Cleopatra was cold at the moment, and it also suppressed all the local chiefs who originally tried to take advantage of the Ptolemaic Dynasty to be destroyed by Rome and try to stand on their own, including all the people in Nubia, Axum, and Aden, all of them hung their heads and signed a peace treaty on the word board, it should be in this remote area, whether it is Parthia or Rome, it is difficult to put their hands in for the time being, they can only obey the top of the food chain in this "small ecosphere", that is, Alexandria. ,

Then, with great satisfaction, Cleopatra handed over the inscription of the peace to the court clerks for safekeeping, and then she slowly comforted the people present and said: "Don't worry unnecessarily, remember that you are only renting out the harbor, and I will pay you a good rent every year, and you will soon be richer than the princes, and you will definitely not be worse than the Parthian and Roman nobles." You will not even be responsible for the repair of the harbor and the ships, and I will at once send three legions along the route of the former Pharaoh's expedition to Ponte until all the ports are under control. ”

The following was an extremely huge project, and Li Bida also made a lot of money, and in any case, the favor was given by Caesar - he used the sixty towers left after the construction of the city of Troy, and the eight hundred towers that Pisso had given him, all to pay for the army's expeditions, and the first three years of port leasing.

The Egyptian river guards, led by the placed treasurer, were the vanguard of the aim, first in reed boats, carrying handy weapons such as bows and arrows, hammers, and axes (easy to cut roads in the bushes and low-intensity clashes with the local barbarians) to the end of the Nile. Out of the valley area. Follow the ancient relics. The road formed by the dry riverbed called "Waj-Hammamet" came to the site of the castle called Gasus, and then the river transport guard began to spend money on guides, mules, horses, donkeys, supplies, and a large number of manpower to lay a better road, and renovated Gassus, dug wells, and added warehouses and stables. Then Lufio and Achilles took two legions of Pontus, and along the route of the spearheads, they continued to build stronger avenues, which the Roman soldiers were best at, and dug wells along the way, and military shelters for shelter from rain and wind, and when they also reached Gasus, they scattered like spider webs of Nubia, the Nile Valley, and the ports of the Punt Red Sea. It's all linked.

This Ponte trade route, which has been famous since ancient times, was quickly dredged.

Subsequently. In the vast sea, the local ports of Aden and Axum brought about forty ships of various colors, and the legions and mechanics were harvesting trees in the locality, and Alexandra continued to have a large number of boatmen and mechanics who followed the new wide road to the city of Gassus, where the construction of the dockyard began.

Cleopatra had never enjoyed the benefits of a mighty army as he did today—the pirates of Cyprus and Crete had been wiped out by Pompey, the trade routes had been restored, and he had no need to fight against the invasion of the overlords after becoming a vassal state of Rome, while Cyrene was as safe as his own backyard under the control of Lipida, and the border trade with the desert nomads had reached a flourishing stage; Therefore, Cleopatra only ordered General Shekbehu and General Serapion to lead the troops under the jurisdiction of the original "nomadic frontier chiefs" to garrison the fortress of Perusim to guard against the threat of a single line from the east, and the south became a vassal of Ptolemaic Egypt again, and then Cleopatra borrowed the "half-tax order" established by Li Pida and the so-called "road construction" to severely expropriate a large amount of wealth and land in the god city of ThebesMany tenant farmers and artisans were re-absorbed by the state and became Ptolemy's direct patrons, and taxes and servitude were greatly increased.

At this point, Cleopatra understood how much benefit Li Pida's painstaking arrangement could bring to her, or to the other party. Sometimes, there is no right or wrong in political interactions, and there is no need to mix personal emotions into it, there is only a win-win situation and a win-win situation, and the former is always more stable and effective than the latter.

Finally, in the city of Gassus after the Saturnalia festival, the open warehouse in front of the dock was piled up with a mountain of treasures, most of which were specialties of Egypt and Axum, "and I want something that is not produced by the Cyris Empire, which can make the emperor of the other side feel novel." So ivory, tortoiseshell, rhino horn, and rare birds and animals kept in cages, such as giraffes, "went there, and said that it was a unicorn, and it was a unicorn - listen to my voice, a unicorn, and then he said to Emperor Seris, this is called auspicious, called auspicious - listen to my voice, auspicious rui." Just hearing this, the emperor will be happy. And in Fort Libida, Otakilius, who had just arrived with his order, happened to be the messenger of the expedition, and he was surrounded by documents stamped with ring seals, and Libida carefully taught him the sounds of two words, "unicorn" and "auspicious", Otakilius was quite talented in language, and soon memorized this word.

In another month and a half, he will first take a boat to Alexandria, and then to Axum in Ponte, and then he will take a boat across the ocean to realize the communication between the two worlds, which may bring peace, prosperity and pleasure to the two worlds in ten or twenty years, or even three hundred years. Li Bida shouted for him, and said to him, "You must write a masterpiece that has been handed down to the world to describe what you see and feel along the way." ”

"I just hope that I can come back safely!" Otakilius' face was a little nervous and excited, he didn't have such a big vision at the moment, and then he put his hands behind his back and went to chant about the unicorn and auspiciousness.

Just as Ortakilius was about to set sail, Caesar's letter arrived, "Requesting that Lybidaeus, the expatriate counsellor of the capital, return to Rome at once to preside over the first assembly of Tebris, and to discuss the re-establishment of the Knights' Court." ”

Caesar used the term, "the Great Assembly of the People", which meant that not only the original thirty-five clans of Rome were attending this assembly, but the aristocratic oligarchs could no longer use bad omens, agricultural busyness and other means to hinder the people from meeting and voting, and the order to close the market was also canceled, because the four-month celebration had come to an end, and the direction expressed by Caesar in his letter was also very clear: You are the model for the assembly in which Rome and all of Italy participated, and the purpose of calling you to preside over it is this, The central issues were the extermination of Pompey's remnants, the expeditions to Parthia and Dacia, and the passage of the Immigration and Knightly Tribunals. (To be continued!)

Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!