Roman Slave Owner

He can't always stop the production of financial officers and construction officers, so that the country will have a big mess.

Li Wei smiled disdainfully. He was obviously dead, and thought he had a chance of winning. Wash his neck and wait for death.

After half an hour, the civilian protection officer blocked the passage, and the citizens' assembly was officially held.

Li Wei stood on the high platform, and this month it was his turn to preside over the citizens' assembly.

The fortune-teller glanced at the sky, and then said: "The signs of the sky are not good."

Many citizens yelled, and after preparing for such a long time, they even said that the weather is not good.

"It's so shameless."

Gaeta said.

"It's okay, we can afford to wait."

Li Wei said with a smile, and then led the crowd to leave here.

Mettrus's face was gloomy. Although he won this time, he knew he was still very dangerous.

At this time, he regretted why he didn't propose to disarm the Crusaders early. It was too late now.

Even if the Senate passed the resolution, Li Wei would not necessarily comply with it, and it is likely to be vetoed by the civilian protection officers.

Since the killing of Saturnin, the relationship between the other civilian protection officers and him has been extremely bad, and they have all been on Li Wei's side.

Unless a citizens' assembly is convened, this will become a real law.

But once the citizens' assembly is convened, he is dead.

This is an endless loop of no solution, no matter what, his future is worrying.

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After sending away a veteran, Li Wei fell into deep thought.

It is now May, and many people have already begun to prepare for this year's re-election.

Each year, Rome elects 20 financial officers, 10 civil servants, 8 justices and 2 consuls, all of whom will become members of the Senate.

As the largest group of citizens in Rome, Li Wei is naturally the target of countless people, and they hope that the citizens in Li Wei's hands can support them.

Even if some members of the Senate are full of dissatisfaction with Li Wei, they will test Li Wei's attitude at this time.

What if Li Wei supports them regardless of previous complaints?

Li Wei also began to prepare for the next year. After the expiration of the term of office of the consul and justice, he will be released as the governor.

In the past, the consul of Rome would only serve as the governor of one province for a one-year term and had an army of two legions.

As Li Wei laid down the territory of 9 provinces, which greatly increased the territory of Rome, the previous regulations naturally did not apply.

The Senate quarreled fiercely over how to allocate the provinces of the consul and the justices. Of course Li Wei wanted to get a share of it.

His goal is to serve as governor of the three provinces, with a term of at least five years, with an army of three legions, but it is very difficult to achieve the goal.

His proposal is bound to be strongly opposed by the Senate, so Li Wei needs more support from the Senate.

"What did the elder just say?"

At this moment, Emilia walked in.

At this time, Emilia was in her 20s. It was the most beautiful time in her life. Coupled with Li Wei's nourishment, she looked gorgeous and radiant.

"Nothing, he wants me to support him as a judge."

Li Wei said.

"Have you promised him?"

"I didn't think about it."

"I think you are the most unhappy, is it because of Metellus."

"No, I'm thinking about how to get the support of the Senate. I want to choose my own province."

Li Wei said.

The selection of provinces for consuls and justices is generally determined by drawing lots, but there are also designated by the Senate, but that requires the support of the Senate.

"What province do you want to choose?"

Emilia asked curiously.

"I want to choose three provinces, Shannan Gaul, Shanbei Gaul and Illyria."

Li Wei said.

"Can you take me some into office?"

Emilia asked.

"You'd better not go, it's not peaceful there, and there are often rebellions."

Li Wei shook his head and said.

After Caesar became the governor of these three provinces, he fought almost all the Gauls after years of wars.

Although he had no intention of fighting the Gauls and his target was the Germans, he did not know what would happen in the end.

But Emilia didn't think so, she couldn't help pouting her mouth and said, "You won't bring another woman back."

Li Wei couldn't help sweating, and said quickly: "I will definitely not this time."

"Believe you to blame."

Emilia snorted coldly, and she was about to leave, but was hugged by Li Wei.

