"Let's go!"

The sound of metal hitting the ground was Luga's, and the wine glass he picked up in his hand suddenly didn't hold it steady, and he took it off. This crisp crash was like a muffled thunder in the room, which frightened the dazed Luga and trembled suddenly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, maybe I ate too much and felt a little unwell for a while!"

Luga smiled awkwardly, and the first thing he did when he came back to his senses was to bend down in a panic and pick up the spilled wine glass. At this time, an attentive servant had already stepped forward to refill the wine for Luga, which made Luga feel even more embarrassed.

Holding the small, weighty glass in both hands, Luga's heart pounded, and he really wondered if he had just heard it wrong, facing Theodosius II, who was smiling at him.

"Well, honorable Caesar." It is not surprising that Luga could not speak clearly, because he could not even hold his glass. He asked Theodosius II in a hurry, "Caesar, I didn't hear it clearly, can you repeat it again?" ”

"I mean......" Theodosius II raised his glass to Luga, "I will take you as my adopted son, and become a member of the family of Flavis." ”

"! it! ”

Luga cursed in his heart, he could hold the glass this time, but he couldn't tell whether Theodosius II was telling the truth or joking.

"Well, Caesar, I, I, this, it's not fun." Luga was stumbling, thinking that he was articulate enough, but now he was like a complete idiot, and he didn't even know what he wanted to say.

"How?" Theodosius II looked unhappy: "Do you say that I am an Augustus and a master who will joke when he opens his mouth and closes his mouth?" ”

"Ah, ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was rude!" Luga hurriedly apologized, hurriedly returned the salute to Augustus, and hurriedly threw his head back from the glass and drank it down.

"After drinking this wine, you are my adopted son of Theodosius!"

"Hmm~"

Luga swallowed the wine in his mouth, he didn't dare to imagine what a huge blow he would have to deal with Theodosius II if he squirted it all at once, and it might make him angry, and it was not impossible to directly click this bastard who couldn't recognize the truth. In fact, he had forgotten that there was a pair of eyes staring at him behind him, shooting a murderous gaze.

"Okay, Luga!" When Luga drank the wine from his glass and put it down, Theodosius II laughed at the crowd. There was nothing funny about it, and behold, none of the members of the family were smiling, except for the wife of Theodosius II, but they cast a puzzled look at Luga, and their feelings were to wonder in their hearts how this unassuming fellow could conquer Augustus, become his adopted son, and become a member of the family of Flavies.

Marcian even put his right arm on the table, and his thick arm was bruised, which meant that his heart at this time, although he seemed to be calm on the surface, but in his heart, he had long wanted to regard the outsider from the Western Empire in front of him as an enemy.

"Damn, didn't you throw me into the middle of the crowd!" Luga lowered his head and pressed his hands tightly on the table, it was really a wave of unevenness, no wonder Theodosius would let them sit at the table, how could he not have counted such a thing.

The awkward meal was hastily over, and Theodosius II motioned for everyone else to leave, leaving Luga alone to follow him into his study.

As soon as he entered, Theodosius II immediately beckoned the attendants behind him to leave.

"What is this for?" Lu Jia was a little flustered, his mind was full of some bad ideas, this can't be said that Lu Jia has the potential of a, but Western culture is full of feelings, a Lu Jia has seen a lot in the military camp, when he thinks of the two big men, Lu Jia is chrysanthemum. Could it be that the death of Marcus hit Theodosius too hard, this anger has been separated for more than a month, and a man will be more or less hungry. Alas, it! Lu Jia thought about how to resist, after all, the serious problem of chrysanthemum blooming cannot make any concessions!

"Boom!"

The waiter closed the door, and the sound made Luga's shoulders jerk and his heart pound, thinking that it was time for him to reach a critical moment. Fists clenched, silently waiting for Theodosius II's next move.

However, what Luga didn't expect was that Theodosius II had a serious face, and he didn't have the obscene and evil appearance of a. He sat down at his desk, took out a letter on the table, handed it to Luga, and said, "Here, look, this is what my nephew wrote to me, and it has only arrived in the past two days." ”

Luga took the letter and opened it, and then he heard Theodosius II say: "This time Valentinian is really in trouble, and now it is Aetius, a barbarian, who controls the military power of this empire, and I have to say that the current empire urgently needs a man of Roman descent to maintain the balance within the empire." This was a great headache for Theodosius II, and Luca felt that he could understand why Theodosius II had adopted him as his adopted son.

"The letter says that the Vandals in the province of Afrika have declared their independence from Roman control, which means that the Senate's control over the Vandals has failed!" Luga read the letter and slowly placed it on Theodosius II's desk.

"I didn't expect you to know a lot!" Theodosius II looked up at Luga with an appreciative expression. "Of course, this time the Senate decided to send troops to teach the lawless barbarians a lesson. So they persuaded Aetius, a huge legion was formed in Great Sicily, as a compatriot of the Roman Empire, a relative of the Flavis family, Valentinian wanted me to send an army on behalf of the Flavis family. ”

"What does Caesar mean..."

"I would have liked Marcian to go on the expedition." Theodosius II sighed and said: "It's my sister's husband, my general, originally he was my candidate, you know, I originally wanted me to go by myself, so that Aetius and other barbarians know the strength of the Flavis family, but my command ability is really too poor, there is really no way to deter those battle-hardened elite nobles in the Western Empire." ”

"Then why not Marcian?"

"Because if he wins, he will inevitably threaten my dominance, and although he is also a member of my Flaviis family, my sister's ambition is too great, and I am not sure that she will use his husband to threaten me, so I must think very carefully." Theodosius II held his forehead, and it seemed that this matter really gave him a headache.

"Why don't you get rid of her, I mean your sister." Luga asked.

"Since she was my sister, I thought that if Valentinian was like my grandfather, then the Flavis family would be able to maintain the old order and establish the only royal family, but he would be the puppet of the control after all. It's you, the Romans he recommended! Theodosius pointed at Luga and said with a serious face: "To maintain the order of the empire, it is necessary to have loyal Romans like you, the empire is the Roman Empire, and the maintainers are naturally Romans, there is no doubt that the barbarians are overwhelmed, and a Roman must come out to take the lead." ”

"So, you chose me?" Luga felt his shoulders sink suddenly, as if he had been pressed against an invisible weight, and Luga knew that the name of that heavy object was "Mission", the mission given by Augustus, the mission given by the royal family of Flavis!

"So, what do you want me to do?"

"Go back, you should go back too!" As he spoke, Theodosius II stooped down and lifted out a heavy box of parchment and placed it on the table, pointing to the box of parchment and said to Luca: "This is the work of mine for several years, and I will name it the Code of Theodosius." ”

"What's the use of that?" Luga asked, pointing to the box of the so-called Code of Theodosius.

"To be able to maintain order in the empire, so that shrewd nobles will not be allowed to exploit the loopholes of the old legal code." Theodosius II smiled, and then continued: "A newly formed legion in the Latin province has no name, I give it to you, and you will name the legion, and take it to Great Sicily, to join the Western Empire expeditionary force, remember, don't let those damn bastards fool you!" ”