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If it was a half-moon, then a large monster two or three meters tall would be born, like a tiger that walks upright but can use weapons like a humanoid creature, and its strength is not inferior to that of a Viking half-giant.

However, if it is the brightest full moon, a thing will be born that looks no different from a cat. It looks like a real cat no matter how you look at it. Only by using an identification spell can you find out that this cute little thing is actually a cat-man, or possibly a level 10 wizard or assassin. It is extremely confusing.

Then it is easy to understand why the Persians tied cats to their shields and conquered Egypt - those cat-men with the image of a full moon tied to their shields rushed forward.

In this situation, who would dare to shoot arrows at their brothers and sisters? No wonder the relationship between Egypt and Persia was so bad. Of course, the cat god they worshipped might have been the first to fall, and even died before the end of the third century.

The remaining 1452% ​​of the population were slaves of various races, including Goliaths, Slavs, Negroes from Africa, half-elves from Italy... all kinds of people. The population of the Roman Empire almost doubled to a terrifying million. If it could be completely absorbed, the national strength would have been at the level of the Ottoman Empire in .

Faced with such a terrifying number, Constantinople could not manage it even if it had more scholars. Aenarion could only appoint a large number of Mamluks who were originally in charge of various places to become new Roman officials. At the same time, he selected a large number of intellectuals from the drow and cat people for employment to offset the Mamluks. The emerging official class in Egypt was composed of three factions: the old slaves, the drow, and the high elves, which restrained each other and complemented each other.

The policy of self-cultivation, which had been difficult to implement before, now ran smoothly. The slaves in Egypt were convinced that their mistress was gone and that Aenarion's world was now theirs. They happily got their own land, because people without private property would not have the determination to fight. The local rulers before were given more land than anyone else. Aenarion established his initial rule over Egypt by winning them over.

At the same time, a large number of high elf scholars came to big cities such as Alexandria and Cairo, and borrowed some buildings to build new primary schools. This was because the illiterate old farmers and slaves could not understand the complex orders of the new-age leaders. The drow elves were naturally bloodthirsty and cunning, and the various slaves they captured were the best soldiers in the world. Aenarion personally sat in Egypt, and step by step turned these more than 10 million people into his best source of soldiers.

The person in charge of the excavation of the Suez Canal also made a promise to His Majesty the Emperor after the actual survey was completed: ten years, one hundred thousand zombies only need to work day and night for ten years to meet all of Augustus' expectations for the canal. It is not only a canal that runs through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, but also an excellent barrier for Egypt. As long as a fleet is placed in the Red Sea, the Ottoman horses and sailboats will never be able to enter Egypt from the east.

At the same time, Governor Irel of the northern Crimean province was also making great strides in the East European steppes. With Zaporizhia as its capital, he established a new Cossack province in this lawless area. Using various favorable policies of the Roman Empire, he absorbed a large number of Cossacks into the Roman Empire's sphere of influence, turned the Sea of ​​Azov into his own inland sea, and added an orthodox claim to the empire.

These nomads are an excellent source of hussars. It only takes a few days for an old farmer to learn how to use a flintlock rifle, but it takes years or even decades to learn how to fight on horseback. These Cossacks who live on horseback can be trained to become excellent hussars in a very short time.

Chapter 476: Egyptian Wedding

Externally, Aenarion was not idle either. Although he had tried very hard, the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed in 1453. Even if he tried his best to expand the Roman Empire to its current state, it was still caught between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire and had a hard time. If he was not careful, the Roman encirclement would fall on his head, and that would be the real doomsday.

But it doesn’t matter. History taught him how the powerful Habsburg dynasty and the arrogant Ottoman Empire eventually collapsed.

In the Habsburg base: Bohemia, some Serbs and Bulgarians came here to support their Czech compatriots who also belonged to the Slavic ethnic group, supported their Protestant movement, planned to throw a few damn Catholics out of the window, and based on the previous failure of the Hussite uprising, taught them advanced gameplay of muskets and chariots - I tell you this super powerful one, the Romans and Ottomans in the south used it very much.

In the Duchy of Saxony in the north of the Holy Roman Empire, the Germanic people have long suffered from the tyranny and oppression of the Catholic Church. Various strange Christian sects that adapt to the customs of the local people are flourishing, and the place is full of vitality and prosperity.

