Augustus Road

There was a crisp "click" sound, and the black cat head opened its mouth immediately, and then its limbs moved up and down. As a result, all the little guys screamed, clapped and laughed again. Only then did Portia see clearly, this " The "black cat" is made of wood and has a sophisticated sports device, and underneath there is a short man manipulating it, making the children next to him happy. .

Then there was laughter like silver bells. The man took off the wooden toy cat, and it was a girl wearing an Egyptian "sari" dress. Although she looked a little younger than Fan Lundina and Little Pigeon, her expression was as clear as day. She was the core of the group of children. As a result, when the girl saw Lepidus and herself sitting on the long table, she pushed the toy cat with a pulley on its belly to Leo, and then with a series of crisp bells, Walking in front of them, he enthusiastically hugged Portia, who was still a little confused, and introduced: "I am the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh. Your father is about to go to Cyprus, and the local king happens to be my father's cousin."

"You mean..." Portia seemed to have guessed Lepidah's intention of calling her here before.

"Of course - my father has to rely on Lepidus for his restoration, and he is still my best, most loyal and closest friend, so I am willing to listen to him and ask my father to write a letter to my uncle to persuade him to accept his father's responsibility. With his kindness, he became a vassal state of Rome and eliminated the disaster of war. "Little Queen's Latin is also very good.

Before Portia could rejoice, Lepidus also stood up and said: "I will hire dozens of gladiators, even if it is only in Rhodes Island, to protect your father's safety, and I will also ask Brutus to join you. He needs real help."

At this time, the stone in Portia's heart finally fell. She rubbed her red and swollen eyes, started to laugh, and then asked Porty if there was anything delicious on the stove. She had not eaten for almost a whole day. Soon during the conversation, she started crying or laughing over trivial things.

Lepidus, who felt that the woman's talk was boring, looked at the children who were still playing with toy cats and stood in the yard. At this time, Cleopatra also came out and said in a curious and naughty tone: "Lepidus, I'm curious about how your family is organized? I heard that your first wife is in Sardinia and is not with you. It's really special that you and a woman of Poti's background live together." Lepida thought she was nosy. He coughed a few times and said that these things have nothing to do with you. You should pay more attention to your Majesty's diplomatic results. Maybe Cato's trip to Cyprus this time is a breakthrough: once Cyprus surrenders to Rome, it will be logical to send troops to Egypt.

"Okay, okay." Cleopatra walked over there, and then murmured with her hands crossed, "No matter what, I am still interested in your family, compared to the affairs of our country that are a foregone conclusion."

"Okay, after one more market day, I will leave Rome for the province of Gaul. I won't have contact with my family for about five years." Lepidus impatiently interrupted Little Queen's pursuit. beat.

As a result, Queen Elizabeth's next words almost made Lepidus spit out all the food he had just eaten, "It's been five years, so your body can hold it in? I understand, the Romans had special women in their camps. Provide this kind of service, but your first wife is so pitiful, she has to wait for five years, right? "

Before Lepidus could become angry, Queen Elizabeth began to talk again, saying that you should not go to Gaul at all. Our rebel regiment will soon make you a general. In that case, as long as you return to the Egyptian palace with me, that will be fine. They are my hairdressing maids, and they are all your food. My two hairdressing maids have been talking about you for a long time. And once you can help me wear the red and white crown, I can even consider myself..."

"Stop!" Lepida was a little flustered by the girl's incoherent words. He said coldly, "I'm sorry, Egypt is too hot." Then he hurriedly changed the subject and walked back to the inner hall, finally getting rid of the problem. The Entanglement of Leopatra.

However, in the end, until Lepidus left the city of Rome and went to Aguilera, the young widow Julia still had no reaction. She only accidentally sent letters to Lepidus Hongyan, and most of them only talked about the construction of the new city of Laconia. At work, Yulia is a woman who is very good at concealing her emotions. When she learned that Lepidus might leave five years later, she just said lightly to her nominal father that she would leave Dolly Wuxun, "It doesn't matter if I don't have children for the time being." , Anyway, you already have three children and an adopted son, who I will definitely treat as my own from now on."

In early spring, on the way to Aguilera, there was thawed mud everywhere. This made Lepidus' armor and cloak covered with mud, and he looked a little embarrassed. However, when he and his entourage arrived at the outskirts of Aguilera, they still got The warm welcome from the Twelve Legions of Illyria, they are all old acquaintances!

Now the Twelve Legions have expanded to 5,000 people. Except for 1,500 people who were the backbone of Thyme, the rest are newly recruited from the Gallic naturalized tribes in northern Italy or the Illyrian natives. The cost Finally, it was no longer Lepidus who had to bear the burden, but Caesar - who had apparently served as consul for a year, and his assets had indeed reached a surplus, as Cato sarcastically said, and there was even a lot of surplus, not only with gifts from the German chiefs " With "diplomatic funds", as well as funding from the Bisso family, Crassus and others, it was easy for him to recruit two auxiliary legions.

But even Caesar would not treat the regular legions and the auxiliary legions equally, because the messenger reported to Lepidus that Caesar had taken four regular legions to Milan and was ready to go north to stop the Helvetii at any time, leaving two auxiliary legions between Milan and Aguilera to build the military road.

On the construction site, Lepidus fell off the back of the "owl" with a groan, stepped into the mud with a croak, and almost fell down. When the soldiers of each battalion saw the commander coming, they put down their tools, lined up and stretched out their hands to cheer, "Dear Milu, tell me the current organization. Oh, Sabo, Sabo! You are also here from Spain." Lepidus hugged the two tightly in the mud pit and asked about the affairs of the legion without interruption.

Milu spoke first, "Old soldiers and new soldiers are mixed together, and a separate old soldier regiment is set up, but each battalion is guaranteed to have some old soldiers. I am now the chief centurion of the battalion of 1,000 people, Tagus is the second in command and is responsible for camp training, and Pop is in charge of engineers and artillery." Speaking of artillery, Libido immediately thought of his own "Libido. Modified" cavalry cannon, and asked Sabo, where is my cavalry cannon? (To be continued.)