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Volume One: The Young Eagle Spreads Its Wings Chapter 458: The Roman Republic

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    The Qin people and the Jews reached a strategic alliance.  On the east coast of the Mediterranean, a new force is rising rapidly. The road from Dongyang City (Damascus) to Jerusalem is under construction. The cheering Jews are extremely excited about Qin¡¯s free assistance. Once the road is opened, from the Bay of Beirut  The unloaded goods can be loaded directly onto horse-drawn carriages and then transported to the East without stopping.  This is a transportation line of wealth.  This is a lifeline that allows the Jewish nation to resurrect from the adversity of existence.  In the face of the real temptation of interests, the Jewish king David, who led the alliance between Qin and Judaism, was pushed to the top of the chorus by nobles, merchants and the poor.  The fact is so strange. Only a month ago, David was almost deprived of the throne by dissident nobles and senators because of his contact with the Qin State.  In mid-October, Qin Army General Li Zhongxiang, Colonel Yang Yu, and Zhou Ping led 6,000 Qin Army troops to Haifa Bay on the east coast of the Mediterranean. Their main task here was to help the Jews train a qualified army. Of course, in return,  , the Jewish merchants also spent a lot of money this time. Not only did they have to pay for the food and lodging supplies of the 6,000 Qin army, but they also had to advance to Qin the cost of supplying the 50,000 army for ten years.     This money.  According to Li Yuan, it was the protection fee paid by the Qin army to protect the Jews from foreign aggression.  Taking advantage of the fact that the Jews were weak, they killed them severely.  Li Yuan did not forget how powerful the Israeli army was in later generations. In the five Middle East wars, he defeated the greater number with less and almost defeated the descendants of Muhammad.  David and other Jewish nobles hesitated for a while.  Finally agreed to this almost unforgettable condition.  Over the years, the Jews had been harmed by Alexander the Great's former generals.  These ferocious subordinates of the emperor not only loved killing, but also frequently fought against each other. Even if the Jews were good at doing business and had the ability to make money, they would not be able to withstand endless demands.  ¡ª¡ª.  Continents and oceans.  Alternately affecting the European continent.  The warm oceanic climate gradually weakened in November and was replaced by the cold current from Siberia in the northeast and the Arctic Ocean.  The dry season has arrived as expected.  Plenty of sunshine throughout the summer.  The fruits of the olive trees on the Apennine Peninsula are accelerated to ripen, and wisps of fragrance waft in the mountains, forests and fields, exuding an alluring aroma.  In the past few months, the century-long war between Rome and Carthage has drawn an exclamation mark that made the Romans proud and the Carthaginians stunned.  Hannibal was defeated.  Nearly 100,000 Carthaginian soldiers were captured.  More than ten important cities on the southern coast of the Mediterranean fell into the hands of the Romans.  Long live the Roman Republic!  Long live General Scipio!  No matter they are Gauls, Germans, Saxons, Macedonians, Thracians, or Egyptians, they are no match for the powerful and invincible Roman heavy armored infantry!  With strong self-confidence.  The Romans began to feel excited, especially the dignitaries in the Senate. After seeing Scipio, who was thirty years younger than themselves, become a hero, they felt a flood of loss and jealousy in their hearts, which made them even more heartbroken.  of imbalance.  "Since Scipio is so powerful, let him become a hero alone. We old guys should enjoy the rest of our beautiful lives." Every morning when I get up, I am surrounded by beautiful slave girls wearing only a little cloth, and then  , as the host.  Just do whatever you want?  Such temptation is for a man.  It is the most deadly poison.  ¡°It¡¯s true that we can¡¯t fight in a war, but who says we can¡¯t fight in a bed¡ª¡ª!¡± One group after another of slaves, many of them beautiful young women, stimulated by the novelty, the old guys are very motivated.  Thinking of the beautiful and juicy young women begging for their pleasure, the old men in the Senate who were sullen and exuding the aura of old age only felt a sense of majesty between their legs.  The estate of the great consul Fabian.  Located on the Arena Hill just outside the city of Rome, on the stacked hills in this area, large manors are dotted one after another. In the fields around the manor, groups of female slaves are naked with their upper bodies exposed, revealing their strong and drooping breasts.  Walking shamelessly across the field ridge.     not far away.  A group of Roman soldiers wearing bronze war helmets, round mirror armor on their chests, and holding short swords were marching quickly. At the front of the group, pure white tall war horses, the most outstanding general in the Roman army,  Scipio, who defeated the Carthaginian commander Hannibal, stared ahead with a serious face.    "Look, that's General Scipio. He's looking at me. Wow, he's so handsome and charming. How great would it be if I could hug him for a whole night -!" "  Is it really General Scipio? I heard that the Senate has decided to hand over the command of the army to this young and handsome hero?