Chapter 3 Market Closed (Part 2)
After the people dispersed, the veterans of the War God's Collegiate Field still stood in the wind, but Li Bida stopped again. After that, he only carefully dispatched the transportation issues of the Ostia River Harbor. He did not go to the Collegiate Field to send a speech to the veterans for salary, nor did he send a legion outside the city of Rome to suppress them.
On the contrary, Li Bida also extracted a considerable portion of the wheat flour transported from various places, made a lot of pastries and bread to the large schoolyard for the veterans and their families to eat, and asked the slaves to send enough water in mule carts. He even used a pottery jar to distribute fifty Seth's consolation money to each person on a market day before the Goddess' Day. "If you want to participate in the festival, then use these temporary gifts, which will be safe for the time being."
Some embarrassed soldiers felt ashamed of the cavalry commander, so they took the money with their families and quietly took out their tents and returned to Campenia. "Eat, why not eat? Are you still afraid of being poisonous? Since the appeal is just, you should do anything with confidence." On the side of the college, Scarva was the first to come to the mule cart, snatched the bread and water from the slaves, and ate and drank a lot.
But secretly Skava instructed several legions staying in Campenia to immediately stop looting surrounding towns, so as not to be caught by Li Bida in future negotiations.
Before Li Bida came to the colonel, more explosive news came that the dictator Caesar had already rushed from Egypt to Tarindun and came ashore in the spring wind, and was rushing towards Rome, preparing to resolve the mutiny. After hearing this news, some veterans did not dare to face the bald old superiors, who were afraid that when they were speaking, Caesar would point their names in person. That would be more uncomfortable than death.
But the centurion Skava, and two centurions, namely Tyro, Krucinas, and two military civilian officials, Avenus and Vonteuth, were still the backbone, and with more than 3,000 fellow party members, they continued to insist on the grand campus and seek justice for everyone. As a result, the cavalry commander arrived at the campus in his robe. After the school was in his robe, he climbed to the temporary forum. All the veterans surrounded him and prepared to negotiate terms with Li Bida.
But after Li Bida went to the forum, he spoke: "I thought a real army could withstand good times and bad times, not to mention that you who have vowed to the dictator on the Rubicon River must follow him until the ends of the world. If I remember correctly, Afriga should also belong to this category."
"We just demand our own allowances and benefits. This kind of words must be repeated many times before they can be heard by the head." Skava was indignant.
"Your demands are unreasonable!" Li Bida shouted, "When you fought in Gaul, why did you not have a mutiny? It is because every time you defeat the enemy, you can obtain prisoners of war assigned to you by Lord Caesar, and the gold and silver brought by the destruction of barbarian towns. Everyone made a fortune on the pile of corpses. Now you are going to Spain, go to Africa, and have few rewards and cannot be robbed at will, you are beginning to fear the harsh natural environment, and you will seek endlessly, as if the whole country cannot operate without you. What a shameful thing, most of the regular legions recruited by Lord Caesar were rebellious, especially the tenth legion was the mastermind. You must know that the dictator prefers you the most, to the extent that all other legions feel jealous. Have you forgotten your original vows and not fear God's condemnation?"
"It was the dictator who forgot first. Our soldiers have not asked him to fulfill the oath he made by the Rubicon River!" Another centurion, Tyro, who was in the same mood as Scarva, rushed up excitedly and shouted, but his words aroused many voices of approval.
Li Bida was confused when he said this. He was with Caesar during the Rubicon River. Why had he never seen the other party make any great vows?
But Tillo continued to announce the so-called Caesar vow, "That day, I happened to be by the river, and His Excellency Caesar spoke in front of us. I was still a low-ranking centurion in the Thirteenth Legion, at the last line of the brigade, but saw Caesar take down his ring, and then all the soldiers cheered."
"When Caesar took off his ring, the original words at that time were 'As long as everyone can safeguard my reputation and fight for me, even if I ask me to take down this thing, I will be willing to give up my current identity'." Then, Li Bida clearly retelled the content of Caesar's speech at that time.
"You're talking nonsense!" Tilro shouted, "Don't think I don't understand the gestures of Your Excellency Caesar. It means that after defeating the enemy, we will be knights who can wear rings. Even if we don't give the knight status, we will give each veteran 400,000 Seth's quit."
The cavalry commander fell silent in an instant. Sometimes he felt that it was extremely dangerous to bring these rude and uneducated veterans who liked to spread so-called gossip than peasants in the vegetable market. Caesar was just using his ring to make a prop when he was speeching, but he was rumored to be like this by the veterans (because the knights all belonged to the golden ring). What was even more helpless was that the soldiers believed that Caesar could do this, because they didn't understand or were willing to understand that there were only about 10,000 knights in the Rome, and Caesar's legion was no less than 10,000. It was a great idea to "encourage" to this level. It was the most beautiful misunderstanding.
The cavalry commander also wiped his face silently in the noise on the forum, and then told the soldiers that the topic of the knight's ring and the four hundred thousand Seth's quits (because in ancient Rome, you must have the corresponding assets to achieve the knight's identity) has come to an end for the time being. You should wait until Caesar himself comes to Rome, but now I must honestly announce another thing, "That is, if you stop fighting and ask for retirement, I can do it as I can, because I can take the legions of five, twelve, thirteen, sixteen and thirty-one to fight in Africa."
As soon as this statement was said, it was like thunder, and all the troublemakers fell silent: Yes, since the cavalry commander already had five other fully organized legions, why should he recognize their demands? Now all veteran legions threaten Caesar’s capital is based on the psychology of “Caesar’s military expedition cannot escape us.”
"I will reiterate that I can do the request for your retirement from the army now. How about it?" Li Bida repeated this sentence again at the forum.
Just when everyone was indecisive, with the sound of whining horns, the soldiers immediately caused a sensation because they saw the dictator Caesar appear at this time. Then everyone automatically moved away and watched Caesar slowly climb to the pulpit. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!