My XX deal with Sister Nero

Although Tony is not a fan of FATE, he still has a lot of knowledge about the Heroic Spirits in FATE, especially the female Heroic Spirits. Well, don’t ask me why. As an author, I definitely don’t know why Tony knows so much about female Heroic Spirits. Even if I knew, I wouldn’t tell you. So just give up on this idea!

The second thing is what my classmates said, this is a slut... maybe?

As for the third point...oh, it seems there is no third point.

Tony frowned and thought for a while, and finally remembered a suspicious point!

When I watched that CG animation, there seemed to be a dragon following behind this Jie Luo. So this Jie Luo and the dragon should have a relationship, and a good relationship. But why is it that now not only is there no dragon following behind this Jie Luo, but she is also starting to slay dragons?

There must be something wrong with this worldview.

While Tony was thinking about all these things, Jie Luo, who had finished slaying the dragon, had returned to the town. However, Jie Luo did not go directly to Tony's residence to ask Tony for money and leave, but chose to stroll around the town first.

On the way, when Jie Luo and Old William were chatting, Old William mentioned that His Royal Highness was the descendant of God who bestowed the British province on God. In fact, this was correct in that era. After all, the previous Roman emperors were all deified, and Tony was a descendant of these deified emperors. It was indeed not wrong to say that he was a descendant of God.

And in everyone's eyes, Tony is indeed worthy of the title of descendant of God.

Although Tony was the first lord of the empire, there were many lord-like beings before him, such as some city governors or governors who were airdropped, and some small farmers.

Although Europe of this era was not filled with territories of varying sizes like in the Middle Ages, this seemingly powerful centralized country also had many different fiefdoms, namely farmers or knights of varying sizes.

They had slaves and territories under their control, and what they did was to exploit these slaves, make them work for them, and squeeze them.

As a modern man who traveled through time, Tony came up with a "win-win" strategy.

Not only will I be able to have money and do as I please, but the people under my command will also be able to become rich and prosperous.

Once the people have money, they will have a stronger sense of belonging to the territory and will identify more with the lord. If one day in the future someone wants to attack the territory, the people will spontaneously organize themselves to protect their property without the need for the lord to mobilize.

In addition, Tony is constantly improving the living conditions of his subjects.

After paving the main road with gravel, Tony asked the workers to continue working and paved other branch roads with gravel. At the same time, Tony found the Minister of Civil Affairs, Thomas, and asked him to separate some of the staff to form a new functional department, the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health, as the name suggests, is a functional department responsible for the living hygiene of the people. Tony knows nothing about medicine. In his previous life, Tony only knew a few cold medicines, anti-inflammatory medicines, and medicines for treating diarrhea. As for curing diseases, forget it.

Although Tony himself cannot treat diseases, after watching so many TV dramas and listening to the news, he still knows that diseases and environmental hygiene are closely related. So he specially formed a cleaning team to clean the town, prohibit the residents from urinating and defecating anywhere, and built public toilets on a large scale.

The public toilet built by Tony is a bit similar to the mobile toilets of the future and the dry toilets in rural China. It is a small house. The floor inside the toilet is about two steps higher than the ground outside. There is a squat toilet and a small bucket inside. There is a large basin under the squat toilet. The excrement of the people above enters the basin and is temporarily stored in it. The next morning, the cleaning team will come, open a small movable door at the back of the public toilet, take out the basin with excrement and replace it with a clean basin. The excrement in the original basin is poured into the ground as fertilizer, and then washed and put back into the toilet the next day.

As for the small bucket in the toilet...it is naturally a place to put used sponges!

In this era, the Romans used sponges to wipe their butts. Don’t ask how Tony knew this, because he used it…

Well, considering that some readers may see this paragraph while eating, the great Prince Tony of Oddney has decided not to talk about the topic of environmental sanitation anymore. In short, he is now trying every possible way to solve the problems of environmental sanitation and town defense.

Now that the dragon slaying is over, there are no threats near the town for the time being. The construction of the wall can be temporarily slowed down, and manpower can be used to build the town’s first model community.

The so-called model community refers to the first community that Tony is about to build. According to the plan, Tony will build a community similar to a modern building on the east side of the town, with two bedrooms and two living rooms, a separate toilet and kitchen, and a total of three floors.

