My XX deal with Sister Nero

Chapter 366 New Municipal Institutions

As we all know, the ranks of magicians range from low to high, with the lowest being the youngest and the highest being the crown. For example, Gudako is an open-rank magician, and Weber is a priest-rank magician.

The crown magician, standing at the top of all magicians, is the strongest among all magicians, not to mention that the other party is a rare existence that needs to be sealed.

And now the magician is gone.

This is a Grand-rank magician! Not a Classic-rank magician or anything like that, this is a Grand-rank magician!

How many crowns are there in the entire Magic Association?

"Down here, there is something powerful enough to kill a Grand Magus, and... the Age of Gods particles are too dense." Barthelmero stared at the corpse with a frown and said calmly.

Since the end of the Age of Gods, the Age of Gods particles on the continent began to gradually disappear. Now, more than fifty years have passed, and in a populous city like Rome, you can't even sense the existence of the Age of Gods particles.

But here, underground, the particles of the Age of Gods were so dense that the magicians of the Magic Association almost thought they had returned to the Age of Gods.

"Besides the God-age particles..." Barthelmero turned his head to look at the two magicians standing not far away and said, "Do you think there are many fantasy species underground?"

"Yes." One of the magicians trembled all over, as if he had recalled something bad. "Under this ground is a huge tomb filled with corpses of various fantasy species and the dead."

"The corpses and undead of fantasy species..." Lord Euripides touched his chin, "If these corpses are just skeletons, then it's easy to deal with. Not to mention magicians, as long as ordinary human soldiers are not so scared, they can kill them. But if they are higher-level, such as the corpses of fantasy species, then it will be more troublesome. After all... there are not many dragon-slaying heroes."

The dragon, standing at the fixed point of fantasy species, is a very powerful creature in legend. Of course, the wyvern, a hybrid of a dragon and a griffin, is an exception. After all, this creature doesn't have any other special abilities except for its thick skin and flesh.

"So what should we do now?" Gaius Ling asked, frowning at Barthelmero.

"Danger often coexists with opportunity. In this underground, there are not only dangerous fantasy species, but also a lot of spell materials we need, right?" Barthelmero said calmly. Just as she said, danger often coexists with opportunity. In this underground, there are many spell materials suitable for magicians.

Tony didn't know what happened in Britain yet. Now there was only one thing he had to do, which was to set up a street office for the public housing community.

In other words, build the Visi of this area.

According to Tony's idea, a Visi will be composed of a tax collector and a sheriff. The sheriff can recruit temporary security guards based on the funds in his hands and be responsible for maintaining the public security in the area.

In other words, there are only two people who are actually recorded as officials.

At the Senate meeting, in response to the proposal of His Royal Highness the Prince, the senators present did not raise any objections this time.

How much tax can a small town like Visi collect? At most, the tax revenue of a small town like Odni is enough. As for the sheriff, the fighting power of the sheriff of Visi is at best equal to or greater than that of a militia. Let your highness earn a few dozen gold coins and a soldier in the suburbs of Rome, what's the problem?

Even though the conflict between the Senate and His Royal Highness is intensifying, it hasn't reached the point where they are completely at odds, right?

So the Senate waved its hand and agreed.

The reason why Tony wanted to take all the financial power of this public housing community into his own hands was not because he was greedy for those dozens of gold coins. What he wanted was that no one would destroy his plan for the public housing community, because this was a benchmark, a benchmark for winning over freed slaves and the common people.

"There are mountains in the north and coasts in the west. Are the only eastern and southern regions open for expansion..." Standing in front of the desk, Tony stared at the map of Rome in his hand and muttered to himself.

"Brother, are you sure?" Tony had already planned to win over the freed slaves and the civilian class to fight against the Senate. How to win over these classes? It's simple. Provide them with food and accommodation, such as this slightly better-looking community, and...factory.

That’s right, the factory.

Or to be more precise, the manufacturing plant.

Although there is no industrialization, there are still numerous manufacturing plants in this era, including blacksmith shops in the city, shipyards outside the city, and even some other taverns. Tony plans to open a few shops with low investment costs inside the taverns, and then provide some slaves with necessary food and accommodation, as well as... a small amount of salary.

