"So!"

Gallas. Plasitia took out her handkerchief and wiped her mouth gracefully, then opened the specially painted black corners of her eyes, which made them look very charming. Luga couldn't help but marvel at how much makeup technology had reached in the Roman era, perhaps because this elegant woman was a, born with a good foundation, worthy of the status of nobility, or as the Romans said, this is the favor of the gods. She raised her glass, and the maid hurriedly bent down to carefully fill it.

"How about inviting you to join the Italian Central Field Army as a junior officer, and to be the defense chief of Great Sicily?" As she spoke, Platitia brought the glass and signaled that it was for Luga.

"Heh, it's still so high!" Luga secretly said in his heart, facing Plasitya's wine glass, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, he hurriedly picked up the wine glass, gently clinked glasses with Plasitya, and at that moment secretly said in his heart: "As soon as it comes up, it's the Central Field Army, this is a huge cake!" "Lu Jia, who has been in the army for so long, naturally has a more or less understanding of the Central Field Army, the Central Field Army is much stronger than the locality, it is the center that controls the empire, as long as he can be named an officer in the Central Field Army, it is the greatest recognition of this general, and the room for improvement in the future is much higher than that of the locality. For example, the defense officers of Nassily are not comparable at all. "But I can't promise her!" There was no gratitude that came out of Platia's mouth, on the contrary, it sounded more like a handout, a use, and Luga was not stupid, because Aetius was the supreme commander of the Central Field Army.

"Is it another tried-and-true routine? Her Majesty! Luga thought to herself, staring into Platitia's eyes, the woman smiling, but not the slightest bit of weakness. Obviously, she was surprised and even more surprised by this sudden new force. Just like Aetius, a rising star when Fenix and Berniface were in power, she saw the hope of breaking the game, so she wanted to use Aetius to fight against Berniface to complete the rebalancing strategy of power within the empire, and she dreamed of a scene where two evenly matched generals faced each other, they were jealous of each other, and neither of them was willing to find a reason to provoke and cause a civil war, so she set up a game, using her son Valentinian as bait, Trying to take advantage of the generals' ambitions to control Augustus, and to appease and balance their strengths one by one, their desires are mixed with fear of their opponents. As long as there is a good life, there will be a fear of failure and death, which is what the Queen Regent wants most, and as long as Valentinian does not die, this balance can be maintained. But she underestimated the ambitions of her generals, which often made them even more crazy and uncontrollable, and of course every time she used such methods, she would always drag into endless civil wars until one side won outright.

Platicia's vain attempt to use a woman's cleverness to change this centuries-old pattern is indeed a fool's dream, first Fenix accused Berniface of rebellion and raised troops to crusade to Fenix's final defeat, and then the contradiction between Aetius and Berniface to the north and the Huns went south, Berniface was seriously injured and died, and Pracitia was still obsessed, or rather, she believed in the young Luga from the Eastern Empire in front of her.

Aetius's strategy of breaking the balance of military power in Placiatia and achieving a one-man dictatorship after defeating Berniface was fully capable of usurping power as emperor of Western Rome as her husband Constantius, but Aetius did not do so. This is not because of loyalty, but because Aetius is jealous of the background behind Valentinian III, he is also a member of the Flavis guys, he was usurped far to the east, Theodosius II will certainly not sit idly by, his existence and those invisible military forces in the Western Empire have been staring at Aetius, like a rope to bind him, so that he can not do whatever he wants, he gave up usurping power, but he emptied the imperial power, making Augustus a puppet. This was not what Platicia wanted to see, but she was helpless, because there was no other force in the empire that could rival Aetius. It wasn't until the appearance of Luga, the adopted son of Theodosius, who was so loyal to Valentinian, that he was the ideal candidate for Placiatia, and from the moment he saw Valentinian kneeling in front of the Romans, she knew that Luga could enter the game and would play an extremely important role. Like the nectar of a long drought, Platitia desperately wanted to break the dictatorship of Aetius and needed the strength to counter it, and now she has found it, it is Luga.

