"Greece is a nation with a glorious historical and cultural heritage. We have gone through a lot of hardships and liberated from the slavery of the Ottomans. All participants are heroes of Greece.

Deserve the rewards you deserve!

Therefore, military and political officials from all over the country will be assigned reasonable positions as long as they are willing to come to Athens to accept their performance.

Anyone who attempts to gain troops and divide Greece by himself will be regarded as a traitor.

Will be the sinner in Greek history!”

After the Aristotle government signed a peace treaty between the Holy Alliance, Aristotle took advantage of his public opinion approval rating in Greece soaring again (this time the public opinion was the real wish of the public), and issued an "invitation" to the troops entrenched throughout Greece.

Of course, this is not a political trap. The Aristotle government even listed the level and power of the officials in office based on factors such as population, military power, territory size and wealth controlled by the "warlords" in various places.

The method adopted by Aristotle had a famous allusion in ancient Eastern countries - releasing military power with a cup of wine.

Aristotle planned to reorganize the warlords in various parts of Greece, instead of clearing them all, and those officials would make proper arrangements.

Among them, the powerful warlords can directly serve as senior officials in the Athenian central government, and they can choose whether they are in the military or in politics!

Those with weak power can serve as an intermediate official in the central government or as a governing official in the local area.

In fact, the conditions issued by the Aristotle government were already very good, especially when the Honorary Legion controlled by Aristotle had an absolute advantage in force.

Most importantly, after the Aristotle government's declaration was published, it immediately occupied the title of righteousness.

One warlord is not only the leader. The emotions and thoughts of officers and even soldiers under his command need to be considered. If the people are uneven, the warlords, where the army is already at a disadvantage, will lose the ability to cause losses to the Legion of Honor...

The Aristotle government arranged not only those warlord leaders, but also officers at all levels under their command, and even the soldiers' places.

After the reorganization is completed, qualified soldiers can enter the newly established Greek Welfare Force, which is the only regular field force of the Greek Republic cut and adapted from the Legion of Honor.

Unqualified soldiers will not let them go home to farm unless they themselves propose to retire!

The selected soldiers will become local garrison troops (actually militias) and local police.

As for the police and garrison troops in Athens and its surrounding cities, there will naturally be soldiers removed from the Legion of Honor.

The Honor Legion seems to be very large, but because it expands too quickly, the quality of the army is uneven. Except for the age, there are problems in other places.

For example, many "unemployed vagrants" have come in!

These people have obviously become the indicators of bad habits in the army.

Therefore, Aristotle also planned to perform a major screening of the Legion of Honor.

Of course, the main reason for the disarmament of the Aristotle government was not the quality of soldiers, but the financial issue.

How big is Greece in a country, and how many people can it have?

Now the Greek army is clearly beyond the limit of its own population supply, because Aristotle brought a large number of minority soldiers and even their relatives and families in the Balkans!

In addition, there are minorities who have nothing to do with Aristotle and are just oppressed by the Kingdom of Serbia. They flocked into Greece like refugees, and flocked into the Legion of Honor for a meal.

Moreover, as Aristotle became the president of the Greek Republic, the Legion of Honor had contact with other troops of the Greek Republic, and his dissatisfaction with his lack of military pay naturally emerged.

People's desires are endless. At first, these poor children might think that it would be great if the Honor Legion could be full and well-dressed. However, after they found that they would receive military pay income in the army and war, they would immediately feel unbalanced. If Aristotle had not had too high personal reputation in the Honor Legion, the soldiers would have started to cause trouble.

Therefore, the Greek Wehrmacht cut and adapted by the Legion of Honor must pay military salaries, just like other countries in the continent.

Although the pay of the European army in this era was very low, the number of soldiers and officers was still a huge expense when it rose.

Through multi-party exploration, Aristotle decided that the Greek Defense Force would maintain the scale of about 100,000, which was the best.

As for the militia and police responsible for defending the local area, the local finance is responsible and does not require the central finance to take responsibility.

In this backward era, not all taxes in the local area are paid to the treasury, and a part of the surplus will often be left behind.

Even many countries pay the taxes on the treasury are fixed, and the extra taxes are intercepted by local governments.

Of course, if the local government has the ability to collect more taxes, it is also what they deserve.

If you are not capable of collecting less taxes and the amount paid to the treasury is not enough, then the central government will hold you strongly accountable!

Of course, the central government is not blind or deaf. The smart central government will conduct financial reviews on local governments regularly to judge their tax payment ability, and then adjust the taxes paid to the treasury at any time.

Local governments that are really affected by disasters will not force them to pay the tax amount in previous years.

Forced tax payments will never starve the local government to death, or cause the pockets of local government officials to shrink. These officials will only delegate the vacancies layer by layer, and the people will eventually suffer!

