Kaimeth coughed cautiously, formally accepted the ring, then looked around again, approached the candle flame in the center of the table, and said, "Listen, my friend of Calabis, don't expect anything from this public project. You don't have that asset, you don't have that qualification, I've already heard that the two noble mayors gave the qualification for the construction of the Colosseum to the 'savage' Neruda, and the Grand Collegium contracted to the 'Horned Straw Hat' Crassus - you know, they don't expect to make any money in it at all, this is their money to build momentum for themselves - Neruda wants to run for the next consul, and the procurator Crassus wants to get the right to organize a legion to go to Egypt, and the cost of each building will not be less than three hundred to five hundred Talents, your assets? It's just five Talents, save it! Listening to the advice of Kaimez, Calabis thought unhurriedly, took a bite of roast mutton, and said: "I do not have the luxury of taking over the Colosseum or the Grand Coliseum, in fact, I am ready to buy the Valin communal apartment complex in the Evandini Hill, which your municipal department has sold this time. ”

"Oh, damn it, Calabis, could it be the Kraken who has confused your mind? Go buy that place! After living in the city of Rome for a year, you still can't tell? The districts of Mount Evandini and Subra are the most notorious areas in the city, and even Cicero wouldn't have bought a house there - oh, I heard that all two of his apartments collapsed together yesterday, and rats roamed the streets in the rubble. Listen to me, I will immediately use my contacts to find you a trust company in another province, and your money will be used to lend to the tax collectors, and you will be able to double the money after three years. Kaimais was excited, and his tone was obviously raised.

"Your suggestion is good, but I still think three years is too long." Calabis smacked, "Listen, my dear friend Kaimes, I have my own plans, but one of the biggest difficulties I have right now is that my assets are not qualified enough at the time of bidding. ”

Kaimais lowered his head and thought for a while, then slapped his face and said, "You don't have to worry about this, although the bidding qualification of that place requires 100,000 drachmas, I estimate that it would be good to be able to bid for 20,000 yuan, and I will operate the qualifications for you, but I still advise you."

His words were interrupted by Calabis's "shhhh His Excellency Caesar's political future paved the way, and of course he will not forget your Kaimez yours, the ring just now is only a small part of it. ”

Listening to Calabis's promise, Kaimais's whole face turned red with excitement, and he sat up straight, holding a wine glass, "I will fully support, with all my strength!" ”

In front of the dilapidated Valin apartment complex, Calabis walked up and down the dirt road in front of it, dusty and dusty with low-level residents in shabby clothes, and mule-drawn carts, and in front of the block was a silted bay, and about a thousand Roman feet along the bend of the Tiber River, where the inhabitants of Mount Evindini received their bread for relief, and every day small boats commissioned by the Municipal Department arrived with coarse wheat flour and bread. Delivered to half-hungry residents of the city of Rome.

Further on, the Wallin Apartments and the Grand Velodrome on the main road are barren and empty land, and the slums on the hill have not yet been paved.

After a while, Milou, Tagus, and Pope came, and like Calabis, they looked at the apartment with their hands, and then Pope, who was proficient in civil engineering, came up with a definition: It will collapse in less than a market day, and the auction day will be ten days away, and then you may be able to take it for fifteen thousand drachmas.

"The asset certification of 100,000 drachmas is a big problem." Milou added.

Calabis nodded in agreement, said that someone from the municipal department would help me get the certification, and then smiled and said, "Let's go, no matter what, let's go to the bathroom and relax first." ”

They went to a newly built Laconian-style sweat bath, in the front street of the temple of flowers, the stove was set under the arched floor, above which were skeletons and iron hooks hung with spliced haode mosaic bricks, as the ceiling, and the men sat on the benches of the recessed sweat room, and the Milu gang also developed after taking over the Pulama villa in Lukulas, and all of them had thick gold chains around their necks and arms, and they all had the tattoos of the legions. The puncture hole in Calabis's left ear was particularly conspicuous, a sign of being a slave, which caused no one else to dare to sit with them on this bench.

"You mean, you need the help of our Veteran Gang?" After listening to Calabis's roundabout statement, Milou asked.

"Yes, plus your relatives and children, I need one hundred and fifty to two hundred people to carry out the construction of the Valin apartments." Calabis was blunt, and then he paused and said, "I must add that there is no pay or allowance for the time before the completion is earned. ”

Milu's group of people looked at each other, and two of them lowered their heads directly: in the past, they were willing to follow Calabis because they had a good salary to earn, but now they are actually asked to work, or voluntary labor, and no one knows if they will be able to get their hard-earned money in the future, at least in Calabis's tone, there is no guarantee, this is too child's play!

After glancing around, Milou, the leader, continued to ask: "Calabis, our strong relationship is based on faith, so for what reason do you want us to help you with the construction of the Valin Apartment for free, you must make it clear. ”

"Because all my assets are invested, I don't have the ability to pay the wages after deducting the auction price and the payment for the materials, and I am not even sure that I will be able to complete the work, at least not for the time being." Calabi said in strant.

"Okay, let's do it!" Milou patted himself on the thigh and said, "But again, for the sake of faith, you must promise that you will pay us the full amount of money when you finish it." ”

"Don't you ask me what I'm going to do with the homestead of this apartment?"

"This kind of thing, the fewer people who know about it, the better, and you can talk to Pop in two days about the details." Milu then shushed, got up and waved his hand, and said to the others, "Whoever wants to go to the prostitution next to the Flower Temple to cool off, I will pay the bill, I heard that the sister inside will dress up as a virgin for fun, of course Calabis does not need to go, everyone knows that he is a famous beloved wife." Then they put aside their worries, laughed, and followed Milou one by one.

Leaving room for Calabis to think, this is also Milu's intention, but just after Milu and the others left, there was a message from the bath next to them, "Calabis, I just heard that someone is worried about the lack of money, isn't that so?" The words.

Calabis turned his head to see that the guy who was talking in the bath was enveloped in a cloud of steam, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

"Who are you?"