Habaruka next to him cried with a sad face and grabbed Li Bida's reins, "Dear man, this army is where your investment is, why should it be handed over to that thin officer?" ”

"This is an army, not a shopping mall, it's not just about money, Habaruka, you don't have to worry, maybe in three months' winter camp, I will have a subordinate army that is more powerful and elite than the Thirteenth Legion." Li Bida sighed, although his words were majestic, his heart was apprehensive.

"First in the direction of Gacheng, Italy, march." Li Bida gave the order weakly, but fortunately, Appis finally remembered the feelings of his former comrades, and gave him more than 100 mules and horses captured by the barbarians in the battle of crossing the river, and the treasury was also divided into 30% for him to carry. The leading trumpeter and the flag bearer, the two types of soldiers, who were often destitute in peacetime, assumed this unequipped military position, and after some discussion, began to play the music of the native island of Sardinia, a warm and sentimental tune, and it was in this melancholy that he marched through the procession, and asked for the name of the piece, and the answer was "thyme", a plant abundant in Sardinia.

Thyme, which can be used as a cheap spice, can repel mosquitoes, can be edible, can be used medicinally, can be used to dispel cold, this kind of panacea-like crop, isn't it similar to my current status in the Doge's Palace in Far Spain?

Fortunately, if I get what I want and really recruit an entire auxiliary army, then the nickname of this legion is "Thyme"!

The journey to Italy was very safe, because it was only a half-day trip, and there were no accidents, and after negotiating with the sentry post of the city, Li Bida led hundreds of people into this small city. Prepare for a break. Just go to the mountains of Vidonny. I heard that it was not very peaceful, and many tribes followed the Lusitanians in rebellion, and there were small bandits running around.

The city is barely a settlement, with riveted Celtic wooden walls and gates, and large sloping wooden houses of the same style, with smoke or hammering utensils, as the largest number of buildings inside are the blacksmiths, and the steel forged in the Iberian Peninsula is famous for its Mediterranean. The local barbarians were far more advanced in this respect than the civilized city-states, and as if they had been given a primordial oracle, they learned to half-bury iron in the earth, and then take it out and forge it at intervals to obtain an incomparably sharp blade.

The residents were lukewarm to Li Bida's auxiliary soldiers who had entered in the procession, and they had seen the soldiers and horses coming and going in the past two months, and they knew that Li Bida's next step was to go to the Curia meeting place in the center of the city to discuss with the city elders the details of the garrison and provisions.

When Li Bida pushed open the bronze door of the Curia venue, he found that it was empty. Only a few slaves with nameplates roasted around the brazier, drinking mead and chatting. There are miscellaneous items such as hay, writing boards, clay pots, etc., and after Caesar left, the Curia elders here suddenly felt that they were letting go of Nanshan, and the whole city was full of a relaxed atmosphere, and Li Bida was a little angry, "Is there no one here who serves this war!" ”

The slaves replied tremblingly, that some of the principals had either gone to their farms to deal with the grain storage, or to the warm Sagentan and the reed grass bays of New Carthage.

At this moment, a serious voice sounded in the corner of the room, "My name is Saab Kemus, and I still work in this Cooliya. Lita looked through the light from the window, the young man of Saab Kemus, in his early twenties, with short hair as neat and earnest as his tone, with a thin but sturdy build, covered with a rough and clean robe, and holding a hooked pen barrel in his hand, and said: "Sir, I am accounting for the logistical supply of Your Excellency the Governor. ”

Li Bida was very curious, this young man could still be meticulous in this situation, he nodded approvingly at the other party, and then asked: "Are you from Rome?" ”

"The people of Aquiria, a free harbor city with citizenship, but who immigrated here at a very young age with my father, who was a lowly clerk in the city during his lifetime, and I took over his job when he was lost, and I had to work until I was thirty years old before I could really hold public office." Saab Kemus continued to answer methodically.

"Are you familiar with the people of Wittonny?" Li Bida took out the gilded baton he had received in Ponticabion, took a few utensils, and placed them on the table, motioning for the young man, who was a few years younger than him, to lay out a situation map.

"To the east of Lusitania, between rivers and mountains, and with the Far Spanish territory of Osir as the hub, the tribes of Vitonny are extremely drunken and savage, and they sometimes obey the ancient laws of Gracia, sometimes they disobey them, and plunder Osir in groups, and there are several roads to get there" Saab Quemus said in a very orderly manner, so that Li Bida nodded frequently, and then took out a money bag, which contained fifty dinars, "I have heard that among the coins in circulation here, the gold coins of the Celts are more popular, But I'm from Rome, so don't worry about it. I'm interested in you, and maybe you should give up this boring job as a scribe and be my guide, and I'll give you this amount every other market day. ”

Saab Kemus opened the purse, looked at it, and then said, "Can I advance your reward for a year?" ”

"Because I and His Excellency Julius have only one year left in our term?"

"No, my family was struggling after the loss, and I would have liked a Celtic bench with blankets and cushions for my mother to sit on at her leisure, but it was expensive."

Li Bida felt that there was no reason to refuse the request of this earnest young man, and he snapped his fingers at the Habaruka next to him, and said that he should pay the three thousand dinars, or two thousand drachmas, in advance, and let him come to the barracks tomorrow to take the oath.

Just when Habaruka's heart ached, Li Bida walked out of the Curia and gathered the soldiers together in front of the venue, he now lacks experienced non-commissioned officers at hand, even Pop has been asked to leave, he has to do many things himself, but these auxiliaries are in good spirits, they have just been released in Sardinia (the master sold them to Li Bida in exchange for more money than the market), Li Bida saw them, and recalled the scene of his first battle in the snow storm in Ricdania: both the fear of swords and crossbows, There is also the desire to change identity by building merit.

His subordinates are poorly equipped, but it doesn't matter, he still has some assets in the treasury, and he is ready to order Ratney-style swords and oval shields for the Celts in large quantities in the city to arm them - my army, as long as I can maintain strong character and quality, I will not spare the money to equip them. (To be continued......)

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