Next, Li Wei licked the dog and slapped Emilia's **** desperately. It took a long time for Emilia to turn her anger into joy.

"By the way, how can I persuade those elders to agree to let me choose a province?"

Li Wei hugged Emilia and tried to divert her attention.

"Who knows this?"

Emilia said, she tried to get away from Li Wei's arms.

But Li Wei hugged too tightly and couldn't get away, so she chose a soft meat around Li Wei's waist.

"what!"

Li Wei yelled very exaggeratedly, and then had to let go of his hands, having to admit that this skill of a woman is really amazing.

After seeing Li Wei let go, Emilia laughed very happily.

Li Wei shook his head and said: "There is a saying in the far east, the world is booming, all for profit. The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit. As long as the veterans are given enough benefits, even if they hate me to death, they will definitely Will agree to my request, the key is what benefits can buy enough veterans."

Hearing this, Emilia's eyes lit up.

"I have an idea, would you like to listen."

"What idea."

Li Wei said.

"You know that my father was a tax collector before. Whenever he was competing for taxes in major cities, what he hated most was to pay taxes in advance. Because at that time he had to borrow money to make up this astronomical figure. He always said that no matter who it is, as long as he is not allowed to pay the advance tax, he will definitely support him."

Emilia said.

"Prepaid taxes?"

Hearing this, Li Wei fell into deep thought.

Roman law stipulates that if a tax packager is eligible for a tax package in a certain place, he needs to first hand one third of the tax levied to the state treasury as a prepaid tax.

Of course, tax packagers will hate this, because it will take up a lot of their funds.

For this reason, they made unremitting appeals in the Senate, hoping to change this law, but unfortunately they never passed it in the Senate.

Li Wei still knows something about this. Even Krasu supports the cancellation of the prepayment tax because he secretly participates in a lot of related businesses.

Li Wei estimates that he also has this kind of business at home, but he doesn't care too much.

"It's a very good idea. I think we can submit this bill directly to the citizens' assembly."

Li Wei thought for a while and said.

Since his earliest proposal was passed, the citizens' assembly has obtained full legislative power and does not need the consent of the Senate at all.

In this way, he has more room for manipulation, and ordinary people don't like to see this law passed.

They don't have a good impression of tax packagers. They support 80% of the things that can make tax packagers suffer. In this way, powerful people are needed to promote this bill, such as Li Wei.

In this way, he can engage in PY transactions and gain support from veterans who have interests in tax packagers.

Don't underestimate the energy of taxpayers. Historically, Luculus has won consecutive battles in the East, even defeating the three-nation alliance of Pontus, Ameriya and Parthiya, and his military achievements are not insignificant.

But just because they harmed the interests of the tax packagers, they combined with Pompeo to deprive him of his command, and even the triumphal style was almost cancelled. This shows the power of the tax packagers.

Moreover, if this bill is to be passed, a citizens' assembly must be called. Once the citizens' assembly is called, the Metluth family will be dead.

Soon Li Wei made up his mind and just did so. He could put a message through the "Roma Daily" and see the reactions of those taxpayers.

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Metelus’s house was bleak. Although only two weeks had passed since the last citizens’ assembly, Metelus looked like he was 10 years old.

"Thank you for coming to see me, don't worry, there is no problem with my body."

Mettrus tightly held the hand of a 40-year-old middle-aged man and said, but tears were faintly visible in his eyes.

"Those **** bastards, now they need Li Wei, and a lot of people just lick his ass, a bunch of **** bastards."

The middle-aged man cursed viciously. He was tall, with a hooked nose, and a face with Chinese characters. He looked like a tough person. He was Mettruth’s hard-core supporter, Justice Claudius Marchellos.

"I understand, they also have their own demands, don't blame them."

Mettrus sighed.

Every time when the term changes, there will be veterans who will vote for Li Wei, this time more, he has made deals with many veterans in his own hands to obtain their support.

