Seeing that Pharaoh was not at a loss for his humiliation, Cato got up, and Munajus, who was beside him, hurriedly wiped him with a sponge stick, and replied to Pharaoh: "Then it will be your eldest daughter, Benenici, who now has full control of the 'Hormahi' royal guard in Alexandri, and is said to be married to the newly hired general of the guard, who claims to be the son of Mithridates. ”

"What?" Li Bida's heart was suddenly shocked, I, the genuine hairy foot son-in-law of Mithridaths, are so low-key, where can a son of Mithridates come out at this time? However, the Hormahi royal guard in Cato's mouth, Li Bida has heard of it, Holmahi is the title of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard Camp (since the time of the Ancient Kingdom), and it is the most elite legion of dead soldiers under the Pharaoh, since Benenici can let a guy who pretends to be a descendant of the royal family of Pontus command this legion, it is obvious that the sister of Cleopatra has completely mastered the Praetorian Guard composed of Macedonians, no wonder she is so confident and the Roman Republic is called

Cato the Younger, continued, "So Beneniciki, relying on the support of the Hormahi Army, robbed Alexandrius's Egyptian fleet and cruised around Cyprus, and our diplomatic activities were not particularly smooth, because our contact with the Ptolemy of Cyprus was severed, and if, according to your opinion, honorable pharaoh, we rashly went to war with Cyprus, we would inevitably be flanked by Benenicius, and how many troops did Your Excellency Liberius have?" ”

"Is Your Excellency the Doge still going to bring two more regular legions from Rome?" Li Bida sat on the couch and sneered.

"Not really, it's just that I'm the head of the Governor. You must be responsible for the safety of your legion. Cato said to Libida.

"Your Excellency the Governor. You have to be clear. My legion is directly accountable to the Senate, and is co-sponsored by Caesar and Pompey, so you don't have to be accountable to the despicables, and the contemptible people are not accountable to you, and now the contemptible people are only concerned with whether they can get the authorization of the Governor of Cyprus to fight on the island. Li Bida suddenly made the relationship very clear.

"So if I hadn't given me the permission, you'd still be on the island of Cyprus alone, wouldn't you? Young man, I must warn you. You are making war arbitrarily, and even if you may have a proclamation from the Priesthood of Fichiarias, but at once I return to the city of Rome, and with a slight finger of the Senate, you will be punished for treason, and your Caesar will be punished for this crime sooner or later. Cato recounted in a medium tone, as if he was confident in the outcome.

Sure enough, it was not so simple to come to meet Cato this time, and this guy first instructed Kassiyo to come to Gaul. Empty opened a high price to abduct himself from Caesar, and then grinded hard here. The purpose is to incorporate the legion into his own system, or to put it bluntly, to call Munajus or that Cannedis to take over, so that after conquering Egypt, he can reap all the credits, and when he returns home, he will have the capital to compete with the three-headed monster.

But how is it that this little Cato, who is not military savvy, smells of the pedantic aristocracy of Rome everywhere? What did he think the Legion was, was it a small gift that could be passed around in private?

Therefore, while Brutus frequently nodded and smiled at his uncle's words, Li Bida's tone was extremely rogue and he said: "My dear Excellency, I have received information in advance that Claudius, the tribune, had instructed Asher and Dillinger that in the event of a war between you and Cyprus, they would leave you and take refuge in Byzantium, and let you die by the sword of the Cypriot army. Now both of them have been influenced by you? ”

"Of course, I used my great-grandfather's family motto to persuade them to realize how unacceptable their previous evil deeds were."

"But you can't persuade me, and the following process will be simple—my legion will go to war with the fleets of Cyprus and Egypt, and then withdraw, and I hope that by then Your Excellency and the two faithful servants of the probation will be able to board a ship with a faster speed, so that they will not remain in Rhodes and be captured by Benenici and his husband."

"You're talking nonsense, Lybidaeus." Brutus over there shouted angrily.

"I'm not talking nonsense, not the slightest! Do you think that I will not be able to kill Egypt? Ridiculous, I still have two thousand Talrants with Pharaoh (this is nonsense), and I can leave Ephesus on the same day, go to Silesia to hire a large number of pirate oarsmen, and then I take Caesar's letter with me to negotiate with the Seleucid Lord in Syria by means of Sinai into Egypt. What Holmahi Legion? My legions are fully confident that they will be defeated, and in a year at most I will help the pharaoh to re-occupy the palace of Alessandro, but what about you, Your Excellency the Governor, at that time you will have no more than two endings, one is to hide in Byzantium and tremble, and you will not achieve anything during your tenure, so that even if you return to the city of Rome, you will not escape Claudius's accountability; The second is to stay in Rhodes Island heroically, and there is not even a hundred guards around him, and I am sure that the beautiful woman of Benenice must be very interested in that your corpse. ”

Then, Li Bida suddenly turned around and shouted to Brutus, who was about to continue to interject, "Don't expect that Jewish merchant group, as long as I put up a finger, don't say 100 million Cesces, they won't even lend you half of the As, these people are all from the Kingdom of Eubertnia, right?" If you don't believe me, you can try! ”

At this moment, the whole scene froze, only the pharaoh was sighing at the might of Li Pida, Dillinger quietly came in, handed Brutus a piece of calf paper, and the philosopher, after reading it, hung his head and said, "All right, let's continue to cooperate, but in terms of the spoils of war, we want the island of Cyprus, and Egypt to you." Also, on the condition that Lybidaeus do not remain in the palace of the pharaoh and take up official positions, and that the legions be returned to the Republic at once, since these armies are not your private property, the Republic may transfer the Thirteenth Legion to the tense Syria under the supervision of Governor Byblos. ”

"This note was written by Cassiyo outside, right?" Li Bida squinted his eyes and asked.

Brutus hastened to explain that Cassiillo was not eavesdropping on our conversation, and that was reassuring.

As a result, the commander of the Restoration Army also said that of course he did not eavesdrop, that he knew the laws of Cassillo's operations, and that he should have thought of these tactics a long time ago.

"I couldn't agree more with the second half, but I have reservations about the first half, which is that whether it's Cyprus or Egypt, we're half of the spoils." Li Bida said slyly, you are too tender to play this kind of word game with me, and you can see from this additional entry: the wealth of Cyprus must be colorful. (To be continued......)