My XX deal with Sister Nero

But Tony is different. The priest at his engagement ceremony is Romulus, the ancestor of gods!

The sacrifice in the engagement ceremony is very simple. It is nothing more than telling your ancestors that your descendant can get married. Then the priest will pick an auspicious day and determine the time for the wedding. At this point, the engagement ceremony is almost over.

But Tony's engagement ceremony...something went wrong.

Based on Boudica's understanding of the Romans, she naturally chose June as the wedding date. After all, this was the recognized wedding month in the Roman Empire and a very auspicious and suitable time period for marriage. However, this... was unanimously opposed by Nero and Tony.

"Your Majesty, I think... the marriage may need to be delayed a little." Inside the Pantheon, Tony stared at Boudica and said.

"Huh? Why?" Boudica was stunned for a moment and asked curiously.

Chapter 356: Bustling City of Rome

"I know what Her Majesty the Queen is thinking. Now that the marriage is set, the matter of marriage should also be put on the agenda, right?" Tony glanced at the statues in the Pantheon and said briefly, "Because Zhao Hong won't need much time in the Pantheon for the engagement ceremony, I'll just briefly explain it. After that, we can go to the palace to discuss the details."

"Yeah." Boudica nodded. There was no problem with that.

"According to the laws enacted by Augustus, the engagement ceremony must wait until both the man and the woman are ten years old at the very least. But considering that the Iceni Kingdom is almost in danger right now, if we don't get married immediately, I'm afraid there will be no Iceni Kingdom in a year. So it is with this factor in mind that I made an exception and agreed to my sister's proposal, that is, to get engaged right now." Tony turned his head and glanced at his sister as he spoke.

Speaking of the age limit for the engagement ceremony, Tony had never really thought about it before. After all, in his previous life, he was just an amateur and not very familiar with Roman history. In this life, he wanted to marry Nero wholeheartedly. This... his sister is already 18 years old. She will be an adult in two thousand years. What is he afraid of? Is he afraid that he can't get married in this world?

As for the engagement with Princess Ryan... Nero didn't even discuss it with Tony at the beginning and just made the decision, okay?!

"Your Highness...you are right." Although she was reluctant to admit it, Boudica knew that what Tony said was true.

The tradition of engagement began in the Republican period, but there was no age limit at that time, so the lower age limit for engagement was very low.

Later, Octavian probably thought that you guys were too perverted, so he enacted a law to set a lower age limit for engagement, which was ten years old. In principle, if one of the two parties is under the age of ten, engagement is not allowed.

Tony is okay, he is already thirteen years old, but Princess Ryan...she is only nine years old, not even ten years old, okay!

After the Decianus incident, although the Iceni Kingdom was restored, it faced an embarrassing situation where it had no soldiers, no generals, and no money. It was precisely for this reason that the Iceni Kingdom was eager to cling to the Roman Empire to prevent itself from being annexed by other countries.

Tony and Nero both understood this.

Princess Ryan is now a little over nine years old, so she can be calculated as ten years old. In other words, this just meets the law set by Augustus, so there is no problem.

However, according to the laws of the Roman Empire, the marriage age for women is twelve years old. You are nine years old but less than ten years old... the gap is a bit big, isn't it hard to fool people? !

"So, Your Highness means..." Boudica asked with a frown.

"Let's postpone the marriage. Since you're already engaged, I'm sure other Celtic tribes won't be targeting you for the time being, so... let's postpone the marriage for now. We'll discuss the specific time in the palace." Tony looked at Boudica with a serious face and said.

"..." After a slight hesitation, Boudica nodded. After all... the Roman Empire did have such a rule regarding the marriage age.

But... I always feel that His Royal Highness the Prince has other intentions.

For some reason, Boudica always felt that the reason why Tony tried to postpone the wedding was not because of the issue of marriageable age as he said, but because of... some other reason.

Maybe this is a woman's intuition?

After the preliminary negotiations in the Pantheon, Boudica, Princess Ryan, Tony and others walked towards the direction of the royal palace.

