Rome Must Fall

"You're right." Maximus readily accepted it and responded quickly: "The third village on the Kupa River should be called Todlido."

Everyone looked at each other, with a hint of helplessness on their faces. They had been here for more than a year, and they knew more or less Illyrian. They understood the meaning of Maximus' name. "Todlido" comes from Illyrian meaning "third".

Snotia (first), Westeny (second), Todlido (third), it’s too simple for the chief to pick up the names! ... Everyone has similar emotions in their hearts.

"The fourth stockade on the Kupa River should be called Kupa Castle." Maximus continued.

Everyone blinked at each other again: it was indeed an extremely simple name.

"As for this kind of village -" Maximus stopped and thought about it carefully.

Several other people were also encouraged by Maximus's words, and their faces showed more or less excitement, but at the same time they also had a trace of "It turns out that I was just trying to be simple. The leader gave the town such a name because it contained a certain meaning." It has a deeper meaning".

Karina, who is from Gaul, has also never heard of the practice of "labor" because the Gallic tribe has no concept of building public facilities at all.

Volenus was relieved.

Everyone suddenly became nervous: This is the center of the next tribe, so we need to give it a nice name!

It was Carina who raised the objection first: "Chief, force the people to serve... This labor service is not good. It feels like we are those hateful Roman nobles who treat the people as slaves and force them to work."

Maximus emphasized his tone and said word by word: "It should be called Afedilia, yes, it means 'starting point'. We settled down, we experienced wars, and we stood firm here. Heel, now we will use this as our starting point to dominate the entire Great River Plain!"

"These are completely different things." Maximus explained patiently: "We make the people perform labor service not for our own personal gain, but for the sake of the entire tribe and all the people!

Therefore, it is fair to make labor service a law and make it an obligation of the people. Everyone should do everyone's work, and everyone can enjoy it after everyone does it. This is fair, right? "

Quintus, Sidonius, Horace, and Capito from Rome, Volenus and Gauchos from other towns in Italy, Cephisophon from the Greek city-states... they had not heard There was a practice of "labor labor" in the past, because most of the public facilities in the city-state were done by slaves, or the army did it by the way.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Selicis came to the main house of the village.

After hearing this, Maximus was immediately elated. He stood up suddenly in excitement and said loudly: "Everyone, I have some good news for you! Flores Lucia is pregnant!"

"I agree." Capito had long wished for it.

"Aphidilia, what a nice name!" Pygris and Cornelius shouted almost in unison.

Capito nodded in understanding.

Maximus saw what they were thinking and smiled and said: "We just came here last year. Snodia, Westeny, and Todlido represent the footprints of us who just settled here. Whenever When our people call out the names of these three towns, they will remember the difficulty of settling in the first place, and this town - "

In fact, they are the nobles of the Nix tribe, not only because they have a little more money and food, but also because their status is different from ordinary people.

Everyone knows the benefits of building public buildings, and some enthusiastic people will even take the initiative to participate. However, we cannot always let good people do the work while others watch and enjoy the benefits in the end...

As the tribe becomes more powerful and the population increases, the tribe's laws will continue to be improved and more privileges will be given to the people above knighthood, which will also make the ordinary people work harder for the tribe. Contribute in order to become a member of the nobility. This is the real charm of the twenty-nobility system! "

Everyone looked at each other subconsciously, and then looked away to prevent the other party from seeing the fire burning in their eyes.

Karina nodded immediately: "I agree to enact this law."

The roads have been built to facilitate the people to travel and transport goods; the river embankments have been built to protect the people's fields and prevent river flooding; the bridges have been built so that the people can easily travel between the two sides...

