Although it is a bit exaggerated to say that all the resistance comes from his own family, it is still no problem that 70 to 80% comes from the Claudius family.
After all, Pompianus was indeed very capable, and the industries or places he targeted were all well-planned. These places seemed to be unclaimed lands for more than two hundred years, but in fact they were all under Crow's control. After a little trial and error, Dius turned it into something of his own.
At present, Pompianus is actually focusing on emerging industries. Those things that could be done before have been almost occupied by the Claudius family. In the new industries, because the smart people of the Claudius family have not I have seen it, but the brain is not as good as Pompianus, so it was lost.
Relying on the huge foundation of the Claudius family, it is still possible to copy the work of Pompianus. It does not matter whether you understand the principles. After all, it is an industry. To follow the trend, as long as the money, materials and manpower are in place. , if the policy is in place, then there will be no problems.
Even if you mess up, you can still accumulate experience and it won't cause too much damage. After all, it is purely industrial, without any financial operations, and it is very stable. Does the Claudius family care about the loss of this mess? not give a damn about.
So if there is no shortage of money or people, as long as Pompianus can arrange the policy for himself, the Claudius family can also arrange it for themselves, and even encircle an area to avoid discovery, and then move the barbarians Come in and engage in closed industry.
At most, there is a problem with the location, but after the first time and the second time, after having the awareness of location selection, can their family still find a suitable place?
To be honest, these industries have not been as prosperous as Pompianus in recent years. This is purely because Pompianus is really capable. In terms of other conditions, Pompianus may not be as good as Claudius. The Si family selects the best from the best. After all, the accumulation of more than two hundred years is not a joke.
On the other hand, with the resources that have been controlled for more than two hundred years, Pompianus's economic reforms will inevitably encounter the power of the Claudius family, and the reform can continue. On the one hand, the Claudius family Now that they have become a royal family again, they have to be more restrained in their appearance. On the other hand, the Claudius family has to show their dignity in front of Caesar and Severus.
Otherwise, economic reform is a ghost. In the case of Pompianus, except for emerging economies, any other direction of development will encounter resistance from its own people. What’s more important is that this resistance is not intentional suppression, but sheer sheer size. When it gets close to a monopoly, anyone who enters and develops will soon realize the invisible ceiling.
"You!" Pompianus gritted his teeth and looked at Severus.
"After all, they are members of the family. It is enough to suppress them to a certain extent and prevent them from affecting the operation of the country. Look at all your development directions," Severu and Xini said.
There is nothing we can do about it. If Severus is not crowned for the second time, then suppressing Claudius is what every consul must do. But even if it is suppression, it is only political suppression. Once Claudius If the Si family restrained itself and retreated to business, the Roman emperor would stop.
After all, you can't really make people angry, right? If they quit the political circle to save face and make some money, and you still suppress them, it will look a bit too ugly.
In fact, this kind of thinking is a very normal thinking even in later generations. If you give up the political power of the officialdom and choose finance and commerce, as long as it is not a life and death situation, you will have a green light.
But now Severus is not only the emperor, but also the leader of the Claudius family. So we can't just suppress it, we have to talk about balance. That's why the Claudius family brought Pompianus into the industrial circle. , give them all away.
"The Claudius family needs to be responsible for Rome." Pompianus breathed out and said. He could understand Severus' difficulties, and in this situation, he even realized that Severus had become Claudius. The head of the Si family may be beneficial to the country. The foundation of this family is too big. From Sergio's words, Pompianus already understood.
"Yes, we are responsible for Roma, because we are Roma." Sergio replied solemnly.
If someone else answered like this, it would be somewhat of a joke, but Sergio, as the acting patriarch of the Claudius family, he
It’s okay to say this.
Rome went through the royal era, the republican era, and finally entered the imperial era. The Claudius dynasty established by the Claudius family was actually the source of the Roman empire. So he said that they are Rome, and there is actually no problem at all. .
"Then take responsibility for Rome and show me the catalog of ancestral property." Pompianus looked at Sergio seriously, as if he was testing whether the other party was sincere.
Sergio was silent for a long time, and finally Severus held Sergio down. "Okay." Sergio nodded slowly. The head of the family had already hinted that the responsibility was no longer on him. "But you can only watch it here, you can't take it away."
Pompianus nodded, and soon a special encrypted mystical mirror was sent over.
Pompianus opened it with his spirit, and then saw the shocking catalog.
Compared with Severus who did not understand the true situation of Rome's economy, Pompianus knew very well that the assets of the Claudius family were far greater than the rest of Rome combined.
"It's too much, let's cut off some of it." Pompianus said tiredly. Sergio didn't say anything. He knew that every generation of Claudius family members who were qualified to watch this, after reading it , the impact was huge, and our ancestors really did all the work they could do.
"You can't cut this thing if you want." Sergio said helplessly, "Even if it is cut, how can you be sure that it is in your hand?"
Just like what Sergio said before, aren't the people in our family who are in charge of intelligence?
Without these people who help each other, how can they hide it from others? Sergio doesn't like to bring the Claudius family together because they are really the majority.
"Cut them over for me as well." Pompianus said solemnly.
"It may not be useful to cut it off. In the past two hundred years, people have done this." Sergio shook his head and said.
"Cut it over, even if it's just a pretense, you have to pretend to me that it belongs to the country." Pompianus gritted his teeth and said, "Whether you can close it or not is a matter of ability, but it is not very important."
