My XX deal with Sister Nero

Speaking of which, the amount of pork chop varies from person to person.

Uncle Antonio is the breadwinner of the family and the main source of income, so his pork chop is the biggest, followed by Silvia who also has to work in the fields.

The third one is Tony, because he is the only boy in the family, or the only boy in the next generation, so he also has a palm-sized pork chop. As for Tita... her pork chop is only one-third the size of a palm.

Just from eating a meal, Tony could see the strict hierarchy.

"Annie, didn't you say you wanted to talk about something? What is it?" At this moment, Sylvia suddenly asked.

Antonio glanced at the people at the table, then said calmly: "Thrace betrayed the empire."

Thrace?

Tony had heard of this area.

The ancient Thrace region roughly corresponds to the border between the current Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece. At first, Thrace was an independent kingdom, then became a vassal state of the Roman Empire, and was finally completely annexed by the Roman Empire and became a province of the empire.

Although I have forgotten exactly when the Thracian province came into being, but from the tone of Uncle Antonio, Thrace seems to have not yet been annexed by the empire to become a province of the empire. In other words, the current Kingdom of Thrace should be a vassal state of the Roman Empire.

The Kingdom of Thrace actually betrayed the Roman Empire? Wait, the Kingdom of Thrace...isn't it just east of the province of Macedonia?

"Annie, so you are going to the battlefield?" Sylvia asked worriedly.

"Mature soldiers...?" Tony frowned and uttered this word lightly.

"Huh? You know?" Antonio was still a little surprised to hear Tony say the word "prime-aged army". After all, the impression he gave Antonio before was that he knew nothing and understood nothing.

Fortunately, he had played the game Rome: Total War before, so he had a general idea of ​​the military structure of the Roman era.

Before the Marius Reform, the infantry of the Roman Empire was mainly divided into light infantry, youth army, middle-aged army and reserve army. The light infantry was completely cannon fodder, with no armor, only a small round shield, two or three javelins and a short sword. The real main force of the Roman Empire's infantry referred to the youth army and middle-aged army. They were the heavy infantry of the Roman Empire!

"What about the defense? What's the situation at the border?" Tony asked subconsciously.

Although he was somewhat surprised as to why Tony asked this question suddenly, Antonio still answered: "At present, the Thracian Kingdom has not dared to attack the Empire directly. After all, the Fifth Macedonian Legion and its affiliated legions are stationed on the border of the Empire, with a total of nearly 10,000 people. The Thracian Kingdom will not dare to take action for a while."

"...Wait a minute, is that Macedonian Legion a standing army?" Tony asked.

"Oh, where did you know the term 'standing army'? Yes, it is a standing army, what's wrong with that?" Antonio laughed.

It seems that the world is becoming more and more weird.

The standing army was the product of the Marian reform. Before the Marian reform, the Roman Empire had an army, but it was a national army. When there was no war, they were citizens. When there was a war, they would be recruited to serve as soldiers. However, due to their age, family background and other issues, the weapons and equipment of such soldiers were different. After all, the national army had to rely on themselves to solve the problem of weapons and equipment.

After Marius' reforms, such problems no longer existed.

The state provides weapons, pays military salaries, and recruits soldiers to form a standing army, so the combat effectiveness of this standing army is higher than that of the national army.

Interestingly, the Roman Empire that Tony is in now is actually the Roman Empire where both standing army and national army coexist. Although the combat effectiveness of the national army is not as good as that of the standing army, at least the Roman Empire with both standing army and national army is much stronger than the Roman Empire which originally only had standing army!

Okay, this is taking things too far.

Anyway, although the Thracian Kingdom is now raising the flag of rebellion, it still dares not to send troops easily because of the Macedonian Legion and its affiliated legions on the border with a strength of nearly 10,000 people. It is waiting, waiting for reinforcements!

The Kingdom of Thrace, in Tony's memory, was a vassal state with a very helpless geographical location. It was surrounded by Roman provinces on three sides and the turbulent Black Sea on the other. Although it was unclear how many troops there were in the three provinces combined, a conservative estimate was that there should be at least four combined legions, which should have at least 80,000 people.

80,000 people. If you bring this amount of troops to ancient China, you would be embarrassed to say that you are a powerful country dominating one side. But in Europe, 80,000 troops are more than enough to take down the Thracian Kingdom.

Therefore, the Thracian Kingdom was able to raise the flag of rebellion even though it knew it was surrounded by at least 80,000 troops, which means that the Thracian Kingdom must have reinforcements!

But who would be the Thracian reinforcements? Germans? Armenians? Or Goths?

Well, no matter who they are, if they really attack me, the worst that can happen is that I can run to the Italian Peninsula. Then maybe I can meet Nero and then I can conquer her and then... hehehe!

Okay, it seems I've overthought it.

Well, the Roman Empire, which has both a national army and a standing army, should be stronger in terms of combat power than the previous Roman Empire, right? In addition, Nero's reputation is still good at this time. Maybe it will be different from the historical Roman Empire and will be able to rise completely in this generation and get rid of the constraints of the Senate.

