Even the Emperor himself had to personally put on a battle to defend Siyuan City, and the situation in the Bacchus Empire was certainly not as light as Emperor Marius had shown.

But Marius was always calm, and he even had the leisure to think about Alina's marriage......

This is probably the state of mind and self-confidence that an emperor should have.

He believes that as long as he doesn't mess up, everything can be solved.

And everything has two sides, and breaking and standing up is not necessarily a bad thing.

Besides, many things were expected.

For example, the gladiators of Siyuan City will take advantage of the chaos to revolt, which is not an accident that happens by chance......

This slave revolt led by gladiators was originally meant by Marius, but this plan was written by Alina.

The gladiator who spearheaded the rebellion was named Brutus, who was once an officer of the Immortal Legion under the command of Emperor Marius, and had made many achievements in battle, accumulating merit and becoming a small lord in the village of Granmel in the north of Siyuan City.

Brutus's sister is named Elena, who met Luciana (now Alina) at a banquet organized by Justus, and she became Luciana's only friend.

Elena is the only girl of the same generation that Luciana has ever met who is willing to listen to her tell the official history instead of following the crowd, probably because of fate, and they look very similar, so the relationship is quite good.

Luciana has now changed her name to Alaina, which also has something to do with Elena.

Brutus and Elena were in trouble some time ago, of course, it should be said that trouble found their brother and sister.

Brutus had repeatedly rejected the Senate's bribes, and Elena had just rejected a marriage proposal from a senator on this year's Goddess Day.

Elena would never marry a politician old enough to be her father, no matter how high the other party's status.

And this firm refusal brought vindictive consequences.

Due to the rebellion of Sheila Juzas, Brutus, as the lord, naturally had to lead his troops to meet the attack, but not long after he left the village of Granmel with his troops, the whole village was identified as a 'snake worshipper' den of bandits......

All the villagers, along with Elena, are accused of being snake worshippers, and they will be reduced to slavery as a result!

Of course, this is an unjust case, and the cause of the unjust case is easy to understand, once Elena becomes a slave, the former senator can naturally do whatever he wants - Elena was taken captive by him.

Of course, Brutus would not give up, after all, anyone who was an elder brother could not bear this kind of thing, he withdrew his troops, led the troops to directly kill the senator's family of nearly 200 people, and rescued Elena.

In anger, Brutus couldn't stop it, and he couldn't stop it in order to save people, so he did kill more people, and there must have been some innocent people who died in his hands.

But in order to save my sister, there is no way.

In any case, this matter is indeed too big, and for whatever reason, it is of a serious nature.

Coupled with the fact that it was the Senate, it was not surprising that all the old-fashioned nobles would want the lives of Brutus' family and his warriors. ….

So Brutus claimed that Elena had been killed, and let his soldiers flee quietly with Elena, while he himself went to the royal court in Siyuan City to surrender himself and take all the charges - he knew that the justices under the nose of Emperor Marius would be fairer, and for the sake of his Immortal Legion, maybe he would be given a chance.

The royal court in Siyuan City is indeed fair, after all, there is a reason for the incident, and Brutus once made war exploits for the empire, so he only sentenced Brutus to slavery, not to death.

And also gave Brutus the easiest way to regain his freedom and become a warrior again - let him become a slave gladiator in the Royal Arena of Siyuan City.

It's not bad to have this result, after all, the killing of the whole family, in fact, the vast majority of the members of the Senate feel that the sentence is too light.

but

Elena didn't want her brother to die in the gladiatorial arena, so she approached Luciana, hoping that Luciana could help and see if she could find a way to rescue Brutus.

Luciana, now Alina, was the daughter of Justes.

Since the matter involved the Senate and the Supreme Court had already ruled on it, Governor Justes did not want to intervene.

But Luciana saw this as a good opportunity, a chance to solve the problems within the Bacchus Empire once and for all.

Justes himself was the greatest assistant to Marius and the initiator of most of the reform policies, and he was certainly aware of the two greatest internal difficulties facing Marius's reforms.

One is the rebellion of the old aristocracy - the old guards hold more than half of the wealth and army of the entire country in their hands, and they just want to live their comfortable life with vested interests. Even those of the old school who are willing to defend the interests of the country are, at most, like Governor Kairos, who strictly adheres to private morality.

Another difficulty was the deep-rooted tradition of slavery in the Bacchus Empire.

It was the slavery system that created a national contradiction between the Bacchus and the Pande, which had accumulated for a hundred years; At the same time, it also gave the Snake Cult, the empire's biggest foreign enemy, the best soil for expansion.

