Augustus Road

Of course it is credible, because Joseph is a Pharisee, which is mostly composed of wealthy businessmen and legalists. They advocate compromise with Rome in exchange for order and peace, and concentrate on waiting for the coming of the Messiah. They especially hate the fanatical populist ideas of the Hassidic sect and regard them as enemies. Therefore, Joseph was instructed by someone (Adiana) to tell me this message specifically. The riot will be ready to happen around Passover next year.

"What if the Jewish riot does not form a climate, but is suppressed by the Greek and Egyptian mercenaries of the Cyrene city-state." Sabo's doubts are more realistic, while Dusongville is just busy eating and drinking. In his world of ideas, it is best to execute ready-made orders.

Lepidus smiled mysteriously and lowered his voice to tell everyone present that the Hassidic riot will naturally be a great success, because I will find ways to help them through the Euboean Chamber of Commerce.

"Eight hundred talents of gold and silver, as well as weapons for ten ships, spears, shields, and so on. Seal up all the guys we eliminated in the Lusitania War and give them to them. These Hassids may even worship me as a righteous man during fasting. With excellent and qualified weapons and fanatical fighting spirit, the believers will easily defeat the mercenaries of the city-state who forget their principles for the sake of profit. Then, you should all know what the next step is. The Jews will drive out the Greeks, and we will take the opportunity to eradicate all the Jews. Cyrenaica will then be incorporated into Egypt, but it is actually my, the private territory of the King of Cyrenaica."

The ideal of building a strong rear area comes from this! Sardinia, Euboea. Memphis, Egypt. And Cyrenaica. I want to occupy my own share in the whole world.

By then, Cyrenaica will become a new colonial city, Latin soldiers will pour in, and the veterans of the Thirteenth Legion will be settled here. I will easily get Caesar's consent, because this is what he wants. As long as it can reduce his own burden in disguise, the veterans will act as sentinels to monitor the citizens. There are also large farms, and independent naval fortresses will be quietly established.

"But how to conquer Cyrenaica? It is no different from this low-level country with black skin. It is a huge seaport fortified city." After eating, Anthony burped and asked his third question today.

"I am afraid we will have to go through the most painful bloody battle. What I can do is to reduce the sacrifice to the minimum, but we need a reliable navy, so the docks and warehouses that have been repaired in the Jewish district of Alexandria will be fully put into operation in the autumn and winter seasons, and Sepi Island and Alexandria will train rowers at the same time. As for the infantry and cavalry of the legion, they will start winter camp training immediately after sending the prince back to the city." Lepidus looked serious. Then he called Diotusos and whispered the plan in his ear.

In the royal court of Samones, Diotusos, with a large number of followers, piled all kinds of precious spices, fine wines and handicrafts in the courtyard as a friendly gift to the great chieftain Helton, and then knelt on a gorgeous sedan chair, surrounded by guards with flags, ready to welcome Ptolemy the Younger back home.

The great chief also gave back a large number of gifts, such as a pile of animal skins, fifty sheep, ten camels, an elephant covered with embroidered blankets, and five hundred half-breasted elite warriors with pierced nostrils, holding "flying back" and wooden spears, escorting Ptolemy the Younger's sedan chair and entering the camp of Lepidus.

But Lepidus was extremely cold to His Royal Highness the Prince, and only allocated him a special camp. Then he sent the most rude Hybrida, with fifty Spanish swordsmen, to guard the prince. It was more like intimidation and surveillance, which made Ptolemy the Younger feel a great dislike for the regent. It seemed that it was his father's envoy who broke the delusion of the greedy and vicious general, which made him so angry.

Only the chief guard of Diotusos still tried his best to protect him in such an environment, constantly asking the arrogant foreign general to give the prince due respect. Gradually, delicious dishes, utensils that can reflect the royal demeanor, servants wearing high-quality silk Persian trousers, and graceful dancers and concubines all appeared in the tents during the prince's itinerary under the efforts of Diotusos. The child was very dependent and had strong likes and dislikes. Soon in the eyes of Ptolemy the Younger, Diotusos became a person closer than his father.

Of course, he didn't know the relationship between this man and Lepidus, whom he hated the most, and he didn't know that Lepidus was just making a bigger golden birdcage for himself.

In Alexandria, the Pharaoh celebrated the return of his offspring, and the people of the city held a grand thanksgiving banquet. Then Lepidus sent the triumphant troops to the Idauyi Fortress to start the winter camp. He took the main generals and 300 Medjet guards and entered the boulevard in front of the royal city. Then the legion troops left in the Grand Theater and Moon City sent a hundred men to escort the regent vizier into the Pharaoh's palace.

At the banquet, the flute player was somewhat embarrassed to follow the eunuch's previous advice and put forward the conditions for Lepidus to confer him the title of King of Cyrenaica, and began to hesitate, saying that according to convention, the King of Cyrenaica was equivalent to a member of the royal family, and the vizier was selected by the Pharaoh from his subordinates. The two identities did not want to match, so he also hoped that the new king would understand the difficulties.

"This is absolutely reasonable, my majesty. I am willing to give up my position as vizier and go to Idaeuil to supervise the winter camp." Lepidus agreed readily, and the flute player breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the regent agrees to make concessions, which is the best. As for the army, he has to consider forming a brand new guard that is completely under his command to replace Lepidus' army.

It seems that there is no need to consider the funds. The regent has helped him kill the dignitaries and rob temples before, and has accumulated a lot of wealth, so he entrusted Mortanmenes to do this. The eunuch heard the prince's narration of the various loyal deeds of the chief of the palace guards on the way back, and delegated this task to Diotusos.

Diotus quickly came up with a plan to recruit the remnants of the pirates that Pompey had previously wiped out, as well as the Galatians who were famous (notorious) for their mercenaries in the highlands of Asia Minor. The captain of the palace guards was very efficient, and by the end of the year, a thousand pirates and eight hundred Galatians had been recruited and arrived at the port of Alexandria by sea.

Lepidus did not react too radically, he just left the chief brigade of the 12th Legion in the Great Theater and kept a distance from the new Pharaoh's guards who entered the inner city. (To be continued...)