Because the current construction technology is not advanced enough, although it is possible to build a five- or six-story building, it takes too long and the town does not have enough manpower to build such a tall house.

Of course, now there is only a so-called "planned land" on the east side of the town.

"Do they have to build houses for their own people?" Standing near the planned land, Jie Luo muttered to herself meaningfully. She had been traveling around for so long and had seen many lords, but this was the first lord she had seen who was willing to do something for his people!

Speaking of which, in addition to this so-called community, there are also road construction and new mobile toilets being built, which can be regarded as seeking benefits for his own people. This lord is really interesting.

After wandering around the town for a few laps, watching the sun slowly climb to its highest point, Jie Luo knew that it was almost time for lunch.

After arriving at Tony's residence, before Tony could speak, Zero asked, "Your Highness, do you still need mercenaries?"

Hearing Zero's question, Tony was stunned at first, and said, "It's not really necessary... What's wrong?"

Zero glanced at Mary who was standing not far away, then looked at Tony, and said, "Your Highness, don't you think you need a powerful personal bodyguard to protect your safety?"

Ok? !

Tony would be a fool if he didn't react at this point.

This sentence clearly means that you want to take the initiative to deliver yourself to the door!

To be honest, it is still unclear whether this Zero is the same as the original Zero, and this Zero is indeed strong enough. It is not impossible to hire her, but why would Zero take the initiative to ask Tony to hire her?

You can't be the one who thinks you're so handsome that he wants to throw himself at you, right? Or you can be the one who thinks he's powerful and handsome that he wants to cling to you?

PS: Do you think I can go back today?

Chapter 72 New Guards

But then again, Tony is indeed powerful, handsome, and he doesn't have a fiancée because he is too young. You have to know that Europe is different from ancient China. Although there is also a situation of male dominance over women, when it comes to marriage, Europeans have always practiced monogamy because they believe that "marriage is a monogamous union of all beings, a common relationship between gods and humans." There are even clear regulations in ancient Roman law that divorce is allowed, but all dowries of the woman must be returned, and a high "usage fee" must also be paid. Such a huge property expenditure directly dispels the idea of ​​most men abandoning their wives.

So if there is really a woman who is attracted to Tony's power and wants to be with him, once they get married, it will basically be a sure-win business.

Of course, in ancient Rome, many powerful people also kept several mistresses. For such situations, because the judicial department did not want to offend those powerful people, they had to turn a blind eye and pretend that they did not see it.

Ahem, it seems we have gone off topic.

For no apparent reason, Jie Luo suddenly expressed her willingness to stay and be Tony's personal bodyguard. Tony was not stupid, so he could naturally guess that there must be a reason behind this. Either she was greedy for fame and fortune and wanted to take the opportunity to get promoted, or she had ulterior motives towards him and was instigated by someone to assassinate him. Of course, other possibilities were not ruled out, but no matter which possibility it was, since it involved his own life safety, Tony naturally had to take it seriously.

"As you can see, I already have my own guard team, so in terms of protection, I don't think I need too many people for the time being. And as a top mercenary like you, I'm worried that I can't afford you." Tony smiled and said.

Although this world does not have a place similar to a mercenary guild for mercenaries like in novels, these lone mercenaries still have ways to spread their fame and be known by everyone. For example, Jie Luo has killed a dragon now. After a while, when the news spreads, there will be many people willing to hire this dragon slayer.

For a dragon slayer like this, her price will definitely go up rapidly in the future. According to Tony's estimation, Zero has a good figure, good looks, and strength. When she goes on missions in the future, she will definitely start with a lot of gold coins!

But at this point, Tony suddenly remembered that the town's economy seemed to have been in a state of negative growth. Whether it was building roads, constructing city walls, or arming the army, Tony had been paying money out of the town. The town's income was simply not enough to support Tony's payment amount. In addition, winter was approaching, and the finances of the town of Odney would shrink significantly. If Tony didn't find a way to make money quickly, the money in his hands might not be able to last until next summer!

Just as Tony was thinking about how to make money, Zero said, "I admit that your guards are very powerful and are enough to deal with ordinary people, but Your Highness, you should know that there are still many powerful people in this world, and the army you have is too small. Once a war breaks out, without a person who can defeat a hundred people, I'm afraid you will lose miserably, right?"