Unlike other countries, the slavery system of the Bacchus Empire is already deeply ingrained in the bones of almost every Bacchus.

There are also slaves in the Lion Kingdom and the Raven Kingdom, but they are basically indentured servants, that is, they are sold into slavery and can be ransomed.

This should actually be called servants or servants - in fact, Klose was originally an indentured servant of Leon.

But the master is not free to execute such servants, and will also pay some salary, depending on the contract.

Most of the nobles' lands in the kingdom were also cultivated by landless commoners as tenants, and it was also a form of contract cooperation.

In other words, the lion and the raven, including the slaves and tenant farmers of the Fields and other countries, are already essentially a mercenary relationship, at least a contract based on the other party as an equal.

But the Bacchus Empire is different.

The slaves of the Bacchus Empire were purely deprived of their personal freedom to perform unpaid labor, and could not even be called human.

Most of the nobles in Bacchus cultivated their fields with serfs, and it was not a transactional nature of selling themselves into slavery, but forced slavery. ….

That is, unpaid labor for life, and the next generation will continue to do so, and the children and grandchildren will be slaves, without a contract, and without redemption.

This is the real bottom of society, without any human rights, even relying on rewards for food, and living worse than pigs and dogs.

At present, nearly one-third of the people in the Bacchus Empire are still such slaves, and they are basically Pande natives.

In fact, Emperor Marius had abolished the civil law twenty years ago, and the new citizenship law also stipulated that all people had equal citizenship rights, but twenty years was indeed too short, and people's concepts have not changed.

Besides, there is a policy at the top, and there is a countermeasure at the bottom - the emperor said that the Bacchus and the Pande are equal citizens, so okay, citizens are citizens, and you must respect His Majesty the Emperor.

But criminals and heretics can't always be the same citizens, can they?

In addition, Emperor Marius also issued a decree against the Snake Cult, and anyone who defected to the Snake Cult was considered a slave - this was allowed by policy.

As a result, there was a vast number of 'snake worshippers,......

Anyway, as long as the noble lord or tribune said that the person was a serpent worshipper, then the person would most likely be reduced to slavery.

There are certainly many more unjust, false and wrongful convictions than true snake worshippers, but no one would take the risk of overturning a case for a slave who is identified as a snake worshipper.

As a result, unlike a hundred years ago, the land-owning and powerful Bacchus could still forcibly enslave the Pande.

And now the nature may be a little more ruthless, directly branded as a snake cult believer, lost all hope of turning over, and can't even flee abroad - with the identity of a snake worshipper, fleeing to other countries is also heretical, and will be burned to death......

This caused many people who did not believe in the snake worship religion to become slaves, so they simply joined the snake worship religion to fight against the empire.

Of course, the slaves were not completely hopeless, and Emperor Marius's military reform included such a clause - gladiators were allowed to join the imperial *** regiment after a certain number of battles, and as long as the service period expired, they could become free men, and if they made meritorious deeds, they also had the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune.

As a result, a large number of slaves who were reluctant to join the Serpent Cult became gladiators, hoping to regain their freedom through slave fighting.

Gradually, Bacchus's slave gladiatorial competition became very influential, and Emperor Marius and his reform policies were also regarded as the only hope for the slaves.

But, but.

Most of the people who control the gladiatorial arena and gladiator training camp are the *** dignitaries of the traditional conservative school, and they want to protect their interests.

There are actually only a very small number of people who can leave the gladiatorial arena and enter the legion, and it is difficult for gladiators to live until the day of freedom.

Because, although Marius's policy is fine, there is a problem with the people who implement it......

In just over a decade, the reform policy on slave gladiators has been played by slave traders and various gladiator training camps.

Originally, slaves who were sold to the Colosseum would be registered by the Colosseum for the number of battles, and after a certain number of battles, if the gladiator was alive, he would join the various legions of the Bacchus Empire as a warrior.

This was a policy of compulsory restraint promulgated by Emperor Marius in order to select good soldiers from among the gladiators, and it was equivalent to training soldiers through the gladiatorial arena. ….

To this end, the legions also paid a certain amount of money to the gladiator training camp and the gladiatorial arena to subsidize the cost of the training camp, which also paid for the slaves.

Originally, if this policy was implemented well, everyone would be able to reap the benefits in the long run.

But in order to make the best gladiators a long-term cash cow, slave traders, gladiator training camps, and the owners of the gladiatorial arena began to work closely together to tamper with the gladiators' files.

As a result, most gladiators gradually lost their names in recent years, and only a code name remained.

After the allotted number of rounds in one gladiatorial arena, the code name is changed and transferred to another gladiatorial arena......

