Because Liu Ba needed to anchor Rome, the sugar factory's output was basically all supplied to the eastern border counties of Rome. As a strategic material, the conditions for the eastern border counties were very good. The Roman Senate also knew about this and even tried to reduce the sugar rations of the eastern border counties, and it was left alone in the end, which was enough to show how big this matter was.

Let me put it this way, without the Duke of Garnasis, the group of minions in the eastern border county, who bought sugar from Kandahar, the industry that had long been taken back by the Senate.

By the way, this is why the Atlantic Development Plan requires Duke Niger to lead the team himself. Without the Duke, this matter will be confiscated even if it fails, and it will be even more messy.

But because the Duke was behind the scenes, this matter was messed up, and it was extremely stressful for Gelius. When sending the emergency secret letter to the eastern border county, he explained the current situation in detail and suggested that the troops needed to be organized to put pressure, etc.

After all, this is not a little money. Ninety million Dinali can raise almost ten even if it is a Roman Eagle Flag Legion. Now the Han Dynasty touches its upper and lower lips, and then it stops with a squeak. But what about the money? What about the candy? Where is the manpower investment?

This is not because Gelius is irrational, but because this matter is really big. The aristocratic and civic groups involved in this matter in the eastern border counties will definitely be in a state of revelation when they receive news.

Gelius completely did not understand why the Han Dynasty's Shangshu Pushe could easily say that this was revealed in advance, and that Rome also required 200 million dinali supplies to be withdrawn!

How big is this? You should know that this is 200 million dinali supplies. Even Pompianus needs to be approved by the entire Roman Senate. The problem is that if there is a pitfall in the Roman Senate, he will agree to such a thing!

However, no matter how much he scolded himself, he still had to do what he should do as an envoy, so Chen Xi's letter was delivered to Pompianus in the most efficient way.

"Pompianus, you are also from the Claudius family, so this is not good for the current head of the family." Caesar sat in the Senate and watched Pompianus make changes to the year-end settlement report, and he knew at a glance that this was not real data.

"It's okay. If you lack money, you can go to the private warehouse of the Claudius family. You should use less money from the country." Pompianus said calmly.

Pompianus has not resisted the fact that he is a nearby nobleman of Claudius recently, because it is meaningless. Apart from the outsiders and merchants who have infiltrated the Senate, the remaining 80% are unrelated to Claudius. In the past, everyone cooperated with the new emperor to pretend to suppress Claudius. Now the emperor is also Claudius, so is he pretending to be a hammer! So is me!

"Is there really a difference in doing this?" Caesar asked in confusion. The difference between the private treasury of the Claudius family and the national treasury was probably that the private treasury of the Claudius family was more money than the national treasury, and there was no difference in the others.

"I just realized that some other ways can hide money, so that the country looks like it is not rich, but it is actually rich." Pompianus said with a smile. "Besides, the treasury has no money, it will not prevent the head of state from using the money from the private treasury to continue to pay bonuses to the soldiers."

"Cailor, you need to check the emergency secret report sent by the Han Dynasty in person." The guards brought the secret report sent by Grius after conducting a series of inspections.

"Let me see, it's rare. Is there something wrong with the Han Dynasty?" Pompianus said gently with a smile on his face. Compared to the hard work of the official history, there were only a few years left before he was buried. Pompianus was well maintained in this life and could live for more than ten years.

After receiving the secret letter, Pompianus read it. It was not Gelius's secret letter, but Chen Xi's letter. Pompianus had obtained the highest level of Kushan, and had also learned the Han Dynasty's writings. With the combination of the two items, he could accurately understand the meaning of Chen Xi's letter.

As soon as the letter was opened, Pompianus was still smiling at the beginning, thinking about the Han Dynasty's Shangshu Pushe begging him, the Roman financial officer. As long as the matter is not very big, he still needs to help. However, as the content of the letter progressed, Pompianus's smile could no longer be held back, and even his expression gradually became ugly.

It's not about the materials worth 200 million Dinali. For Pompianus, there will be no difficulties in this kind of thing. What really makes Pompianus solemn is the economic operation of Liu Ba under the command of Cao Cao, the Han Sikong, described in the letter by Chen Xi. This operation is as heavy as Pompianus's own operation.

However, Liu Ba is thundering now. Chen Xi also wrote in the letter that Pompianus even felt like he saw his future self.

"Come Dio!" After reading the letter, Pompianus couldn't help but tremble and his face turned pale, but he asked the guards to inform Cassius Dio at the first time.

Soon Dio rushed over and looked at Pompianus with a strange look. Although he was also a member of the Senate, he had little contact with others.

Dio's hobby is to organize history, collect contemporary information, and write diaries. The history from the Roman royal government era to the Severus era was collected and sorted out by this guy. The previous half of the information on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire in later generations was done by this guy.

"Caesar dictator, Pompianus's finance officer." Dio bowed slightly and saluted to the two of them. Caesar waved his hand perfunctorily, and Pompianus bowed back.

"I remember you manage all our external and internal intelligence." Pompianus asked Dio.

"Ah, I don't manage intelligence. I just collect and sort out expired information. To understand the information, I need to find Herodian." Dio said calmly. He is not in charge of intelligence. He just goes there every day to collect expired information for sorting it out, so that he can write a diary.

"Give me all the information about Cao Sikong, the Han Dynasty." Pompianus decided that Dio had this thing and ordered decisively.

"There are some of this," Dio nodded and said, "I'll get it for you."

After saying that, Dio left, while Caesar looked at Pompianus with a strange look on his face, "Why do I feel that your condition is wrong?"

"Something happened. Although the letter from the Han Dynasty gave some explanation, and it was logically correct, I need to carefully check the information to ensure there are no omissions." Pompianus said solemnly.