"What did you say?" Before Tony could even open his mouth after hearing what Jie Luo said, Mary, who was standing behind her, immediately became dissatisfied!

As we all know, the most powerful force in the Roman Empire was the Praetorian Guard that protected the emperor, and the most powerful force among the Praetorian Guard was the Germanic Battalion.

Perhaps in this world, Marius' reforms were not so thorough. Although the field army implemented a new organization of battalions, companies and platoons, the National Army and the Guards still maintained the organization before the reform, that is, centuries, detachments and battalions.

As the first battalion in the Imperial Guard, the Germanic Battalion was not only extremely powerful, but also always fully staffed. During the reign of Claudius, it had three infantry detachments and one cavalry squad, totaling 570 people. After Nero ascended the throne, since she was a woman, he incorporated his original guard into the Germanic Battalion, for a total of four cavalry squads.

As an officer of the Germanic Brigade, Mary is arrogant to a certain extent. In her opinion, she is the elite among the elite, the central army among the central army, the direct line among the direct line, and the ace among the aces! Even if you can really slay a dragon and you are really strong enough, you are just a mercenary, not even a miscellaneous brand! What qualifications do you have to despise the guards?

You know, Mary is a knight in the empire and belongs to the imperial nobility!

No matter how powerful you are, you are just a commoner.

Jie Luo glanced at Mary, who was about to draw her sword, and said, "You are not my opponent."

"You bastard!" Mary's brain got hot when she heard Jie Luo's provocative words. With a slight sound, Mary pulled out the dagger hanging at her waist and swung her hand to chop at Jie Luo!

"Enough!" At this moment, Tony suddenly spoke. After hearing her master's words, Mary reluctantly put away the sword.

"I think this is not your real reason. For a mercenary, whether the guard of an imperial noble is powerful or not doesn't seem to have much to do with the mercenary himself, right?" Tony looked at Zero and said.

Seeing Tony's half-smile, Zero scratched her head and said, "Why don't you act like an ordinary child? It's really hard to talk to you. Let me tell you this, hire me, we can discuss the price. I just want to know how far you will go for your people."

Looking at the expression on Zero's face, Tony felt that this should be the truth. Well, although he didn't know why she would have such an idea, no matter what, being able to recruit a powerful mercenary is also a very good choice.

"Okay, then let's talk about the commission issue." Tony said, looking at Jie Luo meaningfully.

"Your Highness, this cannot be done! This man suddenly wants to become your Highness's bodyguard. I'm afraid he has other purposes!" Seeing that Tony agreed to this, Mary quickly spoke out to stop him.

Tony smiled and said, "It's okay, Sister Mary. To be honest, if she really had ill intentions, she would have had plenty of time and energy to kill me since yesterday. Moreover, with her methods, combined with the defense power in the territory, if she wanted to escape after killing me, she would have plenty of ways to do it."

"Your Highness, although this is true, but..." Seeing that Mary wanted to continue speaking, Tony waved his hand and said, "Okay, Sister Mary, I have made up my mind. I have to go to the Iceni Kingdom in a few days. It is also a good choice to have a powerful guard to protect me."

"Your Highness is going to the Iceni Kingdom?" Mary was a little surprised when she heard Tony's decision.

Although the Iceni Kingdom is now one of the vassal states of the empire, it is a conquered country after all. If the Iceni Kingdom has any ill intentions, things will be troublesome!

After all, as one of the few independent Celtic tribes in Britain, the Iceni Kingdom has a certain number of troops. Although this number of troops is insignificant to the Roman Empire, it is still quite large for the small town of Oddney.

About the reason why the protagonist chooses to farm in the British province (skip)

I didn't include this paragraph in the main text originally, because I felt it would be too long if I really wrote it, and it would be rather boring and a bit wordy, so I just passed it over briefly. But yesterday a reader asked why the protagonist didn't choose to farm in Constantinople. After explaining it to this reader, I thought I should open a separate chapter to explain it, well, as a little popular science.

In the early days of the Roman Empire, the most prosperous places in the empire were the Italian Peninsula, central and southern France, Spain, Portugal, Egypt and Greece. Needless to say, the Italian Peninsula was the core area of ​​the Roman Empire and it was impossible to divide it up. The protagonist could not farm here, and the other wealthy places had already been divided up. As an adult with a little brains in his previous life, Tony certainly knew his own weight. Going to these places to grab territory was simply seeking death.

