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Text Chapter 1068 All the way to the west (twenty-five)

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    Although the walls of Rome were tall and strong, they were extremely curved and irregular in shape.  At the intersection of the long city walls, strange shapes appear.  The whole city is old and new, with weird shapes.  This is because the city of Rome has been constantly expanding.  The old city was far away wrapped up by the brand new city wall. In many cases, because of the need to expand again, or because of the investment of funds, the city wall was always built and built, leaving the current crooked image.  Riding on the horse, we stepped onto the solid, flat, wide and straight Via Abian and headed all the way to the end of the avenue in the southeast of the city of Rome.  As Gao Yang¡¯s plenipotentiary envoy, Guo Jia finally entered this famous ¡®world capital¡¯ in the history of modern time and space.  ¡¯ Guo Jia went to Rome this time at the invitation of the Romans to negotiate the surrender of the Roman Empire.  According to the Romans, it was a peace negotiation between the two sides, but in Guo Jia's understanding, the enemy wanted to surrender.  Originally, the Romans took the initiative to invite Gao Yang, but as the coach, it was impossible for Gao Yang to enter the city before the army captured the city.  Even Gao Yang had no intention of talking to the Romans.  It was completely Guo Jia's own initiative and insistence on going.  For Guo Jia, what else can make him more famous in history than being able to surrender an entire huge empire with just one mouth?  It's like these people don't care about anything in order to be famous forever, to leave a reputation that will last forever.  Even if Gao Yang bluntly said that it was very dangerous to negotiate, he could not stop Guo Jia's burning determination.  Under the leadership of the Roman city guards holding scepters and wearing armor, Guo Jia, with high confidence, entered the city of Rome, the core of the Western world, with his head held high.  Guo Jia walked in as a winner.  Both sides of the avenues in the city of Rome are densely packed with buildings of various colors, which are extremely chaotic, without rules and regulations, and very crowded.  Except for the places where buildings are prohibited in the city.  Every corner of the city of Rome is completely filled with various buildings.  Almost every building has a single-sided arcade extending out from the second floor to compete for space and sunlight.  The streets were equally chaotic, filled with pedestrians and mule carts.  It is no exaggeration to say that they are rubbing shoulders one after another.  In the city of Rome, Guo Jia looked at the various signs hanging on the walls and tree trunks with great interest.  There are taverns and building cleaners.  There are hotels, apartments, livestock pens, and gambling houses.  The content is even more diverse.  There are not only texts but also various pictures.  Guo Jia walked along the road and when he passed a hill, he saw a section of land entirely made up of mass graves.  The hillside is covered with dense tombs and tombstones.  When Guo Jia, his entourage, and the Romans who escorted them passed here, they also saw a huge pit that had been recently dug next to the hill.  On the avenue, several masked men pulled a large cart filled with corpses.  With a whirring sound, all the corpses were dumped into the big pit.  These Roman citizens who died in the recent large-scale civil strife will be accompanied by the rotten bones in the pit.  Until they become one.  The breeze came slowly, bringing with it a stench that hit your brain.  Guo Jia frowned and looked at the nameplate "Paladin Mountain" standing next to the avenue. Ever since the Western Expedition army entered the Parthian Empire, Guo Jia had clearly learned that Gao Yang's ultimate goal was the far west.  The Qin Empire.  From that time on, Guo Jia, who was extremely enterprising, began to learn all kinds of knowledge about the Qin people through the captured high-level slaves, understand their various situations, and became familiar with them one by one.  Among them, words and language are the most important.  While other generals were having fun and enjoying themselves during their breaks, Guo Jia spent his time learning new knowledge.  This is also one of the necessary conditions for him to take the initiative to persuade him to surrender.  The city of Rome is really too big.  After hundreds of thousands of years of continuous construction, this magnificent city has become larger and larger with the continuous expansion of the entire empire.  The chaotic situation of the city's buildings is also caused by continuous expansion over a long period of time without any reasonable planning.  As Guo Jia walked along, he saw the beautiful courtyards vaguely standing on the hills here and there.  That must have been where the powerful people in Rome lived.  Of course, there are more and bigger slums at the foot of the mountain.  As for the best places in the entire city of Rome, all kinds of temples were built.  In the city of Rome, the temple was not only a place to worship the gods, it was also a bank for the Romans.  Of course, there are other functions as well, but I won¡¯t go into details here if they are not the subject.  After passing through the old city wall at the foot of Mount Avendine, Guo Jia finally walked into the Roman Forum at the foot of Mount Capito.  