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Chapter 27: The Road to Color (Part 2)

At this moment, the cold and frosty place in the back of the Yan Dynasty also calmed down all the local chiefs who had originally attempted to take advantage of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be destroyed by Rome and attempted to stand up in the area, including Nubia, Aksum, and Aden, all of them lowered their heads and signed a peace agreement on the board. It should be in this remote area, whether it is Parthia or Rome, it is difficult for them to reach their hands for the time being. They can only obey the top of the food chain in this "small ecosystem", that is Alexander.

Then, Empress Cleopatra was satisfied with handing over the words engraved with the agreement to the escorts in the court for safekeeping. Then she slowly comforted everyone present and said, "Don't worry about anything unnecessary. Remember that you just rented the harbor. I will pay you on time every year for the rich rent. You will soon be richer than the princes and the Roman nobles. Even the repair costs of the port and ships are not required to be borne by you. I will immediately send three legions to follow the expedition route of Pharaoh to Ponte until I control all the ports."

Below is an extremely huge project, and Li Bida also invested a lot of money. Anyway, the favor was given by Caesar - he would have the remaining sixty tarants left after building Troy City and eight hundred tarants given by Bisso to pay for the army's expeditions and the port rental costs for the first three years.

The Egyptian River Guard, led by the treasurer's head, became a vanguard team looking at the target. They first took a boat in reeds, carried convenient weapons such as bows, arrows, hammers and axes (easily split into roads in shrubs, and low-intensity conflicts with local barbarians), and came to the end of the Nile River. They walked out of the valley and followed the road formed by the dry riverbed of "Vadi-Hamamat" called "Hamamat" and came to the former site of the Castle of Gasus. Then the River Guard began to spend money around to collect guides, mules, horses and donkeys,

Materials and a large number of manpower, paved more perfect roads, and repaired Gassus, dug wells, added warehouses and stables. Then Lufio led two legions, Achilles led two legions of Bendu, and followed the routes followed by the vanguards, and continuously built stronger avenues. This was the best Roman soldiers, and they dug wells along the way and military troughs for sheltering rain and wind. When they arrived at Gassus, they linked Nubia, the Nile Valley and the small and small ports along the coast of the Ponte Red Sea like diverging spiders.

This Ponte Trade Road, which has been famous and unusual since ancient times, was quickly dredged.

Then, on the vast sea, about forty ships of various colors were sent to the local ports of Aden and Aksum. Legions and technicians cut down trees locally. Alexander continued to have a large number of shipmen and technicians, following the newly opened wide road, arrived at the city of Gassus and began to build the dock.

Cleopatra has never enjoyed the benefits brought to him by a powerful legion like today - Cyprus, the pirates on Crete have been wiped out by Pompey, and the trade route has been restored. In addition, after becoming a vassal of Rome again, he did not have to waste money and damage the people to resist the invasion of the overlords. Cyrani was as safe as his own backyard under the control of Li Bida, and the border trade with the desert nomadic people also reached a prosperous level; so the Little Queen just ordered General Siekebehu and General Serapione to lead the team under the former "Nomadic Border Chief"

Wu was stationed in Perusim fortress to guard against the threat of a single line in the east, and the south became a vassal of Ptolemy again. Then Cleopatra borrowed the "semi-tax order" established by Li Bida and the so-called "road construction" to severely collect a large amount of wealth and land in the city of Thebes. The priests had no choice but to do anything in front of the army - the east, south, west and north, all of whom were obedient to the queen. They had no choice but to bow their heads and obey orders. Many tenants and craftsmen were reclaimed by the state and became directly under Ptolemy's household registration, with taxes and corvee services greatly enhanced.

Only then did Cleopatra understand how much benefit Li Bida's painstaking arrangements could bring to her or the other party. Sometimes, there is no right or wrong question in political interactions, nor does it require personal emotions to be incorporated into them. There is only win-win and single win-win, and the former is always stable and effective than the latter.

Finally, in the city of Gasus after the end of the Goddess Day, there were mountain-like treasures piled up on the open-air cargo warehouse in front of the dock, most of which were specialties from Egypt and Aksum. "If you want something that is not produced in the Seris Empire, you can make the emperors of the other side feel novel." So ivory, tortoiseshell, rhinoceros horns are mainly used, and there are rare birds and beasts raised in cages, such as giraffes. "When you go there, you say it is a kilin, and you say it is a kilin - listen to my pronunciation, a kilin, and then you're right.

Emperor Seris said that this is called auspiciousness, auspiciousness——Listen to my pronunciation, auspiciousness. As long as you hear this, the emperor will be very happy.” In the castle of Libida, Otakilius, who had just been appointed, happened to be the messenger of the adventure. He was surrounded by documents covered with ring seals, while Libida carefully taught him the pronunciation of two words, "Qilin" and "Xiangrui". Otakilius had a talent for language and quickly slipped the word back.

In another month and a half, he would take a boat to Alexander, then arrive at Aksum, Ponte, and then take a boat to cross the ocean to achieve communication between the two worlds. This communication may bring peace, prosperity and pleasure to both worlds within ten, twenty, or even three hundred years. "Otakilius, how great your mission is!" Li Bida shouted for him and suggested to him, "Be sure to write a masterpiece passed down from generation to generation to describe what you see and feel along the way."

"I just want me to come back safely!" Otakilius's face was a little nervous and excited. He didn't have such a big vision at this moment. Then he put his hands behind his back and talked about Qilin and Xiangrui.

Just before Otachilius was about to set sail, Caesar's letter suddenly came, "Requested the capital's diaspora jurist Libidaus to return to Rome immediately, preside over the first National Tebris Conference, and discuss the re-establishment of the Knights' Court."
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