Some Orthodox priests who did not want to reveal their names had a great time chatting with all kinds of weird Christian priests here. Inspired by the thoughts of these high elves, a priest named Martin, after getting drunk, began to draft ninety-five theses, ready to nail them on the door of his fucking Catholic church.

The Pope was extremely angry about the religious chaos in North Germany. His blood pressure was so high that he almost had a heart attack when he watched the Protestant priest explain the Bible. This was no longer a dispute between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, or between sweet and salty tofu pudding. Someone was soaking Isatis root in tofu pudding!

The Holy Roman Emperor even wanted to use the name of religion to completely annex Bohemia and the princes of Northern Germany and complete centralization like France. Under the dual contradictions of religion and power, the atmosphere here gradually became as tense as the Balkans ten years ago.

As for Osman, Aenarion did something even more extreme. Because the races in this magical world are so different, national consciousness has always existed, it's just a matter of how much. As early as when he was a Roman warmaster, he had already dealt with all kinds of confusing racial issues between elves and Slavs. He even summarized them into a textbook for all teachers to learn, how to avoid provoking racial conflicts, how to avoid stepping on landmines, and how to use Roman culture to tolerate and absorb others. The core is openness, tolerance, equality, and self-confidence. With profound culture, strong strength, and excellent

The generous treatment attracts others to voluntarily take the Rome green card.

And now, Aenarion's spies are reversing everything written in this textbook and then going to the Ottoman Empire to display their talents and ambitions: they seize every weakness in Selim's policies, criticize every injustice in the Ottoman Empire, incite racial hatred, and encourage genocide.

This is not difficult at all. These people have not yet gotten rid of the tax farming system. As long as they find something unfair, they will start to madly promote the Ottomans as the Ottomans of ogres, and let the local natives establish their own nation-state, a beautiful kingdom ruled by your own people! No more oppression by the Turkic ogres! Slavery!

Dark elves can establish Pontus, Cilicia, and the Phoenician Kingdom, the gray dwarves can rebuild Armenia, the hill giants can create a new Kurdish Kingdom, the Goliaths can build the Caucasian Kingdom, and the tieflings can make the Persian Empire great again. As for the newly conquered Gis, don't you want to recreate the glory of the Arab Empire? Are you so willing to be ruled by ogres?

After this series of combined attacks, Selim was a little confused when he looked at the reports of rebellion from all over the country. How come the rebellion that he had just suppressed with the Caliphate was showing signs of rising again?

These were just foolish young men who were instigated by a few words and were rushing to their deaths. Some smart people who were instigated were hiding under the surface, waiting for the opportunity. A large number of Ghis people who were dissatisfied with Selim's usurpation of the caliphate were sharpening their knives in secret, preparing to take back the glory of the Arabs from this damn Turk.

In Egypt, after dealing with the most basic problems, Aenarion also used marriage to obtain the legal right to rule the whole of Egypt. At the last moment, Sadolin chose to protect the kingdom passed down by her mother rather than die together, and returned the crown to her sister, Morathi.

Aenarion married Moras in Cairo amid the cheers and celebrations of the royal guards and the subjects of Cairo. At this moment, Egypt returned to the customs of the Ptolemaic era, with a king and a queen governing the country together.

"Why, you can look me in the eye now? Your Majesty, you will soon be my king."

After Morathi was dressed up for the wedding, he could not wait to find Aenarion. His long silver hair was like falling stars, splashing on his soft shoulders. His beautiful face was wearing a sacred crown. Strands of white ivory were intertwined with long golden horns, forming the shape of a crown.

She was so beautiful, like a holy angel descended from heaven, or like a fallen succubus crawling out of the abyss. Holiness and seduction, two temperaments that could not possibly coexist, actually coexisted in her beautiful face. Her every frown and smile was as captivating as an aphrodisiac.

Her wedding dress was as bold as ever. The golden hip skirt was tailored very delicately and appropriately, fitting closely to her slender and graceful waist, round and plump buttocks, and slender and round thighs, extending to her knees, outlining the exciting curves to the fullest.

However, this golden hip skirt turned into a Western European court dress at the knee, like a golden rose blooming in all directions. The loose vertical floor and golden silk fabric cast a warm sun halo on her body, half covering a pair of flawless naked jade feet.