This is an area governed by administrative agencies.?An area consisting of temples and open squares.  This is the core area of ??political activities in the city of Rome and the Roman Empire.  It is also the end point of Guo Jia¡¯s trip.  Here, countless Roman citizens looked at these people from distant foreign races with complicated eyes.  They know what's going on now.  The pride and glory of the past made it difficult for them to choose to bow their heads: "There are so many people here." When Guo Jia stepped into the Grand Square in Rome with his head held high and full of confidence.  Amidst the blue sky and white clouds thousands of meters above his head.  A large shuttle with the filtered visual stealth system turned on was hovering there steadily.  Looking at the densely packed crowd on the surveillance screen, Yuan Zuo sighed with emotion.  "This is the center of political activities for the Romans. If there are no people, what activities are there?" Gao Yang sat sideways on the large leather sofa with his legs crossed.  He shook the glass of amber whiskey in his hand casually.  He looked lazily at the holographic projection that occupied almost the entire wall, and said with a smile, "Those are real citizens of the Roman Empire, and they have the right to vote. The daily life of these people is to go to various activities."  They sold their votes. When they got money, they went everywhere to get relief bread. They were the purest Romans, but they were also the real reason for the decline and fall of Rome.  "It's understandable to sell votes, but can surrender also be voted on?" Yuan Dian asked curiously.  Gao Yang shook his head slightly.  After taking a sip of whiskey, he smiled and said, "You know how to vote. These Romans never thought about surrendering. Hannibal beat them so badly that almost all the standing army of Rome died in the battle.  "They didn't even think about surrendering." "Then why did they invite you to negotiate?" Yuan Dian asked with a tone full of disbelief. "Are they going to have a barbecue with you on the Tiber River?"  You won't accept any other conditions, right? After all, you have the absolute advantage now." "Hehe." Gao Yang laughed, shook his head slightly, and said with a smile, "The Romans will never surrender.  Yes. They probably want to spend money to redeem them, or to cede some provinces and colonies in exchange for a temporary truce and a chance to recuperate and regroup. " "Then you still want Guo Jia to negotiate?" Yuan Dian asked in confusion.  "Not only is the trip in vain, but it is also very likely to be dangerous. After all, the city of Rome is very chaotic now, and they are just settling down on the surface under the coercion of your army. It is not unusual for Guo Jia to encounter anything." "Others invite you.  You have to give me a response." Gao Yang gently turned the transparent wine glass in his hand, staring at the amber wine swirling back and forth in the glass.  He said calmly, "This can be regarded as a kind of sentiment between civilizations where you come and go. As soon as it comes up, tear off your clothes and bare your arms to get hard. That is what the barbarians do. The Chinese nation will rule here in the future.  It¡¯s better to leave an impression of civilization than to be treated as barbarians.¡± ¡°Barbarians?¡± Yuan Dian laughed out loud. ¡°You are the most advanced and advanced civilization in this era. If you are barbarians, then who are these people?¡±  Neanderthals?" "Okay." Gao Yang curled his lips and chuckled. "Let's not talk about it anymore. What kind of medicine do these Romans want to sell?"  Dressed in a gorgeous silk robe, with a tasseled laurel leaf crown on his head, and his hair and eyebrows all white, the senator walked onto the large platform tremblingly.  After looking around at everyone around him with turbid eyes, he coughed and began his long speech.  Severus, dressed in imperial regalia, sat at the head of the table together with Arnubis, the co-consul in a purple robe.  However, the two of them neither spoke nor looked at each other.  It's as if the person next to you doesn't exist.  Behind the two of them are their respective confidants, generals, and important figures in Rome, who are all following their masters.  The senators in the Senate were also divided into two groups and sat separately.  Arnubis was in an extremely bad mood. He had no interest in listening to the long and boring opening speech, which was full of showing off the glorious achievements of the Roman Empire in the past.  At this moment, all his energy was focused on Guo Jia, who was listening intently to the opening speech.  Isn't it a very shameless thing to show off one's past glory in front of an enemy so powerful that they are already at the gates of the city?  The more you say it, the more embarrassing it becomes.  Regarding the release of Severus, Arnubis also made a choice without any other options.  The despairingly powerful alien armies have already reached the gates of Rome.  But the Romans in the city were still killing each other, and they were evenly matched with no winner.  In this case, whether it was Severus who was filled with anger because of the betrayal or Arnoud who was unwilling to fall short.Castro could only forcefully suppress the anger in his heart and let the Romans, who were still waving daggers at each other just now, stand together again and cooperate to resist the alien army outside the city.  But, how can this kind of thing be so simple?  (To be continued.) 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