At this point, the entire engagement ceremony is almost over.

"Your Highness...when do you plan to get married?" As soon as she returned to the palace, Boudica asked Tony without any hesitation.

"I'm sure I can't determine the exact time, but at least we have to wait until three years later." Tony said after a moment of hesitation.

Three years later, when the princess was about twelve years old... legally speaking, the princess had reached the legal age for marriage, and for Tony...

The legal marriage age for men is fourteen. Although Tony is not yet of marriageable age, can't he get married in a few months?

And in three years, in three years, I should be able to persuade the Senate to let my elder sister and I be together, right?

Just as Tony and Boudica were discussing the specific time of their wedding, on the other side, outside the city of Rome.

Looking at the red cloth hanging on the city wall, Attila asked Gilgamesh with a cold expression: "What happened here?"

Although Attila had understood along the way that the representative colors of the Roman Empire were red and gold, the simple red cloth and the red cloth with gold edges that he had seen in other cities before...something seemed a little wrong no matter how he looked at it.

"This... I am not very clear about what happened." Gilgamesh shook his head, but just because he didn't know, it didn't mean that the people didn't know.

After asking someone at random, Gilgamesh roughly understood what was happening in Rome at the moment.

"Prince Odeni...engaged?" After hearing Gilgamesh's words, Attila still had a cold expression on his face.

"Yes, Prince Odeni, the Roman prince who commanded the war against Cefalu." Gilgamesh nodded. As a being summoned by the restraining force, he had contact with Tony and of course knew some general information about this prince.

But... His Royal Highness seems to be only twelve or thirteen years old this year? How come he is engaged so soon?

"That Roman prince...well, I will go meet him." Attila nodded.

The prince was getting engaged. At this moment, the whole city of Rome was filled with enthusiasm. The most intuitive feeling was that because a lot of militiamen were mobilized for the engagement ceremony, there was an obvious shortage of militiamen near the city gate responsible for checking passers-by.

After sneaking into the city with a few gold coins, Gilgamesh and Attila first found a small inn to stay in.

Considering that this glittering golden armor would easily attract people's attention, Gilgamesh quickly changed into a typical Mesopotamian outfit after settling down... Although this non-Roman outfit could still attract a lot of attention on the street, it was much better than that flashy armor no matter how you looked at it.

At almost the same time, in the eastern suburbs of Rome.

"Is this the so-called residential area ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince..." A young girl in a white gauze dress and with beautiful long silver hair looked at the construction site in front of her and muttered to herself thoughtfully.

Chapter 357: What on earth is this little devil planning? !

Tony didn't know that the city of Rome at this moment could almost be described as bustling.

As the most prosperous city in the whole of Europe and one of the largest cities on the entire earth at this moment, the daily throughput of Rome can be said to be astonishing. Of course, with Tony in this city, no matter whether it is his enemies or companions, they will eventually gather in this city.

"Miss..., this is a construction site. It's a bit dangerous. Could you please step back a little?" Looking at the girl in a white gauze dress standing next to the construction site in the community, a militiaman on guard came up to the girl with a spear and said.

"I understand." The girl smiled at the militiaman, nodded, turned and left the construction site.

A pretty nice soldier, isn't he?

"Is this... Rome? The most prosperous city in the world." Looking at the bustling crowds on the streets through the city gate not far away, the girl smiled slightly and reached out to touch the red round decoration on her white gauze skirt.

Well, let me see for myself whether this world needs to be destroyed, just as Floros observed.

“Rome city… Although I didn’t make it to that battle, now that I can move freely, it’s time for me to search personally to see if there is anyone who can kill me.” On Mount Ianniculus in the north of Rome, an old man with long purple hair and wearing strange purple tights… A 17-year-old girl looked at Rome city expressionlessly and muttered to herself.

……

"Huh...finally done." After seeing Boudica off, Tony sat at his desk and let out a long sigh.

