"From now on, the Egyptian provinces abolish slavery." Rome might counterattack, but before coming, Sima Ji took the lead and directly in this very important province of the Roman Empire, he did not regard himself as an outsider's decree to abolish the foundation of the Roman Empire.

This itself should be something Diocletian did. Sima Ji was sure that the other party had never done this before. Until the destruction of the Western Roman Empire, slavery always existed in the territory of the Roman Empire.

The slavery system has reached its end, which has led to the decline of various economic sectors, various contradictions intensified, and a comprehensive crisis. In the early days of the empire, labor tools were greatly improved, with advanced tools such as wheeled plows, grain cuttings, lifting devices, drainage machines, etc. The emergence of these new labor tools required producers to have a certain interest in labor. However, slaves were forced to work and have no interest in labor. They often abused livestock and destroyed tools. This means that under the slave production relations, the possibility of using new production tools was ruled out that the work and the rest of the livestock were poorly stored, and the land was cultivated badly, and they did not care whether the seeds scattered into the land would get a good harvest. They stored some of the grain at the threshing farm, or used careless work to reduce the amount of grain when threshing.

During the prosperous period of slavery, agriculture in various places had a high commodity productivity. Grain, grapes and olives had large markets. Now the production of large farms in the Roman Empire is becoming increasingly depressed, and the supply to the market is declining. Coupled with the decline of urban commerce, the shrinking trend is more rapid. As a result, large farms have become more and more self-sufficient. Large farms lacking slave labor have to give up large-scale farming, divide the land of the large farm into many small pieces, and sublet them to Liguo farming.

This kind of scene is very familiar. If you replace the slave Datianzhuang with the manor of the Dajin gentry and the slave owner with the gentry, you will understand everything. The situation facing the Roman Empire is actually similar to the situation of the depression of the Central Plains after the end of the Han Dynasty. Before Diocletian, the Roman Empire had actually changed more than twenty emperors in the period of fifty years.

Although Diocletian played with the four emperors who were not smart at all in Sima Ji's opinion, it was indeed in his hands that the rare civil war in the Roman Empire gradually subsided.

As for Simaji's abolition of slavery was to better respond to the Roman counterattack, although there was no such sign yet. Since the Christian riots, the Roman citizenship in Egypt was severely damaged and there were certain conditions to abolish slavery. Opponents are now locked in prisoners of war camps.

Sima Ji didn't know what impact this incident had on the Roman Empire, and he didn't need to know. The Roman Empire was not the territory of the Jin Dynasty, so who knows what it would become?

It is possible that Christians will become stronger or become a long-term threat to Rome. Everything is possible. Anyway, after this backstab, it is unlikely that Christians will want to copy the forgiveness of the Romans in history and become an equal member.

The Christians who opened the door to meet the enemy and cooperated with Sima Ji to occupy Egypt would not be forgiven even if the few Roman rulers who were hostile to Christians in front of them died. Even the Great, who treated Constantine, who was fair, would not stop persecuting Christians ten years later, just like history.

After the abolition of slavery, Sima Ji asked the Christians in Alexandria to preach to other provinces, which was also to strengthen the power of Egyptian Christians and to form a support in the subsequent wars.

This move made many generals and schools unsolved. In their impression, it seemed that the King of Yan had never had a good impression of any religion. Why did he actually help Christians strengthen their strength this time?

"This is not the Great Jin Empire. We do not need to consider the consequences of doing things, nor do we need to infer whether it will turn into good or bad things in the future. Then let's try it first." Sima Ji Lao Shen said, "My position will change with the changes in the situation. Today, the Japanese king can strengthen the power of Christians, and tomorrow we can tell Diocletian how to deal with Christians. As long as the Roman emperor has a good attitude, I will not be unable to cooperate."

"Don't think that the Roman Empire will become stronger if abolished slavery. You will never know whether it is a deep pit or a smooth road ahead." Sima Ji said a pun. These students may not understand it, but it doesn't matter. They just need to know that the King of Yan will not harm their country.

Tang Qiang, Zhou Rong and others were nothing more than worrying that once slavery abolished, Egypt became cohesive, and if it was learned by the Roman Empire, it would become stronger. You should know that before this, the King of Yan had always told them that the balance between the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire must be maintained, and now it will actually help the Romans?

