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Chapter 394 Land Exchange
Chapter 394 Land Exchange
There was a reason why most of Caesar's lovers were senators and noblewomen. According to the characteristics of Roman political life, senators had to hold a series of positions, many of which required them to stay overseas for a long time. Married women often had to stay alone in their empty rooms for a long time, which gave Caesar the opportunity to get close to them.
For these noble ladies, Caesar was very charming and few could resist his charm. Because he dressed very uniquely, he set the tone of Roman fashion and many young people followed his example. He attached great importance to his appearance and gestures, and always did things differently, making him unique among the young people in Rome.
The ladies were flattered to be in Caesar's good graces, and perhaps even more thrilled by his reputation as a womanizer.
It was during the period when Crassus led his troops to encircle and suppress the Spartacus rebels that Caesar came into contact with Tertula, who was alone in her room.
Crassus had spies throughout the city of Rome, and he soon learned of the affair after returning to Rome.
However, he did not retaliate immediately, but he began to pay attention to this political newcomer who was regarded as a "dude" by others.
In the following years, in addition to Pompey, who shone brightly on Rome, Caesar's performance was also quite eye-catching.
He held a grand funeral for his aunt and wife, portrayed himself as the successor of the civilian party, performed well in court as a lawyer, and cheered for Pompey to serve as the commander of the pirates in the Senate...
Compared with other low-level senators who had just entered the Senate and followed the rules and were afraid of making mistakes, Caesar was not only ambitious, but also extremely bold and presumptuous, which made many conservative senators quite dissatisfied. Catullus even criticized Caesar to his face: "...Now Caesar is not secretly undermining the defense of the Republic, but launching an attack head-on!"
However, the richest man in Rome, who was good at dealing with people, felt that Caesar's unconventional behavior in Roman politics showed his unique talent, which might be of great help to him in the future.
Therefore, he did not take any punitive action against his wife's lover, and deliberately ignored the fact that Caesar had been cheering for his political enemy Pompey in the past two years. Instead, he warmly entertained Caesar and generously lent him much more money than Caesar had borrowed.
With the money, Caesar began to renovate and improve the Appian Way and its ancillary buildings.
His money would not be wasted, and all the voters who traveled to Rome by this road would remember: Caesar did this for them at his own expense.
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Just as Pompey went to the East to gain greater glory and Caesar began to show his talents in Roman politics, in the spring of 66 BC (the seventh year after the establishment of the Nix tribe), the Nix tribe's annexation of Brochi and the conquest of Antizeti and Mazii were also in full swing.
The military operation against Andizeti went very smoothly. The troops led by Aulus and Pequot attacked Andizeti's territory in two directions, encountering almost no resistance. They were unstoppable all the way and finally took down Andizeti's main camp.
Moreover, the top leaders of the Knicks overestimated the reaction of the Skodischi tribe. The Skodischi tribe had been on the passive defensive for a long time. They had no idea that a Knicks tribe had appeared to the west of the Pannoni tribal alliance. Naturally, they did not know that this new tribe had defeated the Pannoni army many times and had become the most terrible enemy of the Pannoni people.
Because Andy's previous suggestion to mobilize most of the tribe's warriors to rescue Brochi was relatively secretive, the Skodischi tribe did not notice anything unusual for a while, so they did not make any preparations in advance.
The Skodischi tribe was shocked when the Skodischi sentinels who were exploring the border discovered that a strange army that was completely different from the Andizeti suddenly appeared on the border and captured one Andizeti village after another along the border.
Moreover, this army was well-equipped, in high morale, and its combat effectiveness seemed to be even stronger than that of the Andizeti (the Pequots even deliberately let the army march armed on the border to show off their military power to the Skodishchi tribe). Therefore, the top leaders of the Skodishchi tribe did not cheer because their enemy, the Andizeti, was attacked. Instead, they felt very nervous. On the one hand, they urgently mobilized the tribesmen to be on defense and alert, and on the other hand, they sent people to inform the Dacian tribe to the south of them about this matter.
The tense atmosphere on the border between the Skodischi tribe and Andizeti lasted for many days until the strange army sent a group of envoys to the main camp of the Skodischi tribe.
The top leaders of the Skodischi tribe were surprised to find that this delegation of envoys were almost all Skodischi people, led by a man called Govis.
Govis introduced the situation of the Nix tribe to the top leaders of the Skodischi tribe and clearly expressed the tribe's friendly intentions towards the Skodischi.
Although the top leaders of the Skodischi were somewhat wary of the fact that the Nix tribe had destroyed several large Pannoni tribes in succession only a few years after its establishment, they were relieved when they learned that many members of the tribe were once Skodischi people.
