Chapter 6758 Cows and Horses

Chapter 6758 Cows and Horses
To be honest, it is not too much for citizens to take half. After all, the locust plague does not distinguish between citizens and barbarians. In areas where locust plagues are rampant, both citizens and barbarians will starve.

Therefore, in this case, when relief food is distributed to citizens and they are asked to distribute it to local non-citizens for relief or something, to be honest, it is not too much for citizens to take half. After all, as the ones who distribute the relief food, citizens only take half, which is already fair.

Then the question arises: there are only six million citizens and over 40 million barbarians. In this case, what percentage of the food needed for normal survival can the barbarians get?
There is no mention of the elders, nobles, knights and the like, all of whom are called citizens. All of these citizens only took half, and the remaining half was distributed to more than 40 million barbarians. And there was no consideration at all that some of these citizens were cruel and ruthless, and did not help the people at all. They just distributed some wood scraps and used the food to exchange for money to make up for their own losses.

They simply regard all citizens as moral and well-educated. As their own country suffered heavy losses and tax revenue was greatly reduced this year, and they could not get back the taxes they had paid before, they only took half of the relief grain allocated from above, and distributed the rest of the relief grain to non-citizens under their rule without leaving any.

However, in this situation, non-citizens also don’t have enough to survive, which is very serious.

"Doesn't Rome realize this problem?" Zhuge Liang frowned. Although he could understand that this was a problem of inertia, just like he thought that as long as the food reached the disaster relief site, there would be no problem. After Chen Xi said this, he realized the difference between Rome and the Han Dynasty, but didn't the Romans themselves realize it? It shouldn't be. Although the Senate is a bunch of rubbish, there are also a lot of top powerhouses.

"I realized it, so I chose to protect the citizens." Jia Xu said with a somewhat mocking tone, his expression much more serious, "Rome knows very well what the foundation is. When we laugh at Rome's nonsense, Rome may also be laughing at us for not knowing who the foundation is."

"If a riot breaks out like this..." Zhuge Liang's expression became much more serious. If tens of millions of barbarians rioted, it could really overthrow Rome.

"This involves another operation that may be very outrageous." Guo Jia sighed, "I can understand why Sergio asked the guys under Marquis Ye in the Senate to verify the grain-making technique. The top leaders of the Claudius family must have agreed on which places to abandon and how to proceed. The grain-making technique is just for people to see."

"What is the grain-making technique?" Chen Xi looked at Guo Jia in confusion.

"The Claudius family has mastered a special secret technique that can convert wood and water into starch." Guo Jia roughly explained it to Chen Xi. Chen Xi was stunned. What a heaven-defying technology. Although Chen Xi could roughly understand that this was hydrolysis based on his chemistry knowledge, the fact that Rome could use the secret technique to reproduce this process was indeed heaven-defying.

"They have this method, and it can be used by Yuan's men. Even if the prerequisite is high, Rome can still mobilize a group of people." Fazhen said with a serious expression.

"At the very least, this technology proves that if the largest family in Rome is determined, there will still be food. It just depends on whether they are willing to invest. As for some things, as long as they are available and energy cannot be consumed, they can actually be put aside for now." Many inhumane things have emerged in Li You's mind, such as the inefficient extraction of the spirit of non-citizens after the spread of the Mediterranean Utopia, and the use of non-citizens as torches to power this special secret technique.

After all, the Kushans had already demonstrated to Rome and the Han Dynasty how to create supermodel clouds and the like. Although Rome might lag behind the Kushans in terms of relevant technology, as long as they knew the general principles, Li You firmly believed that Rome could also do it if they wanted to, as long as there was no lower limit.

What's more, Li You didn't believe that the Mediterranean Utopia was just an ordinary shelter. What a joke. It had been structured to that extent. It would be like playing to add some other functions into it. What's more, if it really reached that extent, using the barbarians as torches and making food for them would kill two birds with one stone!

Li You's thinking was still so cruel that he thought of this extent almost instantly. But he was right, if Roma really said that he couldn't do it, no one would believe it!

