Chapter 3133 delirium (3)

The ancient Romans also wrote books like "Fables". There is a story like this.

There was a comedian who was a bit like today's stand-up comedians. He made the audience laugh with his witty thinking and funny language. Then one day, he received a challenge from a farmer to compete to see who could make the audience laugh louder. The laughter seller agreed to his challenge.

On the first day, the comedian performed as usual and won applause from the audience. Then it was the farmers' turn to perform.

The farmer came on stage with a big belly, and then imitated the pig's braying, and the audience burst into laughter.

"You lose." The farmer said to the joker.

The comedian was not willing to admit defeat, even though the farmer's laughter imitating the pig's braying was greater than the laughter he brought, so he asked the audience to comment.

The audience also felt that the joker was more interesting, so the two made an appointment to compete again the next day.

After the comedian returned home, his wife told him, "How about you learn how to bray like a pig tomorrow?"

"How can that be done?" The joker subconsciously refused.

"When you lose the game, there will be no audience in the future. Don't blame me for not reminding you." My wife said.

The comedian hesitated all night, and the next day he learned how to bray like a pig on stage, making the audience laugh so hard.

It was the farmer's turn to take the stage. He was still the same as yesterday, but the audience felt that he was not as good at learning as the comedian, so they threw him off the stage.

When he fell to the ground, a pig ran out of the farmer's belly. It turned out that he really hid a pig in his belly and twisted the pig's ears whenever he wanted the pig to squeal.

The farmer caught the pig at the feet of the spectators and held it high for all to see.

"Do you think he (the joker) barks more like a pig than he does?" the farmer said.

This story is not as famous as The Farmer and the Snake or Aesop's fables, but it reminds Pomona of Tacitus and his famous trap: once the emperor becomes the object of people's hatred, the good and bad things he does will cause equally great harm. People hate him.

The audience probably likes people who make jokes, and this preference makes them partial from the beginning. Whether he tells jokes or imitates pig noises, he will make people laugh.

Compared with the ancient Greeks who loved collecting tragedies, ancient Rome loved collecting jokes. There were many learned people talking and laughing at the dinner party.

But when it comes to who brings more laughter, farmers are better at citing classics.

"Your sandwich."

The truck owner handed Pomona the bacon and ham sandwich.

"Thank you." Pomona handed the Muggle currency exchanged at the flea market to the boss.

Then she munched on her sandwich and walked along Victoria Pier towards the airport.

There were many vendors along the way, selling products related to the airport's opening ceremony. A child was held by his father, holding a toy airplane in his hand.

Draco Malfoy has a real plane. Although it is a bit smaller than a jumbo jet, he probably can't "enjoy" the "happiness" of several Weasley brothers fighting for toys.

To be precise, Ginny snatched Ron's toy broomstick. She almost flew away with a "whoosh", but luckily she was caught by Arthur who came home from get off work in time.

Lucius Malfoy was the kind of "strict father" who wouldn't hang out with Draco unless he was under the Imperius Curse.

At Hogwarts, although there will be no shortage of food, the delicious food will "disappear" quickly, and Pomona will specifically ask the house elves not to replenish Hufflepuff's table.

She is not the kind of mother who chases her children to feed them. If she is hungry, please go to the kitchen to get it yourself. The lounge is next to the kitchen anyway.

Livi's office is always open. It doesn't matter if you don't go. He won't give students bad grades and make him unhappy throughout the summer.

Hearing uneven words, even if they are good to him, will be ineffective.

Once the emperor became the object of people's hatred, the good and bad things he did would equally arouse people's disgust towards him.

Except for Snape, few people would give a lot of homework when there was Quidditch the next day, including the stern Minerva, perhaps because she also loved Quidditch.

Compared with parents who rejoice with their children after they win, parents who hit them when they are happy, stop them from being so proud, and insist on continuous improvement are even less popular with their children.

This is human nature. The emperor's favorites will do everything according to the emperor's temper and let him have fun, even if the emperor himself fights.

After the first Sicilian slave uprising, the slaves who did not die in the battle hacked each other, leaving no one alive except their king, who was finally tortured to death in a Roman prison.

After the Second Sicilian Slave Revolt, the surrendered slaves were brought to the arena, where Roman citizens wanted to watch them kill each other for fun and to raise their swords against those who had fought alongside them in the past.

