Chapter 493: Arrival in Talaco
"Oh, I forgot to ask, my friend." At this time, Andrés suddenly remembered something, and he immediately asked: "Then how should the two soldier commanders be divided?" ”
"Oh?" Speaking of this, the patriarch suddenly became interested, he turned his head sideways to look at Andres in front of him, and asked, "What?" I didn't think you'd be interested in it too? ”
"After all, this is a matter for me in the future, and you must know that the re-establishment of the soldier commander will change many things in the future." Andrés continued: "You can't allow that to happen, always, take it one step at a time. ”
"So who do you want to be in charge?" The patriarch asked him with a smile.
"Ha, no one is a fuel-efficient lamp!" Andrés shook the wine in his glass and continued: "Aetius, this insatiable fellow, will only plunder the soldiers of the territory endlessly for the sake of his great exploits, and in order to take the land occupied by the Burgundians, I have been forced to drain more than a thousand people from my city. ”
"For that adopted son of Theodosius II." Andres's expression was solemn, and he continued: "To be able to rise so quickly in such a short period of time, not only by relying on the prestige of his adoptive father, after all, a person who can constantly regain the lost territory, etc., what territories did you just say he has recaptured?" ”
"Belgian Gaul, and Britannia."
"Oh my God, it's really not an easy errand." Andrés couldn't help but admire, thinking that this strange guy really had two hits, but what kind of guy he really was, it was not known.
"I don't know anything about Aetius, but now I see that the adopted son of Theodosius II was also a belligerent, but he now deduces from me that Aetius has now ceased to fight, mainly pursuing the principle of protecting the land."
"Indeed, Lord Andrés." The senator nodded, and then said to Andrés: "It is not surprising that Aetius has stopped fighting since he had cleared all the obstacles in Gaul at the moment, because he is in Gala. After Plasitya's death, he couldn't wait to seize the rights of the Purple Room. He forced the Purple Room to crown him the Captain of the Soldiers, and that's pretty much what he thought, I guess. ”
"If that's the case, then here's the problem?" Andres frowned and asked, "Since Aetius forced the Purple Room to give him the position of the chief soldier, then it is naturally unique, how is it possible for Aetius to watch that Theodosius's adopted son become the commander of the soldiers?" ”
"No one knows this, after all, Aetius spent a lot of money on this, and I originally thought that he would become the protagonist of that time, and in a form, he would become a soldier captain, but I didn't expect that when Augustus took out the second scepter, you never thought of his expression at that time."
"That's weird!" The senator laughed at the mention of this, only to hear him say unhurriedly: "I don't know why, but before Aetius came to Ravenna, our Purple Chamber sent people to Rome, and they were very clever and deliberately avoided those senators who supported Aetius, but found us senators who remained neutral, look, look at these." ”
As he spoke, the patriarch took out a few gold coins from his pocket, which were ordinary but attracted Andrés's attention, whether it was Andres's delusion or if it should have been. These gold coins were a little brighter, and Andrés couldn't help but be curious to take out the Suledes gold coins in his pocket, the same gold coins, and put them in one piece. The patriarch's hand is shining, but his own hand is dull.
The patriarch smiled, scrubbed the gold coins in his hand, and said to Andres: "The gold coins we usually use are not pure enough to use gold, and they are basically shoddy, but if you look at these, the quality is basically comparable to the gold coins of Octavian's time. One is worth five coins on the market, this is simply impossible, there is only one theory, they recast the gold coins, the price of which is not small, not to mention that the minting is not and peeing, it must have started a long time ago. ”
Andrés then asked, "How much did they give you?" ”
The patriarch smiled and said casually, "There are countless of them." ”
Andres' eyes widened for a moment, and then he continued: "It seems that they have been planning for a long time, but in this way, didn't they just offend Aetius and make Aetius angry?" ”
"It's probably Gala as well. Plasity's fight back! The patriarch continued, "Gala. Platius, a woman who has experienced strong winds and waves, has her own unique judgment on many things, she has long judged the psychology of Aetius, it may be that she is unlucky, God deliberately embarrassed her, she tried all the means to kill Aetius failed, Berniface, Paul, these famous generals were all defeated by Aetius without exception, because he had the Huns as a backer. But Gala. Plassitia did not admit defeat, and it was impossible for anyone to accept that this guy of Germanic origin was calling for wind and rain in the Purple Room, and this woman had taken a fancy to this Roman from the East. ”
"Theodosius' adopted son?"
"Flavies. Luga. As soon as the patriarch mentioned this name, his whole person became serious. I only heard him say in a deep voice: "This guy makes many of us guess his intentions, you say he is for honor and prestige, but he was in Great Sicily at that time against the senate member Remitius, you said that he was for the sake of high officials, but his great military exploits did not reveal what he deliberately wanted?" ”
"Is he just a fool?" Andrés asked: "Stilico is a fool, a barbarian fool, I don't believe that this Luga is also a fool, a fool of the Romans." ”
"I'm afraid that's the case." The patriarch nodded, and suddenly woke up and said, "Oh, you haven't said that he's the one in charge of this place, Flavis. Luga, having heard that he had just gone to Great Sicily, seemed to want to finish what he had left unfinished. ”
"This guy." Andres clenched the silver wine glass in his hand, his brow furrowed even tighter.
The temperature dropped, the game was still going on, and the unsuspecting Talaco people were still cheering selflessly, but on the quiet docks, the warships were slowly docked, and the guards did not dare to make a sound, but could only watch the group of soldiers disembark and slowly walk down the street towards the governor's palace in the center of the city.
"We've arrived, and it seems to be very stable here." Luga got off the boat and took a deep breath, because it was a dock, the smell of fish was very strong, and of course the smell of garbage was not complimentary. He shook his head and walked forward, followed by Andrew, Matteorius, and Malenius.