So Tony could only settle for the second best and choose a place that was not very rich and where no one would come to steal his land.

The only areas that could meet Tony's needs were Tunisia, northern France, Britain, the area near Constantinople, and the area from Jerusalem to Aleppo.

These places are relatively not very rich, but they are definitely not poor. They can feed themselves and raise an army. After all, Tony's fundamental purpose of farming is to prevent the tragedy of 68 AD from happening again.

The Tunisian region was ruled out first. This area was once the territory of the Carthaginians. To the south was the Sahara Desert, and to the east and west were the Romans' own territory. After Tony formed his army, he would definitely let his army see blood. There were basically no enemies in this place. How could he train his troops?

Except for the Tunisia region, there are enemies around several other regions. If you want to farm and train soldiers, these places are good places.

So why did the protagonist finally choose Britain?

First of all, we have to understand that our protagonist Tony has been explained in the previous setting that he is a fat otaku on the moon who knows a little about Roman history. The first factor for choosing Britain is because of the living heroes of this era, except for Nero in Rome and Martha who is running around Europe, the remaining heroes are mostly concentrated in Britain and Ireland. The protagonist chooses to go to Britain to farm. Hooking up with heroes is one of the reasons, but it is not the most important one. The most important reason is that the protagonist knows a little about Roman history.

Okay, the following content will contain some spoilers, so readers can choose to watch it.

Although the book "Nero" involves the setting of Type-Moon, the book's historical background ultimately takes place in the Roman period, and the history of Type-Moon is actually not much different from the real world history. Of course, don't count the Lostbelts, otherwise we can only shout that Brother Masaru is awesome.

Therefore, in this large environment, there are many historical events that are destined to happen. These events may have different endings due to the interference of the protagonist Tony, but they are ultimately major events that affect the course of world history. Unless there is human intervention, they are destined to happen.

For example, Nero committed suicide and Boudica rebelled.

Okay, let’s get back to the topic and talk about why the protagonist did not choose Constantinople but Britain.

Except for the Tunisia region which has been PASSED, among the remaining regions, we will first pick out Britain and Constantinople, and talk about why the protagonist did not choose northern France and Jerusalem.

The north of France is not desolate, it is just a little less developed than the central and southern parts of France. And compared to the Germanic region which is currently under the control of the barbarians, the north of France is extremely rich.

In order to deter the Vandals and other barbarians in the Germanic region, the Roman Empire stationed a large number of troops here. If Tony wants to farm in northern France, not only will he not be able to train his soldiers, he may also be completely eaten up by these border warlords. After all, these soldiers who have been stationed in desolate areas like Germany for many years dream of returning to the colorful world behind them.

So northern France, PASS.

As for the area from Jerusalem to Aleppo, the situation was rather complicated during Nero's reign, with constant rebellions and it was not suitable for farming, so in the end, only the area around Constantinople and the British province remained.

This reader in the book review area mentioned an idea. The protagonist can completely rely on the geographical advantage to build Constantinople, and then recruit and train troops in the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor. Once the Praetorian Guards rebel, he can advance, control the Balkan Peninsula and threaten the Italian region, or retreat, and pull Nero over and rely on the geographical advantage of Constantinople to split out an Eastern Roman Empire to compete with the Praetorian Guards and the Senate.

Honestly, this idea is totally feasible, it’s just not applicable in this era.

If the time background of this book was in the period of Trajan more than 60 years later, I would definitely adopt this reader's idea and build Constantinople, ready to split off the Eastern Roman Empire at any time.

But this didn't work during Nero's reign.

Constantinople, the first fortress in Europe during the Middle Ages, was surrounded by the sea on three sides and faced inland on one side. Facing the inland side was the Theodosian Walls built around the 5th century AD, which was the core part of the entire Constantinople defense system. There were two inner and outer walls, a moat and two protective walls, plus more than towers, turrets and bunkers, which formed a crossfire network on top of the walls. In the age without artillery, Constantinople was the first fortress in Europe, a fortress that would never fall.

But the problem is that such a powerful city defense system cannot be built overnight. Even if Tony is given enough manpower, it will take him some time to replicate this unbreakable fortress from five hundred years in the future.

