The Qin people formed a strategic alliance with the Jews.

On the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, a new shili is rapidly rising, and a gallop road from Dongyang City (Damascus) to Jerusalem is being built, and the jubilant Jews are very excited about the free aid of the Qin state, once the gallop is opened, the goods unloaded from the Bay of Beirut can be loaded directly onto horse-drawn carriages, and then transported to the east without stopping.

It's a shipping line for wealth.

It is a lifeline that resurrects the Jewish people from existential adversity.

In the face of the temptation of practical interests, David, the Jewish king who led the Qin-Yu alliance, was pushed to the top of singing praises by the aristocracy, merchants, and the vast number of poor people. The fact is so peculiar, just a month ago, David was almost taken the throne by a dissident nobleman and senator because of his contact with the Qin State.

In mid-October, the Qin generals Li Zhongxiang and the lieutenants Yang Yu and Zhou Ping led 6,000 Qin troops to Haifa Bay on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, where their main task was to help the Jews train a qualified army.

The money.

According to Li Yuan, it was the protection fee of the Qin army to protect the Jews from foreign invasion.

When the Jews were weak, they were slaughtered fiercely.

Li Yuan did not forget how strong the army of Israel was in later generations, and in five wars in the Middle East, each time with fewer victories, almost the sons and daughters of Muhammad were beaten to the ground.

After hesitating for a while, David and other Jewish nobles finally agreed to this almost unbridled condition. Over the years, the Jews have been afflicted by Alexander the Great's former generals, who not only love to kill, but also have frequent internal friction with each other, even if the Jews can do business and have the ability to make money. I can't stand up to endless demands.

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Continents and oceans.

Alternately influencing the European continent.

The warm oceanic climate gradually weakened in November and was replaced by cold snaps from northeastern Siberia and the Arctic Ocean.

The dry season arrived as scheduled.

The abundant sunshine of the summer accelerates the ripening of the olive trees on the Apennine Peninsula, and the fragrance wafts through the mountains and fields, exuding an alluring aroma.

The century-long war between Rome and Carthage has marked an exclamation point of pride for the Romans and a sigh for the Carthaginians in the past few months.

Hannibal was defeated.

Nearly 100,000 Carthaginian soldiers were captured.

More than a dozen important cities on the southern shores of the Mediterranean fell into Roman hands.

Long live the Roman Republic!

Long live General Scipio!

Whether it was the Gauls, the Germans, the Saxons, the Macedonians, the Thracians, the Egyptians. None of them were the match for the mighty and invincible Roman hoplites!

With a strong sense of self-confidence, the Romans began to flutter, especially the magnates of the Senate, who were even more unbalanced by the loss and jealousy in their hearts after seeing Scipio, who was thirty years younger than him, become a hero.

"Since Scipio is powerful, let him be a hero alone, we old fellows, we good haode enjoy the rest of the good life."

Wake up early in the morning. Beside her is a beautiful slave girl wearing only a little strip of cloth, and then, as the master, what do you want. How?

Such temptation is the deadliest poison for a man.

"It's true that we can't fight, but who says we can't fight-!" Slaves in batches and in batches. Among them are many beautiful young women, stimulated by the novelty, the old guys are in high spirits.

Thinking of the beautiful and juicy young women who begged him to step down. The old men in the Senate were dull and exuding an old air of decay all over their bodies, and they only felt a sense of majesty between their legs.

The estate of the archon Fabian.

It is located on the Athletic Hill just outside the city of Rome, and on the hills of this area, one large manor after another is dotted, and in the fields around the manor, a group of female slaves walk naked from the ridges of the fields, revealing their sturdy and drooping breasts.

Not far away.

At the front of the line, on a pure white high war horse, Scipio the Great, the most outstanding general of the Roman army, who defeated the Carthaginian commander Hannibal, looked at the front with a serious face.

"Look, that's General Scipio, he's looking at me, wow, how handsome, so charming? It would be nice if I could hug for a night! ”

"Is it really General Scipio? I heard that the Senate has decided to give the command of the army to this young and handsome hero? ”

"Don't be delusional, don't look at your identity, work quickly, the whip of the overseer will not be forgiving." Several female slaves stared intently at the group of majestic and powerful figures, and their hearts were rippling.

Scipio.

