"Oldus himself is an unpopular character, I haven't heard of this person since I was here!" The always arrogant Arecio was as unsightly as ever.

This is not surprising, after all, he looks domineering in front of Luga, let alone Odeus, a little-known patriarch.

Luga had expected such a moment, and he was ready to bear Arecio's complaints, so he set up a table in the Doge's Palace in Augusta-Treville, the largest council chamber in the palace. He wanted to talk to Arecio alone, after all, it was not a trivial matter.

"This is not the Rome of a dozen years ago, beauty!" Luga deliberately ridiculed Arecio, who was already a proud fellow, and naturally couldn't listen to those sarcastic words in his ears.

But what is surprising is that Arecio turned his head in disbelief and retorted loudly: "Ha, you bastard who has no place in the Senate can't tell you about the system of the Senate, you tender bastard should go to the brothel as a call male pet, and serve those old women who are as old as Toga's robes!" ”

These presumptuous words only drew a laugh from Luga, who did not regard them as offense, but was just happy because he felt a real Arecio in the midst of this pile of bastard words.

After a long time together, Luga discovers that Arecio is nothing more than a haughty and cold bastard on the surface, but he is still a good guy to get along with on the inside.

His education since he was a child made him a man who had to put on a noble appearance to face the world, and because he was in a prominent position, he looked down on the world under his feet; Or because he lost everything, he missed him so much that he turned into a cocoon, and he couldn't tolerate anyone who flew up.

Poor fellows always pity each other together, which is why Luga and Arecio do not turn against each other even if they offend each other, and Arecio is so angry and dissatisfied today because Luga told him about it a full month after Odyss' departure.

This includes the fact that Lu Jia wants to do something to the Senate, this matter is not a moment of brain fever, but a decision made by Lu Jia after thinking about it for a long time, he is like a spring, it has been backlogged for too long, and finally he can't help but vent it at this time.

"You're really crazy, Luga." Arecio sat across from Luga, shook the wine that was still half a glass left in his glass, and said thoughtfully, "What are you when you are, Sura?" Caesar? Octavian? Who gave you the audacity to do such crazy things, is it God? ”

"Well, thanks to the oracle!" Luga nodded repeatedly, leaving Arecio stunned for a long time.

"Okay, okay!" Arecio knew that it was too late to talk about how ridiculous Luga's choice of method was at this time, and it was difficult to recover it, and whether the ending was good or bad was for Luga to resist, I am afraid that he had already prepared such a plan. Even so, he asked with some curiosity, "Who do you arrange for such a task?" ”

"John. Antioch! Lu Jia didn't think about it and said: "This kid is a top student of the Eastern Empire Law School, and I didn't see him have such a big reaction when I discussed it with him at that time!" ”

"And." Luga then added: "I sent the Third Coral Fleet to secretly stationed in Rome, that is, Berialius, with an army of a thousand men to deal with this problem, of course, the second preparation is that the Second Phalaenopsis Fleet will pull Marennius's legions out of the city, and if something goes wrong, send a signal outside the city, as long as the senators are brought to their knees, I don't mind using force." ”

"Hah!" Arecio laughed exaggeratedly, and he took out his haughty attitude again, "It's all a bunch of bastards who don't know the height of the sky, do you think Aetius will stand by because of this?" ”

"He's certainly not going to sit idly by." "I will not sit idly by," said Luga, "for I, with my army, have reaped the fruits of my victory, and the plundered slaves are ready to be sold to the Balkans, where the nobility is worried that there is not enough labor to rebuild their estates." I can make a lot of money with this! ”

"That's not what I want to say, Flavies. Luga! Arecio stared at Luga with wide eyes, he looked very serious, he was convinced that Luga didn't know how big the basket was, "Aetius will think that this is a signal of war from you." Back then, Beniface went to Rome just to regain Augusta's trust, but you are different, you are monopolizing power, tell me, do you want to be Augustus? ”

"Arecio." Luga also looked at him with a serious face, but unhurriedly picked up a piece of cake and put it in his mouth, and said while chewing: "It is very dangerous for you to say this, especially when I have no such intentions. ”

"What's that?" Arecio looked impatient, and he tilted his head to slam the silver glass on the table with a thud, the sound echoing throughout the hall.

Arecio began to count on his fingers, "The army, first the huge army, then the monopoly of the taxes of his own territory, not a son, not a single son left to Valentinian, and then the military exploits, which made the citizens of Rome remember that there was a bastard named Luga, like Trajan and Marco. Aurelius recovered a great deal of land. Speaking of power, they dare to move a knife to the Senate, what is this, and who is next? I am Valentinian, how would you force that poor boy to leave the throne on which he had been a child, and then sit on it with a golden crown on his own face, and accept the submission of the four realms? ”

"You're wrong, Arecio." Luga interrupted him, "I did this without any intention of becoming the so-called Augustus, and besides, I am not uncommon in that position!" ”

"Ha, hahaha......" Arecio must have fallen into chaos because of the stamina of the wine, and after listening to Luga's own statement, he really couldn't control his unbridled laughter, "A soldier in such a high position, above ten thousand people under one person, does not covet the supreme power of Rome? What kind of nobility is that that makes you like this, Flavies. Luga? ”

"I don't know, I don't know!" Luga muttered, lowered his head, and looked at his left hand, his left palm facing up, and on the rough palm lay a golden sign with four richly dressed people, a man and a woman, the woman holding a child and holding a child, both of whom were girls.

I'm afraid it couldn't be clearer anymore, the man is Valentinian III, the woman is Augusta Lickinia, and the girl she is holding is Riequinia's Yudoria, who kept emphasizing that it is her own daughter.

Luga just looked at the statue of the little girl, although it was not the same, but it was enough to look like it.

"It's all for you, little one." Luga had a word in his mouth, and this sentence must not be heard by Arecio, which would save him a lot of unnecessary trouble.