Pirate Company

Once this incident broke out, Pompey's prestige in the army was bound to suffer a huge blow. After all, they are also flesh and blood people, and no one is willing to become a tool of sacrifice in order to satisfy some people's selfish desires.

Moreover, the number of soldiers who died was not a small number, tens of thousands. This is an unbearable number even for a great gladiator empire.

Once this matter is implemented, Pompeii will be in trouble.

Seeing that several people were fully prepared, Pompeii had no choice but to change the subject and said: "The words of the person in front of him are completely untrustworthy. Those who caused huge losses to the empire should have been punished by the laws of the empire, instead of being grandiose as witnesses. Slander a general who has done great service to the Empire."

"Someone became angry from embarrassment and planned to kill people to silence them." Zhou Yixian said.

"It turns out that everything is true."

With Zhou Xian's deliberate guidance, combined with Pompey's reaction, the hearts of the people in the Senate were a little biased towards what Caesar said.

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Hearing the whispers of the crowd, Pompeii knew that it was useless to say anything else, so he simply said that silence is golden. His performance further confirmed everyone's conjecture.

Another point that Pompeii didn't know was that everything that happened in the Senate was live broadcasted by Zhou Yixian to all the people in the empire by using his own ability.

When this shocking news broke out, it caused an uproar for a while. The more outrageous things were, the more people believed them. Most ordinary people accepted the fact that more than a dozen soldiers died because of Pompeii's rejoicing.

It is foreseeable that there will be some soldiers in the future that Pompey will not be able to command.

When something like this happened, naturally no one cared about Sparta's fate. After testifying, he returned to Zhou Xian's mirror space when no one was paying attention.

The uprising failed, and he no longer wanted to have anything else to do with the Gladiator Empire. Now he just wants to happily work and earn money with the remaining rebel brothers.

Sitting on a boat, going for a drive in the sea, occasionally hunting pirates, drinking wine and eating meat, isn't this kind of life delicious?

Pompeii also didn't want to get entangled in this matter, interrupted everyone's discussion, and said: "The purpose of our gathering here this time is to discuss a way to eliminate pirates and elect a commander."

"If the pirates are not eliminated, everyone will not be safe."

"There is no need to mention the past, let's discuss the pirates first."

With the beginning of Pompeii, his supporters immediately took over the topic with understanding.

"If you want to wipe out the pirates, you must choose a general who is brave and brave. I think Lord Pompeii is a good candidate." Vinias, who had previously elected Pompeii as the special commander in spite of everyone's opposition, elected Pompeii again. cowry.

"The candidates to exterminate the pirates are still to be discussed, and we are not in a hurry to make a decision."

The last time it was because of the mess of the rebel army, no one was willing to fight against the fierce rebel army, so Pompeii took advantage of it.

This time, Pompeii wanted the Senate to support him in destroying the pirates, but it was not so easy. How Caesar started his family, they will not be ignorant.

With the first start-up capital of Hidden Island, Caesar will have today's status. Every one of them knows how rich the pirates in the Central Sea are.

They didn't want to miss this opportunity to make a fortune, and they definitely couldn't let Pompeii become the commander in chief to wipe out the pirates easily.

"Besides Lord Pompey, do you have any better candidates?" Binias looked around at the crowd, and then said, "Still, you have enough soldiers in your hands to destroy the pirates."

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Vinias' last words directly hit the hearts of the Senate. They really didn't have enough soldiers to deal with the vicious and numerous pirates in the Central Sea.

Everyone is the special commander of the empire, and most of the soldiers have become his subordinates. What else can I do to destroy the pirates?

Dazed by their interests, they immediately regained their composure. Thinking about it carefully in my heart, apart from Pompeii, there is really no better candidate for the moment.

"Then, Lord Pompey will be responsible for this matter. Next, let's discuss other matters."

"Master Pompeii is indeed brave in fighting on the road, but does he have experience in fighting at sea?"

Just when everyone was about to finalize the candidate, Caesar made a different voice, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Not only Mr. Pompey, I am afraid that everyone present has no experience in fighting pirates." Seeing Caesar come out to disrupt the situation, Binias asked, "Could it be that Mr. Caesar has a more suitable candidate?"

"certainly."

Caesar nodded resolutely, and looked at Zhou Xian beside him.

he?

Are you sure you don't want to tease us again?

Even the special commander-in-chief of the empire has no experience in fighting pirates, but one of your followers does, so it doesn't matter if you go out to sea and catch a few pirates alone.

A group of people expressed doubts about Zhou Xian's ability. If Caesar has experience, they can barely accept it. After all, he has successfully wiped out thousands of pirates on the hidden island.

