In the blink of an eye, in the middle of winter, at the north gate of Rome, on the Emilian Avenue facing the Rubicon, Caesar and several of his attendants led their horses and walked forward at the city wall, and when they reached the boulevard outside the city, Caesar drank to the birds on the bare tree trunks, and all the birds flew up in panic and hovered under the navy blue sky, which made Caesar laugh.

Julius. Caesar, within a year of his first reign, had brought the Senate to the ground, and had won three provinces, four legions, and five years as governors, but when he went to the north bank of the Rubicon to take over the legions and prepare for Gaul, there was no grand farewell banquet, which was incredible in the city of Rome. Because for the Roman dignitaries, solemnity and etiquette were indispensable, even the simplest were needed, so whenever someone went to a certain province to take up a new post, his relatives and friends in the city, his disciples and subordinates, would go to the man's home, hold a farewell banquet, drink and drink, and not get drunk, and wish the master to "shine" during the governor's term (either to start a successful war, or to scrape enough ground), once the master has done a successful job during his tenure, it is a situation of prosperity, his friends, Doormen will have the opportunity to be promoted.

Caesar, however, had summoned several of his retinue to his house in the brothel and slum-filled district of Subura: Crassus the Younger, Caesar's nephews Dicias and Pedis, as well as his personally designated lieutenants Rabinus and Cicero, and of course a low-ranking chamberlain, the up-and-coming Lypidaus.

While waiting for the people to gather, Caesar knelt before his mother again and kept asking her to bless her for her physical well-being. and asked the mother to pray to his daughter in front of the wax statue of the ancestors. The daughter who married Pompey. It is also necessary to be in good health, to add a new stabilizing factor to his alliance with Pompey as soon as possible, and to have equally healthy children.

"You just leave in peace, isn't there enough things to worry about in the five-year term, why bother to be in the family here?" Otriea patted her son on the cheek and grumbled proudly.

At this moment, Li Bida, who was wearing a cloak, walked in from the door with a big grin. He hugged Caesar's friends, including Ebro and Barsatus, who were Caesar's political helpers, who were responsible for staying in Rome, passing information and handling chores, and of course assisting Caesar's father-in-law.

"Little Leo and Corinna are okay, once the children grow up, the mother will have unpaid debts." When Li Bida turned around and kissed the back of Otalia's hand, Caesar's mother smiled and said that she had asked Li Bida's parents for a long time. In addition, she also strongly asked Li Bida to take over Yulia, his wife on the island of Sardinia as soon as possible, "Husband and wife have to look like a couple." There is no shortage of gossip about this in the city of Rome, and you have to be careful. ”

Next, little Crassus also came up to talk to Li Bida very affectionately, "Several of Lusitania's legions have been under the Sutra Mountain, just waiting for us to go back, I believe everyone will be happy to see your return." ”

"So what, my old men are now all in the Tenth Legion of Gaul or the Eleventh Legion of Illyria, and now my relationship with them is only a reminiscence." Li Bida said without complaints, and then Caesar pretended not to hear, and explained various matters to Labinus, this is the first time Li Bida saw this Labinus, but according to Crassus Jr., Rabinus and Caesar are also old friends, he was born a commoner, naturally and Caesar also defended the interests of the plebeian party, when Li Bida went to the East before, Caesar's most effective helper in Rome was Rabinus.

However, unlike Appis, who was also born as a commoner, Rabinus was a slightly chubby and unobtrusive man, and seemed quite amiable, and judging from the way he and Caesar answered, he was also very methodical in doing things—Li Bida faintly felt the presence of his opponent, and was frightened, wouldn't it be that my dignified Illyrian Twelve Legions would also be subject to this control? Speaking of this, Li Bida longed for an illiterate battlefield man like Cicero to be the chief lieutenant, so that in time, half of Caesar's six legions would be under his remote control sooner or later.

Alas, why hasn't Cicero come yet?

Finally, when all the people were gathered in the house, Cicero still did not show up, and Caesar was a little unhappy, but he was a man of his word (provided that he made a promise with you), and he waited there stubbornly, until someone sent a letter, Cicero's letter, and Caesar tore it up angrily after reading it, and said briefly: "This guy who can only stir his tongue, and he is afraid of a military career, he will not appear." It was only said that his younger brother, who had served in his place, would be sent to the port of Aquileia at a later date. After speaking, Caesar probably felt that he was a little too out of shape just now, so he stood there for a while, in fact, he still hoped that Cicero could go in his heart, and he also needed someone like Cicero as an ally, but the other party's vacillating and backsliding attitude turned his regret into resentment at this moment.

Finally, Caesar waved his hand and said that we had better set off as soon as possible. The men then put on their armor and cloaks, drew their horses, and began to walk down the streets towards the valley of the Po River in northern Italy, organizing along the way legions of troops who were not stationed together. If Caesar and his entourage did not have weapons and armor to confirm their identity, the people along the road must have thought that this was a member of the academy who came out for a walk, except for Caesar, who was a little older (forty-two years old), the rest of the entourage was twenty-five to thirty years old, and the young people never took Caesar, who was a middle-aged man, and talked and joked along the way, as if they were not involved in the combat affairs of the legion at all.

But when the setting sun began to spread over the hills, and the sheep began to go home in flocks at the chirping of the shepherds, the people at last felt a little tired, and drank wine on horseback to relieve their fatigue, and some of them snorted with their heads down while pulling on the reins, when Caesar slowly walked with Li Bida side by side, and said to him in a fierce voice:

"Soon, when you camp in the evening, I will entertain you with supper, and then you will whip yourself back to the city of Rome."

Li Bida chewed dried figs in his mouth and said, "Are you going to do something against Cicero?" ”

Caesar pulled the cloak around his neck fiercely, exhaled heavily, and said, "That's right, because I've walked for so long and listened to so many jokes, I'm still angry, which shows that Cicero was so wrong this time, and in my philosophy, people have to pay the price for making mistakes." ”

"But I want a reciprocal return. In my philosophy, people should be paid for what they do. (To be continued......)