Chapter 31 Widow Distribution (Part 2)
This statement really made Pompei very useful. He felt that as long as he dealt with Caesar, the entire Roman centrist forces would be used by him, and he would soon be able to leap into a hero who surpassed Sura. When he was young, he arrogantly said to Sura, "The people only like the rising sun and the rising sun, but hate the setting sun." As a result, Sura was unhappy and he was suppressed for many years. Isn't the tuna, which is now regarded as Sura's heir, angry to death by him? The same is true for Caesar. If you don't do the stumbling blocks yourself, the stone will not grow your feet and walk away.
Pompei's attitude took effect, and it was very fast. The knights from other provinces turned to his camp, because in the eyes of these people, Pompei represented the country's army, and if he disobeyed his political stance, he would lose his military business. Pompei, who had received support from other provinces, quickly asked Xiao Jiatu to accomplish something, "I have many old subordinates and new recruits in Italy and Spain, but in terms of food and fodder, they used to rely half of their personal assets,
Can some funds be allocated from the treasury to solve this problem? "Little Gatu certainly understands that this is Pompei's request for money from the country to support his army in disguise, but Pompei then added some reassurance to him, "Don't worry, because most of the knights from other provinces are devoted to supporting me. Now the treasury only needs to take out a thousand Tarents of money every year to maintain the military fund - my Pompei's army is the army of the Republic and the Senate."
The last sentence is guaranteed. Pompei once owned the army of half a country, but the Republic asked him to disband the army at any time. He did everything as he did. Although Pompei was vain and famous, his behavior was still within the framework of the rules, which made Xiao Jiatu more at ease.
However, when Gatu transferred Pompei's statement to Cicero who was staying at home, unexpectedly, he was fiercely opposed. This philosopher who had always admired the great Pompeii, now directly criticized Gatu for being a smart person on the surface but confused and unprincipled. "You are too obsessed with the name of the family, and now your insight into the current situation is not as familiar as me, an old guy who was expelled from Rome several times. Now Caesar cannot use the current one a hundred years ago.
Method: Use a Senate edict to make him surrender. The means of war cannot work, my friend. What makes you so confident that this old method of pulling one end and pressing the other is effective as in the Punic War? Caesar and Pompey are not Fabian or Scipio, especially Caesar, who has now become a rising star because of his foreign military merits. This great image has been deeply rooted in the minds of the people, and then you are now going to pass this foolishness.
The stupid bill is that when Caesar is fighting various dangerous barbarians outside, the treasury is not sympathetic to him and his army. Instead, it allocates huge amounts of funds every year to give to Pompei, who has been doing nothing for seven or eight years, and to his "large armed forces" that he does not exist at all! Your behavior will not only anger Caesar's army, but also waste national property in vain. What's more, it is pushing the Romans to the cliff of dangerous internal strife. I personally think that the only solution to this matter now
The trick is to procrastinate, and to delay as much as possible, and wait until two years later, the term of the governor of Caesar expires. He uses the honor of taking office as a consul for the second time to induce him to return to Rome, and then arrange suitable and reliable candidates to take over his legion. He can even subdivide the conquered Gaul area into five to six small provinces, and then arrange a majority of the chief executives to manage it, split Caesar's huge army, and take time to make time to adjust the legion or dismiss the legion. This is the right way to eliminate danger."
Although Cicero's reply was full of insights, Katu was also a person who paid too much attention to external factors. He believed that Cicero's previous political stance was very weak and changeable, so he decided to "don't say it because of others". He believed that Xi's suggestion was simply not worth laughing at. He didn't even expect the other party to reply, but just did so out of polite procedures.
Another thing made Katto make up his mind to form an alliance with Pompei, that is, Curio, who was appointed as the civil guard, suddenly spoke at the Tebres People's Congress, firmly supporting Pompeii to control the power of this country and to "confront the potential enemy of Rome."
In the past, the "Three Dance Kings" of Rome, Claudi, Anthony and Curio, the representatives of the new generation of golden youth, have embarked on a completely different path in recent years. The former became a "professional civil protection official" and specifically called the wind and rain in Rome. Anthony originally suffered the most miserable experience. Not only was his stepfather involved in the rebellion of Catilin and was hanged, but he was also expelled from the political circle of Rome by Cicero, but now he is in Li Bida.
With the help of the other provinces, it rose slowly in the army of other provinces. In the end, only the thin Curio stayed in the city of Rome, while building a giant theater for Pompeii, while raising Caesar's Yunonian colony, and carrying huge debts. He was as crazy as Caesar's crazily pleased the people and the powerful as Caesar was back then. As for what his purpose was so versatile, even Catholic and Cicero said they could not guess.
Now Curio's position seems to be clear in an instant. Even Cicero privately admitted that the golden young man was over thirty years old and abandoned his previous career and began to move towards a true Roman politician. The premise of being a politician is to put forward a clear position as a "stepchair" (just a stepchair) in order to make a splash. In addition, Curio's father had served as a consul before and hated the Democratic Party and Caesar, so it is reasonable for this upstart in politics to accept his father's wishes and requests.
In this stalemate, Curio's statement quickly attracted attention from all walks of life, which proved that he was a smart young man, with good eloquence, and his speech at the People's Congress was very calm: "Now is not a time to delay. Our country has never had such a habit. Did he still need these long-form meetings when Hannibal threw a javelin at our city wall? Now our country has a dangerous situation that greatly surpassed Hannibal's.
As long as this person is willing, there will be a huge army of ten legions at any time, crossing the snow-covered Alps, and ravaging the entire republic just like Hannibal did. And the place where this dangerous person surpasses Hannibal is that he is still an important national public official, with countless minions in Rome and good at dancing. I risk my life to call here, that is, we need a more outstanding person to lead the country to fight against..."
Before he finished speaking, the venue began to riot. Someone was insulting at the speech stand and throwing stones. On the other side of the venue, Claudi, wearing a red cloak, and Li Bida, wearing a white robe, rushed towards Curio with thousands of vicious gangsters!
Chapter completed!