Chapter 28 Cicero's Great Victory (2)
As soon as the proposal of the two consuls to jointly fight against Anthony was passed, Li Bida sat upright in the seat calmly until the meeting ended.
The next day, the second-CEO Meirut entered the barracks with a seal, tied a stick and a power bid, and was beaten by soldiers of the 15th Legion. He almost died. The soldiers pressed him on the wooden fence and beat him up with a stick. Then his slaves and entourage carried him back on a stretcher.
Then, CEO Pansa wanted to lead the army alone, but all the soldiers sat on the spot without obeying the orders.
The Senate was so scared that he dared not speak out, and was preparing to cancel the order to go to the expedition, but the four legions then sent military guards to surround Julia's hall and intimidate everyone, "Someone must take us to Gaul, Shannan within the prescribed time. If no one does this, then we will punish those who break their promises."
Now, there are only four days left before the auspicious day for the Sibill Prophecy received by the Senate envoy. The Senate must give the soldiers a lecture. In addition, the soldiers also asked that the murderer who killed Caesar be punished before they could obey the command.
According to this proposal, there was a quarrel in the Senate. Casca and others firmly opposed the soldiers' requests. They pointed directly at Li Bida, who was sitting upright and slapped, and said that he planned all this.
"But Sibir's prophecy must always be abide by. This is a rule defined by religion. No matter who the Republic is, it cannot transcend the rules." Li Bida came and went, and this was the sentence.
Then, he lifted his robes to Casca, Etius and others, intentionally revealing the curtain inside. Then he pointed to the guards of Medetie and Lusitanian barbarians standing outside the synagogue. This was a silent warning. The implication was that your way of dealing with Caesar was inappropriate to me.
The situation is getting worse and worse, and finally Cicero takes the opportunity to clean up the situation. "Now we have two proposals that need to be resolved urgently. One is the issue of the conquest of Anthony. For it, we must go to war and pacify all the soldiers; the other is the issue of punishment for the murderer."
"Why should we mix the two problems together? I completely think it can be separated. One problem and one problem can be solved in order." Li Bida stroked the ring on his finger and began to "flirt with" his special father. "For example, we can first solve the commander of the Shannan Gaul conquest operation, and then discuss the punishment of the murderer after Anthony was executed. In other words, as long as the soldiers under my command made a fortune in this war, received generous rewards and appropriate land placement, their anger will be controlled. The anger towards the murder of Your Excellency Julius will be reduced a lot. I believe this is a good phenomenon for everyone."
After Li Bida's words settled, there was another scene of lifelessness in the synagogue. Almost everyone lowered their eyebrows and eyes and had their own thoughts. Logically, except for the more than a dozen people who were the main evil and the sixty people suspected of being involved, the other veterans were still very "quiet" in their hearts: at most, after Caesar's death, we stood in the wrong team, so we wouldn't be able to kill them all, right? As long as Li Bidaus's wish is satisfied...
A veteran named Kaponius couldn't help but stand up and said there was no need to delay now. I suggest that Li Bida lead the army with Pansa as the consul.
Amid the noise, Li Bida's face was expressionless and motionless. Obviously, Caponius' proposal did not satisfy him.
"It is not an acting consul, but a formal consul. Li Bida was transferred to the consul again as a legally elected high priest." Caponius added this condition and almost made Merut present faint and die. You must know that he, the consul, had only been elected for three days!
But Li Bida still sat there without any expression.
Finally, the bargaining weight given by the elders was that Li Bida served as the consul as a high priest, with a seat above Pansa and had the power to command the army alone. The treasury immediately rewarded four legions with 600 dinars each in exchange for his willingness to go out to Gaul, Shannan and pursue Anthony.
Li Bida then slowly stood up, winked at Cicero, and then he asked Merut to take off the consul's robe in person.
"But, you are already wearing the costume of a high priest, so there is no need to ask for this robe..." Meirut begged with a sad face and a trembling voice, "At least, I will allow me to accept the celebration in my private residence and complete the inauguration ceremony."
"Dear Merut, you can hold a celebration alone. I can lend it to you dancers, clowns, musicians, and beasts and sword fighters for performances. But I'd better give it to me. I believe this shouldn't make you embarrassed." Li Bida stretched out his hand with a gentle tone. As a result, that evening, Merut came out in a crying robe.
Two days later, Li Bida forced all the veterans to be summoned again, and then he announced a joint impeachment case with Pansa, demanding that the tainted surveillance lawsuit in the "accidental death of former dictator Julius Caesar" Pinzel, the chief executive of the capital, Casca, the former consul Banks, the legal officer Etius, and the judicial officer Teppennuitas immediately deprived them of their identity and position and were not allowed to leave Rome, waiting for trial and despair.
"What are you going to do, what are you going to do!" When the entourage and the guard rushed into the hall and arrested all the people, Si Pingzeer was furious and shouted at Li Bida, "Why do you treat me like this, what are your qualifications?"
"Sipingzeel, the crows in your house are calling out in an unknown way. I think when you came to the assembly, the women and servants in the house heard this evil omen, but for those who were condemned by God and were unscrupulous, everything was futile." Li Bida made this cold joke.
Banks lowered his head. When he passed by Li Bida, he tried his best to defend himself that he had not participated in the assassination. Li Bida replied to him, "Everything will be treated fairly after I come back from the war."
Finally, the one who walked up to Libida was Etius. Libida stared at him and said softly, "Can you summon the ghost spirits to make me die suddenly on the spot, or do those ghost spirits have begun to retaliate against you? Your retribution is here, Etius, I have warned you a long time ago."
Etius said nothing, but stared at the high priest fiercely, and then was pushed out by the guards.
The rest of the veterans were "stick" to the seats, like legs and sieves, and they were neither running nor staying. Li Bida circled the hall's speech table, and then suddenly slapped a board on the desk. The silent hall suddenly shook several people with this sound.
"It's not enough! There are dozens of people on this list. I need the inspector to remove these people, including those who have just taken out, from the Senate list!" Li Bida shouted. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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