After the Civil War with Antony, Augustus made new changes to the military. Augustus increased the size of the first cohort as he knew they were the most heavily relied on part of the army. He increased the term of enlistment to twenty years, an all time high, and stopped giving soldiers land when they retired. This reflected the reality of a limited supply of land and was inevitable but very unpopular. He also reduced the amount of legions in service overall and assigned legions to regions of the empire where they were not to leave unless by his command. This was to prevent the hold generals had over their armies from growing strong enough to rebel. He also took more central power over the legions, seeing personally to many command positions and promotions as well as establishing a fund to pay the legions through the state treasury instead of making it the responsibility of their general. All this contributed to the stability of the Empire more than the effectiveness of the legions.