As far as this era was concerned, slaves did not receive any salary, and they even lived in a state of hunger and poor sleep for a long time. But Tony... was very generous and gave them enough sleep.

Work twelve hours a day, have two meals a day, including half a palm-sized slice of pork every three days, and as for the salary... five copper coins a month.

To put it in today's terms, it is almost equivalent to a factory that provides food and accommodation, two meals a day, a piece of meat three days a week, 75 yuan a month, twelve hours of work, and no days off. I dare say that if there really is such a factory in modern society two thousand years later, it would have been sued long ago.

But in the Roman Empire two thousand years ago, for slaves, such wages and working hours were simply heaven!

Relying on his elder sister's financial resources, Tony opened three taverns in Rome within half a month. The speed was so fast that Tony almost felt that he had a talent for business.

"Brother, why do you want to open a pub if you don't drink?"

In the past half month, Nero was a little confused about Tony's actions. Although his brother had explained that he wanted to win over the freed slaves and the civilian class, but... what's the point of opening a tavern? A tavern only needs two or three slaves to help out, and these three taverns will not need more than 20 people.

"Of course I have other uses for buying these taverns~" Tony grinned at his sister and said, "Your Highness's business is opening, so the city's aldermen should be taken care of, right? After all, there are all kinds of people in the city, and the aldermen have to deal with me, right? What I want is for them to deal with me, and then use their names to apply to the Senate to establish the government agencies of Vesi and the district. In this way, I can put our people in there and ensure that Rome is under our control!"

"But...will the Senate agree? Or, will these municipal officials agree to share their power?" Nero asked worriedly. After all, his brother's idea seemed a little whimsical and too self-evident. What if...the Senate didn't agree? What if the municipal officials refused? In this case, could his brother still achieve his goal?

Chapter 367 The Establishment of the Roman Customs

Tony has been very busy recently, so busy that he has almost no time to take care of the gun pressure.

In addition to the three newly opened taverns, Tony’s most important business at the moment is the opening of the Rome Customs... which has officially begun operations.

According to the agreement reached previously with the Senate, the personnel structure of the Roman customs in each senatorial province will be reviewed by the Senate itself, but the final list of candidates needs to be reported to the Roman Customs Administration for filing.

The Senate did not think anything of this. It was just a simple personnel report. As long as His Royal Highness the Prince did not interfere in the personnel arrangements, everything would be fine.

In addition, regarding import and export tariffs and value-added tax and other related taxes, the Senate Province must also report to the General Administration of Customs, but this money will never fall into the hands of the Claudius family.

Although Tony was not very happy about this, he had no choice but to accept it.

Tony was a Chinese in his previous life, so the feudal empire he understood was the "I am the state" model, rather than this "family-state" form where the head of state is not equal to the state.

Therefore, it would be strange if Tony was satisfied with this move of not allowing the Claudius family to take the money.

But overall, the Roman Customs has finally been established in a real sense this time. According to previous discussions, Tony will be the director general of the General Administration of Customs, while other positions will be held by people whom our Emperor and the Senate will select and trust.

As for Tony... I'm sorry, Nero would be happy for Tony to pick a few people he trusts, but judging from the activities in the past half month, the people Tony can trust... can only serve as the most basic office staff at best.

After the staff on both sides were almost arranged, Tony established a customs rank system modeled after China two thousand years later. According to the five grades and thirteen levels, he awarded himself the title of Customs Director General, his deputy the title of Deputy Customs Director General, and the heads of the direct customs of each province were awarded the title of First-level Customs Supervisor or Second-level Customs Supervisor, until the lowest-level staff was awarded the title of Second-level Customs Officer.

After completing this series of awards, Tony looked at his new toga and couldn't help feeling a little proud.

According to Tony's request, the Roman Customs has its own unique work clothes, which are a set of casual clothes modified from the toga. This pure white toga has a pattern of the scepter of the god of commerce and a crossed key embroidered on the chest with golden silk thread, symbolizing the customs. At the same time, the customs title symbolizing the rank of the official is embroidered on the right sleeve of the lining.

As for the inspection uniform that they wear on weekdays at work...it is actually just a simple tunic, on which there are also their own titles and customs emblems embroidered with golden silk thread.

