"It is urgent to seize Perusim, but it is not urgent to seize Alexander." This is what Li Bida repeatedly emphasized to his subordinates in the past two days, so around the oasis around Perusim, the Thirteenth Legion rested and worked while resting. With the villages and rivers, they built an outer defense line, scattered the various hundred-man teams and acted as sentinels for surveillance and defense, while the two elite thousand-man teams were stationed in the fortress and acted as core garrison forces.

The people in the entire Perusim area, Li Bida returned the oxen, villages (excluding those burned and looted) and reservoirs to them, and selected some people who knew accounting, writing and taxation from the old officials, prisoners, and legions and slaves, and took the lead in liberating them and becoming their own free people, responsible for maintaining organizational production in the local area.

These teams, together with Li Bida, used the Temple of Amon in the fortress as a yamen. The entire temple was not big, but it was very strong, with Greek-style columns, with stone foundations that were high above the ground to prevent the invasion of dampness and sultry heat. The windows were narrow and high above, so that the dry dust would not follow them into the temple. Dozens of rooms underground were occupied by temple servants, and now they were all full. It was not difficult to hire people in the local area. They were all poor people who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the gods. They would not care whether the Egyptian priests or Roman officers occupied the temple.

These slaves were responsible for serving the entire Restoration Army Command. They worked hard to sift wheat, brew beer, spin and weave cloth in the basement. Several female slaves with rich charm had already fought with Anthony, were exempted from labor, and served in the room of military guards all day long.

"This is the letter from the Pharaoh - His Majesty Pharaoh hopes to take the royal flagship in a market and come to the fortress in the future." The eunuch Mothamenis stood in front of Li Bida with a strange smile, holding a sealed writing board. Behind was the Diotuss. It seemed that he had been successfully recommended as the chief guard of the palace, wearing gorgeous and funny Egyptian clothes, with a gold-inlaid waist knife, and also had a beard. It seemed that he was doing quite well.

"So, can you report back to His Majesty Pharaoh, that there is still a dangerous war zone around Perusim Fortress, our army still needs to rest and practice, and there are still two thousand Nubian mercenary prisoners who need to be dealt with urgently. Otherwise, they may mutiny at any time. Therefore, His Majesty Pharaoh should continue to stay in the safe island of Cyprus." Li Bida put the board on the table and respectfully told Mothamenis the truth.

But Mothamenis was still stubborn, and he laughed dryly, "Master-in-Chief, please allow me to tell the difficulties of Pharaoh. He urgently needed to enter Alexander City. Of course, this was not because His Majesty wanted to enjoy the life of the palace, but because of the rebellious Beniniki, who took the lowly man Archlaus, who brought her from the wild, and began to win the recognition of Thebes. His Majesty Pharaoh also received terrible news - that is, Beniniki was giving away Prince Cyrena, and the chiefs had a lot of wealth, and almost used up all the remaining money in the treasury."

Li Bida's expression became serious. He curled his hands, "Eunuch, do you mean that Beniniki wanted to extradite his Majesty's parent-child fostered in Cyrenaga first, so that he bribed the chiefs?"

What, it seems that the commander also knows the fact that Cleopatra's younger brother is there. It seems that Cleopatra told this person that things are a bit tricky now, because everyone knows that Libidaus is completely on the side of Queen Little Sweet—Mothamenis laughed dryly and said that it is completely like this, "If Beniniki gets the son of Pharaoh with that Achlaus, she might have retreated to the throne with the son of Pharaoh, and support the son of Pharaoh ascended the throne and gained the recognition of the officers, the powerful and the priests, then the throne of His Majesty Pharaoh is really in danger. His Majesty originally thought that Cyraniga was a safe area and did not bring his son to Rome. Now it seems a fallacy! So the hope of a quick battle is placed on the commander-in-chief, no, the priest of the regent, so His Majesty hopes to visit the fortress and personally encourage the armies."

Just when Li Bida wanted to emphasize the difficulties - the team was exhausted too much energy before, the weather was hot now, the problem of captives had not been resolved, etc. He hoped that after the food harvest was completed, he would join the army and expand the generals to 10,000 (he was preparing to form a new legion) and then march into Alexander.

However, Diotus kept winking himself from behind. Li Bida understood a little and smiled and said yes, "I will speed up the chores before the expedition. When Pharaoh arrives at Perusim, our army will head towards Alexander."

After nightfall, Diotus sneaked along the drainage ditch behind the temple, under the cover of night and trees, came to see Li Bida, saying that he wanted to provide key information.

As expected, Diotus had been following Xiao Katu for a year, and he was quite clear about some entanglements of government affairs and power struggles. He also tried his best to urge Li Bida not to waste too much time and take the lead. Because the Egyptian court won't talk about the throne's conscience, but in the city of Rome, Pompei's conscience, former consul Gabinus (Roman ascended the new consul, that is, March 1 every year, as the beginning of the new year, and the former consul also went to the province to serve as the chief executive, that is, the governor) had already set off for Cyprus Island, and the Pharaoh could not stay there anymore, otherwise once he was controlled by Pompei, the interests and benefits of your conquest of Egypt might be wasted.

After listening to Diotus's narrative, Li Bida suddenly realized that it seemed that buying this tomb robber was a very cost-effective deal. He immediately gave the other party three thousand drachma silver coins as intelligence expenses, and then told him to be careful in everything in the Pharaoh's court. "You have all the cleverness and cleverness, but don't slack off on the study of rhetoric and etiquette - even if Cleopatra is not a female pharaoh for the time being, her brother's trust will be obtained by you. You are the future governor of Egypt, and I really need you." Not only did he give money, Li Bidaus also treated the brothers with equal status, slapped and hugged Diotus, making the other party feel grateful to him so much that he was confused.
Chapter completed!