Chapter 10 The Renewed Covenant (Part 2)
"Don't keep people from thousands of miles away like this! How could I have any evil thoughts about Caesarion, a child with Julius' blood,? I am going to renovate and expand the Temple of Great Love in Cyprus, so that Caesarion can be the high priest there. The annual incense money and treasury gifts are all his. Isn't such conditions quite generous?" Li Bida began to offer a package of conditions.
"Caissa Rion was the successor of the Ptolemaic royal family in Egypt. He was a natural king, and Cyprus was the inherent territory of Egypt. Are you not going to establish a province where to build a province?" The Queen of Cleopatra was always soft and hard.
"You're right in guessing that Cyprus must become a border province, and there should be barriers, military ports and garrisons on it to monitor Little Asia and Syria."
"Isn't there still Egypt in the surveillance subject?"
Li Bida smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Don't always guess and think about the unpleasant aspects. I can swear that Egypt has embezzled Egypt's territory. I can swear: Egypt will always enjoy independent status, but it will reduce its troops and fleets appropriately. In short, as long as Egypt can enter the vassal system of Rome, I will want to treat the Kingdom of Ubertnia, which is generous to you and your son. Every year, Egypt transports wheat, porphyry and papyrus, and I will provide guarantees for the Ptolemy royal family. You and your son can also occupy part of the interests of the Ponte Red Sea to Cyris route, which is very big.
"Gold, you used this yellow thing to create a sharp sword, a palace, a cage, and other people's ideas and ambitions to be imprisoned. Caesarion and I can't think of nothing or do anything for the rest of our lives. Just in the bird cage made of gold, when two canaries who please you with the sound of chirping. Egypt will be your forbidden pampering, no, and even the entire republic. In that case, you relied on maintaining the Julius family, and now you relied on destroying it to make your authority over the entire ocean, and I became your tool and consumer product in it." Cleopatra felt that today, at the moment of meeting, even if the country was destroyed by the rage of Li Bida, it was worth it to vent the words that had been suppressed in your heart for so many years.
But the high priest was just opposite, looking at her quietly like an inviolable but unimpressed god. He answered a long time later, "You mother and son can build a grand and beautiful palace in Ponte, where there are rivers, waterfalls, jungles and oceans, and decorate the lintel of the palace with the most precious imported products. Caesarion can spend all his wisdom and energy on it. I think what's wrong with this?"
"It's like this again. These words again!" Empress Yan covered her face and sobbed, then she sobbed twice, raised her face, and suddenly changed into a flattering and charming manner. Despite the fact that outsiders were still present, she actually raised her waist and hips, climbed up to Li Bida, put on the legs of the high priest, gently laid her head on it, and raised her face, "If I give birth to a son for you now, and send Caesarion to Cyprus to be the priest of the Temple of Love, and make your bones and blood like the little queen, and completely abandon your blood relationship with the Julius family, how will you treat me?"
"Don't have such stupid thoughts. You should be a smart girl. I can be responsible for telling you that Egypt and Ptolemy can still exist until now. It is precisely because you have the flesh and blood of the Julius family. If you have descendants with me, after my death, you and this non-existent child will die miserably, and Egypt will be completely destroyed." After saying this, Li Bida's voice was also trembling.
The Queen continued to climb up and moved until she could hold Li Bida's cheek with her hands, and shouted softly, "Will you die?"
"Yes, of course I'll die."
"You hesitated, you just hesitated, you should not have refused to truly accept my love in your heart, but based on realistic considerations, you gave up before. Actually, what else does it matter now? Caesar is dead, your army can enter and exit Egyptian land, and you can also enter and exit casually on the goddess Isis. How about it? Let our covenant be stronger. If you are really afraid, let me bring the crocodile eggs that you can not have to conceive a child." Cleopatra was like a omnipresent, intelligent, beautiful and terrifying red spotted snake, touching the sleeves of the high priest, and talking frenzily and down like a general who declared victory, as if he had a fever.
"I need seventy warships with decks and sails, and four hundred flat-bottomed transportable ships. I will still take away the three legions of Lufio. In a year, Egypt must provide me with three hundred and fifty Tarent financial support, and Cyprus will still become a province."
"I will accept you all, but you must pay the price. That is to let Rome and Egypt merge tonight and make a truly unbreakable covenant."
The starry light in the desert night sky enveloped the earth, and the torches in the camp outside were transparent. The patrolling cavalry kept changing shifts along both sides of the river. The lights in the curtains of the temple were blurred and flickered. After the slight sound of the wind and gasping, the high priest slowly walked out of it in his robe, but he saw Caesarion standing in the small hall of the front hall, followed by several eunuchs and female slaves.
Li Bida stood beside the potted plant and looked at Caesarion, while the other party was obviously a little scared and cowardly, and took two steps back until an old eunuch mustered up the courage and said to the prince of Egypt, "You don't have to be afraid of the person in front of you. Your status is equal to him."
In this way, Caesareon stabilized his heels. Then he raised his head and saw the black iron-like gaze in Li Bida's narrowed eyes. His whole body seemed to be half cut. No wonder he was just a seven or eight-year-old child at that time. Then the man asked in an irresistible tone like a sharp blade, "Why don't you go back to the camp to sleep, what are you waiting for here?"
"Your Excellency Prince, you don't have to answer his question." But before the old eunuch finished saying this, Caesarion replied obediently, "I'm waiting for my mother."
"If there are rumors in the palace in the future that your mother lost her chastity tonight and exchanged your safety with me for your and Egyptian security?" Li Bida's second inquiry made all the servants and eunuchs present cover their ears without any expression and huddled on the floor and shivered.
Although Caesarion was not really old enough to understand this question, the obvious hints in the other party's words still made him feel as humiliated as fire. However, he could not muster up the courage to attack the adult man in front of him, and could only swing in place, shaking like a sieve.
Chapter completed!