In the commander's tent, after handing over their sabers, the messengers came to Li Bida, all of them had beautiful beards, but their eyes were sharp, as if they wanted to see Li Bida through.

"Is Barka still in the hands of the city-state?" Unexpectedly, Li Bida was the first one, this is such a problem, he is very concerned about the months that his army has stayed in the southern kingdom of Libya, and whether the more than 1,000 mercenaries of the city-state have held on to the city of Barka and whether they have survived.

At this time, one of the messengers, a thin man dressed in black robes, with a beautiful beard carefully trimmed to his ears, replied to Lybida in a very fluent and calm Latin dialect: "The city of Barca has been captured by us. The hundreds of mercenaries who remained inside have all surrendered, and we have forgiven them all and released them all on their way to the Toston Valley, where I hope your army will take them in, so that they will not starve to death in the endless southern desert. ”

"That's what you mean? Do you think that Cyrene, the land of five cities, belongs to you Hashidi? There was a hint of sarcasm in his words, but he wondered if the arrogant Jews in front of him could understand that now that I had 20,000 soldiers at hand, and that I had the name of the Egyptian Ptolemaic and the Republic's double conquest, you must know that if I tried in vain to stop me, I would suffer the same fate as the Garamanthees.

The Jewish emissary, with the most beautiful beard, rolled his gray eyes twice, and then explained, "No, we Hashidi naturally do not want to be enemies of the Republic or the Ptolemaic royal family. In fact, our revolt was directed against the endless greedy accumulation of the Cyrene city-state, the Hash-like Jewish believers living in this kingdom. It's not the same as in other regions. Most of them are engaged in animal husbandry and township-style trade unions. As you can see, they are the people of the bottom, who toiled for a year and brought their cattle to pay taxes, but the bureaucrats in the city-state, who wore high hats, used drachmas or dinars as a yardstick to measure our taxes, and kept the prices of our produce to a shockingly low price. The tax of fifty dinars a year for each household, and the tribute to be paid to Rome, was to be apportioned to the first five dinars of each person, and a chicken was converted into three as, and a cow was converted into one sestris. If the tax burden cannot be solved this year, it will be extended until next year, and perhaps your Excellency the Commander will laugh at it, in the city of Cyrene we Hashhitis are victims of usury, and most of the lenders are Cretan and Greek merchants. So our children couldn't survive, and I was an ordinary teacher in the scholastic. Now for the sake of the children, I must destroy this unrighteous city-state. ”

Li Bida was speechless when he said this, the people who revolted in order to resist tyranny were originally inherently righteous, so he groaned and whispered, "I have heard that there are dignitaries in Rome who are behind your rebellion, and I think that if you can name it, then I will consider a peaceful solution to the problem of the Hashhitis." ”

Naturally, Li Bida's words definitely refer to something, that is, Pompey's most trusted servant Demetrius, he was born in Galilee in the "four places" (Edom, Judea, Samaria and Galilee) in northern Judea, according to Li Pida's investigation, he is also a believer in Hashdi, and once through Pompey, he supported part of the money to build temples and monasteries for the Hashid sect, but in fact, he secretly sent 800 Talent to the Hashid believers to buy weapons for riots. The person who caused the situation in Cyrene to get out of control was none other than Li Bida himself, who wanted to coerce the Hashids into accusing Demetrius and leaving Pompey with a huge stain on his political career, so that he could justifiably control the protrusion of Cyrenaica, and now that Crassus's eyes were focused on the East, Caesar had been staying in Gaul, and it was Pompey who could interfere with this place, and he had to be cleared out of the country.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about, but I have to tell you honestly, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. We, the hashhitics, do not recognize your title of king of Cyrenaica, and your supporters in the city of Rome will accuse you of transgression in the council. The envoy's confidence is even stronger than that of Li Bida, "As for the Golden Lord, there are our believers in the entire world who are selflessly dedicated to building the true Messianic nation, can you identify them one by one?" We can first build a beautiful temple in Cyrene, and then we can return to the Promised Land and establish the most just Jewish kingdom without oppression and under the direction of the Messiah. ”

"You are vain utopian fantasies, which can only poison your believers in the end." Li Bida blurted out the word "utopia" with some excitement, and then suddenly realized that this word had not yet appeared in this era, so he cleared his throat and continued, "I have 20,000 men under my command, and of course this commander is not trying to boast about anything. The 20,000 men, including Cretans, Cypriots, Romans, and even Egyptians and Nubian blacks, were skilled in weaponry with swords, spears, naval warfare, and archery and stone-throwing. I went from Cyprus, to Perusim, to Alexandria, to Thebes, to the southern desert of Libya. So you should wonder, why are these people of completely different races, customs, and beliefs willing to follow me all the time? It's nothing, because I used power and money, and built the foundation of their allegiance on this basis, and then restrained them with strict discipline and military discipline, just like putting a chew on a fierce horse, using a horsewhip to drive them, and governing the country is of the same nature as commanding a legion, what can be achieved with fanaticism and ideals alone? Emotionally I pity you, but in reality I laugh at you. Therefore, it is my sincere hope that a compromise will be reached with you, that the city of Cyrene may be surrendered by the name of someone whom I have appointed, so that you may have the support of the powerful political factions of Rome, that you may be spared from war and slaughter, that I will spare all the participants in the revolt, and that I will protect and support you in building your own temple, and that the burden on you will be relieved by the expulsion of the tax collectors in the land. ”

"I'm not trying to boast about anything? Suffice it to say that the money provided to us by the Lord of Money has forged a great number of sharp weapons and instruments, and the army of believers willing to give their lives for the Messianic War has numbered as many as 50,000 men, and now the fortified city of Cyrene is also in our hands, and you have only a small foothold in Apollo Springs, with a ragtag army of scattered sands without faith, and I am afraid that the one who will be punished by Rome before us is you, General Lybidaeus. I think we can also make a deal with your army in terms of interests, that is, the north and the south will be divided, the north will be ours, and the south will be your Excellency, and you may continue to be the rightful king of Cyrenaica, and we may pay you a symbolic tribute every year. The messenger, who spoke the Latin language in a straight voice, bowed to Li Bida and said goodbye. (To be continued......)