"Hechulis, your bathroom is cold." - After the defeat of Juguda, he was imprisoned in the dungeon of Turianum in Rome, and six days later he and his two sons were hanged.

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"Do you know how much this robe like yours is worth now?"

"About three thousand drachmas, which is about the price of fifty pieces of gold jewelry." Adiana replied without hesitation that because of the difference on her body, which belonged to the whole of the East, only kings could wear it, even Caesar and Lypida, when they appeared in public in the Republic, they could only wear light materials with silk embellisheds, or plain silk robes, otherwise they would be criticized for extravagance, and what Adiana wore was called "Parthian cloth" - the Parthian merchants spent a lot of money to buy the silk from the Cyris Empire, and then sold it to Pontus, Greece, and even Rome. Then, the weavers of these countries carefully disassemble the colors of different colors and patterns with needles, and then weave them into different patterns, re-weave them into robes, and sell them at a high price.

At that time, silk was money, and anyone who stole or destroyed silk in any workshop in ancient Rome was punished with heavy fines.

"What I need now is to enrich myself and weaken the Parthian program. Now Parthia is in the transiting business of raw silk and silk on the land alone, and makes a huge profit of about three thousand tarents every year, and all I have to do is to break its monopoly. "Li Bida is full of confidence." Here's the secret. Tell the raw silk to be transported here by another route. In addition, to obtain the technology of weaving the ribbon, that is the sharp weapon of Seris, the jacquard machine. As long as we have a jacquard machine, we can get the silk ourselves by taking raw silk from the Cyris Empire, without prosthetizing any intermediate countries, and then the color or the silk clothes processed by it will be cheaper in our caravan. To achieve the purpose of dumping, our opponents and enemies, whether chambers of commerce, city-states or empires, will go bankrupt in less than three years. Of course, these are sold to the rich, and we sell madder-dyed linen fabrics to the common people. When the time comes, madder, porcelain, and silk will be our invincible weapons in terms of money. ”

But when Lybita said the name of the device "jacquard machine" in Greek words, Adiana was surprised, because she had never seen such a mysterious thing in her life. But the queen had a great interest in any new or mysterious object, and she hurriedly asked. Since even Parthia can't get raw silk manufacturing and jacquard machine technology, what does Li Bida rely on?

"Relying on this expedition, Cleopatra will gather several legions and go south to seek the various barbarian kingdoms between the Red Sea and the Nile, coerce them to sign a treaty, open the port to be leased to us, and then we will get in touch with the Cyris Empire through the Guò Sea." Li Bida said.

"The ocean? Could it be that you can get in touch with the Cyris Empire by sea? "Given the geographical knowledge of that era, Adiana didn't know this little secret.

Yes, Li Bida explained it to Adiana below:

As soon as I have access to certain ports in Aden and Axum, I will send a fleet of sailing ships consisting of the Tenzhuans, Nubians, Egyptians, Ponticus, and my cronies, and set sail in April of the following year, and in about a month and a half to reach Ceylon, and from there, I will be able to reach the land of Fulan, where I will be able to procure a large amount of raw silk, and even lease a piece of land by means, as Dido, the queen of Phoenicia, did to Numidia, Build a bridgehead for long-distance commerce.

Then, my envoys will follow the road north of Fulan, and if nothing happens else, they will be able to reach the capital of the Cyris Empire at the end of October, and go to meet their emperor as Roman envoys.

"Will you get a jacquard machine then?" Adiana asked a little naïvely, "Is that jacquard machine only available to emperors?" ”

Li Bida laughed, and said that it is impossible to take the jacquard machine directly, and the border guards of Seris are very tight, not to mention the jacquard machine, even a bug is difficult to take away, but I will ask the envoy to carry enough gold gifts, as long as I can bribe the famous Seris technician and bring out the fine drawings of the jacquard machine, because that thing is no different from the Egyptian loom in terms of raw materials, and the difference is only that it has some know-how in parts. So back and forth, two years later, we tried to imitate the successful official jacquard machine. In addition, I can get as many raw materials as possible for the production of dyes of various colors, because we only have Cyrene's madder now, and we can only print one type of red, and I also need black, white, yellow, green, and a whole set of color secrets.

Now, Adiana understood, so she was relieved, and nodded, saying that I will fight with you forever Calabis.

On Saturnalia, when the eyes of the whole of Rome were focused on the discovery of Ilion, and even Caesar asked the Senate to issue an edict to hold a seven-day sacrifice of thanksgiving for the gods, and many poor and rich, all of whom had their own rations and money, crossed the valley of Illyria and prepared to pass through Fort Libida and go to Ilion to pay homage to Ilion for a journey to find their roots, Libida ordered the establishment of a checkpoint on the periphery of Fort Lipida, and the opening of ships to cross the sea to collect the coins of pilgrims, and then Achilles' fleet also set sail, Carrying two legions, he headed for Alexandria.

Then, in the palace of Ipos, Cleopatra sat on a lion's leg chair, dressed in a gown made of dazzling "Sidon cloth", which made her chest and arms whiter, and the generals such as Lufio, Achilles, and Shebekhu, all dressed majestically stood on both sides, and under the palace were the troops hired by Cleopatra, especially the three legions left by Caesar, plus the two legions brought by Achilles, and the Hormahi legion under the direct jurisdiction of the queen, a total of six legions each selected a hundred-man team, Standing in the atrium at the front of the palace, the chieftains and barbarian kings of Axum and Aden who were asked by the queen to come to see them were terrified.

One of them, the little chieftain on the Red Sea, who dared to refuse the queen's request, was immediately exterminated by the queen's vassal, the Nabataean kingdom, and he himself was directly dragged to the city of Alexandro in a dog chain, and the queen happened to kill this weak and ignorant "chicken", so the chief was thrown into the crocodile pond in front of everyone.

"This child beside me is both the heir of the Ptolemaic dynasty and the blood of Caesar. Now there are some bold and reckless people who think that the divine dynasty of Alexandra has lost its binding force on them, but a fool is a fool, and I will not grasp this profound truth until my mighty legions and fleets destroy him and his people with sword and fire. Cleopatra said majestically to all the barbarian kings and chieftains, the "monkeys," "I need all your ports now, or the army will take my scepter and whip you." The trade routes of Aden were concentrated in Petra, while the trade routes of Axum were concentrated in the Nile Falls, and then concentrated in the city of Alexandria. (To be continued......)