Harry Potter’s Morning Light

 Chapter 3131 delirium (1)

When Jason came to a distant country in search of the Golden Fleece, he got help from the princess Medea and solved the maze with a ball of thread.

In Sicily under the rule of ancient Rome, not everyone could wear clothes, especially slaves. This was due to the low production level of slavery.

As a slave owner, you were supposed to provide food, drink, and clothing for your slaves. Of course, this was also included in the cost of the manor. However, the slave owners in Sicily took a different approach. In the records of Diodorus, there was a manor owner named Damofilas in the city of Enna on the island of Sicily. He and his wife Galida were cruel to the point of shamelessness. Not only did they not give the slaves the minimum In order to provide food and clothing, they even drove slaves to rob passing travelers and gave them half of what they robbed.

 This couple had a kind-hearted daughter who often protected the slaves from being punished by their parents. Then one day, some naked slaves who had really not grabbed anything came to Damofilas and asked him to distribute clothes, but Damofilas said, "Are all the merchants traveling naked in Sicily?" ?Don’t they have ready supplies for those who are short of clothes?”

Then he tied these slaves to pillars and beat them severely. The slaves could no longer hold back their hatred and started an uprising.

It happened to be busy in summer, and the fields were full of golden wheat waves. A Syrian slave named Yunus took twenty of the smartest slaves, hid in the wheat waves, and came to the pasture next door. The shepherds The slaves could not stand Damofilas for a long time, and then 400 slaves in the countryside of Damofilas participated in the uprising.

There were some sporadic uprisings before this, especially among Carthaginian slaves. They would kill their masters or destroy farm tools, but these Sicilians used harvesting tools as weapons.

 Damophilas did not live in the country; he, like most large estate owners, lived in a Roman city. The wealth of Sicily brought poverty to the place because the Romans would tax Sicily with double tithes.

Cicero mentioned in his book that not all Sicilian farmers could pay double tithes. In order to pay enough in kind, they sometimes had to buy their own grain.

This played into the hands of the governors and tax collectors, who would sell the stored grain to these farmers. In fact, the Roman Senate also knew that double tithes were very heavy. Unless there was a famine or war in Rome, they would generally not collect double tithes. Tithes.

But the governors didn't care so much. Anyway, the rebel army easily occupied Enna City and formed an armed force of 6,000 people within three days. The rebel army met in the city's theater and chose Yunus as the past and the country's name. Antioch, as well as the court and parliament, there were also Greeks among these slaves.

Damophilus was tied up, and while he was still shouting that the Romans would deal with the troublesome slaves, Yunus ordered that he and his wife beheaded.

 But they bypassed the daughter of Damofilas, who had sheltered them, and even sent her to a relative's house with a reliable escort.

Then other slaves in Sicily heard the news, and then the rebel army grew rapidly, and soon reached 70,000. In Diodorus's record, he wrote, "The most noteworthy thing about all this is that the slaves who rebelled very wisely cared about the future, and The small farm was not burned down, its property and stored fruit were not destroyed, and those who continued to farm were not violated.”

 So the rebels quickly gained the sympathy and support of the farmers, and arms dealers provided them with weapons.

There was a team from southwestern Sicily. Their leader was named Creon, who was once the groom of an olive grove owner.

Originally, the slave owners were waiting for a good show, watching the internal fight between Creon and Yunus, but Creon chose to obey Yunus' orders, and then the number of people in the uprising reached 200,000.

According to the custom of ancient Rome, the censor would register Roman male citizens every five years. From the records of historians such as Livy, it can be found that the median number of male citizens in Rome was about 300,000, and those who joined the army Accounting for one third, which is about 100,000.

 When the Germans migrated south from the Baltic coast, they were mainly young and strong people, with a total of 300,000, of which 150,000 were adult males capable of fighting.

During the Battle of Arausio, the Romans invested 80,000 regular troops, plus auxiliary troops and accompanying slaves, a total of 120,000 people.

After this battle, only 10 people survived, which means that two-thirds of the army of the Roman Republic and half of the Senate were lost here. The reason was that the three generals involved in the command had different opinions.

While the consuls went to negotiate peace, a general wanted to accumulate his own political capital and launched an attack.

The Germans did not plunder Rome, but instead plundered Spain because they saw the vulnerability of Rome. It was impossible for them to form an army to resist the Germans in a short period of time, so the Germans went to Spain after they had eaten enough. Back to deal with the Romans.

When the Senate asked for help from the allies and provinces, a small country named Bityria replied that "all" the strong men in his country had been sold as slaves by the tax collectors, and the country was just like Jason and the others. The same as I encountered in Isla Mujeres.

 Then the Senate ordered each province to examine the slaves and their families, and all slaves who were born as free people could be freed. Nerva, the governor of Sicily at the time, immediately released 800 slaves after receiving the order. Since the first Sicilian slave uprising, slave owners have stricter supervision of slaves, and they all wear chains when working.

And that same year, Rome imposed a double tithe on Sicily, and this time it was true.

  Marius’ reform of the military recruitment system required the state to pay salaries to soldiers. Compared with other provinces, Sicily was relatively stable and could provide in-kind taxes.

The slave owners then bribed Nerva, who accepted the bribe and stopped the censorship.

At this time, the Roman Senate recruited 17,000 new soldiers after military reforms. They ignored the threat from the north and put all the newly recruited troops into the Sicilian battlefield.

Marius's method was to defeat the Germans one by one. This was also used by Caesar later in Gaul. He mainly took advantage of the hatred between tribes. At that time, the Germans still had blood relatives to take revenge.

Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter. His wife had no blood relationship with him, but his wife was related to the sacrificed daughter. The goddess of revenge decided to pursue Agamemnon because of this "blood crime".

Since the destruction of Carthage, Rome has not obtained as many slaves as Marius did this time for a long time, and these untamed "beasts" were brought back to the city of Rome.

After Marius held the triumphal ceremony as usual, the crisis seemed to have been resolved, and the Romans resumed their original lives. However, the double tithe in Sicily did not disappear, which led to the "golden basin" as rich as Sicily. Overwhelmed, many farmers would rather abandon their fertile land and go elsewhere.

 “Bang bang bang!”

Pomona was startled by a rapid knock on the door.

 “Are you awake?” Snape asked outside the door.

Pomona was dizzy for a while and found that she was still in Hogwarts. She was very tired last night but couldn't sleep, so she wanted to read a book for a while before falling asleep, but she didn't expect to fall asleep like that.

She glanced at the sky. The sky in summer gets brighter earlier, but it was obviously not bright this day.

 She glanced at the alarm clock.

 “Four o’clock?!” she couldn’t help but scream.

“Hurry up and get ready to go!” Snape said outside the door. “We won’t arrive at the airport until nine o’clock. Are you a guest?”

 “Oh~Merlin.” Pomona lay on the sofa and wailed, “I don’t want to go!”

 “I’ll give you 10 minutes.” He threatened outside the door, “Don’t force me to come in.”

 Looking on the bright side, at least he left London and returned to Scotland.

 She felt comforted in her heart, then got up from the ground and went to wash up.

“I should have known better not to join in the fun.” She muttered and closed the bathroom door with a bang.

 (End of this chapter)