Life is not endless, and loneliness is endless. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Lonely life is endless, and loneliness is the eternal theme of love. I was alone with my shadow. It said it had something to whisper to me. It says it misses you very much, and it turns out that my shadow and I are thinking about you.

- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

Up to now, the territory of the House of Augustus has almost always consisted of overseas islands far from Rome proper; With the exception of the province of Betica on the Iberian Peninsula, the other Augustan territories were uncontrollable targets for the Roman powers.

There is no way, who makes the naval power of the Roman powers still too weak compared to the House of Augustus; And the naval power of the Augustan family is too strong, and the gap between the two is really impossible to make up for in the short term.

This meant that the Roman powers were limited in what they could do to deal with the House of Augustus; At the very least, it was almost impossible for them to attack the territory of the House of Augustus directly.

Even the province of Betica, the only territory of the House of Augustus on the mainland, was not something that the Roman powers could directly deal with; Although the province of Betica shares a continent with Rome proper, the distance between the two is too long.

From Rome proper, to the province of Betica, there were also Gallic barbarians and the Kingdom of Spain; The area ruled by these two sides was not ordinarily large, and there was no possibility of a direct attack on the province of Betica by the Roman army.

Of course, the fact that there was no direct way to attack the House of Augustus did not mean that the Roman forces did not have a way to deal with the House of Augustus; How to promote one's own strengths and avoid one's own shortcomings is the key to the Roman forces to deal with the Augustan family.

Since the Roman forces are temporarily unable to form a huge naval fleet to deal with the Augustan family, then everyone can unite closely and build warships, while recruiting new allies to deal with the Augustan family together!

After all, the Augustan family is only a newly rising family, and no matter how strong its military strength is, it is impossible to change the fundamental disadvantage of its lack of family heritage; In this regard, however, the Roman powers had an absolute advantage.

Whether it was the barbarian Gallic barbarians, or the weak kingdom of Spain, or even the kingdom of Egypt far to the east; The Roman powers were inextricably linked to each other.

Perhaps, the existence of these relationships is not enough to change the overall situation, but it is not difficult to influence the decision-making between some forces; This is something that the Augustan family could not do at all.

Although the Augustus family also has the most powerful intelligence agency of this era, the tragic dead, the existence of the tragic dead is more of a faint existence, and it is a family power that cannot be put on the table at all.

Even if the tragic dead man has established a great feat, it is impossible for the world to know it; This also means that the influence of the tragic dead will always be unknown, and it will not affect the political situation.

Helplessly, the Augustan family only has the background of the tragic dead and the Cretan base; Now that the base in Crete has become independent of the House of Augustus, the Dead of Sorrow cannot play a role in the political situation, and the potential power of the House of Augustus is greatly limited.

If it weren't for the lack of connections between the Augustan family and the surrounding forces, it would not have been the Augustan family that had developed in Sardinia for a long time, but only had some connections with the three forces; More importantly, these three forces are not really big forces.

First of all, it is to take the initiative to contact the Adheba forces of the Augustus family; At that time, the Mauritanian power of the Numidian kingdom represented by Adheba was nothing more than a terrified dog persecuted by Zuguta.

secondly, there was Alexander, the Estonian governor who traded arms with the House of Augustus; At that time, Governor Alexander was also the leader of the Estonian rebels in the Seleucid Empire, and he was also at the end of his rope.

Finally, it is the Spanish kingdom that fights with the Augustan family against Hannibal; In fact, the Kingdom of Spain was never a truly powerful power, and it was indeed not very close to the House of Augustus.

Even when the two sides dealt with the province of Betica of the Hannibal family, they had a fairly tacit basis for cooperation; However, it was only out of fear of the Hannibal family that the Spanish kingdom intervened to help the Augustus family against the Hannibal family.

After the completion of the attack on the House of Hannibal, the relationship between the Kingdom of Spain and the House of Augustus was far less close; Even if the Augustan family was interested in making friends, the reaction of the Kingdom of Spain was not very enthusiastic.

All this seems to prove that the connections of the Augustan family are indeed far inferior to those of other Roman powers; In fact, the connections of the Augustan family are indeed very poor, which has become the key to the attack of the Roman forces on the Augustan family.

