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The rest of the senators simply ignored the existence of the complaining old man. They were still answering something to the crowd and continued walking towards the street, but the people noticed that they were standing next to the old man, bending down humbly to listen to the other party's complaints. Chief Consul Caesar.

In this way, the originally noisy crowd around the Temple of Concord gradually quieted down. The senators looked at Caesar and the old man and stopped embarrassed. At this time, Caesar saw that everyone's attention had been attracted, so he gave a higher shout. The voice and the old man continued to answer each other, "You said you are also a Teblis voter in Subura District? Then let me ask you, did you vote for me who grew up in Subura District?"

"No, I voted for Lord Byblos because he paid five hundred sesterces for this vote, and your sequestre was only willing to give me 350 sesterces." The old man put the dry Putting his hands to his ears, he answered Caesar loudly and grandly, as if his hearing was quite poor. Moreover, his words caused bursts of laughter in the square of the Concorde Temple, but no one was angry about it, not even Cato, because this was simply not the case. There is a certain "rule" in the city of Rome, whether you are willing to admit it or not, it exists there. Byblos also smiled sheepishly and made a grateful gesture towards the old man.

"The reason you complained just now is that you don't know what we have been discussing in the Temple of Concord all day long, and you don't know what policy the country will use to treat the people, right?" Caesar continued to ask, and his words seemed to mean the same thing. For all the people present to hear, this statement immediately aroused a strong reaction from the people. Many people began to shout the same complaints as the old man. They said that they did not know the calendar for farming and doing things, and they did not know the divination during the Sheji Festival. As a result, they were kept in the dark even when the senators voted on national policy. Many of the voting intentions at the citizens' meetings were unknown to them before the vote, and they were still in the dark after the vote.

As a result, the chief consul threw off his pure white robe and climbed up the steps so that everyone could have a good look at him. Caesar made an impromptu speech: "In fact, when he met this old man Some time ago, one of my staff members told me that Roman politics was both republican and democratic. It was derived from the voting system of the Greeks and had the simple farming style of the Latin communes. Both nobles and common people should share the same views. The right to govern this country and the right to know. The last words of my staff impressed me deeply. He said, 'If the people swear obedience to the laws of the country, they should be persuaded to obey the orders of the law; if the people People who are full of doubts about the laws of the country should clearly let them know the truth.' But now there are many complaints similar to this old man. We must listen, because the people don't know that we are wearing purple. What do the guys in white and white robes say all day long in the closed Temple of Concordia?” When Caesar mockingly called the senators, including himself, the slang term “guys,” the people laughed loudly and turned to Caesar. He responded with warm cheers and applause, and Cato's face began to turn blue with anger. He seemed to have guessed what Caesar was going to say next.

Sure enough, Caesar then stretched out his left hand and raised it, "Since this month is my ruling month, I will announce the first policy plan on the spot, which is to establish ani, which is to have the Senate gather after each Curia Congress. The process and content of the proceedings are posted on the low wall of the main square so that all people can see it and understand it in their own way!”

The people responded with passionate shouts to Caesar's "Opening the Door Plan", and this shout was all seen by Lepidah in front of the Duomujiang Bistro on the street, "What the hell did you come up with? You narrow-minded devil." The busty boss lady brought him a glass of wine and asked curiously.

"What the hell idea? That's you, Duo Mujiang. Every day when you go to the fish market to purchase, you pass by the main square and you can see what the fathers of the Senate were discussing." Li Bida took a sip of wine and said.

Duo Mujiang raised his hand disdainfully, "What those old guys in robes say have nothing to do with a wine and sex dealer like me? Aren't Roman ships always controlled by these hundreds of people? ”

Lepida explained to Domuka with a smile and patiently: "It is true that individual people cannot interfere in many things in the country, but you have to think about where this phenomenon comes from? It is because the elders adopt a 'secret membership system' ', the people have no idea what they are discussing, and are naturally excluded from the circle of power. This is a monopoly of the powerful people of our time - the chosen fathers of the Senate, the diviners and priests of the temple. , the legal officer and lawyer of the court, could it be that he has adopted this method of monopolizing the voice. As long as he is the only one in the world who can make and interpret the voice, his power will be stable from then on, and what Caesar is doing now is to break it. This monopoly, as long as the Senate is deprived of this secret membership privilege, the authority of the fathers will not be as mysterious and unshakable as before. By the way, in the evening, a lame old guy will be here. Come, give him a reward of two hundred dinars, tell him that he performed very well today, and find him two good-looking and slender girls. "

The proprietress leaned in front of the hotel counter, frowning her dark eyebrows. After listening to Lebida's incomprehensible words for a while, she curled her lips to show that she didn't understand and didn't want to understand this political theory, so she greeted Lebida. After a few words, he went to the backyard to direct the transportation of wine cans and vegetables.

But Lepidus was not interested in Domus, nor did he care much. Now the reaction of the people in the square had explained everything. Many people shouted how good this policy was. They no longer had to listen to the verbal "national politics" that had been passed around two or three times and was polished and tampered with beyond recognition. In the future, they could really and clearly influence national politics with their votes according to their likes and dislikes.

Caesar waved his hand back again, and several slaves who had mastered shorthand and had been prepared ran out of the Temple of Concordia, holding acta, or "Akuta", written in neat and clear handwriting, and carefully posted it on the screen wall of the square. It completely wrote the content of the previous meeting: what Caesar said, what Byblos said, and how the elders voted on the topic, all without omission and simple and concisely displayed in front of the people. Those who knew how to read read these processes and contents aloud amid applause.

Caesar was full of pride and walked down the temporary podium amid the cheers of the people. His sudden attack caught all the senators, including Cato the Younger, Bibrus and Cicero, off guard. His first battle won extremely good results, but this was only the beginning, the beginning of the war with the Senate.

I, Caesar, am definitely not someone who can be kept. (To be continued.)