Roman Slave Owner

"What a waste, leave a centurion to continue the pursuit, and the others will go back with me with all the corpses."

Li Wei couldn't help cursing.

"Obey, Patriarch."

So Li Wei went back with these people and the corpses. When Marcian and Bruttim heard the news, they were terrified, and the intelligence team immediately started running at high speed.

The whole of Rome was a sensation, and someone dared to assassinate the Roman consul, it was simply audacious.

The Senate sent a group of envoys to express their condolences, expressing their willingness to fully cooperate with Li Wei to find out the truth, but Li Wei was noncommittal.

Two days later, Marcian reported to Li Wei in trepidation, "According to our two-day investigation, two of these assassins belonged to the Roman nobles who were sentenced to exile by Sulla, and the other three may be Spaniards. There is one other person whose identity is unknown. So their identities are very clear, and it is likely that Sedo left the remnants."

"It is impossible for them to assassinate you, Patriarch, for no reason. In terms of hatred, their hatred with Pompey is even greater. Therefore, their motives are questionable. I guess they were instructed by the Roman dignitaries who have hatred against you, Patriarch."

"We conducted a key screening of the dignitaries in Rome, and found that the most likely ones were the Metellus family."

"Why?"

Li Wei asked, he felt that Metellus would not do such a stupid thing with his IQ, after all, the suspicion was too great.

"Because Scipio Metellus' personal slave died. It is said that he was beaten to death for stealing a very valuable thing from the house, just the day before yesterday."

"After receiving this news, I conducted a key screening of the whereabouts of Scipio's personal slaves, and found that his whereabouts in the past half month are quite different from before."

Markian said, "He has been to a small hotel in the Subra district several times in the past half month. This small hotel is the property of a knight, but that knight was previously attached to an exiled nobleman who was sentenced by Sulla. "

"We asked some shop owners near the hotel to identify these corpses, and they said that they had indeed seen these people living in that hotel."

After finishing speaking, Ma Ji'an waited respectfully for Li Wei's order.

"Scipio! Metellus!"

Li Wei was shocked. He didn't expect them to be so bold that they actually sent someone to assassinate him.

Li Wei thought for a while and said, "Send someone to arrest the owner of that hotel immediately, and you go and hand over the information to Metellus, and I'll see how he explains it."

"Obey, Patriarch."

Markian said.

***

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"Snapped!"

Metellus slapped Scipio Metellus severely, and a bright red palm print soon appeared on Scipio's face.

"Tell me, what's going on? I didn't tell you! Did you stop!"

Metellus' eyes were full of anger. He never thought that Scipio would still attack Li Wei. It would be fine if you succeeded in the assassination, but he was still alive.

Don't pull me if you want to die!

A trace of hatred flashed in Scipio's eyes, but the trace of hatred quickly disappeared.

"He's wronging me! I never did this! I swear to the gods!"

Scipio said with a sad face.

"You still dare to lie to me? Do you think I'm an idiot? I was so arrogant and indulged you before. I didn't expect you to do such a thing."

Metellus said angrily.

Keleur looked at all this with a frown. Pompey was divorcing Mucia, but Scipio did not expect to do such a thing again. The Metellus family is really unlucky.

But no matter how Metellus questioned, Scipio always denied it, which made Metellus even more angry, and even punched and kicked him.

Keller quickly stopped him, "Father, I think we should think about how to solve this matter."

Metellus suppressed his anger, thought for a while and said: "This kind of thing cannot be admitted anyway, if it is admitted, then with Li Wei's personality, he will never let it go easily,

He must have thought we were in on it too. "

"Will he send assassins to kill us too?"

Keller said.

"It will."

Metellus said.

Li Wei had a criminal record, and that's how old Scipio died in his hands.

In addition to the matter of Mucia, 5 people died at once. If Li Wei did not do this, Metellus would resign from all positions.

Kyle looked at Scipio with dissatisfaction. It was his behavior that put the lives of members of the Metellus family in danger.