Boudica did not intend to make things difficult for Nero and his sister. After all, the minimum age limit for engagement and marriage was clearly written in the laws of the Roman Empire, and Tony had no say in it. So Boudica did not want to get married within this year. All she wanted was a promise, a promise of a specific time period for marriage.

Three years later, Tony will marry Princess Ryan and hold a grand wedding for her.

This is Tony's promise to Boudica.

After getting a more definite answer, Boudica originally planned to keep Princess Ryan in the palace as his fiancée, but this was rejected by Tony on the spot!

"Your Majesty, in my Roman Empire, there is no custom for the fiancée to live in the man's house in advance. I hope Your Majesty can understand." Tony stood up straight, looked at Boudica with a righteous face, and said.

What a joke! Now that I have made my relationship with my sister clear, I don’t know who our Majesty learned this from, but now he has developed a habit of night raids, okay!

Thinking back to the night before the engagement, Tony was lying in bed, about to fall asleep, when he suddenly saw the door being pushed open, and then saw Nero tiptoeing in.

Oh my god, I almost thought there was a thief in the palace!

Normally it was fine, Nero could still tell the difference between the important and the unimportant, but what if one day Nero suddenly got angry and wanted to launch a night attack... what would happen then? !

"...Okay." Although Tony looked righteous and upright, Boudica always felt that this kid was hiding something from her.

Think about it carefully... Odney is located on the border of the Roman Empire's British province. It is a small town with only dozens of households. As the emperor's younger brother, and a very favored younger brother... How could he be enfeoffed here? And it was our prince's strong request.

This was weird from the beginning, wasn't it?

This is not to mention Nero's sudden promotion of polygamy and Tony's backstabbing of Decianus.

Yes, that's right, it was indeed not fair for Decianus to take advantage of Prasutagus' death to annex the Iceni Kingdom, but Tony... judging from his previous performance, this guy is not an ordinary kid at all. He has been on the battlefield, and fought against the Praetorian Guards and the Senate in Rome. Judging from his performance in all aspects, this guy can basically be said to be a person with certain political vision and skills.

When a politician learned that Decianus had annexed the Kingdom of Iceni, even if he would curse Decianus in his heart for doing things in an unkind way, he would never show it on his face. Not only would he not show it, but he would also applaud and encourage Decianus and support him in doing so, because for the Roman Empire, Decianus's approach was right.

However, this guy stabbed Decianus in the back.

Of course, judging from the result, Tony is the biggest winner of the whole incident, because now he is the Governor of the British Province and the ruler of the entire British Province!

So...what is the purpose of this little devil?

Although she was not very clear about the reason, Boudica always felt that Tony was planning something, and what he was planning seemed to have some subtle connection with his marriage to his daughter.

"I'm so tired." Tony lay on the chair with a look of despair on his face. He always felt that Boudica seemed to be testing something with her words today, but he was tight-lipped and didn't let her find out anything.

Forget it, forget it.

With the help of his maids, Tony took off the complicated and heavy toga and put on a simpler one. Then he returned to his study and began to deal with some accumulated political affairs.

At this moment, Nero was in the study, frowning and looking at Evebia, and asked in disbelief: "General Evebia, are you sure?"

"Your Majesty." Iphbia smiled bitterly at Nero and replied, "Gilgamesh's armor is very conspicuous. Among the generals of the Roman Empire and even the surrounding countries that I know of, no one wears a set of golden armor. Only this ancient king dresses like this. And beside him, the girl with brown skin... Although there are indeed many people with this skin color, the sword of Mars in the girl's hand... There should be no other sword in the world."

When Nero went to the city of Gallia, as the captain of his majesty's personal guard, Evebia naturally followed him. So she had seen Gilgamesh and the Sword of Mars in Cefalu's hand, and she... would not make a mistake.

"Why does Gilgamesh appear here? And...that Cefalu, why did he become the size of a normal human?" Sitting in front of the desk, Nero frowned and thought.

