Chapter 26: Theotusus (II)

Of course, there is credibility, because Joseph was a Pharisee, a group of wealthy merchants and lawyers, who advocated compromise with Rome in exchange for the peace of order, and waited intently for the coming of the Messiah, and they were particularly hostile to the fanatical populist ideas of the Hashhitids, and regarded them as hatred, so Joseph was instructed by someone (Adiana) to tell me this message, and around the Passover of the following New Year, riots would be prepared.

"What if the Jewish revolt had not formed a climate, but had been suppressed by the Greek and Egyptian mercenaries of the city-states of Cyrene." Or Sabo's doubts are more realistic, and Juniconville is only interested in eating and drinking, and in his world of ideas, it is best to carry out ready-made orders.

Li Bida smiled secretly, lowered his voice and said to everyone present, "The Hashdi riot will naturally be a great success, because I will find a way to help them through the Ubertenian Chamber of Commerce."

"Eight hundred Talrants of gold and silver, and ten ships' weapons, spears, shields, and so on, seal up all the ones we had eliminated in the Lusitanian War, and give them them, and these Hashhitis may worship me as a righteous man when they fast. In this way, with excellent and qualified weapons, coupled with fanatical combat, the cultists will easily defeat the mercenaries of the city-state. Then, you should know what the next step is, the expulsion of the Jews from the Greeks, and then we take the opportunity to eradicate all the Jews, and Cyrenaica and then Egypt, which is actually the personal domain of me, the king of Cyrenaica. ”

This is the ideal of building a solid rear! Sardinia, Ubertnia. Memphis, Egypt. Take out Cyrenaica. I want to take my own share in the whole world.

When the time comes, Cyrenaica will become a new colonial city, and the Latins will flood into it, and the veteran settlement of the Thirteenth Legion will be here, and I will easily get Caesar's consent, because this is what he wants, as long as it can reduce his own burden in disguise, the veteran soldiers will act as sentinels to watch over the citizens. There will also be large farmsteads, plus independent naval fortifications will be quietly established.

"But how does Cyrene lay down? Nowhere is it like this dark-skinned lowly country, a huge harbor fortified city. Anthony burped and asked his third question of the day after he had eaten.

"I am afraid that I will have to go through the most painful bloody battle, and all I can do is to minimize the sacrifice, but we need a reliable navy, so now the dockyard and warehouse in the Jewish quarter of Alexandria will be repaired, and the work will be fully started in the autumn and winter, and the islands of Sepi and Alexandra will train oarsmen at the same time. As for the infantry and cavalry of the legion, they immediately sent the prince back to the city and began to practice in the winter camp. Li Bida's expression was serious. Then he summoned Theotusus and whispered in his ear a plan that was meticulously arranged.

At the court of Nasdemones, Theotusus, with a large retinue, piled up all kinds of precious spices, wines, and crafts in the atrium as a friendly gift to the great chief of Helton, and then knelt on a magnificent shoulder, surrounded by flag-bearing guards, ready to welcome the return of little Ptolemy.

The Great Chief also gave a large number of gifts in return, such as a pile of animal skins, fifty sheep, ten camels, elephants with embroidered blankets on their heads, and five hundred elite warriors who were half-naked with rings pierced in their nostrils, armed with "flying and coming" and wooden spears, escorted the shoulders of the little Ptolemy into Li Bida's barracks.

But Lybidaeus was extremely cold to His Royal Highness, and only allocated him a special tent, and then sent the most rude of Hebrida, with fifty Spanish swordsmen, to guard the prince's side, rather than intimidate and watch, which made the little Ptolemy sit back and watch the great ill feeling towards this prison country, and it seems that it was the envoy of his father who broke the delusion of this greedy and vicious general, which made him so annoyed and angry.

Only the chief of the guard of Theotusus, who still vigorously defended him in such an environment, constantly demanded that the arrogant foreign generals give the prince the respect he deserved, and gradually the delicious delicacies, the utensils that could reflect the royal bearing, the servants in the trousers of high silk Persia, and the graceful dancing maids and concubines, all appeared in the tent of the prince's itinerary with the efforts of Theotusus, and the dependence of the children was very strong, and the sense of likes and dislikes was also very strong, and soon in the eyes of little Ptolemy, Theotusus became a figure closer than his father.

Of course, he didn't know the relationship between Lu Dao and Li Bidaous, who he hated the most, and he didn't know that Li Bida was just carefully building a bigger golden birdcage for himself.

In Alexandra City, in order to celebrate the return of his heir, the pharaoh held a grand thank-you banquet for the people of the city, and then Li Bida sent the triumphant troops into the fortress of Ida Ui to start the winter camp, and he took the main general and three hundred Madjie guards into the boulevard in front of the royal city, and then the Grand Theater and the legion troops left behind in the moon city sent a hundred people to escort the vizier of the prison into the pharaoh's court.

At the banquet, the piper was a little embarrassed to follow the advice of the eunuch in advance, and proposed to Li Bida that he was willing to be crowned king of Cyrenaica, and began to support him, saying that according to custom, the king of Cyrenaica was equal to a member of the royal family, and the vizier was selected by the pharaoh from among his subordinate officials, and the identities of the two did not want to match, so he also hoped that the new king would be considerate of the difficulties.

"This is absolutely reasonable, Your Majesty. From now on, I am willing to relinquish the vizier and go to Idaui to oversee the winter camp. Li Bida readily agreed, and the piper breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that it was best for the prison state to agree to make concessions, and as for the army, he had to consider for the time being the formation of a brand-new Praetorian Guard force that was completely subordinate to his own orders to replace Li Bida's army.

It seems that there is no need to consider the funds, the eunuch has helped him kill the powerful and rob the temple, and has accumulated a large amount of wealth, so he entrusted Mortamenes to do this for him, and the eunuch delegated this task to Theotusus because he heard the prince's account of the loyalty of the chief of the palace guard on the way back.

Theotusus quickly came up with a plan to co-opt the remnants of the pirates that had been exterminated by Pompey, and to bring with him the Galatians, who had always been famous for their role as mercenaries in the Asian Minor Heights, and the chief of the palace guard was very efficient, and by the end of the year there were 1,000 pirates, plus 800 Galatians, who had been recruited and arrived in the port of Alexandra by sea.

Li Bida didn't react excessively, he just left the chief brigade of the Twelfth Legion in the Grand Theater, and the well water of the Pharaoh's New Guard who entered the royal city did not interfere with the river water. (To be continued......)