Before the Saturnalia at the end of the year, the city of Rome remained silent, and Cicero still wrote and spoke on the Palatine Hill to welcome his guests; Claudius was elected tribune of the commoners, stripped his golden ring, a symbol of nobility, wore a brown cloak, wore dark boots, and occupied a temple of goddesses as a command to fight with the Senate; After the divorce, Caesar rushed to Lusitania with the Tenth Legion, which was based on the backbone of the original Thirteenth Legion, and it had been about two months; Pompey was idle and wild, sometimes in the villa on the outskirts of the city, sometimes in the market, and some people also witnessed him in the vegetable market, Yujian the tuna of Calabis, but the two talked very plainly, without joy or discord, Pompey is said to have borrowed a civet meal and a cook from Luculas to cure his own blood disease, and Luculas had no intention of refusing; Crassus is still mysterious, his son has also gone to Far Spain, and he continues to be in the quiet mansion, agitating and supporting all kinds of acting knights, in Asia Minor, southern Gaul, Greece and other places to "colonize the industry"; Cato the Younger was the most active of these men, and at the age of thirty-four, he was already the leader of the "opinion" of the Concorde, and he loudly accused Pompey of the Temple of Venus and the Grand Theater, which he had begun on the premises of Colonel Matthius, and that the foundations of the Temple of Venus and the Collegium were almost extended to the "sheepfold" of voting, "and then all the citizens of Rome would vote in the shadow of the building that symbolized the glory of Pompey." ”

Everyone is tacitly accumulating strength, waiting for the next round of wrestling to come.

As for Potty, she smiled and handed over the "charter contract" with her crooked name (indeed the result of her own hard work) to Calabis. "Don't be pushy. In the Rikdanian barracks. I just said that I am the one who can accompany you forever, and I didn't say that it is me who is your wife, take this thing, this is also the biggest liliang I can contribute to you. ”

Her man didn't say anything, just slowly put on a loose robe on the back of the rod mark, and kissed her, "Take care of the child." ”

Soon. When the "charter contract" and King Numa's ring were handed to Crassus, it showed that Calabis had successfully followed his wishes and done the matter, and his goldfish eyes narrowed happily, "You performed extremely well in the last time you defeated the wheat of Sardinia, so I can rest assured, Calabis you have talent, but you need to have the eye to advance and retreat." Hmm, how is the recruitment of the 13th Army of the Empty Men going? ”

Calabis standing in front of the seat had a solemn face, "It's not going well. Now a large number of veterans who followed Pompey in Asia Minor poured into the city of Rome to cause trouble. My recruiting desk was often crowded by them, clamoring that Rome would not be allowed to recruit new soldiers if the Senate did not settle their request for resettlement, presumably at the behest of Pompey's cronies. ”

Crassus thought for a moment, then said, "Speaking of which, why don't you go to Etrunia to recruit soldiers, you are closer to us there." ”

"There has just been a group of knights who have received a loan from the treasury, and they have gone there to contract farm land, and there is a shortage of manpower, and Etrunia has no rich manpower to organize the legions, and I now have to recruit at least six brigades with full strength, but the thirteenth legion is only an auxiliary legion, and Caesar threw me the recruitment of two auxiliary legions before leaving, I need more equipment and money." As soon as Calabis had finished complaining, Crassus raised his hand and asked me to meditate, and then he said, "In the two bazaars, in the port of Ostia, my fleet will transport supplies and weapons to the other place, and you will take the men you have now raised, and board the ship and anchor first, and it will not hurt if the soldiers are not full, and you can also recruit them in Far Spain."

This was exactly what Calabis wanted, because Caesar had sent two letters in a hurry, saying that he had succeeded in starting a war with a part of the Lusitanian tribe, and that the main force of the Tenth Legion had been stationed in the Italian city of Ga, ready to cross the Guadiana at any time and give a deadly attack to the barbarians who dared to resist, but the city was not to mention Rome, and even the rich Spain was extremely far away, and supplies were very problematic - Caesar had asked the Spanish provinces to provide troops and food, but the other side refused without any suspense - Because after the defeat of the rebel general Sethuris and his army, the place was Pompey's Shili range, and it was only natural for him to treat Caesar in this way.

Caesar then demanded that Calabis take care of everything as soon as possible, including taking an oath at the altar of the Temple of the God of War, albeit a little late, and then landing in the port of Marga by ship, and crossing Far Spain to meet him, with of course a large amount of supplies and new soldiers.

"Go and take the oath as soon as possible, the money for the army to be recruited, you don't have to worry." "Even if I've stepped down from my position as Ombudsman, I'll still be there to support you through the process of taking the oath." ”

Behind the curtain of the Temple of the God of War, Calabis raised his hands in front of the statues of the gods of war and his wife (Mars and Belrod), and beside him the priests in black robes and masks, he prayed in a loud voice, as Crassus had previously arranged: "My sword and spear are invincible because of your majesty, and whenever the enemy is in a cloud, you will drive the chariot with fire and thunder, like my courage, to destroy the will and the defense of the enemy, and I will offer their heads, women, and sacrifices before you in return for your generosity." When the enemy crouches before me, he will crouch before you. Then the priest guided him to the twelve gilded shields hanging from the temple walls, which were said to have been the shields that the heavens had lowered to protect Rome in the days of the Etrurians when the Etrurians came to invade, but Calabis knew that this was all nonsense - in real history, Rome was then conquered and forced to become kings of the Etruns, but the Romans also had ways to justify themselves, They also say that it was later the brave young men of Rome who loved the republican democracy, armed with these shields, expelled the Etrunian king and established the foundation of the republic.

Anyway, since he wants to be Caesar's lieutenant, he has to kiss the totemic reliefs on these shields one by one, Zuihou He held up an imitation Corinthian helmet with a gorgeous horsehair in front of the long table, and in the belt inside, secretly stuffed in the wooden figures of little Leo and little Corinna, which Porti carved with a craftsman, "Good boy, good girl, bless me to achieve the greatest achievement." In a cloud of smoke and strange singing, Calabis slit his fingers, dripped blood into the poppy water, finished the ritual, put on his helmet, put the piping of his cloak between his shoulders, and shook his bright shins, step by step, lifted the curtain of the temple. (To be continued......)