From the standpoint of Claudius and Rome, Pompianus has realized how complicated the current situation is, and the only way to solve the problem is to learn from Chen Xi's operation, start the nationalization process, and bring Claudius to the throne. The Dius family was gradually nationalized.
In this way, at least it becomes a whole, not a country, and because of the outrageous size of the Claudius family, the recruitment will essentially be just a matter of left hand and right hand.
If you are an ordinary large family, you can also borrow money from the big family to acquire the assets of the big family, and then use the annual output of the assets to repay the money. But when you reach the size of Claudius, even if the country borrows money from the Claudius family, , to acquire Claudius, and then use the profits to pay off the debt. In the end, it was just a large-scale backdoor listing.
Pompianus had a big head and terrible nerve pain, but he knew he had to do this, otherwise the Claudius family would be separated from Rome sooner or later, and Rome could not do without the Claudius family, and it would also be defeated. The Laudius family could not lose Rome.
The assets of the Claudius family can only be gradually acquired by the Roman official, and then converted into state-owned assets, and then the Claudius family can completely own the entire Rome.
To a certain extent, this kind of operation can be regarded as the "More Debts" series. The Claudius family became the masters of the entire Rome, but they themselves were the masters, which eliminated the separation.
Pompianus directly revealed all the chaotic thoughts in his mind, because such a big thing could not be completed by him and required the active cooperation of the Claudius family.
"Is there any difference?" Sergio asked with a frown, while the top wise men around him were thoughtful.
After all, the Claudius family has become the majority in the Senate, and they all know it well. The separation from Rome has been vaguely formed. Sergio did not realize the separation, but he knew to some extent that they had too many people. Taking up too many seats is not conducive to unity.
But this kind of caution cannot change the fact that they are indeed the majority of the Senate. The problem is that the majority of the Senate
The majority is not the majority of citizens. Rome is the Rome of the Claudius family, the Rome of the Senate, but it is also the Rome of Roman citizens.
Compared with the pressure that the Roman senators can put on the Claudius family, citizens are the real source of pressure. Even if the Claudius family, which is two-thirds rich in Rome, is separated from the citizens, that will There is only a dead end.
"This can roughly solve the biggest problem at present. The Claudius family will become the backing of Roman citizens, and Roman citizens will also become the last guardians of the Claudius family." Herodian looked at Pompeanu with a complicated expression. Si said.
"The lost money will come back, and it will return to the treasury controlled by the Claudius family." Pompianus said with the same complicated mood.
This is already a model of state capitalism, but it is different from normal state capitalism and closer to the capitalism of South Korea's Samsung, a super-large chaebol disguised as a state. However, the slight difference is that the Korean people cannot sanction Samsung, but citizens Claudius can be punished.
"Is that so?" Sergio looked at Pompianus, "Are you sure you don't want to take away the family's ancestral property?"
"No, the most basic rules still have to be followed." Pompianus sighed, "And, do you think this can be taken away? To be more direct, even if the Claudius family cooperates, the Rome I represent The authorities have also contributed, can they all be recovered before I die?"
You can't take it back, unless you pretend to take it back, it's impossible to do it anyway.
Sergio was very melancholy. He felt that he was being held back by the group of people around him. They seemed to really want Pompianus to give it a try. You are all close members of the Claudius family. , this is carving up ancestral property, it’s fine if you don’t stop it, but you actually actively promote it.
"Try it, maybe it can solve the problem." Papinian also said from the side.
"This is taking away your ancestral property!" Sergio said, glaring at Pabinian.
"It's okay, I can't spend too much money." Papinian said with a smile, but his hand was touching the chancellor's scepter.
"Let him try. In this situation, the senators in the Senate are actually nothing. Citizens are the real majority. We must return to the citizens. As a soldier, Severus stood on certain positions. Very stable.
"Then you choose, choose what you think is appropriate." Sergio glanced at Severus, then at Caesar who didn't care, and handed the catalog of ancestral property to Pompianus again.
"All farms, vineyards, cotton plantations in Sicily, to be precise, the entire island of Sicily will be handed over to the state." Pompianus made a choice quickly. He had considered the layout of Sicily a long time ago. , but after asking the senators who were in charge of the matter to send people to investigate, they all said that there was no way to open up wasteland, so Pompianus had to give up.
But now that he understood the reason, Pompianus immediately decided to take it back. Taking this back first, grain, wine, and cotton would be enough to solve many problems.
More importantly, for other things, he has to understand that Sicily itself is ready-made, and at this scale, with the current financial situation of Rome, it can be eaten stably, and it can also boost the centripetal force of the citizens without causing indigestion. .
Sergio glanced at Caesar and Severus again, while the others looked at the acting patriarch of their family. They didn't know that almost the entire island of Sicily belonged to their family, but Ulbian was indeed in Sicily. The island has hundreds of hectares of vineyards, only now...
Forget it, Ulbian thought for a moment and then gave up. Having said that, let's just go back and pay the balance and find another vineyard from Sergio.
"You have no objection, right?" Sergio looked at Herodian. He had the impression that Herodian's family had the largest number of farms in Sicily.
"No objection." Herodian shook his head. He didn't feel any distress at all. He only knew that his family had a farm in Sicily, but it was entrusted to Claudius's family and they distributed a sum of money every year.
Herodian did not get rid of this money and transferred it directly to the Claudius family's own treasury. He has not visited it in these years, so he is not sure how much it is.
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After all, you can't expect an honest elder to pay special attention to things like how much money he has. They always just have enough money to spend. The ancestral property is immovable, but just because they haven't seen it, they don't. Feeling distressed.
