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344 Internal reforms

Naturally, this reform of the Prussian Kingdom caused great financial pressure to them. Even if most of the army in war were abolished, the burden on the people was still very heavy, and they would definitely not be able to bear it after a long time.

The Kingdom of Prussia was prepared to break out in a full-scale war with the Roman Empire under the control of Levi, and to the extent of no room for anything!

Compared with the Kingdom of Prussia, the reform level of other countries is not as fierce as that, mainly because there is no such condition.

But it also increased the military budget more or less.

Among them, only the Russian Empire did not increase its military budget because there was really not much money to replenish military expenditure...

The poor Russian Empire even started to play robberism and began to extort the neighboring countries in the east. If they didn't pay, they would directly exclude the Cossacks and rob them.

Occupy is impossible, and the Russian Empire does not have enough military expenditure to cover the cost of conquest.

Only by robbing and forcing those weak countries to pay tribute can the Russian Empire be profitable.

The Russian Empire had a high international prestige at this time, and Central Asia maintained an independent country composed of nomadic peoples. The fear of the Russian Empire had been engraved in its bones, and they had long been defeated by the Russians!

Therefore, there were not many Central Asian sovereign states that really rose up to resist the Russian Empire. The Russian Empire did not even send out the Cossacks, so it completed a rough tribute system.

Of course, it is unknown how much help this can help the huge Russian Empire. In the information fed back by the General Administration of Military Intelligence, the Russian Empire has not become stronger, and it is still the same as before.

Without Paul I, who had made great progress in reform, the Russian Empire once again entered a period of stable development under the rule of Alexander I. There was no major military change, but the domestic economy was gradually recovering from the loss of war.

For the Russian Empire, as long as the government has money, the war can continue!

There is a big reason why the neighbors are working hard. The stimulation of Li Wei's establishment of the Roman Empire was one, and the second was the expansion of hundreds of thousands of systematic brainwashing troops.

The third point is the instigation of the London government.

Because the Roman Empire's way of destroying the navy stimulated the London government!

So many shipyards were restored at once, and almost at the same time, they started to build wooden shell warships and started playing dumpling games. Can the London government not feel threatened?

Even the Roman Empire claimed to the outside world to land in Asia Minor and destroy the Ottoman Empire.

This is pure nonsense. If it is just to destroy the Ottoman navy, it would be enough to rely on the original French foundation.

However, after the founding of the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of vassal troops were dismissed and transferred to local police and militia.

This makes the military power of the Li Wei government on the books seem to be reduced a lot, even if there are many systems that brainwash the army to increase the number of troops.

This is naturally to save financial expenditure.

From then on, Li Wei will only use the system-brained army as a regular field army.

The use of cannon fodder needs to be determined according to the situation of the battle.

Because as the hundreds of thousands of vassal servants were dismissed and placed, the tragic ending of the destruction of the Greek corps also spread.

There was no way. At that time, so many soldiers from the vassals and servants saw it, so they couldn't silence them together.

Although they did not see the surviving Greek soldiers being disposed of, they saw how the Greek soldiers were pushed in front as cannon fodder, and how they died in groups at the gun of the supervising team!

Although these vassals were glad that they could still stand against the Greeks in front of them, when these people returned home and became workers who earned their wages, they immediately became a morally noble person and began to tell their neighbors what they saw and heard.

This is human nature.

It is not that everyone is a Virgin, but that everyone has a "Visionary Heart" standing on the moral high ground and condemning others.

The reason is 'for justice'.

If the Roman Empire had not had strict public opinion control, such remarks would have become even more rampant until they were elevated to criticizing the government in power.

In fact, the use of the Greek cannon fodder corps is indeed too inhumane. Even the soldiers of the vassals who are responsible for the task of supervising the troops and performing their own executions will feel uneasy.

After returning home, I felt uneasy!

