Only a ghost would tell Pompianus this way of making money that seemed magical but felt vaguely wrong. Wouldn't it be nice to earn some pocket money?
"Why didn't you tell me!" Pompianus was like an old lion king roaring at Herodian at this moment. Papinian and others all turned sideways to avoid Pompianus at this moment, saving their lives. The other party's anger is vented towards him.
However, these big guys are looking at Severus out of the corner of their eyes, with expressions that almost say, you have to take the lead!
No matter what, the first citizen of Rome is not the emperor. If he has no ethics, he can still do whatever he wants. But anyone with ethics, even the emperor, will avoid certain things, such as the series of meetings between Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and Wei Zheng.
As long as you have integrity, you will definitely abide by certain rules. Severus is just a chief senator with a military background. He is considerate of the suffering of the soldiers and likes to give some money to the soldiers. In fact, as the chief senator There is still some moral integrity.
Therefore, facing Pompianus's roar like an old lion, Severus was somewhat unable to withstand it, especially since Severus really only knew that he seemed to have done something wrong, but he did not know exactly what he had done wrong. What, this is very embarrassing.
"That's pretty much it. I just made some pocket money." Ulbian advised, "It's not much. At the worst, we'll just have to pay for it."
"How much have you overpaid?" Pompianus asked angrily, "Do you know that this is pushing the Roman Empire to the edge of the cliff?"
"I don't know, but who would do this if I knew it? Would you do it?" Capitolinus turned to look at Papinian and said.
"Sorry, this is indeed beyond the scope of our knowledge, and if there is no such thing, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to believe it if you tell us." As a justice, Papinian has always said something based on his own fault. Just admit it.
"I have a headache." Pompianus supported his head. He really felt that his blood pressure was rising now. You all know that there is a cliff ahead, so why don't you panic!
"What's wrong? What happened?" Severus looked at Pabinian and asked, "I still don't know what happened. Today when I went to the Senate, I was scolded first. Why?"
"Roughly speaking, there is something wrong with the money-making method you came up with. If you do it too much, the Roman Empire will be destroyed. This is an example." Papinian handed Chen Xi's secret message to Severus, who I don’t know why, I still don’t understand after reading it.
Then a group of people stared at each other. This is the most embarrassing part. They don’t understand.
"Anyway, if we keep doing it, we will do the same." Ulbian explained simply.
"I just said, there is no such easy way to make money." Sergio said somewhat sadly, "What should we do?"
"Calculate first, how much have you over-served." Pompianus said a little tiredly, and then glanced at Sergio's neck viciously. If it didn't work, Sergio would take the blame, a Claudius The acting patriarch of the Wus family is qualified.
Sergio looked around. He didn't know why, but he felt a chill on his neck.
"How to calculate this?" Severus didn't understand the situation and didn't realize the crisis, but seeing that the smart people in his family felt that this matter was going to be over, Severus decided to follow the good advice.
After all, if Pompianus is making trouble, he may feel that he has given out too much money and is preparing to get stuck. However, Pabinian, Ulpian, and Herodian all think there is a problem, so it is not a matter of giving out too much money. The problem of too much money can only be due to other reasons.
"Give me the account!" Pompianus said, suppressing his anger.
"Put down the fascist scepter first." Severus warned. Severus was not afraid of others holding the fascist scepter. Pompianus would really dare to take action if he held this thing.
Pompianus asked the guards to take away the fascist scepter, and then reached out to ask for the account. Severus asked Sergio to go to Claudius' home to get it. After greeting him, Severus muttered that I didn't even see him. Let’s go through our real accounts in Rome, hand over our family’s accounts first, etc…
Pompianus was so angry, you bastards did this without me, and now the ship is about to capsize, why should I wipe your butts?
Oh, my surname is Claudius, so that’s okay. If there’s a thunderstorm in my house, I have to fill in the hole. Thinking about this, Pompianus’s brain nerves hurt even more.