After the Roman Customs was completely settled, Tony laughed out loud in his study.

"It's so satisfying!" Looking at the title on his clothes that symbolizes the highest authority of customs, Tony showed a very satisfied expression on his face.

Before he traveled through time in his previous life, he was a second-level customs officer at the lowest level. He had no relatives working in the customs, so he could only rely on himself to work hard. At best he could get a position as a first-level customs inspector before retirement. To be honest, at best he was only a deputy director-level officer, and it was estimated that he could not even get to the director-level position.

But what about now?

In this era, I am not only the Director of Customs, but also the first person in the world to truly establish customs!

He could imagine that two thousand years later, no matter which country's customs, when the customs officers of these countries studied the history of customs, they would learn one thing, that is, the founder of the customs of this world was named Tony Claudius Augustus Germanicus!

When Tony thought of this, he could hardly stop smiling.

No matter whether it was dealing with the Picts or the Parthians, he actually didn't have much sense of participation. He was said to be the leader of the army against the Parthians, but in fact it was Vespasian and Lius who actually took action, and as for the Picts... he brought a large group of troops to bully some of their small villages. There is really nothing to say about this.

But Roman customs were different.

In his previous life, he was a customs officer. After coming to this world in this life, he used the knowledge from his previous life to establish a customs. It can be said that compared with the previous two, the establishment of the Roman Customs was the one that Tony put the most effort into, including setting up institutions at all levels, compiling relevant laws and operating standards, and establishing customs work responsibilities. It can be said that in this life, Tony has been thinking about these things whenever he has free time since Nero succeeded to the throne and planned to establish a customs. Until today, the Roman Customs has finally been completely established.

As for the rest, Tony basically has nothing to do.

He can compile relevant laws and regulations, he can compile operating procedures, he can also go deep into the front line to do some work, but he is not omnipotent after all.

For example, he doesn't know much about taxation.

After all, in his previous life he was responsible for customs supervision, not tax collection.

Of course, the tariffs collected by the Roman Customs are much higher than those in the previous life. For example, most countries in the previous life generally did not collect export tariffs and transit tariffs, but now the Roman Customs does. However, compared with the previous taxes, the tariffs set by Tony are much lower than the previous taxes.

Of course, there was one point that Tony specifically did not mention.

Generally speaking, import tariffs and other customs duties are collected by the Customs instead of the IRS. In other words, these tariffs should ultimately go to the IRS.

However, in the Roman Empire at this time, the powers of various departments, including the tax department, were rather vague, so Tony deliberately did not mention these things, and even hinted that customs duties would naturally be collected by the customs and then submitted to the Senate or the royal family.

Of course, the Senate accepted this with great pleasure.

Tony established the customs, in addition to the main purpose of collecting taxes to enrich the national treasury and the pockets of the Claudius family, the most important point is to improve the nautical charts of this world as much as possible and understand the customs and people of other countries in this world. In fact, if you really want to say it, Tony can give a general idea himself, but... this way it would be too obvious that he cheated, and Nero would also doubt himself, wondering where he knew all this.

So Tony was very busy during this period. He needed to supervise the entire customs department to get it back on track as soon as possible, because only in this way would he have time to rest later. It can be said that he was really busy from morning to night during this period. After coming back, even if he slept with his sister, he was still very tired. Not to mention suppressing the gun, he didn't even have the mood to fire the gun.

Chapter 368: A sister can make her brother no longer a child~

"This is the first time I see my brother so busy~" That night, Tony, exhausted, had just returned from the newly built customs building. Before he could even sit down, he saw his sister running over to him like a young wife to massage his shoulders. Tony almost choked to death on his own saliva.

"No, sister, you... Fortunately, I haven't drunk any water yet, otherwise I would have choked to death sooner or later!" Tony subconsciously jumped up to avoid Nero's hands, looking at Nero with some horror: "Let's talk if we have something to say, don't make a move here, I'm a wimp!"

"Look at what you said." Nero rolled his eyes at Tony and said, "Sister, you see that your brother is tired, so you want to massage his shoulders and let him relax a little."

