"Calabis, you're going too far." Demetrius said half angrily and half threateningly, "Eight hundred Talantes are nothing, but the delivery at the Prima banquet will make the master and me the laughing stock of the city of Rome, with your current liliang, can you fight against Pompey?" ”

Calabis laughed and said, "You are only a slave, and your opinion will be consulted in conversation with your masters?" You're just in charge of getting things done. Don't think you're the same as me, Demetrius. ”

"You have to think about your family, too!"

"Don't try to touch my family, Jews. Don't think that my family is my weakness, you have already tried to kill them once last time, and in the end I killed Catiline, and I forgave you all your life, if I lose patience with you now, I can kill you in front of this temple, and I can fully afford to pay for you. Calabis slapped the teardrop-shaped dagger on his waist and said, "You'd better beg God to keep my family safe, or I'll get rid of your master first, and then crucify you, and let you bleed to death." ”

"Don't be stupid, Calabis! You are very smart and capable, I admit it, but you will not compromise, weishenme we don't join forces? In this way, there will be no rivals in the city of Rome, and we will still be united and in love as we did in Asia Minor, you, me, Adiana, and Potti. Dmitrius stretched out his hand to persuade.

"It's ridiculous, though I used to be a slave, I wouldn't join forces with a slave who betrayed his old master. I can consider the matter of the Prima banquet, but eight hundred talents for the purchase of swords. Not a single ace can be missing. Demetrius. You should know that your current master is nothing more than a vanity. He sent you to the city of Rome to spend all his money, but just for a great triumphal ceremony, the whole city of Rome set up a tent, a stage, a table, the streets are crowded with people, full of flowers and lanterns, your master rides a white horse, and basks in the glory of his life, but in two days all the makeshift things will be demolished. The garbage in the streets will also drift in the wind, and your master will run out of wealth, be played by the Senate, and get an illusory glory. Then, he'll do nothing, waste his time, and live no more meaningful life than Lucuras. ”

Hearing Calabis's sarcasm, Demetrius forced his composure, "What you say is indeed reasonable, but the master is the greatest soldier in Roman history. Ten legions are willing to fight in his banner, and this glory is not illusory. ”

As a result, Calabis stepped forward. "Actually, I will not forget the support and advice you gave me when I came to the city of Rome. But you are on the wrong path, your so-called glory and power are only phantoms attached to Pompey, and I, I will come up step by step, I am the one who can control my own destiny. Corps? I will have it, and maybe one day your master's legion will be under my command. Don't talk about the old love, on this shijie, I only owe Porti alone, and the rest of the people have changed, you, me, and Adiana. After saying that, Calabis gave Demetrius a hug, "You might as well continue to wait for ten years to see when the dust settles." Goodbye, former friend. ”

With that, Calabis pushed Demetrius away, waved his hand, and left the Jewish temple without looking back.

At this time, a resolution was reached in the assembly place of the Senate at sunset, in the Temple of the Concorde, in response to Pompey's request:

Pompey's Grand Triumph was allowed to take place one year later, and the Thirteenth Legion, with Luculas's efforts, was able to hold a minor Triumph two years later;

However, Pompey's request to run for the consulship of Rome in the same year as the Grand Triumph, the Senate held that if Pompey performed the Triumph, he could not go to the Capitor Hill to register as a candidate, because the time of the election and the triumphal conflict would allow Pompey to choose one of the two;

Pompey had to pay seven of the wealth of the Mithridates war, after being examined by the Roman Inspectorate, and the remaining thirty percent for the reward of the soldiers, the construction of the Great Temple of Venus, and the cost of the Grand Triumph;

Once he had arrived at the port of Brindisi and landed on Italian soil, Pompey was to disband his ten legions on the spot and ride into Rome alone;

In the Eastern War, the bill on the resettlement of the soldiers of Pompey's legion and the pension was put aside for the time being.

Pompey was in the East, and the Senate had a largely approved attitude towards the resettlement of a series of vassal kingdoms.

Three days later, just two days before the banquet at Villa Prima, Crassus sat in the reception hall of the Temple of the Vesta with a smile, and he deliberately wanted to meet with Calabis here and at this time, the head of the money of the city of Rome, who did not mention the matter of the six thousand Talentes at all, and was much more open-minded than Calabis had imagined, after all, Crassus was a man who was more sensitive to the political situation, and he immediately returned to Rome from Campeña after hearing the Senate's decision against Pompey.

"I don't care about six thousand Talents, Calabis your liliang can't be compared to Pompey after all, you can't stop it. And for now, it is better that these six thousand Tallents are fake, and even more detrimental to the boastful Pompey, because the princess of Pontus actually put these pieces of iron into his hands, which is enough to keep the Inspectorate busy. Crassus's crow's feet were rippling, "I'll soon be able to get Pompey's money back to its original shape, and I'll do a good job, Calabis." Then he tucked down his robe, and coughed at the virgin Lisilia, who was standing quietly beside him.

"Calabis, have you been to Sardinia?" Li Xilia asked suddenly.

Hearing the virgin ask, Calabis described the situation, and both Crassus and Richlia laughed, "You know what? That Yulia invested in marine insurance, failed again, and now her debt is forty talents. ”

It turned out that Yulia, the little widow of the Libidaeus family, did not listen to Habaruka's persuasion after he and Brutus left, and stubbornly imitated the old Cato in the past to engage in maritime trade insurance, which was somewhat similar to the "pyramid scheme" before the crossing of Calabis - Yulia gave him 20,000 dinars from Calabis, plus the proceeds from the sale of the remaining fields, together with 50,000 dinars of silver, scattered to lend to other merchants, and then forced these merchants to develop more downline, everyone Zuihou raised funds to piece together a fleet, Then she asked Habaruka to join the fleet, and turned the debt into ownership of the goods, and once the goods on the ship were successfully sailed and sold off, she made a lot of money, at least four or five times the profit.

But the dumb-headed little widow forgot that in the past, Cato's cargo rights were extended to each ship, which meant that he would buy a share of the cargo for each ship, so as to spread the risk to the greatest extent (at that time, it was common for ships to sink, run aground, or be robbed). Yulia invested all her assets in the luxury goods of a ship, which sank on the way to Africa.

No return!

"Huh?" Little widow, you are constantly bankrupt with your rope! (To be continued......)