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- Socrates (famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator)

At the heart of the meeting was how to resolve the situation in North Africa that the Augustus family was facing, and after the family members had discussed with each other, Oscar had identified a number of concrete ways to solve the problem.

After the meeting, Vipsani and Nat were busy carrying the hoarded grain and grass to the Augustan granary; After that, they also need to deal with the allocation of logistical supply resources for the Second and Sixth Army Corps.

Quintus, the new commander of the Second Legion, Nalsi, and the commander of the Sixth Legion, Commander Gumos, these generals were about to hurry back to the barracks to prepare for the departure of the army; Time is of the essence, and there is no time for anyone to delay.

No one knew which direction the situation in North Africa would go, and in order to prevent the situation in North Africa from developing again in a direction that the Augustus family did not want to see, the Augustus family had to step up their pace and devote more troops to the North African continent.

At the same time, Nepos' mission, also immediately after the end of the meeting, began to rush to the kingdom of Carthage; In the fleet they were on, there were still sophisticated weapons and equipment used by 30,000 people!

Although those weapons and equipment are the old weapons and equipment of the Roman Republic, they are the standard equipment of those eliminated youth army, heavy infantry, and elite pikemen; However, it is still exceptionally sophisticated for the armies on the North African continent.

When Calabis conquered the land of Gaul, the light infantry under his command also played a huge role, and those so-called light infantry were all infantry using the weapons and equipment of the youth army of the Roman Republic, not light infantry in the real sense.

You must know that the warriors of the Gallic barbarians are all fierce warriors with amazing combat effectiveness; How can an army that can compete with them be inferior in combat effectiveness? Such a record is enough to prove the great value of the old Roman weapons and equipment.

In fact, the old weapons and equipment of the Roman Republic have not been eliminated by the times at all, but the strength of Hannibal has forced the Roman Republic to use more expensive new weapons and equipment to improve the combat effectiveness of the army to cope with the pressure of Hannibal.

But Hannibal had only one, and he had perished; The current North African continent is a North African continent without Hannibal's protection, whether it is the soldiers of the Carthage Kingdom or the warriors of the Numidian Kingdom, their weapons and equipment are not as good as the old weapons and equipment of the Roman Republic.

This is also the reason why Oscar took out the old weapons and equipment of the Roman Republic to conditionally support the Kingdom of Carthage; After all, those weapons and equipment are relatively sophisticated for the Carthaginians.

Oscar is not a fool either, how could he really take the best weapons and equipment of the Augustan family and hand them over to the Kingdom of Carthage? Even if the Kingdom of Carthage was now doomed to decline, it was unlikely that Oscar would risk handing over the core weapons of Roman power to them.

What if the Kingdom of Carthage had another god of war like Hannibal? Or what if the army of the Kingdom of Numidia defeated the Kingdom of Carthage and captured all these weapons and equipment?

These possible hidden dangers make Oscar not dare to easily trade the new weapons and equipment of the Augustan family; As for the obsolete old weapons and equipment, there is no such risk at all, and Oscar can be assured of bold deals.

After moving out the old weapons and equipment enough for 30,000 people this time, there are only more than 40,000 sets of old weapons and equipment left in the Augustus family's inventory; These old weapons and equipment, Oscar does not plan to use.

In any case, the Augustans themselves still need to make extensive use of these old weapons; Although these weapons were not used by the regular combat regiments of the House of Augustus, they were used by the provincial guards of the provinces and the guards of the counties under their jurisdiction.

According to the new system of the House of Augustus, each province of the House of Augustus had a provincial guard of 1,000 men, and the weapons and equipment used were the weapons and equipment of the old heavy infantry of the Roman Republic.

The county guards under the jurisdiction of the provinces used the weapons and equipment of the old youth army of the Roman Republic; Each Augustan family province would probably have about five to ten counties under its jurisdiction, and that would be about five hundred to one thousand guards.

Up to now, the province of Sardinia, of the House of Augustus, had 1,800 soldiers; the province of the Balearic Islands, with 1,600 soldiers; In the province of Betica, there are 1,900 soldiers of the Guards.

As for the newly occupied three provinces of Sicily, according to the preliminary demarcation of the Augustan family, each province will be divided into seven counties, that is, 1,700 soldiers will be required; In total, the House of Augustus was about to have ten thousand and four hundred guards.

