Roman Slave Owner

Chapter 172: Orphans and the Holy Church

  Because the castle of the Vatican has not been built yet, Levi currently lives in a villa on Capito Hill.

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

  The other soldiers are easy to say. The ones that gave him the most headache were the soldiers of the Capuya 1st and 2nd Army.

   Some of these soldiers are his customers, while others have only signed a five-year contract.

   Fortunately, due to the habits of his previous life, he added an irresistible factor to the contract, and the contract can be invalidated.

   Now we can only follow the principle of willingness to see if anyone is willing to leave the legion and go home to farm.

   In this battle, the soldiers who followed him made a lot of money, and the least made about 500 dinars. Li Wei was a very profitable commander.

   Plus Sura was interesting, and a lot of land was divided. I believe there are still some soldiers who are willing to go farming.

   After reductions, two months later, Li Wei finally retained a 3,000-man guard.

   Li Wei decided to cultivate this **** as an officer seed. Just like the German army after the defeat in World War I, everyone in the future must be capable of at least serving as a ten captain.

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   After returning to Capua, Levi found Valence for the first time and asked about one of his most concerns.

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

   Li Wei asked.

   Before leaving for Africa, Levy told Valence to adopt a large number of war orphans.

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

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

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

   Valence said.

   "Very good, how is the school built?"

   Li Wei asked.

   "It's all covered."

   "Where is the teacher?"

   "Basically, it is ready, I tried my best to use our veterans."

   "Good job, I will check this school tomorrow."

   Li Wei said.

   The school in his mind should be a military school, so teachers try to use experienced soldiers.

   As for ordinary teachers, he is not at ease. What if he teaches these people crookedly?

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

   "What is the monastery?"

   "It is a kind of religious building, a place to train priests. I will tell you what it is like when I look back."

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

  How could he build a monastery in Dragon City?

   "I converted to a religion, this religion is called Shengjiao."

   Li Wei said seriously.

   Wallen has a face of stubbornness, what is the holy religion?

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

   Li Wei said.

  Silk from China in this era has spread to Rome. Caesar once wore a silk dress that shocked the Romans.

   After entering the imperial era, a large number of Chinese silks entered Rome, and Roman dignitaries loved it very much.

   Valence still couldn't understand why Mrs. Li Wei believed in a religion from the East?

  Although Eastern religions are often more strict than Western religions.

   "What is the **** of the holy religion?"

   "Pangu, he is the **** who pioneered the world and the only **** in this world."

   Li Wei said with a sharp face.

   Monotheism is the core content of Catholicism. It is by monotheistic Catholicism that completely isolates one's religious beliefs from other religions.

   made his own **** the only god, and none of the gods of other religions are gods.

   Greek and ancient Roman religions are very tolerant religions. They respect gods everywhere and respect each other's religions.

  Through the expansion of the Greeks and ancient Romans, they incorporated the gods of various places into their **** system.

   Not only do mortal kings become gods, but there is also a phenomenon of fusion of gods from various places.

   After Rome entered the age of empire, it even established the Pantheon and moved the gods from all over to the Pantheon.

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

   Li Wei understands that this is a historical inevitability. No one can stop this general trend. All he can do is to adapt to this general trend.

   So he decided to go the Catholic way, leaving no way for Catholicism.

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

   Although Confucianism is good, it is too slow to be effective.

   It took at least a few hundred years from the time when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ousted a hundred schools and respected Confucianism to the real rule of Confucianism in China.

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

   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 will be the saints. This is the real free meal ticket, just like the king of Jordan.

   Even if the country is dead, they can easily reap all kinds of benefits by virtue of their status as a saint.

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

   Li Wei carefully introduced Valence to the Holy Church, and wanted to draw him into the Church.

   But Valence doesn't seem to be 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 the Longcheng School.

   "Guita, do you want to go to Rome for development?"

   Li Wei asked.

   "Patriarch, what do you mean?"

   someone asked.

   "Do you want to be a treasurer, a justice, or a civil servant. Now I have a lot of tenant farmers and doormen. If you want to be, I can let them choose you."

   Li Wei said.

Now Li Wei’s strength has been further strengthened. After receiving the land grant from Sura~www.readwn.com~ Li Wei took advantage of the opportunity to buy land at a low price. Now there are too many land to find Roman citizens. Farming.

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

But Li Wei estimates that if he recruits all the tenant farmers, he will be able to recruit at least 40,000 tenant farmers to work for him. Together with their relatives and friends, this is a very terrifying force. He can completely push his own people. A high official who went to Rome.

   Hearing this, the retainers were surprised and delighted.

   These officials are not only high-ranking officials, but after the expiration of their term, they automatically become the senators of the Roman Senate.

   This is so good...

   "Patriarch, are you telling the truth?"

   Getta asked with surprise on his face.

   "Of course, I need someone in the Senate, otherwise everything is inconvenient."

   Li Wei said.

  Actually, he originally hoped that his retainer would be some veteran, so he can be his retainer honestly.

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

   But fortunately, there are these orphans, even if these retainers are less loyal to themselves.

  

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