"From the border of Ningjirsu to the sea, there are tax collectors everywhere." - "History of Sumer"

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"You should go and find Cannedis. I think he is more competent in this job than me, because I have never seen this account book and are very unfamiliar with the situation." Before leaving, Munagius publicly answered the Governor.

Xiao Jiatu knew that his sheltered people were having trouble, but he lacked clearance and persuasion. He believed that as shelter, everything was given by my shelter, so my request must be obeyed unconditionally. But after hearing the shelter's bad words, Munagius became more stubborn and simply rented a house on Cyprus Island and refused to accompany the shelter to escort the account book back to Rome.

As a result, Gatu, who was so angry that he sent people to Munagius' apartment, moved all his furniture and decorations away, and forced him to submit. There are two reasons why he could do this. One is the identity of the lord, who has full power to confiscate anything, property and even life of the lord; the second is that as the provincial chief executive, in Rome, once a working official refuses to attend the Senate meeting and the 100-person convenement meeting, he may be punished by confiscation of furniture.

But Munajius was unmoved at all. He spent some money to rent it to another apartment. It is said that the apartment admired him very much and claimed that he would not charge any rent for him (the apartment and the commander of the Restoration Army were familiar with Li Bida in Salamis City), and gave Munajius all the furniture, couches, toiletries, potted plants, and cabinets to Munajius. Now, because these things are not property under his name, Gatu has no power to confiscate them.

The angry little Gatu said that once he returned to Rome, he would terminate his asylum relationship with Munagius, but Cannedis must stay in the province to handle chores, so he only had two servants, Brutu, Casio, and Dilimer and Asher.

After leaving Cyprus and boarding the ship, Gatu, Xiao, transcribed the books he had obtained from the Temple of Love in Paphos in duplicate and handed them over to Dilinmo and Aschel to guard them separately. For the sake of safety, the two took different boats.

"Uncle, why don't I let me take care of this important thing myself? You must know that these two were Claudi's minions before, and their credibility was worrying." After anchoring, Brutu firmly asked his uncle to hand over the account book to him, but Gatu thought for a while and replied - Dear nephew, you have not held any public office in Rome yet, so I don't want you to have any connection with the account book, tax holder or finance, which will give people a handle to attack you in the city, and you have a bright future. Don't destroy yourself because of these factors.

As a result, when the fleet crossed the Aegean Sea, and was anchored in Port Schenker in Collins, Asher suddenly asked for an emergency meeting with his master Gatu.

"My master, the account book is dangerous in Dilimer, because he has been bribed and rebelled by Li Bida!"

"What..." Although he had a vague premonition before, Katu still was unwilling to face the family motto he was most proud of. He failed to completely tame the cruel reality of Dilimer, a tomb robber. Could it be that his previous pious and self-reformed appearance was deceiving me?

After hearing Aschel's rumor, Brutu had a calm face and immediately rushed to the room where he was with several armed slaves. He found that Dilimer had already escaped, and several lines of the same letters were engraved on the wall, as if they were the Greek names, "Diottosos". Then Brutu found burning ashes on the ground and couldn't help but scold them. It seemed that the pile of ashes were the remains of Dilimer's burning account books. He searched again, but he couldn't find anything.

"Say, why do you know he was bought by Li Bida!" Brutu grabbed Asher's scarf and asked yelling.

"He told me before. Just before departure, the one named Libidaus came to Nicosia to see him off, which was a signal of his action. And Dilinmo also asked me to go with her. He would immediately go to the pharaoh's tent to be the chief palace guard through the introduction of Libidaus. After saying that, he gave me a lot of silver coins, and this one." Asher's tone was very calm, and then she took out an exquisite and expensive turquoise chain in front of Brutu. Brutu took it and saw it, and was trapped in contradiction and confusion.

But he then reacted a little and said to Asher, "I believe your words, but you have to understand that I cannot trust you from now on and hand over the account book."

Asher didn't say anything, and slowly took out the book of the books. Brutu nodded slightly at her, then opened the book and looked at it, and then left after confirming it was correct.

But as soon as Brutu left, Asher, who was leaning against the wall, smiled charmingly at Liberus Peragirus beside Brutu. Peragirus hummed slightly, then lowered his head and walked out of the door with Brutu.

During the following days of sailing, the weather became worse and worse. After leaving the warm Cyprus Island, the entire side was covered with black waves, coupled with the mixed ice and snow and rain. For less than three days, Xiao Jiatu had to order to suspend his movements because this was not very safe for the whole ship's money, so he anchored on Corfu to avoid the bad weather.

"Uncle, I would rather not stay. Kassio also said that this weather has not had a great impact on safety. As for sailors, we can find some rewards and comforts, or cross them as soon as possible. When we arrive in Brindisi, we will win. You must know that Dilinmo was bought by Li Bida and burned the account book, so I don't know what other tricks this person will have. I don't believe that Asher, so I took the account book back and put it next to you. "Brutu was a little worried about the decision to park Corfu.

But Xiao Katu decided to stop. It seemed that Dilmur's betrayal had caused a great blow to his confidence. So the entire fleet leaned on the sickle-shaped island of Corfu, which just formed a natural safe haven. All the slaves and husbands unloaded all the wooden cabinets against the sea breeze and piled them up on the coast. Brutu looked at the mountainous property uneasy and kept asking Kasio to arrange reliable paddlers, with swords and sticks, to guard them day and night.

"Hey, my friend, with Li Bida's cunning, do you think he will do stupid things like planting spies, burning gold and silver?" After hearing this request from Kassio, he couldn't help laughing and mocking Brutu for having no experience in the world.
Chapter completed!