Unlike the long skirt that only covered her feet, she did not wear any clothes on her upper body, leaving a large area of ​​delicate skin exposed to the air. Her slender arms were adorned with a large number of exquisite bracelets and rings. Two golden venomous snakes were entwined around a pair of proudly erect breasts, making them fuller and more upright. The venomous snake's head inlaid with emerald half-covered the bright red peaks of the intoxicating mountains.

"I want you to look me in the eye. When you look at me, I don't believe your eyes are empty."

Aenarion said nothing, but looked at his bride passionately. When he no longer had to deal with a pile of imminent military affairs, and no longer had to share the hardships and set an example with the soldiers in dangerous wars, he naturally dared to look Morathi in the eye. Not only did he dare to look, but his eyes were aggressive and even burned with catastrophic desires. He wished he could eat up this drow girl who had been playing with fire with him.

Seeing Aenarion's extremely fiery eyes, Morathi was delighted. As expected, he had been forcing himself before, but then he was moved. The fiery eyes made her a little scared, as if she was being stared at by a terrifying beast. Her heartbeat was accelerating wildly, and she couldn't tell whether she was afraid or moved. Aenarion's beautiful face made her breathing disordered. Her body trembled when she was looked at, and her legs softened and she almost fell to the ground.

Seeing that Moras was about to fall, Aenarion immediately accelerated his own time, making the normal flow of time slow down as if it were frozen. Then, in the frozen time, he hugged Moras, whose legs were weak, in his arms and closed the door.

Morath, who was already weak all over, fell into Aenarion's arms. Hearing his heartbeat and breathing up close, and looking at his handsome face, he became even more intoxicated. His graceful body was like a puddle of water, and he collapsed in the arms of the groom. He couldn't lift any strength in his limbs, and his beautiful cheeks were flushed with two fiery clouds.

The next second, Aenarion kissed her lips which were as red as blood, completely draining Moras's last bit of strength. She gasped and asked for whatever she wanted, still letting Aenarion taste her.

"That... that,

There is still an hour left, and I still need to prepare. See you in the palace then, okay? Even for the drow, this is a big day."

Moras couldn't stop panting, looking at Aenarion's aggressive gaze, and turned her head away in panic. Now it was her turn not to dare to look Aenarion in the eyes. Damn it, this man's charm seemed to be more terrifying than hers.

"Look at this golden wedding dress and the ivory and gold crown. Aren't you well prepared? Why don't you dare look me in the eye?"

Moras became more and more flustered during the questioning, and her heartbeat became faster and faster. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer. She bit her lip nervously and closed her scarlet eyes. Aenarion grabbed the slender snake-like belt with his left hand and pulled it gently. The golden long skirt that only wrapped her beautiful buttocks and long legs loosened completely, like a blooming golden rose. Then he grabbed the end of the skirt and slowly lifted it up, revealing her slender ankles, delicate calves, and all the secrets.

"Come on, bite tight."

Aenarion lifted the skirt to Morathi's face and made her bite the skirt to keep it from falling, revealing the secret between her legs. Then he lifted the beauty directly onto the table and explored the wet cave with his marble spear.

Moras's mind was blank at this moment. She bit the hem of her skirt obediently like a possessed person and could only breathe more and more rapidly through her nose. For the first time in her life, she was bewitched. She had no idea what to do and could only let Aenarion control her. The marble column stretched open the tender petals, caressing the moist flesh wall, and after tearing and penetrating the last barrier, it hit Moras's heart heavily, causing her to let out a moving moan while biting the hem of her skirt.

Aenarion was a little surprised. He didn't expect that this drow princess who had been on the run for so many years was still a virgin. Then he probably figured it out. With her level of charm, she could easily seduce a lot of men to fall all over the place without paying any price, until she met him.

Aenarion gazed at Morathi's beautiful and rosy face, and was extremely excited at the moment. His movements gradually began to speed up, and his hands conquered and occupied every inch of her skin. The intimate caress and the violent thrusts formed a sharp contrast, making her eyes blurred and sinking in happiness. This drow elf was not only the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, but the feeling brought by her lower body was also extremely ecstasy. The layers of flesh walls tightly sucked and caressed every inch of his skin, and at the same time, they kept trembling with high frequency because of happiness, giving both of them an extremely blissful experience. The gurgling stream dripped all over the table with obscene water stains, and every collision of the two bodies splashed up turbid waves.

