PS: Make up for yesterday's debts today, three more.

The interior of each dock is actually similar to a semi-open house structure, which is connected in turn. Ships have specially used, numbered access channels to facilitate access and personnel boarding and maintenance, and the entire channel and humanoid passage are supported by columnar markings, the highest of which is 12 romans, and the lowest is 7 romans, and the profile is in the shape of a slope. Each dock is assigned a special shipbuilder (director) and a large number of shipwrights, after receiving the task, the shipbuilder must go to the fleet foundation under Li Bida to withdraw a sum of money for construction, and at the entrance of the front door channel, a bronze tablet is erected, on which the names of the shipbuilder and the shipwright are engraved in turn, which is used as a voucher to pay salaries, and of course, there is also a need to hold accountable.

As for the oarsmen, who were not involved in the construction of ships, they lived in a concentrated manner on the island of Zio, where they concentrated on the supply of food, vegetables and entertainment, and had independent temple buildings, and Li Bida exempted them from taxes on the condition that they serve Cyrene's fleet.

The island of Zio in the sea and smoke is being wrapped in ships carrying stone and timber like a shuttle, this is a huge public project, Li Bida will not hope to spend a lot of money to hire people to complete it, so the entire Cyrene men, except for the manpower that must be cultivated, the rest are rationed wheat and wine, to build this naval fortress, and to renovate the city of Balka, as for the fortress of the revival of Barka, Li Bida intends to demolish most of the walls of the remaining four cities, In order to prevent the unscrupulous people from having the opportunity to riot and resist again.

Around the time of autumn, a thousand colonists from Italy, sailed in the comfortable ships provided by Cyrene. Arrive at the harbor. At this time, the surface works on Zio Island had just been completed. As soon as they landed on the land, they were guided by the enthusiastic locals to the city of Timgad, where they entered the neat houses, where the gymnasium, amphitheater, large and small temples were all available, and the Egyptian-style obelisk of the square was engraved with the name of Amborodes, the "father of the city", when they entered the local Curia assembly through a combination of asset registration and lottery. It was found that more than half of the seats were already occupied by the local "plutocrats", but the colonists did not care at all, because they had a natural advantage over these natives when they returned to Roman politics in the future.

In the days after the arrival of the colonists, Li Bida happened to come into contact with an amazing treasure, which was found by Hebrida and his soldiers in the old site of the council hall, commonly known as the "tripod of the gods", and legend has it that this bronze tripod was built by the ancient Greek heroes in the "Argo". When preparing for an expedition to the Black Sea, he was put on deck, but encountered a north wind while sailing. After drifting for nine days and nine nights, they actually came to the coast of Cyrenaica, Libya (please allow Li Bida to make a Hyogo North expression), and then when they went ashore, these people received a prophecy from God, as long as they had this tripod, they could build a full hundred Greek cities in Cyrenaica, so the locals were afraid, so they secretly hid the tripod, and it has been passed down to this day, which seems to be a national treasure of the Cyrene Kingdom or something.

But when Li Bida saw the real face, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and then he was ecstatic, this tripod is not a single thing, but a complete set of distillation equipment, and then Hebrida next to him shouted, "Only Judea's alchemist in the whole world can control this thing." ”

"What is the purpose of these alchemists?" Li Bida asked curiously.

"I heard that a sorcerer wrote some books claiming that the sea was made entirely of mercury, and that he could turn this mercury into gold through this tripod, that is, the whole ocean could produce gold, and this was the foundation on which a hundred cities were built." Peternius said from the side.

Li Bida shook his head, it was too difficult to find the correct sentence in the words of these warlocks, but the "tripod" equipment in front of him was really complete in the classical era, with a three-armed flask, a sand bath vessel and a water bath vessel, and a distillation head, which completely belonged to the type of technology tree that was not correct. So he coughed twice, and said to Hybrida and Sabokimus, "Immediately renovate the old site of the council hall into the library of Cyrene, and you don't have to worry about collecting books first, first recruit alchemists from Rhodes, Alexandria, and Miridu, and the price and salary are negotiable." ”

"Is it to turn the sea into gold? I think the only thing in the Cyrene region is seawater. Anthony next to him joked, and Li Bida also smiled, of course not! After a detailed investigation, he found that there was a valuable treasure in the kingdom of Cyrene, which was overlooked by many people, that is, the fine madder, which was only a medicinal herb for curing diseases in the cognition of civilized people at that time, but when Li Bida passed through the kingdom of Nasammones, he found that the local women would mash this plant and smear the purple red on their clothes for the glory of "hybridization", which means that this is a dye that can replace the expensive Phoenician purple (produced by shellfish), In addition, the silk transported from the Cyrene Empire, due to the barriers of technical secrecy, was mostly plain when it arrived in Rome and Athens, and the noblewomen were still dressed happily, so as long as this precious crop unique to Cyrene could be planted on a large scale and undertake the printing and dyeing of silk, it would be a much larger "treasure" than directly occupying a few gold mines!

Then they walked out of the old synagogue site, when the leaden clouds gathered in the sky, and an ominous tornado came with cold raindrops, and the soldiers and inhabitants of the streets took refuge in the temple, or under the open arcades on the side of the street, and Li Bida felt his heart beating wildly, and he turned his head to see that a familiar figure with a small head was quickly passing through the rain curtain and standing twenty Roman feet away from him, holding a fine box in his hand.

"Habaruka! How did you end up here, family? Li Bida asked in shock and uneasiness.

The other party replied that the family was fine, but then he took out the letter from the box, "It happened a month ago, and I came here by boat and feet as soon as I got the news from Kelly. ”

Li Bida roughly guessed what this letter meant, and hurriedly spread it out in the rain, there were only very few words written by the Lord in it, and it was a little crooked, not at all like the previous tuna's handwriting, how clear and neat his handwriting was in his prime, just like his thinking, the content on it was easy to recognize, "Calabis, Marcus's adopted son, sorry, I think I still need a child who will be in front of the bed and put a wax mask on me." ”

Restlessly and tremblingly, the receiver rolled up the letter and slowly put it back in the Habaruca box, then turned his head and wiped the rain and said to Sabo and Peternius, "I want to go back to Rome, now." ”

"But you are still in exile, and it is extremely unwise to go back." Saab said worriedly. (To be continued......)