Sergio quickly brought the account books. Thanks to the Claudius family who specializes in accounting, he also went to the Han Dynasty to learn a double-entry accounting method, and the accounts were very clear.
Pompianus quickly read the account books, and then his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. It has only been eight months. In eight months, you have over-issued 1.3 billion denarii. Is there something wrong with you?
"The overpayment is 1.3 billion denarii, are you crazy?" Pompianus cursed with a livid face, but his nerves no longer hurt.
1.3 billion denarii is a lot, but Rome's plate is big enough to support it, and this thing is gradually realized. Based on the current situation of the Rome market, there is not much pressure, but even so, you still have to scold first. If you don't scold, you won't have a long memory!
"As for that? Isn't it just 1.3 billion denarii? I'll be scolded by you so much." Sergio felt very aggrieved. Isn't it only 1.3 billion denarius? The entire Claudius family was scolded by you. When did our family become so poor?
"This is 1.3 billion denarii!" Pompianus growled at Sergio.
"It's only 1.3 billion denarii!" Sergio said angrily. How much money do I care about? For the sake of 1.3 billion denarii, all Claudius in Rome will be killed. Gather them together, you're looking for trouble, right?
"It's over, it's over. You can go to the big bathhouse to open an impart. Arrangements have been made there, and the expenses will be recorded in the Claudius family's general ledger." Sergio motioned to other senators to go and have fun. This broken He and Pompianus would settle the matter.
A group of senior members of the Claudius family really dispersed, happily arming themselves around to go to the large bathhouse, leaving only a few people.
After most of the senators left, Sergio was very tired and sat down and looked at Pompianus, "Don't gather the senators of the Claudius family together if you have nothing to do. Every time you gather, you will let the senators The elders realize that they are the minority, which is not conducive to unity."
Pompianus felt like he was barely able to breathe, but he had to admit that what Sergio, the acting patriarch, said was very reasonable.
In the past, the Claudius family was still a loose alliance without a main line. When a group of branches were holding each other back, they were not very conspicuous in the Senate.
Even if the non-Claudius family senators realize that the financial officers, magistrates, justices, etc. are all related to Claudius, they will not be so obviously rebellious.
But things are different now. The Claudius family has become a whole, and has even begun to organize team building, so it cannot be too conspicuous. That is not good and is not conducive to unity.
"Do you know how big this thing is?" Pompianus shouted.
"I don't know, because I can't understand, but I know that a total of 1.3 billion denarii is involved." Sergio said somewhat tiredly, "You know our family, our entire Claudius family has How much is it?”
"Didn't I extort a sum of money a few years ago and put it into the treasury?" Pompianus asked with a frown, "Didn't you take me to the private treasury of the Claudius family at that time? "
"Those are just cash, and it's been so many years." Sergio waved his hand and said, "I don't even mention the problem of how many private treasury there are. After so many years, we have done nothing, even if we are eating land and property. If you go out, you can save it.”
"..." Pompianus was unusually silent.
"1.3 billion. Do you want silver coins or gold coins? I suggest gold coins to save trouble. Fifty million gold coins will be enough." Sergio said calmly.
"It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of supplies." Pompianus explained with difficulty.
"Then I'll exchange it for something real. What do you want to exchange it for?" Sergio waved his hand, indicating that you can have anything you want.
"Food?" Pompianus asked tentatively.
"70% of the farms in Sicily belong to the Claudius family. The barley has been harvested and stored in the farms in Sicily. It was originally planned to be transferred by the family owner to the barbarian army as supplies." Serge Gio looked like a rich man.
Even now, Sicily is a famous agricultural area in Italy, and the Claudius family has occupied the island since it was conquered. Well, it doesn’t count as occupied. Rome is the front door. There is no reason for this. .
"Wait a minute, 70% of the farms in Sicily belong to the Claudius family?" Pompianus said with a ghostly expression on his face, "Didn't you always say that it is difficult to cultivate land there?"