The Propaganda Department of the Roman Empire contacted many departments to solve this problem, so it was difficult to suppress bad remarks against the government to an affordable range.

Fortunately, there is no Internet communication in this era!

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Roman Empire is now large and small, and there are also a large number of free laborers, which effectively reduces the phenomenon of starving people to death. The common people will not be starved to death, and naturally they will not rebel with their heads.

No matter how cruel and overbearing the government that ruled them was.

The Greeks who truly empathized with each other became very minorities, and most of them were ruthless people who were trained by Aristotle, and they were even less likely to cause any trouble.

However, after learning the news, Li Wei felt that he could no longer continue to use local residents as cannon fodder on a large scale, and let the enemy kill him and then let his own people continue to massacre.

Otherwise, it will easily cause a large area of ​​national hatred!

By then, the Revolutionary Party will benefit!

In fact, the tragedy of the Greek cannon fodder Corps, the revolutionary parties in various places also gained a lot of benefits. The lower the support for the Roman Empire government, the better the development of the revolutionary party.

Foreign forces have never stopped supporting the revolutionary forces under the rule of the Li Wei government.

Even if these revolutionary forces have never even launched a decent uprising...

This is the benefit of nationalism not spreading. It is difficult to incite too many people to rebel with their heads alone.

The French Revolution was so violent because of the awakening of nationalist ideas!

Of course, nationalist thought cannot be stifled cleanly, and can only be suppressed.

This requires a powerful government and ensures that most people will not go hungry, which is the best breeding ground for the spread of revolutionary ideas.

Fortunately, by 1807, many forgetful people had already forgotten the experience of the Greek Corps in their busy lives.

As long as the Roman Empire government no longer uses that terrible method of supervising war in future wars, the deeds of the Greek cannon fodder corps will be completely buried in the dust of history as a generation passes.

Who says that in daily life, civilians always have to work hard for food, clothing, housing and transportation?

Perhaps those philosophers who like to think after eating and eating will record this matter, but in strict public opinion control, if anyone dares to write books that promote revolutionary ideas, it will not be as simple as sealing books. The whole family will have to be arrested and hung on the street light to warn everyone!

In addition, during the past two years of peace, the Roman Empire also divided the language and cultural areas in detail.

Li Wei initially preferred language and cultural unity, but at the suggestion of the cabinet, he found that the resistance to doing so was too great, and it was easy to cause public resistance, giving revolutionary forces an opportunity to take advantage of.

So Li Wei had to adopt a more gentle unity.

In the most sensitive language and cultural areas, three major regions are roughly divided into French, German and Italian.

Obviously, the backward Balkans are not qualified to have their own language and culture, and this is also the place where Li Wei is least worried about a revolution.

The population and industrial foundation there are there, and even if a revolution breaks out, it will be a life of delivering vegetables.

The French-speaking area is Li Wei's place to make a fortune, so you can't lose the French language.

That is equivalent to giving up the area that supports you the most!

Nowadays, the lives of the French people have not improved much, but their approval rating for Li Wei has skyrocketed. Coupled with the continuous exaggeration of the media, Li Wei has become a veritable hero of the French nation.

This is also why the revolutionary party forces in France, where nationalism awakens, are very weak from beginning to end. Li Wei's personal reputation is really too high!

Military victory is worthy of being the fastest way to enhance political reputation.

German is the main language of the relatively developed and densely populated Central and European nations. Livi did not deliberately distinguish between Austrian, Bavarian and other languages, but instead summarized it into German, taken from the most populated dialect as the standard language version.

If Li Wei wants to turn China and Europe into his own basic foundation, he naturally cannot deprive them of their own language. Phonetic culture is the most sensitive thing for people. After all, illiterate people also need to speak and communicate, and culture represents their traditional customs!

The changes in these things are naturally in line with the interests of the majority. If the minority is weakened, it doesn’t matter. This is the principle that the minority obeys the majority.

