Reason cannot be measured by size or height, but by principle.

- Epictetus (famous Roman philosopher)

In fact, Flavies originally planned to solve all the royal family members of the Illyrian Kingdom at once to prevent future troubles; But after thinking about it carefully, Flavies vetoed his own idea. If the Julius family really killed the king of the Illyrian Kingdom and those members of the royal family, it would bring more trouble to the Julius family.

Nothing else will be said of for now, as long as the Illyrians know about it; They are bound to be resentful and even repulsive to the rule of the Julius family. That's not the point, it's about having one or two more careerists stirring it up; It is quite possible that a large-scale rebellion will be triggered in Illyria, which is unacceptable to Flavies.

Rather than leave the power into the hands of the careerists, it is better to imprison all the kings and royal family members of the kingdom of Illyria in Aretien; When the time comes, it is only necessary to give these people a luxurious villa and send one or two guards to keep them in custody, and there will be no more turmoil in the kingdom of Illyria because of this.

Flavies did not believe that anyone else could rob the royal family of the Kingdom of Illyria from Arretien, the stronghold of the House of Julius; If something like that really happened, there would be no need for the Julius family to raise so many more troops!

When Varus and the men of the Sixth Army left Salzburg for Selgistika, Illyria; Flavies began to discuss with Clyde about the opening of the Eighth Legion. Although the soldiers of the Eighth Army were all Salzburg tribesmen, the fact that they left Salzburg is also irrevocable; Clyde had to accept the unpleasant result.

In addition to giving orders to the officers and men of the Eighth Legion to march the army, Flavies also gave Clyde's Eighth Legion three days; Let them all leave the barracks and go home to be reunited with their families for three days. Of course, Flavies also agreed to Clyde; In the future, the Eighth Army will return to Salzburg for a month at most every six months to relieve the homesickness of the soldiers.

At the same time, Flavies made another suggestion to Clyde; That is, when Clyde led the army out of Salzburg, he helped the people of the Salzburg tribe to form several large-scale caravans, and then took these caravans to the Etruscan province and other provinces, the most prosperous province of the Julius family, to help the people of the Salzburg tribe improve their lives.

For Flavies's suggestion, Clyde decisively chose to accept it; After all, if the Julius family relied only on the assistance of the Julius family, the improvement of the lives of the tribal people of Salzburg would certainly be extremely slow. But if there is a push from within, the development of the Salzburg tribe will progress more rapidly; Clyde understands this, too.

As the leader of the Salzburg tribe, Clyde's personal prestige was still very high; At his behalf, the Salzburg tribes formed seven large noble caravans and twelve civilian caravans with great efficiency. Among them, the caravan formed by Clyde himself is the largest caravan, and it is also the most powerful caravan; These nineteen caravans will be the first caravans sent by the Salzburg tribes.

Although the number of caravans formed by the Salzburg tribe far exceeded Flavis's psychological expectations, Flavis did not feel any resentment about this, but was pleased that the Salzburg tribesmen were so active in integrating into the Julius family. After all the caravans were prepared, the three-day holiday was officially over; And the day of the great army has come.

In order to make the people of Salzburg and the families of the soldiers of the Eighth Army feel the importance of the Julius family, Flavies held a grand opening ceremony on the day of the march of the army; In fact, Flavies's approach was basically a copy of the Julius family's expedition ceremony, but the people of Salzburg were very excited.

Before the army was officially launched, and the grand opening ceremony was still on the way, several cavalry from the native Julius family broke the warm atmosphere of the scene; Anxiously, they rode their horses into the barracks outside Salzburg, and when they saw Flavis, they rushed up desperately and took a parchment to give to Flavis.

Flavis recognized them as his family's bodyguards and ordered them to give way, and it was not until Flavis got their hands on the parchment that the weary knights were taken down to rest by the soldiers of the Seventh Legion; This information was sent by Quintus, who was left behind in Aletion, and the information it said was about Marius's successful coup d'état and becoming the dictator for life of the Roman Republic!

After reading the information, Flavis's face was anxious, but he didn't make any other moves; Immediately after completing all the opening ceremonies, Flavies ordered Clyde to return to Arettion with 2,500 cavalry of his Eighth Auxiliary Legion with him, while the remaining main force of the Eighth Legion and the caravan continued to march according to the original plan.

