My XX deal with Sister Nero

"Your Highness, although I am a Parthian, I still have some conscience in my heart. The Parthian Empire wanted to attack the Sassanid Empire. In order to prevent the Roman Empire from intervening in the war, it assassinated your mother in the name of the Germans, which eventually triggered the wrath of the Roman Empire. It can be said that this war was brought upon the Parthian Empire, wasn't it?" Yubol looked at Tony with a smile on his face and asked back.

"You're right." Tony nodded with a smile and said, "Let's get back to the topic, Mr. Youber, I heard... you want to see me, right?"

Although Tony had invited Youbol, as someone who had something to ask for, Youbol naturally wouldn't care about these details. He just nodded and slowly put away the smile on his face: "Yes, Your Highness, I came to see you because I remembered that you could do me a small favor."

"Go ahead." Tony shrugged.

"I would like to ask Your Highness to assist my Mihran family in seizing the throne of the Parthian Empire. At that time, my Parthian Empire is willing to become a vassal of the Roman Empire!" Yubol took a deep breath and spoke word by word.

"Vassal?" Tony looked up at Yubor.

If Parthia could become a vassal of the Roman Empire, that would be great. After all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if it is weakened, it is still a first-class power and a powerful empire that can rank among the top five in the world. If Parthia becomes a vassal of the Roman Empire, then...

But just think about it, don't take it too seriously.

Parthia and Rome were mortal enemies. Tony knew that this so-called peace treaty was nothing but a piece of waste paper. After a few years or even decades, when the Parthian Empire had recovered its strength, they would inevitably launch another war to take back the land occupied by the Roman Empire.

Even if the Parthian Empire declared itself a vassal state of the Roman Empire today, it would still attack the Roman Empire in the end.

"Yes, we are willing to become a vassal of the Roman Empire," Yubor repeated.

“Hahaha.” After a few seconds of silence, Tony suddenly stood up and said, “Someone, show him out!”

"Don't!" Hearing Tony's words, Yubol waved his hand and said, "If Your Highness is unwilling to help us, then since we helped Your Highness in the past, please save the Mihran family!"

Hmm? Did they help me?

Tony scratched his head. In his memory...it seemed that the Mihran family had never helped him?

Well, it doesn’t matter. The Mihran family must be rescued. After all, saving the Mihran family is equivalent to planting a nail in the territory of the Parthian Empire, a nail targeting the Asassis family.

"Did you make any mistake? Why should we... save you?" Tony asked, blinking innocently.

"..." Seeing Tony playing dumb, Yubol almost punched him.

"Your Highness!" After taking a deep breath and calming himself down, Yubor said, "My Mihlan family secretly helped the Roman Empire in the war. Now that the war is over, Vologases I will definitely settle the accounts. By then, will my Mihlan family... still exist?"

"That makes sense!" Tony nodded innocently and said, "Then...how should we save you? Should we declare war on the Parthian Empire again for the Mihran family? That's unlikely, right?"

"It would be best if we could declare war again. If not..."

At this point, You Bolt paused for a moment, and said with a serious face: "I have a sister, who is the granddaughter of the clan leader. She is eight years old this year, about the same age as Your Highness, and looks pretty good. If it is possible..."

"Stop!" Tony interrupted Youbol rudely before he could finish his words. He looked at Youbol with gritted teeth and asked, "Mr. Youbol, do you also think that I am the best copper smelter and can't do anything?"

Chapter 581 A brief period of peace

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Yubol looked at Tony in confusion... What did the kid say?

Tony is a Roman, so he can speak Latin, but because he has been wandering outside for many years and is not as elite as other nobles, so before... he had been learning Greek, which was only known to Roman nobles.

However, after gaining the blessing of the heroic spirit Tony, Tony not only possessed a stronger combat capability than the average person, but more importantly, he also instantly learned almost all the languages ​​in the world.

That is why Tony was able to communicate with Youbol.

And Tony's bullshit is the Chinese Internet language two thousand years later. Tony almost subconsciously translated this sentence directly into Greek... and then Youbol was confused?

Does this matter... have anything to do with refining copper ingots? ? ?

"Ahem." Tony coughed lightly at Yubor's bewildered expression and said awkwardly, "You are not the first person to propose a marriage to me. The last person to propose a marriage to me was General Tiridates of your country, and my marriage partner at that time was your princess... and I refused."

Yubol understood what Tony meant.

Since he rejected Tiridates' marriage proposal, he had no reason to agree to the Mihran family's marriage proposal. After all, in terms of status, the granddaughter of the Mihran family's patriarch was definitely not as noble as a princess.

"...I understand." Yubol nodded.

But marriage is not possible, so...how can I convince His Royal Highness Prince Odeni to persuade the Roman Empire to protect the Mihran family?

"Come to think of it, you should have saltpeter, right?" Tony suddenly spoke after thinking for two seconds.

"Saltpeter?" Hearing this unfamiliar name for the first time, Yubol said awkwardly, "No... I've never heard of it."

"It's okay. You can ask the merchants under your family. There should be saltpeter mines in India. I need saltpeter, a lot of it." Tony shrugged.

