"I think when a person divides himself against his commander in a war, that person is against his own security." -- Xenophon

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"Shut up all the soldiers, and say that they will be rewarded with a thousand drachmas of Greek silver each." Caesar arranging his hair with one finger commanded.

“feri！ Feri！ "The burghers, emancipated slaves, and Gentiles on both sides of the streets of Rome imitated the slogan of the victory of the army, and hailed feverishly the beginning of the great triumph, and multitudes of people sat cross-legged on their arcades, men and women, young and old, all gathered together to wave their hands and applaud, and threw mint or rose petals downward.

Caesar stood up from his seat in a gilded cuirass, a red cape, purple boots, and a crown of laurel leaves made of pure gold, and his unusually thinning hair was carefully and neatly groomed backwards so as to hide Yan Zhan's crown, and the two right-hand men beside him, Anthony drove him in a gold-encrusted chariot drawn by four white horses, and Li Bida carried the glittering Marliu eagle banner for him, and these three sat in a chariot with a statue of the goddess of victory holding a sword in the front of the car, and next to the car were people of different colors. The guards from all over the world, including the dark-skinned Madtier with bows and arrows, the white-skinned Severs with chain mail and pointed helmets, the Lusitanian swordsmen with round hats and leather armor, and the Galatians with tomahawks and pike darts on their backs, each with a size of 300 men, was Caesar's use of force to intimidate all citizens and Gentiles, and to declare his position as king unshakable.

Pick up the line behind. It's Caesar's veterans. A total of four legions participated in the triumph ceremony. The fifth, sixth, tenth, and twelfth legions, each of which selected four hundred strong and tall men, all of them carrying their own emblems, the most striking of which was the fifth "Lark Legion", which was the first foreign army to appear in the Roman Grand Triumph, which could be seen from their clothing and armor, fair skin, golden hair, blue eyes, and long Sparta swords. Towering colorful feathers, striped trousers and boots, all with white elephants embroidered on their shields, commemorating their exploits at the Battle of Thapsus.

When the Fifth Legion passed through the street to the main square, a jealous husband even pushed his mother-in-law directly from the roof of the arcade, because the mother-in-law said a lot of stupid things in estrus when she saw this group of foreign soldiers, and she was caught by the tall and small men of the Fifth Legion, and she was still screaming happily there, so the veterans of the Tenth Legion saw this. Under the leadership of the veteran non-commissioned officer Milou, who was left behind, he chased Caesar's golden chariot and sang:

"Caesar has a triumphal ceremony. for he conquered all the peoples, but he never conquered Nicomedes;

Nicomedes had no triumph, for his country was conquered, but he conquered Caesar! Caesar, lying on his golden shoulders and dressed in red pajamas, was sent into the chamber of Nicomedes in the palace of Bithynia, as it is today, and the 'triumphal arch' was passed through by countless soldiers! ”

"Damn, tell them to stop singing, and raise the price to fifteen hundred drachmas." Caesar quickly tapped the slave who was still laughing at the side of the wheel, and with a slightly embarrassed smile, he waved desperately to the citizens who were singing.

Who would have thought that as soon as the soldiers of the Tenth Legion had stopped, the Twelfth Legion sang again, "If you want to talk about Nicomedes, how can you compare to the cavalry commander, the splendid palace of Bithynia, and how can you compare to the dark alleys!" ”

As a result, the soldiers' bounty was not shut until it was increased to two thousand drachmas.

Behind the legionary procession, there were groups of prisoners of war, among whom little Juba, who was dressed in gold and silver, walked in the front, all of whom were pardoned, and none of them would be executed, on the contrary, after the triumphal ceremony, most of them of appropriate age would be sent to the Senate by Caesar, which was Caesar's attempt to bring the 700-year-old Rome into a new life, and he naturally hoped to be understood by all the citizens of the clan.

But the townspeople were silent at first, and the scene gradually changed from cheerful to solemn, but when the group saw Caesar's slave procession and mule carts, carrying carts full of booty and pottery urns with commemorative coins, they shouted again, and at the sound of the horns, the slaves scattered the coins everywhere, and the crowd rushed to grab them. It was a silver coin specially ordered by Caesar to be used exclusively for triumphal ceremonies, "each equivalent to twenty-five dinars." This is the measure he gave to this kind of money, but the actual market is probably only God knows, the obverse of the silver coin is divided into several types, some with the head of the Gallic chieftain, some with the head of Venus, and some with the African elephant, and the reverse is very uniform, all of which belong to Caesar's current wife, Korpunia, although Caesar played with women in Rome and all over the world, but he never wanted to lose his marriage again, and this behavior would also give the citizens a sense of stability and morality towards him.

However, when the last few mule carts appeared in the field of view, the crowd began to talk again, and there were several huge statues fixed with ropes, among which the statues of Caesar and his wife were the largest, and they were about to enter the synagogue of Julia, while the two statuettes behind were simply unexpected, one of Cleopatra and the other of Lypidaus, and Caesar demanded that the statues of these two also enter the synagogue and "be by his side forever." ”

Later, a large number of slaves walked in the rear, all holding aloft huge mosaics, on which colorful scenes were depicted vividly, all showing how Caesar and his comrades defeated the enemy on the battlefield, and these images were enough to arouse the pride of the citizens, such as:

In Mount Tihon, how to defeat the 300,000 Helvetian barbarians;

how Caesar's fleet landed on the land of Britain;

In the snowy valley of the Amasya River, how the cavalry commander Lybidaeus annihilated the elite Bronze Shield Army;

In Alexandria, how Caesar used his army and navy to destroy the great city;

In Africa, how the Lark Army thwarted the onslaught of King Juba's elephant herd.

But when these mosaics below appeared before people's eyes, the whole triumphal mood changed radically, and the citizens saw:

In the city of Masseria, how Dumijuanus jumped to the bottom of the sea with the flag of the army, how little Cato was besieged to death by the locals like a trapped beast and cut to pieces;

how the heads of the consuls Alexandria, Gabinus and Marcellus, were carried before Caesar;

In the salt lake of Mykning, how Pompey was wrapped in a cloak and sank himself;

In the camp outside Zama, how the king of Juba stabbed himself with another former consul, Aphranius, to death;

Outside the Balearic Islands, Scipio's body was recovered and beheaded, along with monkeys.

These images are so realistic that at last some people can't help crying, and then there are groups of citizens, hiding their faces and crying. (To be continued......)