Septimus had the ambitious plan of building 100,000 houses.
The construction project was ambitious and unrealistic for the productive levels of the era, but Septimus hoped to complete the project in 120 years or more.
The city of Decapitation would become the symbol of power for the entire region of Campania. Even within several years, it could manage to overshadow the city of Rome.
Another advantage Septimus found in acquiring the entire region of Campania was the selection of a large number of local magistrates.
Although all the cities of the Campania region had faced bloody massacres to begin a complete reorganization and integrate thousands of clones.
Sooner or later, the region would have to open itself to all of Rome, and it was foreseeable that many nobles or merchants who had fled during the period of turmoil, upon returning, would find themselves filled with doubts after discovering unknown people occupying the city.
Fortunately, Septimus knew how to take advantage of one of the moments of greatest social upheaval in the history of the Roman Republic.
The Roman civil war between Sulla and the populist faction, along with the subsequent wave of large-scale purges, had a great impact throughout the entire Roman Republic.
Many branches of noble and prestigious families were completely eradicated.
Due to Septimus's butterfly effect, the scale of the war and the purges became more severe than in the original history.
The defeat of the main enemy armies because of Septimus gave Sulla great confidence to purge enemy families.
On the other hand, the massacre of more than half a million people in the region of Campania at the beginning of the war was a highly controversial event in Rome, but Septimus and the clone soldiers made considerable efforts to remain discreet and reduce the impact of the news.
The few people who witnessed the magnitude of the massacre committed by the clones were women and small children, easy for the clone soldiers to control.
Septimus and the thousands of clones personally made sure to prevent the women or children from inadvertently spreading the news.
Women were easy to control during this era of low resource productivity and a more backward social environment.
In every era, the adaptability of a woman when facing a life-or-death situation should never be underestimated.
For example, in battles between savage tribes of northern Europe, it was customary for the massacre of the defeated tribe to include the elderly, children, and newborns, while the killing of women of childbearing age was strictly avoided.
The women of the defeated tribes who survived the battle quickly adapted to the environment of the new tribe and formed new families.
However, it cannot be denied that many tribal women became skilled warriors because the defeat of the tribe meant the death of their children.
Rome was not so savage, but unlike the power held by women of the upper class and families with Roman citizens.
In the lower social classes, women did not retain many rights.
Septimus was a person from the modern era, and although his mentality had been affected by war, he still retained great kindness toward the female gender.
Regardless of social class, the women of the Campania region who married the clones realized that their new husbands were kinder, more protective, and more generous in providing money to the household.
The integration of the clones into the lower social classes was relatively easy and fast after only a few months.
In the families of Roman citizens, integration was also progressing, and within a few years complete families would be formed.
The problem appeared within the upper classes; many women refused to marry unknown men with unknown social backgrounds.
Most noble ladies firmly refused and still could not forget the emotional pain of losing their husbands, fathers, and sons.
As a result, the clone soldiers became stricter with the noble ladies and placed them under arrest inside their homes to prevent them from escaping.
The upper-class ladies could not leave the region of Campania.
Although the social circle of the upper class in each major city of the Campania region maintained exclusivity in order to monopolize the most important political positions of the city, they were not a closed society and maintained commercial, family, or friendship ties with people of the same status from other regions, including the city of Rome.
Unlike other social classes, the upper-class women of the Campania region had the ability to contact others and reveal in great detail the great massacre of nobles carried out by Septimus and the clone soldiers throughout the region.
Septimus could not allow his efforts to minimize the incident to fail.
It was normal to see clone soldiers guarding elegant women inside upper-class mansions in all the important cities of the Campania region.
The noble ladies maintained a life under house arrest, refusing to marry the clones.
The few successful cases of marriage unions between a clone and a noble woman also occurred in the less important cities of the region.
The situation of noble women seducing clone soldiers with the purpose of satisfying their sexual desires or seeking to escape to Rome also became common.
Septimus also did not want to kill them, and it was undeniable not to feel attracted to the hundreds of sexy upper-class women.
Another, more important factor was the waste of human resources.
Unconsciously, Septimus had implemented a great disguise plan throughout the entire region.
For the disguise plan to succeed, an established upper class was needed to prevent the migration of noble families from other places.
The house arrest would be long, but Septimus was willing to play the jailer with the noble ladies.
The most important matter in the entire region of Campania was the legitimization of the new clone citizens.
The region previously had 240,000 Roman citizens.
All of them were men and became the primary targets of the massacre carried out by the clone soldiers.
Previously, Septimus took advantage of the lack of communication and the absence of an identification system to politically help Sulla gain votes in his dictatorship.
After the voting in Rome, Septimus discovered the great potential political power in Rome represented by the votes of 200,000 Roman citizens.
According to later records, the number of Roman citizens by the end of the era of the Roman Republic ranged between 900,000 and 1,500,000 registered males.
More than 200,000 votes from Roman citizens is a figure difficult for any important figure in Rome to underestimate.
Even Sulla would have to yield when facing the voting opposition of such a large number of Roman citizens.
After having achieved a partial integration of the clones into the region of Campania, Septimus's objective was to rebuild the most important cities in the region.
Cities such as Capua and Naples were examples of disorder, crime, and filth.
During the last months, the clone commercial caravans spared neither effort nor money in purchasing a great quantity of construction materials.
The production of cement and stone in the quarries was low, but with the boom in purchases by the commercial caravans, the owners of workshops and quarries began buying slaves to increase production.
The increase in the production of construction materials did not satisfy Septimus's demand.
During the last months, the clones made efforts to create bricks by mixing cement and other materials.
It was a pity that Septimus had not possessed knowledge about cement manufacturing in his previous life.
Fortunately, the cement made from volcanic ash was of excellent quality.