Caesar stood up uneasily, this plan is indeed very good, it can definitely quench the "near thirst", as long as according to Li Bida's words, if four or five inferior provinces are allocated to the "wartime provinces", and all the wealth there will be collected into his own hands, and there will be no need to worry about military spending in three years, and a considerable part of the national debt can be repaid.

"After the establishment of wartime provinces, military service in these areas may be temporarily exempted and military service may be converted into taxes instead. In addition, there is no need to set up a governor by lot, whether it is the governor of the Senate or your Excellency, so that there is also one less process of exploitation, so that more money can flow in directly! Li Bida continued to strike while the iron was hot.

"What about the soldiers, it will inevitably decrease! I'm going to recruit new soldiers all over Italy and Gaul, because the veterans have turned their backs on me, and I don't want to use them anymore. Caesar found that if the war provinces were to be set aside, the number of troops would inevitably decrease, and the burden of military service in the remaining provinces would also increase.

However, the deputy cavalry commander told him that the source of troops was not a problem, that when you went to Gaul, the Senate gave you the right to form four regular legions, and then you recruited troops in the traditional civic city circle, but with the acquisition of citizenship in Transgaul, the Lark Legion also came into being, and what we need to do now is not only to expand the scope of conscription, but also to the depth of conscription.

"That is, to assimilate all the Latin cities, and to give them the right to vote on a par with Rome." "In that case," said Lybida, "there will be countless young recruits throughout Italy at your disposal, my Excellency." ”

It turned out that after the bloody "War of the League" (Mathi War) more than thirty years ago, although the Roman Senate made concessions. Recognition of the right of citizenship and voting rights of all Latin Confederation cities. But secretly still played a big trick. That is, the Romans had thirty-five votes for the Commune of Tybris, and the other allied cities of Italy together had ten votes for the Commune of Tybris, which usually had a vote on a major event, and before the Allied cities had voted, the result had already been finalized, because Rome had the majority of the vote base.

By the time of Sulla, in order to alleviate the resulting resentment of the allied cities, the Latin cities of Italy were added. It was evenly distributed among the thirty-five Tebris votes, but the problem was still not completely solved, because after all, the vote was in the "sheepfold" in the city of Rome, and because of the road problem, the allied cities were still at a disadvantage in front of the Roman natives.

"Expand the Latin cities, including Tebris, to twenty-five." This is Li Bida's Jianyì.

Twenty-five, plus the original thirty-five in Rome, made a total of sixty, and no one had an absolute advantage. On the other hand, when it comes to a critical bill, the attitude of the Latin cities can affect the whole situation. Then once this reciprocal right is obtained, the whole of Italy will be more enthusiastic to provide Caesar with a large number of soldiers, and the empire beyond the Roman fence can really form and rise, it will no longer belong to a certain city-state, but universal.

As long as it can win the support of the whole of Italy, the Senate is not to be feared.

But when Caesar then promulgated the first measure in the Great Hall of Julia, the whole Senate was shaken, and many people were mourned, and Caesar announced that the five provinces of Sicily, Sardinia, Southern Gaul, Extramountain Gaul and Illyria were temporarily included in the wartime provincial system, and then through the guò auction, the knights could directly obtain the right to tax the province for up to ten years, but required a large deposit, and this money did not go to the Saturnalia, but went to the Holy Treasury, and the key was in the hands of Caesar himself, and only he had the right to activate it. In addition, Caesar announced that all those who had fled Rome and joined the Pompei faction would have their estates accepted by the dictator and confiscated as wartime assets and auctioned off.

But this was only Caesar's first sword, and as he continued to read with his face blank, many of the senators sat down directly on the floor, "Expand the commune of Tebris, a Latin city in Italy, to twenty-five, and prepare to set up new colonial cities in Unity, Transgaul, and other places, and establish a new Tebris, Rome should not be just a small territory drawn by Romulus with a plow, it should extend the territory of rights and civilization to the whole world." In addition, the Senate also increased its membership to nine hundred. ”

Many of the senators stretched out their arms and asked how the question of the distance of the vote should be solved if the commune of Tebris was granted at will, and Caesar gave a clear answer: in the Ostia region of the city of Rome, the lodging apartments of the representatives of the Latin and colonial cities were to be built, and the representatives of the cities were to solicit proposals in the place where the sea was suitable for navigation from April to October, and then for half a year when the sea was unseaworthy, they were to be stationed in the city of Rome and submitted to the Council of Tebris for a unified vote, and the right of the civil assembly to be temporarily convened was abolished. Seventy percent of the actual attendees must be present to raise the red flag on Capitol Hill.

Caesar's centurions stood at the door of the synagogue, their swords in their hands, instead of the function of the shackles, as long as the group of people slapped the scabbard, the whole synagogue did not dare to squeak, Cicero sat in place, trembling with rage, but he still did not dare to say more.

Then, after Caesar had read out the new plan, he ordered that the number of senators be expanded first, and that the superintendent Pinzel should do his best to compile a new list of 300 senators, because the matter belonged to him, but not to forget that it would eventually be in his hands to approve the pass.

In fact, the new 300 men were easy to find, and most of them were promoted from Caesar's subordinate officers and knights who were willing to pay for his policies.

Then, in an even more shocking move, Caesar directly in the port area of the Ostia River, with a huge old warehouse, renovated it, added steps, colonnades, gables and related facilities, named the "Wartime Provincial Executive Yuan", which was directly entered by Caesar's close knights and slaves, and took charge of all the affairs of the five provinces.

Overnight, Curio changed the title of Governor of Sicily to "Acting Administrator of Sicily", but what shocked him even more was that the city of Rome sent an envoy to gather all his troops in the old camp of Cornelius to listen to the dictator's new policy.

The New Deal, which was a notice concerning the increase in the number of the Latin city of Tebris, was to hear this, and the seventeenth and eighteenth legions, because the soldiers and officers were all Masi, all cheered and sang, and the atmosphere was fanatical, and they fought for so many years, and shed so much blood, some for the Romans, and some for the Romans, that the day had come at last.

"Long live Julius, long live Imperato!" When they had finished their revelry, they scrambled to Curio's tent and begged to fight the enemy to the death. (To be continued......)