In the days leading up to the high priest's further action, the happiest people and nobles of Rhodes returned to the city of Rhodes, where they held a great celebration of thanksgiving in the ruins of the city, and shouted thanks to Lybidaeus for the salvation of their nation.

The magistrate Clearcus, insisting on rewarding all the soldiers, not only opened the treasury of the state, and gave each of the officers and men three hundred cesthes, but also the supply of women, meat, and wine literally scraped the floor, and said privately to the elders who came to express their apprehension:

"That's how Rhode Island survives, persistence, investment, and spending a lot of money, and now all it takes to please the Lybidaeus father and son, and nothing else. Our money flows from the sea, and is developed by doing transit trade in Egypt, Greece, and Asia Minor, but money is just money, just piles of yellow, orange, and orange beautiful round metals, and the laity will be interested in them, even if the assets of the state are wiped out this time, as long as Li Bida continues to grant us the authority of maritime trade, our islands and cities will still be rich in ten years. ”

The reason why Clearchus was able to lead Rhodes for decades, and stood firm in the Mithridates War and several Roman civil wars, was because of the same insight and vision as Itassus, the magistrate of the Ligurian city-state.

Sure enough, Li Bida quickly announced in the city hall of Rhodes that after that, the Rhodes ships had the right to one-third of the cargo transportation of Cyrene, and he was greeted by thunderous cheers from everyone.

"Oh, my dear Clearcus, you don't have to pay anything more for future wars, Rhodes has suffered heavy losses in previous wars." At the ensuing feast, Lybida and Clearchus stood at the corner of a secluded corridor, expressing their heartfelt gratitude to their state on behalf of the Republic.

"No, although the ships captured by Cassiillo are much damaged, and the navy of our state is almost destroyed, I can still provide His Excellency the High Priest with a fleet of no less than thirty ships with decks and ramming horns in a very short time." The High Priest was intrigued by this promise of Clearcus, and he hurriedly asked what he would do, so the magistrate did not hurry, "The people of Rhodes are excellent sailors and excellent shipmakers, and believe me, there is no better in the whole sea than they are—we can in the next few days hastily remove the decks, nails, parts, and weapons that are still in service from the damaged ships of Cassiou, and install them on other ships, so that a new fleet of reduced size may be created if it has been reassembled." ”

The High Priest was very impressed with his idea, and Clearcus said that it was just a gesture, and then Lypita asked that one of the legions of Lufio's army be stationed in the city of Rhodes, to guard the land of the keys in the sea, and to divide Brutus on this shore and Eulabella on the other side, and Clarchus readily agreed, "Our state is willing to bear half of the cost of grain and military salaries during the period when this legion is stationed!" ”

"Very well, I can give you all the equipment, ships, and weapons that have captured the two regiments of Cassillo."

When Li Bida's fleet, after being arranged, marched mightily from both sides of the independent breakwater outside the sea of Rhodes City, towards Little Asia, under the swirling seagulls and the white cumulus clouds on the seashore, Li Bida suddenly saw that the Rhodes had set up a huge furnace in front of the city lighthouse, and began to line up, transporting weapons into it—these swords and shields were exactly the weapons of the Cassiyo Legion that he had promised to give them.

"I heard that the people of Rhodes are going to use these to make a huge bronze statue that stands above the harbor, and that bronze statue is the image of Your Excellency, and it is the image of your ancestor Leus, the god of war, holding an arrow tower and a trident, and looking down on the ships that come and go at your feet." Seeing that the high priest's brows were a little tightened and a little confused, Matthias immediately stepped forward and explained.

It is no wonder that when Li Bida was the provisional governor of Cyprus in Cato the Younger, he came to Rhodes City to help restore the Piper Ptolemy, and at that time he wondered why the port of the city did not have the Seven Wonders of the Western World - the large bronze statue on it, and Li Bida once suspected that it was a fictitious exaggeration in the history books, but now he understood that the bronze statue would still exist, but the timeline and logical line had become different from the old records.

In the white city of Athens, Brutus sat slumped in a chair, and in front of him was a soldier in a black mourning cloak sent by Lybida, and the centurion who led the way held the urn of Cassillo's urn.

Horace, Virgil and others around them also wanted to be struck by lightning, and when they chanted "glorious sacrifice" to each other in the port of Piraeus not long ago, their hearts were only churning with blood and the noble idea of dedicating themselves to the republic, they had seen the battle array, but they had not seen the miserable defeat.

Now they saw that Cassillo, the last remaining pillar general of the Republican Party, Brutus's brother-in-law, who had once been a man of military command and who had previously been a prodigious marcher, had now been sent back as a cold, white skeleton.

Looking at the urn in the soldier's hand, the youngest Horace, sweat began to run on his forehead, and he had to admit that he was scared, scared to death. He thinks that he has nothing in the army that can compare to Cassillo, and since Cassiyo has ended up like this, what else can he do? Victory, a year ago he used to talk about it, but now he is almost silent, and he no longer wants to mention it.

"Where has your high priest gone?" For a long time, Brutus asked the envoy who sent the urn in a big way.

"The Great Priest Sima is going to command the legions, go to pacify Little Ya, and bind Yurabella." What is even more surprising is that the centurion sent by Li Bida did not shy away from his military movements at all, and perhaps the high priest was not prepared to tell him to keep it secret before leaving.

Brutus laughed bitterly, and then his tears flowed, "After all, I hurt you, Cassillo. There have been conflicts and unhappiness between us, and I once thought that you had taken advantage of me in the assassination of Caesar, but these suspicions were so humble and vulnerable in the face of your great and noble death. When you have captured Eurabella, will you chain him up and march through the streets of Rome, just as Caesar and Lipida did with the barbarian losers? ”

Faced with this question, the centurion smiled and shook his head, indicating that he did not know.

"You can do this to Eulabella, but you can't do this to Brutus, and don't think that Brutus will one day be chained through the streets by your high priest. Sons and friends of the Republic, I am the son of Cato the Younger, no, I am the little Cato now, the little Cato who lives. The flag will not fall, even after I die. Brutus slowly sat down in his chair and spoke his vows to the centurion. R1152