Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War.

Chapter 291 Premeditation
Obviously, it is impossible to plan a large-scale armed protest that affects the whole country in just one or two months. The things behind this are also quite a headache.

The Ptolemaic royal family was in chaos, with all kinds of palace disturbances often occurring. However, this did not hinder the overall level of the Ptolemaic royal rulers. Although they had a bit of a Greek supremacy concept, in fact, many of the Ptolemaic kings were normal people with clear heads.

It's not that they can't see that there are problems within Egypt, and some people are trying their best to solve them, but the actual situation is not so smooth.

A big network has been formed in the army, and any attempt at reform has been rejected. When the monarchs tried to change the situation, they would encounter strong resistance. The Egyptian kings lacked decisiveness and sufficient military force, so in the end they often had to let things go and let the situation of the Egyptian army remain the same.

To put it simply, no matter how many top rulers Egypt changes, the rentier class below will not change because they are so deeply entrenched that they are extremely troublesome.

In fact, the local people are very familiar with this protest process. As long as someone takes the lead, the rest will follow suit. The situation Orville is facing now is not much different from what the Ptolemy royal family encountered before. Often at this time, the king would admit defeat and suffer losses, and the local people are used to it.

This was also the fundamental reason why Orville was so anxious to take action - he had been dealing with these people in a friendly manner for more than half a month, without achieving any progress worth mentioning, and Orville clearly felt that these people were just dawdling and wasting time, and he didn't know what they were planning behind the scenes.

After fully realizing that he could not achieve his goal through negotiation, Orville decided to solve the problem by force, in which he had a great advantage.

With three legions of regular soldiers and more than 20,000 local troops obeying his orders, he also had other military forces besides the Egyptian garrisons and tenant soldiers, which were strong enough for him to forcibly promote his ideas.

He thought he had given these people enough face, but there were still many people who could not see the situation clearly, so he had to take action to see whose fist was more powerful.
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The soldiers under Orwell were relatively restrained and reasonable, but the tenants he had recruited were not like that. They hated the nobles who had exploited them for many years, so now that they had the chance, they didn't know what it meant to hold back. They would do whatever they could to vent their anger, without considering the consequences.

Many indescribable bloody incidents occurred frequently, and Orville tried to restrain these undisciplined soldiers to a certain extent and try not to let them harm innocent civilians. But in many cases, he turned a blind eye and condoned some of the tenant farmers' revengeful behaviors, allowing them to seek revenge.

Unless those people realize their mistakes in time and admit their mistakes to Orville and Cleopatra, Orville will send a team of legionnaires to protect their safety.

On the whole, these tenant soldiers became a weapon to threaten the nobles. There were conflicts of interest between the Romans and these people, and there was national hatred, class hatred and cultural barriers between the tenants and them. The two sides were truly an example of enemies being extremely jealous of each other. For fear of being retaliated by the tenants, many people backed down, silently stopped protesting and resisting, and accepted the new order arranged by the Romans.

After all, the Romans only wanted to take away their jobs, but these tenants really wanted their heads.

As the number of people decreased, those who did not know the current situation stood out, and Orville could deal with them more calmly.

In order to ensure that he would not open Pandora's box and relax the restrictions on civilians in various places, which would lead to uprisings in various places and the collapse of the Roman and Egyptian rule in this area, Orville used Roman legionnaires and various policies as a balancer to intentionally control the intensity and scale of the confrontation between the two sides, so that the other side could feel a sense of urgency without letting the confrontation get out of control. Fortunately, he had accumulated enough experience in the British province and was relatively familiar with playing balance. Otherwise, he would probably be in a mess and at a loss.

The situation in many places in Egypt is very chaotic now, and there are definitely all kinds of wrongful killings, but Orville still believes that what he is doing is very necessary. If you want to subvert the existing order, you must pay a price. It is better to suffer a short pain than a long pain. There is nothing you can do about the death. If this continues, the result will be even darker. Orville can only try to control the number.

He would not cover his behavior with a glamorous coat, as he thought it was just a nerve-numbing self-admiration. Orville generously admitted that it was only in his own interest to do so now, but he would not do things without the most basic bottom line.

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Meanwhile, conditions in the British province as a whole had improved slightly.

Compared with the situation in Egypt, Britain's political ecology gives people a sense of simplicity.

To some extent, the likes and dislikes of the local nobles and civilians towards the Romans were written on their faces, and after Belisarius's patient efforts over this period of time, the situation was finally stabilized again.

The locals gradually realized the fact that it was the Romans who conquered them, not Orville, and even if Orville left, they would still have to obey his rule.

Those who did not believe in evil either colluded with their Frankish relatives to rebel, or tried to pretend to obey but secretly disobeyed, but in the end they were dealt with one by one by Belisarius, the royal family of Wessex, Rollo and others, and finally these resistance forces had to give up.

Now that Belisarius had free hands, he had a new worry, that was the Celtic barbarians on the northern and western borders.

The two sides have not been happy since the disappearance of their common enemy. The Romans disliked them for not being loyal to the king and disrupting the trade order, while the Celts disliked the Romans for occupying their ancestral homes and trying to extend their hands into their current homes.

If Belisarius had not been in a better mood and tried to resolve the issue peacefully, and if Jeanne d'Acre had not mediated, Belisarius would have given the other party a little face and the two sides would have fought long ago. Even so, Belisarius had reached the point where he could no longer tolerate it.

Although he had taken action against the barbarians who crossed the border before, he would not go too deep into the barbarians' land. Now he realized that unless these people were afraid of the Romans, nothing he did would be of any use, and the barbarian tribes across the border would never settle down.

(End of this chapter)