Moras was also convulsing and losing strength under the repeated impacts, but his calves were stretched straight and his ten toes were curled up tightly together. His lovely slender waist was arched upward again and again by Inarion, accompanied by dull gasps, and then fell powerlessly off the table. His rosy lips could no longer bite the hem of his skirt, and his fragrant red tongue stuck out of his lips, gasping for breath.

"There are still twenty minutes left. If we don't leave now, it will be too late."

After another climax, Moras's blurry eyes finally regained consciousness. Looking at the energetic Aenarion, he said pitifully.

"We are the protagonists. If we are not there, the pastors will not dare to start the wedding. How can we be late?"

Aenarion cared not.

"But if you're really worried about being late, why don't you just call me dear?"

Morathi blushed and whispered as he wished, but that shy voice only made Aenarion more excited and his attack became more fierce!

An unknown amount of time had passed. The wedding guests leaned against the windows and used the sun to determine the time. It seemed as if they were a little late, and they were talking about what had happened. Aenarion then strode into the scene, carrying the almost exhausted Moras.

She was so weak that she could not even stand up, and could only hide in Aenarion's arms and hold the wedding with a face full of shame and anger. In the eyes of everyone who suddenly realized what had happened, Aenarion held the drow queen who was completely conquered by him throughout the wedding, announcing that his rule over the entire Egypt had officially begun.

Chapter 477: Conscription

After obtaining the real right to rule Egypt, Aenarion began to make great efforts. He moved the written laws he had built long ago in Constantinople, engraved them on bronze pillars, and erected them in the squares of several large cities as the real core of rule and law. He made all the merchants dealing in salt and iron state-owned enterprises and assets, and established a complete trade route based on the Nile River to ensure that the goods of the entire Egypt could directly enter the Mediterranean through inland trade, and then be sold to all directions.

Although the drow conquered the cat people and bought a large number of slaves from all directions, there were not many conflicts between these races. A few hundred years ago, all the drow, except the mistress, became slaves like them. As a result, the racial conflicts in this land were not deep. Everyone was an insect that lived and died in a day, but they had extreme resentment towards the queen of the previous dynasty. The most troublesome problem did not exist from the beginning.

Aenarion simply issued an order: those who wanted to go home should report to the nearest government department immediately, and I would dispatch a fleet to send you back to your hometown. As for those who did not want to go home, they would all be promoted to Roman citizens and given land. This easily solved the contradictions after the slaves were freed. Few people wanted to leave. When they were caught, the slave traders basically massacred their villages.

It’s too difficult to go back, so I might as well get a piece of land of my own here.

At the same time, he also transported a large number of oxen and iron farm tools from Crimea to various territories in Egypt, and sold them at a relatively low price to farmers who had just broken away from their masters and had only land but lacked means of production. If they really had no money, they could apply for a loan from the government, with no interest, and could exchange them for crops after the harvest this year. At the same time, in order to curb land annexation, he proposed a large number of preferential policies. Once a disaster year occurred, the government would provide you with loans, so you would not have to sell your land to big households at a low price and become serfs in order to survive.

After granting private property, he set up imperial examination academies in Cairo and Alexandria. In addition to the northern and southern academies of the elves and Slavs, an additional Egyptian academy was added to the imperial examinations of the entire empire. Local Egyptians learned Roman culture and knowledge, and the top few in the examinations could become officials, filling the huge shortage of grassroots officials and giving these slaves a channel to rise through cultural learning. At the same time, he used Roman culture to re-attract the drow elves who had once joined and then left.

If you don't want to be promoted through cultural studies, you can also improve your status by joining the military.

However, Egypt is a special case. The Janissary-level drow and Mamluks were basically wiped out in several wars, and only a few were left. The mixed body experiment was also stopped by Aenarion. The devastated Egypt had a population of tens of millions, but its elite forces were annihilated too thoroughly.

Therefore, Aenarion used the four provinces of Egypt as experimental soil and promulgated a new national policy for the drow elves: conscription system. Men of a certain age must first serve in the regular army for three years, and then transfer to the reserve army, serving in the reserve during the slack season, trying to establish a large reserve force. If they are promoted to officers during their military service, they can choose to stay in the army, or return to the reserve force with an officer's subsidy.