In short, any exploitation of local governments by the central government will eventually be distributed to the lowest class of civilians, which is the essence of human society!

Even in many cases, the starting point for the central government to formulate rules is good, such as not paying officials a large amount of salary, so that they can live like ordinary middle-class people.

However, how could an official be willing to live like the middle class?

If their salary is low, they will try their best to make grey income, and the result will be that corruption will further aggravate!

In the history of Li Wei's previous life, why did the corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, which Zhu Yuanzhang had just started, could not be killed completely?

It is because the salary of officials ordered by the court is too low!

The emperor Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the living standards of officials and wealthy families among the common people should be content, but who in fact does not want to live the life of a top rich man?

The result is that the salary becomes a cover for income...

Not to mention ancient times, even in the 21st century, just looking at the salaries of officials, it would be better than ordinary people, but they are all more generous than the rich!

Where did the money come from?

However, the wisdom of corrupt officials is improving, and the wisdom of anti-corruption is also keeping pace with the times. The central government cannot solve the greedy instinct in human beings, so let’s start from other aspects.

Isn’t you just to open up spending money and enjoy it?

OK, then start with your daily expenses!

It is difficult to check if you accept bribes, but you can always find them if you spend money.

If you dare to be greedy but not spend it, what's the point of greed for so much money?

This should always solve the problem of corruption.

As a result, a large number of money laundering channels were born...

Then, corrupt officials began to embezzle money to their relatives and friends, and even purchased a large amount of assets abroad!

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As expected, the Aristotle government's "high righteousness" action immediately made many local warlords relieve their resistance.

To put it bluntly, they don’t really want to fight a vigorous civil war. As vested interests, who doesn’t want to enjoy this wealth and prosperity and pass it on to their descendants?

If you really fight, no matter how you look at it, the Honor Army will have a big chance of winning!

Most of the people who can become military leaders are not crazy idiots. Faced with the political temptation of the British, they all declined and began to respond to the call of the Athenian government.

Everyone has an official position, and Aristotle also seems to be kind, so why should we fight a civil war with a high probability of failure?

As long as the military power is handed over, no matter how bad the military leader is, he can at least become the director of the local police station!

This is the boss of a city’s police force!

After the first military leader to give up his military power and was properly arranged, other military leaders followed suit.

The soldiers of the military leaders also began to enter the screening stage. The Aristotle government first investigated the soldiers' willingness to join the army. Those who are unwilling to join the army can go home immediately!

Weapons and equipment must be handed over, and the soldiers who handed over can receive a settlement fee back.

Everything is arranged in an orderly manner.

After seeing this scene, the London government had no choice but to give up causing trouble in Greece.

The London government did not have much hope for launching a Greek civil war. The reason is simple. Aristotle's reputation in Greece was too high!

And Aristotle has no dark history!

If Li Wei used this pacification policy, those local warlords would guarantee that they would all try their best to cover their military power and would never hand over the gun!

At this time, the importance of a leader's personal credibility is reflected, and the personal credibility image maintained by Aristotle since his political career played a crucial role at this moment.

No one thought Aristotle would turn against others and overthrow the generous treatment he gave.

For those local warlords who wanted to continue leading their troops to fight, Aristotle even arranged positions for them in the newly established Greek Defense Forces, and their military ranks were on par with their original military ranks, without any reduction!

This is a truly righteous move, and it has received unanimous praise from the Greek military leaders.

However, the Aristotle government has always adhered to the integrity of the Greek Republic and eliminated the emergence of mountainism and separatism in the army, so it did not place all the old subordinates of the military leaders under their command.

The Greek local military leaders did not have that big luxury either.

The Greek Republic was able to complete the military reform so smoothly and incorporate local warlords and armed forces so much has something to do with the fact that the Greek Republic had not yet launched a civil war.

Civil war is a very evil thing. There will be countless times when there is a first time. If there is no first time, everyone can sit down and have a good talk.

The Aristotle government was willing to divide the power to share with everyone, and it also had the advantage of military power, so naturally no one wanted to persist in the civil war.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the poor international situation of the Greek Republic. Greece is a weak European country. If a civil war is fought at this time, both the anti-French alliance and the sacred alliance may take advantage of the situation and turn Greece into a vassal again.

What convinced the Greek generals the most was that he always adhered to the political principle that Greece was a sovereign state!

Of course, it may also be that those Greek generals saw that the situation was already ready. When a civil war started, they would only be eliminated by the first one...

In just a few months, the Aristotle government incorporated all local armed forces and adapted 100,000 Greek Republic National Defense Forces.

The Hundreds of Thousand Greek Republic Defense Forces have hundreds of various field artillery and nearly 10,000 cavalrymen of all kinds, which is also a great force on the European continent.
To be continued...