"Do you want to show favor at both ends and continue to maintain the system of the Republic and the Senate?" Pisso asked Cicero with his legs apart, squinting his eyes, and smiling at Cicero.

"Lybidaeus doesn't know, but Caesar and Antony, I believe they will still be afraid of the sacred word 'republic', and the citizen soldiers in their legions will also be careful." Cicero's love xù was a little excited.

"And what's next?" Pisso continued.

"We may make appropriate concessions and pardon Gaius and appoint Caesar's party to various important positions, but we will also release those who have other positions on this basis, if nothing else, that is, that the edicts of the Senate still represent law and order. This country does not allow them to do whatever they want with arms and swords. ”

Pisso paused, then spoke earnestly to Cicero, "You go." ”

When he saw the dumbfounded expressions of his colleagues, Pisso repeated again: "You go quickly, contact a small boat, sail from the port of the Ostia River, and I will vouch for you", "Go quickly, in my identity and my daughter's identity, those few will not do anything to me, but you are not like Cicero, don't be too idealistic, it's still too late to be an academic who doesn't care about the world, if you die, where can you start to take responsibility?" ”

"But somebody has to stay and preside over the situation, Pisso."

"Didn't I say, I'm going to preside? Release Gaius and all the others before you, yes I see. ”

"But," just as Cicero was about to defend himself, Pisso said to him with a more serious expression, "Can't you give up power?" The one I gave you is yes. Take off your purple-rimmed robe. Hurry up and leave with your wife. ”

After speaking. Pisso sighed and left, and the synagogue was empty, leaving Cicero alone, and he stayed there in amazement, his mind swaying like wheat to be harvested, thinking of this and that, but at last he habitually said to the clerk who was still standing opposite him, "I issue an urgent edict on behalf of the Senate in the name of the Procurator." I have conscripted all citizens of appropriate age and freed slaves into the army, and organized armed forces to go to Niushou Street and Pulaima, and I will pardon some people while taking others hostage, hoping that the public will forgive me, and I am also compelled to do so. ”

But this qiē was destined to be just a boring madness, and when the recruiters appeared in the bazaars and neighborhoods with tokens, the patrols of the Thirteenth Legion arrived, and they didn't even dare to speak. They scattered in a hurry. As a result, Polo's centurions captured a few, and when they saw the token, they reported it. Polo immediately hung the edict signed by Cicero on the wall of the tower of the barracks, and then the soldiers were indignant, and they immediately went into action, and a brigade rushed to the temple of Agriculture, and the treasury of the country was controlled, and a brigade guarded the bridge and the river bank across the Tiper, and Polo sent another brigade to take refuge in the temple of the hearth, all the ladies of the three families of Libida, Caesar the Young, and Antony.

At one time, the temple was crowded with women, all women who could decide the fate of the country, and it became very lively.

"Vivia, wouldn't it be better if you should take refuge with your father?" Porti asked, holding Vivia's shoulder.

"No, my father, though there are many armed slave guards in his yard, and my mother has written to me to go back and not entrust my fate to Leo, who knows what to live and do, but I must be with your family. I'm not an orthodox Roman noblewoman, and they usually say Gaios, I should pack up and leave. When Vivia said the last few words, she deliberately lowered her voice, because she saw that all around her were Furivia and Claudia, a group of "orthodox Roman noblewomen", which made Potty laugh, she completely regarded Vivia as her own daughter, and the two of them touched each other's foreheads, and laughed again, as if evacuation was not such a bitter thing, "You must know that Leo's father and I also supported each other to come out." ”

At this time, Corinna stood on the steps, looked at the hurried shoulders of the street, and said that Turinus' stepfather, mother, and sister had arrived, and that she now seemed to really regard the Octavian family as her own.

Then the city of Rome was again alarmed, and the Thirteenth Legion began to scatter other brigades and stationed them in the river harbor and the streets, in other words, they completely sealed off the city, and soon there was an escape of the nobles of the rank of lawyers, who took their families and assets and tried to escape by boat from the river harbor, but were stopped by the soldiers, and as a result, some high-ranking officials fled that night in disguise as slaves, leaving behind all their money and beautiful mansions, and it is said that they left a note in a bold manner." I went out to recruit troops for the Republic, and it was my duty to do my job. ”

In the days that followed, Cicero wandered helplessly through the streets of fear, and he began to believe that the monster he had seen at the early morning assembly that day meant great omen for the Republic, and that now the prophets and priests had more "foreshadowings" of the horseshoe of the nine legions of Lybida and Caesar the Young, as if the bloody events of the time of Sulla and Marius were about to be loomed again.

Even those who were released by Cicero, such as Casca, were like headless flies, wailing that they walked out of the dungeon and into a larger one.

Soldiers could not be recruited at all, and armed slaves were completely unreliable, because some of the money was gone, and the focus was taken care of by the Thirteenth Legion. At this time, Cicero remembered Pisso's previous advice, and he ran up the Palatine Hill in a hurry, and entered the doorway, and saw that Febilia was still like a petite doll who knew nothing about the wind and rain of the world, surrounded by combing maids, trying on a gorgeous and sexy Sidon cloth robe-"These are not authentic Sidon materials, and many of them have recently appeared on the market by sea from Cyrene and Egypt, although they are very beautiful and generous, but the price is very low, so that many knights have a piece of it, if you wear this kind of clothing, It's going to be an insult to my identity. The lazy Febilia commented on the smooth fabric in the dealer's hand, and the trafficker could only bow her head.

"Taylor, Taylor! Hurry up and pack up and get ready to leave Rome. Cicero took off his purple-rimmed robe, and then threw the dealers a few silver coins, saying thank you, but now please leave at once, at once!

With that, he hurried into the room, and after a while he came out again, with the wind-sheltering cloak and boots worn by the traveler, which made Febilia frown and laugh like a bell, she could not understand why the old husband was so strange. (To be continued......)