"The emperor sat upright on a high throne, surrounded by weapons, war horses and guards, and the conquered captives lie at their feet." - San Cristost's description of the pomp of the Eastern Roman emperor

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The delegates were immediately stunned. The lead-in bones were holding Urabella's complaint in their hands. They didn't know whether to read bravely or leave quietly, but the cold light of the axe was still flashing in the hall, and the cavalry commander stood aside from a distance in a condescending manner.

Finally, Li Bida spoke, "Now there are no consuls in Rome, only dictator and cavalry commander. The system is a wartime martial law system. All the people should be respected by the dictator's consciousness. Now you instigate the people to launch a riot and occupy the temple is a great crime. I can cut off your scalp and then ask the executioner to push you off the Gaoyan | No | Wrong | Go and die. But after all, I still need someone to go to Urabella to pass the message, so you twelve people, only one of you can go back, and the rest are temporarily stuck

Pua rest for a few days." After saying that, Li Bida walked to the representative who was trembling in his hand and slowly took his scroll over. The representative had no intention of resisting and pushing. Then Li Bida threw the book on the ground and stepped on it with his feet. "Go back and bring a message to Urabella. As the captain of the cavalry, I declare that before His Excellency Caesar ascended Italian territory, the Roman city-state was closed. No market or assembly is allowed. No vote on any bill is allowed, whether in the Senate or the Tebres House."

The so-called "closing of the market" is indeed an order issued by consuls and dictators. Generally speaking, the purpose of the closing of the market is to allow the people to prepare festivals or triumphal celebrations, facilitate the cleaning of squares and gatherings, and plan the parade routes.

Now that Li Bida requests a market closure, it is naturally to delay the vote on Urabella's debt proposal. Once the dictator really returns to Rome, Urabella will have no energy and will not be able to make any waves.

"You must know that we must give reasonable feedback to the general public who is looking forward to this proposal." Finally, the representative mustered up the courage to avoid the fascist axe and questioned the cavalry commander.

"The market is closed for the God of Governor's Day celebration." Li Bida's expressionless face.

"What about after the God of Agriculture Festival?"

"It's for the triumph of the dictator army."

"But now even the legion is on the battlefield of the God of War."

"Who cares? Ten days later, I asked them to return to the settlement area obediently and prepare to go to the expedition of Afrika." Li Bida still had a poker face.

"What if we people are determined and refuse to close the market?"

"The four legions of Kofinium and Pasini, who took out the Skylark Legion, which was originally on the Tiber River in Rome, will enter the city and execute the order of the city on behalf of the Senate."

All the representatives protested a little angrily, saying that there was no right reason for the cavalry commander to do so.

"Of course there is a reason, because these four legions have been awarded the qualification to triumph. I have been fighting for so many years, and I can sponsor a large-scale competitive competition in Rome for the first time. At that time, eleven of you will not have to go back to the city alone. Follow my guards and carriages to watch grand dramas, gladiators and parades. After that, I will give you extremely generous gifts." Unexpectedly, the cavalry commander has changed his face now, and it is really ridiculous to put them under house arrest with such generous reasons.

After learning that Li Bida dared to seize the representative, Yurabella was extremely angry and shouted, "I heard that his women and children are in the city, so she ran to arrest them!"

As a result, in the courtyard of Li Bida's family, there were 300 fully armed gladiators guarding, as well as thousands of dock workers and paddlers from Ostia River Harbor. After receiving the letter from Paluma from Gaul, they also crowded with weapons to the mansion and voluntarily vowed to protect the safety of Li Bida's family and stay away from death. Faced with the gladiators and the strict union, the group of mobs under Urabella could not even touch the door frame.

So Urabella thought of the veterans who were asking for money on the colonel's field, so she sent representatives to contact them, meaning that they could provide weapons to serve as thugs, but Scarva and all the commanders of the legion refused sternly, "We are the army, and this time the request is extremely legitimate. In the face of Anthony's cavalry and swords, they did not fall into using violence to solve problems. Now the cavalry commander has made outstanding achievements and is a war hero in all Rome, so we have no reason to defame ourselves."

"This group of soldiers will pretend to be justice." Yurabella was so angry that he cursed. Then he realized that his father-in-law was also in Brindisi, which was actually the same as the hostages in Li Bida's hands, so he could only give up the idea of ​​hijacking and threatening each other.

But the news that followed shocked him even more: although the cavalry commander could not say that he could come to Rome, he suddenly appeared in the Grand Plaza of the Roman Citizens after half a market, followed by hundreds of veterans, and almost all the nobles who had power in Rome were by his side, as if they had been negotiated in advance.

When Urabella's gangs gathered in front of Julia's Hall, the other party also leisurely confronted them face to face, "Closing the market, disband, Urabella returns to her mansion and is not allowed to leave the city's sanctuary. As a civilian guardian, if he leaves the boundary of the furrow, it will be equivalent to losing his power that cannot be violated. Any security incident at that time has nothing to do with the state. What you have to do is wait quietly for the dictator to deal with you after he returns." Li Bida said directly to Urabella.

The gangsters and the mob immediately became riots, and many people began to touch weapons from their arms. When Urabella gave the order, they used violence and forced the cavalry commander to announce in public that they would give up the order to "close the market".

But after a period of time of mutual understanding, Urabella took the lead in compromise. After all, he was a young man with little experience in the world. His blood came and dissipated quickly. Thinking about his wife, children, lovers and father-in-law, and seeing the reflection of the soldiers' swords hidden in the Great Hall, he could only do this. "The proposal to abolish debts is far from over, but the expansion of the riots will be detrimental to the entire state, so we should wait until Caesar comes back to raise this topic." Then, Urabella lowered her head and stood on the steps of the Senate in a crazily sad and cursed voice, and stood together with all the nobles and officers again.

Then, Li Bida ordered the Ostia River Port to transport grain urgently, sent full bread to the people, and gave all citizens a certain amount of new coins as a "gift for the Goddess of the Governor's Day", and promised debt and rent issues. After the dictator came back, the public riots were quickly quelled.
Chapter completed!