Even though Augustus was sure that Feng Yu, the Sicily Governor who was pseudonym Feng Hu, had nothing to do with him for the time being.

First, Feng Hu was recognized by the powerful people in the city of Rome as Alexander. He publicly became enemies of Feng Hu, which means publicly being enemies of Alexander, Alexander's mother Amyas, and the Sevelu family behind her. If he could openly become enemies of the Sevelu family, Augustus would have done that long ago. But he believed that the time was not yet ripe and he would have to wait for a while.

Second, Feng Hu is now in the Sicily province and has taken over military and political power. Augustus in the Roman city can only deal with some financial measures to attack him. However, since the Mint strikes and rebellion, the financial system with the Financial Office as the core is basically in the hands of the consul and emperor Alexander. What's more, Feng Hu doesn't seem to rely heavily on the financial support of the Central Office of the Rome, and he seems to have his own financial resources. Otherwise, the little money allocated by the Financial Office would only be enough to meet the military pay of the Feng Hu army soldiers. How could the Feng Hu army get so much excellent equipment and even form an extremely expensive navy?

Another month later, Alexander witnessed that issuing bonds was indeed a good way to raise funds, so he issued a second batch of treasury bonds worth 100,000 gold and a twenty-year period. This issuance was quite smooth because of the previous preparations. Especially those high-ranking officials and nobles were scrambling to buy them. Because the interest obtained through bonds was far more than the investment in the manor. What's more, these bonds were very easy to cash out, and even to some extent they were a currency. This fund was enough to solve the problem of water supply system transformation in the city of Rome and even in large towns in the Roman Empire.

Three months later, the warm and humid spring of the Mediterranean Sea was ushered in again. On Sicily, there were seventy or eighty groups of hundreds or thousands of people busy everywhere. Some of them were building water conservancy, some were restoring barren farmland orchards, some were building workshops and building ships. Many were also training in the military camps with sweat and rain.

Most of these people were captured rebel slaves. They were nominally serving in the military, but in fact only a small number of them were formal combat troops. Most of them were baggage soldiers as auxiliary corps. They usually used them to settle, build water conservancy city defense, and build workshops and ships more time than military training.

Feng Yu promised them that as long as they served in the army for five years, they would be given the status of free civilians, and if they made military achievements, they would be granted citizenship. Feng Yu also promised that when they retired, they would receive a generous settlement fee.

Feng Yu did not want to allocate land to retired soldiers like the Central Plains. Because he did not plan to replicate the small peasant economy in the Central Plains here. Based on his understanding of Rome over the years, many new technologies have emerged in agriculture. More advanced tools such as plows, grain cutting machines, lifting devices, drainage machines, etc. have appeared. The emergence of these new labor tools can exert high productivity on large areas of land. However, if the land is divided into small pieces, this advantage cannot be exerted.

However, the current manor economy that supports Roman agriculture is land-concentrated, but it has not played its advantages and is becoming increasingly declining. Feng Yu believes that this is not the reason for land-concentration, but the constraints of slavery. Slaves have no personal freedom and are forced to work, and the quality of labor has nothing to do with their lives. Therefore, they often use passive disguised idle work in production, or even deliberately destroy production tools and resources to deal with slave owners.

The Central Plains also encountered the same problem in the late Warring States Period, but in the end, they chose to use the small peasant economy to solve this problem. The small peasant economy could accommodate labor to the greatest extent, but it also dismantled the power of the feudal aristocracy, but the imperial power was unprecedentedly concentrated and expanded.

Feng Yu also believed that the small peasant economy was also the reason for the recurring and changing dynasties in the Central Plains for two thousand years. Whenever someone concentrated a large amount of land, a new group of feudal aristocrats would show their strengths on the historical stage and disperse the emperor's power. However, due to the high concentration of land, there would always be a situation where natural disasters and man-made disasters and foreign invasions would lead to a situation where the earth was full of hunger and the world was shattered. In the end, these new feudal aristocrats that had just formed were destroyed together with the old dynasty, and the new dynasty replaced them to complete a historical change.

In Western history, until the barbarians invaded and Western Rome was destroyed, no small peasant economy was chosen. The medieval states founded by the barbarians that replaced Rome still inherited the Roman manor economy, but the citizen class disappeared, and the landlords became kings, jazz and knights of all levels. The rest of the civilians became serfs, working in closed manors all year round with simple tools of production and methods.

Although this productivity is far inferior to the small peasant economy with concentrated imperial power in the Central Plains, there were still a small number of people among the original citizens and liberal people in the Roman Empire to make a living by industry and commerce, wandering in the social margins and slit spaces of the feudal states in the medieval Western countries.

The social structure of the Western Middle Ages, which had neither great nor concentrated royal power, allowed them to be at ease among the kingdoms of each king, the vassal of the jazz, and the manors of knights. In the end, the class they represented was able to grow and develop, regain the spark of the Heroic civilization in the Renaissance, and extend the colonial tentacles to the world in the great voyage. In the industrial revolution, the entire human society was brought into modern and modern times.

Based on these superficial understandings of history, Feng Yu decided to explore a path in Rome that could directly cross the medieval times and enter modernization. This was his main purpose of seizing the highest power of Rome.

Feng Yu also thought about making such an attempt in the Central Plains in his early years, but after careful consideration, he gave up. If he traveled to the Warring States Period, he might still have the idea of ​​trying. But in the present day, five hundred years after the implementation of the Qin system, he did not have the courage.

He believed that this was not something that could be done by a time traveler like him, nor was it something that could be done by being an emperor. Not to mention that he, a person who had forgotten his knowledge of modern science and engineering and natural sciences, even a versatile liberal arts and science who was proficient in all modern disciplines, could not be done by him.

In fact, his achievements in establishing the Daliang Dynasty were also based on the blessing of that inexplicable system. Now, this system has degenerated and disappeared as he grows older.

Therefore, Feng Yu believes that if he had forced this as an emperor in Daliang back then, the fate would probably be that he would be replaced by others, not much better than Xiang Yu, or even worse than Xiang Yu.

Is it easier to survive if a certain plant is planted in its place of origin, or is it easier to survive if it is planted in a place that is very different from its place of origin? Even if you don’t have professional knowledge, you should know that it is the former based on common sense.

By the same token, since modern civilization originated from the West in the original world history, in this new world that Feng Yu traveled to, conducting such an experiment that transcends historical processes in Rome is definitely more likely to succeed than in the Eastern Tu Central Plains after the Han Dynasty.
Chapter completed!