The name was obscure until two years ago, at best one of Rome's many generals. A year earlier, when news of the victory in the Second Punic War had reached the city of Rome, Scipio's fame had skyrocketed several times, and not only the upper senators, the aristocracy, but even the lowest slaves were fond of his name.

The slave girl who was stared at by Scipio was beating wildly, but she didn't know that Scipio, the great hero of Rome, was angry at this time, and if the arena was nearby, Scipio would not mind a one-on-one hand-to-hand fight with the consul Fabian.

Heroes are always lonely.

The Roman Republic is two of the most famous of this era.

The young Scipio and the aged Fabian formed a brief alliance of unity in the face of the great Carthaginian threat, but after the defeat of Hannibal, the conflict between Scipio and Fabian began to intensify.

The difference in philosophy.

Let the two Roman heroes have a serious disagreement.

Fabian is best known for his delaying tactics against Hannibal's army, and when it comes to governance, Fabian's philosophy is as conservative as his military performance.

In contrast, the young Scipio was very vigorous, and while the Qin army attacked the Middle East and the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the Roman army, under the command of Scipio, not only occupied all the important towns of Carthage except the capital, but also competed with the Macedonian king Philip V for control of the Greek peninsula in the east.

Future.

Rome's territory would span the entire Mediterranean, turning this vast Eu-African inland sea into the inner lake of the Roman Republic. With such a grand goal in mind, Scipio tried his best in the Senate to persuade the senators and nobles to increase their investment in the army, but the results were not optimistic.

Defeating its archrival Carthage, Rome had no rival in Europe and Africa. The nobles of the Roman Senate, who had been relieved from the danger of national destruction, wanted to indulge in merry, buy more slaves, cultivate more land, and then enjoy a beautiful life in the comfort of their own estates.

"Rome, before it is time to sit back and relax, a powerful and terrifying enemy is emerging on our eastern border, and that is the Qin people from the far east!"

Scipio's hoarse shouts earned him only a few scattered applause, and there were really not many people in the Roman Senate who supported this kind of initiative to go to war and forge ahead.

The senators who can represent one side are all very old and conservative old guys, and it is precisely because of this that the Roman Senate has another name: the old people's house.

Scipio's description of the Qin state liliang made the senators feel ridiculous.

Qin people.

That distant peoples of the East. A country thousands of kilometers away wants to come to the Mediterranean to compete for hegemony, did they put on their wings and flew over?

It is undeniable that the silk they produce is indeed a good thing, and in the hot and sultry summer, there is a cool and refreshing feeling on the body, even if the woman's delicate skin makes him love it.

Zuihou, in order to appease Scipio, a rising star in the army, the Senate decided to appoint Scipio as the commander of the Roman Crusade Legion, and sent 50,000 troops from all over the country to launch a war against the Macedonian Antigonus Kingdom and the Thracians.

A Greek peninsula.

It should be able to satisfy Scipio's youthful ambition to make a career, right? Fabian and the other old fellows were thinking about their own thoughts, but the kindness they unleashed was simply a humiliation for the ambitious Scipio.

Scipio's "friendly" move to contact Fabian did not bring him much benefit, and although the treacherous Fabian received the rising star of the army in the manor with a smile, he was really not interested in Scipio's proposal to increase investment in the army, introduce Jishu craftsmen, and create new weapons.

Roman army.

It's strong enough.

On the European continent, who can still be the enemy of Rome, in this case, Scipio also asked for the expansion of the army, what is this for, is Scipio trying to engage in military dictatorship?

Dictatorship and democracy.

The current development of the Roman Republic has gradually entered a bottleneck stage, and now Rome is still a country with a republican system, even if it is an archon, it must be elected by the Senate, but the advantage of this way of deliberation in the Senate is that it can give all parties the opportunity to express their wishes, and the disadvantage is that no matter what the decision is, the process of making it is extremely painful and long.

The wait was too desperate for a powerful general eager to prove himself on the battlefield, and the young Scipio complained to his colleagues more than once that if one day he took real control of the army, he would not obey what the old fellows of the Senate said.

Scipio may have only spoken and complained, but the speaker had no intention and the listener had the intention, and these words of his came to Fabian, and he became Scipio's position as the consul of Desire, and he was to replace Fabian as the new leader of Rome. (To be continued......)