The phenomenal world is eternally changing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoOnly reason can recognize what is constant, and only with the help of ideas or ideas can we grasp fleeting individual phenomena.

- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

As a pure master of government, Vipsani felt very incomprehensible about Nat's plan; He didn't understand why Nat would come up with a plan to knight the Augustus family's army, let alone understand what benefits this plan would have for the development of the Augustan family.

As a person who has lived in the 21st century of information explosion for more than 20 years, Oscar has also understood some of the most basic economic principles; And this plan of Nat is precisely a manifestation of the principles of economics.

Ostensibly, Nart's plan was to grant knighthoods to the soldiers of the Augustan army on a large scale; In this way, the Augustians would have to spend more land and more wealth on the soldiers of the army.

Theoretically, this behavior should be to distract the power of the Augustan family too much, and transfer the wealth belonging to the Augustan family to the soldiers of the army; However, in reality, this is not the case.

With the successful capture of Sicily by the Augustan family, the Augustan family has completely consolidated its position as the overlord of the Western Mediterranean; The entire territory of the House of Augustus is also considered to be a happy land without the threat of war.

Therefore, the next priority of the Augustan family is to develop its own economic strength, and promote the prosperity of the entire Augustan family with economic development; This is the most correct path of development.

If they blindly use the army, then sooner or later the Augustan family will face defeat; After all, whether it is the army or the common people, they all need to be fed and clothed, otherwise, who wants to pay for the ambitions of the Augustan family?

So the question is, how can the Augustan family develop its economic strength better and faster? Vigorously developing maritime trade is indeed a good means, but it is also a very limited means.

Needless to say, once the thriving maritime trade developed, it could indeed rapidly increase the economic power of the Augustan family in a short period of time; However, such an increase in strength is extremely limited by people and extremely unstable.

Because the development of maritime trade is never a unilateral development, it is more about the cooperation between many forces; If there is a war in the future and the maritime trade in the western Mediterranean is blocked, what about the House of Augustus?

Moreover, in such an era, the importance of economic power is far less than that of real productive capacity; Marius is a prime example, even though Marius has an inexhaustible wealth, but can he allow Rome to develop rapidly?

It is clear that not only was Marius unable to allow Rome to develop, but even the survival of Rome itself was in question; Why is this happening? Isn't it that Rome itself lacks sufficient production capacity?

Rome, which lacked agricultural productivity, would soon run out of food in the face of an enemy's naval and land blockades; Such a risk is precisely the risk that everyone is most afraid of, and this is the key to the inability of the Marian forces to develop!

Nat's plan, then, was to fundamentally develop the Augustan family's agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as other productive industries; As for maritime trade, it was merely an external tool used by Nat to assist the economic development of the Augustan family.

According to Nat's conception, the fundamental purpose of his large-scale knighthood plan was to divide the vast amount of unclaimed land in the hands of the Augustan family to those soldiers who were in dire need of land, or who did not have it.

In this way, it will be easy for the Augustan family to gain the allegiance of those soldiers, and second, it will also allow the families of those soldiers to drive the development of agriculture and animal husbandry and other production industries under the rule of the Augustan family.

You must know that the last three wars have expanded the ruling area of the Augustan family from one province at the beginning to six provinces now; Among them, the ownerless land and all kinds of wealth obtained by the Augustan family are simply heavenly figures!

The gold, silver, and jewels that could be spent were convenient, and at least the Augustans could use them to trade with other forces in exchange for more resources and other things that the Augustans needed.

However, the vast amount of unowned land is not so easy to manage; After all, the Augustians had officially passed the law abolishing slaves, so what would the Augustians do with the land without slaves to drive them?

Even the House of Augustus could employ idle people, or reinstate slavery; Who can guarantee that the hired people and the unfree slaves will carefully manage the land belonging to the House of Augustus?

Rather than putting hope on the consciousness of others, it is better to thoroughly stimulate the enthusiasm of those land users, let them own these lands, and then fully exert the maximum value of these lands.

