Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Obviously, in just one or two months, it is unlikely to plan a large-scale armed protest that affects the whole country. The things behind this are also quite a headache.

The Ptolemaic royal family is in chaos, and there are often various court disturbances. However, this does not prevent the overall level of the Ptolemaic royal rulers from being quite good. Although there is a bit of Greek supremacy, in fact, many of the Ptolemaic kings are normal people with clear minds.

It is not that they cannot see that there are problems within Egypt, and some people want to try to solve them, but the actual situation is not so smooth.

A large network has been formed in the army, and any attempt to reform has been rejected. When the monarchs try to change the situation, they will encounter strong resistance. The kings of Egypt lack both decisiveness and sufficient military strength, so in the end they can only let it go and let the situation of the Egyptian army remain the same.

In simple terms, no matter how many top rulers of Egypt are replaced, the rentier class below will not change, because they are deeply rooted to a very difficult point.

In fact, the local people are familiar with this protest process. As long as someone takes the lead, the rest will follow suit. The situation Orville is facing now is not much different from the situation that the Ptolemy royal family encountered before. Often at this time, the king should admit defeat and suffer a loss. The local people are used to it.

This is also the fundamental reason why Orville chose to take action so anxiously - he and these people have been in a friendly manner for more than half a month, without achieving any progress worth mentioning, and Orville clearly feels that these people are just procrastinating, and they don’t know what they are planning behind the scenes.

After fully realizing that he could not achieve his goal through negotiation, Orville decided to solve the problem by force, and he had a great advantage in this regard.

There are three legions of regular legionnaires and more than 20,000 local troops who obey his orders. In addition to the Egyptian garrison soldiers and tenant soldiers, he also has other military forces, which are strong enough for him to forcefully promote his ideas.

He thought he had given these people enough face, but there were still many people who could not see the situation clearly, so he could only take action to see who had the stronger fist.

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The legionnaires under Orville acted more restrained and were somewhat reasonable and would not do anything rash, but the tenants newly recruited by him were not all like this. They had deep hatred for the nobles who had exploited them for many years, so now that they had the opportunity, they did not know what it meant to hold back. They would do whatever they could to vent their anger, without considering the consequences.

Many indescribable bloodshed occurred frequently, and Orville also tried to restrain these undisciplined soldiers to a certain extent, trying not to let them harm innocent civilians, but in many cases, he turned a blind eye and acquiesced to some of the tenants' revengeful actions, only letting them take revenge.

Unless those people realized their mistakes in time and took the initiative to admit their mistakes to Orville and Cleopatra, Orville would send a small team of legionnaires to protect their safety.

On the whole, these tenant soldiers became a weapon to threaten the nobles. There were conflicts of interest between the Romans and these people, and there was national hatred, class hatred and cultural barriers between the tenants and them. The two sides were really a model of enemies meeting each other with envy. Because of the fear of being retaliated by the tenants, many people backed off, silently stopped protesting and resisting, and accepted the new order arranged by the Romans.

After all, the Romans only wanted to take their jobs, while these tenants really wanted their heads.

After the number of people decreased, those who did not know the current situation became particularly eye-catching, and Orville could deal with them more calmly.

In order to ensure that he would not open Pandora's box, excessively relax the constraints on civilians in various places, and then lead to uprisings in various places, which in turn led to the collapse of the Roman and Egyptian rule here, Orville used Roman legionnaires and various policies as a balancer, intentionally controlling the intensity and scale of the confrontation between the two sides, so that the other side could feel a sense of urgency without letting the confrontation get out of control completely.

Fortunately, he had accumulated enough experience in the British province and was familiar with balancing things. Otherwise, he would be in a mess.

The situation in many places in Egypt is very chaotic now, and all kinds of wrongful killings are inevitable, but Orville still believes that what he does is very necessary. If you want to subvert the existing order, you must pay a price. It is better to suffer a short pain than a long pain. There is no way to avoid death. If this continues, the result will be even darker. Orville can only try to control the number.

He will not put a bright and beautiful coat on his behavior. In his opinion, it is just a self-touching of paralyzed nerves. Orville generously admitted that it is only beneficial to do so now, but he will not do things without the most basic bottom line.

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At the same time, the overall situation in the British province has improved slightly.

Compared with the situation in Egypt, the political ecology of Britain gives people a sense of simplicity.

To some extent, the likes and dislikes of the local nobles and civilians towards the Romans are written on their faces, and after Belisarius's patient tossing over this period of time, the situation has finally stabilized again.

The locals gradually realized a fact - it was the Romans who conquered them, not Orwell, and even if Orwell left, they still had to obey the rule.

Those who did not believe in evil either colluded with their Frankish relatives to rebel, or tried to pretend to obey, but in the end they were solved one by one by Belisarius, the Wessex royal family, Rollo and others, and the last of these resistance forces had to stop.

Now Belisarius, who was free, had a new worry, that is, the Celtic barbarians on the northern and western borders.

The two sides have not been very happy since the disappearance of their common enemy. The Romans disliked them for not admiring the king and disrupting the trade order, while the Celts disliked the Romans for occupying their ancestors' homes and trying to reach into their current homes.

If Belisarius had not been a little better in temper and tried to solve the problem peacefully, and if Jeanne Dacre had not mediated in the middle, Belisarius would have given the other side a little face, and the two sides would have fought long ago. Even so, Belisarius has reached the point where he can no longer bear it.

Although he had taken action against the barbarians who crossed the border before, he would not go too deep into the barbarians' land. Now he realized that unless these people were afraid of the Romans, nothing he did would be of any use, and the barbarian tribes across the border would never settle down.