This is probably the earliest transfer deal between clubs.

If the gladiator does not cooperate with the transfer, then the final fight may be faced with an extremely unfair brawl, or even a fight with a lion and tiger.

Anyway, the gladiators who don't cooperate will most likely die in the last battle, and make enough profits for the bosses with completely unfair fights - there are many Bacchus nobles who like to watch more enemies or *** battles, and this unfair battle seems fierce and exciting.

The bloodier the scene, the more eye-catching it became, the bosses made more money, and the influence of slave fights increased.

If the gladiators are willing to cooperate with the transfer, then at least most of the time they will face a relatively fair fight, and they will be able to survive on their own combat power for a while.

In this case, it is obvious what kind of mentality the gladiators would have.

They are all warriors who survive between life and death, and what do they do when they see no real hope at all?

Those serfs did not have the courage to resist, so they could only join the Serpent Cult to seek the power of the evil gods.

But gladiators don't worship evil gods, these warriors rely on their own strength!

Luciana saw this, and she made a big plan.

She planned for Brutus to lead the gladiators in a rebellion, and then, with the cooperation of Governor Justes, to launch a massive slave rebellion, with which all the Bacchus would understand that slavery had to change!

Then let this rebel army deal with the Snake Worship Sect and wash away the rebellion of the rebel army.

Eventually, the empire enacted a policy to abolish slavery, fully implement the system of indentured employment, and co-opt this slave rebel army.

For the emperor

His Majesty the Emperor has made great contributions to Brutus, and naturally he can clear his name and become a lord again, and maybe he can even become a legion commander.

However, Governor Justs felt that this plan was too risky, and it would be difficult to control it if something went wrong, so he did not agree to his daughter's plan.

As a result, Luciana secretly ran to Siyuan City and directly told Emperor Marius of the plan.

Justus and Emperor Marius were close friends, and Marius can be said to have grown up watching Luciana, and even Luciana's godfather - really a godfather, Marius and Justus Dukes were old friends before he became emperor.

And Luciana happened to be born on the same day that Marius ascended the throne, so Marius regarded her as his own daughter. ….

So, Marius knew Luciana.

The girl was a well-known prodigy and talented girl in the city of knowledge since she was a child, and she was able to read Bacchus's narrative poems at the age of three. Before the age of six, he was able to translate seven ancient poems from the Noldor literature...... It's an incredible ability, and of course, it's also because her father, Justes, is really knowledgeable.

From the time she was twelve years old, she had become the largest customer of the candle merchants of Knowledge-City—Luciana had ordered enough candles to feed an ordinary family for seven years, and she always sat there alone delving into endless ancient scrolls and codexes, and the candles burned all night.

Even Justes and Marius weren't sure if she had slept at all, but she certainly slept very little, and she liked to spend her evenings taking notes on ancient manuscripts, and had been studying Madigan's prophecies.

Luciana will soon be twenty years old, and there are very few aristocratic girls of this age who are not married.

But she is still single because all the men of the empire are afraid of making a fool of themselves in front of her, and no one even dares to associate with her - she does not possess the same knowledge as most young people.

Emperor Marius even thought that her talents were superior to those of Justes, but she had little political experience.

The plan that such a girl dared to propose to the emperor was actually very feasible and very much in line with Marius's temper.

Therefore, Emperor Marius and Lucianna worked together to refine this plan, which is similar to Lucianna's design as a whole, but with some more specific realities.

Taking advantage of the chaos of Sheila Yuzas's rebels, having Brutus, a trusted immortal, lead a slave revolt from within Siyuan City will show everyone that slavery must change!

Then, let the rebels take out the most uncooperative and rampant conservatives first—or let the conservatives who don't support reform go and 'exterminate the rebels.'"

Luciana will pass on first-hand information to the rebels, and whoever goes to kill them will die......

After no one dared to exterminate the rebel army anymore, let the rebel army cooperate with Marshal Kairos and destroy the rebels of Sheila Yuzas in one fell swoop - Sheila Yuzas's rebels rebels rebelled in order to establish a deeper slavery system, and they and the slave rebels were natural enemies!

After this, Marius would announce a complete shift from slavery to indentured employment, which would inhibit the growth of serpentarianism at its roots.

Eventually, Marius would personally lead the rebels against the Serpent Cult, and then take in the rebel army, which had been tempered in battle, and add a strong army to the empire that championed reform.

This is a multi-tasking move, and it may even give the entire Bacchus Empire a new lease of life!

This plan was also named by Marius as the 'Rebirth of the Empire'.