After determining that it would not be possible to attack the Augustan family head-on for several years, the Roman powers, which had been allied, immediately began to discuss a flank attack on the Augustan family; The so-called flank attack is naturally to win over other forces.

In fact, the real power that can directly threaten the House of Augustus at present is only the Kingdom of Spain on the Iberian Peninsula; With the exception of the Kingdom of Spain, it was impossible for any other power to directly threaten the House of Augustus.

Although the Spartan city-states of the Greek city-states were hostile to the House of Augustus, this hostility had even spread to the entire Roman power; However, the Spartan city-state was still too far away from the territory of the Augustan family, and coupled with the powerful navy of the Augustan family, the Spartan city-state could not threaten the Augustan family at all.

As for the powers on the western Mediterranean coast, needless to say, the Roman powers simply did not have enough navy to launch a direct attack on the House of Augustus; The forces of the North African continent, they are still fighting to the death in chaos!

The only one who could directly attack the territory of the Augustan family, and had the strength and ambition to attack, was the Kingdom of Spain; The Kingdom of Spain has been able to stand tall in the Iberian Peninsula because of its own strength.

Didn't the Kingdom of Spain at that time, even without Joan of Arc, resist under the attack of the Hannibal family? The very existence of the Kingdom of Spain speaks volumes enough.

In addition, the province of Betica was only one of the provinces of the House of Augustus, and its garrison was extremely limited; As long as the Kingdom of Spain made up its mind to fight a war against the province of Betica, the House of Augustus would once again be mired in war.

As for ambition, it couldn't be simpler; The province of Betica was originally the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, but it was later occupied by the Hannibal family, and now it has become the territory of the Augustus family, is it true that the Kingdom of Spain has no ambitions?

Well, even if the Kingdom of Spain really had no ambitions for the province of Betica, it was only that the upper ruling class was unwilling to provoke the Augustans who defeated Hannibal; Naturally, the Roman powers had a way of reviving the ambitions of the ruling class of the Kingdom of Spain.

After the Roman powers had decided on a plan to win over the Kingdom of Spain, they began to discuss the implementation of the plan in detail; After careful negotiations, the four major forces finally came up with a seemingly seamless plan.

The whole plan will be completed by the cooperation of the four major forces, and the specific action steps are as follows:

First, the Brutus family disguised a Macedonian trading fleet on the Greek peninsula and sailed from the Greek peninsula to the ports of the Kingdom of Spain; In between, there was a day of pause in the port of the Julius family.

After that, the Marius and Scipio families provided five million gold coins, and the Julius family provided a complete set of weapons and equipment enough for 20,000 people; These things will be shipped to the port of the Julius family, where they will be loaded.

Eventually, the trading fleet, loaded with gold and weapons from the four great powers of Rome, would sail to the ports of the Kingdom of Spain and secretly present all the contents of the ship to the kings and other magnates of the Kingdom of Spain.

Of course, together with them, there were also promises and covenants from the Roman powers; Once the Kingdom of Spain made a move on the province of Betica of the House of Augustus, the Kingdom of Spain would have the full support of the Roman powers.

If in the future the Kingdom of Spain really defeated the House of Augustus and succeeded in capturing the province of Betica; The Roman powers, then, would give their full support to the Kingdom of Spain in seizing all the islands of the sea that had once belonged to the House of Augustus.

Such conditions could be regarded as extremely generous for the Kingdom of Spain; In fact, the Roman powers were also unscrupulous in order to limit the development of the Augustan family.

They naturally knew that the Kingdom of Spain could not be an opponent of the House of Augustus at all; Their original goal was to get the Kingdom of Spain to wage a war against the House of Augustus.

Once the war breaks out, the Augustan family will fall into the quagmire of war again, which will inevitably greatly restrain the development speed of the Augustan family; In this way, the Roman powers had time to catch up with the House of Augustus and build a powerful fleet.

As long as the Roman powers can build a fleet that is comparable to the House of Augustus, then it will be time for the Roman forces to fight to the death with the House of Augustus.

The development of events did not surprise the leaders of the four great powers of Rome, and Charles VII of the Kingdom of Spain, after receiving gifts from the Roman powers, immediately made it clear that he wanted to recover the historical inherent territory of the Kingdom of Spain, the province of Betica! (To be continued.) )