And my suggestion is that the Ministry of Works should try its best to recruit ethnic people from villages and towns closest to the facilities to be built. This will make it easier for the ethnic people serving in labor to work, rest, and cook, and the tribes can also save a lot of trouble. Of course, the Ministry of Works must make plans in advance and coordinate with the Ministry of War so as not to conflict with military training. "

Maximus paused, tapped the back of the chair with his hand, looked around everyone, and said slowly: "There is another issue that needs to be discussed by all of us. Capito also mentioned this issue just now, that is, the tribe is now We don’t have enough capacity to manage and support a large number of foreign auxiliary people, but many of our large-scale public projects, such as building roads and river embankments, require enough labor, so what should we do?…

"No, because farming and growing food is the foundation of our tribe. We cannot disturb the busy farming season. We will only recruit the tribesmen to help with the work during the slack season."

"Do you have any different opinions?" Maximus asked, his eyes falling on Karina.

"What is labor?" Everyone was confused about this new term.

Karina coughed lightly and said: "Chief, now that the names of these new towns in the tribe have been chosen, should we also determine the chief administrators of these towns?"

Others also expressed their agreement one after another. After all, this law will not affect the work of their respective departments, but will be of great benefit to the tribe.

Maximus explained: "That is to say, the tribe can recruit the tribesmen according to this decree and let them work together to build the tribe's public facilities. This kind of recruitment is mandatory. If the tribesmen refuse, it will be a violation of the decree and they will be required to do so." The people who were punished and served were not paid, and they even had to provide their own food.”

My idea is to formulate a new law that stipulates that except for tribal officials and tribesmen with titles, the rest of the tribe must perform labor service once a year? "

Quintus then raised the question: "Chief, doesn't our tribe have laws and regulations that require the tribe to organize military training during the off-season? Now that the tribe has to be drafted for labor service, will the tribe's military training have to be abandoned in the future? "

"Of course not." Maximus continued to explain patiently: "The tribe's territory is now several times larger, and its population has also increased several times. It is impossible for the Ministry of Works to recruit the entire tribe's people to build public facilities during the slack season. At most, There are only two to three thousand people, the population of seven or eight villages. Other ethnic groups can still continue military training.

Just as everyone began to further discuss the content of this decree, the attendant quickly came in and whispered a few words to Maximus.

Everyone present immediately smiled and said one after another: "Congratulations, chief! Congratulations, chief! This is a great event for our tribe!"

Karilana nodded involuntarily, but then she looked confused: "Chief, since you said this is a fair decree, but you just said that tribal officials and people with titles do not have to perform labor service... Officials I can understand why they don’t have to do hard labor, because they need to work at their posts all the time, but why don’t the people with titles not have to do it?”

Maximus smiled: "This is because they have made enough contributions to the tribe, so they enjoy certain privileges. As I said before, noble tribesmen who are not tribal officials can talk to the village chief. Work together to resolve village disputes and supervise the village chief's work...

"Of course, when we discuss the details of this law later, we can formulate more detailed conditions. After the law is formulated, we must let all ethnic groups know that department officials or town chief executives will never be allowed to abuse this law. , for personal gain, thus damaging the trust of the tribesmen!" Maximus' tone became harsh.

After Maximus finished speaking, everyone began to look solemn.

There was a moment of silence in the hall, and Volenus asked with concern: "Chief, if the people are required to perform labor and build public facilities every year, will it affect their farming?"

"Okay, when we discuss the candidates for village chiefs later, we will also determine the chief executives of these towns, including Snodiya, and I will no longer serve as the chief executive of Afedilia. Here There are many people and many things to do, and we need dedicated people to manage them.”

"As long as it can be ensured that the labor done by the tribesmen is contributing to the tribe's public facilities, I have no objection." Karina said.

Of course this is a great event! First of all, it was proved that Maximus was in good health. Secondly, it greatly eliminates everyone's worries about the successor of the tribal leader during this period. The future of the Knicks tribe has continued, which makes people even more excited!

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"You came so early today, Selicis." Starks, who was still chewing bread in the house, greeted him in a vague voice.

"I got up early today and made dinner early, so I came early." Selicis replied seemingly casually. In fact, it was because he had endured a dull life for more than ten years. After serving as the temporary manager, he I did a lot of things in two days and felt very fulfilled, so I wanted to do things whenever I had free time.