Outward beauty is not enough...... Speech, wisdom, performance, and sweet laughter are all better than the simple beauty created by nature. All artistic means are the spices of beauty.

- Petronius (Roman writer)

It's no wonder that little Hanno is triumphant, after all, all these courtesies are prepared for himself, how can he not be overjoyed by this? By this time, little Hanno had completely forgotten that his father had died at the hands of the Augustus army; For little Hanno, the Augustus army at this moment is so dear to him!

After finishing this opening greeting, Licinius turned and motioned to the centurion beside him to lead a pure white high-headed war horse to little Hanno's side, and then rode himself to little Hanno, and said expressionlessly:

"Lord Tari Hanno, this precious white Numidian horse is the favorite horse of His Excellency Oscar, the leader of our House of Augustus, and a treasure. This time, I heard that Your Excellency personally sent me to the Augustus family, so I specially ordered me to bring this horse for Your Excellency's drive! ”

To tell the truth, Licinius was very reluctant to give the white horse to little Hanno to ride; After all, this was carefully selected by the Augustus family to give to Oscar when Prince Adheba was trading. It turns out that this war horse is indeed an exceptionally excellent war horse, and it definitely belongs to the top of the best horses.

And Oscar did love this war horse when he got it, in addition to arranging servants to take care of it every day, Oscar also personally gave this white war horse a resounding name - White Wind! White Wind, White Wind, White Wind, White Peak! Perhaps, Licinius and others did not understand the significance of the name Bai Feng for the Oscars; However, Oscar himself understands.

As he survives in this world as Oscar, the name Bai Feng is getting farther and farther away from Oscar; Therefore, in order to commemorate Bai Feng, Oscar deliberately named this white war horse Bai Feng. Since Oscar gave this war horse a special name, the meaning it represents is naturally different.

Oscar's treatment of Bai Feng is indeed unusual, just from the perspective of eating, drinking, and living, Bai Feng's food and drink are far better than ordinary war horses; Comparatively speaking, a day's eating and drinking is already more expensive than the eating and drinking of a dozen soldiers. Not to mention the place to live, there is only one war horse in the entire stable, which is several times stronger than the other four war horses living in the same stable.

In this way, Oscar's love for the white wind is well known in the Augustan family; Licinius was well aware of this. Therefore, Licinius was very dissatisfied with Oscar's handing over White Wind to little Hanno to ride; Of course, this dissatisfaction can't be shown to Oscar, and Licini can only face Hanno Jr. coldly.

However, this is only the performance of Licinius alone, and Hanno Jr. does not care about it; Just when Licinius said what he just said, the centurion who was responsible for leading the horse to Little Hanno also told Little Hanno about Bai Feng's status in Oscar's heart, which made Little Hanno even more flattered, and naturally he didn't care about Licini's dissatisfaction.

However, the others around Little Hanno felt more and more frightened by all the courtesies that Little Hanno had received along the way; You know, the Hanno family is nothing more than a big family in the kingdom of Carthage. Although it used to be the founding family and the top family of the Carthage Kingdom, now it is different from the past, and the current Hanno family is not the top family of Carthage.

Since the Hanno family is not even the top family of the Carthage Kingdom, how can the Roman Augustan family, who was the death place of the Carthaginian Kingdom, be so courteous to the Hanno family? This couldn't help but make all the Carthaginians present feel puzzled, but only little Hanno only felt an incomparable sense of satisfaction and accomplishment!

House Augustus, what kind of existence is that? That's a powerful force that can be compared to the Kingdom of Carthage! For such a powerful force, what can the tiny Hanno family be counted? At best, it was an outdated Carthaginian family, as little Hanno knew.

Precisely, this is precisely what makes little Hanno feel satisfied and superior; Since it is not the glory that his family brings to himself, then doesn't this glory come from his own excellence? Is there any other explanation? Little Hanno couldn't help but smile at the thought of this; The people around me are also inexplicable.

After this brief welcoming ceremony, Hanno the Younger was the first to leave the harbor, escorted by Licinius, followed by the thousand-round shield cavalry of the Guards Cavalry Legion. As for the members of the mission and the nobles who had been following Hanno the Younger, they were arranged by Licinius for Luculus to escort them behind, guarded by a thousand Spartan heavy infantry of the Guards Infantry Regiment.

