The Roman Empire was mentioned above, so when did the powerful empire decline for what reason?
Edward. In the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon pointed out that the rebellion of the Janissaries caused indelible damage to the peace and stability of Rome, and became a major reason and initial signal for the decline of the Roman Empire.
For the Janissaries, it can be summed up in one sentence: Success is also Xiao He is defeated.
Rome developed from a small city-state in Italy to its conquest of the Italian peninsula into a large empire, relying on strong military power.
After the unification of the empire, Emperor Augustus established the Janissaries, similar to the ancient Yulin Army in China. The main task of the Janissaries was to protect Augustus's personal safety and guard the city of Rome, and those Janissaries who directly followed Augustus to protect his personal safety were equivalent to the Great Inner Guards of the Qing Dynasty.
What is the grade of the Qing Dynasty Great Inner Guard? Zheng Erpin, the red man next to the proper emperor, was only subordinate to the prime minister and the great general. But for Augustus, the Roman Janissaries were of a higher status than the Great Inner Guard, and as to why this was so, one has to mention rome's system of separation of powers.
When Rome was first established, it adopted a republican system, similar to the system of separation of powers in modern Western countries. The monarch of the Empire served as consul and had his own army, and the monarch served a term of one year each. The Senate also had its own army and enjoyed legislative and judicial powers, the right to convene citizens' assemblies to elect a monarch. There are also the protectors, elected by the people, whose main duty is to supervise the consuls and the senate.
In fact, from the time of Augustus, Rome was already a state with a republican system as an imperial monarchy, because Augustus was appointed as a lifesaver, so the separation of powers became a confrontation between the monarch and the Senate.
Augustus was a powerful monarch who trained and supported the Janissaries primarily to balance the Senate, and secondly to protect the city of Rome and the personal safety of the emperor.
If the chief senator of the Roman Senate is compared to the chief of the ancient civil officials, the leader of the Janissaries is undoubtedly equivalent to the position of the head of the military general on a par with the Senate.
Augustus reigned for nearly 40 years, which led to the power of the Janissaries growing considerably during his reign. If the Janissaries as a whole are likened to a wolf, the wolf has grown into adulthood after Augustus's death.
Thus, after Augustus' death, what was left to his successors was a terrible situation in which it was difficult to ride the tiger. Just like the monarch at the end of the Ming Dynasty, facing the East Factory, he wanted to abolish the powerless and raise tigers. The monarchs of the Roman Empire who succeeded to the throne could only continue to exchange the loyalty of the Janissaries by generous rewards and the granting of increasing power, as their predecessors had done.