After the Battle of Zama, the Romans could besiege Catalonia. There is no protection and no food in this city. Now Scipio can make Carthage suffer Hannibal's bad luck to Rome at once.

But Scipio didn't do it. He allowed Catalans to make peace, but the conditions must be changed. In addition to the conditions stipulated in the last treaty, the Carthaginians now need to pay 200 talents (about 45,000 pounds) to Rome every year for the next 50 years; The Carthaginians must agree not to fight against Roman allies and vassals, even outside Africa; In Africa, you can't fight outside its territory without Rome's permission.

This treaty actually made Catalonia lose its political independence and become a vassal state of Rome, and the treaty seems to stipulate Catalonia's obligation to provide a fleet to help the Romans fight.

The content of the peace treaty spread to Rome, and Scipio was criticized by some Romans. In the eyes of revenge-loving Italians, it seems that only by destroying the enemy and leveling Carthage can we be regarded as the real enemy of the government and truly equal Italy.

The wounds brought by the war to the Romans, in their view, this peace treaty is obviously too kind. We don't know why Scipio agreed to make peace and put forward such conditions, but it may be that we think there are two great generals in charge of solving political problems. Using this condition to make peace acceptable to each other aims to make some fair and reasonable restrictions on the fierce revenge of the winners and the stubbornness and stupidity of the losers.

These two great men who are hostile to each other have noble character and political ability, which is not only reflected in Hannibal's generosity and tolerance for the inevitable war, but also in Scipio's prohibition of abusing victory to humiliate the enemy. At this point, the Second Punic War, or Hannibal War as the Romans more appropriately called it, came to an end after 17 years.

Since then, Rome's policy in Africa has been roughly summed up as a general idea, a short-sighted and narrow-minded idea: that is, Carthage's power will collapse, so the city will be oppressed forever. According to the provisions of the peace treaty, the Carthaginians can only keep their territory undiminished. But regarding the Carthaginian territory that once belonged to Masini Caesar and his ancestors, Carthage should guarantee that this left a hidden danger for the conflict.

In addition, the treaty also stipulates that Carthaginians are obliged not to fight against Roman vassals and allies, so they must not expel the Numidians from their own territory. With these regulations, the general border of Africa has become uncertain. Facing the powerful and unscrupulous neighboring countries and the suzerain country, which is both an arbitrator and a party, Carthage fell into a distressed situation.

From then on, Masini and Numidians often came to plunder this land. Whenever this happened, the Carthaginians sent messengers to Rome to complain. Sometimes, the Romans were too violent, but Rome arranged such an opponent next to Carthage to torture them, so all the complaints and requests ended in vain.

However, the submissive attitude of the defeated is by no means pure submission and patience. There is also a patriotic party in Carthage. The leader of this party is Hannibal. No matter where fate places him, he will make Rome fear. At this time, Rome will obviously have disputes with the eastern countries, which is a good opportunity for the patriotic party to revive its plan.

Because Hamilkar and his great plan failed, mainly because they overthrew the government with Carthage, and the main purpose was to refresh the internal affairs and prepare for a new struggle. The innovative power born in adversity and Hannibal's clear, noble and majestic spirit contributed to the improvement of politics and finance. Seeing this, the oligarchic government initiated criminal proceedings against Hannibal, accusing him of deliberately not going to Rome and embezzling Italian trophies.

Their folly is now full, so as soon as Hannibal proposed, the oligarchic government was overthrown and a democratic government suitable for citizens was established. The new government recovered the defaulted and misappropriated public funds and established a better supervision system, which enabled the finances to be sorted out quickly and the contribution of Rome to be paid without increasing the burden on the people.

At this time, Rome was preparing to go to war with the king of Antioch in Asia. Seeing the development of this situation in Catalonia, I can't help worrying that if Catalonia sent troops to land in Italy when Rome was fighting Asia, the second Hannibal War might start here.

During this period, Carthage hated Hannibal and the oligarchs of the Patriotic Party sent letters to Rome, accusing them of overthrowing their national enemies, saying that he had secretly ventilated with anti-Roman countries. These people are mean, but their information is not necessarily untrue. So Rome sent a special envoy to Catalonia, asking them to hand over Hannibal. This time, Kian admitted that such a powerful nation was afraid of a poor judge in Catalonia.

Arrogant Scipio strongly opposed the shameful step taken by the Senate, which is naturally admirable, but what the Romans admitted was implemented-Hannibal was an extraordinary genius, and it was Hannibal who fought last time, not Catalonia, so no one in Rome could tolerate him presiding over Catalonia's state affairs except Scipio, an emotional person.

The Carthaginians had to obey. Fortunately, Hannibal fled to the East quickly and wisely, leaving only a small shame: expelling its greatest citizen from the motherland forever, confiscating his property and razing his house. There is a far-reaching saying: those who are endowed with infinite joy and sorrow by the gods are the ones who are cared for by the gods. This statement was fully proved by Hannibal.