Although the other members of the Carthaginian mission were clearly dissatisfied with this distinction, they had to bow their heads under the roof; What can these nominal members of the mission say about the arrangement of the Augustus family on the stronger side? After all, little Hanno is the real protagonist of their mission, isn't he?

It is undeniable that there must be other members of the anti-Hannibal group in this mission who were sent by the families to spy on Hanno Jr., but on the surface, the person in charge of this mission must still be Hanno Jr.; Therefore, the arrangement of the Augustan family can also be said to be in the past, is it possible that the protagonist and the supporting characters can enjoy the same treatment?

Having said that, since Sardinia was brought under the rule of the House of Augustus, it has been subject to a strict policy of division between the military and the people; The army has always been stationed in its own barracks for training, and ordinary people will not be allowed to exist within tens of miles outside the barracks, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see the large-scale Augustus family army.

Even if Oscar himself traveled, he would only bring dozens of guards, not to mention other family members; Unless it was the Augustan family's large-scale foreign combat mobilization army, it was impossible for ordinary people to have the opportunity to see the appearance of an army more than one brigade in size.

Undoubtedly, this time Oscar personally ordered the act of welcoming little Hanno, so that many people living between Calaris and the port once again saw the mighty military posture of the Augustus family. Such a thousand-man cavalry dressed up naturally attracted the attention of countless people, and once again greatly satisfied little Hanno's vanity.

Licinius had already seen what kind of person Little Hanno was when he saw him, plus the deliberate arrangement before Oscar; Licinius was not in a hurry along the way, but took little Hanno to the direction of Calaris, fully satisfying little Hanno's vanity.

It only takes a day to get a fast horse, and it took Hanno Jr. three days to complete; This can be regarded as the discovery of little Hanno's conscience. You know, little Hanno had only walked a third of the way in the first two days; On the last day, it was Hanno Jr. who felt that the situation in North Africa could not be wasted, so he decided to speed up his pace, otherwise God knows when he would be able to get to Calaris.

When the group arrived at Calaris, it was already nightfall, and this time Oscar did not hold any grand welcome ceremony, but arranged for some officials to wait for the arrival of Licinius and Hanno the Younger at the entrance to Callaris. Little Hanno did not have any dissatisfaction with this; After all, the difference between his status and Oscar is still too big.

Compared with the people outside Calaris, most of the people in Calaris are wealthy merchants on Sardinia, and the world they have seen is naturally extraordinary; Therefore, there is no surprise for the arrival of little Hanno. Of course, another major reason may be that Licinius's 1,000 cavalry has returned to the barracks; There were only a dozen people in the group.

After Licinius handed over little Hanno to the official who led the way, he went straight to Oscar; The officer who led the way took little Hanno in another direction. Before Oscar met with Little Hanno tonight, the officials still had to arrange a residence for Little Hanno and entertain Little Hanno to bathe, change clothes, and eat.

Just when Little Hanno was doing these things under the leadership of the officials with great interest, Oscar also accepted Licini's reinstatement and listened to Licini's evaluation of Little Hanno in the past three days. In the eyes of people like Licinius, little Hanno is just a gentleman; Oscar, however, knew that Hanno Jr. was much more than that.

There are many things at the strategic level that a warrior like Licini cannot understand, and Oscar never expects him to understand these things; If Licinius really understood, then the Augustan family would have more than one or two generals in charge, and it is estimated that there would be more than ten or twenty.

The information provided by Jin Yiwei and the Tragic Dead about the Hanno family and Hanno Jr. himself is detailed enough, and coupled with Licini's account, Oscar can be regarded as having a full understanding of Hanno Jr. and the Hanno family. In fact, for Oscar, what he values is not the person of little Hanno at all, but the royal blood of the original Carthage Kingdom owned by the Hanno family!

With the Augustus family alone, it was not an impossible task to defeat Hannibal; But it will not be easy to completely complete the swallowing of the entire Carthaginian kingdom. But the strongest fortresses were breached from within; Not to mention the wrecked ship of the Kingdom of Carthage?

Therefore, Oscar's grand reception of Little Hanno this time was to take advantage of the special status of Little Hanno and the Hanno family to start a plan to destroy the overall strength of the Carthage Kingdom within the Carthage Kingdom; Of course, Oscar's overall plan is not only these, but the bigger layout is yet to come! (To be continued.) )