Although the Roman Empire did not go in this direction, it did have relevant technical reserves. After all, the previous wave of energy transmission by the Kushan Empire did shock the Han Dynasty and Rome. It would be a miracle if the two countries did not make some technical reserves to guard against the Kushan Empire.

"If that's the case, there seem to be quite a few traitors in the Senate." Chen Xi said with a smile. His mind worked quite quickly.

"After all, the Claudius family controls so many positions. It's impossible for other families to say that they don't have any ideas. Even without mentioning other families, other forces are probably afraid. Moreover, from the perspective of national policy, suppressing the Claudius family is completely in line with the interests of Rome." Man Chong, who had been silent and working hard, turned his head to look at Chen Xi with a bit of sarcasm.

Chen Xi had nothing to say. Man Chong was right. For a country, no matter whether it was a noble family, the royal family, or Chen Xi, as long as one of the forces was too strong and there was no proper restraint, it would definitely not be a good thing.

Man Chong may not be sensitive to other things, but he is really sensitive to this. After all, there really was a situation around him where someone was too strong and everyone wanted to restrain him, but then failed, leading to a situation where everyone was almost beaten to death.

Everyone present looked at Chen Xi when they heard this. From a certain perspective, it was perfectly normal for the Claudius family to be held back. As for whether they would be liquidated for being held back, there was no question of whether they would be liquidated or not.

It is impossible to eliminate some small fish and a few relatively high-ranking people. No matter how much Rome belongs to the Claudius family, it is impossible for the Claudius family to occupy all the senator positions. In order to be fair, the number of senators of the Claudius family must be reduced.

After all, in the past, when the Claudius family was divided, with nearly 200 elders, they could only exert the combat effectiveness of 60 to 70 percent, and most of the rest of the time they were engaged in internal strife. Now that this incredible family has been unified, they can at least exert the combat effectiveness of 100 elders. This is truly an irresistible one-man show for other forces.

Although logically speaking, the integrated Claudius family has the final say in Rome, but there are some things you can do but cannot say. At least on the surface, you still have to give due face, for example, giving more senator positions to other forces.

"It seems that the Roman bureaucrats are going to do something big next." Chen Xi sighed and said, the simplest way to fight against the Claudius family is actually for all the major families to make up their minds to collectively fight against Chen Xi, but Chen Xi can offer enough benefits to make the major families become his own strength, so he didn't do this. But in fact, Chen Xi also knows how to do it.

It's nothing more than the bureaucracy collectively distorting policies. No matter what you want to implement, they will all be doubled. With this game, as long as there are enough bureaucrats involved, Chen Xi can do nothing about it. As for supervision, let alone now, even in the 21st century, as long as it is not fully managed by AI, it is common for the bureaucracy to distort policies and do things recklessly.

I deliberately read the scriptures distortedly to you, and distorting the scriptures is also a kind of benefit.

"In this case, there is a high possibility of civil unrest in Rome." Li You said with a serious expression.

"With the civil strife, we won't have time to do anything big, and we can deal with the Kushan side in peace. By the way, Zichuan, are you ready for next year's test?" Guo Jia said with a smile. The civil strife in Rome is really only good for the Han Dynasty at present, and there is no harm. Without this Rome that is causing trouble, the Han Dynasty will not need to divide its energy on other things.

During this period, the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire were fighting, and Rome was causing trouble. Every now and then, something disastrous would happen and everyone would come together to solve it. If this continued, when would the Han Dynasty be able to free up its hands to crush the Kushan Empire?

Logically speaking, if the Han Dynasty keeps wasting time like this and fails to use its finishing move and kill the Kushans, the final result may really become a hundred-year war of attrition. So next, they must take a deep breath, defeat the Kushans directly, fight quickly and decisively, concentrate all their strength, and beat the Kushans to death.

"It's almost done. We will conduct domestic verification first next year. Originally, it would be better to tell Lord Xuande about the three million troops next year. After all, once I have completed the domestic verification, I will have the confidence to say this. But I found that if we really want to conduct such a large-scale verification, it is best to let Lord Xuande stabilize the situation, which can further improve the success rate. So let's verify it together with Lord Xuande next year." Chen Xi said with a sigh.

