"My lord! Wake up! Something is wrong!! Adult ......"

Camillus was pushed awake by the adjutant, and his heart suddenly tightened: "What's wrong?!" ”

"There was a riot in the camp! Some soldiers attacked the guards of the camp and occupied the camp gate......"

"What?!! ……”

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Davers let some Roman civilians out of the city, purely out of the psychology of "having dates and not dates, and making trouble for Camillus's Roman army", he did not have much expectations, because he stood on the head of the city and carefully observed the camp built by the Roman army, and it seemed that its defense was quite good, and Camillus still cruelly refused to accept his family......

While lamenting that the Roman dictator deserved to be called the "Father of Rome" in his previous life, Davers did not think that this hard-hearted and cool-headed Roman dictator would let these people enter the camp and disturb the morale of the army.

However, various coincidences made the outcome of this event much more than Davers expected.

When he was woken up in his sleep by Martius and learned that there was chaos in the Roman camp, he could not believe that it was the result of the group of old men who had been released in the afternoon, until Amintas, the commander of the First Legion, who was in charge of the defense of the northeastern wall, sent soldiers to select a few Roman soldiers and civilians who had fled into the city through the east gate and brought them to the Senate.

"Is this really true? Or is it Camillus's trick to lure the enemy? Davers looked out the window at the dark night, not sure.

While he ordered the legions to assemble their troops, he ordered the intelligence services to immediately re-interrogate the soldiers and civilians who had entered the city.

Eventually, when he made up his mind to act, the commotion in the Roman camp was quieter than at first, but he nevertheless sent the Second and Fifth Legions out of the south gate to try to attack the Roman camp, and sent the First Legion out of the east gate to meet the fleeing Roman civilian soldiers and civilians, and to repel the pursuers.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, on this night, Camillus and the generals were so focused on stabilizing the army and quelling the unrest in the camp that they had no strength left to resist the Dionian attack, let alone send more troops to fight back against the Dionian army.

Davers had not prepared well in advance, it was an adventure to attack the Roman camp in the dark, and he was worried that the Roman civilian soldiers who fled into Rome would be unstable and cause chaos, so the night battle did not last long before it ended.

But for the leadership on both sides, there are a number of thorny issues that need to be addressed urgently.

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A dozen candles lit the Roman Senate, and Davers paced back and forth in the center of the room, bowing his head in thought, accompanied by Henipolis and Crotocatacs.

At this moment, the Roman administrator Asistes strode into the venue.

"What about the Romans who fled into the city?" Davers saw him and immediately asked.

Assistes immediately said: "Your Majesty, the results of our urgent count, a total of 1,275 Roman soldiers and 213 Roman citizens have fled into the city, and the adjutant of administration, Tonix, has organized 100 Romans who have applied for Dionian citizenship to screen them, and found out two nobles, seven nobles, and the rest of the Romans have been identified as commoners, and now they are all temporarily controlled in the barracks of the First Legion, waiting for your next instructions, Your Majesty." ”

Davers was pleased that the newly established town hall could be so productive, and he asked in a soothing tone, "What do you think should be done with them?" ”

"When I came, I had the Registrar Porotax preach to them the special laws that Your Majesty had made for the common people of Rome, and persuaded them to apply for Ionian citizenship at once, and that any Roman soldier who had applied for Dionian citizenship could be given land and housing at once, and then let them go home. And for those Roman soldiers who did not yet want to join our kingdom, they were temporarily allowed to serve as miscellaneous servants in the barracks for a period of time on the grounds of 'shortage of manpower', so that they could be kept under their care......" said Asistes, apparently planning for this.

"Yasi, you're very thoughtful!" Davers first praised it, and then said confidently: "These Roman soldiers ventured out of the camp late at night and returned to Rome City, it can be seen that most of them are willing to become Ionian citizens, even if a few have not figured it out for the time being, there is no need to be too cautious, just let them all go home, and let the patrol team pay more attention to it, even if some people have other thoughts, they can't make any waves in the current Roman City!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Assistes responded immediately.