Clyde didn't know what had happened to make Flavis so anxious, but he obeyed Flavies' orders anyway; The main army and caravan of the Eighth Legion were ordered by Clyde to continue their methodical march towards the home of the Julius family, while Clyde escorted Flavis and Caesar all the way back with the cavalry of the Auxiliary Legion.

At the same time that Flavis was returning to Aretion with his cavalry, the messengers sent by Flavies before also brought Flavies' orders to Rabinus; As soon as Rabinus received the order, he sent out with more than 90 remaining cavalrymen under his command to escort four carriages.

These four carriages were naturally the kings and royal members of the kingdom of Illyria, and in order to ensure that these people could be safely transported to Arretion, Rabinus kept all the information on the carriages strictly secret, and even the cavalrymen themselves did not know who they were escorting; Even so, the news leaked out.

The cavalry escorting these royals continued to follow the direction of the Alps after entering the province of Veneto; As a result, they were attacked by an unidentified army in black suits. Why the army? Because the cooperation of this group of people is too tacit, and the offensive methods are also purely military style; But their combat effectiveness is not as simple as that of ordinary soldiers.

More than 90 cavalrymen were killed in the first wave of bow and arrow attacks after being attacked by 200 enemy soldiers; In less than five minutes of battle, the remaining cavalry was almost slaughtered. Only the cavalryman who frantically fled to report the news at the beginning escaped with his life, and the rest of the cavalry did not survive.

When the fleeing cavalry made its way to Padua, the capital of the province of Veneto, he immediately reported his identity and the attack to the governor of the province of Veneto; The Doge immediately sent half of the forces of the province of Veneto, led by this cavalry, to the place of the incident. Unfortunately, when the large army arrived; There were only more than 90 corpses left at the scene, and there was still a trace of the carriage.

As soon as this happened, the governor of the province of Veneto did not dare to delay, and immediately sent cavalry to report the situation in detail to Quintus of Aretian; Quintus didn't know what the cavalry was escorting. But since it was Flavis' order, Quintus did not dare not ask; While sending cavalry to continue the search, Quintus also sent cavalry like Flavis.

After Flavis led Clyde and a large number of cavalry into the province of Veneto, it happened that the governor of the province of Veneto was still leading people to continue the search of the area; Flavies immediately stopped and asked what was going on. When Flavis learned that a cavalry team sent by Rabinus had been attacked and wiped out, he sighed helplessly.

He calculated that he could not let the king and members of the royal family of the Kingdom of Illyria become a potential threat to his family, and as a result, he still let other forces intervene in it; However, Flavis's biggest puzzle was not what the people who had kidnapped the king and royal family of the Kingdom of Illyria were trying to do, but how they had been assembled by a sneak attack gang of such a size within the Julius family!

This is no small matter, if anyone can assemble a sneak attack gang of this magnitude in the territory of the Julius family at any time and place; Does that mean they can do whatever they want within the territory of the Julius family? It seems that the management within the family is not strict enough; Flavies didn't waste time here, but took the matter to heart and left.

After returning to Aletion, Flavies did not let Clyde take the cavalry to the military camp outside the city, but let Clyde garrison the city with 2,500 cavalry; In addition, Flavies' first order on his return to Arretien was for the governors of the three provinces of Gaul to intensify their efforts to investigate the various non-Julius forces in their territory.

Soon, information of Marius' fierce conflict with the House of Augustus was also transmitted back to the House of Julius; The arrival of this information made Flavies's desire to take advantage of the chaos to take action against Marius stopped. Not only that, but Flavis even had the idea of secretly assisting Marius against the Augustusian family.

For in Flavies's view, it was impossible for Marius to grow and grow under the coercion of the Brutus family in the south and the Julius family in the north; On the contrary, the Augustan family has developed very vigorously in the past two years. Rather than directly annexing the Marius forces, it is better to let the Marius forces and the Augustus family fight to the death first, and finally let the Julius family profit from the fishermen!

Flavies' idea is good, but will Marius just be so easily manipulated by the Julius family? Will the House of Augustus also let the House of Julius benefit from it? With the recent series of events, the situation in the Roman Republic has become even more confusing; No one knows who will be the final winner, and everyone will do their best in this competition! (To be continued.) )