Unfortunately, Caesar has no soldiers to use.

"I almost forgot, my follower has another identity, and that is the captain of the Yixian Food Fleet," Caesar said.

What!

He is the captain of the Yixian food convoy.

Is that the one Juus called his lifelong enemy?

As soon as Caesar's words fell, everyone in the Senate looked at Zhou Xian, and there was a difference immediately. In the eyes of many people, there is a look of gratitude.

If it wasn't for this one in front of him, who held Juus for more than a year, preventing him from helping the rebels too much, and restoring the empire's sea food passage, maybe the empire was really precarious and over.

The reason why they can still enjoy the delicious food in Washington, and have servants accompanying them when they go in and out, has something to do with Zhou Yi's leisure, and it is only natural to be grateful to him.

"A mere lack of talent is just the next."

Enjoying everyone's grateful eyes, Zhou Yixian generously admitted this fact.

"In that case, why not let him go."

The people in the Senate really had no confidence in whether Pompeii could defeat the pirates. It was of course the best thing to have a better choice.

"If the empire wants to wipe out the pirates, it needs to rely on a noble follower. It's really shameful to say it. Are you doing this to let the people of the empire know that the nobles are incompetent?"

A group of supporters of Pompey expressed their objections.

"Or, Master Pompey."

Not to mention, Zhou Yixian's identity issue is indeed a big problem. He has been in the Gladiator Empire for so long, and he is still just a commoner.

A group of proud nobles naturally cannot send a great contribution to a nobleman for nothing.

"Hehe, have you forgotten how you came to be a nobleman?" Zhou Yi was not happy with the crowd, and said: "Whoever has a big fist can become a nobleman in the empire. It has always been like this. You don't want to Forget, in the current Central Sea, the Yixian food convoy also has a place."

Could it be that the big boat group under my Zhou is not powerful?

Mentioning the large fleet under his command at such a time, Zhou Xian's threat is obviously full. All the nobles wanted to make money at sea safely, transport slaves and so on, and he really nodded.

Suddenly, all the nobles of the Senate were in trouble again.

The young people in front of them, they really can't afford to offend them.

Everyone had no choice but to ask for help, and looked at Pompeii.

"I will not give up the position of commander in chief of destroying pirates." With military power in his hands, Pompeii spoke with full confidence, directly and domineeringly took over everything, and made a decision for everyone.

Compared with business at sea, the members of the Senate still have to live in the empire after all.

"That's it."

Not wanting to offend the people in Pompeii, they had no choice but to agree.

Seeing that the Senate has made a decision, Zhou Yixian can only sigh that the wheel of history cannot be changed. Originally, Pompeii took care of the task of destroying the Central Sea, and it was done.

Now, everything is back to normal.

Then, only the question of money remained.

Pompeii said: "The pirates in the Central Sea are so harmful, I don't think I need to go into details. In order to successfully destroy the pirates and never cause future troubles, everyone's military support is indispensable. As long as 6000 talents, I will definitely get them in a few months." Get all the Central Sea pirates. One more thing, the power to collect taxes within 50 miles of the Empire's coast, I also need it."

When Pompeii opened his mouth, it was too cruel.

Leaving aside the taxation power, 6,000 talents alone is an astronomical sum for them. A talent of gold weighs about 20-40 kilograms, and 6,000 talents of gold, according to the lowest plan of 20 kilograms, also has 120,000 kilograms of gold.

How much is 120,000 kilograms worth? Needless to say, everyone understands.

Although the threat of pirates is serious, a bunch of pirates should disrupt the Gladiator Empire. It is necessary for the Senate to exterminate the pirates.

"It's all up to you, we want the result."

Everyone in the Senate finally felt that the threat of pirates was more serious, so they gritted their teeth and agreed.

"We don't need too much money to support us, and we can also destroy pirates." Caesar, like a seductive demon, said an unquestionable decision of the Senate, and said: "We only need to have a part of the whole territory. commanding authority."

Having seized the opportunity at sea, the interest group formed by Caesar and Zhou Yixian finally showed their fangs, ready to attack the military power in the Gladiator Empire.

"Since that's the case, the two of you should be jointly responsible for this operation to exterminate the pirates."

If a large sum of money can be left, why not do it for the Senate. In the end, they still kept an eye out, and did not explain any specific details, but only gave a rough decision.

As for the end, how the two of them distribute the power in their hands is not what they care about. They only know that the gold coins in their pockets can be kept a lot.

In the end, Pompey had to accept this fact, and together with Caesar, he was responsible for destroying the pirates.

Between the two parties, they must take advantage of this opportunity to successfully decide the outcome.