[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

Of course Octavia knew that someone was watching her secretly. After all, she dared to arrange the promotional location here, which meant that she was sure that everything was under her control.In the several puppet shows she arranged, complimenting Claudius was not the main task, and the main purpose of Octavia was to publicize the succession status of Brittanicus and the supremacy of the royal family.

Because most of the audiences of puppet shows are teenagers whose thoughts are being constructed, Octavia, who is well versed in the way of domesticating thoughts, looks at Rome nine years later.That is, after Brittany Kus passed the coming-of-age ceremony, half of the teenagers who watched the puppet show were legal citizens with voting rights.

The great idea of ​​encircling the city from the countryside can also be used to encircle the upper classes from the lower levels.

After all, judging from the genealogy, Augustus, who was the nephew of Caesar, was only the son of a minor nobleman of the knight class before receiving the will that changed his fate.

Not to mention Sulla, Pompey, Cicero...

Most of the characters who made these ordinary Roman names so popular were descended nobles or commoners, which really echoed the old saying that "children from poor families head their families early".

Perhaps Octavia can look forward to 15 years later, among the quasi-citizens of Rome who watched the puppet show, there will be a tribune or financial officer.

But before this expectation becomes a reality, she has to get rid of the eyesore.

"Are you sure you can get rid of the people around little Domitius (Nero)?" Octavia let a disguised assassin come over and lowered her voice.

"If you mean killing them without alarming others, it's impossible." The assassin's hoarse voice was like the letter of a poisonous snake, forming an eerie harmony with his scarred face: "That kid Those who follow the German Legion, they are all first-class masters."

Agrippina's father, Germanicus, was once the governor of the northern Gaul province and the lowland Germanic province. He once trained an excellent Germanic army.After his death, the loyalists who belonged to this legion turned their allegiance to his wife and children.

It was with the help of this legion that Caligula was able to launch a farce-like war.

"It's a good thing to have wonderful parents." Octavia wanted to see what little Agrippina wanted to do.

It is impossible to throw such an expensive bait just to catch a small fish.

"Titus, you go and prepare [-] Ascoins, and then bring two people who specialize in stirring up the atmosphere at festivals." Octavia asked Tita to sit in the sedan chair instead, and walked quickly The slave ordered: "You just stay here and watch. If there is a commotion of German soldiers beating people in public later, you can take the token of Narcissus to inform the Guards, understand?"

"Yes." The little slave nodded cautiously, and then climbed to a taller tree to guard.

After Titus brought what Octavia wanted, the two instigators each took a bag of coins and walked in front of the sedan chair, while opening the way, they shouted at the crowd watching the puppet show: "Ke Brittanicus and Octavia of the House of Laudy, hereby offer you some trifling pleasures."

They dropped the coins on the crowd attracted by the shouting, and only four or five coins leaked out at a time, so they could last for a long time.

"Go, go pick up coins."

"It's an Aspen coin, and the people from the Claudius family are really generous."

"Put your son on your shoulders and let him pocket his clothes to pick up coins."

The people who heard the news quickly surrounded the sedan chair and even blocked several nearby roads.

The German soldiers who followed Nero were scattered by the coin snatchers, so they anxiously tore off heads one after another, hoping to find out the whereabouts of their little master.

"Let's go!" Octavia put on the cloak and let the disguised assassin follow her, and the two were more comfortable with this situation than the fully armed German soldiers.

"I should bring Lukusta's poison and medicine, but it is easy to hurt myself." Octavia, who couldn't find anyone for a long time, asked the assassin to lift her on his shoulders.

Seeing this, the little slave on standby quickly shook his hand at Octavia, pointing her in the direction of Nero.

After little Agrippina's people were scattered, Nero tore off the necklace on his chest, threw it into the crowd, and then left the busy city with heads against the wall.

It's just that before he had time to leave this generation, he was dragged away with a pair of scarred hands covering his mouth.

Before Nero could react, Octavia covered his face with a veil covered with magic and soul medicine, and then asked the assassin to drag the weak Nero to a secluded place.

"Remember to let the corpse show traces of being assassinated by Cherusi or Parthians." Octavia, with her heart beating fast, laid Nero flat on the ground, watching the assassin skillfully use the two thin blades. A special trick sticks together and then aims at Nero's throat.

"Search here, and remember to knock on the door of every resident." Just as the assassin was about to make a move, the noise came from outside accompanied by strangely pronounced Latin, which made Octavia exasperated: "This A bunch of unseen things."

"Master, it's time for you to retreat." The assassin reflexively put away his crime tools, and was just about to take Octavia over the wall to escape, but was stopped by the other party.

"You go first, I still have to clean up this mess." Octavia couldn't guarantee that they didn't leave a single witness when they committed the crime.Besides, Tita's disguise can't last long, little Agrippina can use this to pour dirty water on Messalina, and Messalina...

Thinking of her mother, Octavia couldn't help but had a headache and said, "Go and tell Titus and the others to come, and remember to let the imperial guards surround this area."

The assassin didn't understand what Octavia wanted to do, but he still got the order to climb over the wall and leave.

After the assassin left, Octavia tied her right hand and Nero's left hand together with a rope, pretending that the kidnappers had tied them up before they had time, and then took a sip of the drug filled with ecstasy and soul. The veil of medicine fell softly against Nero.

When the people of the Germanic Legion found them, the medicinal properties of Nero and Octavia had dissipated a little, but the two did not regain their ability to move.

"Captain, what should we do?" The German soldier who rushed into the house first looked at the leader who was following in embarrassment. The latter was little Agrippina's confidant. Take it to the mistress..."

So several soldiers carefully cut off the hemp rope that bound the two children, and were just about to take Nero and Octavia away when they were caught by the guards brought by Titus.

"Catch them, remember not to hurt little Domitius and little Claudia." The leader of the Praetorian Guard gave an order, and the heavily armed Roman soldiers took down little Agrippina's men.

The author has something to say:

The average price of bread in the first century was two asi, and the monthly income of ordinary people was 10 dinars, which is 160 asi.Ten thousand asi is equivalent to 2500 sesti.

I'm thinking about the plot - chest beating from a plot crap.

Unless it is a close relative or a person higher than himself, the address for Nero is "Little Domitius (Nero's patrilineal family)", and the address for Octavia is "Little Claudia (Little Claudia) Femininity of Claudius)".