wealthy, but whoever had the tax--what's

但不管谁征税
the thing I'm looking for?

我想说的是特许权
franchise, whoever had the tax

谁有区域征税特许权
franchise for that area would be someone from a wealthy background.

谁肯定来自于一个富裕家庭
But then you'd hire out other people to do the taxes.

这个人会雇佣其他人征税
So these people, of course, were very unpopular.

这些人当然非常不受欢迎
The Romans maintained peace to a great extent by keeping the poor poor.

罗马人维持和平的方式就是让穷人更穷
So the Pax Romana may have sounded great,

如果你是精英分子
if you were an elite, but if you were not in the

罗马统治下的和平很不错
elite, it may have seemed more

但如果你不是精英分子
oppressive than anything.

你所遭受的就只有压迫
There were some other benefits, though, that the Romans did.

然而罗马人也做了一些贡献