Chapter 32 The Beast Cage Is Broken (Part 2)

"Are you going to show your good will and continue to maintain the system of the Republic and the Senate?" Bisso spread his legs, sat slumped on the seat, squinted his eyes, and asked Cicero with a smile. ∈♦,

"Lepidus doesn't know, but Caesar and Antony, I believe they will still care about the sacred word 'republic', and the citizen soldiers in their legions will also care about it." Cisse Luo was a little excited.

"Then what's next?" Bisso continued to ask.

"We can make appropriate concessions, pardon Gaius, and allow Caesar's party members to take up various important positions, but we will also release people from other positions accordingly, for no other reason than to show that the Senate's edict still represents Law and order. This country does not allow them to do whatever they want with arms and swords.”

Picasso paused, and then earnestly advised Cicero, "You go."

When he saw the dumbfounded expressions of his colleagues, Bisso repeated, "Go quickly, contact a small boat, and set sail from the Ostia River Port. I will vouch for you." "Go quickly, as my daughter and I, those few You won't do anything to me, but unlike Cicero, don't be too idealistic. It's still too late to become an academic who doesn't care about worldly affairs. If you die, where will you start to take responsibility? "

"But someone has to stay and take charge of the situation, Bishop."

"Didn't I say, I'll preside? Release Gaius and everyone else from before, yes I understand."

"But..." Just when Cicero was about to defend, Bisso said to him with a more serious expression, "Are you still unable to give up your power? My advice to you is: take off the purple hem on your body. Robe. Take your wife and leave."

Finished. Piccolo sighed and left, leaving Cicero alone in the entire synagogue. He stayed there feeling lost, his mind swaying like wheat waiting to be harvested, sometimes thinking about this, sometimes thinking about that, but in the end he got used to it. He said to the clerk who was still standing opposite him, "I issue an emergency edict on behalf of the Senate in the name of the censor. Conscript all citizens of working age and free slaves to join the army, and organize armed forces to go to Niushou Street and Prema. I will While pardoning some people, I captured others as hostages. I hope public opinion can forgive me, but I have no choice but to do so.”

But all this was destined to be just a boring and crazy move. When the recruiters appeared in the market and neighborhoods holding tokens, the patrols of the Thirteenth Legion also came, and these people did not even dare to say a word. They dispersed in a hurry. As a result, Polo's centurions arrested several of them, and when they saw the tokens, they reported them. Polo immediately hung the edict signed by Cicero on the wall of the tower of the military camp. Then the soldiers were filled with righteous indignation. They immediately took action. A brigade rushed to the Temple of Saturn and took control of the country's treasury. A brigade After guarding the bridges and river banks across the Tiber River, Polo sent a large army to take all the female relatives of Lepidus, Young Caesar and Antony to the Temple of Vesta for refuge.

For a time, the Temple of the Kitchen God was crowded with women, all of whom could decide the fate of the country, and it became very lively.

"Vivia, wouldn't it be better for you to take refuge with your father?" Potty asked, holding Viviya's shoulders.

"No, although my father has many armed slave guards in the courtyard, and my mother also wrote a letter asking me to go back and not to entrust my fate to Leo who does not know life and death, but I must be with your family. I am not Ordinary Roman ladies, when they encounter this kind of situation, they will say Gaius, it’s time for me to pack up and leave." When Viviya said the last few words, she deliberately lowered her voice because she saw the person next to her. They were all "orthodox Roman ladies" such as Fulivia and Claudia. These words made Bodie laugh. She completely regarded Vivian as her daughter, and the two of them touched each other on the forehead. After a pause, he laughed again, as if taking refuge was not such a difficult thing, "You have to know that Leo's father and I supported each other in the same way."

At this time, Corinna stood on the steps, looking at the hurried carriages on the street over there, and turned around and said that Turinus's stepfather, mother and sister had all arrived. She seemed to really have Octavian now. The family is regarded as their own family.

Next, there were three surprises in the city of Rome. The Thirteenth Legion began to spread out other brigades and stationed them at the river ports and streets. In other words, they completely blocked the city. Soon a legal officer level incident occurred. The escape of nobles took their families and assets with them and tried to escape by boat from the river port, but they were stopped by soldiers. As a result, a high-ranking official disguised himself as a slave and escaped that night, leaving behind all their money and beautiful houses. It is said that when they left, He even left a note with great courage, "I went out to recruit soldiers for the Republic. This is the duty I have to fulfill."

In the days that followed, Cicero wandered helplessly on the panic-stricken streets. He began to believe that the monster he saw at the early morning meeting that day meant a great omen for the republic, and now the prophet More "foreshadowings" of priests and priests appeared one after another with the sound of the military shoes of Lepidus and Caesar's nine legions heading south, as if the bloody events of the Sulla and Marius eras were about to be shrouded again.

Even those who were released by Cicero, such as Casca, were like headless flies, wailing out of the dungeon, only to enter a bigger one.

Soldiers could not be recruited at all, and armed slaves were completely unreliable, because some of the rich had run away, and those who were taken care of were completely supervised by the Thirteenth Legion. At this time, Cicero remembered Bisso's previous advice. He ran up the Palatine Hill and walked into the gate. He saw Fiberia, who was still like a delicate doll who didn't know the world's wind and rain. Surrounded by the maids combing her hair, she tried on the gorgeous and sexy Sidon cloth robes-"These are not authentic Sidon materials. Recently, many of them have been shipped from Cyrene and Egypt. Although they are beautiful and full, the price is very low, so many knights have one. If I wear this kind of clothes, it will be a disgrace to my status." The lazy Fiberia commented on the smooth cloth in the hands of the dealer smoothly, and the female dealer could only bow her head and nod.

"Tero, Tero! Pack up your belongings quickly, we are ready to leave Rome." Cicero took off his purple-edged robe, threw a few silver coins to the merchants, and said thank you, but now please leave immediately, immediately!

After that, he hurriedly walked into the inner room, and came out again after a while, wearing a windproof cloak and long boots worn by travelers, which made Faberia frown and giggle like a bell. She didn't understand why this old husband was so weird. (To be continued...)