As soon as La Luga was in the game, the first thing he would do was to be assigned to the Central Field Army, which was tantamount to an awl against Aetius's chest, making him breathless and realizing that his authority was being challenged. In this way, a new confrontation situation will unfold, so that Aetius will have to be forced to release the power he originally held in his hands back to Valentinian, and have enough fear to face Luga, because he also understands what Luga's backers are, and wants to use the power of one person to fight against an empire, Aetius will not start a new civil war unless he is insane, so that the situation of a new military rebalance will be opened! Valentinian would be a useful emperor, at least not a puppet until he died.

After all, there was an omission in such a close link, because she forgot to consider Luga, who seemed to her that after kneeling, Luga would be absolutely obedient to her and Valentinian, at least obedient. Thinking like this, Luga can't help but think of a guy who can't think, but Luga can see the current situation, and from the junior officer who named him the Central Field Army, she can see that she wants to pull him in, and become the biggest obstacle for Aetius to control the Central Field Army. This time was different, Aetius could not borrow soldiers from the Huns in Pannonia, because the Huns were confronting the Eastern Empire in the East, and Aetius's Gallic field army was the "anchor of the sea" to stabilize the Gallic region. In the same way, as long as Luga accepts such an assignment, he will be firmly bound, because with his army of 15,000 men is useless, the south has just signed a contract with the Vandals, and the Alans of Iberia, the Vandals and the Suebi people in the west are unprecedentedly strong, at least Luga wants to use his own 15,000 men naturally can't settle it, and besides, he has to leave enough troops in Great Sicily or Italy, so that Luga can't do anything at all, All you need to do is be used by Platicia to contain Aetius.

"Dang!" The two silver wine glasses collided together, and Plasity's eyes lit up, and she thought to herself, isn't this the rhythm that is going to be done?

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, honorable Lord Augusta!" Luga said, taking a sip of the wine from her glass, then looked at Platitia.

Plasitya's expression gradually changed from a smile to a cold one, she looked at Luga coldly, and asked, "If Your Excellency is dissatisfied with the conditions I offered, then I will add another official!" ”

"Yes, my nephew, if you want anything, I will ask my mother for permission!" Valentinian said with a smile.

"No, no, no! Very satisfied, very satisfied! Luga smiled and waved his hand, then couldn't help but sigh, and then said to Platitia: "It's just that the empire is in an eventful time now, if I want this idle position, then how can I recover the land, and then repay Caesar and Augusta for their acquaintance?" ”

"Oh?" Placitia drank the wine in her glass and looked at Luga, wanting to hear what the disobedient boy had to say.

"Thanks to Augusta's promotion, this official position is indeed very tempting!" First of all, Luga first expressed his approval of Platsitya's arrangement. "But!" Luga's tone changed, and he continued: "I want to go to the front line and fight for the glory of the empire and the lost territory!" ”

"You?" In the face of Luga's words, of course, Platitia couldn't believe it, although he was now a hero of Rome, but the real situation, how could Platitia not know?

"And where are you going?" Platicia asked with a light smile.

"Big Sequanolen!" Luga said without hesitation, "I heard that there is no duke there yet, so I recommend myself to go to the northern province of the Great Sequanoren and become a duke!" ”

"That's all?" Plasettia didn't believe her ears, and wondered if this guy Luga was crazy, and let the central officer not do anything to become a duke in that precarious province.

Luga nodded, Platitia didn't look like he was lying, and then looked at his child, since Valentinian boasted that Haikou would respond to his needs, then Platia naturally wanted to satisfy Luga.

"Okay, okay!" Plasettia has lost interest in Luga, "I will make you the Duke of the Great Sequanoren Province, and of course the commander of the field army, as long as you can recover the lost territory for the empire, and you will be the governor of any province you can recover!" ”

"It's a deal!" Faced with such a temptation, Luga was naturally happy, but Platitia was not so happy.

"What an idiot!" Platitia couldn't help but curse.