"Come on, you...I'm not relaxed, but I was scared." Tony patted his chest gently. It is undeniable that Nero's behavior just now was indeed like that of a virtuous wife. If they are now married and have lived together for a while, this kind of interaction that looks like that of an old couple is actually normal.

But the problem is that these two are siblings now!

Tony didn't have a sister in his previous life. His sister was quite normal. At most, he would ask his sister to help him clean up after he got into trouble and conceal it for his parents, or give him a red envelope during festivals. But his sister didn't go to this extent! She even gave him a massage after work.

But think about it, when he was working, his home was in the north of the city, and his sister's home was in the south of the city, so the two of them could only interact by sending red envelopes on WeChat.

The topic has gone too far.

In short, no matter whether it was in his previous life or the siblings he knew in his previous life, he had never heard of any sister having such a sister!

Even though I know that my sister wants to have sex with me all the time, this... is still a little strange!

"Um... ah, right, doesn't my brother always say something?" Nero looked at Tony, a little shy: "That's it... be scared, I'm not normal."

???

"Did I say that?! I clearly told you to be more normal so I can be scared! But you are right, sister, you are indeed abnormal now!" Tony took a deep breath and looked at Nero seriously: "Sister, let me tell you, what...what do you call this?! We are still brother and sister, right? How can a sister treat her brother like this?"

Seeing Tony's tangled face, Nero asked in confusion: "Is there something wrong with this? What's wrong with a sister massaging her brother's shoulders?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong? You say..." Tony was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly opened his mouth as if he was stuck, as if... nothing was wrong?

Let’s sort out our thoughts first.

In this era, it is an era where men are superior to women. In almost every country, the status of women is very low. For example, women in the Roman Empire are basically not considered citizens. Therefore, in this era, almost every family has a woman who supports her brother. Of course, this kind of thing usually does not exist after a woman gets married. After all, even if you want to support her, your husband's family may not agree.

So in this age where men are superior to women, it is not excessive at all for a sister to massage her brother’s shoulders.

What about two thousand years later, when men and women are equal?

You know what, if a sister massages her brother’s shoulders out of subjective reasons, it’s not excessive!

So how do you expect Tony to respond?!

"Look, you can answer it too~" Nero grinned, and walked slowly towards her brother while saying, "Be good, let your sister massage your shoulders~"

"Pah!" Tony spat lightly. He now had an illusion that ever since he confessed his love to his sister, his sister seemed to be becoming more and more... perverted?

Why does it look more and more like myself who bought a new Nero action figure in my previous life?

Could it be that some idiot saw me licking figurines like crazy in my previous life and dumped me into this world to take revenge on me? !

"Sister!" Tony looked at the empty study and said seriously, "Sister, I am still a child."

"But sister can make you no longer a child~" Nero said with his head tilted.

???

I suspect you're driving crazy, but I have no proof!

"What do you mean... I'm no longer a child?" Tony tilted his head and looked at Nero with an expression of disbelief.

Nero tilts his head to be cute, but Tony tilts his head simply because his brain is frozen.

"Ah? Won't you be one year older in another month? You're fourteen years old now, and you're no longer a child~" Nero touched Tony's head, and his words sounded as if his own child had grown up.

Okay... Although this old mother-like expression makes Tony feel a little uncomfortable, but... it seems to feel good to be touched on the head by his sister?

"Speaking of which, sister, ah...how is the situation in Cefalu?"

For the past month, Tony has been busy with his tavern and customs affairs and has not been able to spare the time to pay attention to the situation of the heroic spirit Attila. Now that he finally has some free time, it is time to inquire about the movements of this wandering star vanguard.

"Ah, speaking of this..." Nero said in a strange voice, as if he had witnessed something incredible: "Come to think of it, Cefalu and Gilgamesh have been in Rome for almost a month, but they basically did nothing. It looks like... they just came to Rome to stroll around or something."

???

Just coming to Rome for a stroll?

Do you think this is tourism?

It’s not that Tony doesn’t believe Nero or Nero’s spies, he just doesn’t believe that Cefalu’s purpose is so simple.

But in fact, Attila came to Rome just to take a stroll.

After Cefalu recovered as the giant god Attila, Gilgamesh invited her to travel around Rome with him. His purpose was to let her feel whether this world was worth destroying.