Then, Li Bida took Mattia to the house where he lived, to let the other party see the novelty, but saw that there was something covered with silk cloth in the study, Li Bida smiled and revealed, it turned out to be a set of simple stamping dies in this era, divided into upper molds and lower dies, the upper mold has a handle, a person can hold it up, and the lower mold can be fixed with nails, which can be stabilized on the wooden board or table. Between the two molds, there are round pits the size of a coin and a relief on the reverse side. Immediately, Li Bida snapped his fingers, and a servant who had been prepared for a long time carefully poured the melted gold water into a row of stone slabs with billet holes one by one, and the height of each billet hole happened to slightly exceed the height of the coin.

Li Bida immediately smashed it hard, and the fit between the upper mold and the lower mold turned those small silver pieces into irregular but patterned boards, "This is not the end." ”

Then he unveiled the silk scarf of the food next to him, "This thing is what can really make the Roman people fall in love with the new coin, the former mold was given to me by Adiana, and this one was given by Cleopatra, originally the whole world was only owned by the Ptolemaic royal family, but unfortunately the pharaoh just treasured it, it was a tyrannical thing, and later, with the efforts of the Cyrene alchemist, he successfully imitated two things, put together a set, and sent it here." ”

Matthias looked at it, and it turned out to be a wooden bed, with some iron tricks on it, and then Li Bida easily pulled the tail of the wooden bed apart, and sandwiched a half-finished coin with various irregular edges in the arranged chuck, and then closed it, and then turned the file. Irregular and redundant shapes are quickly cut into regular circles.

Then. Li Bida proudly put the fine new coins. Handed into Matthias's hands, Matthias watched and had to admit that this new coin was indeed superior to the previous crooked melons and cracked dates in Rome in terms of fineness, shape and fineness, and you must know that many Roman dinar silver coins have no relief pattern on the reverse at all, and they are not even inferior to the Greek silver drachmas. "However, the figure on the front, bald with a laurel crown, is not Julius. Lord Caesar? ”

"Well, this is natural." Li Bida said, "Who else is there besides him in this image?" ”

Immediately, Matthias let out another cry of surprise, and he saw the pattern on the back, which was the Latin word "imperator", surrounded by ears of wheat and sickles. This one was a little puzzled, after all, his mastery of Latin was not enough. I also asked about the meaning of Li Bida's words.

"Oh, it's not for the commoners, the commoners just need to recognize the bald Caesar on the front, and the word on the reverse side means 'Imperial Supreme', the silver coin is an ear of wheat, and the gold coin is a palm tree." Then, seeing Matthia's unbelievable appearance, Li Bida smiled and explained to him in detail, "The ears of wheat and the palm tree are beautified motifs, and they have no deep meaning, but they only make the Romans fall in love with this kind of coin, while the image of Caesar on the obverse and the text on the reverse are very meaningful, which is the fundamental reason why I prefer to make the coin full of color - Caesar is a man who wants to destroy the republican system." ”

When he said this, the surroundings immediately fell into a panic, even if Caesar himself, even if he was actually doing this, but he still chanted republican slogans on the surface and refused to relax, Li Bida's words were really bold, fortunately in a private mansion, but this one was just passing by, and then he gushed about the meaning of coins, "In a country, the circulation is the most rapid, and people have the most contact with all kinds of coins, so when Caesar and Imperator are combined, it will give people a subtle effect in daily life- This bald man was not a mere consul, not a mere citizen or nobleman, he was going to be the supreme figure of all Rome. ”

"What's that?"

"It's 'Caesar,' and his name will represent his status and power in the future." Li Bida said.

At this time, the dazed Matthias asked an even more powerful question, "Will you continue to be 'Caesar' after Caesar's death?" ”

"I just want to deal with myself, of course, if fate determines my position, it will be that name" Li Bida did not continue, obviously secretive.

The decree restricting luxury was promulgated, but it was later revised, and Li Bida changed the "three hundred" in "You must not consume three hundred cestaxis in the market at one time" to "six hundred", not only that, but he also relaxed the types and restrictions on the types and quantities of luxury goods, so that goods and commodities from all over the world entered the Roman market in an orderly manner, so his financial channels became three ways: one was the money of the nobles forcibly raised with bonds, and the other was the taxation of luxury goods (the tax was heavy, but the nobles would still grit their teeth and buy without worrying about business), The last way was to mint new coins directly from old coins taken from temples and nobles.

After scattering some coins to invigorate the market circulation, Li Bida carefully calculated and sent the coins urgently needed in Caesar's war, and received an unabashed reward, "It's a pity that it won't be long before I take office as Dick Tuduo this time, but there is a third time in everything, and your current power is still a construction official, that is, Minora, and next time it will be Maiora." Caesar said in his letter.

Both words mean "divination power", the Romans are very superstitious, so the division of power of public officials is also based on the influence of his divination results, minora is "low" meaning, and maiora is "high", that is to say, the next time Caesar takes office as consul or Dick, the promised official rank is not a construction officer, but at least a lawyer, a legion commander (a legion commander with consul powers, not a legion commander served by a lieutenant general) or an inspector (this is at the age of Li Bida, It doesn't seem to be a thought).

But in Li Bida's mouth, he often said "maxima", that is, the meaning of "totalitarian", which is usually only possessed by the chief consul and dictator Dick Tuito, but there is also a secondary "maxima" divination power holder, that is, Dick Tuito's official deputy - one or two "cavalry commanders", when Dick Tuidor is not there, he can exercise the same power, although Li Bida is also doing this kind of thing now, but "fame" is very important in any world and era.

So, Li Bida began to plan to go to Sicily and go to Africa with Curio, but in the port of Naples surrounded by a sea, Li Bida took his servants and guards, and looked at the unapologetic sea with resentment and hatred, "Curio, will you give me such an answer?" ”

When he sent a token officer to inform the governor of Sicily, Curio, and asked him to send a fleet to pick up the sixth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth legions left by himself and Caesar, and cross the sea, Curio chose to remain silent and uncooperative.

The implication is that "the glory of 'Afrigian Gacus,' which used to belong to Scipio the Younger, is now mine, and no one needs to interfere." (To be continued......)