"Put the winch down a little further." On the smooth sea, Pop sat on the deck of the ship with a group of engineers, measuring the depth of the two sea gates, first of all the radius of the Bosphorus, which led to the black sea, and finally came to the precise result of one hundred and twenty stadia in length and about twelve stadia in width, and built a fort on the reef of Cuanion, which could hold the entire strait. ”

Then Popper's ship went down through the whole sea of Propentes, about one hundred and forty Roman miles long, and it took them nearly three days' voyage, and Sabo, who was also on board, made a precise map of the hydrographies of both sides, which he recorded in his diary, "Nicomedia on the other side is in the deepest part of the bay, and is just the anchorage of the naval fleet that can form a confrontation with Byzantium, and the islands of Kuzycus and Locnasus are in between, so that I will build a future when I have sufficient strength, It was possible to build a well-established dockyard and naval base in Nicomedia, and to set up lighthouses, warehouses, and small fortresses on the two islands, so that the entire sea area could not be accessed by the enemy's fleet. ”

Then, Saab's eyes saw that the Sea of Propentis was getting narrower, and they realized that their ships were about to enter another sea gate, the Helispont, where the strait was winding and the western shore was flat land "where farmland, barracks, and houses could be built." Saab commented, and with the steep cliffs on the east coast, "on the plus side, it was difficult for the invaders from Asia Minor to get on a ship here; On the bad side, it will be difficult for our army to enter and exit Asia Minor from Helispont. If the army is too large. Then Saab saw a wilderness on the east coast. That is, the place where the ancient Greek army attacked the camp of Troy. It is a land plot between two headlands called Sigoan and Rotian, and is crossed by two small freshwater rivers, namely the Simois and the Acamander, "I can't believe that I have come to the place where the Romans were born, and this may be a journey of national roots, I am honored and I am lucky." My name is Nerva. Saab Kemus is now too agitated to contain himself. Saab sat on the deck, his crochet pen in his hand, unaware of what he was drawing because of his surging mood.

By the time Pop and Sabo presented the detailed design to Lipida, the cavalry commander had just obtained Caesar's approval to establish the city and learned that Caesar had entered Athens - and that the two former consuls, Gabinus and Marcellas, were fleeing by ship towards Cyprus, where they would end up in Egypt or Judea in Judea. Because I am afraid that no monarch dares to take these two in now. for they were Caesar's enemies.

"The Rhodes and Cretans have provided me with a considerable number of ships, and I will have no difficulty in marching further east, and it is expected that there will be a few insignificant naval battles with Cassiio or Brutus, and then I, Caesar, will come ashore safely in the city of Alexandria, knowing that I am accompanied by ten legions, four thousand soldiers. So Li Bida, you don't need to be anxious, how to say that the situation in Minor Asia is more tricky than mine, you still have a Bosphorus kingdom to deal with, and it is completely reasonable to build a fortress for advance in Byzantium. ”

This is Caesar's reply, and it is also in the hands of Li Pida, naturally Li Pida will not turn Byzantium into a giant city on a par with Rome and Athens, he does not have this need and lacks such ability, he just needs to first turn this place into a military fortress across two continents, and then urbanize, which is also commonplace in Roman history - many European cities in later generations were converted from Roman front fortresses, which is why many of their cities have the suffix "fortress".

Li Bida was determined to spend three to five months, that is, the entire winter camp, to do this, and his strategy was to "first the west and then the east".

First of all, Li Bida announced to the presbyterian council of Byzantine cities that their city had become a Roman colony, and then annexed the power of the municipal council, and that the original city's 5,000 inhabitants and property remained unchanged, but they had to move towards the Golden Horn Bay, because the original Byzantine settlements were too close to the interior, "We shall obey your orders, but you must be considerate, there are only a few fishing villages near the bay, because there is a lack of fresh water there, and after the diversion of the original Lykus River, there is no sufficient water supply there, and it is full of silt." When the Byzantine elder complained to Lybida, the new cavalry commander immediately decided: the five legions to which he belonged, three legions, carried out a huge dredging project, and re-dredged the Lykus River channel and picked it up and poured into the Propentis Sea; The other two legions built a strong acropolis on the reef of Kuanion on the Bosphorus, the end of which was only 500 Roman feet away from the east coast, so Popper planned to build an independent bridgehead at the front of the acropolis, which was equipped with a huge winch to pull out and recover the thick iron chain, which was connected to the opposite shore and could block any ship from the Yukxing Sea as long as it was crossed.

Next, along the coast of the Golden Bull Horn, the earliest ones were the camps and markets of the legions and auxiliary barbarians, as well as fishing grounds, lighthouses, docks, warehouses, plank roads and various lifting equipment. The first foreigners to be granted the right to use these facilities were the 2,000 Thracian warriors sent by King Curtis, who had been ridiculed in the city of Amisus as crude one-eared clay pots, but now the situation did not seem to have improved much, and they all carried heavy wheat urns with terrified hillbilly looks, and fished into the tents that had been drawn for them.

On the Saturnalia festival, the newly bathed cavalry commander Li Bida, with a spear in one hand and a plough in the other, under the guidance of the priests and tribunes, imitated Romulus, the founder of the Roman city, along the seven hills of Byzantium, on the entire triangular land near the sea, pulled out the sacred furrow, with fifty Roman feet as a flat unit, a total of 800 units, "The furrow is the holy area, and if there is no condition to erect a stone wall, it will be marked with a wooden fence for the time being." ”

Then, with his spear in hand, he climbed the hill closest to the ocean, and announced that the city's mansions, altars, and temples would be located here, "This hill is called Mount Lybidaeus, and this fortress is also called Fort Lybida!" Its patron gods include King Numa, Hercules, Serapis (an Egyptian god), Jupiter, and a new huge temple dedicated to the gods of the sea and the heroes of the Argo. ”

At the foot of the hill, the legionnaires planted a circle of evergreens at a rectangular distance of five hundred Roman feet as a square for the assembly of the future city, and then Li Bida sat down under a tree and received the chiefs of the barbarian tribes from the city-states on both sides of the strait, and asked them to enrich the rest of the population of their tribe and the prisoners of war into this new city fortress. After three years, half of the tax is charged; Ten years later, the full amount of taxes will be collected! (To be continued......)