Chapter 30: The Nameplate of Life and Death (Part II)

Next, they began to discuss the question of the ownership of Panza, who had been a civil official and had no legion to support him, so Antoniti gave him the titles of the Forty-second and Forty-third Legions, and promised that he would be transferred to the Chief Executive Yuan at the end of his term of office the following year, and then to be transferred to the Inspectorate when the time was right.

In the end, it was Li Bida's turn, but he always just smiled and said that his current official position had made him very satisfied, and then he had to do something that was in line with his responsibility, that is, to support the Caesar Party to recruit the murderer, so that everyone could be punished as they deserved.

"However, if we want to accomplish this business, we must suppress the Senate, and prevent any more people from coming out of this hall to hinder us, and even want to deal with Julius. Caesar did that to us. With Li Bida's words, Anthony gently placed the three signs on the small table surrounded in the middle, and then lined them up one by one with his hands, and everyone focused their eyes on them, but saw that the three signs were engraved with three Latin inscriptions: "Protection", "Confiscation" and "Confiscation", "Each of the four of us has these three nameplates, which will be our power base, and we can completely surpass the Senate, as long as there are these signs, the four of us can also influence the entire political situation." We can use this sign internally to vote, and 'preservation' is to permit the pardon of the person, 'confiscation' is the permission to confiscate the person's property and free slaves, and 'dispossession' is to permit the deprivation of the person's official position. ”

Panza, dumbfounded, stretched out his hand a little tremblingly, and Anthony smiled meaningfully at him, signaling that he could touch it. Pansa touched the nameplate. No. It is a token that can determine the life and death of all the senators and knights of the republic, but I did not expect that after the development of the republic for hundreds of years, the original "citizens' property and life rights are sacred and inalienable", "300 or 600 senators vote on state affairs", and "the senate and the people's council compete with each other" A series of benchmarks will be replaced by the random killing of a small group of four.

"I would add that four people can also vote, if three to one. It means to pass guò and put it into practice; If it is a pair of three, it means that the proposal is rejected; In the case of two-on-two, there will be a free face-to-face debate and persuasion, and then two rounds of negotiations, and then if the two-on-two situation continues, the proposal will be shelved for a month, and then the proposal will be put on hold for a vote if we are too far apart, and if we are too far apart, we will send a quick horse officer to vote on each other. After Li Bida finished speaking, he slowly pushed out another nameplate. It was pushed straight to the center of the small table, and everyone looked at it kindly. This is a new nameplate, which also means that Li Bida has added a new way to play in this "game system", which is engraved with the words "capital punishment" in Latin.

Everyone else fell silent, everyone knew what "capital punishment" meant, and it took a long time for Octavian to speak, "Who will carry out the capital punishment?" "Everyone seems to have agreed to this new way of playing, but they just don't want to get their hands bloody.

"Your Excellency Caesar owned about 10,000 private slaves during his lifetime, and you and I also owned thousands of slaves, but we will make a reasonable distribution between Caesar's slaves and free people, because they can bring you and me wealth, and they can also handle many things." Li Bida said, "Anthony and I each received two thousand slaves, and Caesar was the most, and he could get six thousand, after all, you are the first heir to the will, and Panza could receive five hundred slaves." Then we should imitate Cornelius. Sulla, give these slaves names and let them do the dirty work - the legion can participate, but only the work of hunting and blocking, otherwise it is easy to arouse the anti-feelings of the soldiers. ”

"In this way, will there be too many deaths? You must know that even the murderers of Caesar are only sixty people at most, and on the previous list, only sixteen or seventeen people directly did it. Panza asked uneasily, with sweat running down his forehead and the tip of his nose.

"Dear Panza, if we only need to follow the map, then there is no need to make this nameplate, what we have to do now is not only to punish the murderer, but also to destroy the abyss that shelters the murderer, otherwise the trouble will be endless and tiresome." Anthony explained with a smile, and then he removed the two signs of "confiscation" and "forfeiture" in front of everyone's eyes, "Since Lybidaeus gave that sign, these two pieces are meaningless, and now there are only two treatments left - innocence and capital punishment." ”

At the same time, Octavian also said, "I have heard that the friendship between allies is not maintained by money and friendship, and the best way to maintain an alliance is to kill people together." In this way, everyone here must bear the blood debt that cannot be shirked, and no one can be clean, so they can only hold each other together. Agrippa, who was next to him, was pale and short of breath.

"Sixteen or sixty people who were directly involved in the assassination will certainly not be able to escape, and after they are put to death, all their property will be confiscated, and we will distribute them uniformly as a reward for the soldiers; But out of compassion, each of us can protect one of them, and this is a mobile power for you and me, but remember that this is very precious and can only be used once per person. Li Bida and Antony took out sixty "death lists" and showed Octavian and Panza, and the reason why Li Bida deliberately added an "amnesty target" was because he did not forget Jì's promise to Posia, which was also for Porty.

"How to deal with the next people, and how to have a standard?" Octavian asked.

"There is only one standard, a friend of an enemy, or an enemy of a friend, or simply nothing, whatever you want, maybe you can kill him if you fancy his garden and mansion." Anthony laughed.

"Is the Caesar Party no exception?" This is Panza's question.

Hearing this, Li Bida flipped the nameplate with a crackling sound, his eyes expressed some kind of affirmative answer, and seeing Panza's incredible demeanor, he then explained coldly, "The central core of Caesar's party only needs the four of us to be enough, do you think the senators who Julius promoted to the Temple of Concord during his lifetime will be grateful?" No, I think that only despair and terror can make people truly grateful to Dade, otherwise how to explain that after Caesar's death, many of them had no position and did not go through a round of killing and execution, how to set a norm and an example for future generations? Only by blood can people learn to be in awe and know the beauty of life. ”

"What the guardian said is very reasonable, but before we implement this, can we consider Dehemoth in the city of Mutina?" Octavian pointed out the window, "We should have taken him first to sacrifice the flag." ”

"Of course, I've planned it all, and now that we have twelve legions on hand, it's time to put an end to this guy, and serve as the first testimony of the alliance." (To be continued......)