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Chapter 25 False affection and true meaning (2)

"Is your father's property okay?"

"Of course, with your care, everything is fine, how eager I am to serve in your subordinates, but you are now in civilian work. "Mesenas has a kind of outspoken enthusiasm.

After encouraging this guy, Li Bida saw another boy, who was dressed in a very shabby dress. He pulled a thin horse with hair and had no valuable wear on his body. He looked like a jackdaw in the peacock group, but his eyes were unusually firm, so he was stared at by Li Bida, "He will be a good man in the future."

However, Li Bida, who had adopted the provocation method, deliberately walked to the child, took Mesenas's sword, and threw it to the child angrily, saying, "Immediately before your master enters the camp to take the oath, you must keep his sword in custody and polish it."

The boy stood up straight with some anger and said, "Rong Bin, I am not a servant, I am a nobleman - although my family and decline, because my brother once served Pompei, and later you released him."

"Of course, of course, I know your identity. You are the younger brother of Lucius Vipsanius Agripa, right?" Li Bida then wanted to turn magic and threw Mesenas' sword back, then took out a beautiful dagger with a scabbard from behind and a bag of silver coins. "Marcus Agripa, come on, wear weapons, and use these coins to exchange for clothes that the young nobles like."

Who would have thought that Agripa only took the dagger and sang in front of Li Bida, saying, "I only need this, clothing, money and merits will come with my own efforts."

The former cavalry commander nodded and praised, and then Leo and Octavian stepped forward intimately, hugging Agripa and not letting go. They were obviously familiar with each other for a long time. However, Agripa rarely followed them to participate in socializing and watching competition activities. He was a strict self-disciplined boy.

"How, young children, follow my fleet to Apollonia, and then you are all captains of the cavalry, study hard at Apollonia Academy! Writing, rhetoric and mathematics are necessary, but don't forget to hone your swordsmanship and riding skills!" Li Bida was in a good mood today, and then Octavian said, "Mesenas won't go to the academy."

"Of course he won't go to the academy. Because I forgot to say just now, Mesenas is just a knight in the Macedonian province. You and Leo are his superiors, and he asks him to come to the academy to report to you every two months." Li Bida said playfully, and then the children burst into laughter, while Mesenas shouted that I would perform this duty.

It happened to be the end of September. On the Adriatic Sea, Libida's fleet set sail against the wind, but when they stood on the deck, they found that the entire sea was on the sea. Brindisi was like a huge magnet, attracting ships from all over the place: Illyria, Greece, Cyrene, Sicily. All kinds of ships were covered with the sea, but the young men lying on the side of the ship looked at it intimately in the sunset. Most of them were not merchant ships, but transport fleets carrying personnel. What surprised Leo the most was the simple and primitive long ship from Illyria. I don't know how long the people on the ship had been fighting on it, but when they saw Libida's ship, they waved and shouted enthusiastically and proudly, and asked how long it would take for the city of Rome.

"They went to stay in the citizen representative area of ​​Ostia River Harbor. If nothing unexpected happens, they will have to wait for one to two months before voting for the national plan for the coming year on the 'sheep pen' in the square." Li Bida also lay on the side and explained to the children.

"For citizenship? Guardian, this situation makes me sufficient to despise the Republic and any other wonder destination in the world, because it is the place that best proves the greatness of Rome, and can make these people come here to risk shipwrecks and slept with the hardships of wind and quarrel over the affairs of the whole country." The sea breeze blew the hair of Tulinus' forehead, and he said these words intoxicatedly.

Leo was also looking at the sea view under the golden sunshine, then he turned around, leaned against the side of the ship, pulled the sail rope, and murmured, "Farewell, mother and sister; goodbye, Octavia."

A few days later, at the port of Apollonia, Turinus, Leo, Mesenas and Agripa looked back at Libida, "Barrying their luggage, Mesenas, my knight." Libida suddenly shouted, Mesenas blushed, and hurriedly pulled the things carried by the servants around him over. Then the children each carried something about the same weight as the soldiers marched, and they all began to drop down the gangway and boarded the land. Then when the mules and horses in the cabin were pulled out, they pulled the reins, because no one dared to ride in front of Libida and walked towards the academy full of poplars and pine trees on the other side of the mountain. The white courtyard wall there was very easy to identify.

Then, their fleet continued to move forward and arrived at the Piraeus port of Athens. Similar to the Ostia River Harbor in Rome, the Athenian city, which was skilled in designing and guarding, was not directly adjacent to the ocean, which allowed it to ensure that it was foolproof before the enemy's navy's raid. Between Piraeus and Athens, there was a long city wall. Li Bida personally led his team members and thousands of Gaul slave workers to walk along the streets under the wall into the famous Athens commercial area Agora Market.

After becoming a vassal of Rome, the market buildings in Athens also changed in the style of the republic. Agora also built a new rectangular colonnade synagogue for municipal affairs. The democracy of ancient Greece disappeared, and the power of this city was also in the hands of elders and nobles.

"Your team will stay in the open ground in the square around the Ten Generals' Hall, where you rent it with houses and tents, and have good drinking water. After the city has prepared enough supplies, let the supervisor take this group of people to the Isthmus of Corinth." Several local nobles standing in front of the Hall of Agora said respectfully to Li Bida.

"Well, the time for this project is not particularly urgent. Instead, the excavation of the ancient city of Troy is imminent." Li Bida looked at the bustling Agola commercial area with interest, and said inadvertently, as if he was not very concerned about any work.

However, those local nobles were prepared and immediately reported that the newly built Pandino Library in the city could meet the needs. "Your Excellency, your secretary and translator can live there, and there are a large number of files in the museum for research and review." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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