This condition strengthened Cicero's confidence, and in the public debates that followed, he continued to satirize, ridicule, and refute all those who dared to oppose it, such as inviting Aetius to go outside the city now and negotiate with the four legions, "Maybe I should give you half of the city legions as bodyguards, but they might also sell you for five hundred cestheus at the camp of Lypida", "Is there anyone here who is closer to Lypidaus than me?" I know him well, I know him, he just wants a just result, when Caesar crossed the Rubicon, Cato the Younger used to say that Pompey was not prepared for it, and he hastily provoked a war, and now this comment is also very appropriate for some people. ”

Next, Cicero kept throwing out promises, "Young Caesar is a young man who admires me very much, and Li Bida is willing to sit in his seat and talk and laugh with me, now the city of Rome is like a field full of dry wood and fire, all of them are legions, and if the edict of the Senate is a little extreme, it will inevitably ignite a catastrophic flame, and burn you and me to death." So we are on the vine, dancing a dance dedicated to the faun, so at this time we have to believe that the real elders will calm this qiē. ”

Under Cicero's combination of hard and soft, many senators have succumbed, and the Senate has not been afraid of the sword, but it is only a moment in the face of foreign invasion, and the people are happy to accept the leadership of the specially chosen father at this moment, but they are afraid that like Marius and Sulla, this group of tumors that breed in the internal body of the republic has no law and logic at all, and they can do whatever they want, as long as they have the support and approval of the legion.

The final vote on the result. With a seven-to-three advantage. Cicero's proposal was approved.

Spinzel collapsed in his seat. Saying that it was all over, the current republic was like a huge fortress, which looked invulnerable from the outside, but when each fortress city was built, God set a gap for it, and as long as the enemy knew about the gap, any soldier standing there, even using a woman's menstrual blood to splash on it, the city wall would collapse automatically. Towers will tilt automatically, the defenders will automatically crumble, the great and prosperous city will be reduced to ruins, its glory will be a thing of the past, and the ungrateful citizens who once enjoyed the right to freedom will be punished for their chatter and stupidity and imbecility, they once hated the elite, but now there is no elite willing to protect them, and their retribution has come, that is, to be slaves forever.

Subsequently, Cicero was in front of everyone. In his capacity as the Duty Chairman and Patriarch, a series of edicts were issued:

He was given a state funeral, and the 42nd and 43rd Legions were commended for their heroic battles. Grant the eagle mark and the wreath of flowers, and then take part in the triumphal ceremony, rewarding each soldier with one hundred dinars of silver;

For the Ninth and Tenth Legions, which had come from Antony's side, the Senate had specially allocated five hundred dinars of silver to each person from the treasury as a token of appreciation;

Twelve days of thanksgiving for Dehemothus, who bravely resisted Antony in the city of Mutina, and eight days of thanksgiving for the two consuls Panza and Herjus, who bravely relieved the siege of the city of Mutina, and thanks to the young Caesar who also commanded the army, and in it;

Merut, the original high priest, was transferred to the second consul, and Lybidaeus took up the vacated position of high priest;

The task of pursuing Antony was entirely under the responsibility of Dehemos, whose position as governor of southern Gaul remained unchanged, and Caesar's mission was over, and he could return to Rome and take over one of the twelve court officials.

After announcing this, Cicero raised his hand to everyone and shouted, "The instability of the Republic will be dissipated by this edict!" In return, it was also a climactic cry: Li Bida got what he wanted, Anthony was at the end of his rope, and the young Caesar would have to come back soon, and the power of the Caesar Party would be successfully broken and dissolved.

There is no doubt that in Cicero's arrangement, the contempt and burial of the young Caesar have reached the pinnacle.

And in the camp outside the city, the soldiers of the four legions, shouting the slogan "Imperato" as if participating in the celebration, bought all kinds of flower crowns, rattles and small gifts from the camp, and poured into the tent of Li Bida to celebrate, and many people fell down in front of the idol of King Numa and bowed, and Li Bida came out with a smile, stepped on the black steed, went around the boundary of the camp ditch, and ran around the camp to the cheers of the soldiers, and then dismounted, and walked into the tent, and after a while he walked out again, He changed his attire, openly put on the special olive branch and leaf hat used by the high priest, and put on a sheepskin coat with a shoulder, "Long live the high priest!" Long live Rex! When the soldiers saw this, their feelings reached their climax, and they all clasped each other's arms, raised them high and lowered, and shouted like a raging ocean.

"This is for the time being my last day as your commander-in-chief, and probably the first day of my appointment as high priest, for the high priest is elected by the people's council, not by the hundred-man regiment on the Mars Colonel's field, and I appeal to the assistance of all of you."

Li Bida's meaning was obvious, and immediately the whole camp except for the veterans who stayed behind, everyone immediately took off their military uniforms, hid short daggers, and went out to the assembly hall to vote for Li Bida, which was a very convenient thing in the period of the three-headed monster - Caesar repeatedly asked the legionnaires to return to Rome during the winter camp to vote for Crassus and Pompey, or their respective agents and cronies, and seek various positions.

The result is self-evident, Li Bida dressed in such a costume that night, in the middle of the welcome of the new citizens and soldiers, in the silence of the old citizens, like Caesar, walked into the Via Couchola, but no longer to return to the apartment he had rented in Rome, but to enter the luxurious and exclusive residence of the high priest, and he has become the master of this place.

On the shelves of the closet in the official residence, Li Bida slowly rested on the strange bronze statue of the man and cow that the owner left behind during his lifetime, and looked at it intently, but he knew that it was not over yet.

The next day, at a meeting in the synagogue of the Senate, Li Bida arrived punctually, and asked the two consuls to take over his legions and go to cooperate with Dehemoth in pursuing Antony, who, as the high priest, was supposed to sit on Capitol Hill.

"To pursue Antony, it is enough to have the legion of Dehemos and the legion of Caesar the Young." At this time, Cicero said.

But Li Bida laughed, "Will my six legions accept the result of being disposed of on the spot?" ”

He laughed in the hall as if mocking everyone, and almost everyone froze, and then Cicero proposed, "Then we can call Panza and Merut to take over the mission." (To be continued......)