"Chapter 600: The Four Empires"

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

If the position of Roman Emperor gave Iulianus a look of greed in his eyes, then the position of the four Roman governors and the two Roman Prime Ministers put the principals of the Scipio family in a difficult struggle.

From the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, it's not just a name; As long as Scipio agrees to help Marius, then Rome itself will change from a republic ruled by nobles to an empire ruled by emperors, and the era of nobles holding the power of the republic will really be gone, and the influence of Scipio will be completely wiped out in the Roman Empire.

Compared to the price that Scipio had to pay, all Scipio had to admit that they got more; The fledgling Roman Empire would have two supreme emperors, one of whom would be the head of the Scipio family, which meant that Scipio would be the royal family alongside the Marius family in the Roman Empire.

As long as this Roman Empire is really born, the so-called Roman families such as the Julius family, the Brutus family, the Maxentius family, and so on will become a distant past; There will be only two families that will be truly remembered by the Roman Empire, and that is the family of the two Roman emperors, namely the Marius family and the Scipio family.

More crucially, all officials in the Roman Empire would be held directly by the Marius and Scipio families; This was also a temptation for the Scipio family, who had to give up some official positions to other nobles and prominent commoners.

What really impressed these Scipio family principals was the position that Marius was willing to hand over to the four Roman governors and two Roman Empire prime ministers of the Scipio family, which was the appointment that made all the Scipio family heads present struggle; You must know that these six official positions are the most important official positions in the Roman Empire, and whoever gets one of them can immediately soar to the top.

Just now Marius also promised that these six official positions will also adopt the same hereditary system as the emperor; In other words, whoever gets one of these six official positions can ensure that his family will hold that position in the Roman Empire for generations, and this is the most important point.

Although all of you are in charge of the Scipio family, they are also the core members of the Scipio family; However, people are selfish, they also have their own families and pursuits, so what reason do they have to refuse such a better future?

After the formal establishment of the Roman Empire, the Scipio family headed by Emperor Julianus will become the royal family, and after the principal here becomes the governor or prime minister of the Roman Empire, he will inevitably break away from the Scipio family in terms of subordination; Where are the six hereditary official positions, which are clearly six opportunities to become a super family of the Roman Empire second only to the royal family!

With Iulianus's political acumen, he naturally did not have the ability to see this relationship, and those who could see this relationship were the heads of the Scipio family who had the opportunity to ascend to the throne; Will they harm their own interests for the sake of Iulianus? This is not the interest of one or two people, but the interest of countless generations after them, and who will be on the side of Scipio?

Marius's large concession gave everyone in the Scipio family a condition that they could not refuse, and as long as the Scipio family chose to cooperate with Marius, the Scipio family would be the biggest beneficiary after the birth of the Roman Empire; And Marius himself is the other main beneficiary, but not the biggest beneficiary, is Marius really willing to make a wedding dress for Scipio's family?

With Marius's thoughts, he naturally could not have willingly paved the way for the rise of Scipio's family; Why did Marius propose four governors and two prime ministers for the new Roman Empire, considering that there were twelve heads of the Scipio family present.

This is the great thing about Marius, the Scipio family, which has twelve principals, can only have six principals as hereditary governors and hereditary prime ministers of the Roman Empire, and the remaining six can only serve as some non-hereditary officials; This means that six of the twelve people here will be the winners of the open and secret battles, and the other six will be the helpless losers.

The victors were naturally glad to be in office, but their relationship with Scipio would soon break down; Because the power of the emperor was in conflict with the power of these local officials and the central prime minister. As for the losers, their defeat at Scipio would soon make them pawns in Marius's hands; At that time, it is not certain who will benefit the most.

The meeting in the Doge's palace of Capua directly decided the end of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire, and after this meeting, the Marius forces and the Scipio family began to prepare for the birth of the Roman Empire; In order to better serve as emperor of the Roman Empire, Julianus had even begun to transfer the inheritance of the Scipio family in Capua to the city of Rome.

