Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

The spread of news in ancient times was limited, but the news that the Romans were recruiting talents was still spread. The scope was not limited to several major cities in Egypt. Through his private industry, Orville also posted notices in several major cities in Rome, Greece, Syria and Gaul.

Other places still need time, and now many people in Alexandria have accepted Orville's recruitment.

The response was slightly warmer than he expected. It may be due to consideration of the future political environment. People think that the power of the Romans will be greater. It may also be simply because Cleopatra helped behind the scenes. In short, Orville found some excellent talents in a short time.

After all, it is the academic center of the Mediterranean world. Alexandria has many intellectuals who can read and write. There are always some who are not satisfied with their lives. Orville accepted these people's self-recommendations and prepared to use them as administrative bureaucrats. There are probably dozens of people.

It's true that there are not many, but the number is still increasing. Orville is already quite satisfied with these people.

In addition, there is another person who makes Orville quite interested, named Claudius Galen.

This is an intellectual from the Asia Minor Peninsula. He was well-educated because of his wealthy family. In history, he lived in the Antinous era decades later and was a very good doctor.

He is almost considered the most important medical scientist after Hippocrates. He has made some achievements in treating internal and external injuries, and has written a large number of medical monographs. He is an excellent doctor who is good at both theory and practice.

In this world, he is just over 30 years old. He has just completed his studies in Alexandria and worked as a surgeon there for a while to gain experience. He clearly told the recruiting officer the purpose and requirements of his application: he hopes to give him more patients to treat, he wants to gain experience through practice, and he also hopes that the Romans can give him some freedom, including but not limited to free resignation, autonomy in diagnosis and treatment, and sufficient medical supplies.

There is no mention of salary. In this era, most people who have the ability to study for more than ten or twenty years without working are either rich or noble. Most of them are very rich and noble, and they don’t look down on the salary paid by Orwell.

As for the remaining requests, some people may think it is troublesome, but in Orwell's opinion, this is a reasonable request, so Orwell agreed to the other party's request and recruited him as a military doctor.

Not only historical celebrities like Galen, but also the bureaucrats or talents he recruited were treated very well. He hoped to attract more people to join the army or become bureaucrats through this means.

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The matter of recruiting soldiers and buying horses is at best a minor episode. The most concerned thing about Egypt is the war between Orwell and the local nobles and Greek immigrants.

In the face of a series of combined punches, the land belonging to the local nobles and temples is being recovered. Orwell is starting from the delta at the mouth of the Nile River and gradually advancing his power to the deep inland of the south.

It seems that the area of ​​land he occupies is not large. So far, he has only occupied the delta at the mouth of the river and part of the land along the Nile River. In fact, his advantage is now so great that he can almost win the war.

Because the essence of Egypt's land is in the Nile Delta and the alluvial plains along the coast, occupying these parts is actually occupying Egypt's most fertile and important land.

The remaining nobles and immigrants who control the barren land have already planned to surrender when they see the situation is not good.

They have no national hatred or family hatred with the Romans. It is impossible for them to give up their wealth and run to the desert to fight guerrilla warfare with the Romans. Instead of losing everything in the end, they think it is better to negotiate peace now in exchange for a more decent result.

Orville was very lenient to those who surrendered. As long as they surrendered, they would be forgiven. Those immigrants who gave up resistance could still keep their land. Unless they really violated the law in substance, there would not be much actual punishment.

As for those nobles and temples that occupied a large amount of land, Orville still retained some of their land and privileges, but only required them to give up a considerable part of their wealth for nationalization.

He hinted, intentionally or unintentionally, that he and the Roman Empire would still have use for these local nobles in the future. As long as they performed well and showed their value, they would not only have the hope of being reinstated, but also the hope of going further and gaining more power and wealth than before.

From the perspective of a reformer, Orville's approach was quite gentle. At the same time, he did not forget to threaten these nobles with the liberation of tenants. The chain that restrained these people was ultimately in the hands of the Romans. The surging public opinion was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of these old nobles, and it could fall at any time and cut their families into pieces.

At this time, Cleopatra made good use of her special status as a descendant of the king and the successor to win over several major nobles in the other camp and make them reluctantly hand over their land.

Because of the complicated interests of these nobles, they suddenly lost several backbones. After considering many factors, more and more nobles and temples chose to turn to Orwell. Finally, the resistance forces in various places collapsed in a short time. Except for those diehards who knew they would be liquidated or were really stubborn, Orwell, as the governor, controlled these lands on behalf of the empire and the Egyptian royal family.

At this time, Orwell had been in Egypt for several months. The time came to the spring of next year. In order to minimize the delay of the upcoming wheat harvest (Egypt mainly planted wheat after floods in the second half of the year and harvested in the first half of the year) and stabilize the local situation, the central government of Egypt quickly made a new decision-first to fulfill its promise and distribute part of the nationalized land to these liberated tenants who contributed to the war.

Fortunately, the land of the temple and the land of the great nobles were connected, and it was easy to divide them. The new government distributed land to these two or three thousand people in a relatively fair plan.

There was still a lot of land left. Orwell did not choose to distribute it for the time being, nor did he want to maintain an economic model similar to slavery, but wanted to rent or sell these lands.

The executive bureaucrats were partly Romans and partly local new bureaucrats. As for the policy inspiration, it came from Orville's solution to the land of the Gallic nobles. The two were almost identical, except that the scale was much larger than that of Gaul. Orville's bureaucrats had this experience.