Roman Slave Owner

Since the Vatican castle has not yet been built, Li Wei is still living in a villa on Capito Hill.

Next, he found his legion commander and arranged the placement of the soldiers.

The other soldiers are easy to talk about, but the ones that give him the most headaches are the soldiers of Capua's First and Second Legion.

Some of these soldiers were his retainers, while others had only signed a five-year contract.

Fortunately, due to the habit of his previous life, he added an irresistible factor to the contract, so the contract can be voided.

Now we can only see if anyone is willing to leave the legion and go home to farm on a voluntary basis.

The soldiers who followed him in this battle all made a lot of money, the least of which was about 500 dinars. Li Wei is a very profitable commander.

In addition, Sura is very interesting, and has allocated a lot of land. I believe there are still some soldiers who are willing to farm.

After two months of cuts and cuts, Li Wei finally retained a 3,000-man escort.

Li Wei decided to train this guard team as officers, just like the German army after the defeat in World War I. Everyone must be able to serve as a ten-man commander at least in the future.

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After returning to Capua, Li Wei immediately approached Valens and asked him about the thing he was most concerned about.

"How about the war orphan I let you adopt?"

Levi asked.

Before leaving for Africa, Li Wei ordered Valens to adopt a large number of war orphans.

If you want to do big things that change the world, then loyalty must be cultivated from an early age.

He didn't want to be assassinated by his own subordinates like Caesar.

"We have adopted more than 3,200 orphans, all of whom are under ten years old, and boys account for about 80% of them."

Valens said.

"Very well, how is the school going?"

Levi asked.

"It's all covered."

"Where's the teacher?"

"It's basically ready, and I tried to use our veterans as much as possible."

"Great job, I'll check out the school tomorrow."

Levi said.

The school in his mind should be a military academy, so the teachers try to use experienced soldiers as much as possible.

As for ordinary teachers, he is not at ease, what if these people are taught wrongly?

"One more thing, I need you to build a monastery near the school."

"What is a monastery?"

"It's a religious building, a place to train priests. I'll tell you what it looks like later."

Valens looked at him suspiciously. According to his understanding of Li Wei, even if Li Wei tried his best to conceal it, Li Wei's belief in gods was very limited.

How could he build a monastery in Dragon City?

"I converted to a religion, this religion is called the holy religion."

Li Wei said with a serious face.

Varun was stunned, what is the holy religion?

"This is a religion from the far east, the country that produces silk."

Levi said.

In this era, silk from China had been passed to Rome, and Caesar once wore a suit made of silk, which shocked the Romans.

After entering the imperial era, a large amount of Chinese silk entered Rome, and the dignitaries in Rome loved it very much.

Valens still couldn't understand why Mrs. Levi believed in a religion from the East?

Although Eastern religions tend to be more rigorous than Western religions.

"What is the god of the holy religion?"

"Pangu, he is the god who created the world and the only god in the world."

Li Wei said with a stern face.

Monotheism is the core content of Catholicism, and it is precisely by means of monotheistic Catholicism that it completely isolates its own religious beliefs from other religions.

Make your own god the only god, and all the gods of other religions are not gods.

Greek and Roman religion was a very inclusive religion, they respected gods everywhere and respected each other's religions.

Through the expansion of the Greeks and ancient Romans, they incorporated gods from all over the world into their pantheons.

Among them, not only mortal kings became gods, but also the fusion of gods from various places.

After Rome entered the imperial era, it even established the Pantheon, and moved the gods from all over the place into the Pantheon.

But the Catholic Church has always rejected this kind of integration. He is extremely conservative and xenophobic. It is this kind of conservatism and xenophobia that overcomes tolerance and integration.

Li Wei understands that this is a historical necessity, no one can stop this general trend, all he can do is follow this general trend.

So he decided to take the path of Catholicism, leaving Catholicism with nowhere to go.

If he wants to be emperor in the future, then he needs the cooperation of religion to control people's thoughts.

Although Confucianism is good, its effect is too slow.

It has been at least several hundred years since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ousted hundreds of schools and only respected Confucianism until Confucianism truly ruled China.

He doesn't have that long to wait, so religion is the only option.

And there is only a thousand-year religion, how can there be a thousand-year empire.

If he becomes the first pope, then his descendants are holy descendants, which is the real free meal ticket, just like the king of Jordan.

Even if the country is dead, they can easily obtain various benefits by virtue of their status as holy descendants.

Li Wei felt that he had broken his heart for his children and grandchildren, and they should all thank him.

Li Wei carefully introduced the holy religion to Valens and wanted to pull him into it.

But Valens doesn't seem interested in these. Li Wei had no choice but to give up.

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The next day, Li Wei took Geta and other retainers to Longcheng School.

"Geta, do you want to go to Rome to develop?"

Levi asked.

"Patriarch, what do you mean?"

someone asked.

"Do you want to be treasurers, justices, and tribunes of the people. Now I have quite a few tenants and tenants. If you want to be, I can let them choose you."

Levi said.

Now Li Wei's strength has been further enhanced. After receiving the land gift from Sulla, Li Wei took advantage of the opportunity to buy land at a low price. Now there is so much land that no Roman citizen can be found to farm it.

According to later records, there are no more than 900,000 citizens of Rome now.

However, Li Wei estimates that if he recruits all the tenant farmers, he can recruit at least 40,000 tenant farmers to work for him, plus their relatives and friends. This is a very terrifying force. He can completely push his own people High officials in Upper Rome.

Hearing this, the retainers were both surprised and delighted.

These official positions are not only high in power, but after the expiration of the term, they automatically become the elders of the Roman Senate.

It's just too good to be true...

"Patriarch, are you telling the truth?"

Geta asked with surprise on his face.

"Of course, I need to have my own people in the Senate, otherwise it will be inconvenient to do anything."

Levi said.

In fact, he originally hoped that his retainers would be some kind of elders, and he would just be his own retainers honestly.

But if you don't expand your own manpower in Rome, your influence will be greatly restricted.

Fortunately, there are these orphans, even if these retainers are a little less loyal to themselves, it doesn't matter.

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