These provincial guards, which were not part of the regular army of the House of Augustus, were not set up to defend the country at all, but to serve as police officers in later generations, and only to help local officials perform their official duties better.

Therefore, it is impossible for Oscar to equip these guards with the sophisticated weaponry used by the regular army of the House of Augustus; Not only to reduce the cost of using the Augustan Family Guard, but also to avoid possible riots.

In the ancient civilization where Oscar once lived, how many powerful dynasty overlords in history died at the hands of civilians under their rule? Oscar is not afraid that his rule will provoke a popular uprising, but he is afraid of the provocation of careerists!

Therefore, Oscar must be precautionary; Taking into account other factors, Oscar resolutely refused to equip all the guards of the Augustan family with new weapons and equipment, and firmly controlled all the elite regular army in his own hands.

Even so, the Augustans were increasingly depleting those old weapons and equipment; Every year, tens of thousands of guards and soldiers need to replenish the damaged weapons and equipment, and the key is that the Augustus family is still expanding!

In Oscar's opinion, the old weapons and equipment that the Augustus family still stockpiles, under the current situation, can at most maintain the Augustan family guard for less than ten years; If it expands further, the rate of consumption will increase rapidly.

In view of this, if nothing else, the weapons and equipment trade with the Carthaginian Kingdom will be the last foreign weapons and equipment deal of the Augustan family; In the future, the Augustus family will no longer trade weapons and equipment with other forces.

Not only because the Augustus family's old weapons and equipment reserves are insufficient, but also because Oscar does not want his Augustus family's soldiers to be killed on the battlefield by the weapons and equipment sold by the Augustus family; It would be a tragedy.

Oscar is the leader of the House of Augustus, not an arms dealer who only cares about profits; There is an essential difference between the two. The former Carters family can smuggle weapons and equipment with impunity; However, Oscar can't, it's a matter of principle.

After solving these matters at hand, Oscar had to solve another matter; That is the Augustan family's aid to little Hanno's forces, how to expand the scale?

In fact, with the current control of the Augustan family over little Hanno's power; Whether it is the total control of Tahiti, or the control of the private army by the centurions sent by the Augustan family, it is enough to make Oscar feel at ease and boldly invest in the power of little Hanno.

However, how to invest is a question worth considering; The standard weapons of the Augustan family, whether new or old, could not be used to support the forces of Little Hanno.

The only way to finance weapons and equipment is to transfer a large number of Carthaginian weapons and equipment captured by Hannibal's army in the last decisive battle of Zama to Hanno the Younger, so as to help Hanno expand the size of his private army faster.

However, there is a hidden danger in this way, and that is the problem of the Augustan family's control of Hanno's private army; Little Hanno was not a fool either, would he let his family's private army, which grew larger and larger, be commanded by the centurions sent by the Augustus?

This is what Oscar is really worried about, if little Hanno chooses to use more of his own family's people to control the private army when the scale of his family's private army continues to expand, it will really be a bamboo basket for the Augustus family.

Even though Tahiti had a special position within Hanno Jr.'s influence, Tahiti's position was still very precarious; Before Tahiti completely becomes an existence that can replace little Hanno, little Hanno can still take back everything that belongs to him at any time.

However, it is not Oscar's character to look ahead and backwards, and after a little thought, Oscar still decided to secretly give the captured weapons and equipment to the little Hanno forces, and send more centurions to the little Hanno forces to help the little Hanno family form more private armies.

Oscar believes in Tahiti, and believes that the first graduating class of the Augustan Family Academy, who is extremely capable, can bring more surprises to himself; Since he could have done so well before, why shouldn't Oscar trust him?

After deciding on this aid to Hanno Jr.'s forces, Oscar began to prepare for the specific implementation; In this regard, Oscar still uses Jinyiwei's own channels to solve it, rather than the official channels of the Augustus family.

In this way, Tahiti was easier to deal with, and it was also easier for the Augustan family to have better and more covert access to Hanno's sphere of influence in a more discreet way; This was necessary for both the House of Augustus and the forces of Little Hanno.

Unbeknownst to Oscar, just as the Augustans were turning their entire attention to North African affairs; Another huge conspiracy looms over the heads of the Augustan family! (To be continued.) )