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"Since you are going to collect taxes twice a year, you must find a way to ensure that we have two summers and two harvest seasons a year." - Marco. Antony levied heavy taxes in the East, the prefect of a vassal city argued

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By the seventh day, one hundred and eighty senators and nearly one thousand two hundred knights had been killed under the public enemy's announcement and beheading order, and the efficiency of the entire massacre had been multiplied by the participation of the legions.

Centurions and soldiers were densely packed in the city, and in the forests, fields, roads, and swamps outside the city, there were sentry posts and patrolling cavalry everywhere, and ninety percent of the fugitives were searched in various places and killed one by one, and one of the senators even hid in a dung pit, but was poked to death by the Gallic cavalry with a spear, and his stinking head was sent to the square without even wiping the dirt on it, and it was not only the relatives of the murderer, nor only the people who Pompey left in the city of Rome and related to his life, Even the excluded and marginalized people within Caesar's party, as long as they are hated by these few, especially young Caesar for money, Anthony for personal grudges, these people will be killed.

For example, the lawyer Corola, only when the Senate had previously issued a public enemy declaration against Brutus and Cassiyo. Abstained from voting. was targeted by the young Caesar. In order to avoid the calamity, he put on coarse cloth clothes, ran to the Ewendini Hill, stayed at the corner of the street and squatted, and when he saw a funeral procession descending the mountain, he mixed in and pretended to be the coffin bearer, because unlike the rich who had a garden-like cemetery in the city, the poor people on the Evindini Hill had to be buried in mass graves outside the city. This gave Colora a chance to get out of town. As a result, they were searched by the soldiers of the Ninth Legion at the city gate, and unfortunately, when the soldiers saw the funeral procession, they immediately shouted:

"The normal coffin bearer should be nine, one of them serves as a maid, and eight are responsible for carrying the coffin, how can there be ten of you?"

The other coffin bearers panicked and tried to push Colora out, for this was not their funeral party at all. But fortunately, the centurion who took the lead was particularly "witty". He reprimanded the soldiers, saying that they should not pay attention to the number of coffin bearers, but to inspect the inside of the coffin, which many public enemies now play.

So the soldier lifted the lid, and sure enough, a person came out of it, screaming and rolling to the ground, although it was only for a moment, but Corora also recognized him as the former consul Valentius, and also the identity of the public enemy, it seemed that he was going to hide in the coffin, and mixed out of the city like himself, it was really "quite fate", but the centurion stepped forward with a sword, and stabbed Valentius to death from behind, and the soldiers cheered, as if watching the killing of a livestock, and the whole checkpoint was in a happy chaos— Everyone was identifying the deceased, and then they ran to receive the reward—Colora was actually a blessing in disguise and managed to get out, and then he ran to Spain to avoid the disaster, and successfully attached himself to Li Bida, and then continued to live as a judicial officer and an inspector, enjoying a long life and glory.

Colora was just one example, and soon the disposition of the public enemy changed, and Panza was soon sidelined, and he was unwilling to participate in such a thing, and his spirit almost collapsed, and he retreated to his own home to recuperate. Slowly, the hidden contradictions between Anthony and Young Caesar became apparent - they began to "pry into the corner" of each other, Anthony sent a firing squad to kill Young Caesar's friends, and wanted to list his stepfather Phillips as a public enemy; And the young Caesar did not show weakness, and killed more than a dozen knights who were sheltered by Antony one after another, depriving them of their property.

The "war situation" between the two intensified, not only in the square, but also in the square, and soon Anthony targeted Caesar's confidant Rufus, who was originally the treasurer of Sicily, who accompanied Curio in the fight against Africa, and after Curio's fall, he fled back to Italy. Now, Rufus is on the side of Caesar Octavian the Younger, and Antony's think tank Curio wants to kill him because of his past grudge against him in the war, so Anthony is ready to kill Rufus.

More importantly, Anthony's wife, Fortune, took a fancy to the Rufus family's mansion and tried to take it for herself, so the couple instructed Caesar's other confidant, Calidius, to fabricate "evidence" of slander and put Rufus on the death list, and the next day Rufus's head was sent to Anthony, but he was not interested at all, just said lightly, "This is the result that my wife Richvia wants, give her the head to be examined." ”

After checking in the atrium, Fulivia ordered Rufus's head to be hung on his porch, and the next day Caesar brought a "gift" to his mistress: the head of Calydius, and Caesar the young asked Fulivia to hang it up.

Anthony was so angry that he immediately rushed to the square with his guards to fight with Young Caesar, but was dissuaded by Li Bida, "That's good, let's divide the boundaries, so that everyone is in charge of a city, do not interfere with each other, and independently carry out the work of declaring and eliminating public enemies, if so, there will be much fewer contradictions." ”

The peacemaker's plan was eventually accepted, so Lypita was given the port of Ostia River and Mount Evindini, the young Caesar Octavian was given the district of Subra and Jucoura Street, and Antony was given the school field of Mars.

The following killings were even more terrifying, the butcher's knives were not only aimed at the senators and knights, but even the wealthy freemen, merchants, cooks, and even the nobles, especially the nobles who often went in and out of the aristocratic courtyards in the old days, and they themselves liked to talk nonsense, show off and shallow "wisdom", and there were especially many of them, a banquet master from Greece named Billedlas, who had always liked to ridicule the occasions he operated, and once many years ago, he made a joke about Caesar's baldness, The result is now uncovered by his portal slaves, who were chased to his home by Octavian's firing squad and killed.

On the contrary, it was Li Bida and Leo, in the neighborhood where the father and son's team was stationed, sheltered and sheltered many fleeing senators, of course, they were also restrained, because Li Bida was afraid that Antony and Caesar the young would use this as a reason to attack him, so he handed over the screening of this kind of matter to Printhia and Helcius, so every day from morning to night, countless people crowded in the villa where these two were located, preferring to go bankrupt and save their lives.

Today, the Roman Civic Forum is rarely inhabited, except for the soldiers who guarded it, and the inside is like the resurrected Suramalius civil war years, full of fierce scenes of human heads, crows, vultures, and wild dogs, flocks of crows, vultures, and wild dogs, who came to eat—the number of deaths skyrocketed, and finally 400 senators, 2,200 knights, and tens of thousands of freemen, doormen, and slaves died tragically.

But Caesar and Anthony felt that it was not enough, and they thought that if they wanted to maintain the old and new legions they had recruited, they still lacked about 200 million Cesstrius in property and did not plunder. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)