But Tony didn't have the time.

As mentioned in Chapter 7, the Thracian Kingdom, one of the vassal states of the Roman Empire, betrayed its suzerain state. The territory of the Thracian Kingdom was basically located at the junction of present-day Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Yes, in its heyday, the Thracian Kingdom occupied the city of Byzantium, or rather, Constantinople.

Although in this book the Thracian Kingdom has lost its heyday and Byzantium has fallen into the hands of the Romans, Byzantium is too close to the front line. The Thracian cavalry only needs to charge to reach the city before Tony can react. You must know that at this time Byzantium did not have the later Theodosian Walls and could not resist the Thracian attack at all.

In addition to the Thracians, Byzantium will face another threat, the Parthian Empire.

During Nero's reign, there were four countries on earth that could be called superpowers, namely the Roman Empire, the Parthian Empire, the Kushan Empire and the newly rising Eastern Han Empire.

Not to mention that Rome and Parthia were mortal enemies, once the war broke out, it was very likely that the Parthian cavalry would penetrate the entire Asia Minor Peninsula, cross the Bosphorus Strait, and surround Byzantium. Moreover, in the early period of Nero's reign, Parthia really fought against the Roman Empire (I won't tell you the specific time, otherwise it would be a spoiler. Well, although this war is different from the historical wars, because it was not long after Nero ascended the throne, in the novel, this war would come soon. If Tony really went to Byzantium, I'm afraid he would have just arrived and hadn't even sat down on the stool before the Parthians attacked).

Let's not talk about Parthia. Let's just talk about the war between the Roman Empire and Thrace. As a loving sister, how could Nero throw her own brother to the front line? The geographical location of Byzantium is almost the front line of the war between the Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Thrace.

So the only thing left is the British region.

After Claudius defeated the Celtic tribes in England in 43 AD, these tribes became obedient and the province of Britain was officially established. Its direct provincial territory was roughly the southeast of England today. Apart from that, the remaining Celtic tribes in England were basically minions of the Roman Empire.

These little brothers were quite obedient after being beaten up. They basically surrounded the British province and protected the British province of the Roman Empire. From a security perspective, this area was relatively safe, unlike Jerusalem and Byzantium, where people would probably die on the spot within a few months.

But at the same time, this place is not as safe as northern France and Tunisia.

There are the unruly Picts in Scotland, who often go south to plunder. However, because of the buffer of these Celtic tribes, the Picts cannot attack the British provinces and can only plunder the Celtic tribes in England. So it is very convenient for Tony to train his troops. This group of Picts has poor combat effectiveness, so they can only bully the equally weak Celtic tribes, and Tony can completely pull up his own troops to fight the Picts and bully the rookies to make them bleed.

Not too dangerous, but not absolutely safe either, so the British province naturally became Tony's first choice for farming.

Tony farms to prevent the tragedy of 68 from happening again, but this does not mean that Tony is going to gather an army to fight the Guards head-on. As for how he plans to do it... I won't say it, because it would be a real spoiler. Anyway, he won't fight head-on~

You see, this explanation has already taken up 3,000 words, so the reason why I chose to just briefly mention it at first was because there was too much nonsense to say, and it was not suitable to be put in the main text. Today I will explain this first. Well, but then again, are you really not afraid of being disgusted by the eyes and want to see me in women's clothing???

Chapter 73: Guess what will happen next

Tony didn't think the Iceni Kingdom would do anything to him.

The reason is simple. When Tony was in Rome, he rescued Prasutagus. That is why the Iceni Kingdom sent a delegation headed by Queen Boudica as an envoy to congratulate Tony the day after he arrived in the town.

Tony initially estimated that there should be a small open-pit coal mine and a small iron ore mine in the Kingdom of Iceni. He planned to go to the Kingdom of Iceni in two days to see the output of the two mines and then see how much he could consume.

At the beginning, Tony was thinking about becoming a middleman, buying iron ore and coal mines from the Iceni Kingdom, and then reselling them to the Empire at a higher price. But on second thought, this idea was a bit unreliable. The idea of ​​being a middleman to make a profit was good, but why would the nobles or merchants in the Empire abandon the originally low-priced ore and buy the high-priced ore from Tony?

People may give you face once or twice, but who would be willing to buy over time?