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These words really benefited Pompey. He felt that as long as he dealt with Caesar, all the centrist forces in Rome would be used by him, and he would soon be able to surpass Sulla. When he was still young, he arrogantly He said to Sulla, "People only like the rising sun, but hate the misty sunset. Add 8 to the book title to see the fastest update." As a result, Sulla was unhappy, and he himself was suppressed for many years. Now he is regarded as Sulla's heir. Wasn't Tuna pissed off to death by him? The same is true for Caesar. If you don't personally take care of the stumbling blocks, the stones will not grow legs and walk away on their own.

Pompey's attitude really took effect, and very quickly, knights from other provinces turned to his camp one after another, because in the eyes of these people, Pompey represented the country's army. If they disobeyed his political stance, they would be punished. The military business will be lost. Pompey, who had the support of the knights from the provinces, quickly asked Cato to help him. "I have many old troops and new recruits throughout Italy and Spain, but in terms of food, fodder and salary, they used to rely on my personal army for half of it." Can you allocate part of the money from the treasury to solve this problem? Of course Cato knew that this was Pompeo asking the country for money to support his own army in disguise, but Pompeo then added. Some words that reassured him, "Don't worry, because now most of the provincial knights have wholeheartedly spent money to support me. Now the treasury only needs to spend a thousand talents a year to maintain the army fund." My Pompey’s army is the army of the Republic and the Senate.”

The last sentence is safe. Pompey once had half the country's army, but at any time the Republic asked him to disband the army. Not once did he do as he was told. Although Pompey was vain and vain. However, his own behavior was still within the framework of the rules, which made Cato more reassured.

However, when Cato the Younger conveyed Pompey's statement to Cicero who was staying at home, he was unexpectedly met with fierce opposition from him. This philosopher who had always admired the great Pompey now now believed in him. He directly rebuked Cato for being a man who was smart on the surface but confused and unprincipled on the inside, "You are too obsessed with the meaning of your family's name, and now your insight into the current situation is not as good as mine, an old guy who has been expelled from Rome several times, and who is familiar with the current Caesar." . We must not use the method of a hundred years ago, and let him be captured by a Senate decree. War methods are still ineffective. My friend, what makes you have such a strong desire to use this method of pulling one end and suppressing the other. Can the old methods be as effective as they were during the Punic War? Caesar and Pompey, not Fabian or Scipio, especially Caesar, who has become a rising star because of his external military exploits. This great image It has become deeply ingrained in the minds of the people, and now you are passing this stupid bill, even when Caesar is away fighting various dangerous barbarians, but the treasury has no sympathy for him and his legions, but instead allocates huge amounts of money and gifts every year. Give Pompey, who has been idle for seven or eight years back in Rome, and his non-existent "huge armed forces"! Such behavior of yours will not only anger Caesar's army, but it will also be a waste of national property. What's more terrible is, It is pushing the Romans to the precipice of dangerous internal strife. I personally think that the only way to solve this matter now is to delay it as much as possible until Caesar's governor's term is completed in two years and he takes office as consul for the second time. The honor will induce him to return to the city of Rome, and then arrange suitable and reliable candidates to take over his legion. He can even subdivide the conquered Gaul area into five or six small provinces, and then arrange most of the administrators to Management, splitting up Caesar's huge army, and over time, constantly deploying the army or demobilizing it, is the right way to eliminate the danger. "

Although Cicero's reply was full of insights, Cato the Younger was also a figure who paid too much attention to external aspects. He believed that Cicero's previous political stance was very weak and changeable, so he decided to "give people nonsense" and believed that Cicero's previous political stance was very weak and changeable. The suggestion was simply worthless. He didn't even expect the other party to reply, he just did it out of politeness.

Another incident made Cato even more determined to form an alliance with Pompey. That was Curio, who took office as tribune, suddenly spoke at the Assembly of Tebris, firmly supporting Pompey's control of the power of the country, and "Potential Enemy Confrontation of the City of Rome".

The former "Three Dancers" of the city of Rome, Claudius, Antony and Curio, representatives of the new generation of golden youth, have embarked on completely different paths in recent years. The former has become a "professional tribune", specializing in Rome. The city was full of arrogance; Antony originally suffered the most misfortune. Not only was his stepfather involved in Catiline's rebellion and was hanged, but he was also expelled from the political circle of Rome by Cicero. But now, with the help of Lepidus, he went to other provinces. The army gradually rose up; in the end, only the thin Curio stayed in Rome, building a huge theater for Pompey, working hard and nightly to raise Caesar's Eunonia colony, and shouldering the burden of Huge debt, and Caesar's craziness to please the people and powerful people. As for his all-round purpose, even Cato and Cicero could not guess.

Now Curio's position seemed to become clear instantly. Even Cicero privately admitted that this golden young man was already over thirty and had abandoned the confused behavior of his previous career and began to move towards becoming a real Roman politician. The prerequisite for being a politician is to put forward a clear position as a "stepping stone" (just a stepping stone) in order to make a splash. In addition, Curio's father once served as a consul and was particularly hostile to the Popular Party and the Democratic Party. With Caesar's name, it was only reasonable for this upstart in the political arena to accept his father's request.

In this stalemate, Curio's statement quickly attracted attention from all walks of life, which proved that he is a smart young man with good eloquence. His speech at the people's meeting was to the point: "Now This is not a time for procrastination. Our country has never had such a habit and tradition. Did Hannibal still need these long meetings in the city when he threw javelins at our city walls? Now our country is far more dangerous? Hannibal's figure, if this man is willing, will have a huge army of ten legions at any time, cross the snow-covered Alps, and ravage the entire republic just like Hannibal did, and this dangerous man surpasses Hannibal's The reason is that he is still an important national official, with countless minions in the city of Rome, and he is good at dancing. I risk my life to speak out here, that is, we need a more outstanding figure to lead the country and fight against it."

Before the words were finished, a commotion broke out in the venue. Some people were insulting and throwing stones at the podium. On the other side of the venue, Claudius in a red cloak and Lepidus in a white robe, carrying Thousands of ferocious party members are rushing towards Curio! (To be continued...)