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Chapter 23 Blood Banquet (Part 2)

Pharaoh held alabaster cup and frequently advised the guests to drink, but everyone was most concerned about whether they could walk out of the royal city alive. After a while, Hebrida led a group of soldiers into the hall, holding a leather box containing the manuscripts in his hand. Several scribes immediately walked up, took the manuscript, read it, and then scraped and smoothed several of the more important ones with ivory, and knelt down and presented them to Pharaoh.

Ptolemy Twelve put down his wine glass and glanced at Shapapaya with majestic eyes. Not long after, he smashed the meal table with his fists. All the powerful people present shivered with the sound.

Silently, only the angry voice of Pharaoh echoed, "What is Deret from? He was just a sheep-grabbing pariah in the Macedonian region. He relied on his uncle to serve as an officer in the Hormahi Legion. When he was thirteen, he came to my palace as a guard. What do I do to him? I did not let him be infected with the dirty work of work, and made him a noble warrior. Later, he entrusted the border of western Egypt to him, but who thought he would repay me in this way! He actually betrayed my son on paper and cursed me in front of the gods! Even if he died, he was no longer my kingly friend. I immediately lost all his property and supervised the country!"

Li Bida next to him immediately took out the account book and handed it to the Pharaoh. The hall was filled with wailing and anger. The Pharaoh looked at the names of the books and his hands were trembling. "Two-thirds of the powerful people in our kingdom are all making trouble. Today is no longer you enjoy the meal of Obit's Day, but my crocodile!" After saying that, Pharaoh screamed angrily, put the account book on the steps under his feet, and then left the banquet under the escort of several dead soldiers and turned to the apse.

The slaves, dancers and musicians also fled from the side door and secretly the passage, and the entire hall was about to storm.

Li Bida stood in the center of the throne. Then he made an execution gesture to the centurion and soldiers around him expressionlessly. Then the two rows of Roman soldiers immediately formed a shield wall on the steps and covered the commander-in-chief behind him.

"Who wants to die!" Several aberrant powerful people shouted, crossing the corridor columns and preparing to run outside the palace gate. As a result, hundreds of Nubian black soldiers had already rushed out of the tower and shot a "bobo" arrow in the direction of the corridor columns. The people were shot in arrows all over, screaming and rolling on the steps. More and more people began to run around helplessly and desperately, and there were flying arrows everywhere, agility like moths piercing into the fire, soon

The lamppost was also knocked over and shot, igniting the wine and carpet, and flames emerged everywhere. The bodies slowly piled up the entire hall. The beasts full of "copper-headed and iron armor" in the crocodile pond were particularly excited after smelling the smell of wine and blood. The tails were thrown out of various trajectories. Some people could not stand the fire and arrow shot, so they flipped over the iron fence. As a result, they were immediately bitten by the crocodile's mouth, and the flesh was torn and dragged into the pool water. It quickly turned into the delicious food in their belly.

The killing was declared to end in the two nights. After the shield wall was untied, the Roman soldiers walked down the steps and kicked the corpses with ferocious faces piled up at their feet, stabbing to death the dying people who were still bleeding. "Shenyin" crawling, "all solved, four hundred and thirty-three corpses." After a long time, Hebrida wiped the sweat from the corner of her mouth and came up to report to Li Bida.

"It's okay. Pharaoh will soon promote a group of loyal friends from the clerks and small officers to help govern Egypt. These more than 400 borers have no benefit to this country except for corruption and corruption." Li Bida then snapped his fingers gently. A treasurer named Charliena stepped forward, "You have the ability to write and govern. You will hand over the miscellaneous chores of the deceased's property to you. Don't forget to hand over the one-third of the income to our army as compensation according to the agreement. Also, in a market day, that is, after the situation in Alexander and Lower Egypt stabilize, you will preside over the Herberside Festival (temporary amnesty celebration) for His Majesty Pharaoh. After these, you will be the new and most valued friend of Kings."

The Charliener, who was in his thirties, immediately bowed to Li Bida and thanked him, and then rushed to the palace library with a few clerks.

Three days later, the blood feast in the palace ended, and the clerks began to confiscate all the property of the powerful, and Li Bida's army began to attack the Jewish borough of Alexander. They deprived all the Jews of only a little food and clothing, forcibly forced them and their families to board the ship, "exit them to Cyrenega, or the Kusi area!" But Li Bida's methods were quite kind, and they only confiscated their houses and took 70% of their wealth, most of them were sent to the legion treasury, and part of them were handed over to the Pharaoh's treasury.

The Chamber of Commerce of Ubertnia, shortly afterwards, came to Alexander City on a ship and brought nearly a thousand merchants. They hurried in the Jewish temple left by the expelled heretics (not belonging to the same sect), and whispered indifferently and fiercely to each other about the construction of distribution warehouses, shops and docks in the "New Jewish Quarter". As for the transport fleet, there is no need to worry about it - Li Bida has transferred all the fleets he had pieced together to the Chamber of Commerce of Ubertnia.

In the Hormahi barracks, Kasio sat opposite Li Bida's table. The two of them sometimes spoke ill of each other, sometimes spread their hands to compromise, discussing the matter of dividing the spoils. "There are too many accounts left without leaving the legion's treasury now. If we stick to the previous three-component accounts, we will suffer a loss!" This is Kasio's request.

"How can some books be settled? I'm not as stupid as Xiao Katu, and I want to put half of Ashes into the Parthenon Temple in the Republic." Li Bida faced tit-for-tat.

Then the two continued to enter the harsh mode, and Sabos sitting next to him made records like accustomed to him, "Okay, okay! Don't be too noisy with me. Pay the 2,000 Talent gold in one go, take them back to Rome, and ask for credit from Xiao Katu!" Li Bida shouted and reported his bottom line.

"After careful calculations, we believe that you still owe a thousand Tarant." Kassi refused to give in.

At this time, Sabo Kemus thought of something and leaned on Li Bida's ear and said a few words. The commander-in-chief nodded and agreed to add three thousand tarantes, but the condition was to leave Triali and a quarter of the fleet in Alexander City. "How about this, this condition is very good. Just say one word, and then it's just a matter of the formalities between the two governors of Gabinus and Caesar."
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