Mobilizing three million main forces to the Ganges to wipe out the Kushans is an operation that must be verified. If it is just talk, Chen Xi is afraid that the boat will capsize. Moreover, once a boat of this scale capsizes, well, at this scale, there is actually no need to worry about being annihilated by the Kushans, because the possibility is very small. The real point of capsizing is actually the lack of organizational strength in the rear, the inability to guarantee logistics, and the inability to deliver supplies on time and in quantity.

In the end, the decisive battle didn't take place because the army collapsed first.

If this really happened, the war between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire would probably have developed in the direction of a Hundred Years' War.

Then Chen Xi would be extremely embarrassed. So, the three million to destroy the Kushan Empire was just a plan of Chen Xi. This plan had not even been put down on paper earlier. The original plan was to verify it in Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou in the eleventh year of Yuanfeng, and then put it down on paper to report to Liu Bei. In this way, even if it went wrong, Chen Xi would be able to find the problem. Moreover, when proposing this plan to Liu Bei, he could also explain the difficulties to be faced, the logistical support to be prepared, etc.

As a result, the verification had not been done yet, and Chen Xi discovered the loophole when he was dispatching logistics and military service on a smaller scale. Then Liu Bei appeared, so there was such an unverified verbal plan of 3 million to destroy Kushan. Chen Xi could not guarantee how this plan and everything involved would be implemented. He was also not sure what the bureaucrats would cooperate with along the way.

From a certain perspective, this thing is still just a verbal thing. At least before large-scale verification next year, no one can tell what the situation is.

Originally, such a plan that has not been verified verbally should not be brought to the Government Affairs Office for discussion. Instead, it should be discussed in private with people like Bai Qi and Han Xin who have no actual positions. Once there is a framework and a basis for execution, then it can be discussed in the Government Affairs Office. But who can blame Chen Xi for his ability being recognized by everyone? This group of people really think that such an unverified plan has absolute execution certainty. Chen Xi cannot say that there are still many links that have not been verified. What if there are problems!

To Guo Jia and his group, who had seen Chen Xi's various magical operations, these words sounded as if Chen Xi was deliberately pretending to be cool and waiting for them to flatter him.

So the matter was left hanging here in an awkward manner, and was even regarded by this group of people as an official plan to destroy the Kushan Empire, and they believed that Chen Xi's move was indeed grand enough.

In fact, Chen Xi is also helpless about this matter. He can only agree to this matter now, and then make another statement after large-scale verification next year. There is still a possibility of verification failure next year, but failure does not mean that he cannot continue to push forward. Because of the experience of large-scale verification next year, Chen Xi will find the problem and fill in the gaps, and the problem will not be too big.

But now that it has become so big, if the verification fails next year, the wind of opposition...

Chen Xi felt that he was in a big trouble, so he decided to take Liu Bei with him to verify it next year. Although speaking from a probability perspective, there is a high possibility of failure if he takes Liu Bei with him to verify it next year, but at least with Liu Bei's pressure, the scene will look much better.

This was also when Guo Jia and others asked Chen Xi how he was preparing. Chen Xi had a blank expression on his face, but still gave a positive answer. This time he was really held back by this group of people. If he had not exposed this and verified it first, even if he failed, he would have enough experience to report and explain. But now, it might be that a large group of people from the Han Dynasty are staring at this.

Bragging in private and bragging in public are two completely different things.

"Xiaozhi, how is your communication with the Kushans going?" Chen Xi didn't want to dwell on this matter, so he turned to Fa Zheng and asked.

"We haven't reached a complete agreement, but there is a high possibility that the Kushans will agree. They are just a little dissatisfied with the amount of cloud gas we requested. Now they are stuck on how much energy reserves the Kushans will provide. It can be seen that the Kushans are actually quite nervous in this regard." Fa Zheng said with a sigh. Too many cattle and horses cannot die!

The author is not here. This is the manuscript I saved yesterday. I don't know when the reception will end. The manuscript should be enough.