"Isn't the person in charge of intelligence from our family?" Sergio explained calmly, and Pompianus fell silent.
"Then I sent people to open up Sicily, but we were actually stopped by our own people?" Pompianus said with a dark face.
"Because it is a land of ownership!" Sergio said sincerely.
"Where's the cotton?" Pompianus asked tentatively.
"This won't work. I really don't have 1.3 billion denarii worth of cotton here." Sergio said with a dark face, not realizing that he had exposed the previous question.
"..." Pompianus looked at Sergio, and Sergio looked at Pompianus, both of whom seemed a little silent.
"Give me a share of the Claudius family's property." Pompianus said with a livid face. He had previously realized that Rome's biggest cancer was their family, but he really didn't realize that this cancer could So big.
"This is ancestral property, accumulated bit by bit by our ancestors for more than two hundred years. It cannot be shown to anyone except those who manage the family." Sergio decisively refused.
Pompianus looked directly at Severus, who turned to look aside. He had seen the composition of the ancestral property. After reading it, he had a feeling that after removing the Claudius family, Rome would be sold. The Dius family can afford to buy it twice, and it feels like all the places are occupied by this group of people.
It's just that they use the names of different branches and drive different people, so it's not very conspicuous. In fact, Severus had a feeling when he looked at the ancestral property. Could it be that the Claudius family has been there in the past two hundred years? Just do your ancestral business and nothing else!
How should I put it, Severus's feeling was a bit excessive, but it was not an exaggeration.
The development of more than two hundred years cannot continue to spread politically. They are too large and have no development other than making troubles. Therefore, they can only make money and then rely on their huge political power and military power. Making money would be much easier.
This has led to many outrageous situations in history. For example, when the Claudius family has been divided, Claudius Tacitus, a branch of the family, became the emperor of Rome, and then found that Rome had no money, so he Donated 280 million...
The main reason is that Claudius Tacitus is famous for his incorruptibility in history. Tacitus, who lived for more than seventy years, has always been very incorruptible. Apart from a little hobby of eating, his moral character is directly full of integrity. , of course it is also because of this that when the national treasury was running out of money, 280 million was donated to the country.
Even if this is a bailout, it is enough to prove that Tacitus, a branch of the Claudius family, at least has this much money, and official history tells us that this is not actually a bailout, unlike Tacitus The younger brother of Tuo's family, Florianus, at least had money to raise a few eagle flags.
This is just an ordinary Claudius family division, and now Claudius is in its peak state. All Claudius have been forcibly formed into one family, with a family relationship arranged, 13 A billion denarii was nothing to Claudius.
In fact, the reason why Severus was unable to carry out an outrageous over-issuance was because no one except the Claudius family could buy so many tickets. To put it simply, if the US emperor wanted to double the over-issuance, even players around the world would be able to eat it. He didn't even dare to eat.
Claudius is equivalent to the US emperor opening a small account on the scale of the Chinese emperor within his own house. Now this trumpet wants to give super distribution to other US emperors. Can this super distribution?
The only possibility is actually to issue additional issuances cyclically, but Severus firstly does not have this knowledge, and secondly, he does not have the time, so the additional issuance is only a billion.
This figure is huge. If converted into five baht, it would be 40 billion. However, the pit that can be filled by the top ten wealthy businessmen together is not a problem for the Claudius family. Whether it is paying directly or Their families can pay for supplies.
It's really not possible to just put all the branches together, no matter what, it's enough. As for the multiple super blows, with this size, you have to find a villain of Chen Xi's level to take over.
"My biggest rival in the industry in the past few years is our family, right?" Pompianus had already sorted out everything, and he was even more angry.
Yesterday I saw you commenting on the issue of five times the issuance. Given the size of Claudius’s country, China, how can we increase the offer five times? It would take a rich scapegoat to take over...
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