But Sima Ji had his own considerations, including the Great Jin, Rome and Persia. Although he had joked before, today's three-pointer, Persia was exhausted and Rome was in peace, but in fact, the three countries were completely different. Although the Great Jin has not recovered from the population disaster at the end of the Han Dynasty, it has been decades after all, and the population is barely enough now.

In other words, the basic structure of the Great Jin Dynasty is still there, and at least the northern part is sparsely populated since ancient times. There are terrain barriers in the south, and the points are all weak, which does not pose a threat. The bottom-level foundation is actually the best.

As for Rome and Persia, each had its own problems, and the centralization of the Persian Empire would be higher. As for Rome, the Roman Senate was still there, and it was not until the time of Constantine the Great that it was completely marginalized.

Starting from the Roman Republic, to the Republic of Venice, and even various city-states, as well as alliances in Europe, and finally to Britain, although it did not continue, the aristocratic republics did exist all the time. Even in the Roman Senate, there were spokespersons from all over the Roman Empire.

This situation is actually like members of parliament in many countries in later generations. Don’t think that members of parliament are elected. Many parliamentary elections are just a process. In the final analysis, they can become spokespersons or because of local autonomy. Although the situation in the Roman Empire was different in different periods, this kind of local autonomy exists.

Therefore, the Roman Empire and his disciples have had the possibility of a parliamentary system since ancient times. The possibility of the East exists only in theory, and there is no city-state at all in the East, and local autonomy is even more impossible. Since the Warring States Period, the Central Plains dynasty has been the model of a centralized empire.

The Roman Empire has always had the foundation of local autonomy, and the Senate is full of spokespersons in various provinces. The benefits are reflected in later generations. After all, there are always fish that miss the net, forming a prosperous city-state similar to the Venetian Republic. This model has not been eradicated, and Europe has finally come from behind.

The disadvantages can be seen at a glance. In Sima Ji's eyes, the Roman Empire will really split sooner or later. Abolishing slavery will destroy the strength of local provinces to a certain extent. It will make the Roman Empire operate more stably, but it will inevitably be a centralized empire close to the east in nature.

Later, the Eastern Roman Empire was almost the same as the Persian Empire, the Arab Empire, which was already in conflict with it in nature. The Roman Senate was even more marginalized by Emperor Constantine on the basis of Diocletian, and finally disappeared silently.

If slavery is abolished, Diocletian can eventually eliminate the Egyptian Christians who want to establish a Christian country, learn from the abolition of slavery in Egypt, and eventually completely eliminate slavery and become a centralized empire.

If the Roman Empire succeeded in this way, it might be stronger than when Emperor Constantine was. The dreams of Augustus from all generations of Rome will be realized and become a true Roman emperor, and the cohesion of the Roman Empire will also be improved.

This seems to be a good thing, but if this centralization is established, it is basically certain that the local autonomy of Mediterranean civilization has always existed, the spokespersons of the Roman Senate, and various republics and alliance variants should not appear again.

The Roman Empire in the agricultural era might be stronger, but some of the characteristics of Europe in later generations will be erased by centralization. It is nothing more than a question of taking advantage first or suffering losses first.

The aristocratic republic characteristics of the Roman Empire in the original history were preserved in Western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire evolved into something similar to the Eastern Empire.

Cooperating with the mathematical knowledge left over from ancient Greece, Western Europe finally made an outbreak. If the Roman Empire transformed into a centralized empire in the East, the local autonomous forces based on slavery manors were eradicated. The trajectory of the Roman Empire afterwards would not be too far from the Central Plains dynasty.

Sima Ji could tell the Romans what to do to avoid the division of the country and how to concentrate their rights through the changes in the Egyptian provinces. This would prevent the Roman Empire from disintegrating and become stronger and more stable in this era. The price would be that those European republics and autonomous city-states should no longer exist in the future.

"I am all for the good of the Roman Empire. After all, I am also playing in the motherland of East Rome!" Sima Ji Jingluo's thinking broke out. For the glory of the Roman Empire and the long-term existence of the Roman Empire. All the Senate and spokespersons of local autonomy have been reformed.

Diocletian would not play centralization. So Sima Ji, who was born in the most experienced country in the world, decided to help Diocletian and make Rome great again. Looking at the Egyptians who were cheering loudly on the land, Sima Ji's smile was so bright.

How glorious is the great empire? What kind of aristocratic republic is the spokesperson of where to make your disciples and grandchildren in the future democratic. I have even taken over your old lair and become a centralized power like the Great Jin Dynasty.
Chapter completed!