Simulating the Universe, Starting with Speedrunning Greece

It is hard to find a job in Rome nowadays, and the government guarantees the job assignment - they would be laughing in their dreams.

This one is OK! ! Countless people immediately became more excited and supported it.

And Ye also helped to make these laws more perfect.

At this time, Tiberius spoke eloquently, proposing the changes that could be brought about after the implementation of various laws, as well as the many jobs that could be created, which would completely revitalize the Roman economy.

This law is also completely compatible with the next fifth law - the Colonial Cities Act.

By recommending the fortresses that Rome (the country) once built in various places, new cities were built in areas with relatively good geographical locations.

If it really works, it will be more than just building roads and cities.

Once the new city is established, there will be countless more job opportunities.

Aren’t these all GDP? !

It can also better solve the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor in Rome.

Of course, this kind of drastic construction will inevitably cost an astronomical amount of money.

It’s just like the Qin Dynasty which once made its fortune by building water conservancy projects.

The construction of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System more than doubled the foundation and strength of the Qin Dynasty. The good water irrigation directly provided sufficient food reserves for the Qin Dynasty to unify the seven kingdoms, and the prosperity of later generations lasted for more than two thousand years.

But the money spent in the construction process is not a small amount.

Like the Agricultural Land Law, this would inevitably be a radical reform law that would be opposed by many nobles after its implementation.

In history, many of Gaius Gracchus' laws were basically not revised after his death, which can be regarded as a successful reform. However, the Agricultural Land Law and the Colonial City Law disappeared in the long river of history due to numerous oppositions.

After the fifth point, all the changes so far are economic.

The next sixth law, the Jury Reform Act, proposed allowing the knight class to join the jury.

What is the Knight Class?

In Rome, it refers to some people from very wealthy civilian families, who have money but no status, and who have served as cavalrymen...

They urgently need to participate in politics.

Just like businessmen have money but cannot go into politics...

In the original history, Tiberius would also make such a proposal to win over the knight class.

But he only proposed to make half of the jury into the knight class.

After discussing with Ye and his brother Gaius, Tiberius became shameless and simply proposed that the entire jury be composed of knights.

Anyway, they don’t care too much about whether the knight class will be won over or not.

The main point is a disgusting Senate...

I’m afraid the Senate can sit on it for half a second longer.

I've given you so much power, and you still want to sit still?

Of course - if the Senate completely ignores it, it would be fine to let all the knights serve as juries.

Anyway, there is no loss for them.

Chapter 108: For every additional Husky, there will be one less benefit. Are you happy with that?

Then comes Article 7 - Revision of the Provincial Law.

In the original history, Tiberius encountered the problem of insufficient funds at the beginning of the reform, which made it difficult to maintain subsequent reforms.

After taking over his brother's old path, his younger brother Gaius learned from his brother's mistakes and worked hard on the "Provincial Law".

This point was also brought up by Ye in advance.

The new "Provincial Law" stipulated that Rome was expected to directly cut out a portion of the provincial income to cover the cost of reform.

Then there is Article 8 - amendments to the Election Law.

In previous Roman elections, the nobles usually voted first, followed by the common people.

The new electoral law allowed nobles and commoners to vote together, which started with the formal change, reflecting the equal status of nobles and commoners, and then gradually and imperceptibly changed the cannibalistic nature of Roman society.

No change can be achieved overnight, but we can start with the simplest surface. If we can't even do the surface work, let alone the fundamentals.

At this point - the eight new laws have been reviewed and approved.

They are basically abridged versions in which the Gracchi brothers perfected the details and proposed and established the general principles.

There are strategies that were released ahead of this era, and there are also parts that were deleted.

One of the deleted reforms caused a bloody storm in the original history. It can be said to be the most ruthless reform of Gaius Gracchus among the Gracchus brothers - the "Citizenship Reform Law".

Ye said they were already very restrained.

If the Citizenship Reform Act had been followed and so many stimulating things had been issued at once, the Senate would no longer be in a hurry to assassinate Tiberius, but would be sending a large army to the border and fight the Gracchus to a fight.

The original Civil Rights Reform Act was designed entirely to serve the Farmland Act.

Speaking of Rome today, in the Italian peninsula, in addition to the Roman citizens, there are also many of the Romans who do not have the right to vote (Latin citizens), that is, free people.

Finally, there are the allies and friends of Rome, such as the Italians.

The reason why such a huge city like Rome was divided into so many classes was that they all actually lived on the same land. Even the allied states were similar to the larger provinces of Rome. This was mainly because early Rome was relatively weak, and in order to expand its territory and influence, green cards were basically issued at will.

In the later period, when Rome became powerful and had more people under its command, citizenship became more difficult to obtain and they were reluctant to issue it.

After all, citizens can enjoy their rights as citizens.

Although this right is just an additional right to vote, it was unattainable to the free people in the past, and the allied countries did not envy it.

On the Italian peninsula, Italians in the allied countries were not even bound by Roman law because of their identity.

But the Romans lived together with these allies.

This leads to problems in the enforcement of the law.

For example, if an Italian beat a Roman cruelly, he would be sentenced to death in Rome.

As a result, due to Italy's status as an ally, Roman law could not be used to judge the case, and it would become an international dispute in the future.

This problem is troublesome, and the Citizenship Reform Act proposes to move everyone's status up a level.

