"The whip sounded loudly, the wheels rolled, the horses kicked and jumped, and the swords scrambled for the lead." —The Book of Nahum describes the assault of the ancient Assyrian chariots

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"Weishenme No, anyway, Pompey will definitely settle a lot of pirates in your kingdom, the status of the Kingdom of Eubertnia in Roman law is between the alliance Socii and the surrender Dediticii, Adiana you have no independent diplomatic powers, and you have to accept the supervision of the city of Rome, you have to imitate the Roman city-state to set up the Curia senate, the council of citizens and officials, and provide Rome with blood taxes (auxiliary army and navy), what you can do now, It is to turn the unfavorable situation into an advantage, since Pompey is willing to move the pirates over, you will take advantage of the placement of pirates, absorb them into the Curia and the army, and enrich your own strength. Calabis said.

At this time, the princess sitting next to Calabis looked at him and whispered, "It's okay, I still have dreams of reviving the empire." Then she coughed solemnly twice, quietly took Calabis's hand, and said in a tone that was particularly soft than before: "Let me entertain you for a midsummer in Eubertnia, where I am very familiar, the new city built by my father during his lifetime, under the inland Anatolian mountains, there are rivers and salt lakes, as well as palaces and paddocks, the scenery is very steep and beautiful, although the Romans have sacked it before, but the main building is still roughly there, I can entertain you with the money that Pompey has given you." ”

"You say that as if I were spending a lot of money." Calabis laughed and straightened his legs. Pleasantly half-leaning against the wall panels and decks. Adiana closed her eyes. Resting on his knees, the two of them quietly listened to the drums and trumpets of the oarsmen, as well as the sound of the dark tide of the sea, and it was rare to enjoy such a simple and peaceful time at this moment.

"Hey, do you know that Father Weishenme is going to build Eubertnia? Because the alpine salt water lake of Hattusa there is the real burial place of our Mitra family. ”

"You mean the royal cemetery in Sinop"

"It was just a temple for priestly activities and the people, and we buried the fake corpses there, and then we brought with us the urns containing the bones of our father and brothers. Place it on the shore of the lake on the Hattusha plateau, where there is also a sacred field, the sacred place of the Mithra family, and don't go back to Rome for a while? We spent this rare summer on a cool plateau, just the two of us, and there was no throne, no mess of struggles - by the way, how about I teach you to ride a horse? Adiana's long eyelashes twitched slightly, clasping Calabis' hand with her bracelet and resting it on her cheek, "Or." We were able to bring a picnic and drinks and go boating on the salt lake. ”

"I'm not entitled to this. Maybe I'll have to leave in half a month. ”

"Calabis, do you want to be king, do you want to be king?" The shadow of a cloud swept over Adiana's fair face.

"In order to live, to make the loved one more haode alive in this shijie, speaking of which, I said I would give you a thousand talents, didn't I?"

Adiana sneered, turned her face to the side, and arched it into Calabis's chest, "Maybe you can serve in my court for fifty years to compensate for this money." ”

"No, you come with me."

In the bilge of the white galleon, Calabis pulled the princess down the narrow ladder slowly, and then Adiana saw that at the end of the bilge on the opposite side, there was a space that was cut off by an iron fence, and there were some dusty jars in it, Calabis walked there, removed the fence, and raised his hands, "Now you know that when you negotiated with me on this ship, I waited so long to find food, and I just took you ashore, so I beat the ship to the ground with ballista cannons, As well as Weishenme to Colchis, I must insist on repairing this white sailing ship and riding it. I added this iron fence later, and I never allowed oarsmen and craftsmen to get here. ”

Adiana's body trembled, and she pointed to the dusty jars, and said in a lost voice, "What do you mean?"

"That's right, you're too spoiled, Adiana, so the discovery of these things is mine, for I'm the first to be willing to feed you on this ship." Calabis took one of the marked clay pots, lifted the dusty cover, and pulled out one agate and one gold wine cup after another from the hay and linen inside, a total of twelve. Then he took out another clay pot, and took out from it four precious wine ice vessels worth at least one tarent, and then rhinoceros horns for drinking, figurines of ivory and pure gold, scepters, short swords, diamond-studded bridles, and boxes full of musk bags and agarwood. "Calabis politely made an inviting gesture.

Adiana threw herself into his arms, nearly knocking him down, "Stay and be king of Eubernia!" ”

"Something impossible, I don't need to repeat it a third time. Adiana, take good care of your country, the current situation is the most suitable for you, you are no longer hindered, and you don't need to live in the huge shadow of your father, maybe in three or five years, will you still join forces with me? ”

When the white galleon docked in Sinop Harbor, Adiana sat on an eight-pillar sedan chariot carried by thirty-two people, holding an ivory and gold-encrusted scepter, followed by an entourage of hundreds of people, including pirates, carrying various boxes and clay pots, people and chiefs from all over the city, Charo in front of the sedan car, waving the flowers in his hands, bowing to the princess, they still admired the authority of the royal daughter of the Mithra family, even though the family had lost its power, "The war is over, the Mithra family accepted peace, but I have to admit it." , the Pontic Empire failed, perished, it was already divided, and the current owner of Alexander the Great's mantle is the great general of the Romans, the great General Pompey. Our kingdom is now a Roman province like Bithynia and Cappadocia. But the glory of the family will continue in the hands of my Adiana, in the kingdom of Eubertnia, where the wind and snow and the wind are howling, as for you, please enjoy this hard-won peace slowly and for a long time, and do not talk about war again, for now I just want to bury my father's body properly. Adiana on the sedan chair held up a beautiful scepter and kept talking.

The one posing as Mithridates. After the false body of Yubert was loaded into the coffin, on a starry night, under the guidance of the priest, it was placed on the temple of the Sinop Palace, side by side with the coffins of the other kings of Pontus, which was also specially allowed by Pompey, and Adiana who walked out of the temple looked at the palace with only ruins left, the summer stars were laid up and down the entire night sky, and several lonely columns, like silhouettes, stood in her perspective, looking down from the hills of the temple, In the distance, all that was left was the lighthouse by the sea, the lonely fishing fires, and the roar of the tide crashing against the breakway.

"Farewell, Empress Sinop of the Black Sea, Adiana is going back to the land of her ancestors, may your face be prosperous forever, and may God Mithra bless us to meet again one day." (To be continued......)