C291 Antony

Looking at the Eastern Roman, Xiao Wen asked: "I'm looking for the opium, do you have anything to say?"

Obviously, he had also seen through this fellow and wanted to say something to him.

Sure enough, the Eastern Roman said, "Sir, I can tell you where the opium is hidden."

"Very good." Xiao Wen nodded. "If you can say it out loud, I'll consider it your merit, but …"

He tilted his head to the side and looked at the group of disheartened foreign mercenaries. He knew that if they heard what he said next, it would definitely cause a huge ruckus.

Therefore, he said nothing, but only in a low voice to the somewhat unalarmed Eastern Roman: "I intend to destroy this opium. "So you don't have to think about these things."

Hearing this, the Eastern Roman shook his head.

He said firmly, "I will not think of these things, sir. And I did not help the officials of your empire because I was controlled by him with opium. In fact, we have a lot of drug addicts in our country, so I know that these things are more or less harmful. "

He paused, and then said, "Even though I still don't know exactly what happened here. After all, I only know simple Chinese. Just now, your fast speed of speech and complicated grammar made it hard for me to hear the contents clearly. But I could still guess that this was a political event. "

"That's right." Xiao Wen nodded. "Because we have grasped that he wants to cause chaos within the empire, so we let him die."

When the Eastern Roman heard Xiao Wen say this, he didn't show any surprise on his face.

He said quietly, "Sir, now that my former employer is dead, I cannot survive in this foreign land alone. I hope that we can have a new backer. "

"You want to work here?" Xiao Wen asked.

"Of course." The Eastern Roman nodded and said, "I heard that your high-ranking nobles have private guards. "In terms of strength, I can compete with most of the soldiers in your country."

Hearing this, Xiao Wen carefully sized up this Eastern Roman.

He noticed that this Eastern Roman had well-proportioned muscles and was emitting a very strong aura from head to toe.

He recalled the shield in one hand and the dagger in the other, easily blocking the top three generals of the other three nations. Furthermore, this fellow didn't seem to use his full strength …

Not to mention Xiao Wen, even an outsider could tell that this Eastern Roman was not ordinary.

This fellow's martial arts ability, even if it wasn't at the level of a top class martial general like Shuwei, Zhao Yun, who was at the level of an adult, was probably on par with a top tier martial general like Zhang Liao!

Therefore, he nodded and said, "I can take you in. Then, your name, and the army that you were in before? "

Hearing this, the Eastern Roman pounded his right hand on his chest and performed a Roman military salute. He then said to Xiao Wen, "The centurion of the imperial palace of the Roman Empire, Anthony, reports to you!"

The Imperial Guard of the Defeat Court?

Hearing this, Xiao Wen had a strange expression on his face.

After all, as a Zombie player with a thousand hours of experience, Xiao Wen had definitely heard that in the political scene of the East Rome, there was a strange system of succession to the emperor. That system was mixed with conspiracy and bloodshed, as well as democratic elections.

And the name of this system was the system of electoral succession for the Janissaries.

Alright! In fact, this was just a kind of irony for the politics of Eastern Rome.

In fact, the Eastern Empire did not explicitly stipulate this system in its history.

Rather than saying it was a system, it was more like a tradition.

The so-called electoral succession system for the Janissaries was known as the system of disorderly succession. During the Eastern Empire, there were more than one emperor of the Eastern Empire who used the power of the Janissaries to usurp power to ascend to the throne.

In fact, in the beginning, the Roman Empire was adopted as an adoptive son.

Simply put, whoever obtains my approval, I will adopt him as my adopted son and then bear witness in the Senate that he will be my successor.

That's right, it was this simple and crude. It even had a hint of a Zen surrender!

Occasionally, of course, the throne would be passed on to the real son.

However, humans were intelligent animals. After everyone thought about it, they realized that asking you to "recognize" me was not the same as asking you to recognize me!

Thus the most peculiar system of succession to a coup d'état in ancient Rome came out, because a coup often involved the Janissaries, and if the Janissaries recognized the man's ability and chose to help him succeed the throne, the coup would be a sure bet.

This inheritance law was also known as the Royal Guard Election Law of Succession.

It was because of this unthinkable law of succession that the imperial court coups and warlord usurpations occurred frequently in the Roman Empire and the Eastern Empire. Countless emperors died at the hands of the imperial guards.

In the history of Rome, there had even been the foolish act of the Janissaries killing the old emperor and publicly auctioning off the throne.

It was on the morning of March 28, 193, when 300 Roman Guard soldiers mutinied and killed the Emperor Pertinax. The old Emperor was dead.

There had to be a new emperor, and the Janissaries, the senators of the senate, were rejected.

Helpless, the imperial guards directly auctioned off the throne, and in the end, Julius, who was 61 years old and was an old man, was able to win the bid for the throne. Of course, after sixty-six days as emperor, he was returned to defame the Roman field corps and ousted from the throne.

In general, adoption succession proved to be a more flexible and effective form of succession in the Roman Empire than natural succession, and it ensured that the future rulers of the empire were talented, capable, and powerful.

Historically, it was the same for countries that had adopted similar systems, such as the Ottoman Empire or the Tang Dynasty.

However, this system also had its shortcomings.

As the competition within the Empire intensified, the Emperor that was elected by the Empire was indeed outstanding. However, no matter how outstanding the Emperor was, he was unable to stop the growing political struggle.

As a result, the Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the unscrupulous politicians who brought foreigners into the Central Plains in the political struggle. Osman abrogated the Fratricide Customary Law, extending a bit of national destiny.

The destruction of the East and West Rome, though it included many reasons, was certainly a factor in it.

Of course, this didn't have much to do with Xiao Wen.

He looked at Anthony without warning.

He knew that these guards who could not even be loyal to the emperor would not be absolutely loyal to him.

His loyalty would only appear when he was strong.

Of course, considering that Xiao Wen had never shown any sign of weakness from the beginning to the end, the pride he felt naturally did not pay attention to the possibility that Anthony might backfire on him in times of danger.

After all, he believed in his own ability. It was enough to suppress this rebellious centurion of the Eastern Empire's imperial guards.