After more than a month of building momentum and preparations, Iulianus, the head of the Scipio family, announced the decision of the Scipio family to withdraw from the Senate of the Roman Republic on the Senate Square in the city of Rome; In addition, despite the uproar of all the Roman citizens, Iulianus publicly published countless old stories of the four great families of the Roman Republic.

Of course, among the disgraceful old stories of these four major families, the roles of the Scipio family are naturally very few, while the scandals of the other three major Roman families are all announced by Julianus; Just after the actions of the Scipio family began, Marius, in his capacity as the dictator of the Roman Republic, announced the dissolution of the Senate of the Roman Republic, and the Roman Republic came to an end!

The panicked citizens of Rome had no idea what was happening, they only knew that within a day, the four great families of Rome, who had been trusted and respected by the Roman people, were pulled down from the altar by the hands of the Scipio family, one of the four great families; The Senate, which was born with the Roman Republic, was dissolved, and even the Roman Republic was put to an end.

The Roman Republic is gone, how can you embarrass these Roman citizens who claim to be Romans, coupled with the exposure of the scandals of the four major families, all Roman citizens are confused; Before they could come out of their confusion, a new Roman Empire was born!

The day after Scipio and Marius had all their serial actions, Marius and Julianus announced the birth of the Roman Empire as Roman emperors; In order to win the support of the people of the four provinces of Rome itself, the first decree after the birth of the Roman Empire was to declare that all Roman citizens in the core provinces of the Roman Empire would be permanently exempt from tax and would receive a subsidy of ten gold coins per year!

In order to gain the support of all the native citizens of Rome, Marius also paid the price of blood; This law alone required Marius to spend half of his last innumerable fortune on the running of the Roman Empire.

However, the effect of this decree is also quite effective; After the confusion of the previous night, the fledgling Roman Empire had brought tangible benefits to all the Roman people, and why should the citizens of Rome not support the Roman Empire?

While Marius and Julianus were in full swing in the Roman Empire, the other Roman forces were not idle; The day after the proclamation of the Roman Empire in Rome itself, the Roman Augustan Empire of the Augustan family, the Roman Julius Empire of the Julius family, and the Roman Brutus Empire of the Brutus family were established one after another.

In fact, as early as when Marius and Julianus conspired to form the Roman Empire, the other major Roman families also received corresponding news; The Augustan family had tragic dead men who could provide detailed information, and the Julius family and the Brutus family had existed in the Roman Republic for thousands of years, so how could they not have their own family's intelligence channels.

It's just that after the Augustan family got the information about Rome itself, Oscar just said lightly, 'The era of the Roman Civil War has finally come', and there is no more expression after the Augustan family members are also doing what they should do, and Oscar doesn't even have the idea of finding someone to discuss countermeasures.

It wasn't until Marius and Julianus officially announced the establishment of the Roman Empire that Oscar announced the establishment of the Roman Augustan Empire the next day; In contrast to the distinction between the core territory and the colonial territory of the Roman Empire, Oscar declared that all the territories belonging to the Roman power were the core territories of the Roman Augustan Empire, and they were also indivisible territories.

Compared with the understatement of the Augustians, the Julius and Brutus families are much more formal; In order to rush back to Aretion and become emperor, Flavis, the leader of the Julius family, handed over all the war in the Norikum region to Caesar and other generals, and he himself was busy establishing the Ulius empire and becoming emperor.

Tiberius of the Brutus family was similar, and after receiving the information, he began to happily build his own family's empire and become emperor; As for the empires established by these two families, when it came to declaring the territories of other Roman powers, they adopted the same strategy as the Augustans, that is, to declare all Roman territories as integral parts of their respective empires.

Coincidentally, except for the Roman Empire in Rome itself, the other three empires had one thing in common, that is, the capital of their empire was set in the city of Rome itself; Among them, the Augustan Empire was accompanied by Syracuse, the Julius Empire was accompanied by Arethion, and the Brutus Empire was accompanied by Corinth, and the city of Rome became the recognized capital of the four empires! (To be continued.) )