As long as everyone becomes a Roman citizen, there will be no identity barriers when the "Agricultural Land Law" is implemented.

But Ye was very clear that this law was a bit too taken for granted - it was completely Gaius Gracchus' wishful thinking.

When this policy was first introduced, it was opposed by almost all forces.

Firstly, the nobles of the allied states will be unhappy if the common people of their countries become your Roman citizens. Wouldn’t that mean the allied states are in name only?

Everyone knows that the Allies are Rome's younger brothers, and they are almost in the same boat. Outsiders cannot tell them apart, but on the surface they are still countries completely different from Rome. But if this is really the case, the Allies will be even more completely destroyed.

Secondly, the Roman citizens were not happy either.

This is related to the reform laws mentioned above.

Before the law was changed, Roman citizens had to bring their own equipment and rations to fight. As the main force of the army, the Romans had to do all the dirty, tiring and dangerous work themselves.

When it came time to divide the spoils, the Romans treated the allied soldiers equally.

If this situation remains the same, the allies will not envy the Romans. When you are a citizen of Rome, you will be in big trouble. Who would be a normal person and run to Rome to be a dog for the nobles?

But now it is different. As a hegemonic country, Rome no longer needs to let soldiers pay for their own rations and equipment under the new legal reforms. After the war, all the spoils of victory will belong to Rome.

The new Roman citizens were not subject to taxation, and with so much land to divide, they were rich enough.

The social status is higher and more profitable, and becoming a Roman can instantly make you a superior person.

Who doesn’t like this delicious bun? And this is exactly why Roman citizens objected, they felt that the privileges and benefits that originally belonged to them were shared by more people.

And if one more person shares, the benefit will be one less.

Would you be happy with so many Huskies from allied countries coming here to steal your interests?

And thirdly, as expected, the Senate was naturally unhappy.

Both publicly and privately, they cannot mess around with such laws.

If this is really carried out, not to mention whether the land reform issue can be truly resolved, national security will definitely be affected!

The crisis and conflicts among the Allies may break out at any time because of this decree.

Therefore, from common people to nobles, from home to abroad, almost no one supported this final bill.

Even if it does help promote agricultural land laws, the disadvantages are too obvious.

When Gaius Gracchus proposed this idea, Ye killed it on the spot and did not allow him to mention such a thing again.

After the reminder at night, Gaius Gracchus also realized how much resistance there was behind this, and it really worked -

Even the people who are their biggest shield have to turn against them.

This also made the Gracchus brothers feel a little scared. They realized that they had been too arrogant and immediately restrained the arrogance that had arisen in their hearts during this period because all the reforms had been going smoothly.

And back to the podium, what finally came out were the eight laws that Tiberius is now mentioning.

After abandoning the redundant and disadvantageous Ninth Law, the other laws were enough to shake the foundation of Rome, and all that was needed was some military support.

These eight laws brought a thorough cleansing and replacement of Rome in the areas of economy, military, politics, and diplomacy (the last one was crossed out).

If the nobles of the Senate were present when this combination of trump cards and planes was launched, they would probably have been terrified and angry to the point of losing their minds.

Chapter 109: The offensive of both sides changes

The people didn't know whether the Senate would explode or not, but at this time, Tiberius explained to the people from the shallow to the deep, from the simple to the complex, in an easy-to-understand way, what kind of welfare benefits the Romans would get after the successful implementation of these eight laws.

What amazing changes will happen to Rome!

The people immediately cheered wildly in excitement.

The sounds from this end of the town could be heard as far away as the Tiber River.

This set is so cool that it blows people's mind.

People's calls for Tiberius became louder, and some even regarded him as a new god.

The Roman nobles who were lurking in the crowd and seeing the bad situation knew that they could not wait any longer. Before the situation escalated further, they had to kill Tiberius, who had a devilish mind.

If the thoughts here were to spread out, what terrible things would happen? ! !

The young nobles shuddered at the thought of this.

At this moment, I was just thinking about how much impact those decrees would have on the interests of the Senate and the nobles if they were successful.

They had no idea how difficult these policies would be to implement and how full of loopholes they would be.

After all, with a bunch of pig teammates in the Senate, it is definitely not easier for Tiberius to carry out reforms than it is for Wang Anshi in the next studio.

It's difficult to cause trouble, but isn't it easy to cause destruction?

But now the panicked young nobles at the top could not sit still and immediately ordered the army to take action without any more disguise.

"Kill!!! Kill Tiberius for me!"

"Tiberius wants to restore dictatorship on Roman soil...

He is using the power of the people as a weapon to speak for his own interests.”

"They have weapons in their hands. This is a symbol that Tiberius Gracchus wants to lead people in reaction!" When a young noble shouted, another young noble echoed, and at the same time, they brought a large number of people and looked at Tiberius on the podium with murderous intent.

After all, they were not that stupid. They knew to find an excuse before taking action.

After defining Tiberius and those around him as reactionary forces.

Regardless of whether they had reacted or not, the crowd that was still in a daze and cheering the moment before...

The army took off their disguises, drew their weapons and rushed towards the platform.

Any civilians who stood in their way were immediately chopped to the ground.

When blood was seen at the scene, screams of terror broke out from the crowd.

On the high platform, he saw the "assassination" that Ye had expected. No, it was an open killing.

Tiberius's face suddenly turned ugly.