After the people dispersed, the tents of the veterans of the Ares Yard were still standing in the wind, but Li Bida stopped again, and he only carefully arranged the transportation of the port of Ostia after that, and did not go to the Varsium to give a speech to the veterans of the extortion, nor did he send a legion outside Rome to suppress them.

On the contrary, Li Bida also took a considerable part of the wheat flour transported from all over the place, made a lot of pastries and bread and sent them to the university field for the veterans and their families to eat, and asked the slaves to send a sufficient amount of water by mule cart, and even used a clay urn to distribute 50 sestricks to each person on the market day before the Saturnalia Festival, "If you want to participate in the festival, then use these temporary gifts, but you can be safe for the time being." ”

Some embarrassed soldiers, ashamed of the influence of the cavalry commander, took the money with their families, quietly withdrew their tents and returned to Campeña, "Eat, why don't you eat?" Are you still afraid of being toxic, since the appeal is just, then you should do anything with confidence. On the edge of the colonel's yard, Skava was the first to come to the mule cart, snatched bread and water from the slaves, and feasted and drank.

However, Scava secretly instructed the few legions remaining in Campeña to immediately stop plundering the surrounding towns, so as not to be seized by Li Bida in future negotiations.

Before he arrived at the university, the news came that the dictator, Caesar, had braved the headwinds of spring from Egypt and had made his way to the city of Rome to settle the mutiny. After hearing the news, some veterans did not dare to face the bald old superiors, they were afraid of the speech. Caesar would name them to their faces. That's worse than dying.

But Centurion Scava. There were also two centurions, Delos and Crusinus, and two military tribunes, Avinus and Fonteus, who were still the backbone, and more than 3,000 of their comrades, continued to insist on seeking justice for all. As a result, at this time, the cavalry commander arrived, and this man came to the school yard in a robe. Ascending to the pulpit that had been laid temporarily, all the veterans hula and surrounded them, ready to negotiate conditions with Li Bida.

But after Li Bida came to the pulpit, he opened his mouth and said: "I thought that a real army could withstand both good times and bad, not to mention that you who swore to the dictator on the Rubicon would follow him to the ends of the earth, and if I remember correctly, Afrika should also fall within this category." ”

"We just ask for our own perks and benefits, and how many times do we repeat that. to enter the ears of the rulers. Skava was indignant.

"Your demands are unreasonable!" "When you were fighting in Gaul. The reason why there has been no mutiny is because every time you defeat the enemy, you can get the prisoners of war slaves assigned to you by Lord Caesar, as well as the gold and silver brought by the destruction of the barbarian towns, and everyone has made a fortune on the pile of bones. Now that you are going to Spain, you are going to Africa, and you have few rewards, and you cannot plunder at will, and you begin to fear the harsh natural environment, and you are greedy for everything, as if the whole country could not function without you. What a shameful thing, most of the regular legions recruited by His Excellency Caesar have rebelled, especially the Ten Legions are actually the masterminds, you must know that the dictator favors you the most, and favors Cheng Dù, who makes all the other legions feel jealous, don't you forget your original oath, and don't you fear the curse? ”

"Your Excellency the Dictator forgot Jì first, and our soldiers have not yet asked him to fulfill the oath he made by the Rubicon!" Delos, another centurion who was in the same mood as Scalva, shouted excitedly, and his words provoked many voices of approval.

Li Bida was confused by this, he was by Caesar's side the whole time when he was on the Rubicon, how could he never see the other party make any great oaths.

But Delos continued to announce the so-called Caesar's Oath, "I happened to be by the river that day, and His Excellency Caesar was speaking in front of us, and I was a junior centurion in the Thirteenth Legion, and was at the back of the brigade, but I saw Caesar take off his ring, and all the soldiers cheered. ”

"When Caesar took off the ring, he said, 'As long as everyone can defend my reputation and fight for me, they will be willing to take it down and give up my current identity.'" Subsequently, Li Bida clearly retold the content of Caesar's speech at that time.

"You talk nonsense!" Delos shouted, "Don't think that I don't understand the gestures of His Excellency Caesar, which means that after defeating the enemy, each of us will be knights who can wear rings, and even if we do not grant knighthood, we will give each veteran 400,000 cestax." ”

The cavalry commander was silent for a moment, he sometimes felt that it was an extremely dangerous thing to take this group of rude and uneducated, more than the peasant women in the vegetable market to spread the so-called gossip, Caesar was just using his own ring to make a prop when he was speaking, and he was actually falsely rumored by the veterans to look like this (because the knights were all gold rings), and what was even more helpless was that the soldiers also believed that Caesar could do this, because they didn't understand and didn't want to understand, and the knight class in Rome was about 10,000 people, And Caesar's legion is no less than 100,000 people, and it is a must to be able to "make up" this kind of process, which can be called the most beautiful misunderstanding.

The cavalry commander wiped his face silently in the noise from the pulpit, and then said to the soldiers, the subject of the knight's ring and the four hundred thousand cestaxis (for in ancient Rome it was necessary to have the corresponding assets to attain knighthood) was put to an end for the time being, and you should wait until Caesar himself came to Rome, but now I myself must honestly announce another matter, "that is, if you strike and ask for your discharge, then I can do so, for I can take five, twelve, thirteen, The XVI and XXXXI legions went to fight in Africa. ”

As soon as these words came out, it was like a thunderbolt, and all the troublemakers fell silent for a moment: yes, since the cavalry commander already had five other full legions at hand, why should he accept their claim again? Now all the veteran legions, who want to blackmail Caesar's capital, are based on the psychology that Caesar's military expedition cannot be separated from us.

"Let me repeat, I can fully comply with your request for discharge from the army right now, how about it?" Li Bida repeated this sentence again from the pulpit.

At the moment when everyone was in a hurry, with the sound of a whining trumpet, the soldiers immediately made a sensation, because they saw that the dictator Caesar, who appeared at this time, and then everyone automatically moved out of the way and watched Caesar slowly ascend to the pulpit. (To be continued......)