"Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you, Lord Paul." Luga said a few words, and suddenly felt that his heart was not so panicked, and he stroked his chest, trying to let his rapid breathing gradually soothe it.

"We're straight to the point, Lord Luga." Paul then asked, "Say, you mentioned Britannia and said you were going to attack it and regain this land that had been lost for thirty years, so why are you sharing your strategic intentions with us here?" ”

It seemed that Paul was eager to find out, and Luga thought to himself, hesitating whether he should tell the senators in advance.

"Yes, yes, Your Excellency, I think in just a few days, you have not forgotten the fundraising issue that I talked to you about a few days ago, and it was also in this position." When Luga said this, he felt much better inside, at least he didn't speak as badly as he had just now.

"Fundraising?" Paul then asks, "How much do you intend us to pay?" ”

"One corps, that is, the maintenance cost of ten to fifteen field regiments, or more." Luga cleared his throat and continued, "I need your financial assistance to be able to take the two provinces of Britannia and restore the territory of the original empire. In this way, you are all meritorious heroes, and naturally Augustus's reward is indispensable, of course, I will not treat you badly after I take these two provinces, and I will definitely make your investment pay off. ”

"Return? Britannia returns, ha, very interesting place, likewise, very interesting question. Paul sat there, very relaxed, or rather came to see Luga purely for fun. He didn't intend to give Luga a chance to explain, but listened to him continue: "I remember that it was thirty years ago, when Augustus Honorius was in power, when the Gruan-Saxons joined forces with the barbarians north of Hadrian's Wall to attack the province of Great Britain, and the barbarians raged wildly, destroying all the lives wherever they went, destroying fortresses, sacking villages, and destroying everything of civilization by barbarians. At this point, Paul got up from his seat and looked back at the elders.

Seeing Paul speak, the senators straightened up their seats, and made a gesture of listening. Look at this Paul's status in the Senate is not low, the senators take his speech seriously, so as long as Paul can be dumbfounded, he can convince the vast majority of the senators present. Thinking so, Luga couldn't help but reach into the pocket tied around his waist, secretly thinking that now was not the right time.

"You have all lived in the time of Honorius, when the province of Great Britain was not a wealthy place, after all, far from the civilized world, and the barbarians threatened from time to time, think of the taxes that were usually given to the empire there. Now that it is infested with barbarians and has been completely abandoned by civilization, if we reclaim it, what will we do with the ruins, and how will we restore the cities that have been conquered to their former vitality? ”

"That's going to require a lot of money, which we probably can't afford." A veteran on the stage spoke, and what he said was very reasonable.

"And we can't guarantee that Flavies. Luga will be able to reclaim it, not forgetting that the tall and ferocious barbarians are not the same as the lawless slaves. Another senator objected, and one powerful piece of persuasive evidence made the senators in private exchange their heads and nod their heads in agreement, making the whole scene more and more unfavorable to Luga.

"Oh, no, oh, no, gentlemen, gentlemen!"

As the scene arose, Paul stood up again, waved his hand at the crowd, and said to them: "It is true that Britannia was once our territory, but after thirty years of being a barbarian wasteland there, there is a warrior like Luga who has volunteered to reclaim this barren land for the Empire, but the question is, I have to ask you, Lord Luga. ”

So saying, Paul walked slowly up to the stage, his face haughty, as if he had come to contradict Luga from the moment he was seated. Perhaps it was for the benefit of the Senate that he argued with Luga to discuss the reconquest of Britannia. It's just that he wasn't very optimistic about Luga's proposal.

He then asked, "Your Excellency, how can you assure us of what you will really get in that barbarian territory?" And how can you compensate us people? Where barren land can only grow wheat and produce bread or something, do you want to exchange bread for our hands Sulledus? We are not poor people who can't afford bread! ”

"Hahaha......" Paul's words touched the laughter of the elders present, they laughed, they must have been refuted by Paul to make Luga speechless laughing, they seemed to enjoy Luga's deflated appearance, and wanted to see what Luga could do to move them.

Soon, the laughter stopped abruptly between Luga's actions, and even Paul, who was still smiling at the crowd, sensed something was wrong, and he hurriedly turned around, only to see Luga's left hand raised high, and his palm clutching a small piece of gold.

"Excellencies, I think you'll all recognize this." Lugar held up the unpolished gold in his hand and deliberately showed it to the patriarchs. I saw the patriarchs staring at the piece of gold in Lujia's hand with wide eyes in surprise, and the whole venue was silent.

"What? Your Excellency, I really don't understand what you want to say. Paul shook his head and said to Luga.

"This piece of gold was accidentally obtained by me when I was crusading against the rebels of Bagunda." Luga exclaimed, "According to the owner of this piece of gold, there is a mountain in Britannia across the sea, and there is gold everywhere, and it is a legend that there was a footfall of God on this mountain, and God was full of golden light, and the stones of the whole mountain were turned into gold. ”

Such words stunned the elders present, although Lu Jia knew that this whole story was a lie, but judging from the expressions of these elders, they were already suspicious of this lie, who would not bother with money?

"This is God's gift to Rome, but the Gruon-Saxons came for this mountain of gold, and they did not hesitate to fight against the Romans, in order to get the gold of the land, in order to be able to take away the gift that God had given to the Romans!"

"And how do you know it's true?" Paul was also a little hesitant, but at this time, he still chose to maintain a distrustful attitude towards Luga. "Do you have an exact location?"

"South of Hadrian's Wall, that's what the old man told me." Lu Jia's face did not change and his heart did not beat, "Then let me go and see there, if there is really this golden mountain." You know what you are about to come. ”