"So, the next meeting is also scheduled? Staffing is fine, right? Zhao Yu asked, to engage in politics, it is necessary to hold more meetings and brainwash more to ensure that the motivation of each party member will not dissipate.

"Well, it's still an old place, the main target this time is gladiator slaves, and our people have finally infiltrated several gladiator training camps." The rice bucket replied that after Zhao Yu's cultivation during this time, he has been able to do a lot and has become a staunch communist, and his goal in life is to be able to eat enough for everyone.

"Gladiator." Zhao Yu muttered, in the past two months, he has almost forgotten that his main line is to be a gladiator.

"This is a tough battle, it must be completed smoothly, don't make any mistakes, gladiators are the pillars of our force, only by absorbing them, we have the ability to resist!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" The rice bucket gave a decent military salute and said.

The military salute was also taught by Zhao Yu, and he also copied some military rules to strengthen the discipline of the team.

While the two were discussing, they were interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest, who was Claurace, the maid of Senatia, who had come to inform them that Lord Senatia was going to see them.

The two don't know why, Zhao Yu has been in this house for more than two months, but he basically hasn't spoken to Senatia again, and he hasn't seen him many times, I don't know why I want to see him this time, it won't be because of exposure.

Speaking of which, the slaves in Senatia's family in this neighborhood didn't know that the underground party existed, so they didn't even have a chance to ask why.

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Senatia is very irritable, there have been too many bad news recently, and she is a little overwhelmed!

In the past two months, there has been no good news except for the precious diamond, which has to start with the purchase of slaves more than two months ago.

As I said before, Senatia bought a female slave mainly for gifts, and the object was a wine merchant in the city of Rome, and the wine produced by her family's winery was handed over to this merchant for sale, but because the winery used to be the property of her dead husband, she was not familiar with this merchant, so for the sake of business, she bought a few female slaves and sent them over, wanting to maintain this sales line.

The slave butler who was in charge of transporting the slaves was a reliable man and a merchant who knew him well, and this butler was indeed trustworthy, but he was helpless against pirates!

That's right, the merchant ship where the slave girls were was robbed by pirates, so all the slave girls were packed and taken away to make RBQ, this bad news Senatia only received recently, and she couldn't eat angrily.

At this time, it was already December, and the backlog of wine in the winery was about to be shipped, but it encountered rampant piracy, which broke her sales chain, and she also understood that winter was a rampant period for pirates, especially this year, and if she insisted on sending the wine out, it would only fall into the hands of pirates.

As for selling it on the spot in Carthage, it is difficult to sell at a price, the market in this city is basically saturated, and it is divided among several local families, and she is a widow who can't get in at all.

It doesn't matter if it's just like this, wine is not a bad thing, it's a big deal to find an opportunity to go to Rome with a big caravan next year, and it's nothing to lose a fleet of hundreds of gold coins to shelter money, but bad things always come one after another, and the governor of Carthage warned the rich that for some reason (the tyranny of Commodus) the number of bandits has surged, so that the families are prepared to send troops to sweep after the winter has passed. (Winter is cold and rainy, and the army rarely fights in winter)

Now Senatia is sitting on wax, and the valuable wine is all in the winery, if it is robbed by bandits, the loss is terrible, nearly 10,000 gold coins!

But Senatia has no choice, nearly 30,000 catties of various grades of wine, with 50 catties of wooden barrels to fill 600 barrels, the family has such a small number of people, how to transport it back!

Senatia, who regarded wealth as his life, calculated the account, and asked hundreds of workers to transport it back for a day, and it cost fifty gold coins, and there was a risk of being robbed on the way, so he had to ask the army (mercenaries) to escort him, because the number of people fighting in the field was not less, and it was estimated that it would cost two hundred gold coins to go up for two days, and it was also a problem to transport it back for storage, and it was necessary to rent someone else's wine cellar, and it cost hundreds of gold coins, and finally it had to be transported away.

Another way seems to be better, that is, to hire a small number of mercenaries, plus the winery itself has more than a hundred slaves, maybe it can stop the robbers? After all, there are "city walls" to resist, and these bandits don't even have weapons.

This kind of cost will be much lower, hire fifty mercenaries, one winter, counting food, more than five hundred gold coins is enough, and then buy a hundred spears from the army and distribute them to slaves, it will be more than a hundred gold coins, and you can sell them after you run out, so the total is less than six hundred gold coins, which is a good deal!

As for whether this will be dangerous, after the popular science of the slave girl Claures, Senatia felt that there was no problem, she estimated that no bandits would dare to attack her winery at all! Even if the bandits are more serious this year, they have added their own defensive strength!

It's a pity that she doesn't know.,Claurace's popular science is only applicable to previous years.,This year is very different.。。

When Zhao Yu and the rice bucket arrived at the main hall, they found that they were too worried, all the slaves in the whole family were there, Senatia announced her decision, and set off for the winery in three days, and then come back after the army swept away the bandits after the beginning of spring! (In these three days, Senatia will recruit mercenaries)

The slaves had to accept and had no right to object, except for a few female slaves who stayed behind to watch the house under the leadership of Claurace.

This is not good news for Zhao Yu, go to the suburbs for a few months, although you won't miss the gladiatorial competition, but the development of the underground party will be much slower, and without Zhao Yu's continuous brainwashing education, I don't know if the motivation and purity of the team can be maintained.

But Zhao Yu is helpless, he still has to be attached to Senatia's home for the time being, whether it is a challenge task or the development of the underground party, he needs a layer of skin to cover up.

Fortunately, God didn't play too much with Zhao Yu, and the next day he received good news that the jeweler Valki was back.

"Brother Valky!" Zhao Yu hugged Valki warmly: "I miss you to death!" If you're two nights later, you won't be able to see me for a while! ”

It is true that he thinks every day, this is his money bag, he has been spending money like water recently, he has to raise so many underground parties, he wants to eat meat, and he spends a lot on food alone.

"Pippi Shrimp is leaving Carthage?" Valki asked, "It's not a good choice to go out of the city at this time, bandits are too rampant outside!" ”

“。。 I'm going to the south a little bit to escape the cold, don't worry about safety! Zhao Yu was speechless, Valki, who had just come back, knew that bandits were rampant, and how chaotic it was outside.

"Then I'll rest assured, you don't know, I almost didn't come back!" Valki cried about his tragic experience and the reason why he was late these days.

PS: Thanks for the reward of the lobster fish head! There's a shift at night.,Tomorrow it's still a shift.。。