David. Anjit was stunned for a moment, and then he faintly felt something, so he patted Patian, and said that the defense of the fortress of Yazda will be handed over to you for the time being, I will hurry to Cyrene, there are some things that need to be dealt with, and I will find a way to send the stone as soon as possible, if not, you will temporarily remove the battlements of the north section of the fortress as raw materials. Because the Romans were so well suited to destroying fleets and wooden fortresses, we had to be more careful. Therefore, it is necessary to build a stone wall here to effectively resist it.

At the foot of Cyrenaica, standing in the middle of the street, he looked at the newly erected Jewish temple that was as luxurious as the royal palace, and then he understood something, and walked in:

The statue of the temple in pure bronze, the base of the candlestick in pure silver, and the striking section of heavy grapevines on the table in front of the high priest in the center of the temple.

It turned out that the treasury of the city-state of Cyrene, after they successfully seized it, once made David . Anjit was overjoyed, he wanted to take out all the mountains of coins inside, and buy more sharp and sophisticated weapons overseas-Greek-style helmets and heavy armor, Macedonian spears, Spanish broad-edged swords, Assyrian quivers, compound bows, and imported a large number of stones, supplemented and repaired the zigzag walls, which were stronger than those of ancient Nineveh, and even formed a huge fleet to defend the hard-won Cyrenaica, the country of five cities.

Now, all dreams are like fragile clouds over Mount Zion, without a trace.

No, David. Ankit stepped forward a little like a madman, when he heard the voices of Jacob and the priests, and he turned his head. Some bloodshot eyes. Because of the speed of a few days. It was really hard work, and although he asked knowingly, he still asked in a hoarse voice, "What about the coins of the treasury?" ”

The expression on Jacob's face was also a little embarrassed, and he turned to the gold and silver magic weapons, and Anjit scratched his eyelids in some pain, and pressed his hands on the golden vine, without saying a word. In the end, it was proposed that the magic weapons should be sold again in exchange for urgent strategic materials.

"This will delay the rebirth of the Messiah in this age." Jacob also pleaded with anxiety.

"There is no Messianic reincarnation! You, me, all the people in the hall, and the entire Hashrid sect, are the Messiah. "David. Ankit roared, "We destroyed the original city-state, not because it had any original sin, but because it was out of time. So if you want to truly realize the temple in Cyrene, you don't have to go against the city-state. It's about following it, overcoming its weaknesses and moving on, doing better than what it was before. We, like the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, need tax collectors, we need coins, we need armies, we need fortresses and fleets! Melt these things, or the Messiah will never come to earth. With that, the head departed without looking back.

"He wasn't an orthodox Hashid at all, he had been a lecturer in the scholastic." In David. After Ankit left angrily, a priest whispered to Jacob.

The other added fuel to the fire, "Moreover, he is not even a Jew, his ancestors are not in Judea, nor in Samaria, nor even in Galilee, but in Edom, and he is a fellow countryman of the tyrannical King Herod, and the lowliest of Edomites is only a matter of opportunity to make him commander." ”

Jacob glared at the two of them fiercely, and the other hurriedly whispered a few words to each other, and then went back to the inner hall to study, and then the high priest looked at the precious golden vine, which was worth a hundred towers, although it was not as big as the one that was plundered by Pompey in the temple in Jerusalem (that one was worth eight hundred towers), but it also symbolized the authority of the sect, did he really want to give David those helmets and spears that were as black and dirty as the Greeks?

But James and David. Ankit's contradiction was quickly "resolved", because even if Jacob agreed to sell everything, he would not find a home - the water surface of the huge harbor of the entire city of Cyrenaica was empty of not a single trading ship, and in the past, these sea ships from various "stepping stone" islands in the Mediterranean Sea came loaded with obsidian, marble, ploughing cattle, gold and silver utensils, in exchange for local wool, salt, grain, olive oil and other goods, and the whole port was extremely prosperous, but now on the endless sea, Apart from the hungry foraging cries of hovering seabirds, not even a single plank could be found.

When they found the business district in the city, they found that they had either been reduced to ruins in the previous riots, or the façade had been nailed to the wooden planks, and there was no life, and there was no cooking smoke!

David. Ankit realized the seriousness of the situation, but he couldn't say what was going on, of course, if he knew modern words, he should be able to shout, under the control of Li Pida, Cyrenaica was under a "trade embargo".

This was a kind of soft killing, and it was different from the direct blockade with the fleet that was in vogue at the time, and the entire Euberne Chamber of Commerce, where Joseph was supported by Lybida and Adeina, had previously carefully calculated and paid a large amount of money to seafarers and surveyors to change all the sea routes of the eastern Mediterranean through Cyrene, and all the great chambers of commerce of Crete, Cyprus and Egypt were gathered in the beautiful Alexandra Conference Hall, and after trivial, elaborate and mysterious consultations, almost all the trade goods provided by Cyrene were contributed, they all agreed on the nearest neighborhood, found alternative areas, and re-planned trade routes. As for the ports of the Roman Republic, strict rules were enacted, and no private dealings with the rebels were allowed.

In this way, Cyrenaica became a dead port.

The Hashid sect began to collect harvested grain around the outskirts of the city, preparing to hoard it in the city and various fortresses, but the peasants, that is, the local naturalized natives, because these hashhiti could not even take out coins, exchanged them in kind, their things were some local specialties, and the farmers were not willing to exchange precious grain and livestock, and soon the conflict ensued, many villages and fields were empty, and many people fled for refuge.

Not to mention the expansion and expansion of strength, it is even a little difficult to gain a foothold in Cyrenaica City, "It is better to give priority to the distribution of supplies to the Yazda Fortress, hold on for half a year to a year, and wait for the situation to change." "David. Ankit made this arrangement, and soon the Presbyterians approached him and said that it had been decided by consensus that he would be sent to the fortress of Yazda as the supreme commander.

Ankit was silent, but accepted the appointment, and after coming out of the temple, he hurried slowly down the desolate streets to his smoky house, where his dark-haired wife was on the table, eating shriveled wild fruit with the children. (To be continued......)