[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

"Has everything been cleaned up?" Octavia, who temporarily handed over the management of the Imperial Guard to Narcissus, did not wait long before getting the news that Narcissus had returned.

"It's all done." Relying on the strong support of Epirius, Narcissus almost effortlessly arrested those elders who liked to sing against Octavia, and the reason was ready-made "in When the emperor was seriously ill, he had other intentions and attempted to rob the regime."

Octavia never believed that these elders with an average age of 50 would forget that when Caligula was assassinated, Rome was almost bloodbathed by the Janissaries.

The biggest advantage of Augustus after establishing the Roman Empire is that he became the first citizen at the age of 40, and then spent 37 years to strengthen his rule.

After him, even Tiberius, who was at odds with Augustus, did not abolish the various policies of his predecessor during his administration. Powers of the Senate and the Citizens' Assembly.

Are you against the emperor?

no problem.

I will drive the knife to your neck to see if you still have any objections.

You want higher status?

no problem.

Elders, tribunes, and even consuls are all up to you to choose, but those positions with real power are firmly controlled by several major families.

As long as the people below don't listen to you, if you hold the financial and military power to death, even if you are Su La or Mark Anthony, you can only bow your head and obey.

Otherwise, why would the elders dare not let a fart go under Tiberius' rule, and could only make up their minds on the heir.After Caligula succeeded to the throne, he almost played off Rome, and no one dared to impeach the emperor. The Senate could only lead the idea of ​​assassination. After more than a month of chaos, the "belated" army and consuls were ushered in.

You must know that many of the consuls at that time were from the Senate or were direct children of the Senate.And the reason why he didn't dare to refute the madness of the imperial guards in the slightest was because they didn't have much power in their hands, so they had to persuade the families headed by Claudius and Lepidus, and waited for the other party's response. The anger was almost gone before I got the money and enough people to start tidying up the messy Rome.

As for why those big families indulged the imperial guards to bloody Rome, the answer Octavia got from Claudius was to kill the chicken for the monkey to see.

It is true that Caligula was a tyrant who everyone should punish, but he was a direct descendant of the deified Augustus, and he was also the emperor selected by several big families.

This is the same as Queen Elizabeth I of later generations hesitated to kill Mary Stuart.

As long as there is a precedent for assassinating the emperor, no one will be in awe of the emperor or even the blood of the Claudius family in the future.And the blood inheritance system left by Augustus will also be destroyed by careerists, thus subverting the power structure that took nearly 100 years for several major families to consolidate.

Therefore, those elders who dared to assassinate Caligula must be punished by the fund for genocide.

And now, Octavia instructed Epirius to arrest the elders, which made Rome recall the flames and screams in the month after Caligula was assassinated.

But Octavia is obviously a little more benevolent than the "controllers" of Rome decades ago.

The elders who were arrested were only sent to prison, and did not immediately hold a citizens' meeting or directly sentenced to death.This also gives the elders, and even the family members who are eager to get rid of the relationship with the elders, a hope of losing their jobs.

"Little Vitellius did a really good job. With his testimony and the evidence of the elders conspiring to gather together, plus Britannicus' own acknowledgment, I can justifiably solve those elders. "For the first time in history, Octavia rejoiced that she was a product of inbreeding marriage—because it also represented a high concentration of power and wealth, otherwise, why would the Habsburg family of later generations take the risk of genetic diseases and give birth to one after another? A big chin.

Being able to make up your own mind is always much more comfortable than being shackled by others.

Octavia knew that after she cleaned up the Senate, the voices against her proclaiming the emperor would also weaken. However, there were still some heads who missed the republic in the Citizens' Assembly, so now is not the time to relax their vigilance.

Narcissus glanced at Octavia's abdomen, and replied articulately: "I have asked Lord Vitellius, Lord Claudius, and your mother to sign that the elders are plotting to overthrow His Majesty the Emperor." The certificate of rule, and some service personnel of the Senate can also prove that the elders have recently gathered illegally. If you want them to testify in court, you only need to pay a small reward."