¡±  , The supervisor's whip will not be forgiving if you are late." Several female slaves stared at the groups of majestic and powerful figures, with spring in their hearts.  Scipio.  This name was unknown two years ago. At best, it was just one of the many generals in Rome.  And a year ago, when the news of the victory in the Second Punic War came back to the city of Rome, Scipio's reputation immediately skyrocketed several times, not only among the upper-class Senate and nobles in Rome, but even the lowest-level slaves.  Talking about his name.  The slave girl's heart was beating wildly as she was stared at by Scipio, but she didn't know that Scipio, the great Roman hero, was furious at this time. If the arena was nearby, Scipio wouldn't mind spending time with the consul.  Let's have a one-on-one fight.  The hero is always lonely.  The two most famous figures of the Roman Republic in this era.  The young Scipio and the old Fabian reached a brief alliance in the face of the huge threat from Carthage. However, after Hannibal was defeated, the conflict between Scipio and Fabian began to intensify.  stand up.  Differences in philosophy.  This caused serious differences between the two Roman heroes.  Fabian is most famous for his delaying tactics in dealing with Hannibal's army. In terms of governance, Fabian's philosophy was the same as his military performance, which was very conservative.  In contrast, the young Scipio was full of vigor. While the Qin army attacked the Middle East and the east coast of the Mediterranean, the Roman army, under the command of Scipio, not only occupied all the important towns in Carthage except the capital,  And he was also competing with King Philip V of Macedonia in the east for control of the Greek Peninsula.     future.  Rome¡¯s territory will span the entire Mediterranean, turning this vast inland sea of ??the European and African continent into the inner lake of the Roman Republic.  With such an ambitious goal in mind, Scipio tried his best to lobby the senators and nobles in the Senate to increase their investment in the army, but the results were not optimistic.  Defeating the powerful enemy Carthage, Rome had no rivals in Europe and Africa.  The nobles of the Roman Senate, who had relaxed from the danger of annihilation, wanted to have fun, buy more slaves, cultivate more land, and then enjoy the beauty of their own manors comfortably.  Life.  "Rome, it's not time to sit back and relax. A powerful and terrifying enemy is appearing on our eastern border, and that is the Qin people from the far east!" Scipio's shouting at the top of his lungs only allowed him to win.  There were a few scattered applauses. There were really not many people in the Roman Senate who supported this kind of proactive war and forge ahead.  ??The senators who can represent a force are all very old guys with conservative ideas. It is precisely because of this that the Roman Senate has another name: the Nursing Home.  Scipio¡¯s description of Qin¡¯s power made the senators laugh.  People from Qin.  That distant eastern nation.  A country thousands of kilometers away actually wanted to come to the Mediterranean area to compete for hegemony. Did they fly over with wings?  It is undeniable that the silk they produce is indeed a good thing. In the hot and sultry summer, it has a cool and refreshing feeling on the body, even if a woman's delicate skin is not put down, he can't put it down.  Finally, in order to appease Scipio, a rising star in the army, the Senate decided to appoint Scipio as the commander of the Roman Eastern Expedition, and mobilized 50,000 troops from various places to launch an attack on the Macedonian Kingdom of Antigonus and the Thracians.  war.  A Greek peninsula.  Should it be able to satisfy Scipio¡¯s young ambition to achieve success, right?  Fabian and other old guys were thinking about their own little thoughts, but the little kindness they released was simply a humiliation for the ambitious Scipio.  Scipio's "friendly" move to contact Fabian did not bring him much benefit. Although the old and cunning Fabian received this rising star in the army in the manor with a smile,  But he was really not interested in Scipio's proposal to increase military investment, introduce skilled craftsmen, and create new weapons.  The Roman Army.  It¡¯s already powerful enough.  Who can be the enemy of Rome on the European continent? Under such circumstances, Scipio also asked for the expansion of the army. What is this?Do you want to establish a military dictatorship?  Dictatorship and democracy.  The current development of the Roman Republic has gradually entered a bottleneck stage. Rome is still a country with a republican system. Even the consuls must be elected by the Senate. However, the advantage of this method of deliberation by the Senate is that it allows  All parties have the opportunity to express their wishes, but the disadvantage is that no matter what the decision is, the process of making it is extremely painful and long.  For a strong general eager to prove himself on the battlefield, the waiting process was too despairing. The young Scipio complained to his colleagues more than once. If one day he took control of the actual power of the army, what would happen to the Senate?  He wouldn't obey what these old guys said.  Scipio may just be talking and complaining, but the speaker has no intention, and the listener has intention. When his remarks reach Fabian, Scipio becomes the consul of Rome. He wants to replace Fabian and become the new ruler of Rome.  leader.
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