"So I decided to send you to appease him and explain this to him. In addition, you don't go out anywhere these days, and call Napos back, lest he find a chance to assassinate you."

Metellus said.

"OK."

Keller said.

"In addition, you send someone to contact those assassins, tell them to go away, and don't let me see them in Rome."

Metellus said to Scipio.

The corners of Scipio's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything in the end.

***

***

In the Vatican, Li Wei was leaning on a bed with gauze wrapped around his head, as if he had not recovered from a serious illness.

Cicero and others stood beside Li Wei, looking at Keleur with an unfriendly expression.

"Dear Consul, our family is deeply shocked by your assassination, and we are willing to cooperate with you to find the assassin. But I assure you, the assassin has absolutely nothing to do with our family, and we will never do such a crazy thing .”

Kyle said tactfully.

Li Wei's face darkened immediately, and Geta and the others were also furious.

"What did you say? The assassin has nothing to do with you? Do you think we are idiots?"

"You're insulting us, you know, you bastard."

"..."

All kinds of obscenities were sprayed at Keleer. Many of them started from humble beginnings, plus they have been in the army for many years, so they are not gentle and polite people.

If he hadn't been cultivating his mind and character in the Senate for a few years, maybe he would only be scolding even worse.

"Are you sure you have nothing to do with the assassin."

Li Weiqiang held back his anger and said.

"Yes, we have absolutely nothing to do with assassins. Our nobles who have been passed down for hundreds of years will never do this kind of thing. There must be some misunderstanding. I am willing to fully cooperate with you in investigating the assassins. "

Keller said.

Li Wei looked at him angrily, but he didn't expect the Metellus family to deny it, so don't blame him for being rude.

The elders under him cursed again, and Li Wei waved them to stop.

"Very good, I hope you don't regret it, you can go."

Levi said.

Keller kept saying all kinds of sorry words, and finally left here under the angry eyes of everyone.

"Patriarch, this matter must not be left alone, we must take revenge back."

"That's right, they all engaged in assassination. If we don't take revenge and go back, who will take us seriously in the future."

"..."

Everyone said one after another.

Li Wei thought for a while, and finally waved his hands, "What are you going to do? We are all law-abiding people, how can we engage in assassination at every turn?"

Everyone was stunned, and it seemed that it would never be your turn to say that you obeyed the law.

You led troops twice to force the Senate to agree to unreasonable demands. According to Roman law, you would have been a traitor long ago.

"We have to be courteous first, Lucias, you go to the Senate to sue Metellus, Keller, Napos and Scipio Metellus for assassinating me, and ask for the death penalty. The most important thing for a family Tidy up, we can't let Metellus go on the road alone."

Levi said.

If assassination is really going on, it must be done in a sneaky way.

Isn't it stupid to say that you want to assassinate Metellus's family in front of so many people?

No matter what, you should pretend to be righteous and bright on the surface.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, never expecting Li Wei to say such a thing.

"OK."

said Lucias.

"You guys also cooperate, stir up this matter a bit, and let people know that the Metellus family is doing all kinds of evil, and no one in the family is a good person. Don't let this matter cool down before the Citizens' Assembly is held. "

Levi said.

Everyone quickly agreed, and Li Wei ordered a few more words before they left here.

***

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The air in Rome was full of tension. The Metellus family was either sick or staying at home, and they didn't even participate in the senate meeting.

Lysias, the tribune of the populace, formally prosecuted the Metellus family for having sent someone to assassinate Livi, and demanded that they be tried at the citizens' assembly and sentenced to death.

This incident caused a sensation again, and a large number of details were disclosed by the "Roman Daily".

The relationship between Scipio Metellus' personal slave and the assassins, coupled with the reaction of the Metellus family, all seem to confirm this point.

Many people believed that Li Wei would not let the Metellus family go, but the days passed, and Li Wei still did not take any action until the day before the civic assembly to try Metellus, Aquilinus suddenly asked Markian came out to meet.

