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"Let's go first. It's some distance from Calsidon City. I've been here with Sura before."

Luculus said.

Levi nodded, and then let Belieus settle the soldiers, and he and Luculus rode slowly towards the city of Karsidon.

The two chatted casually, and soon talked about the next war.

"I didn't expect Bendu to have assembled 300,000 troops. It seems that we have to be careful in this battle."

Luculus said.

Before heading to Asia, they heard a lot about the Pundu army. When they learned that the Pundu army claimed to have 300,000 troops, he was shocked. Unexpectedly, the Pundu army would gather so many troops again.

"The 300,000 he said should include military civic husbands and slaves. There are definitely not so many capable soldiers."

Li Wei said.

The monarchs in Asia, like ancient China, love to exaggerate the numbers of their forces.

The 300,000 soldiers who can fight half of the 300,000 soldiers mentioned by King Mithrada Ti VI of Pontus are considered good.

Moreover, he was familiar with history books and knew that not only those monarchs had this problem, but even many literati also had this problem.

For example, the most famous historian Herodotus, he wrote about Xerxes expedition to Greece, and he led an army of five million. This is obviously impossible. People with a little military knowledge will know five hundred. Wan's army could not be organized at all in ancient times.

There is also Appian's writing of Romans fighting foreign races, often casualties of only a few people or dozens of people, all of which are nonsense, and the ability to exaggerate is equal to the devils of later generations.

"You make sense."

Luculus said.

They marched along the road, the people's livelihood was withered along the way, the houses were dilapidated, and many civilians were displaced, which was completely different from the prosperous Asia in his impression.

Moreover, the eyes of those civilians were not right. The Romans were the rulers here. Not only did they look at Li Wei and others' eyes with no fear, but with hatred.

"Did you see it? Their eyes were full of hatred."

Li Wei frowned and said.

Luculus moved in his heart and nodded lightly.

"This is not a good thing. Asia is at the forefront of the war between us and the capital. If the people here do not support us, it will be very bad for this war."

Li Wei said.

"Ahem... I may know the reason for this."

Luculus said.

"Oh, what's the reason?"

"After Sura and King Pontus fought against Asia, in order to punish those who betrayed Rome, they collected a total of 60 million delarmarks of tax (one delarmark = one dinar) for five years at one time. ."

"Those people simply couldn't put up so much money, so they were bought out by those taxpayers and then collected from the people. But this is not to blame Sura, you also know that General Sura was in urgent need of military expenses at the time, so I had to do this."

Luculus said.

Li Wei couldn't help but realized that this was the case.

Taxpayers are not a job. In their style, since they have paid so much money for the people of the Asian Province, they will definitely earn it back from the people several times.

"According to my speculation, those people must have not paid back the money. The taxpayers will only make a profit, so that they will never pay the money for a lifetime."

Luculus said.

Li Wei nodded lightly. Due to the incitement of his little wings, the Eastern Campaign was many years earlier than in history.

In fact, even ten years after Sura left Asia, the Asians did not pay off the money.

Later, it was Luculus showing mercy and trying to reduce or exempt the tax. However, this also completely offended the taxpayer group. They had tremendous influence in Rome and encouraged the elders and senior officials of Rome to give Luku. Luce caused a lot of trouble, and eventually led to the loss of his military power and was transferred out of the war zone ahead of time.

"Then what shall we do?"

Li Wei asked.

"We must find a way to reduce or exempt this tax, otherwise the people may fall to the capital."

Luculus said.

Li Wei did not immediately agree, this matter was under the control of the Governor of Asia, Leberis.

With Levy's influence on him, he can make Leberis do this, but it will also harm Leberis.

That is a huge profit of more than 60 million dinars, plus the profit, their profit is definitely more than 200 million dinars, behind it is unknown how many Roman nobles and knights are involved.

No matter who dares to touch such a large sum of money, they will definitely face their full counterattack.

Seeing that Li Wei did not agree, Luculus sighed. He did not continue to persuade, because he also understood the difficulties.

Before they came to Calsidon, they saw the team coming to meet Leberis.

This team is very large, in addition to Leberis, you can see many Romans and some foreigners.

After seeing Li Wei, those people were all smiles. The most excited was a middle-aged man with a tall stature, red hair and a majestic appearance.

His expression of excitement ~www.novelmt.com~ Seeing Li Wei's eyes is like looking at the savior, he left the team and greeted him.

"General Li Wei, you have to call the shots for us, those natives are really overbearing..."

After speaking, he couldn't make a sound. The seven-foot-tall man burst into tears on the spot, making Li Wei at a loss.

"you are?"

Li Wei asked.

"My name is Diorutas and I am the king of Galicia. The king of the capital Mithrada has a wolfish ambition and dared to attack Rome several times. It is simply unforgivable..."

This tall man has a very good mouth and speaks of King Pontus like a devil in hell.

But after knowing his identity, Li Wei knew his purpose.

Galicia is located to the east of Asia, in present-day Turkey, and is connected to the province of Asia. It is a kingdom composed of Celts. As a result, the capital was destroyed by the way after the West Expedition.

So the King of Pontus became the one who subjugated the country, and what he wanted most was Li Wei to help him restore the country.

Thinking of this, Li Wei is not interested in him anymore, at least let him dry it now.

Seeing Li Wei's cold face, Diorutas felt cold.

Li Wei is his only hope for the restoration of the country. If Li Wei is unwilling to help him restore the country, then their royal family is really done.

"General, on behalf of all the people of Asia, I welcome your arrival."

Leberis said.

"Hahaha, the governor of a province is going well."

Li Wei said with a big smile.

Leberis said respectfully, "This is all the cultivation of the general."

"Hello, dear General Livi, I am Geuslamia."

At this time, a very fat, smiling businessman came over.

"The last name of Lamia is not much, who is Erius Lamia?"

Li Wei asked.

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