Roman Slave Owner

Chapter 342 mirror

So the meeting went smoothly, and the bill was passed quickly.

Many veterans are like bereaved concubines. They did not expect that they would fail in the first round of confrontation with Li Wei.

“Pompey, to celebrate our victory. How about going to my house for a dinner at noon tomorrow, I have prepared a gift for it.”

Li Wei said with a smile.

“what gift?”

Pompeo asked.

“A very wonderful gift, you will absolutely love it after you see it.”

Li Wei said.

“Well then.”

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At noon the next day, the sky was shining brightly, and Pompeo rushed to Li Wei’s house as scheduled.

“coming.”

When he saw Li Wei, Li Wei was lying comfortably on a recliner reading the newspaper.

Next to the lounge chair is a marble table with wine and a newspaper on it.

Pompeo sat down on another recliner very familiarly, and poured himself a glass of wine.

“What delicious food have you prepared this time.”

Pompeo asked casually.

At this moment he was shocked, because he found the front page headline of the newspaper pressed by the cup.

“The Romans need work! “A very attractive headline, so he picked up the newspaper and read it.

“Shark’s fin, peacock meat, bear’s paw…”

Li Wei said, after talking several dishes, they were all good things he couldn’t even think of in his previous life, but now he is a little tired of eating.

But at this time Pompeo was fascinated by this article, and he didn’t pay attention to what Li Wei said.

Li Wei smiled slightly and did not disturb him. He said after seeing Pompeo recovering his mind: “This article is very well written, but it is too unrealistic. If someone stipulates the proportion of Roman citizens in all walks of life, it will definitely be The nobles and knights are all offended.”

“You’re right, you really offend too many people.”

Pompeo thought for a while and said.

In fact, he is by no means a fool, he knows this very well.

Li Wei ordered a famous slave to deliver all kinds of delicacies, and Emilia, Yulia, and Xiao Li Wei also came out to accompany them in person.

Just like what happened just now was really just a coincidence, Li Wei never mentioned it, but rather welcomed Pompeo very warmly.

“By the way, I have one more thing I need your help.”

Li Wei said.

“what’s up?”

Pompeo asked curiously.

“I have drafted several bills, and I intend to convene a citizen’s opening. I hope that these bills can be passed at the citizens’ assembly. Would you like to take a look.”

Li Wei said.

“Oh, show it to me.”

Pompeo said with great interest that he did not expect that Levy planned to introduce so many bills less than a month after he took office.

Li Wei clapped his hands, and soon a slave came over with a document, and Pompeo took it and looked at it.

“Italian Act on Disclosure of Government Affairs at All Levels of Government”

“Italian Financial Disclosure Act for Governments at All Levels”

“The Disabled Servicemen Placement Compensation Act”

After reading these three bills, Pompeo couldn’t help taking a breath.

This is really an amazing bill. He dared to guarantee that these three bills would definitely be passed at the citizens’ assembly, and they would win great popularity for Li Wei.

In particular, the Italian government affairs and financial disclosure bills at all levels, people must really want to know whether there is corruption in the process of government operations, and these two bills must be extremely welcome.

In fact, those who are interested in politics do not bother to embezzle in Italy, and they even post money in the process.

For example, after Caesar became a construction officer, the little money issued by the state could not meet his needs.

He borrowed money to hold tournaments, gladiator matches, and build public routes to please the people of Rome.

They make money by saving money from major industries after serving as justices or consuls. Many foreigners in those provinces do not have citizenship rights. Those governors are not afraid of them at all. They are very ugly and often make a lot of money. Recover the previous investment several times.

However, Li Wei’s open system is limited to Italy, and does not involve major provinces, and does not touch the core interests of those veterans, so there must be little resistance to implementation.

“How about my three bills?”

Li Wei asked with a smile.

“good, very good!”

Pompeo said convincingly.

These three bills plus the previous “Senate Agenda Disclosure Bill” make the government’s operations open and transparent, and will surely win Li Wei’s high reputation.

