"What the hell is this woman thinking?" Luga pondered alone in the house. He left with Gala. After Platicia's death, Aetius took advantage of the situation to empty Augustus Valentinian III, which was all expected by Luga, but Lichinia sent her wedding crown as a token at this time, what does this mean?

Luga was surprised, and couldn't help but think of what Likinia looked like when she got married. "What a damn woman, why do you always distract yourself at the most critical moments?" Luga thought and couldn't help muttering: "Maybe she is an ambitious woman, this is not surprising, after all, she is the daughter of Augustus in Eastern Rome, how can the noble blood and innate pride of the royal family make her tolerate herself or say that her husband is subservient?" Probably she's also a smart woman in Gala. Plasettia had a premonition of the consequences and the danger before she died, so she came to Luga despite the danger, and talked about replacing Valentinian, her husband. But she pressed the wrong treasure, how could I, how could I turn my back casually, she was an impatient, eager woman, she only saw the little benefit in front of her, only a glimmer of light between her fingers, but she couldn't see the darkness behind the matter, the heavy, the darkness that was so heavy that it took people's lives. ”

At this, Luga suddenly shook as if he had been electrocuted, and he slapped his head sharply, and said self-deprecatingly, "Oh, look, what am I talking about?" ”

"Luga, Luga!"

Then Berialiu's call sounded outside the door, and he pushed it open from the outside, hurried in and said to Luga: "We have found the pirates!" ”

This was the most important thing, and Luga jumped up from his seat and hurriedly said to Berialius: "Quick, where are they?" ”

Berialius did not speak, but first took a glass of wine on the table, drank it up, quenched his thirst, and then said unhurriedly: "These pirates are very vigilant, they are afraid of our deception, so they ask us to negotiate with them at sea. ”

"That's not a problem, Berialiu." Hearing the conditions, Lu Jia nodded again and again: "Then how much money do they need?" ”

"Three thousand Souleds!" Berialius continued: "What they mean is that we are also responsible for their comrades who died in battle, fifty suledes per man. Twenty of them died, so a thousand, and we had a hundred for each person, a total of twenty. ”

"That's a lot of money!" Luga shook his head, but he agreed, and explained, "Nothing is more important than the lives of your own soldiers!" ”

Without further ado, Luga hurriedly packed up his gear and boarded the ship, accompanied by Andrew and Berialieu.

This time the pirates were very careful, and they only allowed five Roman ships to appear in their field of vision. In order to be prepared, Luga and his family had to go to the place they had designated, which was the coast of Corsica, which was sparsely populated and a place where they could escape at any time.

After four days of traveling, Luga and his wife finally arrived on the island of Corsica, where several pirate ships could be seen in the distance, and the messengers sent by the pirates stood on the shore, and they specially lit a fire to attract Luga's attention.

Berialius commanded the warship to approach slowly, because the water near the shore was shallow, and the warship could not get close, but could only stop at a distance of fifty meters from the sea.

Lowering the boat, Luga led Andrew and a dozen close guards to the shore in a small boat to meet the pirates' representatives.

They were led by a tall, bearded man with a fleshy face, who looked at Luga with a fierce look on his face, but that didn't frighten him. On the fire not far behind him, the captured soldiers knelt in a row, their clothes ragged and their faces bruised, and they seemed to have suffered a lot.

"I brought the money you wanted, and I'm going to take the people with me now!" Luga pointed to the box behind the big man that was carried by the four soldiers, and then he turned around and nodded, and the soldiers understood, and carried the box up, and in front of the big man's eyes, opened the box, and let the big man see a box full of gold Souledes.

"It's a big deal." Luga continued, "It allows me to feed the strength of a field regiment, and this right is given to you as a greeting gift." ”

The big man didn't say anything, just passed by Luga, walked to the box, picked up a gold coin and put it in his mouth and bit it, after feeling that it was true, he returned to Lujia and nodded at the entourage behind him, and four of the entourage stepped forward to carry the box behind Luga.

The big man nodded again, and the pirate who guarded the captives untied the rope and let the captives go.

"Quick, boys, get on board!" Luga beckoned to them, and the newly released captives understood, and hurried to sit on the boat.

The pirate was about to turn away when Lugar stopped him coldly from behind him.

The big man turned around and looked at Luga with a puzzled expression, not knowing what the Romans had come up with after such a deal.

"This!"

As she spoke, Luga pulled out a delicately framed piece of parchment, on which much was neatly written.

Luga took the parchment and said to the pirate, "This is our directive to hire you and your men to be members of our privateer fleet. ”

"What do you mean?" The pirate was curious, but Luga spoke in too general terms for him to understand.

"That is to say, you have become legal mercenaries with us, of course, we allow you to plunder the Vandal's merchant ships, even if you are chased by the Vandals' fleet, and attack, as long as our warships see it, they are obliged to relieve you of the siege, of course, we will divide the wealth you plunder equally, as long as you get enough, we can even make you and your subordinates legal Roman citizens, or even higher, such as knights, or even officers! At that time, you will have a regular salary, and you will have status, and there is no need to hide here like a rat crossing the street. How about it, are you willing to cooperate with us, we only need half of what you plundered, and you can use the remaining half at your disposal, you can stop in places like Great Sicily, go to a tavern to drink, or go to a brothel to play with women, these are all legal, as long as you have this! Luga pointed to the instrument again, and repeated, "This will be what we will do to you equally, and as long as you have this, I promise that the Roman garrison on the shore will not do anything to you." ”

"It's a good deal indeed." After a moment's thought, the pirate hesitated, but reached out and took the parchment.

"Tell us about yourself!" Luga said, holding out his hand, "Flavis. Captain of the army of Luga, Greater Sicily and Corsica, as well as Iberia and Numidia. ”

"Uh, Octavio, the pirate boss, yes, boss!" Octavio hesitated for a moment, but reached out to shake Luga's hand, but until now he didn't believe that such a good thing would happen.

"Nice to meet you, Octavio!" Luga had already spoken his name fluently, and continued to him with a smile: "Then next, our cooperation is officially reached!" ”