The Roman Empire's saltpeter production was simply too low.

Tony needed a large amount of gunpowder, but due to the limited production of saltpeter, Tony's gunpowder production has always been low.

In addition to equipping his First Legion of Odeni, Tony basically gave all his remaining gunpowder to the only sailing battleship, and then... he ran out of gunpowder.

So he needed to get more saltpeter to increase the production of gunpowder.

The easiest way to get saltpeter is to get it from India.

Originally, Tony planned to open up his own route to India and then go to India to plunder saltpeter. Now that the Mihran family is willing to cooperate with him, then... it would not be a bad idea to increase the amount of saltpeter through them.

"I understand." Since His Highness has already stated that he is short of saltpeter and pointed out that India has this stuff, then can't I just help His Highness get saltpeter?

"Yes, if you help me, I won't treat you unfairly. I'll have someone give you a sample of saltpeter later, and you can go find saltpeter according to the sample~"

……

After reaching a deal with Yubol and planting a nail in the Parthian Empire, Tony, satisfied, began to shift his attention inward.

"The Guards, the Senate, and... Christianity." Tony touched his chin and muttered to himself.

These three are the biggest problems facing the Roman Empire at the moment. After all, Nero in this world has the same fate as Nero in the world Tony lived in in his previous life. He planned Greek autonomy, which led to Vendice's rebellion. Nero, who hurriedly returned from Greece, was confused by false information and thought that the Roman Empire was in chaos. After fleeing from Rome, the Senate took the opportunity to declare Nero a "public enemy". The Praetorian Guards also betrayed their majesty. In the end, Nero committed suicide.

After Nero's death, the Senate sentenced him to the "Amnesia Curse", erasing all positive records about Nero across the country until the fall of the Roman Empire.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe entered the Middle Ages. Christianity, standing at the top of Western Europe, was defeated by the Western Roman Empire. Because Nero massacred Christians, Christianity continued to discredit Nero... until two thousand years later.

Now, Tony has forced Windex to rebel ahead of time, completely undermined the reputation of the Senate, and divided the Senate through senators such as Seneca. The current Senate... is no longer a threat.

As for Christianity, Tony fostered the Underworld to deal with Christianity...so now, what Tony has to do next is to take action against the Royal Guards!

At that time, Tiberius established the Praetorian Guard camp outside the suburbs of Rome, which enabled the Praetorian Guard to gather together and have enough capital to interfere in the politics of the Roman Empire. In the later period, the Praetorian Guard was even able to influence the throne of the Roman Empire!

It was precisely because the Roman Empire was becoming increasingly unruly that Tony thought of taking advantage of the Parthian War to consume the Praetorian Guards.

However... according to the final statistics, out of the 10,000 guards, only less than 300 were killed in this war. This loss was nothing to the guards.

"...Forget it, the Guards cannot be dealt with overnight. We'll have to deal with this matter in the long run later." Tony shrugged. The next priority should be to use the help of the Gate of Earth to completely eliminate the Christian forces in and around Rome.

Just as Tony was thinking about how to deal with the Guards, on the other side.

"Tiamat has failed, and Cefalu doesn't want to attack Earth for the time being."

In a house in Isfahan, Archimedes picked up the cup on the table and drank the water in the cup elegantly: "The predator has not yet arrived, and the alien god has not yet launched a full-scale attack on this place. Has Tony... ushered in a temporary peace?"

Archimedes' analysis was correct. The alien gods had not attacked this loss belt, the predator planets had not yet arrived, and Goetia had not made any new moves at the moment. To some extent, Tony had indeed ushered in a brief period of peace that belonged to him... Well, that is, if he didn't cause any trouble.

……

Tony has now returned to Rome, so the Senate naturally needs to discuss the issue of rewards for the generals who participated in the war. At this time, Tony suddenly submitted a very formal document to the Senate as the commander of the Eastern Legion. The content of the document was very simple. Tony proposed to expand the city of Byzantium.

Byzantium, one of the ancient Greek city-states, is a very ancient city. Although this city is an important stronghold for the Roman Empire's Eastern Expedition, for the army, this stronghold is at best just a logistics stronghold, to put it bluntly, it is a place to store supplies.

It's just a logistics base. It just needs to have walls to look like a city. Is there any need to expand it?

Chapter 582 New Proposal

Tony knew that moving the capital to Byzantium could not be done hastily, and it had to be done step by step, such as the first step, expanding the city of Byzantium.

Then... this proposal was rejected by the Senate on the grounds that it would cost a lot of money, and Byzantium was not on the front line, and its strategic position was not that important on a daily basis, so there was no need to spend money to expand the city.

"Not necessary?" Tony sneered. He could understand the Senate's idea. At present, the Roman Empire did not need to expand the city of Byzantium, but... Tony had a way to make the Senate believe that Byzantium needed to be expanded!

What is the most fundamental reason for expanding a city? It is that the city is not big enough. How can we make people feel that the city is not big enough?

simple!

Wouldn't it be fine if there were more people?

