Roman Slave Owner

"Hmm."

Little Emilia smiled and nodded again and again.

Li Wei couldn't help touching his nose. Is it really okay to arrange him in front of him?

"Glius, do you think we are right?"

At this time Menenia said.

Li Wei's face was embarrassed: "This...this..."

"Hehe."

The two girls laughed like silver bells, then whispered to Li Wei, pointing at him from time to time.

Li Wei vaguely heard the dull goose and the like, which made him laugh wryly.

What he didn't notice was that the captain of the guard, Skipio, looked at him with extremely bad eyes.

Coming to Camillos to settle down in Utica's house, Levy thought about what he should do next.

He didn't believe the Utica's garrison very much, because it was the army that Dumidius had surrendered to.

Is it possible to find the Governor of Africa, Serabio, that Levy had the right to appoint an interim governor during the war. For example, in history, Pompeo appointed his brother-in-law Menmuse as the governor of Sicily after he pacified Sicily.

Li Wei thought about it, and it seemed that Serabio was the only one who had some ability, so he hurriedly transferred him to serve as Governor of Africa.

I haven't met him when I went to Numidia, and I don't know how well he can do it.

At this moment, the captain of the guard, Skipio, walked in and said: "Attention everyone, no one is allowed to leave today. Take a good rest. Tomorrow we will accompany the Patriarch to a very important meeting."

Hearing this, the guards in the room wailed, and some people thought of being chic outside.

Forget it, it's tomorrow, anyway, it's not in a hurry, Li Wei thought.

After the order was announced, the captain of the guard called Li Wei outside.

"Glius, you'd better stay away from Menenia in the future."

Li Wei looked at this person suspiciously, are you sick?

What happened to Menenia and I?

You have to find the right partner even if you are jealous.

"What if I don't stay away from her?"

Li Wei said with a smile.

"I promise you will regret it."

The captain of the guard sneered and said, a foreigner, he had a dozen ways to ruin him, even a Roman, and left here after speaking.

Li Wei fiercely compared his middle finger, what kind of person.

That night, Li Wei found a large number of people coming in and out.

These people wear all kinds of gorgeous clothes, and it is obvious that they are either rich or expensive.

The captain of the guard immediately gave Li Wei a disarm and ordered him to watch the night today, but Li Wei was unclear.

After eating, Menenia found Li Wei again with a bowl of medicine, "How is your injury?"

"It feels very good, I feel I can kill a cow."

Li Wei acted like a Popeye. Menenia chuckled and punched him softly, "You are so cute, you are so cute, please drink the medicine quickly."

"Can you not drink it? You see I am completely better."

Li Wei said with a bitter face, this medicine was too awful to drink, and he was very skeptical of the medical level at this time.

Menenia straightened her face immediately and crossed her waist.

"Why don't you be obedient, let you drink as long as you drink, don't talk nonsense."

Looking at Menenia who looked savage, Li Wei shook his head speechlessly, pinched his nose and drank the medicine.

"That's good."

Menenia patted Li Wei on the head lightly, like a pet. An angry Li Wei wanted to hit someone.

After finally suppressing the unhappy mood, Li Wei asked, "Why are so many people here tonight?"

"They are discussing the issue of contracting taxes tomorrow."

Menenia said.

"Tax contracting?"

"Yes, the taxation in Rome is contracted by the tax holders, and they can even join together to bid for the taxation of the entire province. Due to the war, the tax contracting problem in Africa has not been resolved for a long time. In order to solve the tax contracting problem for the next year , The Governor of Africa, Serabio, summoned all businessmen interested in tax contracting to gather in Utica to bid."

"Tomorrow is the bidding conference?"

Li Wei thought for a while and said.

The tax packager is a very oily business. The provinces need to pay one-tenth of their own income to Rome, which is commonly known as the Eleven Tax.

These taxes are collected by the tax packagers, and they take one-tenth of the taxes as their own remuneration, which means that one percent of the income of the entire province will fall into the tax packagers’ pockets. This shows that the tax package How rich a person's income is.

"Yes. I heard that Governor Serabio had let go. Anyone connected with Scipio was not allowed to participate in the bidding. If it weren't for Keller's pressure, our master would not even be eligible to bid."

Menenia waved her small fist and said bitterly.

It's okay. The relationship between himself and the Scipio family is in the same vein, and Camilos is doing the right thing.

But Li Wei slapped Menenia's flattery and said: "You are right, this is really hateful."

Very satisfied with Li Wei’s knowledge and interest, Menenia continued: “And I also heard that he took a lot of bribes and set a lot of conditions to exclude many Roman businessmen. He was really an out-and-out corrupt official.”

Li Wei's cold sweat, is there such a thing?

However, it seems that every governor is doing this kind of bribery. If it doesn't, it will be abnormal.

"Do you know who will be at the conference tomorrow?"

Li Wei asked.

"I heard that there will be many big people, such as Keller, and Pompey's butler, but I don't know what the name is, and..."

Menenia said one-by-one, she seemed to be very interested in these gossips, and she knew a lot of things clearly.

In addition to the butlers of Keller and Pompey, some Roman upstarts have also sent their men to fight for the fat here. After all, taxpayers are sure to make a profit.

Li Wei felt uncomfortable for a while. He has become the protector of many cities in Africa. He didn't expect that there are still so many people competing for the fat. He didn't put himself in his eyes.

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The next day ~www.readwn.com~ Li Wei, who had been guarding the middle of the night, was called out of bed in a daze before he had a good night's sleep.

"Get up quickly, everyone is there, you are the only one left."

When he opened his eyes, he found that the captain of the guard was gloating at him.

"When is it now?"

Li Wei glanced at the sky, the sun turned out to be high.

The captain of the guard snorted coldly. Just warned him yesterday, and talked to Menenia for so long. It was really shameless. Today, he has some good fruits.

He left here directly, even ignoring him.

Li Wei put on his clothes with black lines on his face, and found that everyone was gathered, he was the only one left, and even Camelus was waiting for him. Camelus was so angry when he saw the bewildered Li Wei. He scolded loudly.