He never thought that Li Wei would have such a whimsical idea, but he didn’t know that these were just common things in later generations, and it would be enough to get one of them up to now.

“It’s fine if you agree, after all I need your help.”

Li Wei said with a smile.

Pompeo shook his head. He knew that these bills would definitely pass without his help, because they were so good.

“By the way, I heard that you are going to give me a gift. What kind of gift is it?”

Pompeo asked.

“That is the most wonderful gift, every woman will like it.”

Emilia said with a smile.

“Is it used by women?”

Pompeo asked curiously.

“Whether men or women will like it, I will take you to see it after eating.”

A mysterious smile appeared on Li Wei’s face.

“Well then.”

Pompeo said.

They finished the meal happily, and then Li Wei personally took him to a room not far away.

When Pompeo saw the gift Li Wei had prepared for him, he couldn’t help but opened his mouth wide, because he and Li Wei appeared in the glass.

“what is this?”

“Mirror! It’s something the true **** asked me to make! I hope you like it.”

Li Wei said in an unusually clever way.

That’s right, the gift Li Wei prepared for him is a mirror.

After attracting such a diverse group of elders, Li Wei felt that his financial resources were close to exhaustion. In addition, after becoming governor-general in the coming year, war might break out. This would require a lot of money, so he decided to find a way to open up financial resources.

The way he thought of was to make mirrors. Needless to say, the charm of mirrors was an artifact that made countless women infatuated in the ancient times when bronze mirrors and bronze mirrors were used.

After the Venetians invented the mirror in the 14th century, countless European princes and nobles actually bought the mirrors produced in Venice, and wealth flocked to Venice like a tsunami.

In order to ensure the secrets of the production of mirrors, the mirror workshops were concentrated on Murano Island, surrounded by guards and guards, and they were tightly sealed off.

Later, the French government bought four Venetian mirror artisans with a lot of money and smuggled them out of the country secretly. Since then, the mystery of the mercury glass mirror has been revealed, and its value has become less noble.

The method of making this kind of mirror is very simple. It is to stick the tin foil tightly on the glass, and then pour mercury. The mercury can dissolve the tin and turn it into a white liquid, and then stick it tightly to the mirror.

Although this kind of mirror is far inferior to the mirrors of later generations, in modern times, it is a real artifact.

“It’s so beautiful.”

Pompeo exclaimed.

It was the first time that he saw himself so clearly.

“It’s just a trivial gift.”

Li Wei said reservedly.

This reminded Pompeo of the sword that Li Wei gave him last time.

“How much do you plan to sell this kind of mirror?”

Pompeo asked.

“This kind of mirror is very large, and with gold studded around it, it’s only 300,000 dinars.”

Li Wei said.

Pompeo couldn’t help but took a breath. What a profiteer, this half-length mirror actually costs so much money?

“In addition, there is a small mirror inlaid with silver that can be held with one hand. This kind of mirror is very cheap and only sells for 10,000 dinars.”

Li Wei said, “I can give you some if you want.”

Pompeo couldn’t help his mouth twitching, this thing was too expensive.

“No, I’ll buy it.”

“Pompey, do you consider me a friend? If you consider me a friend, accept this gift.”

“This is not so good.”

“What’s wrong, as long as you support me more.”

“…”

The two sides gave way, and Pompeo finally accepted these gifts, and at the same time agreed to work hard to promote Li Wei.

In fact, there is no need for Pompeo to agree. When Pompeo took these gifts home, his wife Musia was ecstatic.

This kind of mirror was simply made for a woman, so she called her sister to show off her mirror, which attracted the envy of a large group.

So a large number of elders, knights and their wives came to Li Wei’s house and wanted to buy this kind of mirror.

However, Li Wei rejected this request on the grounds of production difficulties, and instead offered to sell it officially in half a month, so they had to return in grief.

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While the mirror was being publicized, Li Wei also announced his three newly prepared bills.

These three bills will be submitted to the Citizens’ Assembly in succession with the three bills previously passed in the Senate.

The public opinion machine under Li Wei started to stir up these topics, and Rome was full of discussions about these bills.