In fact, many examples in Chinese history demonstrate this most basic principle of economics; Not to mention the fact that some facts since the founding of New China are enough to prove this principle. (Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province, no specific explanation, anti-harmony)

Therefore, it is far more effective to motivate the people who own the land than to spend time and energy trying to find a way to manage the land that belonged to the family of Augustus; Oscar understands these things, so he naturally strongly supports Nat's plan.

At this time, Vipsani was also puzzled and raised doubts about the plan from the beginning; That is, this plan can indeed play the value of those lands, but it also does disperse the wealth belonging to the Augustan family, how should this be weighed?

In response to Vipsani's doubts, Oscar and Nat both laughed and shook their heads; Vipsani still can't get rid of the limitations of normal people's thinking, and still thinks about the problem from the perspective of the most basic interests and losses, but he doesn't see the essence of the problem clearly.

The root of this problem lies in the fact that the House of Augustus was not a competitor to the interests of the people under his rule, but a representative of the interests of the people under his rule; From a higher perspective, only with the full support of the people under his rule can the House of Augustus become a powerful existence and achieve sustainable development.

It is a fundamental fact that those lands belonged to the family of Augustus; Another basic fact, but not to be ignored, is that the people under the rule of the Augustan family can also be regarded as the wealth of the Augustan family.

distribute the lands belonging to the House of Augustus to the people under the rule of the House of Augustus; From the point of view of wealth transfer, it is just a transfer of the wealth from the left hand of the Augustan family to the right hand, and the total amount has not changed at all.

Moreover, after changing the form of wealth in this way, the total wealth of the Augustan family will develop rapidly; Once the people under the rule of the House of Augustus became rich and could produce more food and other materials, wouldn't it be the House of Augustus itself that would really benefit?

Oscar can't say these theoretical things very clearly and systematically; After all, Oscar is not a master of economics either. However, Vipsani is not stupid either; After Oscar and Nat roughly explained, he also understood the deep meaning of Oscar and Nath, and at the same time, he really understood why Nat was called the god of business!

Of course, these are not the fundamental reasons why Oscar supported Nat to pursue this plan; Whether it is to promote the rapid development of the Augustan family, or better to promote the enthusiasm of the people, it is only a secondary reason in the eyes of Oscar.

What Oscar really values is the huge influence that this plan has created within the military; It is no exaggeration to say that as long as this plan is successfully implemented, the 100,000 troops of the entire Augustan family will truly become the unshakable force of the Augustan family!

Once the knighted soldiers received the land wealth distributed to them by the House of Augustus, their own vital interests would merge with those of the House of Augustus; Perhaps, not every soldier of the Augustan family is willing to be born and die for the Augustan family, but everyone will fight and work hard for their own interests, this is human nature!

More crucially, although this plan was proposed by Nut, the specific person who implemented it could only be Oscar himself; Therefore, the soldiers of the Augustus family will give their gratitude to Oscar alone!

Such a plan can definitely make Oscar the most sacred existence in the hearts of all the soldiers of the Augustan family; Coupled with the existence of the Augustus Military Academy, this will allow Oscar's control of the army to reach a new height!

In light of this, how could Oscar not agree to Nat's knighthood plan? With Oscar's consent and Vipsani's understanding, the three of them discussed the operation steps of the entire plan in detail; This led to a huge and unprecedented large-scale knighthood.

As soon as the knighthood was over, Vipsani and Nat were busy; For Oscar, the whole knighthood program was just a solemn announcement, but for Vepsani and Nat, their busyness was just beginning.

For those soldiers who were knighted, there was a particular need to pay attention to how much land each family should be allocated to, and where the land should be distributed; For example, a soldier recruited in Upper Sicilia may have his title divided into the Balearic Islands.

All of this is to adjust the balanced development of the various provinces of the Augustan family, and also to accelerate the integration of the various provinces of the entire Augustan family; This large-scale knighthood may be the key to the true rise of the House of Augustus! (To be continued.) )