PS: I have nothing to do today, there will be another chapter later

Chapter 358: Scheherazade

Nero didn't know why Gilgamesh and Cefalu appeared here, nor did she know why Cefalu could change to the size of a normal person, but she knew one thing.

This is Rome, which, together with the surrounding area, has a population of one million. It is the largest city in continental Europe and an impregnable fortress!

Putting aside whether the garrison in Rome and the beings with heroic spirit abilities combined are a match for these two, the very least, if a fight were to take place in Rome, the aftermath of the battle would inevitably destroy the city’s buildings, and even... cause casualties among the citizens.

This is something that Nero, as the emperor, would never allow to happen!

"By the way! Where is my brother? Where is he now?" After thinking for two seconds, Nero suddenly slapped the table, stood up, and asked anxiously.

Damn it! I overlooked the most crucial thing!

My younger brother! He was the commander-in-chief who fought against Sefalu before!

If this Sefalu meets his younger brother, then... what will be the consequences?

"Ah? Your Highness? Your Highness should still be in his bedroom, right?" Evebia was stunned for a moment, then said uncertainly.

"Should? What do you mean by should?" Nero said to Evebia in a panic, "Pass the order down, go to my brother's bedroom and confirm whether my brother is still in the palace. Quick!"

"Yes!" Evebia, who instantly realized the seriousness of the situation, responded and personally led several soldiers to run towards Tony's bedroom.

At this moment, after a whole morning of engagement ceremony, our Prince Tony was strolling on a commercial street in Rome with several guards and maids.

To be honest, Tony really feels bored sometimes without those stupid netizens, GTA5, and various games from i-Studio and Paradox.

But what can I do when I am bored? I can’t go back to my original world. Besides strolling around the streets or reading novels of this era, what else can I do to kill time?

But...some things in this era are really interesting.

Speaking of which, Tony has been thinking about something recently.

What will this world be like two thousand years from now? Will there be another me in this world two thousand years from now? What will I look like two thousand years from now? Is he also called Xiao Yun? Does he have the money to buy action figures?

Probably not.

"How about leaving him some money? Or... some artwork or something. That way, two thousand years from now, I should be able to buy my own wife with this money!"

It is undeniable that Tony can be a bit coquettish sometimes...even more so than Mr. K.

Just as Tony was strolling around this commercial street, suddenly, a group of people not far away caught his attention.

This group of people are similar to Tony and his group, with maids and guards. Anyone who is not stupid or blind can basically tell at a glance that this group of people should be the followers of a noble, and the leader, the one surrounded by the crowd, should be a noble.

only……

"There shouldn't be any officials from Africa in my Roman Empire, right?" Tony scratched his head thoughtfully, then suddenly turned his head and whispered to Mary who was standing next to him.

"Ah... Your Highness, although the empire has officials from Africa, these officials are basically of Latin descent." Mary certainly understood what Tony wanted to ask, so she lowered her body and answered.

"Really..." Tony nodded. Since the senior officials of the empire are basically of Latino descent, then the dark-skinned girl in front of him... should not be the family member of any imperial official.

And... this girl wearing a veil and somewhat revealing clothes... I always feel like I've seen her somewhere.

"This boy... is he looking at me?"

Obviously, Tony's somewhat presumptuous gaze naturally attracted the attention of the girl in black stockings. Judging from the boy's clothes and the attitude of the people around him, this... should be a noble.

This dark-skinned girl was named Scheherazade. She came from an island country called Sassanid in the Arabian Sea. Her father was the prime minister of this country. This time they came... to seek asylum from the Roman Empire.

Due to the problems with the Parthian Empire's national policy, many tribes in the southern coastal areas and the eastern mountains were ready to replace the current Parthian royal family. In order to cope with the impending large-scale civil war, the Parthian Emperor Vologases I intervened in Armenia's internal affairs by force shortly after he ascended the throne, and instigated a rebellion in the east of the Roman Empire, triggering a war between Parthia and the Roman Empire.