Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Rome is indeed short of money now, and at the same time, it really needs such an event.

Rome has fought many wars in the past two years, and there have been many casualties in both civil and foreign wars. The casualties in the Palphic War alone exceeded 10,000. Even if a large part of the Roman army and slaves accompanying the army are not formally organized, the remaining people always need to be appeased and dealt with.

This new auction method was proposed for the first time, but everyone thought it was a good method. The rich felt that the donation experience was better, the poor paid more attention, and the auctioneer or someone else could also benefit. In short, no one was dissatisfied.

Rome has always had a tradition of public welfare. The rich would fund the construction of public facilities or roads, and then name them with their own names or family names. Although this kind of public welfare is more limited to the city of Rome and citizens and other groups, it makes Orville's idea more acceptable.

Orville personally hosted the auction, and Tia herself came to support it. All these measures made the auction a great success. He was not blinded by the interests, so he claimed that the event was hosted by the royal family, Orville participated as an individual, and Tia participated as the general of the soldiers.

But even this was enough. Orville was selling the spoils obtained in the Palphic War. Both of them were commanders who had made military achievements in the war. This gimmick was very good and had a lot of publicity properties.

Tia was a general who had just held a triumphal ceremony, which was the highest achievement in the life of a Roman general. Vespa even specially held a grand ceremony for several days. Tia also had the attributes of a female general, a gifted person, and a royal family. Basically all Romans knew this young general.

If there were a few surprises, it was probably that Tia absolutely did not understand what Orville meant. She thought that the focus of the whole thing was really to raise funds for the soldiers, and she bought a lot of things at a high price out of her own pocket.

Other than that, things were still very satisfactory. Orville gained money, Tia gained further reputation, and got a good reputation for caring for the people, and the financial problems of the Roman treasury were barely alleviated a little bit.

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The funds were raised through this auction, and Orville continued his plan shortly afterwards.

He has now seen that the whole country is trying to publicize this matter to stabilize the situation after the victory, so he has made arrangements around this matter.

About half a month later, the war history "The Palphic War" compiled by the personal staff of the triumphant general Tia Flavia Vespasia was officially published. Since the enthusiasm of the people for this war has not faded, they are naturally very curious. Orville also catered to their interests and invited several people to give lectures in the square on time. More and more people came to listen to the books every day.

Before the printing and papermaking technology made great progress, Orville didn't want to touch the publishing industry. He bit off more than he could chew. Now is not the time to introduce revolutionary new technologies. His ability is not enough to take on such a big thing as the promotion of new technologies, which will only benefit others.

Therefore, after obtaining Tia's permission, he handed over the publishing business of "The Palphic War" to a publisher with good business in Rome in exchange for a fairly good one-time payment and long-term dividends.

You can't make much money from publishing books these days, but you can earn reputation mainly, firstly for yourself as the author and secondly for Tia as the general.

Orwell did not write this war diary completely according to the academic standards of later generations, but asked Procopius to add a lot of things. Overall, it is still fair, objective and detailed, but it is more story-telling and readable, which is convenient for publicity activities and book talks.

The focus of the whole book is on the siege of the Holy City. Therefore, under Orwell's deliberate design, the protagonist of the war naturally became Tia. He intentionally or unintentionally changed the main line of the whole book to this - the upright, brave and kind General Tia defeated many party members entrenched in the Holy City through a series of efforts in the war. The plot of the Roman army burning, killing and looting was slightly weakened, focusing on the loss of morality and indifference of the party members, giving the war a kind of "correctness" that the Romans looked like.

His book was for the citizens of Rome, so he naturally knew how to write it, but he still had a bottom line, and there was nothing missing. Later generations can use it to understand the full picture of the war, which is concise and clear.

He was not a person who pursued fame and fortune. In his opinion, his current life was very good. If he had the opportunity in the future, it would be better to arrange a few more lucrative and leisurely jobs for himself. It would be good to live a comfortable life like this. He is now a royal relative. As long as the Flavian family does not fall, he can live comfortably.

So his goal has always been to keep what he has. The Senate will be in opposition to Tia in the future. Orwell is using his own methods to avoid this situation. As long as Tia's prestige is large enough to influence the opinions of most people in the Senate, the opposition will not happen.

Even if there is a fierce battle in the future, it is good to have a solid public opinion foundation. The influence of the Roman people on politics is very large and cannot be ignored.

Orwell waited for a while, asking people to promote and build momentum, waiting for the real estate promised by Vespa to be in place.

It was only one or two months before and after. It was definitely not a new house built by buying land and building houses temporarily. According to Vespa himself, this was the real estate he confiscated from corrupt officials when he was fishing for law enforcement. It was considered to be fully utilized in his hands.

After everything was in place, Tia found a time to give a speech to the retired soldiers in the square.

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There were many people watching in the square. First, there were many idle veterans in Rome. Second, many of these veterans retired after the Palphic War. Tia was their old leader and had great prestige in the army. Many people came to listen to Tia's speech.

Tia stood in a corner of the square, surrounded by people. In order to make her voice heard further, Tia had to use her talent.

"Citizens, soldiers, I think many of you have encountered this situation. After a long war, you returned to your hometown, but found that Rome no longer had a place for you. Lack of professional skills, too old, bad temper, or simply fear of soldiers, etc., there are always reasons to exclude you, and there are always people who reject you.

Do you not want to reintegrate into society? Are you resistant to work? I think good Roman soldiers will not have this idea. Someone has excluded you and made you lose the opportunity to work. Without a stable and normal job, you They are people who are outside the society. If they are not careful, they will slide into the abyss. I think some of you are suffering from it, and some of you have seen the harm of this kind of thing. "

Many retired soldiers present began to nod in agreement. After leaving the army, they were at a loss for what to do in their idle life. They could not find a suitable job and were unwilling to leave the prosperous city of Rome. Many people got into the bad habits of overeating, alcoholism or gambling, so they spent all their retirement money and completely became poor vagrants at the bottom of the society. They lived in poverty and could only survive on relief food. Some were even worse, and they did not want to be like this.

"I think moral deficiency and corruption are the ultimate enemies of mankind. In order to resist these enemies, we need labor and virtue. Now soldiers, I am willing to give you a chance to start over and reintegrate into society. "