Rome's original strategy of funding overseas pirates to create obstacles for the Tang Empire either came from elsewhere, or it was thought up by itself and dedicated to His Majesty Hannibal the Younger.
Precisely because of the remarkable effects over the past year, the scale of maritime trade in the Tang Empire has declined rapidly - it is conceivable that their domestic gold and silver income has also dropped rapidly, which will undoubtedly lead to the emergence of internal conflicts.
No matter how you look at it, this is a very profitable deal.
Because of such remarkable results, he was personally received by His Majesty and officially became a minister of Rome - but he was not considered a core member of His Majesty's cabinet, and he still often had to go on missions and missions.
However, all this hard work is nothing to Marcus.
The simplest reason is that he is still young after all. As the saying goes, a man has no problem without a wife, but only because of fame and fame - "wife" is simply fame.
As for me, whether it is to completely eliminate the part of the Romans that I hate the most, or simply for personal gain, it is nothing to put in some hard work and sweat.
Nothing compares to these.
What is more important now is urgent matters. Although there are thinkers in later generations who bring cultural and martial arts to the common people, they once summarized why the poor - or the disadvantaged groups in any sense, even the disadvantaged groups in the ladder of the game, are always Being stuck in one position for a long time and unable to move - even if opportunities arise in front of you, you are always unable to take advantage of them.
This reason is summarized as intuition and counter-intuition. Specifically, the affairs that people face in society are usually divided into urgent and important, urgent and not important, not urgent but important, and neither urgent nor important.
The first and last ones are actually of no value to discuss, because everyone knows that urgent and important things need to be done immediately, while everyone is unwilling to invest energy in non-urgent and unimportant things.
But the second and third types are very interesting, because in the long run, what people should insist on doing most are things that don’t seem so urgent, but have great long-term value. However, since people in a field are in In a weak position, many times there is not much room for maneuver to invest in this kind of thing.
At this time, if you want to get rid of the constraints of the environment and enter a wider place, you will need a lot of willpower and a lot of self-control, but this is obviously too difficult for people.
At this time, generally speaking, specific forces are needed to forcefully make space for the disadvantaged groups so that they can develop effectively and not just be exhausted.
For the "specific power" itself, life is even harder.
Often, important and urgent, important but not urgent, urgent and not important, neither important nor urgent, four different types of affairs, all of which must be done flawlessly!
If you make a mistake, you will either be finished immediately, or leave your descendants with horrific disasters that they often cannot handle. Now there is an unexpected surprise. If this giant island in the South China Sea really exists, it will simply give Rome a base in vain.
No, you might even be able to directly occupy Rome, colonize it, and become governor or something. But since these are uncertain after all, you must do important and urgent things first.
Marcus had no idea about this matter. Although he had learned something about the old Seris nobles, he had further confirmed the origins of the young Seris pirates and inquired about it.
I have learned a lot about domestic affairs in Selis, and by the way, I have reached an agreement with these guys to continue to cooperate and provide intelligence to Rome - and Rome will be responsible for continuing to provide you with weapons and cultivate weapons.
It is basically confirmed that the young Selis pirates are still in a very weak state, which seems to be easy to take advantage of - when people are in a dangerous situation, they often choose to seek medical treatment in a hurry - this is not a big deal.
It's a psychological tendency, but it's quite a reality.
In addition, the most important thing is that I also obtained the information of the group of young people in Salis from the old nobles in Salis. Although it is not detailed, it only records the origins and class of their parents of these young people in Salis.
, and education level, these basic information, however.
Combining vertical and horizontal lines is a simple matter and does not require so much information.
The human heart has never been complicated, and any thought will eventually be focused on interests. Among these young people who left Selis and went overseas, which ones can I try to make friends with and become allies of the Romans? Which ones can I make friends with but have to
Be careful, what you can't fight for, and what you can't fight for should be eliminated as much as possible. In fact, you can get a lot of information just by looking at the information.
People with good family backgrounds are most likely to be more nostalgic for the Tang Empire. These people are not easy to win over, and are more dangerous and need to be eliminated - because many of these guys came out because of their passion. For military undertakings
No understanding at all.
On the other hand, those who came from a poor background were relatively unscrupulous, so cooperating with the Romans to deal with the motherland behind them was not something they couldn't do, so they could fight for it.
However, these are all relatively superficial and relatively direct reasoning, as for something more profound.
Marcus couldn't figure out those things.
Then again, Marcus doesn't think there is anything deeper. No one can truly predict the future. In the final analysis, everything is determined by the outcome of the legion battle.
From this point of view, the diplomatic mission of this trip is really not simple, because it is obvious that the minds of these young people in Salis are difficult to understand - Marcus cannot quite understand why these guys do it.
If it were Rome, it would not be difficult to understand. Anyway, it is nothing more than the elites who hate their aristocratic fathers, and the soldiers who were trapped in the country because of year-round arrears of pay when little Hannibal did not appear.
These people all have reasons to be loyal to His Majesty Hannibal the Younger and go to sea to fight.
But those young people in the Tang Empire are very strange. Their family members are all ordinary people, although they themselves don't seem to be doing well - the Tang Empire did an extremely terrifying thing that people can't understand, which is to transfer the profound
Knowledge and education have been directly spread to the lowest level of the people, which is really disturbing. There are many institutions of higher learning in the Tang Empire.
These young people from Salis did not have very good grades in those schools, and many of them had bad deeds, such as fighting.
But the Tang Empire was a prosperous place after all.