The common people are simple, and Li Wei’s bill immediately received their warm welcome.

In order to attract Pompeo’s attention, under the impetus of Levy, a real monster was released by him.

In the Roman Forum, some elders are making speeches.

Some people in rags gathered together and they shouted loudly: “We are Roman citizens. Let us not be robbed of work by slaves.”

“We are Roman citizens, let us not be robbed of jobs by slaves.”

“…”

Their eyes were angry, and then they walked in groups in the square non-stop, attracting the eyes of a large crowd.

At this time, Rome had a population of 800,000 to 900,000, but its citizens were only more than 200,000.

The rest are not free people, foreigners are slaves, and slaves make up the vast majority.

Both nobles and rich people are keen to hire slaves, because slaves only need to give a bite to eat.

On the contrary, Rome is expensive, and the cost of hiring a Roman citizen is extremely high, which makes many Roman citizens unable to find a good job and therefore live a difficult life.

This is not only the case in Rome, but also in many cities.

The lower the citizens, the more they hate slaves, because they squeeze too many job opportunities.

Domizius is giving a speech, preparing for this year’s justice.

Seeing these people crowding over, he stopped speaking quickly.

“President Dumidius, do you think that the use of slaves should be restricted to increase employment opportunities for Roman citizens?”

Said a ragged citizen.

Du Michius was extremely embarrassed, this question was both easy to answer and difficult to answer.

“Of course, the massive use of slaves has squeezed out the employment opportunities of Roman citizens. I always think this is wrong…”

Du Michius thought for a while and said, and then criticized the situation of rampant use of slaves.

“But I remember that all you used in your manor in Campania were slaves, and none of them were used by a Roman citizen.”

The man said sharply.

“No such thing! No such thing! I Domichius likes hiring Roman citizens the most!”

Du Miqius immediately denied.

“Your winery and your shop in Rome are all slaves. Would you like us to take you to take a look.”

The man continued.

Du Miqius couldn’t help being speechless. If he dared to deny it, those people would immediately go to his shop to verify.

“You hypocrite!”

“con man!”

“…”

The ragged citizens shouted angrily, no matter how he explained, they didn’t listen to him, and finally Dumidius left here in embarrassment.

Seeing this, the other elders quickly left here in embarrassment so as not to be asked this question.

Brutim smiled slightly and gave them some embarrassment first.

What he didn’t notice was that not far away, a civilian security officer looked at all this with bright eyes.

He knew that this was actually a very great bill, and it might even change the overall reform of Rome, but that it offended too many people, and no one dared to mention it at all.

But if he mentions this bill to the citizens’ assembly , there is at least a 90% chance that it will be passed, and he will be famous.

Should I propose this bill?

The civilian protector kept thinking.

At this moment, a person patted him on the shoulder.

“Dear Saturnin, I didn’t expect you to be here.”

The civilian security officer looked back and found that it was Brutim.

“Bruteme, what are you doing here?”

Saturnin asked.

Recently, Brutim often invited him to eat, drink and have fun. He knew what his purpose was, but he didn’t agree.

“Come here and go around, do you want to have a drink with me, I’ll treat you.”

Brutim said very boldly.

Saturnin wanted to refuse, but thinking of the bill, he agreed to it in a wicked manner.

“Well then.”

“It’s really great, today we will not be drunk or go home.”

Brutim exclaimed, did Saturnin agree to his win?

If this is true, then he could have done a great job. Recently, Li Wei and Metelus have been desperately trying to win over these civilian protection officers.

“I don’t want to drink too much, just find a place anywhere.”

“No problem, whatever you say.”

So Brutim took him to a high-end hotel run by Li Wei, this hotel is quite high-end, but more importantly, safety, don’t worry about anything.

Although Saturnin didn’t plan to drink much, but after drinking a few glasses of the strongest whiskey, he felt hot.

“Are you from Li Wei?”

Saturnin pushed away the glass of wine that Brutim offered him.

“Yes.”

Brutim said, this is almost an open secret in the circle, there is nothing to hide.