"Everything is long and easy, politics, law and debate are the top priority, and art has no effect." - Ancient Roman proverb

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At that time, Pompei unconsciously took off his blood-stained robe and handed it to his slave. The slave ran back with his clothes, left the chaotic square, ran towards the suburb Alba, and shouted while running, "My master, the great General Pompei, has been seriously injured in the fight in the square. I want to go back and summon the doctor and exchange it for clean clothes."

At this time, Cicero and his friend Etius, who had panic, had just taken their slaves from Paladin Mountain and were about to go to the Grand Square to persuade the dispute. However, when he saw the slave running around in a blood robe, Cicero immediately shouted, "My guests, go forward and kill the talking livestock that ran wildly. His nonsense will cause chaos to spread throughout the city!" But when Cicero's guests drew their swords and chased them, the other party had already crossed the city gate and left in the dust.

In Alba and Pompei's low-key and luxurious villa, when the male and female servants at the door saw their master's blood robe being sent back, they couldn't suppress their excitement and worry and burst into tears. The sound was like a plague and reached the inner room. Julia, who was originally holding her bloated belly in pain, heard the unknown crying sound, and immediately struggled to get up from the couch, crossed the curtains and curtains, and came to the center of the courtyard.

In the bright summer sun, she saw her husband's terrifying bloody clothes. She first breathed rapidly. When the female slave next to her saw that her situation was wrong, she tried to soothe her mood. She shouted and asked the doctor to come out with her calm herbs. But it was too late, Julia's pupils grew rapidly, and sweat beads soaked in her clothes. Finally, the blood in her lower body fell on the floor of the yard like a waterfall. Then, in Pompei's villa, the crying sounded even louder.

"This is really a tragedy. All three lives are gone." In the sunset, almost all the people in Rome were discussing this unknown day. The three lives in their mouths were Caesar's mother who died of illness, Caesar's daughter who died of frightened and dying from childbirth, and of course, the child who also died in her womb, namely Caesar's grandson and Pompei's son.

About half a month later, Caesar in the camp of Gaul held his forehead and spoke in pain, and his hand was drooping the letters sent by Li Bida. He knew all the tragedies of the city of Rome, and Pompey fell ill in pain. All bills and candidate registrations were forced to stop. The ceremony of Xie was interrupted. According to the priests of the Temple of Jupiter, evil omen continued to emerge. Flocks of birds flew from the north, all drowned in the river with miserable screams. On the Paladin Mountain at dusk, the smoke from Romulus' shepherd's hut was broken all year round.

"Polempeii will stop all this, and the two families will eventually sacrifice them." Caesar said to his subordinates with a sob. "As sincerity, I am willing to donate money to build a Julia synagogue beside the square for everyone to discuss peace, and all this should be stopped."

Caesar's proposal was always responded by all walks of life in the city of Rome. Pompei, who was mourning on the hospital bed, also instructed Demethius to take Julia's stone coffin from the Alba Country Cemetery (owned by the Pompei family). With the spontaneous help of many citizens, they walked along the street and entered the city and buried in the cemetery of the Temple of War. The people not only expressed the same respect to Caesar and Pompei, the two heroes who were confronting each other, but also hoped that this move could eliminate the unnecessary dispute between the two, and that the heroes killed each other. This was the greatest tragedy known since the ancient times.

Correspondingly, Caesar's matriarchal clan, Duzhi official Kota, was appointed as the head of Julia's synagogue together with Li Bida. Kota was a generous and scheming person, so Caesar did not take him to Gaul, but asked him to manage his family assets. After all, in the Roman world, it was not much different from the Han concepts: public office and family affairs needed to be held and managed, and the family was also like the royal family, and the most important thing was to have a reasonable division of labor. Such personnel arrangements were the cost of the construction of the synagogue. Kota would allocate half of the private property of the Julius family, and the other half was paid by Li Bida, which was borrowed by Caesar.

This kind of project is no stranger to Li Bida, and he has his own way to win over people like Kota. He first asked Kota to pull out a hundred tarants from his family's industry, and then Li Bida mobilized the knights to buy a large amount of affordable wood and iron nails from Etruscana (almost not for money. Anyway, Crassus' mines are all his own industries, and there are all these two things), and introduced lead and marble from Samos Island in Greece. Related machinery and technicians were also ready-made. In the end, he just went around the book, Kota only spent twenty tarantes of money, and the rest was all attributed to his private pockets. Kota wanted to take care of all the tribe's property to Li Bida.

Moreover, Li Bida had sufficient reasons to legally squat in the city of Rome. Not only that, he also expanded the camp outside Principe's gate on the grounds of asking the Legion soldiers to join the construction project. There were no less than two thousand elite soldiers traveling day and night on the streets, using the pack horses to which the Legion belonged. Of course, these people were also his and Claudi's backers.

This is also a complete test of Pompei, because it is recognized in the world that Pompei has the support of the entire army. If this is true, Pompei would not tolerate him openly "showing armed forces" in the city of Rome. But unexpectedly, Pompei was nesting in the countryside of Alba, and his army did not exist at all. At least it did not exist around the city of Rome. The only few elite legions that had not been dismissed were concentrated in the Spanish garrison. The only Spanish First Legion, the number "Haven", was still in Capua. Li Bida made detailed investigations and notes, and told Kay all about Pompei's reality.

Sa, "He is a guy with overconfidence. The so-called thousands of soldiers were just thought of by himself. I still feel sorry for Gatu, but he would bet on him. I can even say without boasting that if you want to capture the city of Rome, the 12th and 13th legions under my command are sufficient to be able to stay behind the 10th legion to guard Gaul. You will lead the other legions to sweep Greece along Illyria, cooperate with Cyrene's fleet, and cut off Pompei's connection with the East. As long as he can force him to escape, we will inevitably capture him in a market town in Mauritania or Spain."

Li Bida's arrogant and naked advice was angrily scolded by Caesar in the form of a secret letter, and warned him not to say these boring words in front of anyone, but Li Bida knew very well that what he said was Caesar's ultimate plan, because the Senate's liquidation of Caesar would eventually come with the coming year. Even Caesar himself added this in his reply, "Try to get Rome to the point where he can't run for election, so that my seat will be automatically extended for one year because no one takes over." (To be continued...)
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