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Chapter 19 Betrayal (1)

"No Athenian died in vain because of the mistake I made."—Pericley's last words on his death, he believed that this was the greatest achievement in his life, and the rest were insignificant.

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"Dear Katu, I heard that before your great-grandfather, Katu, left a complete set of legacy and family rules for the family, from how to stick to his political direction in the Senate, to the posture of wiping his mouth with a napkin at home. I envy your family style, even if you have sex with others (the laughter of the Senate)." Caesar seemed to want to lead the topic elsewhere.

Xiao Jiatu retorted, "The Romans have been in ancient times. If a person admires the virtues of his friends, he can send his wife, so that he can give birth to a child with the blood and glory of his friends, and to flourish his own family. I am not ashamed of this at all, but will only help his friends. Julius, you, I heard that you recently married the daughter of the Bisso family. This pimp business has made you a lot of money. At least you were in debt before taking office as the consul. Now I actually heard that your assets are beginning to surplus (the second wave of laughter in the Senate)."

In the laughter, Caesar had no nervous and guilty voices. He also smiled and used gestures to dispel the discussions of the elders and continued to say to Xiao Jiatu: "Don't be nervous, Jiatu, my words just now are absolutely ridiculous and attacking. I just said that there is a place where Lao Jiatu's family rules I think I am not good at, that is, each entry only says "what to do", while "why" and "how" are not mentioned at all. You grew up watching the family rules of great-grandfather. This has led to you having more principles. But you lack dialectical vision of exploring the whole world. This is the same - sorry, let's return to the original topic, our most dearest young Jiatu

, He always believed that the world of the Republic was to speak to the gentry in the city, or to distribute food to the poor unwillingly, but I said before that the Republic was no longer the republic of five hundred years ago. At that time, people would not have stepped out of seven hills, but now we are responsible for the entire ocean and land. The army of Aliovistus had already penetrated into Gaul, and the rest of the entire Gaul was migrating in panic, among which the most intense one was the Helveti (the natives of Switzerland today). They had settled on the east shore of Lake Leman, but now they wrote to me that the whole tribe would move to Britannia."

At this time, the Senate was twitching, and Britannia was on the northwest side of the sea near Gaul. If the Helvets did this, it would indeed cause chain turmoil in the Gaul area.

Caesar then continued to talk about this topic. He said that the Britannia was not empty, but that there were dense Picts there. If we approve the Helvets' request, it would inevitably trigger the Picts' resistance to Rome.

"So now, we are delegating respected people to guard the Gaul area for three to five years to ease the situation that is about to break out. Speaking of such people, Caesar, as the chief consul, is the only one who takes the initiative!" Caesar finally put forward a huge argument. This time, he once again used Li Bida's inference to successfully combine personal interests with the security affairs of the Republic, making the elders irrefutable. "And Syria is also a little nervous. I recommend the second chief consul Bibruce to take office. Of course, I can wait until the meeting is dismissed to appoint a famous entourage to his house to inform the matter."

At this moment, Xiao Katu could no longer hold it back. He once again shouted for Caesar to come up with evidence instead of talking nonsense here.

At this time, Caesar calmly patted the podium, then raised his hand and shouted at Cicero, who had always been in the corner without saying a word, "This is like listening to our eloquents to provide evidence." As soon as this statement came out, Xiao Gatu was stunned and sat next to him and laughed silently, while many of them were also kept in the dark were extremely surprised.

Cicero moaned in pain, sometimes acting like he wanted to stand up, sometimes bowing his waist and hesitating in the same place, but he finally took out the roll of velvet paper and stood up, reading it with some stutter. The letter was written to his younger brother in name, the young Gaul nobles who had studied under Cicero. In his letter, he made no doubt clear that the Helvets were indeed migrating, and they were on the north side of the huge mountain range, waiting for the reply from the city of Rome.

Crassus asked in panic. Of course, his fear was justified. Everyone knew that he had a lot of industries in the Balu Gaul and Po River Basin. "How many people in the Helveti tribe participated in the migration?"

Cicero paused, and then, under Gatu's glare, announced to everyone with a constipated expression, "There are 320,000 people in the entire Helveti clan participating in the migration. They abandoned twelve towns and more than 80 large villages, of which about 80,000 men could pick up weapons. They also claimed that if the city of Rome did not agree to their request, they would cross the giant mountains and enter the Po River Valley."

These words really caused three waves to the ground, and the elders shouted nervously. This was determined by the territory of the Roman Republic. Its foundation has always been in the Apennines, the narrow peninsula, the western republic has Sardinia as a barrier, Sicily in the south, and Greek city-states that surrendered to Rome to the east, but the threat always comes from the pocket mouth in the north, and the stretching Alps, which not only brought some sense of security to Rome, but also created countless panic for Rome. It was even more unattended areas that allowed firm enemies to infiltrate and destroy. This is the same in historical facts. This was how Brenus came, how Hannibal came, and how Teutonic and the Cimbri people came.

When Caesar asked Cicero to swear the authenticity of his words, Cicero also did it. At this time, the passage of the "Barcelostus Program" that accuses Caesar of the province as governor seemed to have been unimpeded. The Senate immediately decided that Caesar could serve as Gaul inside and outside, plus the Chief Executive of Illyria, the Governor, for a term of up to five years, with four legions under the corps!

At this time, Xiao Jiatu was as if he had lost his parents. He rushed down from the seat and slapped the podium extremely, shouting that if so many legions of the Republic were placed in Caesar's hands, it would be like "the security of tyrants being placed in a solid fortress." He once again proposed a motion to refute this plan.
Chapter completed!
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