Augustus Road

Lepidus laughed again and waved, and the clerk reluctantly came over with a writing shelf, because they thought this debate was a waste of time. √∟，

And Lepida also placed the water timepiece in front of him, and then made a gesture to Fabilia to request to speak, "Madam, you'd better speak more strictly, you must know that I defeated your husband here back then."

"Defeating my old husband is nothing." Fabilia's bold words immediately attracted applause from the women. "I would like to ask the Chief Legal Officer and the Consul, have there been any taxes targeting women since ancient times?"

Hearing this question, Octavian was stunned. He cleared his throat and then pointed his eyes at the young clerk next to him. The other party also lowered his head and shook his head quickly secretly, saying, "I am familiar with the law." , I can tell you with certainty that women have not had to pay taxes since ancient times."

"Now is an extraordinary period. I repeat, it is an extraordinary period. I hope you and all noble women can understand the difficulties of the country and the army." Then, Young Caesar Octavian responded in a more severe and business-like manner. , and then feeling that he was not confident enough, he looked at Li Bida next to him, only to see that the other party was grunting and wiping his face and neck with a silk handkerchief. It seemed that he had been shot a lot by those noble ladies just now. liquid".

When he turned his face away again, Fabilia had already seized his opportunity and launched a further attack, "Extraordinary times? Even we now understand that today is just a civil war. You and the Archon hold hands With invincible military force, could it be more dangerous than when Hannibal came to the city? At that time, we women took the initiative to donate all the gold and silver jewelry to the military. But the consul and the young you... ....”

"Did you just say 'young'? My dear lady, why do you emphasize this word?" Unsatisfied, Young Caesar put down his iron hook pen and interrupted Fabilia's speech. As a result, hundreds of ladies Immediately shouted, "Let our Fabilia continue, you are a young child, quickly vent your energy to the brothel, or you can find us, so your mother can rest assured."

Octavian was so frightened that he quickly shut up, so Fabilia continued to explain. "Just now the consul threatened to list us as public enemies. Is that good? Who are your public enemies? They are the murderers who killed dictator Julius. They are the troops whose stance is different from yours on the battlefield. Are they? Political opponents who threaten your power, if you think the women of Rome can be called public enemies in any of these three matters, then you can declare it!"

"Speak clearly now, speak clearly quickly!" Now, the ladies focused their firepower on Lepidah, who was sitting on the second seat. Lepidus kept wiping his hands and robe with a silk handkerchief, and kept laughing, "We can discuss it slowly."

then. The second round of "Golden Juice and Jade Liquid" splashed again, and Li Bida hurriedly shouted, "Reduce the number of people! It doesn't count as a tax, it only counts as a donation!"

Octavian was so shocked that he jumped up, but Lepidus sat there with an extremely aggrieved expression, indicating that what he just said was also out of necessity.

"If the chief consul has such a benevolent heart, then I will first donate ten talents to the fundraiser. The other respectable women, if their assets are less than one hundred talents, will be exempted from the fundraiser. Those above one hundred and three hundred times pay three talents, and those above that are the same amount as me and the wives of the chief executives. I don’t know how this can satisfy everyone present, whether it is the men’s side or the wives of the chief executives. Are the women satisfied?" In the end, Caesar's wife Corpunia finalized the plan, Lepidus quickly agreed, and young Caesar reluctantly surrendered.

In this way, the "Legion of Dames" declared a great victory, and each returned triumphantly. As the setting sun shone in the court, the listless Octavian asked the financial slave to continue counting the "fundraising amount" that had been changed in the plan, and finally reached the fundraising level. There are only three to four hundred noble ladies left who can pay the starting line. The total amount of money obtained may not even be fifteen hundred talents. This money has to be divided equally among three people.

Lepidus, who was suppressing a smile, patted the young military officer on the shoulder and said comfortingly, "It doesn't matter. Now the soldiers of each legion can finally cash in the rewards of one thousand to two thousand dinars, and the rest can tell the soldiers that they will wait for a while." After the state’s taxation stabilizes, the remaining three thousand dinars will be cashed in slowly.”

"Indeed, after defeating the armies of Brutus and Cassius, we can also collect taxes from the cities in Greece and Asia Minor, and we can quickly make up for the loopholes and the treasury." Less Caesar's words seemed to be comforting. He seemed to be "not willing to show weakness" to his guardian.

Before Lepidus could continue to speak, there was a commotion outside. Antony ran aggressively from the "decoration site" of Emperor Bergalon, with the centurion guard. He rushed into the court and shouted, "The new plan has been approved. "

After receiving a positive answer, Anthony was confused. He spread his hands to the two people speechlessly and said, "We can kill hundreds of senators and thousands of knights with just a few words. How could we fall into the hands of a woman today?" We still have a shortage of 200 million sesterces, what should we do?" Then he sat down on the seat, and after a while he stood up anxiously, very angry, "Now according to the instructions of the slave of Turinus? The calculated recruitment revenue has only achieved a quarter of what we expected. It’s all that damn Fabilia who is messing with the situation, and her husband Cicero must be behind the scenes - if this continues, our prestige will be lost. But there is nothing left, because tomorrow Cicero will mobilize all the women of Rome to ride on us and dominate us - Hey, little boy Turinus, I think I can incite that noisy one. Old guy, it’s on the list.”

After hearing what Anthony said, Caesar bit his hook pen and sat silently on his seat. Anthony laughed, raised his hand, and said, "I understand, I understand, children who grew up in the academy are not satisfied with the rigid teacher's rules." But you were in awe, after he slapped you on the face and hands, you still had to take off your pants, and in a coquettish tone, you said to the teacher, "Are you going to spank me next time?" When that bastard Luo asked for advice, was this the scene? "

"Please don't make such a critical tone again. I'm just thinking about the crime of conviction." Young Caesar raised his head solemnly. Under his straw-yellow hair, a pair of light green pupils gave off a terrifying light. Fabilia's hearty laughter, her white neck, and her toned body suddenly came to his mind, and then a more terrifying thought came to him. (To be continued...)