Chapter 2: The Cyrene Heights (Part II)

When Li Bida led his horse and led the guard of honor to the Great Temple, the holy land of the Hashid sect, David . Ankit's eldest son, twelve-year-old Matthias, silently carried a suitcase and followed behind the Roman conqueror's general, "Take this child to the city of Rome, even if it was my husband before, he knew only through the Greek and Hebrew scrolls, I hope that this child will really sit in the boat, die in the center of the world, and really see and see." ”

In fact, this great temple has just been completed, but the walls have left a lot of scars from ballistas and bow shots, even if Li Bida has repeatedly ordered the military discipline to be rectified, and for this reason he did not hesitate to leave the Thirteenth Legion directly under his command in Yazda, but it still failed to completely stop the mania of the victors and the frenzy of plundering, this great temple must have been sacked, fortunately it was still enough to save face for the commander-in-chief, and it was not completely destroyed, and a group of elders stood by the steps in horror, waiting for the arrival of the conqueror.

Li Bida didn't say much, but asked the soldiers to push open the door of the temple, and a few wisps of smoke seeped out, and the chief priest of Hashid died around the altar, and the chief priest Jacob, whose face was pale, and the corners of his mouth were full of filth and blood, and he shrunk tiredly, clutching the table in front of the altar, which was full of scratches, and it seemed that he had suffered great pain before he died.

He cut off the tail of the golden vine and swallowed it. A certain Latin-speaking elder who followed him looked at Jacob's corpse and hurriedly explained.

"Do not tear down the temple, but the Council of Elders should take out all the wealth contained in the temple and distribute it half to the inhabitants of Cyrenaica and half to the legionnaires, so that the army will not be long in coming. will accept the order to go to the outside of the city to station. "This is Li Bida's request. Naturally, the Council of Elders felt that there was nothing wrong with such conditions. He hurriedly agreed, "In addition, this temple will not be exclusive to Hashid in the future, and your Council of Elders also has the obligation to organize lecturers and priests to influence the people, so as not to let the people accept these radical and dangerous ideas." The Jewish Quarter of Cyrenaica was abolished, and all the regurgitates were broken up and mixed with other residents. ”

After speaking. Li Bida quietly put his crown on the altar and hung it, then turned around and stood at the door of the stormy temple, looking at the streets full of soldiers dangling, and sighed in his heart, "It's up to the city of Rome!" ”

At this time, the tribunes, Ebro, Triari, and others, made a generous statement at the civil assembly, "The rebellion of the kingdom of Cyrene has been suppressed, as far as Judea itself is concerned. King Herod the Great also asked the governor of Syria, Byblos, to send one or two legions to help quell the rebellion. In short, there is no doubt about the direction of the situation. The people of Rome. What you should be concerned about is how the republic will treat this territory in the years to come—because the covenant between Herod the Great and the Republic has a sacred legal and diplomatic significance, and it is impossible to cede territory from Judea, but Cyrene is different, because the city-state that had been able to maintain its status as a vassal state has disappeared after the Hashidi revolt, and I propose that its status as a 'maritime ally' be abolished and directly assigned to it' Under the authority of the Colonial Council of Unonia, and just before the new consuls were announced, a thousand to three thousand Roman citizens were emigrated there, or to put it more bluntly, this was Julius. The extension of the law of the fields of His Excellency Caesar, and the extension of the law of the fields of Enonia and Cyrene is the extension of Campeña and Etrunia, and we can file a motion for citizens who did not benefit from the last law of the fields, or who are slightly less qualified, to go to Cyrene and establish a colonial city. ”

In fact, Ebro's argument is to suggest that the republic directly annex Cyrene, like the island of Cyprus, and turn it into a Roman colony, and under the operation of the Yunonia Colonial Committee, mobilize a batch of citizens who are either particularly rich or very poor (only these two groups of people are interested in building colonies), or veterans who have not been properly resettled so far, send them to Cyrene and establish a Latinized colony first, which is a relatively marginal form of government in the republican system. But it's better than Adiana's Eubernia, and going to the colony is tantamount to giving up citizenship automatically (because no one is going to wait for you to travel all the way back to Rome to vote when you run for office), but you can get a large settlement fee, and you can easily get a position in the colony's government, army, and the Senate of Curia. Once they are re-elected to certain prominent public offices, these people, or their descendants, can return to Rome in the future, win citizenship, and participate in the struggle for power in Roman politics.

When the situation has calmed down, perhaps a year, perhaps a decade, perhaps a little longer, the city of Rome will appoint an administrator, the governor of the province.

Triari then formally transcribed the terms of the Cyrene colony on Akuta, making it clearer for all to see, "Whoever is willing to go to the place will be given three hundred yogs of land according to the registered population, and if there are more than three children in the family, one hundred yogs of land will be given priority, and five thousand cysdes will be provided for a one-time settlement fee." As long as it can be confirmed that the assets are in 200,000 cesdes, they will be given priority to enter the Curia of Cyrene and hold government office. "Now the people of Rome were boiling again, and it was no longer the time when the Gracchus brothers were persecuted, and since the battle with Caesar and Pompey against the chosen father of the Senate, the people had clearly felt more and more courageous, and they soon passed the resolution at the meeting of the people of Tebris, and submitted it to the Council of Hundred, conferring the glory of Bassatus (though he only had an empty title) and the Thirteenth Legion in the form of a minor triumph, in recognition of the great significance of the Cyrene expedition to the people.

On the streets of the bull market, a lean man tore off the Akuta attached to the pillars of a certain assembly hall, wrapped the medicine in his hand, and then hurried towards the suburbs outside the city walls, where the expansion and construction in the last ten years were very fast, most of them were the villas of the magnates, and in the evening, he came to the most luxurious of them, Plema, but according to the latest analysis of the Romans, this mansion is only luxurious, but the politicians in it have "died" and disappeared from the political arena for ten years. Everybody will see you as a loser, and Lucuras "Tuna" Luculas is clearly inferior to his ex-brother-in-law, Claudius.

The Romans only recognized the power of reality, and no matter how noble your family was, if no one in three generations had held a prominent position, they would laugh at you as a "rookie", and even deprive you of your nobility through the Senate Inspectorate and demote you to knighthood or commoners. As for what means you use to gain your future, I'm sorry, the Romans never cared.

Lucuras, who used to dominate in the East Minor, is now just a "rookie" snuggled up by the fireplace that dissipates his fighting spirit. (To be continued......)