Marcherus still didn't intend to let them go, and kept cursing the veterans who voted for Li Wei.

The two sat down, and some slaves immediately served wine and desserts.

"Do you have any plans? It's not far from July now. It's not a way to keep on dragging it down."

Marcherus said.

"I talked to Li Wei, and I said, not only willing to apologize publicly, but also to make compensation, but he never agreed to let us go."

Mettrus said.

"He is too much. Didn't Scipio do something wrong? Did he send someone to kill Musia's personal slave? Why don't you find someone to sue him."

Marcherus said.

"He did it very cleanly. I couldn't get any evidence of him. And even if it was a civic assembly, he couldn't do anything to him. Not only was he crowded, but don't forget the fate of Sidig ."

Mettrus shook his head.

Marcherus fell silent, and at this time he remembered the divine metaphor that caused a lot of noise in the past.

It is estimated that the Romans are not willing to see Li Wei being prosecuted. If the true God is angered, what can they do if they come up with a Spartacus uprising? The Romans are fed up with it.

"Have you read the latest "Rome"."

Marcherus said.

"Watched."

Mettrus said.

"Li Wei has proposed a new bill, wanting to cancel the tax prepayment of taxpayers."

"I know."

Mettrus said with a heavy heart that he knew what this meant, and many knights might vote for Levi's side, including the elders who had an interest in them.

"These days he has been in contact with many veterans and taxpayers. He wants to serve as the governor of Shannan Gaul, Shanbei Gaul, and Illyria for a five-year term, with three armies, and he must have foreign warfare. Power. As long as he agrees to this request, he will do his best to help them pass the bill to abolish the prepayment of taxes."

Marcherus said.

"What are you talking about? How can this be! Does he want to go to war again!"

Mettrus said in shock.

"Yes, it is said that he wants to use soldiers against the Germans."

Marcherus said.

"It must not go on like this. If he makes further contributions, he will definitely ask to become a dictator if anyone can control him in the future."

Mettrus said.

Marcherus nodded in agreement, suppressing Li Wei was once the consensus of many people in the Senate.

Unfortunately, due to the alliance of the Big Three in Rome, the suppression became empty.

Fortunately, the Big Three disintegrated, and with Li Wei's wrong decision, he was at a disadvantage in the veteran, but he didn't expect him to look like a comeback now.

"What does Crasu think?"

Metluth asked.

"He is a dazzling guy with money, of course he doesn't object."

Marcherus said contemptuously: "And it is said that Levy intends to pass this bill to the citizens' assembly."

Metluth's face turned black immediately, and now his legs trembled as soon as he heard the citizen assembly.

You don't need to ask to know that Li Wei must be planning to put pressure on him by this.

"It must not be done. We should find someone to persuade the bill to be submitted to the Senate."

Mettrus said.

"You are right, I will leave this to me, but Li Wei will probably oppose it."

Marcherus said.

The two sides discussed for a while before Marcherus left here.

Metelus was in a bad mood. He knew that over time, the pressure he faced would be greater and greater, unless he could postpone the civic assembly until Levy left Rome when he became governor.

But this is not safe. Li Wei can keep the Crusaders and leave until their family is killed.

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Time flies, and three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and it has come to August.

A large number of Roman citizens came to Rome. Rome hosted many competitions and gladiator competitions to welcome them. The whole of Rome was singing and dancing.

The two consuls and 8 justices were successfully elected through the centennial assembly, and 10 civilian defenders were also successfully born through the civilian assembly.

However, only 20 financial officers and construction officers could not be selected for a long time. As for the reasons, everyone knows the reasons.

That's because the citizens' assembly was repeatedly cancelled due to bad weather, which put the Mettrus family under unimaginable pressure.

"Roma Daily" raids the Metluth family every day, and many elders criticize them in the square every day.

Even some of his former allies were very dissatisfied. Their nephews wanted to become financial officers and construction officers. The various forces contacted and the money was given, but they were delayed in being elected because the citizens' assembly could not be held.