The rules of the new era have changed. In the old days, an old farmer who had never fought in a war in his life could be sent to fill the line if he was given a spear and a shield. However, in this era, such conscripts cannot be said to be useless on the battlefield, but they can only be said to be worthless.

Today, the rate of musket equipment in the Holy Roman Empire exceeds 40%. With the Aenarion Phalanx, the French Knights of the Imperial Order and the Polish Winged Hussars had their blood pressure soared like constipation. The Ottomans and Romans were even more completely equipped with firearms. A cannon fodder who could not operate a musket and could not understand complex commands would have no value in the new era.

The death rate of the army has increased dramatically with the development of science and technology. Mages can cause great damage with area spells, but spellcasters are rare and high-level spellcasters are even harder to find. A knight wearing heavy armor is almost invincible in the era of cold weapons. Only some spells that ignore heavy armor can severely injure and kill them.

But now, the lethality of cannons and muskets is no different from that of a low-level wizard's energy-shaping spell. These things even exist in batches of thousands or tens of thousands. An unarmed cannon fodder can learn to pull the trigger after a short period of training. The bullets cannot be countered by spells, causing the death rate on the battlefield to soar. This thing is much more terrifying than a crossbow.

The Syrian war lasted for a whole morning. The Mamluk casualties exceeded 50,000. Six or seven hundred elite armored cavalry were wiped out by the shotgun volleys from hundreds of tiger squat cannons. More than 10,000 Mamluks who came to hunt down Aenarion were also wiped out in just an hour. This efficiency in killing the enemy was unthinkable in the past. Hannibal did not kill that quickly in a war of annihilation.

To achieve this effect, a large number of soldiers who are familiar with muskets and artillery are needed, but they will die quickly due to the horrific death rate. Therefore, conscription is the only option, using a steady stream of soldiers to fill the gap of the times.

But on the other hand, this conscription system is extremely expensive. Establishing such a large standing army, providing corresponding weapons and equipment, and maintaining reserve army training all require huge amounts of money. The amount of gunpowder consumed in daily shooting training is an astronomical figure. This is a great test of the economic strength of each country, and economic issues are closely related to centralization. A ruler who cannot integrate national resources is not even qualified to participate in the wars of this era and will be quickly eliminated.

Now, the Holy Roman Empire has been dragged into a dead end by Aenarion: if it wants to adapt to the wars of the new era, it must have money, and if it wants to have money, it must be centralized. The New World and the exploration fleet are still under development and construction, and cannot meet the needs of such a huge empire in a short time. If it wants to centralize power, it must kill a bunch of electors, and once the kill is made, the extremely loose Holy Roman Empire is likely to fall apart immediately, causing the Holy Roman Emperor to love and hate his southern neighbor.

Regardless of the predicament of the Holy Roman Empire, Aenarion's current economic situation was still acceptable. The main granary of the former Roman Empire was the wealthy North Africa, and among the provinces of North Africa, the richest was Egypt.

After taking over Crimea and Thrace, the Roman Empire had gone from being extremely dependent on food imports to being self-sufficient in food.

By the time Aenarion conquered Egypt, the Roman Empire had become a major grain exporter in the Mediterranean world. Rich Egypt was also the cotton and watermelon planting center of the entire Mediterranean trade world, and was also rich in various spices.

Fresh water is extremely easy to deteriorate and spoil. People sailing on ships can only rely on wine and watermelons to solve the problem of water sources. The north of Europe is extremely cold, and cotton clothes are important supplies for them to survive the winter. A large number of black-skinned drow elves will also

Land was allocated for the cultivation of cash crops such as cotton and watermelon. Aenarion also added looms and workshops in Alexandria, where he mass-produced winter cotton clothing and blended drow spices for sale in the cold north, especially Eastern Europe.

When conquering Egypt, Aenarion also followed the northern strategy. He used warmer Egyptian cotton clothes to win over the Slavic tribes. He wanted to compete with Poland for the title of common leader of the Slavs. Not to mention the Cossacks, many Russians and Slavs on the pastures of Eastern Europe now felt that the Roman Empire was more reliable than Poland.

Not to mention Egypt's population of 10 million and the increasingly popular private salt and iron businesses, which would bring huge tax revenue to Aenarion. There are still substitutes for food and watermelons.

