Chapter 22: The Royal Funeral (Part II)

"We don't have to kill them all, Your Majesty the Pharaoh, you know that every time the Macedonian generals rebelled, they relied on the Praetorian Guards and the garrison of the fortress, and without the help of these people, their strength is very weak, you only need the jailers to send them all to the crocodile pond." At the foot of the steps, Li Bida began to make a plan, "So, you can purge Alexandra City first—because my army is protecting your crown and throne, you don't need to be afraid of those people anymore." Then, Li Bida beckoned, Sabo immediately held the picture board and set it up in front of the Pharaoh, Li Bida cleared his throat and said, "My preliminary arrangements are as follows, the royal city under His Majesty Pharaoh will be garrisoned by a thousand-man brigade of the Twelfth Legion, a thousand-strong brigade of the Thirteenth Legion will be stationed in the Grand Colloum, and then an infantry brigade will be stationed in the Egyptian Quarter, the Greek Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter. The attached cavalry brigade is stationed in the fortress of Idaui, as for the area of Perusim, it is enough to leave a small number of troops, where there will be no threat of war in a short time, and the infantry and archery brigades of the remaining thirteenth legions are stationed in various small fortresses on the outskirts of Alexandria, and as for Thebes in Upper Egypt, we will not bother with him for the time being, until we have cleared Lower Egypt. ”

Then, Li Bida's hand pressed on the drawing board, "Your Majesty Pharaoh, do you know that the Romans have a very unique creation, called the declaration of public enemies?" As long as you are on this list, there is no guarantee of life and property, of course, to do this in Rome, it requires a very complicated and cumbersome procedure, but here I do not need my pharaoh, you are the spokesman of all the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt, the supreme ruler of the world, and you only need a word for everything. Plus my sword. can be solved. ”

This made the piper's heart flutter. It was a terrible feeling to slay the man who had been in trouble in this country with the bayonet of an outsider, and his breath became short, and after violently beating Motammenes, who had just given the admonition, with a power mark, he even got up from his chair and cried out in a triumphant tone for the prisoner to continue.

"Don't have a lot of people on the list. Five hundred to a thousand people at once, preferably extremely wealthy figures, who are not difficult to identify, and who do not allow us to be accused of indiscriminate murder. Li Bida then took out the account book that had been transcribed before, and said to Pharaoh, "Ask Your Majesty to take a look at it immediately, these people who can come up with hundreds of thousands or even millions of drachmas to clear their sins, then their crimes must be very, very great, we should not disturb them for the time being before entering the city of Alexandria, and then ask Your Majesty to immediately guard against the old army." Then we said, "Li Bida made a neck gesture, which means catching a turtle in an urn." "And when Your Majesty is doing these things, don't have any mercy, be clean." Li Bida obviously meant a large-scale and swift execution, "As for the incompetent and capricious old army of the Hormahi Army, which is really intertwined, the best way is to transfer them to the Second Falls, in the name of conquering Nubia, and then concentrate somewhere, disarm and disperse." ”

"Then, part of the confiscated property will be used to pay Caesar's debts, part will be distributed to the new army loyal to you, and the rest will be enriched in the treasury. As long as the renewal is completed, please personally lead the new army and threaten the city of Thebes, and we will solve the annoying priest group. ”

Pharaoh rubbed his hands excitedly, and said that before going to the city of Thebes immediately, I will first bring my son to stay in the royal city, and Libidaeus, what do you mean when you just said that you will eradicate the gold lord behind you?

"This is the last measure, and that is the Jewish quarter of the city, and you should remember that their chamber of commerce has gone to the city of Rome to petition many times, bribing Roman officials to try to prevent you from returning to the royal city, because you have collected too much tax from them, and now I think they can be relieved - as long as we wipe out the Jewish quarter!" Li Bida said, pulling his hand the board with the layout map of Alexandria Zhuo City, "The military problem can at least be solved." ”

"However, will the destruction of these chambers of commerce affect the long-term money and tax revenue?" Pharaoh hesitated.

"It doesn't matter, the Eubernian Chamber of Commerce is very interested in continuing to lease the Jewish Quarter, and the current Alexandria Jews are not of the same sect as them, and they are very hostile to each other, and I think that if Joseph is allowed to enter, even if the taxes are heavier, it will not matter, and besides, it is easy to explain on the side of the Republic - because Cato the Younger promised these people to contract the Egyptian shipping."

On the huge floats, the servants of Ptolemy XII rained down on the welcoming crowd, and the legionnaires of Lypida followed the floats, and they marched through the sandstone pillars at the city gates, and the city of Alexandro, and I heard that there were ten thousand shops in the Jewish quarter, and five hundred colonnaded villas and hundreds of baths in the Greek quarter, and the treasures of the temples were piled up like mountains, and these soldiers were white-skinned, some were black-skinned, some wore brass Gallic helmets, some were stuck with Athenian cavalry helmets, and some had no armor at all, Crooked eyes looked at the delicate ladies or prostitutes on the side of the street, and the light carriages of the pharaohs were crowded in a mighty manner, and the magnates stood on both sides of the boulevard of the royal city, and although their expressions were full of humility and joy, the large number of armed servants they brought with them was enough to prove the weakness of their hearts.

In front of the group of idols in front of the royal city, the piper jumped out of the carriage without any fuss, and came into close contact with the magnates who came forward, and the magnates and generals knelt at the feet of the pharaoh, kissed his toes, and complained bitterly about the shamelessness of the rebels, and the pharaoh just smiled, "Orbit is coming soon." ”

At this moment, the prison behind Pharaoh, a foreign general named Lybidaeus, kept squeezing his eyebrows at them, and after these people lay on the ground, exchanged glances to each other, understood the intention of His Majesty Pharaoh, and hurriedly bowed their heads again, willing to offer respect to Pharaoh and the royal family on this festival.

Pharaoh hurriedly laughed, and with a very pleasant expression, said that soon on the Feast of Orbit, all the magnates of the city would come to the royal city with gifts in exchange for bread and beer in return from the royal family.

It is said that during the period between his refuge in Rome and the restoration, the accumulated debt was almost 10,000 talents, and now it is like accumulating wealth, which is like a piper, and his vision is aimed at this.

Now that the commander of the alien Restoration army has opened his joints, as long as each of them presents tens of thousands of drachmas to the pharaoh, the matter will be over, and it will be better to plan after the Roman legions have retreated. (To be continued......)