"Guards, get a few of them up. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Such a low-ranking slave is also eligible for military merit? ”

As soon as Antony's words fell, several Roman legionnaires rushed up and tied up Appis and the scouts beside him, and several young Roman scouts categorically did not dare to confront Antony, the commander-in-chief of the legionary cavalry, and did not know what crime they had committed to be tied up like this. Only Apis knew that all this was not because he had done anything wrong, but because Antony wanted to monopolize the military merits and prevent himself from sending the information to Caesar's tent, he wanted to give this information to Caesar as his discovery and obtain credit that did not belong to him.

"The hunter will one day discover that his bloody prey was not killed by his lazy hound, who had lost his sense of smell, but by the snow wolf of the forest, and that lazy, fat hound, who had only picked up the wolf's prey, wagled his tail before his master, and croaked—this is my prey, and behold, master, how brave and resourceful I am."

Appis glared at Anthony and unhurriedly confided his displeasure. However, Anthony is not a fool either, and such a sharp sarcasm immediately makes Anthony furious. This time, however, Anthony was not fooled. He walked over, looked at Appis with a ruffian-like look, and then, with a sly and satisfied smile on his lips—

"I will not let you be hurt in the slightest, heroic captain of the reconnaissance brigade, you will find that everything you have done, whether today or in the future, will only become a bargaining chip for my glory, and you and your reconnaissance cavalry are just a vase in Caesar's hand to set off my exploits and your obscurity."

Anthony didn't punch and kick Apis like last time, because this time, when Caesar assigned the task, he assigned the task to two people at the same time, and if Apis was beaten to the head before entering the camp, it is estimated that all those who have a little brain will know that Anthony did it.

Antony bound Appis and the poor scouts behind him before swaggering into Caesar's tent.

"Well done, Anthony, you have once again done a great job of the task I gave you. It turns out that you are my strongest arm. ”

Upon entering Caesar's tent, Caesar excitedly praised Anthony. Immediately afterwards, the Gallic peasant, who had been tightly tied, was sent to Caesar's tent, and the soldiers carried hundreds of heavy swords and axes.

The human and material evidence was there, and now the Eduaras had no reason to quibble.

At the same time, the Roman army in the city was sure to be attacked tonight. With the dens where the weapons were hidden and the weapons taken away by the Roman soldiers, the Eduaras would not have waited for Caesar to come and reprimand, and to drive the remaining Roman troops out of their towns before the enemy arrived, which is what a fool would do.

Anthony responded to Caesar very enthusiastically, saying that this mission was so easy that he would always be Julius? Caesar's most loyal follower.

It wasn't until Antony was gone that Octavian came out of his dark bedroom. It turned out that the clever little boy had been hiding in Caesar's tent and had heard Anthony's words of encouragement from beginning to end. Before, for Antony's kidnapping of Appis, the young Octavian witnessed the whole story, but he was clever enough not to confront Antony on the spot and point out his despicable deeds, but hid in the crowd, quietly observed, and then reported the true situation of the matter to his uncle Caesar.

"Young nephew, you have always made me like this, just like your style of doing things, there is always a shadow of me. Although you are not strong enough, you are still young, and this is normal. Come, Octavian, and let me tell you how this matter should be handled. ”

Caesar brought Octavian to his side, and they were as close as father and son in age.

"Do you know that Anthony kidnapped Appis and asked for a military exploit that originally belonged to Apis?"

Octavian's reaction was puzzled by Caesar's reaction, for although the young boy had an IQ that surpassed his peers, Octavian was still too young in front of the greatest legion commander of the Roman Republic, and he still needed to grow up and need Caesar's watering of him.

"Yes, Octavian, how could I not have known what happened outside the barracks?"

"And you rewarded Anthony?"

Octavian was even more puzzled, believing that his uncle's way of doing things was always wrong, but that a thirteen-year-old could not figure it out on his own.

"The purpose of rewarding Anthony was simple, to make him feel smart enough. Octavian, you must know that it is impossible for a person to do things for you completely and wholeheartedly. Everyone will have their own selfishness in front of power and interests, at that time, people's desires will arise, you can't control everyone's inner thoughts, but you control their behavior, and the best way to control their behavior is to let their means and thoughts, stay within your plan, in other words, you can calculate them, and they don't know at all, every time they pretend to be ignorant, in fact, they are testing each other's ambitions, when they feel that they are smart enough to oppose your rule, Then you will use the plan you have prepared to deal with them. When they are caught by us, they will still be in prison wondering why I am so smart and end up like this. Of course, I'm not saying that Anthony is anti-minded, but through this incident, I will tell you how to manage your army, which is true in the legion, and the same is true for the governance of a country. ”

Caesar hugged Octavian and patiently explained his motives for doing this today. Although the young Octavian sounded a little struggling, he was so talented that he gradually digested the "knowledge" that his uncle had taught him.

"But if you know that Anthony and Apis are at odds, why do you want to let them both carry out this task at the same time?"

Octavian ignorantly understood Caesar's methods and means of governing the legion and managing his subordinates. But he felt the same confusion as to why his uncle, knowing that Apis and Anthony were at odds, assigned the task to two people at the same time.

"If lions want to dominate the grasslands, wolves and grizzly bears must fight each other."

Caesar did not have a direct answer to Octavian's question. Rather, it is explained to young boys in metaphors. This time, Octavian quickly understood what his uncle had done.

"You mean that if you want to manage the whole legion well, the people below can't be too harmonious and too united, right?"

Octavian was very smart, and Caesar liked his young nephew more and more, but unfortunately Octavian was too young, otherwise, Caesar really planned to hand over the command of the legion to his clever boy after he retired.

"You understand it very quickly, and that's true. As big as a country, as small as a legion, we can't do everything ourselves, we must hand over to the people under us to complete specific tasks, and some important positions must also be handed over to them, and the normal thinking is that the people under the commander must be united, so that they can unanimously go outward and defeat the enemy. But historically, what great leaders really feared was not a strong opponent, but an internal rebellion. When all your trusted subordinates are united, the leader is easily hollowed out, and we don't know what the people below are thinking or planning, and the rebellion breaks out in the illusion of comfort. Historically, there have been many such bloody cases. ”

Caesar was like a father, patiently instructing Octavian.

"So, we deliberately created contradictions among them and made them discord with each other, so that what movement and information would reach our ears in time?"

Octavian also grasped Caesar's teachings very quickly, just as Apis talked to him about philosophy and politics? The young boy was an absolute genius, and although he was on the march and in battle, Caesar had not yet discovered any talent in him. But that didn't stop Caesar from being absolutely doting on him. Governing the entire Roman Republic did not require a strong army command, but it required a good management ability and employment skills.