Chapter 4 Tribunals (Part 2)
"You should express your opinions boldly and bravely, and think more about the responsibilities you should bear to the country. When we enter this synagogue, we are not the little citizens who go to the market to buy some flowers, fruits and vegetables. We are the special fathers of the Roman Republic. In this case, who is willing to follow Caesar, who still wants to be friends with him, and who still desires to continue to please him? Then, take off your robe that symbolizes your identity and break completely with the Senate, the country and the people. Today, we must select the right person and go to accept the province of Gaul. My personal suggestion is Gabinus." In a Julia synagogue in a market, Bolus, with aging eyelids hanging down, made a qualitative speech first before the gathering of hundreds of senators.
Metra Scipio then jumped out, and no one expected his position to change so quickly and smoothly after becoming the father-in-law of the great Pompey. He loudly agreed with Bolus's speech and claimed that "Before Gabinus takes office as the new governor, Caesar must be ordered to dissolve all his legions. I personally think that the deadline is on the last day of February of the following year, because March is the day for the governor to take office."
"Yes, without your reminder, I actually forgot this important day. I used to be confused and always thought that the Rome provincial chief executive had packed his luggage in June." In his circle, Kota mocked Scipio's pretending to be sophisticated, and the Caesars's MPs and elders also laughed.
After a while, the Caesars also identified two representatives' speeches, one was Caridius and the other was Rufus. Although they represented Caesar's interests, their speeches were relatively mild. In the eyes of Xiao Gatu, who had always watched coldly, it seemed that Caesar's reaction was disorganized. Calidius suggested this, "The main reason why Caesar had the excessive behavior of leading the army to occupy Arimiron was that he believed that he and Pompey were treated unfairly by the veterans. Therefore, the best solution now is to let the two governors return to their respective provinces first, and then slowly resolve it in the new consul's year."
Carydius's suggestion not only obtained the echoes of Rufus, Spingzel, Bisso and others, but even the stable elements of the Republican faction, such as Marclus, agreed. Marclus's statement was obviously for Pompei's consideration. "Dear colleagues, what's wrong with you? Is anger really overwhelmed everyone's minds? Now half of the city of Rome has been turned into ashes, and we are standing in a temporary synagogue with no slightest movement of military force on hand, and we are discussing how to pay ten legion weapons that can be used to fighting within three days. This is simply crazy suicide. I suggest that Pompei and Caesar's term will be extended by one year. Then, the two new consuls will recruit three to four new legions in the next year's recruitment season to defend Rome, and then solve the problem through law - a proposal without armed support is really undeterrent."
However, Marclus' reasonable and safe plan was angrily criticized by the two new consuls, Marcelas and Dumigos. They even threatened that Marclus might have accepted Caesar's bribes and would make a big fuss. If conditions permit, they would consider torture the personal slaves in Marclus' family, and perhaps they could ask something.
In this way, Marclus was so scared that he immediately sat in the corner, closed his mouth, and did not dare to say more. The two spokesmen of the Caesars were all repelled.
At this time, there was also a premeditated riot outside the Julia Hall. Under the instructions of Pompei, many of his former subordinates, including many centurions and veterans, were crowded in the square. Faced with these long-standing guys, the Claudi Party could only escape. The new consul and the hired gladiators also held torches, lit the tents in the square, and surrounded the hall with no water, shouting loudly slogans to punish Caesar. Now, all the elders began to panic, and Bolus immediately threatened everyone and voted on the issue of taking over as Gallic Governor.
Caesar's father-in-law Bisso and the inspector Pinzel made their final efforts. Bisso called out that even if the Senate wanted to pass a resolution that was unfavorable to Caesar, the other party should have the right to know: so please give me six to seven days, and I personally went to Arimiron to inform Caesar about this, and advised the other party to calm down so as not to be affected by war.
But Scipio and others rushed up, pushed and beat Bisso and others in the synagogue, and refused all their requests.
"I veto!" At this time, the Caesars's civil guard Barthus rose up and ran loudly to veto power. As a result, more than a dozen republican elders immediately surrounded him and kept intimidating and insulting. Barthus's clothes were torn and pulled down, but they were still standing up there and shouting, "I veto, I veto! Even the tyrant Sula did not abolish the veto power of the civil guard. Could it be that Pompeii was a terrible dictator than a tyrant?"
"Let him veto it. After the election of the civil servants is over, we will openly vote in the Senate to confirm this matter. Once the vote is over, the veto power of the civil servants is not effective." Xiao Katu dissuaded the imminent fight and let Barcelona go, because in his eyes, the Caesars were already struggling to death.
There were even rumors that immediately took advantage of the triumphal style and Katu would join forces with Pompei to deal with Caesar's tenth legion first.
However, the voting of the Senate must still be jointly chaired by two new consuls. The new consuls officially uses such power and has to wait until the election of the civilian protection officer is over. This is a relatively fixed procedure. Xiao Katu's speech is based on this.
The election of civilian officials is adjacent to the election time of the consul and later, but the variables arise in this campaign that is ignored by Xiao Katu, or in other words, this is the result of Li Bida's control.
With such a result, even Curio, who thought he was calm and steady, was shocked:
Except for the ten newly elected Roman civil guards who continued to be re-elected, he was still a republican member on the surface, the rest of the re-elected and newly elected were all Caesarists!
Even Anthony and Paulus, who had just run back from Syria, were among the list.
Anthony clearly falsely reported his age. He is only in his early 28 years old this year!
But under the financial offensive of a large number of knights mobilized by Li Bida, the Civil Association still passed the appointment of Anthony.
Chapter completed!