21. Lucius
"We are glorious and proud to die for the king and sacrifice our lives for the country!"
In the dusty and yellowed history books, there is a man who is a child of purebred Roman nobles and Han slaves. He has the blood of two of the greatest civilization creators. Although he is a concubine, he has obtained the inheritance of the oldest family in Rome due to his amazing talent. When he was 6 years old, he was given the right to go to the palace to meet the emperor. When he was 6 years old, he met Justinian, who had just ascended the throne, and received his appreciation and olive branch. At the age of 8, he tactfully refused his chance to be loyal to the young emperor. At the same time, he was invaded by a magnitude 12 earthquake in his hometown of Rome!
Upon hearing this, the boy quickly returned to his hometown where he had come to an end. In his eyes, the glory of Rome in the past has turned into dust, and the once orderly Roman city has also become a "prison" for the living dead!
Like hell on earth, wounded and remains are everywhere on the streets, and the scarce supplies make more dead people with corpses straddling the streets. Every corner of the prison is filled with poverty, and the lewdness of wealth and profit. How unremarkable the lives of people are under power. Stealing and violence have become commonplace. Pain brings more pain, and tragedy also brings more tragedies. The mountain of despair gradually seizes people's only remaining hopes. Even so many people still choose to let themselves sink like this. But who can blame them? Because that is the "daily" in the "prison".
"Even the lonely city that survives... is much better than this hell on earth!" When he was young, he thought so, and using his family's financial resources to save a large part of the poor, but the old nobles and hypocritical Christians in Rome were still domineering. He occupied the export channels to the outside world to make huge profits!
"It is precisely because of these annoying people that this country cannot operate well and bring joy to the people!" The young Rukius chose to break with it. He used his influence to form his own guard and gave painful people protection! However, at a veterans' meeting, he put forward his own reform view and touched the interests of his father!
The 10-year-old Rukius was expelled from the family, but he still had his old subordinates around him, and around him were the poor people and slaves who had been helped by him! Among the people, he was young and had a high reputation and was awarded the title of top leader of the reformist party. Most reformist aristocrats recognized him as a true success, and his talent was jealous. Therefore, those who could support him... were the low-level people with low combat power and the 500-man guard that he had formed.
But he did not give up. In the end, he chose to attack the local church outside the city of Rome. The local church naturally could not stop organizing a semi-regular army of 2,000 people and surrendered immediately... And the golden cross and countless treasures of Jesus' crucifixion enshrined in the church were swept away by him!
After obtaining these property, his life was never deserted. He distributed these property to the victims to obtain their support, and with excellent eloquence, he mobilized the reformist nobles to help him!
The brave and warlike Rukius conquered the Roman Catholic Church and robbed the Catholic Pope, who had entered middle age but had become declining, threatened the pope to sign the "Church's Foreign Aid and Trade Act" amid the screams of the reformists! Young, promising, brave and brave! The 10-year-old Rukius completed an impossible task beautifully - he achieved the goal of saving Rome by holding the pope hostage!!!
Perhaps this is incredible. But the genius young man Rukius, who was only 10 years old, was able to achieve such great achievements even though he was abandoned by his family, which was enough to shame any great man in history... This great achievement is hailed as the first victory of Rukius, the founding prime minister of the Holy Ottoni Empire! Of course, he abandoned his surname "Jurius"...
German Iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck said: "If I had one percent of the talent of Rukius, I would definitely turn London into the second Jerusalem! It would turn the British Parliament into the second Christian church!!"
When the Romans celebrated this victory, the 11-year-old Rukius was impeached by his father and the Christian church - because some unstable nobles in the reformists betrayed Rukius and used this to make use of the "holy water" (a poison) originally sold by Christians as the "effect" of Rukius! This time, Rukius had to face the entire Senate and the Christian church! In the pope's name, "God's Lord"
Under the incitement of righteousness, some fanatical believers were the first to be hit and rushed directly into Rukius's official residence (it was said to be the official residence, but it was actually just a small bungalow). The fanatical and unreasonable Christian burned his house and forcibly arrested the 11-year-old Rukius. Under the obstruction of his personal guards and civilians who supported him, Rukius was rescued by rational and angry people, hiding in a corner of the city of Rome, waiting for the opportunity to rise again...
Perhaps it is because the more life becomes, the more we look forward to a talented person like him? When the Roman nobles auctioned almost all their property to buy food for life, the Roman streets, which were originally inconvenient due to earthquakes and landslides, became easier to walk due to trade between merchants. In this way, the Frank king Clovi, who had long coveted the last Roman city, rushed south!!!
The unstoppable Frank cavalry hit the banks of the Tiber River without any pressure, and Rome was in full bloom! The drunken nobles hoped to escape from this place of right and wrong. After all, the last little surplus value of Rome was squeezed out by them, but the Christian church was private. Clove, who converted to Christ, forcibly blocked the nobles who wanted to run away. In a last resort, the 12-year-old Rukius was invited out by the Senate, and what he had to face was a Frank army of 70,000!!!
The tentative attacks of the vanguard were perfectly disintegrated by Rukius in the previous few times, and they almost repelled the 1,000 enemy attacks without any loss. However, Clovi, known as the "Iron Blood King", naturally would not retreat because of this. With a wave of his hand, 70,000 troops surrounded the ruins of Rome City, and even a bird could not fly over...
After siege for 10 days, Clovi couldn't wait to invade Rome, and Rukius rose up to resist. However, the Cardinal kidnapped his maid, Histina, the only girl who guarded him from beginning to end!!!! On the central square of Rome, Emperor Romulus, who led the last remnants of Western Rome, and Rukius, who both led the last remnants of Western Rome, met to fight against Clovius. The Cardinal threatened Histina and asked Rukius to commit suicide in return.
That was when he blasphemed the papacy... at this moment - "The light returned to Rome!" Rukius said afterwards. The legendary warrior who defeated all gladiators at the age of 4 years old, stepped onto the land of Rome again after four years. His left hand held the invisible grace of the starry sky, his right hand held the sin gun that polluted the roots of the tree, and his magic bow Reinhardt was behind him... In the blink of an eye, the Frank cavalry, who was originally exhausted and wearing thick chain mail, fought a bloody path!!!
The 12-year-old Rukius finally met the perfect king who could rule himself!!! The blond 8-year-old child also appeared on the stage of history for the first time!!! This day, people became the first year of AD... The wheel of history turned again after stagnation for many years...
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Ah, finally finished a chapter...
Answer the readers' question: The second male lead is - the protagonist is good helper, the empire is good prime minister, the people are good public servants, and the author is good materials!!!
Rukius comes from the 2011 masterpiece "Eustiya of the Immortal Wing" by August Club! He is a character I like more... So I regard him as the main helper of the protagonist Emperor Daye, the protagonist's right-hand man... He is more tender than Hong A, more calm than coyotes, and less indifferent than Uncle Kiritsushi. In short, he is another soul character in my book! If Ortinia is the heart of the empire, then Rukius is definitely a blood supply system!!!
Chapter completed!