Liu Ba's early path was almost exactly the same as his path, and both sides were the same in fundraising and developing industry. However, Liu Ba's sudden outbreak caused Pompianus to be cold. He never thought that such a result would be there. Even Pompianus understood that Cao Cao's fate was the result of Liu Ba's serious outbreak. He was very rational and restrained in this regard.

But just thinking about the situation Liu Ba faced, Pompianus was somewhat frightened. He really couldn't guarantee that the bastard in the Senate did not do this, especially the Claudius family. In Rome, the Claudius family could do anything!

As for the fact that others can't do this in the name of Pompianus, is this a problem for Claudius? It's just like Pompianus is not the surname Claudius!

If the Claudius family had no legitimate genius before, and the other Claudius family members were basically unable to mess with each other, then now, Severus was crowned by Caesar as the orthodox clan of Claudius, would it be a matter of making a fool of himself in the name of Pompianus?

Pompianus just thought about this and his head was three times bigger. Do you think Severus dare to do it? If Severus takes the lead, the other Claudius members will be afraid. The great Claudius family united around the new head of the family, which will highlight an invincible one thing. What are you afraid of?

Just thinking about this, Pompianus's hair stood up. If this happens, Cao Cao's today is their Rome tomorrow!

No, it will only be worse than Cao Cao's today. At least Cao Cao has the Han Dynasty and Rome who can help him. If Rome has three times more posts, it will be useless even if it fills the Han Dynasty!

When Pompianus thought about this, his heart was shocked. He didn't say that this damn loophole must be blocked today. Thank you for your guidance from the Han Dynasty's Shangshu Pushe Hou.

Just based on this letter, even though Liu Ba was not so slap in the information that Dio brought, Pompianus decided to take Cao Cao. There were indeed a lot of supplies for 200 million Dinari, but Rome couldn't take it out, just pretending to be favors and favors.

Dio soon came with a few guards carrying a thick stack of materials. The papermaking technique of the Han Dynasty completely destroyed Rome's clay tablets and papyrus. Of course, Rome did not think this was a cultural invasion. They really thought this thing was easy to use.

So Rome spent a lot of money to buy papermaking from the Han Dynasty. As for printing, the Han Dynasty used carvings instead of movable types these days. Rome said that printing was forgot, it was the best in the world than carving technology, such as Balabara.

Of course, this is not a false statement. Roman carving technology is indeed quite outrageous, and there is nothing to say about this. So after using papermaking, the Romans converted a lot of previous information into paper, just like the Han Dynasty. Then, due to the convenience of paper books, Rome, like the Han Dynasty, recorded many things that were not recorded on clay boards and bamboo slips.

However, compared to the Han Dynasty, when the Romans got papermaking, they first printed a common Latin standard for citizens, which cost a lot of money, but the effect...

Well, it strengthened the unity of the text and further made the barbarians realize that only citizens are the core idea of ​​Roman orthodoxy.

Then, because Latin is too difficult to learn, the common characters in Latin are not changes in the shape of the characters, but complex system of tortuous changes, and complex internal and external tortuous changes, resulting in citizens who have obtained this commonly used norm and felt that Chinese characters would be better learned.

In fact, the reason why Latin is still overwhelmed by Rome and Christianity is that this thing is really difficult.

After realizing that they really couldn't learn this kind of writing, it was good to be an illiterate person, the Roman citizens decisively gave up on themselves. After careful study, citizens with certain ambitions found that this thing was too difficult to learn. They thought it would be enough to learn other high-end writings to prove the high-end Romans, so the Thousand-character Chinese characters were used by the Romans for research.

After all, the trade between the Han Dynasty and Rome is huge these days, and there are many people who have been stationed between the two sides. The races of Rome and the Han Dynasty are very close. As for Rome, they have black hair, black eyes, white skin, and the Han Dynasty has black hair, black eyes, yellow skin. In this era without soap, ghosts can distinguish them.

The natural habit of human beings is to be divided into groups. Compared with the barbarians who look a bit different from themselves, they come from another powerful empire and are completely of the same race as their own, so they will naturally take the initiative to get close to them.

Over time, even few professionals in the Han Dynasty learned Latin, and they could not read and write. A large number of people in Rome had learned Chinese. Most of the Romans who traded in Chang'an could even read and write Chinese characters.

There is no way. Compared with Latin, English, and French, things that require continuous addition of new words and continuous extension of structure, as long as you can understand and write a thousand commonly used characters, let alone reading newspapers, you can write novels...

Therefore, the Romans found that Chinese characters were easy to learn, and the Han Dynasty was a high-end empire like their own. Learning Chinese characters could also make a top student in the local area. Many advanced Roman citizens wandered around the Han Dynasty for a few years, and they really learned Chinese characters, and they almost learned them like the locals in Chang'an.

Rome did not realize the impact of this kind of thing, and still held the same attitude as before in terms of Latin learning and promotion. So Roman citizens who returned from the Han Dynasty and members of the Han Dynasty who were scrambling in Rome began to actively convey Chinese.

At this rhythm, at most, Chinese can be mixed into a Roman native language for about a hundred years. It is really difficult to learn Latin, and linguists learn it incredibly painful.

Roman citizens were very abused. Think about it, they were all families who could receive education, but they were turned into illiterate by the anti-citizen language Latin, which was popularized by the Roman Empire.

I can still speak, but I can't read or write, it's really not possible.

This is also the reason why there are very few philosophers, scientists and mathematicians among the Roman citizens. They are all abused by Latin. The Roman Empire popularized Latin. After learning hard, most Roman citizens realized that Latin was seriously anti-human and could not learn it!

I can't even learn the text, and I can't learn the advanced content later, so I gave up. So I clearly have the conditions to popularize education and a large number of illiterate people.
Chapter completed!