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Chapter 10 Pompey's Ambush (Part 1)

"Lucky people will have children in March." - Ancient Roman poems, it seems that people thought that the takeover was a lucky one at that time.

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"So, in order to show your loyalty to Caesar, our soldiers were extremely angry because of the injustice and persecution of the civil guards. Now that they are in this city, it is unrealistic for me to restrain everyone's hands and feet." Li Bida continued, his words were very obscure, but everyone understood the inner requirements.

Mattia sat cross-legged in the seat of the Senate Secretary. He had a copying shelf in front of him, constantly writing hard. Next to him, the sermons, who were politely discussing matters about restoring order with Li Bida, while their slaves were piled up mountains of gifts and coins in the synagogue.

Except for part of these funds being returned to the top figures, the rest were rewarded by Li Bida to the Thirteenth Army and the mercenaries of foreign tribes. In this way, they finally calmed down and kept their promises, and did not do anything harmful to nature. In addition to the accidental drinking and rape, they were also dealt with very properly and compensated for the appropriate money. In short, the Roman citizens gradually began to be satisfied with Caesar's troops, especially after three days, the Thirteenth Army also pulled out of the city.

Of course, apart from buying people's hearts and blocking the dissatisfaction of the soldiers in the army, Li Bida asked for a large amount of bribes, and there were still millions of Seses left. Of course, he was a selfless man. It was impossible to fill his pockets. He paid a considerable amount of money and sent it to the forging workshop and the clay kiln. During this period, he stayed with his subordinates in the Julia Hall, often looking at the drawings in front of him, which were a gorgeously decorated chariot, and the owner was covered in military uniforms and holding an eagle logo. Of course, the image of the owner was imitated by Caesar. Li Bida judged that according to Caesar's character, he would have to hold a grand triumphal ceremony within these three years. The reason was very simple, because Caesar had never received such treatment for many years in Gaul, and he was also vanity.

The model of this chariot is to be placed on the new pedestal of the Venus Temple, but Li Bida insisted on "surprise" to Caesar because of the trick of flattery. The trick is to be sudden, similar to frame-up. It is to try not to give the object a long time to think about it, so Li Bida only spends money and is strictly confidential to the outside world.

Gradually, all the markets were restored. Those who took refuge in the countryside, followed Pompey and then repented, came to Julia's Hall one after another. In a short period of time, the Roman king Li Bida completed the "classification ceremony" and half of the original Senate was surprising.

These people surrounded Li Bida all day long, and went crazy to ask Caesar's intention, whether he wanted to take Dick Thidd, whether he would dissolve the Senate, or just take office as the consul? These questions were like flies all day long, causing Li Bida to suffer. Once he ordered two centurions to take twenty soldiers to serve as the guards of the retired former consul Banks' house, and said, "Banks is a brave and just person who truly considers the interests and overall situation of the Republic. He did not follow Pompeius to escape, which is enough to prove that he is different from Surpisius and is open-minded inside and outside the city of Rome the next day, and he became the chief consul of this year.

Another time, Li Bida in the synagogue ordered the Medeje Guard to escort his servant Mathia and give him a batch of valuable gifts to visit Atya, the in-laws of Niushou Street, and take Anthony's widowed mother, telling them not to disturb them, so as not to be surprised. As a result, within three days of leaving, the two houses were filled with various gifts. Now the senators are discussing that in front of Li Bida, they will unanimously elect his asylum and adoptive father Marcos, and take office as the chief executive of a province next year, and even the supervisor of the Senate.

This suggestion made Li Bida quite angry, "My adoptive father just wants to live a life of life and don't push him to the altar of wind and waves!"

As a result, the smiles of one or two hundred veterans froze, and then they started to return to the old topic: Will Caesar take office and Dick push the way, or will he publicly recommend two new consuls?

Li Bida, who was irritated, squeezed out the crowd. At this time, Mattia followed with the box and the papers and asked in a row: "All the bribes and gifts from the elders have been spent 80% of them. Now the biggest problem is-" After saying that, the man took out a copy from the papers he was holding and looked at while walking, "There are three legions on Caesar, who are besieging Ancona. It is said that many soldiers are already dissatisfied with the delay in the war and are asking for bounty."

"Has Caesar promised?" Li Bida rubbed his shoes on the colonnade as he walked out of the hall gate, because he had sputum on the hall just now.

"Caesar had agreed before the speech of the Soldiers' Conference, promising to give each soldier five hundred silver coins within ten days, and once he conquered the whole of Italy, all soldiers would receive two thousand dinars, plus considerable retirement and resettlement land. And Caesar also said that this commitment was not only for the twelve, fifteenth and sixteenth legions, but also for all ten legions."

Li Bida spitted a sputum on the ground, scolding Caesar bastard, gambler and scoundrel in his heart. Isn’t it necessary for me to bear these financial gaps in the future!

"It seems we have to think of some extra solution. Matthia, hey, Tagus, blow the trumpet of the caller." Li Bida pointed at the square and shouted.

Not long after, more than 300 fully armed soldiers followed the commander-in-chief and came to the Parthenon Temple in a mighty manner. In the clearing in front of it, Libida saw Etius, holding about thirty or fifty armed slaves, who were standing guarding the colonnade and the gate. The priests scattered. Now Libida has caught several people, and has come back with a sad face and lead the way.

"What is your identity now?" Li Bida asked Etius with murderous intent with his soldiers.

"I am the former civil guardian, and now theoretically the financial officer of the Silesian province." Etius replied calmly, looking at the shaking beard and sword blade, and later added, "But I am even a citizen of Rome."

"Then you should go to your place of employment, not here to get in the way. Now I declare that the gold of St. Curry has been requisitioned by Caesar."

"No, the gold of the Holy Cu is used to resist the invasion of the Gauls. No one has the power to requisition it. Even when Pompey left, he did not move the Holy Cu at all." Etius defended loudly, and opened his arms and blocked Li Bida.

"Now Gaul has been completely conquered by Caesar and turned into a part of the Roman Republic, so the existence of this holy bank has been lost and can serve as funds for rebuilding the republic." Li Bida retorted, and then drew out his sword with the soldiers behind him. (To be continued...)
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