Of course, this is none of my business.

"Oh, by the way, it is said that a woman who believes in evil gods has come to this area recently. You have to be careful." Antonio seemed to suddenly remember something and hurriedly warned.

"Believing in an evil god? What evil god?" Tony asked curiously.

At this time in history, the Roman Empire believed in the gods in Roman mythology. Tony knew this, but he really didn't know what this evil god was.

It is precisely because I don’t know that I ask out of curiosity.

Antonio's face changed at first, but then he thought that it was probably the child's curiosity, so he patiently explained: "It is said that the evil god they believe in is some God, and they also worship the heretic who was burned to death in Jerusalem decades ago. Hum, these barbarians."

... Damn, Christianity!

As a history lover, Tony knew that although Christianity existed in this era, in the polytheism based on Roman mythology and legends, Christianity, which believed in God, was considered a cult. Of course, after Christianity was established as the state religion of the Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire no longer suppressed the development of Christianity.

"But speaking of it, the missionary was a girl. Rumor has it that she successfully slayed a dragon in Gaul not long ago." Antonio smacked his lips and said.

...the sack of the bridge!

Wait!

Slaying a dragon in Gaul? And it was a girl?!

The province of Gaul is the future France. In this era, someone slayed a dragon there, and it was a girl. Tony did have one in his memory.

Saint Martha!

Or to translate it another way, Saint Martha!

Today is the third update. Well, as I said in the last chapter, there will be three more updates later...

I feel complicated. Forget it. I'll just fill the hole I dug myself. I'll take a break and eat something before updating. The next wave of updates will be when the number of collections reaches 54, or when there are 21 recommendation votes, or when I get the second monthly ticket, or when I give 500 cat cookies. I suddenly feel so tired... I'm the demon I made, and I'm going to finish it even if I cry.

Chapter 8: My sister is so gentle (First chapter of additional chapter)

Speaking of Martha, she is translated as Martha in general Christian scriptures. She is one of the famous saints of Christianity. She originally lived in the village of Bethany, about six miles away from Jerusalem. Later, she was exiled by the Roman governor, crossed the Mediterranean and landed in the southern province of Gaul. Then, she used the Bible as a brick and with great mercy, she knocked down the evil dragon there and rescued the villagers.

I didn’t expect that this legendary Christian saint would come here to preach!

Tony was not against the idea of ​​a saint preaching, but after traveling across half of Europe to preach, Tony had to admit that Martha's physical strength was probably much better than his own in his previous life.

"Don't worry, if we see this person, we will contact the sheriff to expel her." said Sylvia.

Well, as a person who has been influenced by atheism in modern times, Tony is not interested in these religions, especially Islam. Tony is even a little disgusted with the Islam in the Middle East.

As for Christianity, Tony was only interested in the Genesis part. The reason why he was somewhat repulsed by the other parts was that many charlatans used Christian classics when preaching to him. However, Tony was still somewhat interested in this "original" Christianity.

The most important thing is that he is very interested in Martha, who is said to be gentle, pure, steady and kind!

Ahem, I just want to study the Christian scriptures carefully, don’t think too much.

Speaking of which, Tony had a strong interest in history in his previous life. At the same time, because he was interested in some emerging things, and these emerging things happened to be easily influenced by religion, Tony had some dealings with religion in his previous life. Tony was still interested in these religions that were still in their primitive state.

Well, it seems like Martha is still some distance away from Riverwood Town. We'll talk about it then.

In this ancient world, there are no alarm clocks, so everyone lives a life of working from sunrise to sunset. As a modern person, the first thing Tony has to do when he comes here is to adjust to the time difference...

That’s right, it’s to adjust to the time difference!

What is Tony's life like when he is not working? Well, he goes to bed at 4 or 5 in the morning, then sleeps until noon, goes out to eat, comes back to play on the computer, then eats dinner, comes back to play on the computer again, plays until 4 or 5, and goes to bed.

But in this world, people should get up at 4 or 5 o'clock to prepare breakfast and go to work in the fields, right? !

People have to go to bed when it gets dark after eight o'clock, right?

Besides, this is called a town. Two thousand years later, it is not much bigger than a village. How can there be any nightlife there?

So after dinner, Tony, who was bored and idle, could only climb into his bed early and prepare to go to sleep.

"This is a world without any fun at all... I just eat and sleep, and I don't even have a bottle of fat otaku happy water to drink. This life is simply killing me."

Looking through the wide-open window, while fighting mosquitoes, he couldn't help but miss the world of civilization and highly developed scientific research where he once lived, his mobile phone, computer, and his old friends and family.

"After disappearing for several days, I guess my friends and family in that world must have gone crazy with worry? Well, the same goes for my colleagues and superiors." Tony shook his head and smiled bitterly.

But what can he do? He is reluctant to leave, for sure. If he could go back, Tony would abandon his current identity without hesitation and return to his previous identity of Xiao Yun. However, in this era, it seems unscientific to create something that can travel through time and space to go home.

