"You are my man now, I am your master, and you will do whatever I tell you to do. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoYou now have a new name, it's called Emma. ”

Appis walked up to the newly captured barbarian maiden and spoke in standard Latin. However, the Germanic maiden could not understand what Apis was saying. In her dictionary, there was no Latin, and in her seventeen years of experience, there was no concept of a little Roman culture, she only knew slash-and-burn, bows, arrows, and spears......

It was so strange to have a slave of his own for the first time, and in the twenty-one years of his life, Apis had never been a master, let alone a slave, and although the master-slave relationship was so legitimate and legal in Rome at this time, Apis still felt that he had no way to start. A slave girl, in addition to satisfying the physical needs of her own military life, is useless, and has to take out some food to feed her every day, but if she is let go like this, Apis is worried that Caesar will be suspicious, and that after the girl is put back, she will provide information to the tribesmen.

In desperation, Apis asked one of his soldiers to teach the Germanic maiden Latin, but told him that he was not allowed to touch the girl, that she must be treated as a free people, and that he was not allowed to beat her or abuse her. With that, Appis walked away. The soldier was left with a bewildered face...... Is his own centurion having a convulsion or a brain in the water? For a barbarian girl, he was treated so kindly......

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After plundering the largest town of the Sugambri, the Roman legions continued their march, and Caesar's army, led by the Upi guides, even reached the lair of the Suebi, the largest tribe in Germanic territory.

The Suebi was not actually an independent tribe, in fact, it was a tribal alliance of dozens of large and small Germanic tribes. In addition, a leader is elected within the alliance to lead the entire tribal alliance. Due to its strength and numbers, it often oppressed the surrounding tribes, causing many Germanic tribes on the Gallic border to move south to escape the oppression and plunder of this powerful tribal alliance, and in the long run, the seeds of hatred between the Gauls and the Germanic people were born.

In the first year of Caesar's tenure as governor of the three provinces, he fought a battle with the army of this Germanic tribal alliance and drove the leader of the Suebi back to his lair north of the Rhine, leaving the Germans in Gaul without any position, so the Suebi alliance was very hostile to Caesar. But Caesar was deliberately trying to show off their territory.

As soon as Caesar's legions arrived, the great forces of the tribe were gathered, and the men of all the tribes were gathered in Nikuris, the largest town of Suebi.

But it is true that the legion is only showing off its might, and there is no real siege.

Maybe Caesar felt that now was not the time for a decisive battle with the Germans, or maybe it was this expedition, Caesar had no long-term plans to stay, and although the food and supplies were more than 20 days away, they were not enough to survive the winter. It is late autumn, and the Germanic winter is coming soon, and the winter in the northern forests will come earlier, longer and longer than in the south.

A few days later, the legion set out for Gaul, playing a triumphant song.

However, it was on the road that Caesar learned the terrible news - Crassus, one of the Big Three, led seven Roman legions on an expedition to the Parthian kingdom, were completely annihilated by the Parthian cavalry, and the Roman army of 42,000 men died in the heart of the desert.

When Appis learned of the news, it was already a week later, and by this time, the legions had returned to Gaul to prepare for the winter.

The Battle of Calais and the tragic death of Crassus completely collapsed the already crumbling Triumvirate, Caesar's exploits were surpassing Pompey in Rome, and the Roman Republic seemed to have reached a crossroads between peace and war, with legions ready to move and his ruler sitting on felt.

In the winter of that year, Caesar made a decision to enter into a political marriage with Pompey again, marrying Octavia's daughter, Octavian's sister, to Pompey's son, Sextus? Pompey.

Because Caesar was not strong enough at this time, his legion had not yet been formed, and he still needed to be trained, and it was not enough to engage Pompey head-on. And the situation in Gaul is not yet stable, the voice of the rebel tribes is still sounding in a corner of the forest, they are only temporarily hiding their edge, under the threat of the Roman legions, but once Caesar withdraws the legions into the country, the civil war with Pompey? At that time, no one could have guaranteed that these anti-Roman tribal forces in Gaul would not rise up?

The great men of history may seem to others to be very perverted, and they will sacrifice whatever it takes, even their wives and relatives, in order to achieve success and gain power. All the people around him may be used as pawns, but some people see the truth of the matter, and some people are still kept in the dark until the wood is already in the boat, and they suddenly realize.

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"No, no, no! I will not marry Séctus, who is a rich boy who wanders in brothels, and Pompey's prestige and fame make the people of Rome dare not mess with him, but I despise him, and he is of no use except to wield the sword. Mother, you plead with your uncle not to marry me off that bastard. ”

In Rome, Octavian's mansion, Octavia is crying to her mother, Attia, about her pain. Her emotions were almost broken, sometimes slamming the table in anger, sometimes crying sadly. Atia knew her daughter's distress and reluctance. But that's politics, and being born into such a family, they have no choice. You can't stay out of it.

"Octavia, my darling, we all know that it is impossible. Caesar decided that it was impossible to go back, he was a heart-warming uncle, but he was also the governor of the northern provinces of the Republic, and even the future ruler of Rome, you know, once anyone stepped into the sands of the Colosseum, it was impossible for him to withdraw with his whole body and his whole body. Your uncle may have decided to embark on this path of no return for power when he sold his property to bribe the Roman nobles and was elected high priest. And you and I can only support him unconditionally, and everyone around him must support him, otherwise, the end of the failure of the power struggle will be a hell from which there will be no return. ”

Atia sat quietly in the chair, in front of her daughter's scream tried her best to resist, as a mother, she was powerless to tell the truth of the matter, Octavia is an adult, many times, she can no longer be the ignorant, carefree and innocent girl, she must learn to bear, learn to submit. Use her own wrist to travel among all kinds of men, help her husband or father, and complete her mission, like Julia, Caesar's daughter, but unfortunately this wise and elegant woman died of childbirth two years ago.

"Conspiracy! It's all a conspiracy! I'm sick of this ball in a golden mask, how many little-known stinking deals are hidden under the glamorous façade, I'm going to be a commoner, an ordinary Roman citizen, that's all, Mother. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in loss and hesitation. I need freedom, Mother. ”

Octavia cried out heartbreakingly, but Atia could do nothing but watch her daughter slowly grow from a happy girl to a mature and cold woman......