18 The danger of destroying the country
The slaves trafficked to the Western Regions, especially the resting prince Logis V, personally transported more than 200,000 high-priced slaves. Although nominally from Kushan, more than half of them came from Rome. Among them were even many of the declined Roman nobles.
It was precisely because the Roman Empress Ruqira had traveled with slaves and ate and lived with them all the way. Therefore, she knew the composition of slaves. Apart from the Roman civilians, the defeated First Roman Army soldiers and their descendants also carried them in large quantities. After the war, she did not receive the ransom paid by the Roman Empire, so she became slaves of the Sakuras. It was not until more than twenty years later that Octavian became the head of Rome. The government and the people unanimously demanded that the war with Anxi was ashamed of Sakuras. However, Octavian knew the pros and cons of the Roman army. He knew that the odds of winning were too small. So he withstood the pressure of all parties and insisted on diplomatic mediation, which eventually allowed the Roman prisoners of war in the Battle of Kalais to be released, and the eagle talisman captured by the Roman legion was returned.
However, most of the released military generals, or small and medium-sized nobles who could pay sufficient ransom. A large number of ordinary soldiers and their descendants failed to return to their hometown.
Time flies, a hundred years pass by.
Although my father had already buried his bones in a foreign land, the latter continued his hatred for the Roman Empire. Along the way, Roman Empress Ruqira empathized with it.
If these resentful people were re-armed and followed the Han coalition forces to fight against Rome, Rome had already lost half before it was even matched.
The descendants of these Roman soldiers were well aware of the Roman people's conditions, familiar with the Roman terrain, and knew the combat methods and equipment levels of the Roman army.
Although it has been a long time since the war between Rome and Anxue for the first and last days for the first and last days for Armenia. However, for a hundred years, border conflicts have continued. Sporadic battles have occurred from time to time. From the battle for a certain stronghold or city to the battle between the caravans of the two countries. On the eastern border border between Rome and Anxue, the war has never been extinguished on the long and warm plains along the Mediterranean coast.
In other words, a large number of Roman mercenaries were also sold to a distant oasis by more than 200,000 slaves.
These are all potential "leaders".
To be fair, only the above disadvantages are not enough to determine the outcome of a battle.
Just like Achilia and Ruqira, they both keenly discovered the biggest difference between the Han and Rome: there were no slaves.
Slaves were the cornerstone of Rome. They almost contracted all the needs of a Roman man from birth to death. However, the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty were tens of millions of self-cultivated farmers who owned land and property.
Just imagine, if you learn from the descendants of Roman slaves and slaves that all slaves sold to distant oasis were generously released by the oasis owners and regained their freedom. Every household gets a hectare of fertile land and a mansion. You can marry and have children, enter and exit freely, enjoy all the rights that only free people can enjoy, and only have to bear corresponding obligations.
What would the slaves of Rome think?
Xu made a riot in groups, and opened the city gates on their own, and welcomed the royal army into the city.
When Liu Bei announced on the spot that the slaves would be free and would never be slaves again. News came out. The cities along the way would be like wildfires, and slaves would riot one after another and open the city to surrender.
Just imagine, Liu Bei granted slave land, land and houses as a conqueror. He appointed him as an official, general, and then recruited soldiers on the spot. The team grew like a snowball. There were coalition forces encircled outside and slave riots inside.
The Roman Empire was defeated.
This is the superiority of the feudal system.
In this way, Rome and the Han Dynasty were completely incomparable.
In a nutshell, slaves were the cornerstone of Rome's prosperity and the biggest hidden danger.
By the way, the Spartacus uprising mentioned by the priestess of the Holy Fire Achiriya greatly shook the foundation of Roman slavery.
Slave owners were forced to make some changes in the way they exploit slaves and manage their land. For example, improving the methods of controlling slaves and correcting their attitudes towards slaves. They bought slaves of different races as much as possible, avoiding the use of slaves in the same race, and guarding against slaves' union. They also divided large areas of land into small pieces and handed over to slaves to cultivate, and slaves could even share part of the harvest. As a result, slaves gradually evolved from "talking tools" to "post farmers". Regardless of whether the slave owner was willing or not, this move did help the stability of Roman society.
After the Spartacus Uprising, there were a number of slave uprisings in Europe named Spartacus, and the destruction and impact it brought was not even limited to Europe.
However, even the improved "liminary farmer" had no advantage in front of Tian Zu, who was the owner of the oasis, who had "thirty taxes and one" and could be said to be a complete defeat.
People die for money, and birds die for food.
If he could get the "thirty taxes" and the Roman farmer would take risks?
The answer is self-evident.
To put it bluntly, as long as the Han coalition arrives, it will be a "slave liberation war" that will be recorded in history. As the cornerstone, slaves, lost a large number of riots due to escape and riots, and the entire superstructure of Rome collapsed with a thunder. Ashes were annihilated and became history.
If the two armies set off their troops in the country, there is still a possibility of a war.
Just let Liu Bei break through the blockade and attack the territory. This will be a rushing slave liberation and a great collapse of Rome.
In a nutshell: Rome and Han are not comparable.
It was precisely because of his keen vision of the superiority of the feudal system of the Han Dynasty that Queen Ruqira completely dispelled the idea of returning to Rome. This move not only led to the wolf into the house and the fire. It was clearly a danger of destroying the country.
Someone may ask: Are the slaves of Rome not Romans? They are in trouble and do not know that they share the same hatred of the enemy?
The slaves of Rome were really not Romans.
Most of the Roman slaves came from provinces or conquered areas, and a small number were debtors and criminals.
Among them, foreign slaves accounted for the vast majority. Since Rome entered the "Republic era", it began to invade and expand foreign countries, and the number and types of foreign slaves increased very quickly. By the first century BC, the city of Rome had a population of 1.5 million, and slaves accounted for 900,000.
It was precisely because of the huge dividends brought by slaves that it continued to nourish Rome's ambition to invade foreign countries and plunder foreign slaves. In the third century BC, in the war to conquer the mountains in southern Italy, 36,000 prisoners of war were sold as slaves. At the end of the Third Punic War, all the remaining 50,000 people in Carthage were reduced to slaves. In a battle in northern Greece, the Roman army plundered 150,000 local residents and sold as slaves. The Roman commander Caesar conquered Gaul and sold 400,000 people as slaves.
The city of Rome has a population of 1.5 million, and the slaves account for 900,000. Just imagine how terrifying the number of slaves in the whole country is.
The slight wind blows on your face and brings joy.
Priestess of the Holy Fire, Achiriya and Roman Queen Ruqira, overlooking the lights of thousands of houses, each thinking about their own thoughts and being speechless.
After a long time, Achilia suddenly murmured: "Rome, whose Rome is it?"
Although the voice was gentle and low, it was almost whispering.
But Rome Queen Ruqira still heard every word. She tried to open her mouth, but there was a hint of bitterness.
The Roman Empire was built on numerous corpses.
Chapter completed!