[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

When Octavia's bank opened, Armenes, who was in charge of Rome's business, told Elius that in just one month, the bank's warehouse had been visited by uninvited visitors at least three or four times. , but each time the other party returned empty-handed, and there was even news that the money that entered Lepidus Bank disappeared.

In response to this, those ordinary citizens who had suffered at the temple flocked to Lepida Bank, hoping to get back all the money they had saved.

As a result, to everyone's surprise, Lepida Bank did not reject people who wanted to withdraw money, but said that if they wanted to deposit money after withdrawing it, they would have to wait for a long time.

After all, Lepida Bank is still in its infancy, and its manpower and material resources are limited, so it cannot withstand repeated and repeated tossing by customers who do not trust them.

And those who took out the money regretted it after a while, because most of them were civilians, and they couldn't hire professional security personnel, so they could only beg Lepida Bank to take over their deposit applications as soon as possible, and then put those money in their hearts. People who spread false rumors scolded it ten thousand times.

In this way, relying on unique security, Octavia gradually controlled most of the circulation channels of Roman funds.

To save money, go to the Lepidus Bank, the financial envoy and financial officer, and [-]% of the seats in the auditor are all members of the Claudius family or the Lepidus family.Even half of the ports between Rome and foreign merchants were built by the Claudius emperors, so their management rights were naturally divided among their family descendants.

However, the harm of consanguineous marriage is obvious. In addition, most of the core members of the Claudius family are also descendants of Augustus or Davia, so at least half of the population has been lost due to the struggle for imperial power.

In this way, in Octavia's generation, the resources of several major families are basically concentrated in her hands.

As for the real emperor Nero - because the immediate elders were cut too hard by the previous three emperors, he basically had no assets, and even handed over the part of the property he inherited to Octavia for management.

Under such circumstances, even if Octavia committed treason, the emperor and even the Senate would not dare to touch her easily.

"I underestimated this little bastard of Claudius." Although Gesius Florus was an all-powerful leader in Judea Province and said nothing, but when he arrived in Rome, he had information and connections that were difficult to make up for.

He originally thought that Octavia of the Claudius family was just a little Agrippina, but now it seems that the other party should follow the route of Livia Drusus.

But in this way, Gacius Florus could only attack Nero.

After all, behind Octavia, there are hundreds of years of accumulation of these big families, so it cannot be easily shaken by Gacius Florus' cleverness.

If the former were the subjects of Judaea who had no power to resist, then Gesius Florus could still use force.

It's a pity that this is Rome, and Octavia's protector is Garba, who is one level stronger than Gacius Florus, so no matter in terms of economy, politics, or military, Gacius Florus It is difficult for Lourus to shake Octavia's position.

unless……

"You said that if I slander Octavia for adultery, will Nero execute her?" Gacius Florus embraced a soft-waisted prostitute and touched his eyeliner They chatted for a while: "How many noble women died under this crime. Octavia is the daughter of that Messalina, so it's hard to guarantee that she won't learn some bad habits from her own mother."

"Master Gacius Florus, maybe you should call her Little Claudia or Your Highness the Queen." The eyeliner who came to answer the conversation did not dare to stay with Gacius Florus, so While sitting on pins and needles, he also wrapped his face tightly: "I thought His Majesty the Emperor would not easily execute the Queen just because she went to have an affair. If it were you, my lord, you would easily execute a capable and well-connected person." Wife?"

Gacius Florus, who was asked, raised his eyebrows, and then let the prostitute in his arms leave: "I heard that Aurus Vitellius' wife Petronia divorced him gone?"

The informant did not understand why Gacius Florus asked such a question, but he still replied: "You also know that both Petronia's father and adoptive father have passed away, so Aurus Vitellius What's the use of having a barren wife with no access to power, and a crippled son?"

"Perhaps his next wife will be the daughter of the consul or the tribune." Gacius Florus mused, "It's just that there are not many targets left for him to choose, so he can also lower himself appropriately." requirements."

"However, considering the relationship between his ex-wife and Octavia, maybe those consul families don't want to have any entanglements with Aurus Vitellius. After all, their family was also involved in Octavia and Nero's kidnapping case was even related to Emilia who had already been executed, so Aurus Vitellius was also interrogated."

Because before Nero ascended the throne, in order to ensure the smooth succession of a pair of children, Claudius executed all the direct lineage of Augustus on the charge of murdering the emperor.

And the younger brother of Aurus Vitellius was deprived of all positions by Claudius because he married the daughter of that line, and was forced to try the male heir of that line to prove that he Not involved in the plan to murder the emperor.

Gacius Florus felt that Aurus Vitellius was a useful person, but the eyeliner thought he was dancing with snakes.

The ex-consul who was pushed into a hurry didn't want to be crushed by a mountain again.

Maybe Aurus Vitellius had the idea of ​​seizing the throne.

…………… I am the dividing line……………

Octavia asked Elius to pour her a glass of mulled wine after a day's work, and asked an Egyptian maid to massage her leg muscles.

"Has the person staring at Gacius Florus answered yet?" Octavian half leaned on the recliner covered with expensive fabrics, wanting to take the opportunity to sleep: "Has Nero done anything important lately?" move?"

"His Majesty the Emperor is still eating, drinking and having fun as usual, but let a newly bought slave help him get the potion he found from Otto's house." Elius said in a low voice: "The new slave used to belong to Otto , it is said that he has some relationship with the gangsters in Aventine Hills, and he has also met Gaicius Florus."

Octavia finally changed her expression a bit, as if she had thought about it seriously, and then said slowly: "Hasn't Lukusta detected the effect of the potion yet?"

"I have asked people to increase the manpower of Lukusta, but the test of the medicine still needs the test of time." Elius replied dutifully.

And at this moment, flames surged under Mount Paladin, and there were bursts of commotion.

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The next one is Octavia being brought up for trial.