This article is divided into 4 parts
Part 1 speaks
Julian defeated the Franks
Part 2
Julian's Second War
Part 3 speaks
Julian's Third War
Part 4
Julian governs Gaul
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In the previous article, we told the story of Constantius, in order to make the Gauls feel good about him, he threw Gaul directly to the foreigners, and then sent a man he felt he would definitely not be able to save Gaul.
The man who was considered unable to do so was Julian, who finally did it with all his might.
This time, we're going to tell the story of Julian saving Gaul and governing it.
When Julian won the Battle of Strasbourg (a decisive battle), he led his army to attack a group of Franks, who, under siege by Julian, retreated to two forts by the river, where they were besieged by Julian's army for 54 days.
In the end, the Franks abandoned the age-old rules of their people (either victory or death) and surrendered to Julian.
After the Franks surrendered, they were sent by Julian to the court of Constantius, who had a smile on his face, because these tall captives could serve as their personal bodyguards. After sending the captives, Julian began preparing for the expedition the following spring.
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Julian valued the expedition very much, and he took care of all the matters of the expedition himself.
After the expedition began, in order to prevent the Franks from having a chance to act jointly and deliberately (after the victory in Strasbourg, his soldiers became more), he divided the army into many groups to carry out precision strikes against the tribes, who were physically strong, but no matter how strong they were, they could not fight 100 people alone, as in the movie.
So, in order to keep a few people, these tribes chose to surrender as Julian expected.
Subsequently, Julian signed a treaty with the surrendered tribes, stipulating that the tribes would send some strong men into the Roman Empire army every year.
After the strong men of the tribe entered the army of the Roman Empire, the combat effectiveness of the army would be greatly improved, and the combat effectiveness of these tribes would naturally be low because of the lack of strong people.
After signing a treaty with these tribes, Julian completed the task of saving the Gaulese province.
After these wars, Julian's personality also changed, and he became keen to conquer more lands, and hoped that his future reputation would be as loud as octavian, the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
To this end, he went to war again.
3 This expedition was more influential than the previous two wars, and the Germans, hearing that Julian was going to lead an army against themselves, began to gather their forces to swim along the river, intending to launch a surprise attack while the Roman army crossed the river and annihilate the Roman army in one fell swoop.
The Germanic strategy was very good, but Julian's strategy was one level higher than that of the Germans, when he sent 300 elite soldiers to quietly cross the river to occupy the Germanic outpost, and the last thing, I believe everyone can guess, these Germans surrendered to Julian, and then agreed to a bunch of conditions of Julian.
4
After the end of these three wars, Julian gained fame and regained his style as a philosopher.
He allocated a large sum of money to repair gaul's cities and some important outposts, in addition to these places that needed to be repaired, the stomachs of the gaulese people also needed to be filled, but Gaul could not find food at all due to the lack of food harvest due to the war.
This kind of thing may be very distressing for the common people, but for Julian, it is not a matter at all, he directly let britain on the other side of the strait supply food to Gaul, alleviating the hunger of the Gaulish people.
During his reign, Gaul's agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce flourished again, and the common people were willing to have children in this stable environment.
In his spare time, Julian would look at the administrative affairs of Gaul, and if he saw something that he thought was inappropriate, he would find the relevant person in charge to hold a meeting and come up with a better solution.
In addition to doing these things, Julian also did a very important thing, which was to correct the corrupt behavior of officials.
At that time, he promulgated a new tax law in order to make officials stop being corrupt, which largely solved the problem of corruption but also angered the court of Constantius.
Why did Julian's new tax law anger the court of Constantius?
The reason is simple, because the new tax law touches the interests of those at the top.
For their own benefit, these high-ranking officials began to frantically fool Constantius, hoping that Constantius would get rid of Julian.
When this Constantius heard these tricks, he naturally wanted to get rid of Julian more and more, and a great war began again.
At this point, this article will be the end of the content, we will see you tomorrow.
References:
A history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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