Pansa and Hejus hurried to the Juilliard synagogue, where they met the priest and asked if they could call a meeting now. The priest said with a look of embarrassment that it was a good day for competition rather than voting, and then Panza ignored it, snatched the ladder from the priest's room, climbed up to the monument of the sundial calendar, and replaced the movable type block of the date with "suitable for assembly".

"Inform all the senators that in the name of the union of the two consuls of the year this year, an emergency meeting is called! It must be gathered within the second hour after nightfall, and must not be absent, otherwise it will be punished as a sin. Hejus said.

In terror, several slaves ran out of the Begalon manor and into the streets, and then rushed all the way up Palatine Hill to report the news.

The porcelain in Claudia's hand, which had been given by Li Pida, fell to the ground and shattered, and she then shouted, "Marco. Anthony is finished! ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Fulivia came out of the inner hall with a tone of extreme complaint, and several slave girls held up their underwear behind her, and followed suit.

"You young woman don't understand anything, but I know a lot, when Antony left the city of Rome, the Senate met so urgently for only one reason, and that was that things had changed drastically." Claudia then nervously came and went, "Maybe we're really going to be expelled, no, even imprisoned and confiscated property." ”

Fulivia was clothed, and she was a little lost, and she vaguely felt that what Claudia said might be the worst-case scenario, and then she sat down on the bench in despair. Keep talking about what to do.

At this time. Gaius broke straight in. With an ominous face, he shouted to his sister-in-law, "The young Caesar supported by Li Bida has counterattacked, and he must prepare to declare his brother as a public enemy in the Senate. What now? ”

"Escape?" Claudia said.

"No, how can you escape, like a shameful deserter on the battlefield?" Fulivia said, and then she lifted her beautiful face and said, "We're standing at the corner of the street." Wearing mourning clothes and begging everyone, you must know that many elders still support Marco, and many people rely on Marco to pay off their debts. Also, Gaius, as a man of the family, you must not do such a disgraceful thing, but call your mother to come with us, and flee from the city of Rome to the south. No matter what means are used, Li Bida's two legions are persuaded to come over. Only with this armament in our hands, the city of Rome will never dare to treat us and Antony. ”

On the way to the Juilliard and the square, the servants behind were blaring torches, and Frivia, Claudia, and Anthony's mother, and all the women and children of the family, were kneeling on the side of the road in mourning clothes, and every patriarch passed by, and they all prostrated forward, pulling the corners of each other's robes, and weeping loudly, like dead husbands and fathers, begging that at the meeting on horseback, you should uphold the righteousness of your hearts, and do not push Anthony into the abyss of innocent sin.

But there were very few people who were willing to deal with them, and many of those who had previously received Antony's favor either took a detour in shame or ignored them, and only Igiulus and Pisso stopped in front of the women such as Fulivia to listen to their appeals.

Igiulus, Caesar's secretary and a long-time friend of Antony, promised Fulivia that he would do everything he could.

And Pisso, Caesar's father-in-law and the most respected old man in Rome, also said that he would do his best.

Soon after, it was Cicero.

Now Fulivia didn't ask for anything, she screamed directly, pounced, as if she was going to kill Cicero, grabbed and bitten, Claudia also rushed up, making Cicero's wolf bèi unbearable, and she could only get out under the protection of her subordinates, but she was still there shouting, "Anthony is finished today!" ”

"One day, I will kill you, so that your tongue will no longer be able to turn up the waves that harm people, you poisonous snake!" Fulivia scolded herself.

After the appointed time, when the number of people in the synagogue had reached the required number of votes, Cicero rose out and spoke first, "I am here to say only one thing, and that is that Lybidaeus has accepted the pardon decree of the Senate and declared him to be a servant of the Republic again!" ”

All the senators exclaimed, and then they asked Cicero for evidence, and Cicero said, "This is the evidence that young Caesar, and the new tribune has assured everyone, that he is now standing outside the Temple of the Concord, and that he may summon this young man in." ”

Soon, under the guidance of his servants, Octavian, dressed in plain robes, walked in, and after he had finished giving the service, he said to everyone, "Lybidaeus is my ally, my guardian, and the overseer of Caesar's estate, and he was declared by the public enemy to be a conspiracy between Antony and a handful of people in the Senate, and now that this conspiracy has been discovered, he is willing to make a good peace with the Republic." ”

"And what about his army?"

"Li Bida said that these armies were not his private, but Caesar's, and that of the republic, and that as soon as the dispute was resolved, he would immediately follow the instructions of the Senate and disband all the armed men." Octavian said, "Or, leave it to me." ”

Hearing this, the patriarchs breathed a sigh of relief.

Things were moving in the direction that Cicero had predetermined, and Cicero spoke again, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have made it clear that the real enemy is not doing anything dangerous to the Republic of Hài, he is only organizing an armed force in the province of Naiba to protect himself. Antony, on the other hand, was bent on seizing southern Gaul, that is, by killing the duly appointed Dehemoth, and then using violence to control the entire country. The Manor of the Emperor of Begalon, where he had been entrenched before, had just been raided, it was armed, armed, and had a large amount of money, and the manor had become a bulwark for this tyrant, with iron bars, walls, and passwords, and what he had done had shown the evil side to the extreme, and he was the number one dangerous enemy of the Republic. Therefore, I advocated an immediate edict declaring Antony an enemy of the public, confiscating all his assets, arresting all his kinsmen and cronies in the city, declaring the confiscation of his legions and command, and commending Dehemos for his adherence to southern Gaul. ”

As soon as Cicero said this, there was an uproar, some for it, and some for it, and some against, among which Pisso stood up and said, "I am not in favor of rashly sentencing Antony's public enemy, but he should be extradited back, and it is better to decide after a fair trial." ”

"In that case, it happened to fall into his arms, and everyone knew that his brother was the chief legal officer." Cicero retorted.

As a result, at this time, the attendant shouted, "Antony's brother Gaius has fled!" (To be continued......)