"If your child eats with his left hand, correct it immediately." - Pliny (the ancient Romans believed that it was unlucky to walk on the left foot and use the left hand when eating)

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Because there were so many of them, Caesar commissioned his personal slaves to register them who asked for an audience, and received them in order every day, limited to about thirty people, and many of the rest were carefully gathered around the village of Russell, holding the name of the priest, and whenever they saw even slaves who were just going out to buy goods, they had to go up and stuff some money and gifts, so that they could see His Excellency Caesar earlier.

Because they were all in demand, Caesar achieved such a brilliant military victory in Gaul, and sent countless slaves and treasures to Rome, and continued to decorate this great city, and now it is growing in strength that it seems to overpower the great Pompey. For a time, some of these people came to ask for officials, some came to shelter, and some were more direct, they came to ask Caesar to help them pay off their debts, and they were even willing to be Caesar's Krion disciples.

So Caesar did not bring Rabinus and Apis with him in this scene, he was afraid that these two would be dissatisfied when they saw the ugliness of such a deal.

But this world is like this, there is always black silt under the clear waters, Caesar's temporary residence is full of traffic, and the governor sits in his chair every day with a tired smile, next to the slaves who are quickly engraved with the word plates, and below are the smiling figures, Caesar listened to their pleas. Most of them will be recorded by the clerk on the spot. And solve it. But each time Caesar would add:

"Egypt's plan, I'll trouble you, help pass it as soon as possible."

The other party was stunned, and then said that he would do his best to urge the Concorde Temple to pass the resolution as a municipality or senior citizen.

Standing behind the curtain, join forces with the native Lusitania (Caesar has recently assembled a fifty-man Spanish swordsman guard, mostly from the Lusitanian natives. Many of them were Li Bida's old subordinates) of the guards together with swords, he understood that Caesar was helping him, but this one was still unwilling to pay for him, but only gave him the battle reward he had changed, and it seemed that he had to find Crassus to operate, or embezzle the recruitment funds of the Thirteenth Legion.

Just as Li Bida was thinking wildly, there was a slight commotion outside, he beckoned, and walked out of the gate of the mansion with a few swordsmen, it turned out that the cook was arguing with a certain official in the Milan area. The cook, carrying a batch of ingredients, loudly accused the official of not being enthusiastic enough for His Excellency the Governor. I will only take some cabbage and not too fresh meat to perfunctory.

The official was both annoyed and afraid, because during Caesar's stay in Milan, the food and drink were provided locally, to be honest, the ingredients sent by the low-level official were not bad, not only delicious vegetables, but also snails, fat sausages, foie gras, which were frequent guests on the table of the Roman aristocracy, and the reason why the cook was angry was nothing more than to take the opportunity to embarrass him so that he could ask for a bribe, but the little official was a little stunned, so they quarreled.

"Let the Doge's men bring more precious things from Rome or Naples! Maybe you're going to eat the big lobster of Africa, maybe you're going to eat the most tender lamb in northeastern Spain, so in my eyes, your governor and those who have some money want to show off themselves by holding a horse race or a gladiatorial show in their city, first a proprietor who washes clothes with urine to sponsor a horse race, then a bathhouse to hold a gladiatorial show, almost all nouveau riche. When the official saw Li Bida and the Lusitanian swordsman come out, he thought that he had come to be an accomplice to the cook, so he complained even more.

"You are such a madman, you don't know what to do, you dare to speak ill of the governor, tomorrow your rooster will tell the time a moment earlier, you wait and see!" Not to be outdone, the cook viciously intimidated the Romans that if the rooster in the house suddenly dawned in advance, it was a sign of death.

Just as Li Bida shook his head, ready to drive away the two who were noisy in front of the guests in the courtyard, a man who was waiting to be received suddenly came out, said with a smile that he was also from the Milan area, and begged the cook not to say anything in front of His Excellency the Doge, and then stuffed a few silver drachmas into the cook's hand, saying, "These coins are of sufficient color and fine sengling, and are better than the dinar." ”

The cook threw a few silver coins on the ground with disdain, and said, "Milan is the worst place, and my God, our Viceroy is still suffering in this place, and these few silver coins, not even a small gold coin of Ore, just proves how wild and backward this place is, and it seems that you will be in the company of those Gallic barbarians with long trousers in your life!" ”

The guy who came out to relieve the siege was actually robbed of a bunch by a lowly cook, and looked at it privately with an embarrassed face, but he saw Li Bida and his party coming over, and it happened that Li Bida found a traditional Spanish "Sagenmu" jacket to wear in order to be consistent with the Spanish swordsman guards, but the guy looked at Li Bida with strange eyes, and then turned to joy and shouted: "Aren't you the Calabis who served in the City Legion and the Thirteenth Legion before!" ”

Alas, how did someone shake out my old bottom, Li Bida also looked at that guy, it was actually Petronius, the deputy general who commanded the army as the consul Neruda when he put down the Catiline rebellion before!

This person, there is indeed a set of battles, but after showing his face in the battle of Catiline, he should be popular, but he followed the wrong object, and worked as a financial officer in Neruda's Macedonian province, but later Neruda was prosecuted for corruption after returning to Rome, and his honor and money disappeared, and Peternius was also "affected by the pond fish", confiscated most of his property, and lost the opportunity to continue to stand out in Roman politics. With a bitter expression on his face, Toga's robe was also half-old and not new, and even the benefits for the cook, that is, a few silver drachmas, it was expected that even the miscellaneous slaves in Caesar's courtyard would not disdain bribes below thirty silver coins now.

Alas, wait, isn't it me who got Neruda and Petronius to end up like this?

"Oh, it turned out to be His Excellency the General." Li Bida still understood the basic etiquette, so he stepped forward and saluted Peternius, causing the Spanish swordsmen next to him to look dazed.

"Calabis! I remember you, I remember you, I know everyone who served in the legion, and this is not an exaggeration. Petneus still spoke with great vigour, "How are you now, let me see, you have probably become the head of the guard in the Gallic Doge's Palace, better than the previous weighing officer." (To be continued......)