Diocletian and the Guild of Shippers

Diocletian was never one to not get into something, as i just said. It started with the trade guilds. One of the first to be enveloped was the guild of shippers who brought the grain from africa to italy. After doing business with the empire for centuries as an independent corporation, diocletian simply took it over and declared the guild and arm of the government. Then it said that if he wantedo ship anything into italy, you had to join the government's guild and o ye once you've joined, you can't resign. He followed that same pattern with everyone, brickmakers, cobblers, architects, whoever. Wherever there was