Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 333 The Destruction of "Mountain Eagle"
Regarding Guo Kang's suggestion, there was a lot of discussion among the people.Father Marco looked at the numbers above and began to calculate.

"How about we try it in Greece?" He suggested: "The initial investment can be paid by the church, and it won't be too high anyway. And it's good for us to integrate the various religious orders."

"Yes, you can remember it and show it to Lao Yang tomorrow." Da Lama Wang nodded and said: "I remember last time, didn't someone come to ask us for help? It's just a good time to take this opportunity to talk to others. talk."

"We can help to contact the cotton-growing village." Father Marco said: "The planting over there requires high irrigation, so the government has a clearer investigation of the local situation. And this plant is still being introduced and improved. , Our priests often travel to these places. I think we still have a good foundation in this regard.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Here, the scale and quantity of water conservancy projects are basically proportional to the degree of government management and control over the local area.Look at where the water conservancy is developed, and you know that there is a high probability that this is where the basic disk of the imperial court is located.

This is true even in Greece.

Local traditional villages and plantations are relatively closed. Although they often participate in trade and sell cash crops such as olives and grapes, they basically do not deal with outsiders on weekdays.In addition, for more than 200 years, there have been constant invasions, and looting thieves can emerge from all directions in the southeast, north, and south, causing the locals to become more autistic. When seeing strangers, they must first suspect whether they are spies and prepare to bring People entered the village to rob.

In many places, civil organizations have gone back to the era before Solon. Clans, large and small, opposed each other, occupied mountains and became kings, guarded each other, and indeed plundered each other.Compared with them, the city-states in the classical era were all united and friendly.

When the Purple Horde Khanate managed the Greek region, according to what my uncle Guo Di said, there were only two types of typical characters left here: one was the Greek who lived in the city by the harbor, and whoever saw whom, including the pagans. The old nobles; the other is the old Greek bandits who lived in the inland, especially in the mountains, and robbed whoever they saw, including other Greek neighbors.

And more ordinary people are sandwiched between these two kinds of people and can only be their vassals.

Under such circumstances, the operation of the Purple Horde revolves around irrigation and planting.The construction of large-scale water conservancy projects has far exceeded the capacity of local villages and cottages, so it has been monopolized by the government from the very beginning.

Although there are not many floods here, and the current level of water conservancy is sufficient to cope with the existing agriculture, there are indeed gaps in many places.Cotton, for example, requires additional irrigation when grown in Greece.In this case, larger-scale water conservancy projects can bring direct benefits to local people.

Moreover, after the resources increase and the utilization rate increases, many ordinary things can be solved accordingly.If there is a need, you can directly go to the superior to ask for coordination, and you don't have to fight with the village next door to compete for water.Over time, conflicts between different villages decreased, and larger organizations were re-established in the process of jointly maintaining this larger water source.

These agricultural organizations based on the canal water network soon began to squeeze the scattered villages.Whenever a project is successful, more people will want to follow suit, trying to get more resources for themselves by actively joining.The villagers attached to the cottages went down the mountain to take refuge, and many cottages disintegrated as a result.

Moreover, there was another phenomenon at that time, that is, the Greek region was actually relatively "sparsely populated".

There are indeed very few plains here, and most of them are mountains.However, before that, Turkmens and Western Europeans competed here, resulting in a large reduction in population.After the Purple Horde expelled the mercenaries supported by Naples and Aragon, and occupied the Greek region, there were not many people in many places.

Because the previous situation was too harsh, there were even surplus fields in this place.With the adoption of more productive technology, it does have the capacity to house quite a few people.

The culture of bandits and bandits was quickly eliminated.

—Yes, these bandits also have their own culture.They admire force, despise labor, look down on the weak and women, and think that real men should live by sarkong and plunder.This kind of thinking is similar to those half-citizen and half-bandit associations in the Ross area, making Guo Kang wonder if bandits all over the world are like this.

But the biggest problem is that being fierce and aggressive is actually two different things.

Although the Greek bandits were ferocious, their combat effectiveness was mediocre, and they couldn't even defeat the Latin bandits and Turkoman bandits—they were regular bandits, and they often formed huge battle groups under the organization of the state to go out to plunder.These stockades of the Greeks are not enough for them to fight.Fortunately, there are many mountains here, and you can hide if you can't beat them. Otherwise, these local bandits would have been wiped out by regular bandits...

Facing the farm where the legion was stationed, the bandits had nothing to do.If the legion took the initiative to search and suppress the mountains, they could still fight, but the Purple Horde really had no interest in the mountains at that time—even the march into the Greek region was pushed by the Queen Mother Helena with her own political resources, which was arranged by the court. political task.They are more concerned about occupying an area and then starting farming.

In this way, the offensive and defensive situation of both sides was reversed.The bandit leader had to keep going down the mountain to harass, venture into the plains, and attack those who were clearing the fields and digging ditches.Otherwise, people will continue to waver and go to the other side.

In short, they can't afford to wait.

Even from a military point of view, with this mentality, more than half of the losses are lost.

Moreover, in the course of the attack, it is inevitable to cause damage to ordinary people along the way.These bandits were not a very disciplined group, which made the damage even worse.The more they went out, the more the locals leaned towards the Legion.Some people who didn't care at all began to take the initiative to defect, because otherwise, they would not be able to get a guarantee of safety.

Under such circumstances, even many bandit leaders felt that the environment had changed, so they had to find a way quickly to see if they had a chance to accept Zhao'an.Those who are unwilling to give up this identity and way of life retreat to the mountains in central Greece and gather to find a way.

In the end, they elected the great bandit Cannozes as their leader.He has always claimed that he is a descendant of a royal family in ancient times.Whether it is true or not, but he did use the eagle pattern of Eastern Rome as a flag all the year round, so he was nicknamed "Mountain Eagle".

Under his call, many bandits gathered and prepared to resist for a long time and fight against the Purple Horde to the end.

However, after the purple tent army occupied a circle around Athens, it lost the motivation to continue advancing.It may be that the symbolic meaning here is enough to deal with business, and the legion sent to the local area did not continue to go south at all, but rushed back to take care of the fields.

After a group of bandits gathered for two months, they couldn't bear it anymore.The local supplies were not enough for them to consume, and during the period of stalemate, internal conflicts intensified.

In the end, another big bandit openly questioned Cannozeth's leadership in order to compete for several snatched women.The dissatisfaction of the crowd erupted concentratedly, and the two sides directly started a fight.Among the rebellious army, the cottage was burned down, and several bandit leaders were killed. "Mountain Eagle" Kanozes fled in a hurry.

In the rebellious army, several small leaders gathered their hands, ambushed Kanozes, and successfully killed him in one fell swoop.They took their heads and came to the legion's garrison to ask for credit, hoping to get a better placement.The largest bandit organization in the area was destroyed in this way.

　I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to update it, and I only realized it today...

　　In the past two days, I have made up the two missing chapters

　　
　
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