likely that the former agreement between the Sulla and Pompey families and the Brutus family will be nullified; Because the Sulla family and the Pompey family simply did not have a suitable target for attack, it was naturally impossible for the Brutus Empire to help them.

In this case, the Sulla family and the Pompey family put forward another suggestion, that is, the Sulla family and the Pompey family were willing to completely give up the ownership of the four legions in the Brutus Empire, and in exchange for the Sulla family's rule over Macedonia and the Pompey family's rule over the Paionian region.

Macedonia and Peonia, the plague-ravaged places of death, and it was impossible for the Brutus Empire to develop in either direction anyway, and Tiberius was happy to accede to such conditions; It was a good deal to trade two regions that were not part of the Brutus Empire in exchange for getting rid of the Sulla and Pompey families completely.

After this agreement was reached, Sulla and Pompey withdrew all their family from the territory of the Brutus Empire to Macedonia and Peonia within a month; After making sure that the Sulla family and the Pompey family never left any traces in the territory of the Brutus Empire, Tiberius was relieved and bold to put the three special forces in the open.

It turns out that Alexander really did not deceive the emissaries of the Brutus Empire, and there is indeed a reason why the most elite royal legions of the Macedonian kingdom are small; In the course of five years, with the strong economic strength of the Brutus Empire, only 3,000 ironclad cavalry, 3,000 royal cavalry and 4,000 royal pikemen were trained.

It's not that the Brutus Empire invests too little time and energy, but that the training process of these armies is really too complicated, and the requirements for all aspects are indeed too strict; Especially the ironclad cavalry, in the absence of specialized skilled people to train and the lack of high-quality war horses, the Brutus Empire can train three thousand ironclad cavalry is already very good.

The reason why the Seleucid Empire was able to have such a large scale of ironclad cavalry was because the Seleucid Empire not only had skilled ironclad cavalry that could teach new ironclad cavalry to quickly form combat effectiveness, but they also had the production area of the world's highest-quality war horses, so they could naturally form ironclad cavalry on a large scale, which was an incomparable advantage for the Brutus Empire. (To be continued.) )