[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

"Claudius wants to borrow money from the Matronas?" Messalina, who got the news from her father, put down the wine glass in her hand in astonishment, and let all the accompanying slaves put down: "For the loan, ask your mother or As long as it's Octavia, what does it have to do with me?"

Although Messalina is keen on searching for money, and she has a very keen sense of smell in this area, but if you ask her to manage money, she probably doesn't know how much she has saved, and Octavia has to come over to help .

"I don't want you to take care of this either, I just want you to bring a title, and the rest will be handed over to Octavia." Marcus Barbatus looked at Messalina's excessive lust Face, I really wish I hadn't had this daughter: "Octavia is not married yet, so it's not easy to call for Matrona, as for little Dominia...she is already helping His Majesty coordinate with the Vitas virgin It is estimated that there are still many things to do at the temple."

Considering the old enmity between the Virgin of Vitas and the Priests, Conesia has to be wary of the Priests who are jumping over the wall to pull them into the water in the near future, so he specially entrusts Little Dominia as the guarantor of the Virgins of Vitas, replacing the emperor Check the property of the virgins of Vitas, lest they be labeled as accomplices to crimes.

"It's time for those old wretches to fall too." If it is said that the virgins of Vitas just secretly disliked Messalina's actions, then the priests wrote the word "contempt" naked|naked in it. On his face, he even declared in public that Claudius should be changed to a nobler and more virtuous queen.

Like little Agrippina.

"So you have to help Octavia settle their downfall." Marcus Barbatus said bluntly: "Remember to invite a few famous ladies to the house tomorrow, and you are only in charge of the banquet. I will leave the rest to Octavia."

"No problem." When it comes to killing political enemies, Messalina's action is still very impressive.She made a guest list almost that afternoon, and then asked Octavia to come over for reference.

"Kick Emilia Lepidus out, their family has always been restless, and they can't afford hundreds of thousands of sesterces." Octavia roughly glanced at the guest list, and put the most eye-catching one A few crossed out: "There are also the wives of the officers of the Dalmatian faction. Their husbands had close exchanges with Asiacus (Claudius's political enemy) and suffered too much loss in this temple incident. , it would be good if you don’t come to us for a loan, do you still expect them to be creditors?”

"In addition, you can invite the two wives of the Flavius ​​family. Master Wei Pasian has always been generous, and he must not be stingy with his wife and mother."

"But is it really appropriate to do this?" Although Messalina had never experienced the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, she also learned a thing or two from her close friends.

"There are no permanent friends, and there are no permanent enemies. Besides, the wife and mother of Lord Vespasian will always stand on the same side for the same purpose." Octavia knew that Messalina was doing it for her own good , but she never felt that two women should fight against each other for the sake of a man, and even their lives should not be turned around because of it.

"We should have higher aspirations like Roman citizens." Octavia seemed to have no intention of saying: "I just hope that those old-fashioned people in Rome can stop rushing to use the same 'slut|slut humiliation'."

"They are the ones who caused the trouble. I have never seen a debtor who is more like a gentleman than a borrower." Messalina thought that Octavia was worried that the Senate would look down on them, so she was filled with righteous indignation: " Don't worry, with me here, no one will show you face to face."

"Well! Then please mother." Octavia accepted Messalina's kindness, and at the same time planted a bomb|bomb for Rome's social system.

Except for Flavia Domitilla, those who could be invited to Messalina's banquet were all the daughters of small and powerful citizens.In other words, all their money and status belong to themselves, rather than being controlled by patriarchal or husband power.

"We should be grateful for the arrogance of the priesthood, because without their contempt, we would not be able to achieve today's favorable situation." The first to speak was the consul's wife, Petronia, who was the adopted daughter of the departing consul. The father gave up his aristocratic status in order to win the seat of the tribune, and at the same time adopted his daughter to his childless brother.

Because Petronia's maternal grandfather was a wealthy freed slave, she did not acquire the identity of Matrona when she became an adult, and even became increasingly hostile to her younger sibling Julia Calvina because of her birth.

Julia Calvina claimed to be the daughter of Augustus and Hiranus, so she looked down on Petronia, who had freed slave blood.And Petronia felt that her family was powerful, rich and powerful, and she was more noble than the little Appius family who sold their daughters for glory.

However, it was precisely because of Petronia's relationship that Aurus Vitellius of the knight family was able to rise to the top in front of Claudius, hoping that one day his family could become the most powerful in Rome. one of the surnames.

Although Aurus Vitellius was listed as a hidden enemy by Octavia, Petronia and her husband had been separated for a long time, and the relationship between the two was constantly hostile because of the only son who was born with a handicap, even to the point of Petronia and her son moved back to the mansion of her adoptive father and uncle, intending to completely free her son from the custody of Aurus Vitellius.

Although Petronia appears to be arrogant and domineering, in fact, she knows how to assess the situation, knowing that her father and adoptive father are old, and her son is not a person capable of major affairs, so she plans to find a stable financial partner before the divorce. thigh.

This is what Octavia likes most about her.

"According to your words, it seems that the recent financial situation of the Consul...is not particularly good." Spacia Pola of the Flavius ​​family lightly shook her fan and said calmly: "I think everyone here will Husbands or brothers have been particularly troubled by the temple recently."

"Could it be that Madame Spacia, like Cato, would rather see a young man's face turn red than pale?" said the daughter of a famous orator gently: "But we are also from Rome. For one part, you must not face disaster and still think about having fun."

The orator's daughter swept the participants of the banquet lightly, and said straight to the heart: "It's just that free money is easily regarded as dung by people. I worry that after the disaster, those men will forget the feeling of suffering and blame them instead. We are the banshees who guard the treasure and don't know the difficulties of Rome."

"This is also the main reason why my mother invited you all here." Octavia took advantage of the situation and said, "As the saying goes, if there are many people, there will be many plans, and many firepower will grow. Your wealth is not built in a day, it is better to let Let's put aside our respective families and identities, and only discuss the various issues of debt from the perspective of a Roman woman, and after we have paid such a price..."

"How will Rome compensate us?"

The author has something to say:

Thank you for your support. I changed two books yesterday, so it should be slowed down. As for the Aztec article, all I found were Mayan materials, so I was hesitating whether to write about the Mayan gods or the Aztecs. God (it's as cold anyway), maybe after the epidemic is over, I will go back to my alma mater to see if there is any record.

In addition, I haven't decided on a male lead yet, really, I don't even know who the male lead is.

In addition, all paedophiles will die (there are also paedophiles in my articles, you can scold me for this).That's right, I'm talking about a scumbag boss in Yantai.

"Give up and abandon your good and evil, and choose me as your new god." ——Actually, it's a story about a big change|perversion hoping to bring out a small change|perversion, but in the end I was raised to lick a dog and was very happy. (not open)