Finally, they hacked each other before entering the arena. When the door of the Colosseum opened, not a single slave appeared, and they all fell down where they entered.

Thirty years after this uprising, there was a gladiator named Spartacus, who was originally a free man. In fact, the slaves in the Second Sicilian Slave Revolt also came from free families and became slaves for various reasons. However, the Romans did not keep their word. At this time, the Romans no longer had the virtues they had when the city was first founded.

When slaves get old or sick, slave owners will not treat them and provide them with care, but resell them. Who would buy such slaves?

Roman jurists at that time divided farm tools into those that could speak, those that could make sounds, and those that could not make sounds. The ones that could make sounds were cattle, the ones that could not make sounds were cars, and the ones that could talk were slaves.

As long as slaves are treated as adults, there is no conscience or guilt in "handling" them.

Generally, animals will be executed if they attack people. Animals in the wild remember this lesson and tend to stay away from humans, including wolves, unless they are lone wolves who are dizzy from hunger.

But in order to maintain the ferocity of the animals in the arena, this is the last place for these old and sick slaves.

In order to avoid such a fate, slaves will try every means to save money to redeem themselves as soon as possible, but it is not that easy.

Theoretically, wealthy slave owners would be generous with rewards, but they were also extremely cruel in punishing people. Once Augustus was a guest at a minister's house, and a slave made a small mistake. The minister said in front of Augustus Cut him up to feed the fish.

There were dogs, lions, and even Nile crocodiles. Anyway, slave owners often saw scenes like that in the Colosseum.

The poorer slave owners were engaged in handicrafts. Until Justinian, the Romans never thought of weaving silk themselves. They continued the Spartan life, where force was everything, and all activities that affected force, even cultivating the land, were is prohibited.

During the Roman era, imports exceeded exports, which also led to slaves in the Sicilian colony having no clothes to wear.

According to the Code of Justinian, the power of life and death of slave owners over slaves is based on the law of nations, and this is the case for slave owners in other countries.

Slave owners can't make any money, so how can they have money to reward slaves? The price of skilled slaves is higher than that of slaves who don't know anything.

Roman soldiers guarded the borders and gave Rome, especially the Latin region, a relatively peaceful environment. However, before the Marius reforms, no one thought about how to deal with the issue of veterans' retirement.

Then there was a series of land reforms, and it was not until Augustus that the distribution of land was turned into cash for retired soldiers.

Spartacus originally planned to cross the Alps, but it was too difficult for humans accustomed to the weather in southern Europe, although the Carthaginians and the Germans attacking Gaul both crossed it.

Later, Spartacus turned around and went to Sicily, where he suppressed two slave uprisings. Unfortunately, they were across the sea and needed to take a boat to get there.

Most of those pirates couldn't survive inland. The double tithes collected by the Romans not only made the rebellious slaves face food shortages, but also made it difficult for small farmers to survive. Slave owners like Damofilas Not a minority, Sicilians are used to that kind of life.

Finally, Spartacus met Crassus' main force and experienced a bloody battle. In the end, about 5,000 people fled to northern Italy and were destroyed by Pompey. 6,000 slaves were captured by Crassus. A slave owner came over and asked Crassus returned these gladiator slaves to him as all his property.

Crassus ignored the slave owners' requests and crucified all 6,000 people on crosses from Rome to Capua.

Although these three slave revolts failed, the Romans still made some changes. For example, no one would sell slaves who were dying of illness and aging to gladiator schools anymore, but would abandon them on an island.

Vespasian ordered that these slaves be freed as soon as they recovered.

Emperor Hadrian also banned the selling of slaves into gladiators.

If slaves could no longer bear the abuse of their masters, they could seek refuge in temples or statues of the Führer.

Since she had eaten bean soup and pancakes in the morning, Pomona was not that hungry. She threw the leftover sandwich into the water, and soon a school of fish gathered around to eat the crumbs floating on the water.

The fish at Victoria Pier are all freshwater fish, but not as beautiful as koi.

She smiled for some reason.

"It's interesting, isn't it?" she said, looking at the sky, as if asking herself a question.

At this time, an airplane flew over from space. It was not a jet airplane, but a propeller airplane.

It dragged a long line of smoke across the blue sky and looked like it was on fire.

She remembered the air show the foreman had mentioned, so she walked back quickly, hoping not to miss it.