Davers looked at him and suddenly smiled, "I see, are you going to send them all home?" ”

"Nothing can be hidden from your eyes, Your Majesty." Assistes replied respectfully.

"You, you!" Davers tapped him with his hand, he wanted to criticize a few words, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed again, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said solemnly: "I appointed you as the administrator of Rome because I believe that only you can turn the city of Rome into our city of Dionia, so you can govern with confidence, boldly give orders, implement your governance of the city, and don't take care of me!" ”

"Yes......!" Again, the answer was the same, but this time Assistes' tone was a little agitated, he took a deep breath, and then said seriously: "Your Majesty, there is a Roman soldier who has strongly requested to see you, and he says that he has an important matter to report to you...... And this man was the only Roman squadron leader among all the Romans who fled into the city. According to others, this time the Roman civilian soldiers were able to escape from the camp, mainly because he planned and led it. ”

"Oh?!" Davers asked with interest, "What's his name?" ”

"Lucius. Sextus, I've brought him here, and he's waiting outside the door. ”

"Then let him in." Davers said with interest.

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As a Roman citizen, it was the first time that Sextus had entered the Roman Senate, and of course he had heard countless stories about the layout of the Senate and the many stories that had taken place in the meeting hall since he was a child, and he had imagined that one day he would sit in this sacred place in a white robe with red trim, discussing the future of Rome.

However, at this time, it was not the Roman soldiers with red helmets and red armor who guarded the passage in and out of the venue, but the Dionian guards with black helmets and black armor. The circular hall, which should have been a heated quarrel, was now empty, but there was a long table and a number of wooden chairs in the center of the hall where there should have been enough space for the elders to speak. Under the light of candlelight, three people sat in the center of the venue.

It seems that the Dioonians transformed the holy Roman Senate into a place of ordinary deliberations! Sextus felt that he should have felt angry, but instead of having the power of anger in his heart, he felt a little uncomfortable with an indescribable taste.

Led by the palace guard Martius, he walked to the center of the venue, and the middle-aged man who had been watching him said kindly, "Please be seated, Sextus." ”

Sextus sat down unceremoniously and asked bluntly in Greek, "You are the king of Dionia?" ”

"I am." Davers smiled slightly.

"We, the Romans, a hundred years ago, because of the cruelty of the king, finally abolished the royal government and adopted a republican form of government, and made all citizens swear that no one would ever be king. As far as I know, many of your Greek city-states have also been converted from kingship to democracy, but Dionya is a kingship, do you think we Romans will accept the rule of a king? ”

Davers smiled faintly again and said, "If you Roman commoners are satisfied with the Roman system, why do you have to fight against the nobles so often, and even refuse to vote for consuls in the citizens' assembly?" ”

Sextus apparently had thought about this, and he quickly replied: "There is something wrong with the Roman republic, but it is also better than the former monarchy." ”

"In my opinion, whether a city-state is good or not depends not on what kind of government it is, but on how many citizens it can benefit!" Davers said in an emphatic tone: "The Roman system made the Roman populace, who made up about half of the population, strongly dissatisfied and constantly fought against it; Although the Kingdom of Dionya implements royal government, every citizen in the kingdom owns land and can use the public land of the kingdom fairly, every citizen can pay off his debts smoothly, every citizen has the opportunity to serve as an important minister and patriarch of the kingdom, and every citizen must abide by the law, whether it is a commoner or a nobleman, as long as he violates the law, he will be punished......

Even as a king, I have to obey the laws of the kingdom made by the Senate, so I will not see a citizen's wife beautiful and brazenly take it for myself (the last king of Rome was expelled because the citizen's wife was humiliated by the royal family), because it would be punished by law, the most severe of which is the death penalty; I will not see a citizen who is rich and forcibly plunder his property, then I am guilty of theft; It is even less likely that I will order someone's arrest or even death, because the judges will refuse to carry it out and the Senate will protest......"

Hearing this, Sextus said in disbelief: "You said that the royal government of Dionya is too good, is it really carried out like this?" ”()

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