The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 595: Wind Rising in Rome
Richard smashed the old order and brought in a new order. Although this order was still very simple, it showed vitality as soon as it was implemented.

In the feudal era, the replacement of the tribal public ownership system with the private ownership of land was a great progress.

At the same time, Richard brought more advanced productivity, which allowed the province of Gaul to begin to emerge from the quagmire and develop rapidly.

A large number of exiles were recruited, causing the population under his control to grow rapidly.

In order to manage these people, Richard began to expand the scale of the academy and prepare to train more grassroots officials. At the same time, Richard increased trade with Rome and purchased various tools and food.

Even Richard, a Germanic man from the north, began to trade.

Various tools, daily necessities, and handicrafts were exchanged for the Germanic people's livestock and slaves.

Although the territory was short of various supplies and lacked middle and low-level officials, under Richard's reforms, the province of Gaul still staggered forward.

In the following period of time, Richard needs to farm. The cultivated fields will have to be harvested next year. At the same time, various weapons and armor will also take time to make.

After taking control of Gaul, Richard needed time to farm and build up his fortune.

Fighting to support war is a way of rapid expansion, but this expansion requires plundering the resources of other forces. However, after a series of wars, the whole of Western Europe has had a hard time.

Maybe he led his army to plunder, but what he gained in the end was less than what he consumed.

Paris, Orleans and Rhine Province are the three regions where Richard has the highest control. The land in these places has been distributed. After a simple statistics, the arable land in these three places adds up to more than 18 million acres.

On average, each person has 15 to 20 acres of arable land, which seems like a lot, but in fact, except for the arable land around Paris, all other arable land is cultivated under the rotation system.

That is to say, only half of the land can be cultivated each year, and the other half is left fallow to restore the soil fertility. Fortunately, there are now fertile fields, and with the technology of making farmyard manure, at most one or two years, most of the land will no longer need to implement the rotation system.

In addition to arable land, Richard also set up a military horse farm. The Romans were not good at raising horses, and the quality of war horses in the Gaul province was also average. In order to form an elite cavalry, Richard set up a military horse farm to raise horses.

Aleiya's caravan went to the Huns' territory to trade with them, spending a huge sum of money to buy 500 good horses. These good horses, together with the best 500 horses selected from the Gaul province, were all sent to the military horse farm for breeding.

Although the Hun Empire was powerful, it was not a monolithic entity. You should know that even in the Roman Empire, there were Hun soldiers serving.

The Hun Empire was actually an empire formed by the forced integration of tribes, almost entirely relying on Attila's prestige. Some tribes were still willing to trade with the Romans.

Of course, they would not be soft-hearted when sending troops to fight. In general, business is business and fighting is fighting.

After setting up the military horse farm, Richard appointed two druid priests to manage the farm. These two druids were different from others. The blessings from the gods they obtained were biased towards animal reproduction, which was just right for breeding war horses.

In the following period of time, Richard began to concentrate on farming and accumulate strength.

Time passed quickly. While the Gaul province was busy developing, other parts of the continent were turbulent. After a year of integration, Attila had stabilized the empire again.

After recovering, Attila has already started thinking about revenge for the last attack.

The political struggle in the Roman Empire became more intense. Valentinian III and Aetius had a big quarrel because Aetius wanted Valentinian III to fulfill his promise.

Valentinian III had promised to let his favorite daughter marry Aetius' son. At that time, Aetius wanted to form a political alliance through marriage.

Valentinian III agreed to the agreement at the time because of Aelius's prestige, but he kept delaying the implementation. Now Aelius's son is already in his thirties and has not yet married.

Valentinian III's daughter was already eighteen years old. In fact, Aetius had proposed marriage two years ago, but Valentinian III had been delaying.

Recently, Aetius brought up the matter again, wanting Valentinian III to fulfill his promise, but Valentinian III went back on his word.

Although he did not directly refuse, several conflicts between the two sides were caused by this matter.

During this period, the city of Rome was in turmoil.

After the province of Gaul was stabilized and the Huns settled down, the Roman emperor suddenly felt that he was in good shape again. The empire was revived in his hands. Even many old Romans thought so, completely forgetting that it was Aetius who defeated Attila, the Scourge of God, and he himself suffered heavy losses.
Valentinian III now speaks much louder. He now feels that he is the leader of the revival, the next Caesar.