Oh, it seems that there is not even the word science in this era.

"Well, let's take it one step at a time. I'd better get some good sleep now. There will always be a way when you reach the mountain. If there is a way, I'll buy a FAW-Volkswagen or not a Toyota." Tony slowly closed his eyes while muttering to himself.

Nothing happened that night. When Tony opened his eyes the next day, it was already bright.

After getting dressed and walking out of the room, what caught my eye was my sister Tita, who was sewing with needle and thread, apparently making some clothes or something.

"Hurry up and have breakfast. You are still young. Drink more milk so that you can grow. When you grow up, you can protect your sister well." Tita muttered as she put the cloth and needle and thread aside, then got up and went into the kitchen, brought out Tony's breakfast from the kitchen and put it on the table.

"I'm getting more and more into the role of the older sister." Tony muttered quietly.

Tony is quite happy to see such a heartwarming scene.

After all, in the era of his previous life, most of his generation were only children, without brothers or sisters. Among Tony's best relatives, only his cousin had a good relationship with him.

But after all, the two families are quite far apart. Even if he knows that he has a cousin and that this cousin likes his brother very much, there is no way they can maintain this relationship, right?

Facing this nagging sister, feeling the long-lost warmth, Tony smiled, then picked up the milk from the ceramic jar on the table and took a big gulp.

…It turns out that raw milk that has simply been heated doesn’t taste very good.

After breakfast, Tony felt that he couldn't stay at home and play like he did yesterday, but if he went out to play with the kids outside, Tony felt that he couldn't afford to lose face...

Well, since I don’t want to play, I might as well walk around the town and collect some information about this world.

"Hmm? You said you wanted to go to the market?" Hearing Tony's request, Tita gathered her hair around her ears and said, "Okay, wait for me."

After saying that, Tita turned and went into her room. Not long after, she came out of the room and said to Tony, "Come on, brother, stretch out your hand."

Tony didn't know what Tita wanted to do, so he obediently stretched out his hand.

Tita put two copper coins in Tony's palm and said, "Go ahead and have fun. Buy anything you want on the way. I don't have much pocket money, so I can only give you this much."

To be honest, Tony felt like crying at this moment.

Tita said she was his sister, but they had no blood relationship at all. In this patriarchal society, women did not have much power. Although this world was much better than the world Tony originally lived in, it was still certain that women had a low status.

Tita probably didn't have much pocket money herself, so these two copper coins might have been secretly saved by her.

Now he just casually gave it to his cheap brother, this...

"Thank you, sister." Tony didn't know what to say, but in the end, all he had to say was summed up in this sentence.

"It's okay. Remember to come back early for lunch. I saw you liked eating fish yesterday, so I'll cook fish for you today." Tita said, smiling at Tony.

...Tony felt that if he didn't turn around and leave quickly, he might really cry.

After taking a deep breath and holding back his tears, Tony waved to Tita and left home.

The first chapter of the extra chapter is here! There are two more chapters today... I'm afraid I'll die suddenly in front of my computer tonight.

Chapter 9 I really want to eat grilled fish (second extra update)

After wandering around the town for a few rounds, Tony had a certain understanding of the town.

The town is not big, the garrison is not very large, and it is located on an inland plain. The nearest river is about two miles away. Overall, it is a quiet country town.

Speaking of which, the highest leader of the town is the mayor. There is also a sheriff in the town. Under the sheriff, there is a security team of about ten people. This security team is said to maintain public order, but more importantly, it is used to collect taxes.

Although Tony didn't know much about the original Roman history, at least he had never heard of the existence of a security force in the Roman Empire, because in the game, the thing responsible for protecting the town was called the town militia, not a security force.

Of course, some people might say, what if they are just called differently and actually mean the same thing?

But based on what I understand, Tony really doesn't think the two mean the same thing!

One refers to the militia and the other refers to the police. Who would think that these two actually mean the same thing?

Well, that's not the point.

Tony also had a certain degree of understanding of other aspects of this world.

First is the currency issue.

In the original world, the lowest denomination currency in the Roman Empire was called "Cardras". Tony didn't know what metal it was made of. The highest denomination currency was a gold coin called "Ore".

But in this world, currency does not have any other name. It is simply divided into four levels according to the casting metal and weight: bronze coins, copper coins, silver coins and gold coins. The increment is ten, that is, ten bronze coins are equal to one copper coin.

In addition, in this world, there is magic and fantasy creatures. In other words, creatures like dragons really exist in this world!

This is a bit interesting.

The gods of the mythological age, the giant dragons that tower above humans, and ordinary humans. It is obvious that this is definitely not the Earth in the ordinary sense!

Although the general framework is still the same, the details are far from those of Earth.

After strolling around the street for a while, figuring out the general layout of the street and making sure he wouldn't get lost, Tony glanced at the sun in the sky and decided to go home for the time being.

As soon as he reached the door of his house, Tony smelled the aroma of grilled fish. It was obvious that Tita had already started cooking.