"What did you say? You want to pay back the money."

Markian said in shock.

"Yes, what's the problem?"

Aquilinus said with a smile, unable to hide the pride in his eyes.

"Where did you get the money? That's 450,000 dinars."

Markian said.

"Accidentally picked it up, tell me how lucky I am."

Aquilinus said with a smile on his face.

Markian looked at this guy viciously, this damn guy, who gave him the money.

Either Metellus or Crassus, most likely Metellus, because he and Metellus had a secret meeting more than ten days ago.

"I hope to be able to pay off those debts today."

Aquilinus said.

"no problem."

Makian gritted his teeth and said.

After some handover, Ma Ji'an quickly reported this problem to Li Wei.

"So we didn't handle either of those two justices."

Li Wei sighed for a long time.

"Yes."

Markian said dejectedly.

"Since that's the case."

Li Wei thought for a while and said.

"Then what shall we do tomorrow?"

Markian said.

"Cold trip."

Levi said.

Markian widened his small round eyes, not understanding what Li Wei meant.

"One failure is not terrible, as long as we have the last laugh."

Li Wei said with a smile.

***

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The melodious trumpets sounded, and a large number of Roman citizens flocked from various urban areas to Mars Square outside the city.

Although this civic meeting is very important, in fact not many people participated, and many people have to run around for their lives.

Metellus came to Mars Square early, he didn't want to hear the horn sounding at the door of his house, it was a disgrace to the Metellus family.

At this time, tens of thousands of people had already gathered in the Mars Square. They were dressed in ordinary people's clothes, sitting or standing, but they still couldn't hide the military temperament on their bodies.

Metellus sneered, did Li Wei think that the trick he played was very good?

In fact, he is very clear about Li Wei's actions, and today he will let Li Wei return without success.

Not long after, a large number of Roman citizens came to the square, and the square became crowded with people.

At this time, Li Wei and Cicero also came, accompanied by a large number of guards.

Since the last assassination, Li Wei has always been accompanied by a large number of guards no matter where he goes.

Metellus walked up to Li Wei, seeing Metellus approaching, Li Wei and Cicero stopped talking, but looked at him with hostile eyes.

"Li Wei, it seems that you are well prepared today. The number of people attending the citizen meeting today is at least 30,000 more than usual."

Metellus said with a smile.

"It's just a little thing. If necessary, I can ask them to add 100,000 at any time."

Levi said.

The corner of Metellus' mouth twitched, but he admitted that Levi did have this ability.

"Although you sent so many people secretly, don't you think you won today?"

Metellus said.

"Maybe I can't win today, but I will definitely win in the end."

Li Wei said with a smile.

"You see we might as well make peace. I'm sorry for the assassination that happened last time, but I can assure you that I had no knowledge of it."

Metellus said.

"Why do you want to make peace? Obviously I will win."

Li Wei said, "You can stop today's citizens' assembly, but this month is already May, and two months later it will be the day when the finance officer and construction officer will be elected. I don't believe you have the ability to stop the citizens' assembly forever."

After hearing his words, Metellus felt bad.

"Can you keep them in Rome?"

"Of course, haven't you heard a saying that if you have money, you can do whatever you want?"

Levi said.

There are only four legions in the area, and he can fully support them, and he can transfer another crusader from the legion.

Coupled with the growing congregation in Rome and those who dislike him for killing Saturnin, it can be said that Metellus is dead.

"you……"

Metellus was too angry to speak.

"Metellus, going against me is the biggest mistake of your life."

Li Wei said coldly.

Metellus snorted coldly, and left here.

He knows that the matter is serious, and he can indeed prevent today's citizen assembly from being held.

However, the trial of death penalty cases is usually incidental to the convening of the citizens' assembly, that is, as long as the citizens' assembly is held in the future, he must attend.

And the closer the date of selecting the finance officer and the construction officer, the greater the pressure on him will be.