"Hercules, your bathroom is cold.[][]..[]" - After Juguda was defeated, he was imprisoned in the dungeon of Turiyanum, Rome, saying that six days later he and his two sons were hanged.

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"Do you know, how much is this robe you are wearing now?"

"Around three thousand drachmas, the price is about fifty pieces of gold jewelry." Adiana replied without hesitation, because the piece on her was unique and belonged to the whole East that only kings could wear. Even Caesar and Li Bida, when they appeared in public in the Republic, they could only wear thin silk materials or plain silk robes, otherwise they would be criticized for being extravagant, and Adiana was called "Par"

Tiya fabrics——a heavy investment from the Parthian Empire. They bought the cartons from the Seris Empire first, then sold them to Bendu, Greece and even Rome. Then weaving craftsmen from these countries carefully disassembled the cartons of different colors and patterns with needles, then weaving them into different patterns, and rewoven into robes and sold them at high prices. Therefore, the price along the way was simply shocking, and compared with the cost, it increased by more than three hundred times.

At that time, silk was money. In any factory in ancient Rome, those who steal or destroy silk would be punished with heavy punishment.

"What I need now is to make myself rich and weaken Parthia's plan. Now Parthia is just a transit business of raw silk and colored silk on land, and can get a huge profit of 3,000 tarantes every year. All I have to do is to interrupt its monopoly." Li Bida is full of confidence. "The secret is to ask the raw silk to transport it here in a different path. In addition, to obtain the technology of weaving colored silk, it is Cyris's weapon, jacquard machine. As long as we have a jacquard machine, we will get from the Cyris Empire.

If you take the next raw silk, you can get the lottery by yourself. There is no need to fake any country in the middle. Then the price of the lottery or the silk clothes they process will be lowered in our caravan. To achieve the purpose of dumping, our opponents and enemies, whether it is the chamber of commerce, city-state or empire, will go bankrupt within three years. Of course, these are sold to the rich, and we will sell the linen fabric printed and dyed by madras to the common people. At that time, madras, porcelain and color will be our invincible weapon in terms of money."

But when Li Bida used Greek words to express the name of the device "jacquard machine", Adiana was surprised because she had never seen such a mysterious thing in her life. However, the queen was very interested in any new or mysterious object, so she hurriedly asked. Since even Parthia could not do raw silk manufacturing and jacquard machine technology, what exactly did Li Bida rely on?

"It was this expedition that Cleopatra would assemble several legions and go south to seek various barbarian kingdoms between the Red Sea and the Nile River, forcing them to sign a treaty, open the port to rent it for us, and then we contact the Cerris Empire through the ocean." Li Bida said.

"Ocean? Can you get in touch with the Cyris Empire by walking on the sea?" Due to the geographical knowledge of that era, Adianna did not understand this little secret.

Yes, Li Bida explains it to Adianna below:

As long as I can obtain some ports in Aden and Aksum, I will send a long-distance fleet composed of Indians, Nubians, Egyptians, Bendus and my confidants to set sail in April of the following year, and I can reach Ceylon in about one and a half months to two months, and then transfer from Ceylon. In another month, I can reach Fulan. There will be a large amount of raw silk and even rent a piece of land by means of means. Just like the Phoenician queen Dido and Numidia, I will build a bridgehead for long-distance commerce.

Then, my envoys will follow the Fulan road north. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be able to reach the capital of the Seris Empire at the end of October and meet their emperors as a Roman envoy.

"Can you get a jacquard machine then?" Adiana asked naively, "Is that jacquard machine only available to the emperor?"

Li Bida smiled and said that it was impossible to get the jacquard machine directly. The border of Cyris was strictly guarded. Not to mention the jacquard machine, it was difficult to take away even a bug. But I would ask the envoy to carry enough gold gifts. As long as I could bribe the famous Syris technician and bring out the fine drawings of the jacquard machine to the idea, because that thing is no different from the Egyptian loom in terms of raw materials, and the distinction was only that it had some tricks for parts. So after two years, we strive to imitate the formal jacquard machine successfully. In addition, we try to get the raw materials for various color dyes, because we only have Cyrene's mad grass, which can only be printed and dyed with one red color. I also want black, white, yellow, green, and the secret to processing a whole set of colors.

Now, Adianna understood, so she felt relieved and nodded, saying that I would fight with you forever.

During the Festival of the Goddess of the Governor, when the whole of Rome focused on the discovery of Irion, and even Caesar asked the Senate to issue an edict to hold a seven-day God-Thank Festival on this matter. Many poor and rich people brought their own food and money, crossed the valley of Illyria, and prepared to pass through the Castle of Libida to visit Irion. On a journey to search for roots, Libida ordered the establishment of a road checkpoint on the outskirts of Libida and opened ships across the sea to collect coins from pilgrims. Then Achilles' fleet also set sail and carried two legions toward Alexander.

Then, in the palace of Ebos, Cleopatra, sitting on a lion-legged chair, was wearing a dress made of dazzling "Siton cloth", which made her chest and arms even whiter. Generals such as Lufio, Achilles and Shebekhu stood majestic on both sides in military uniform. The palace was the army hired by Queen Elijah, especially the three legions left by Caesar, plus the two legions brought by Achilles and the Holmahi Legion directly under the Queen. A total of six legions each selected a team of 100 people, standing in the atrium in front of the palace, making Aksum and Aden each of the chiefs and barbarian kings who were asked by the queen to come to see each other by the queen were frightened.

One of the young chiefs who dared to refuse the queen's request was immediately wiped out by the queen's vassal Nabatai Kingdom. He was directly pulled to Alexander City with a dog leash. The queen happened to kill this weak and ignorant "chicken", so the chief was thrown into the crocodile pond in front of everyone.
Chapter completed!