The northern part of Italy was one of the most prosperous places in the Roman Empire, and the Italians were naturally regarded as the basic foundation of the future by Li Wei. Li Wei did not need war-weary Italians to fight, as long as they produced safely and provided national strength.

In this regard, French, German and Italian became the three official languages ​​of the Roman Empire, and all other languages ​​were listed as local dialects that did not meet the promotion conditions.

It is not that other ethnic groups are prohibited from speaking their own ethnic languages, but that they will not invest any financial support in education. If there are private and corporate institutions who want to invest in education in local ethnic languages, they will be visited by the spy department...

For minorities, you can spread language and culture through family means, but you must not spread it through collective schools!

This is actually a kind of cultural and language unity. It only takes one generation to make the three official languages ​​of Germany, France and Italy become common languages ​​in the Roman Empire.

As for cultural customs, this thing has little impact on the unification of the empire. Retaining local characteristics will become the focus of future tourism, so there is no need to specifically attack it.

However, these three official languages ​​still have their own importance. French, as the imperial hometown language, is naturally the first official common language, followed by German, and finally Italian.

This sorting will be highlighted in administrative examinations and civil servant selection.

Yes, now the Roman Empire has officially launched the civil service examination selection system!

Li Wei has to select talented people from all control areas. He doesn't have to worry about loyalty anyway. If he can be promoted to middle and high-level officials, he only needs administrative guidance.

I believe that those who can climb up in the administrative system have some ability. After all, the Roman Empire is an emerging country and does not have the decaying atmosphere of old countries.

Those senior government officials will also restrain their desire to promote their confidants under the warning of Li Wei. This is the bonus of loyalty brought by administrative enlightenment.

Originally, Li Wei wanted to take advantage of this cabinet reform to promote education popularization, but was told that the finance department had no extra budget.

Even though the current regular army is a system-brained force, it does not require military pay and various subsidies, saving a lot of expenses, but the cost of the explosion of the navy is huge, and it also costs money to resume production in China, so there is no extra money to popularize education.

The Li Wei government had to use verbal encouragement to popularize language in private primary schools.

Although schools that have produced three official languages ​​have been closed, capitalists who have been awarded official languages ​​still do not mind building some schools in promoting their own languages. Even if it is just a drop in the bucket, it is at least the beginning of quality education, right?

The most important thing is that the government does not need to pay, just wholesale official documents.

By the 19th century, wealthy and intellectuals in Europe had realized the importance of education.

After two years of peaceful development in the continental region, the Liwei government once again received information from the Far East battlefield.

The London government promoted Colonel KFC, the commander of the Far East battlefield, to major general, and allowed the British Indian colonial government to send more than 2,000 white corps and more than 3,000 Indian soldiers to Major General KFC!

Of course, this is not a one-time transportation, but a batch.

Not only that, the London government seemed to be extremely satisfied with Major General KFC's results, but also promoted his level to the same level as the commander-in-chief of the Navy Fleet, and was no longer controlled by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Fleet.

When Levi received the news, Major General KFC had become the veritable commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force.

Of course, he did not disappoint the expectations of the London government. Major General KFC used the locals to bribe the locals to trick the Jiangning city gate and occupied the Jiangning Prefecture City (Nanjing in later generations), the top military and political land in the southeast!

In addition, the information received by Li Wei also emphasized that this KFC Major General was a war madman and refused the Qing court's ceasefire and negotiated opinions three times!

It was just because the surrender conditions given by the Qing court did not meet the psychological expectations of Major General KFC.

However, the conditions for surrender given by the Qing court have met the expectations of capitalists in London. If Major General KFC had not been defeated in a battle, he would have been dismissed for privately hindering the ceasefire.

In the intelligence, Li Wei saw the excessive demands made by Major General KFC to the Qing court.

The first is to cede Guangdong Province as a permanent leased land for the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland!

The leased land was just a saying that made the Qing court look good in terms of face. This was actually building a colony!
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