So Luciana changed her name to Alina, served as Emperor Marius's intelligence officer, and began to carry out this plan with Elena, both openly and covertly, as a liaison with Brutus.

This talented woman is so famous that if she doesn't change her name, everyone will know that it is Marius and Justus who are doing something, and maybe the gladiators will not be happy to believe her..........

And with 'Elena, the name was changed to 'Alina,' and that would make perfect sense - the name was only one letter off, and it looked like two sisters, and everyone would have thought that she was also Brutus's sister.

Blue

Tu was a very capable warrior, and he did successfully launch a gladiator uprising with the cooperation and remote control of Emperor Marius, and led a large army of slave rebels.

It's just that the plan can't keep up with the changes, and this originally good plan for the rebirth of the empire was encountered by the Snake Worship Sect across the sea at this time.

It was indeed an accident......

Emperor Marius and Alina could both think that the snake worshippers in the country might take the opportunity to make trouble, and they also made corresponding arrangements in advance.

But no one expected that the snake worshippers who were in trouble this time were not only from the territory of the Bacchus Empire, but most of them came from the headquarters of the Snake Worship Sect on the Amara continent......

The descendants of the conquerors are now facing the aggression of another, more evil conqueror.

At the same time, no one expected that Sheila Yuzas's rebels would suddenly receive a large amount of money, food and materials, and their strength would increase greatly.

The deployment of Emperor Marius was also disrupted.

According to the original plan, after the rebels had eliminated the stubborn old-fashioned and freed a large number of slaves to establish their prestige, Brutus should have led the rebels to cooperate with Keros and get rid of Sheila Yuzas's rebels in one fell swoop.

Marius would then grant amnesty to the rebels and abolish slavery for the rebellion, which would make sense, and no one would object.

Whoever dares to disobey will go to crusade against the rebels, and by the way, it can also make Kairos, the old-fashioned army leader, understand that guarding the old system will only break out wave after wave of uprisings.

But there had to be a commitment from the top, and some loyal troops had to be sent over to guide the rebels, or a rabble might fight with Kairos......

Originally, Marius had planned to do this himself, but due to the sudden increase in strength of Sheila Yuzas's rebels, they not only defeated Keros, but also advanced to a position only thirty miles away from Siyuan City. And the army of the Snake Worship Sect that came across the sea from the south has also approached Siyuan City, and in this case, Ma Luo really can't leave Siyuan City.

This also caused Marius and Alina to temporarily lose contact with Brutus and Elena some time ago, and as a result, the rebel army got a little out of control, grew in size, and went straight to the city of Bozhi, besieging the city......

At the same time, Marshal Kairos's rebel army is now uncontactable, except that the last place to appear is the village of Fenrad, which he encountered halfway through the recall of Agathon.

Marius realized that it would be difficult for Brutus alone to fully control a legion of tens of thousands in the current situation, and that plans had to change.

Because this matter is inherently risky, once something goes wrong, it may change from a 'new life plan' to a 'death plan,......

Therefore, now Brutus cannot be allowed to lead troops to eliminate the rebellion, but can only let him cooperate with the governor of Justus to see if he can recruit peace on the spot in Bozhi City.

In addition, the southeastern region has been invaded by the Serpent Cult, Marasburg has been captured, and news of the east has been cut off.

Once the port of Emperor Lin fell, the Snake Cult would continue to land from the port of Emperor Lin, just as General Osa had invaded the continent of Pande.

Therefore, Emperor Marius recalled Agathon from the fortress of Leila, and asked Agathon to return to recover Marasburg and rescue the Emperor's Harbor.

Abandoning the fortress of Leila is of course risky, which means that there will be no more reinforcements in the capital city of Siyuan, which is attacked on both sides.

At the same time, General Titus of the Savoie Fort had been recalled a few days earlier, and Emperor Marius had asked him to contact the Ashpawn Empire to fight against the Serpents.

The Empire of the Ashes is a nation re-established on the ruins of the old Bacchus Empire by those native to the continent of Amara who are unwilling to submit to the Serpent Cult.

But Marius didn't ask General Titus to ask for help.

Instead, he asked Titus to take the warship directly across the sea to the continent of Amara, to join forces with the Ashborn Empire, and destroy the ports of the Serpent Cult on the continent of Amara!

He's going to take a salary!

Emperor Marius did not ask anyone for help because of the crisis in Siyuan City, and all the troops that could support Siyuan City were currently sent by him.

Not only that, but he is also the Lord

Moved to the outermost defense line of Siyuan City, which was the front line facing the rebels.

"I'm Marius! Emperor of the Empire! I'm right here! Come, traitors, charge me!"

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