They warmly entertained the envoys and further asked Govis and others for detailed information about the situation of the Nix tribe.
Goves and others were also interested in understanding the relationship between the Skodischi tribe and the Dacians. They also witnessed with their own eyes the poverty of the Skodischi tribe members.
Because they were all from the Skodishchi tribe, the two sides got along well. However, when the Skodishchi leader proposed that he was willing to send troops to work with the Nix army to eliminate Andizeti, Goves politely refused on the grounds that "Andizeti had been completely occupied by the tribal army." After the envoys returned, the tense atmosphere on the southern border of Andizeti was greatly relieved.
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The armies led by Toleruge and Carminus were frequently harassed by small groups of Mazii warriors on their way to the Mazii territory, but the Nyx army had been prepared for this, so the Mazii's attempt to slow down the Nyx army's advance failed.
After entering the mountain basin, the Nix army headed straight for the main camp of Mazii. After careful preparation, they captured it in one fell swoop, and then divided their forces to capture various villages in the basin.
The success of the war gave Tolergo a great deal of confidence. Despite the dissuasion of Carminus and Gilicus, he led his troops to continue marching towards the village of Mazii in the mountains. As a result, they were ambushed and suffered some casualties.
Maximus was furious and sent an envoy to the main camp of Mazii, severely criticizing "Torrerugo for not carrying out the planned plan, taking too many risks, and causing the army to suffer unnecessary losses!"
For this reason, he was stripped of his post as commander-in-chief of the army, and was replaced by Carminus in exchange for meritorious service, to continue the conquest of the Mazii territory.
Carminus decisively stopped the attack on the Mazii tribes in the mountains, and concentrated his forces to consolidate his control over the mountain basins. At the same time, he fully cooperated with Gillicus and his men to lobby and win the hearts and minds of the Mazii tribes...
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In the spring of 66 BC, after more than a month of observation, the top leaders of the Skodischi tribe finally determined that the Nix tribe had no ill will towards them.
The Skodish tribe had always relied heavily on the help of the Dacians for their survival. After the Dacian-Boii coalition won the battle, the Dacian tribes launched a full-scale counterattack, successively capturing the Boii's territory on the east bank of the Danube, and completely driving the Boii back to the west bank.
This made the Skodisci tribe jealous, so they also asked the Dacians to join them in attacking the Pannoni.
But the Dacians refused without hesitation, which made the top leaders of the Skodischi tribe somewhat dissatisfied.
This time, the Skodisci tribe asked the Dacians for help again. The Dacians were not very active at the beginning. After learning that the Nyx army did not invade the territory of the Skodisci tribe, they even accused the Skodisci of "making a fuss out of nothing."
The indifference of the allies forced the top leaders of the Skodischi tribe to think: Should we make one more friend and open up another way?
So they sent messengers to the Nix tribe.
As the envoys traveled north, they saw the lively scenes of Andizeti and Brochi villages being divided into fields and houses and starting spring ploughing under the leadership of the Knicks garrison, which confirmed what the Knicks envoys had said before.
At the former Brochi main stronghold, the envoy met Maximus, the leader of the Nix tribe, who warmly welcomed the envoy's arrival.
This is not just superficial work, but the arrival of the Scodischi envoy is exactly what the Nix tribe needs.
First of all, this action showed that the Dacians had no ill will towards the suddenly rising Nix tribe, otherwise the Skodius tribe, which relied entirely on the Dacians, would not dare to send envoys. In this way, the Nix tribe could be bolder in formulating future strategic plans.
Secondly, the Nix tribe needed to have a good talk with the Skodischi tribe, because after Aulus and Pequot occupied the Andizeti territory, they discovered a problem: the land on both sides of the lower reaches of the Sava River was indeed within the Andizeti territory, but at the confluence with the Danube there were large tracts of tidal flats and swamps, and neither side had effectively occupied it.
Of course, the Pannoni Alliance and the Skodishchi tribe were enemies, and the alliance was much stronger than the other. The fleet entered and exited this section of the river without hesitation, and the Skodishchi tribe had no power to stop it. However, the Nix tribe did not intend to be an enemy of the Skodishchi tribe, nor did they want the fleet to frequently enter and exit the confluence of the two rivers in the future, which would cause dissatisfaction among the Skodishchi tribe and lead to hostility from the Dacians...
Therefore, when the commercial officer of the Nix tribe, Pigris, was negotiating with the envoys of the Skodischi, he put forward a request to "exchange some of the original land in the southern part of Andischi with the Skodischi tribe for the land on the south bank of the confluence of the Sava River and the Danube River."
(End of this chapter)
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