What Is Matthew's Story?

The Roman tax system was grinding Israelites into poverty, Geos says. The Romans knew that they could keep subject peoples pacified if instead of constantly importing like people with different skin color or speak a different language to come rule directly. What if you just buy off Jewish people and you make them puppet rulers in their own lands? And so they're king Herod puppet of the Romans. They have Roman soldiers everywhere, but they hire Jewish mercenary armies, and then they hire people like Matthew.