"Brother, you said you wanted to prosper Byzantium?" After listening to Tony's description, Nero was stunned for a moment: "Come to think of it, brother, you mentioned before that you wanted to make Byzantium the new administrative center of the empire, right?"

"Yes." Tony nodded.

"But brother, this... is not a simple matter. The Senate will never agree to move the capital of the empire." Nero frowned.

"I know. Even if the Senate agrees to move the capital, Byzantium currently cannot meet the requirements to become the capital of the Roman Empire. It will take at least five years to rebuild Byzantium, so we can transform the city step by step. When the eastern border of the empire extends and the decrees of Rome can no longer be transmitted to the eastern border, the Senate will put this matter on the agenda." Tony shrugged.

"...Then how do you want to transform Byzantium?" Nero asked, touching his brother's head.

"If we want the Senate to pass the proposal to expand the city of Byzantium, the first thing we need to do is to let the Senate make a judgment. That is, the population of Byzantium is overpopulated and the city cannot accommodate so many people. So, what we need to do is to increase the population of Byzantium. The easiest way to increase the population of this city is to prosper the city's economy and then attract people to live there." Tony said with a smile.

"A prosperous city economy attracts population... You are worthy of being my younger brother, so awesome!" Nero grinned and said to Tony with a doting expression.

As the head of the empire, Nero had learned a lot of theories of governing a country since he was a child. Prospering the city's economy and attracting population were very basic contents for Nero, but he also understood that his younger brother... had not learned these.

So...it's always right to praise your younger brother!

"Huh! That's it!" Tony said proudly like a normal kid.

……

In this era, Byzantium was not considered a trade hub, and this small city was at best... just a transportation hub.

The Roman Empire was a commercial country, and its trade was mainly maritime trade. The most famous ports were of course Alexandria and Rome. Although Byzantium was a very important transportation hub, its commercial trade was not well developed.

The port outside the city of Byzantium served more as a ferry.

If Tony wanted to prosper the trade here, the first thing he had to do was to find a way to let the Senate know that there were things on the Black Sea coast that were enough to attract the Roman Empire, whether it was wealth or population.

But then...what was there that was attractive enough to the Roman Empire?

The largest country on the northern coast of the Black Sea is the Kingdom of Bosphorus, a vassal state of the Roman Empire. Its core area is the Crimean Peninsula. This country is a typical agricultural country. The only things it can produce are various crops and grapes. The mountains and plains are covered with pine forests.

Maybe... I can ask Rosa's men?

After Tiamat was defeated, the two electors and four princes under Rosa followed Tony back to Rome, but Gvorst went to Rome just because it was on the way. Rosa's gate was set up in Rome. If he wanted to return to the world he was in, he could only go back through this gate.

But others are different.

Elector Lily and the others are Tony's temporary guards appointed by Rosa, so they... will not go back for the time being.

……

"Crimean Peninsula?" Hearing Tony's question, Elector Lily turned his head to look at the expressionless blonde girl lying on the bed behind him, flipping through a copy of The Iliad out of boredom, and said, "Prince Lampado, I remember that your hometown is Crimea, right? Tell me about it?"

"Ah?" The girl looked at Tony and Lily Elector expressionlessly, thought for a moment and said, "If we want to talk about specialties, it should be iron ore, right?"

iron ore?

Tony's eyes lit up when he heard this word!

Even two thousand years later, iron ore is still a very important strategic resource, let alone now.

"Well... do you know where these iron ore deposits are mainly concentrated?" Tony excitedly took out a piece of papyrus of good quality from the bookshelf next to him, and used the traditional skills unique to Paradox players to draw a map!

"Huh? The map you drew looks pretty realistic!" Looking at Tony drawing the map attentively, Elector Lily said curiously.

"Huh..." The map of the Crimean Peninsula was not complicated. Tony roughly drew a map of the Crimean Peninsula based on his memory: "Prince Lampado, can you please come over and help me? Please help mark the location of the iron ore you know."

"Yeah." Prince Lampado nodded, took the pen from Tony, and marked the location of the iron mine she knew on the map.

"Thank you." Tony breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the map with the location of the iron ore marked on it.

Iron ore, that's enough to arouse the interest of the Senate, isn't it?

About two days later, Tony wrote a new proposal with the help of Seneca. The content of this proposal was simple, suggesting that the imperial officials step up their efforts to forge more armor and weapons to arm the Roman legions.

This proposal...the Senate has no reason to reject it.

Forging more weapons and armor to arm the Roman legions, even if Tony didn't say it, the Senate would do it, otherwise how would the army fight? So to some extent, Tony's proposal... is pure nonsense.

But, does Tony talk nonsense?

will not.

Tony wrote this proposal for one reason only, and that was to make his position clear.

The Senate passed this nonsense proposal without any consideration.

It has to be done anyway, and there is no need for the Senate to disagree with the young prince on this issue.

"Agreed?" The Senate basically didn't discuss it much. After confirming that there were no other traps or loopholes in the document, the Senate passed Tony's proposal.

Now that this proposal has been passed, the next step is... Tony should prepare the second proposal.