Egypt had a monopoly on cotton and spices. The drow elves used their exquisite textile technology to produce and sell carpets and long skirts, which were especially popular among European aristocrats. After all, it was impossible for conservative Christian weavers to weave such revealing and lascivious clothes for you. The openings on the sides of some skirts even reached the shoulders, and the tube tops basically only covered two points.

Before, Portugal, Castile, and Venice could suppress and rob Egypt's trade by relying on the strength of their fleets and the call of Christ. But now, these goods, under the escort of the Roman fleet, were sold unscrupulously to various parts of Europe and various countries. Money and silver coins with various prints flowed continuously to Egypt.

After making a fortune, the people in the Iberian Peninsula became like nouveau riche, frantically buying all kinds of goods from France and Egypt, and spending all the money they earned from the New World on enjoyment. The local nobles were all those who had been driven into the mountains by the Arab Empire and had only recently managed to fight their way out. They were the weakest and least knowledgeable group of nobles in all of Western Europe.

It was these people who became rich overnight in the process of developing the New World. When their IQ and wealth did not match, these properties would flow into the hands of other people through various means.

Through Egypt's trade, taxation, salt and iron, Aenarion built several gunpowder factories and military factories in Alexandria, and initially created thirty auxiliary legions, all composed of Egyptians, equipped with flintlocks, bayonets, and corresponding ammunition, but without armor. This was all the productivity that could be squeezed out in a short period of time. It was unrealistic to equip each person with a piece of armor.

According to his plan, within three years, Egypt's auxiliary corps will be expanded to seventy corps and seventy thousand men, and then all of them will start to rotate every three years. If this works, the Greek provinces will also start to implement the conscription system. The main combat corps will be a standing army, which will remain unchanged forever, and all auxiliary corps will enter the conscription rotation system to create a steady supply of reserve troops for subsequent wars.

Chapter 478: The Heroes of Excellence

Aenarion was personally dealing with various complex problems in Egypt, and at this moment, the Mediterranean caravan also brought him good news.

We contacted some New World colonists and told them that they could exchange potatoes, tomatoes, corn and other things you mentioned for Egyptian cotton textiles. So they used seven ships full of these things to exchange for our two ships full of cotton textiles. We got what you wanted, but what should we do next?

Why? Of course, they should plant them. Aenarion first told them how to cook these things to make them taste better, and gave the locals a reason to plant them. Then he would open up new crops in cold and desolate places like Wallachia, the Danube, and the Cossacks. At the same time, he would try to sow seeds on the mountains in Greece that were not conducive to planting, and expand the agricultural output value of Greece. Once the food production increased, the restriction of land and population could be lifted, and the limited land could feed more people.

With a population of 23 million, it is barely enough to fight against either the Holy Roman Empire or the Ottoman Empire, but if the situation develops to the worst, it will not be enough.

After laying a solid economic and cultural foundation, Aenarion began to consider Egypt's defense.

To the east is the Suez Canal, the Undead Construction Corps, and the brotherly relationship with the Ottoman Empire, so there is no need to worry for the time being. To the north is the Mediterranean Sea, which can be protected by the navy.

The western border, on the other hand, is a bit of a mess.

The Province of Cyrenaica, covering the North African coastline, is hundreds of kilometers long and only a narrow line wide, with no strategic depth at all. The enemy can rely on camels to rush from the desert to any point on the coast of Cyrenaica, or even directly to Egypt.

The good news is that all of Cyrenaica's North African neighbors are Ottoman vassals, while Ottoman is its brother.

The bad news is that he doesn't know when Osman is no longer his brother.

Fortunately, the cat-people are an excellent desert race. As the natives of Egypt, they are extremely adaptable to the arid climate of the desert. Aenarion got some camels and formed a desert cavalry unit with the cat-people, giving them the highest military pay. Their daily task is to patrol the sea of ​​sand. Some desert black-footed cats in the full moon phase are like real wild animals, acting as scouts scattered along the border. Once a problem is discovered, they will immediately issue a warning to at least protect the safety of Upper and Lower Egypt. Cyrenaica, like Sinai, is considered a border province, so not too many resources will be invested in its development. If a war really breaks out, priority will be given to protecting some large seaport cities.

This is the best solution at the moment. Once I have gotten everything in order, I can solve this damn border problem by completely occupying North Africa.

