"It is impossible for people to control accidents, but they are at the mercy of accidents." Artabanos, the uncle of the Persian king, who persuaded his nephew not to go on an expedition to the Greek city-states

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"Amborodes' 'family' has a monopoly on the salt and crystals of Garamantheus."

"Amborodes has a monopoly on the wool and precious timber of Cyrene."

"Amborodes has a monopoly on lake salt and tulips produced in the kingdom of Asia Minor."

"Amborodes has a royalty on grain, papyrus and porphyry in Egypt, a royalty in the olives and copper mines of Cyprus, a royalty in the gold mines of Nubia, and all the transport in Alexandria, as well as the seaport of Cyrene."

"Amborodes now owns one-eighth of the entire kingdom of Cyrena, and has revived the city of Cyrenaica by building a huge temple of the goddess of the hunt in the city of Timgad, and using this as an axis, the neighborhood apartments, the main square, and the various altar meeting places have been replanned, which will be the settlement of Latin immigrants and the center of the entire colony."

"The city of Balka, with its huge fortresses and towers, is being restored, and will be the garrison of the colonial cohors, which originally meant the infantry of the Romulus era, with branches on their heads as symbols, and now refers exclusively to the Latin colonial cities, or to the auxiliary forces provided by the allies of all kinds. Of course, Cyrene, according to the agreement, only needed to provide Rome with ships and oarsmen. But Amborodes for the sake of long-term peace. Or to fund the colony to raise a medium-sized security force. ”

"So. The brigades drawn from the River Guards and the Tomb Guards were all paid and sent back to Thebes. The chief brigade of the Twelfth Legion officially evacuated Alexandra and asked Tagus to lead him to join us in the harbor of Cyrene. I am not going to return the legions of Serapis to Ptolemy, and the letters of Theotusus do not advise me to do so, and to merge with the legions of the Cyrenees, and to be stationed in Barca as cohors. There are also four thousand Essions, who, like the Medejie Guard, are my and, nay, personal slaves of Amborodes, and no one in Rome cares about the wealth of this 'rich manor' who lives on the shores of Lake Toritonis. In the remaining council hall of the city-state of Cyrene, Li Bida was discussing fiercely with several henchmen how to let this fictional big man control the fate of Cyrene in the future.

Subsequently. This one wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead and expressed himself to you ambitiously. The revival of Cyrene requires concrete step-by-step steps, and we don't need to do the kind of useless rip-offs, campaigns, and bribes like the city of Rome, or even one consul a year, so that even the garbage problem in the streets cannot be solved, and the consuls' annual energy is to use money indiscriminately to hold competitive entertainment for the people. Cyrene needs a skin to confuse the Republic, but internally, this kingdom will always belong to Amborodes, that is, ours.

These words are Mark. Antony was also impressed, because of the death of his adoptive father, he hated the "hypocrisy" of the Roman republic, and no longer believed in the criterion of the Bronze Table, and he was now turning to favor the monarchy, because he also believed in the prophecy of Sybil, and secretly believed that the third Gonerius had a part in the competition. As for Saab Chemus, he was not interested in the distinction between a republic and a monarchy, and from the moment his ancestors emigrated to Spain, his family automatically discarded citizenship, so what happened in the city of Rome had nothing to do with him, and even if there was, it would have to wait until Lybidaeus, who was above him, soared and climbed the dragon and the phoenix himself, because no one in Rome would look down on him as a hillbilly.

And Petneus, not to mention, now with such a high salary a year, as well as the right to distribute the spoils of war, he has already made a lot of money, and he was not enthusiastic about politics in the first place, but now he can decay, and he just wants to continue to serve in Li Pida's army for ten years in stability and shine as much as possible.

But Li Bida was obviously more thoughtful, he spread a roll of papyrus on the floor, and everyone sitting on the bed looked at it, which was similar to a totemic appearance, but it was not a god, nor a common beast of nomads, but a rare one of that era, a large Roman-style shield with green and white vines on it (this was modified by Li Bida based on the emblem of the university he studied in China before the crossing), "Each vine symbolizes each of our members." After showing the pattern, Li Bida held up a miniature gold badge, "From now on, we are Amborodes, and Amborodes is us, with this badge as a mark." Then he placed a few badges lightly on the table and spread them out, and the few were silent for a while, and then they were pinned to their sleeves.

"Amborodes' plan for the revival of Cyrene, starting with the monopoly, we will ban the private trade in crystal, salt, gold and wool in the Libyan region, of course, this is the reason why we continue to support the legion, that is, to fight against the suppression of private individuals, this time after our tax system (the Roman Republic of the colonies and allies are still relatively loose, these places can have independent tax systems, and even have the right to mint money) in addition to taxes on land and heads, we should focus more on the profits of the monopoly, Moreover, it was a unified purchase and sale, with a small amount removed and kept in the country, and the rest dumped in Rome and Greece in exchange for a large amount of money to fill our treasury. ”

After saying that, the chief of the Amborodes Club crossed his chest very comfortably, and it is unknown what he will do after the "treasury is full". But Sabo knew in his heart that the most urgent thing for Li Bida to do now was to rebuild the Barka, the Yazda fortress, and the harbor and dockyard that he valued most.

Sure enough, two days later, Li Bida asked Saab to go with him to inspect the Cyrene harbor under construction, he was not satisfied with the old dock, thinking that it would be his real independent fleet base, in addition to the trade function, it also needed to take into account the military function and the manufacturing function, so they needed a special, dock dock for the navy, and after careful survey by the head of the project, Gable, the location was finalized on a steep island outside the old dock of Cyrene, this island is called Zio Island, The center will be transformed into a naval commander's command post with a lighthouse, the waterway will be separated from the commercial docks, the island will be surrounded by horseshoe-shaped, trapezoidal dry docks, and the surface will be lined with crew houses, warehouses and shipyards, which will be able to undertake the berthing, manufacturing and maintenance of ships, and will be equipped with protective and sheltered breakwaters, water walls and iron pillars with exits, which will reproduce the glorious picture of Carthage's naval fortress that was difficult to attack. (To be continued......)