Augustus Road

"Calabis, what you did is a bit excessive." Demetrius said half angrily and half threatening, "Eight hundred talents is nothing, but delivering it at the Prima Banquet will make the owner and I have become the laughing stock of the city of Rome. With your current strength, can you fight against Pompey? "

Calabis laughed and said: "You are just a slave. Do masters ask for your opinions when talking to each other? You are only responsible for doing things. Don't think that you are the same as me, Demetrius."

"You should also think about your family!"

"Don't even think about touching my family, Jew. Don't think that my family is my weakness. You already tried to kill them once last time. In the end, I killed Catiline. I will spare your life." , If I lose my patience with you now, I can kill you in front of this temple. I can fully afford your price." Calabis patted the drop-shaped dagger on his waist and said, "You. It’s better to beg God to keep my family safe, otherwise I will get rid of your master first, then crucify you, and let you bleed to death, regardless of whether it has anything to do with you.”

"Don't be stupid, Calabis! You are very smart and capable. I admit that, but you will not compromise. Why don't we join forces? In this way, there will be no opponents for us in Rome. We will still be like before in Asia Minor." Unite and love each other like that, you, me, Adiana, and Poti," Demetrius reached out to persuade.

"It's ridiculous. Although I was a slave before, I will not join forces with a slave who betrayed the old master now. I can consider the matter of Prima's banquet, but the eight hundred talents to buy the sword. No one should be missing. Demetrius, you should know that your current master is just a vain man. He sent you to Rome to spend money all over the world just for the purpose of building a grand triumph in Rome. Observation booths, stages, dining tables, the streets are crowded with people, filled with flowers and lanterns. Your master is riding a white horse, immersed in the glory of his life. But in two days all temporary structures will be demolished, and the streets will be full of people. The rubbish will be blown away by the wind, and your master will spend his wealth, be tricked by the Senate, and gain false glory. Then he will be idle, wasting his time, and living no more meaningfully than Luculas."

Hearing Calabis's to-the-point sarcasm, Demetrius forced himself to calm down, "What you said is indeed true, but the master is the greatest soldier in the history of Rome, and ten legions are willing to fight under his banner. , this kind of glory is not an illusion.”

As a result, Calabis stepped forward and straightened Demetrius's collar, "Actually, I will never forget the support and advice you gave me when I came to Rome. But you are taking the wrong path. What do you mean? The glory and power are just phantoms attached to Pompey, and I - I will step up step by step, I am the one who can control my own destiny. I will also have the legion, maybe one day your master. The legion will also be commanded by me. Don’t talk about the old relationship. In this world, I only owe Bodi. The rest have changed, you, me, and Adiana." After that, Calabis gave Demetrius a hug, "We might as well wait for another ten years and see the dust settle. Goodbye, former friends."

After saying that, Calabis pushed Demetrius away, waved his hand, and left the Jewish temple without looking back.

At this time, a resolution was reached in response to Pompey's request in the Senate Assembly Hall, the Temple of Concordia, under the setting sun:

Pompey's great triumph was allowed to be held a year later, and the Thirteenth Legion, thanks to the efforts of Luculas, was also able to hold a minor triumph two years later;

However, Pompey made a request to run for the consulship of Rome in the same year as the Great Triumph. The Senate hereby held that if Pompey held a triumphal ceremony, he could not go to the Capitol to register as a candidate because the time of the election and the triumphal ceremony conflicted. , Pompey could choose one of the two;

Pompey must submit 70% of the wealth gained from Mithridates' war to the treasury after being audited by the Roman Supervisory Commission, and the remaining 30% will be used for rewards for soldiers, the construction of the Temple of Venus and the cost of the grand triumph. ;

Once he arrived at the port of Brindisi and landed on Italian land, Pompey was required to disband his ten legions on the spot and ride into the city of Rome alone;

In the war in the East, the proposals regarding land and pensions for the veterans of Pompey's legions were discussed in the long run and temporarily shelved;

Pompey was in the East, and the Senate basically recognized the settlement plan for a series of vassal kingdoms.

Three days later, just two days before the banquet at Villa Prima, Crassus sat in the reception hall of the Temple of Vesta with a smile. He deliberately wanted to meet Calabis here and at this time. This Roman city The money head of state did not mention the six thousand talents at all. He was much more open-minded than Calabis imagined. After all, Crassus was a person who was more sensitive to the political situation. After he heard the resolution issued by the Senate against Pompey, , and immediately returned to Rome from Campania.

"I don't care about the six thousand talents. After all, Calabis, your power cannot be compared with Pompey, and you can't stop it. And for now, it would be better if the six thousand talents are fake. For that boastful Pompey is even more unfavorable, because that Pontic princess actually handed these iron blocks into his hands, which is enough to keep the inspection team busy." Crassus's crow's feet were rippling, "I will soon kill Pompey. You've done well to restore your financial resources to their original form, Calabis." Then he tucked down his toga and coughed at the virgin Lisilia who stood quietly next to him.

"Calabis, have you been to Sardinia?" Li Xilia suddenly asked.

Hearing the virgin's question, Calabis described the situation. Crassus and Lisilia both laughed, "Do you know? That Yulia invested in marine insurance and failed again. Now her debt is forty Talent.”

It turned out that Julia, the young widow of the Lepidus family, did not listen to Habaruka's persuasion after he and Brutus left, and stubbornly imitated the old Cato to engage in maritime trade insurance. This behavior was consistent with Calabis's The "pyramid scheme" before time travel is somewhat similar - Yulia took the 20,000 dinars that Karabis gave him, plus the proceeds from selling the remaining fields, and 50,000 dinars of silver coins, and lent them to other merchants. , and then forced these merchants to develop more offline, everyone finally raised funds to piece together a fleet, and then she asked Habaruka to join the fleet, turning the debt into ownership of the goods. Once the goods on the ship successfully sailed, they would sell them Once the goods are finished, you will make a lot of money, at least four or five times the profit.

But the stupid little widow forgot that in the past, Old Cato’s cargo rights were spread to each ship, which meant that he would buy a piece of cargo for each ship, so as to spread the risk to the maximum extent (the ship sank and ran aground at that time) Or being robbed is a common occurrence). Julia invested all her assets in luxury goods on a ship, but the ship sank on the way to Africa.

Lose all your money!

"Huh?" Little widow, you are going bankrupt with your life! (To be continued.)