As for the south, the problem in the south is similar to that in Crimea. Crimea faces a group of Cossacks and Tatars in the north.

Their solution to the harassment of steppe nomads was to offer generous offers to attract them to join the Roman Empire.

The south of Egypt faced attacks from Bedouins and other desert nomads. The organizational structure of these people was very primitive, still a tribal clan society, but they were extremely brave. They used the old method of using large sums of money and Roman green cards to win them over, and those who were disobedient would be strangled with thundering means.

In the south near the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, there are several small Muslim countries such as Solomon, Adar, and Wasanlika. These are the most disgusting. They are very small, so small that the Roman Empire can crush them with just one finger, but Selim remotely granted them official positions and seals. Currently, they are vassals of the Ottoman Empire and cannot be touched openly.

In response to this, Aenarion adopted a policy of diverting trouble to the east, and the Bedouins' range of activities also included them. As long as he could build a desert early warning line, the cost of robbing the Bedouins here would be too high, and they would naturally turn around and look for guys who were easier to plunder, such as those miserable vassals of the Ottoman Empire.

After Egypt was completely settled down and provided Aenarion with a steady supply of large amounts of materials and coins from all over the world, these four provinces, a population of 10 million, and a large number of monopoly-level commodities almost doubled the fiscal revenue of the Roman Empire.

With money, Aenarion continued to expand the army, and the size of Egypt's auxiliary legion expanded to fifty. Through imperial examinations and military selections, he discovered a large number of talents in Egypt, and promoted them to extremely high positions for training and education, so that the Egyptians could see that their compatriots could hold high positions in the Roman Empire, and naturally others could do the same. The Roman Empire treated all races equally, and as long as you had the ability, you could reach a high position.

The most capable legion commander at the moment is a drow elf, currently serving as the warmaster of the Egyptian Front. Like himself, he is a demon hunter with a Slaanesh demon sealed in his body named Malus Darkblade. He has terrifying melee skills, but his level is a bit low. He was previously suppressed by the Royal Mamluks and was just an ordinary centurion, so he still needs to continue to hone his skills.

The Fourth Egyptian Fleet began to be formed in the port of Alexandria. A large number of drow navy excitedly stepped onto the huge cannons and heavy ships. A drow captain who was defeated repeatedly by the Portuguese and Venetian navies in the past excitedly said that with this fleet, Egypt will definitely be able to take revenge. His face was disfigured by gunpowder explosions, so he wore a golden mask that looked like an octopus all year round. He is the current admiral of the Egyptian fleet, named Roxia the Fallen Heart.

After the experiments on the hybrids were stopped, Aenarion discovered that these monsters were divided into intelligent life and pure beasts. He granted Roman citizenship to the intelligent hybrids, gave them military positions according to their respective merits, or formed them into a special behemoth team like the dragon of Palaiologos.

And those unintelligent mixed-element beasts that were purely driven by the beast trainers were organized into a more special monster company, and acted together with their own imperial guards. The company commander was the most powerful beast trainer who had survived so far, a drow elf named Lakas who was armed with a spear and a poisonous whip.

The local Muslim Green religion, which was rich in local drow characteristics, was also tacitly accepted by Aenarion, who did not interfere with any of their religious activities. As long as the Ottomans existed, religious issues had to be tolerated. The local patriarch, whom Muslims called Imam, was a young and beautiful drow woman named Hellebron.

A large number of craftsmen also came to the west coast of the Red Sea to build the flagship of the Fifth Indian Fleet in the Port of Suez, which made the Ottoman Empire somewhat uneasy. So he gritted his teeth, took out money to build a new fleet in the Persian Gulf, and started an arms race.

Seeing the Ottomans building their fleet, Aenarion was not nervous at all, even though the Bosphorus Strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean was jointly managed by the two empires.

However, once the Suez Canal is built, their fleet can move freely between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, blockading and attacking the entire Ottoman coastline.

What about Ottoman? His Mediterranean fleet could not support Persia through the Suez Canal, and his Indian Ocean fleet could not run back to support the Mediterranean. Although the fleets seemed huge, they were cut in half by a canal controlled by him. He could concentrate his superior forces at any time and eat up any of his navies in one bite. With such a rotten coastal environment, Ottoman would never be able to pose a threat to the Romans on the sea.

Chapter 479: Wine Pond and Meat Forest