During this period of time, after Richard stabilized the province of Gaul and announced his support, the favorites around him began to flatter him one by one, and even the old nobles in the Senate did the same.

These nobles in the Senate knew very well what kind of person Valentinian III was. They flattered Valentinian III in order to push him to compete with Aetius.

In order to limit the power of Aetius, the nobles in the Senate did not want the emergence of a Caesar, because this would seriously affect their power, but they were unwilling to turn against Aetius.

They were not the emperors of the empire. If Aetius really wanted to take action, these old nobles would not be able to stop him, so they used this method. For them, the best emperor was someone like Valentinian III.

They have never fought in wars, do not know the sufferings of the people, are raised by women in the palace, and are cowardly. They can be fooled most easily. With just a few compliments, they can be coaxed into submission, and then the power will be divided among them.

On the other hand, Valentinian III's favorites were mostly flatterers. These people gathered around Valentinian III in order to gain benefits, so they naturally said all kinds of good things without asking for money.

As a result, a situation was created where, in the entire city of Rome, except Aetius, everyone was flattering him, saying that he was wise and brave, that his achievements were comparable to Caesar, and that his military power surpassed Octavian.

He is the greatest Augustus, who will lead Rome to glory.

It's okay for one or two days, and he knows that it's just a compliment from others, but when everyone around him does this and compliments him day after day, a normal person would take these words as true.

After all, people naturally like to hear nice things.

This resulted in Valentinian III really thinking that he had the ability of Caesar and could become Octavian.

What would you do if everyone around you says nice things to you, but there is only one person who is rude to you and often opposes what you say?
Valentinian III was like this. He was now more and more jealous of Aetius and wanted to kill him. If he had not still had some rationality, Valentinian III would have killed him.

Not long ago, someone reported to Valentinian that Aetius had secretly let Attila go. At the time of the Battle of Chalons, Attila had been surrounded by the coalition forces. If he persisted, the Huns would suffer heavy losses, and Attila might even die in battle.

However, in order to control the military power and gain greater political power, Aetius deliberately let Attila go.

After learning the "truth" of the war, Valentinian III was furious and immediately ordered Aetius to come to the palace to explain.

"Your Majesty, although we had the upper hand at the time, we were not completely sure we could kill him. And even if we killed Attila, our army would suffer huge losses."

"This is a loss that our Roman Empire cannot afford!" said Aetius.

"You are betraying me!" Valentinian III did not listen to Aetius' explanation at all. In his opinion, Aetius missed such a good opportunity, which was evidence that he was seeking personal gain.

"Your Majesty, although I am the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, I cannot fully command the army. The Visigoths are not willing to pay huge casualties to kill Attila. Without the help of the Visigoths, our Roman Empire and the Germans alone cannot stop him!" Aetius explained with a frown.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Aetius's handling of the situation at that time. Although the coalition forces had the ability to destroy Attila, their own losses were definitely not small.

What is the Roman Empire like now? With Visigoths, Germanic barbarians, and Vandals threatening the country from without, and rebellion from within, the entire empire is in turmoil.

In this situation, if Attila was really killed regardless of casualties, the result would be Attila's death and the Roman legions would also suffer heavy losses.

By then, no matter whether it is the Germans or the Vandals, or even the rebellion and uprising in the country, it will be impossible to control it. By then, the glorious Roman Empire will completely collapse and cease to exist.

The Roman Empire was struck by the scourge of God, and then collapsed in the blink of an eye.

If this is done, the biggest beneficiaries will be the barbarians around Rome. Without the protection of the last legion, Rome will completely become a piece of fat meat, and the surrounding barbarians will pounce on it to take a bite.

Aetius thought so and explained it to Valentinian III, but Valentinian III did not agree.

This Roman emperor already considered himself as equal to Caesar. He thought that all of this was just Aetius making excuses for himself, saying that the Roman Empire would collapse and would flourish in the hands of Valentinian III!
All I can say is that prejudice in people’s hearts is a mountain.

(End of this chapter)