"Remuneration?" Octavia raised her eyes, and asked casually, "Do they want citizenship or promotion?"

"You have to send someone to ask about it." Narcissus said indifferently: "In addition, Lord Galba also led his troops to Rome. It is said that the fire and epidemic in Pompeii have also been stabilized. It depends on the time and how the gods arrange it."

Narcissus glanced at Octavia's belly again, and his gaze was self-evident: "If you really have the emperor's flesh and blood in your arms, then you have an even better bargaining chip to win the throne, but..."

"It's just that I have divorced the emperor, so there are still doubts about the identity of this child." Octavia knew what Narcissus was worried about, and said bluntly: "Of course, I can't let Nero remarry me, but there is With the will of the Virgin of Vesta in place, there is no doubt about the identity of this child."

"But the Virgin of Vesta is your aunt." Narcissus frowned and said, "Even if the goddess is above, it is impossible to dispel the impression that she favors you, unless..."

"Unless the emperor publicly announces that the child is his posthumous son, right?" Octavia also considered letting Nero live for a while, and then raised the child in public after the birth, so as to prove to everyone that it was the emperor heirs.

It's a pity that Nero ran into Octavia's good deeds, coupled with Sporus's hard blow, which caused him to be bedridden and unconscious.

Narcissus looked at Octavia's troubled face and asked tentatively, "Do you have a way to wake up His Majesty the Emperor?"

Octavia shook her head, expressing that she couldn't use the medical skills of this era to wake up an emperor with a brain injury, unless...

"Can you find a slave who looks like Nero?" In order to stabilize her rule, Octavia thought of the civet cat in exchange for the prince: "Sporus can imitate Nero's voice, as long as someone pretends to be Nero and lays down. On the bed, and let Sporus speak under the bed, maybe it can fool those who come to testify.”

Narcissus thought about it carefully, and added to Octavia's plan: "Then declare to the outside world that the emperor is suffering from the plague, so that those people can only hear the emperor's will from a distance, and cannot go forward to see the emperor's appearance clearly." .”

"Remember to find some old aristocrats who are afraid of death or new aristocrats who have just experienced the taste of power." Octavia said with deep meaning: "The world is so beautiful, they must not want to see Pluto so soon."

Narcissus, having made up his mind, did so immediately.

A week later, at the call of Octavia and Galba, the citizen representatives and the Virgin Vesta listened to and read the emperor's decree in the emperor's ward, accepting that Octavia was pregnant with Nero's offspring, And become the will of the next emperor.

Of course, some people have expressed their own significance to whether Octavia, as a woman, can become an emperor.

But at the moment when Nero was terminally ill and Brittanicus voluntarily gave up his right of inheritance, no one was closer to Augustus than Octavia in blood. Fang supports it, it seems that Octavia's succession to the emperor is a certainty.

And Octavia, who was "recognized by a piece of paper", also showed due humility and measure.

Before Nero's hospital bed, she accepted the confession and allegiance of the families of the arrested elders, released a group of elders who "corrected after they knew their mistakes", and did not execute those diehards who refused to plead guilty, but Imprisoning her for life in Capri Island will undoubtedly further improve her reputation and the support rate of citizens for her.

"In the beginning, I just wanted to live smoothly in this era, but becoming an emperor may be my greatest achievement in this era."

At the enthronement ceremony five months later, Octavia, wearing a laurel crown and toga Latbea in a white dress, succeeded as the sixth emperor of Rome amidst the voices of the crowd.

And 100 years later, the history books about her are recorded like this.

Julia Claudia Octavia Augustus, the sixth emperor of Rome, the great and wise Octavia I, is the most famous and most accomplished in Rome after Augustus one of the emperors.Its reign spanned more than 60 years, ushering in a new era of Roman succession and power structures.

(End of the book)

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Toga Latbea: The gown worn by emperors and high priests during ceremonies.

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