My XX deal with Sister Nero

"Passu, now is not the time to talk about good intentions but bad results. The key point now is how we should solve the crisis at hand." Spurius frowned and said, "It is obvious that the public opinion in Rome is now being pushed by the Claudius family behind the scenes. In other words, regardless of whether this assassination has anything to do with us, they now want to use it as an excuse to attack us."

"What should we do? What can we do?" Another elder named Vitori sighed and said, "It's just a media attack now. We don't know your Majesty's next step..."

Just as Vittori finished his words, the door of the Senate Hall was suddenly pushed open roughly, and a young general of the Guards rushed in with dozens of Guards soldiers. The general glanced at the stunned senators present, sneered and said, "Come on, please bring that, that, and this senator to the Guards camp!"

"Yes!" Dozens of soldiers behind the general looked at the three elders pointed out by their general, and then responded and rushed towards the three elders in three groups.

"General Finius! What are you doing!" Seeing the Guards rushing in to arrest people with great fanfare, Vanore's face darkened, and he looked at the general leading the team and asked in a deep voice.

"What? Elder Vanore, instead of asking me, you might as well ask these three elders what they did." Finius sneered and said, "Three elders, I think you should know why I arrested you. It's my duty."

"You..." Looking at the guards rushing towards him, one of the senators' face suddenly changed. He certainly knew why this Finius arrested him, because he had sent people to find the governor of Aosta and asked him to take the blame so that his majesty's anger could be calmed down in the shortest time possible.

But no one would take the blame for no reason, and the chief executive was no exception. After a few days of stalemate, Tony came to Aosta to investigate the assassination of Agrippina the Younger.

Then, the truth came out.

What these senators wanted at the time was to let the chief executive take the blame and to prevent Nero from taking the opportunity to attack the Senate. However, they did not expect that... they would end up losing more than they gained. Not only did they fail to achieve their set goals, but they also brought disaster upon themselves and allowed the Claudius family to catch them.

"If you have anything to say, let's go to the Guards camp and talk slowly." Finius looked at the three elders with a fake smile and waved his hand, saying, "Take them away!"

"Yes." Under the command of Finius, the three senators were escorted to the Guards camp by several Guards.

"Damn it!"

After the guards left, Vanore slammed the table and said angrily, "You... made decisions on your own. See! This is what happened to those three idiots!"

After listening to Vanore's words, Seneca shook his head slightly. Although he didn't know why, Tony seemed to have been disliked by the Senate for a long time, and seemed to have always been targeting the Senate and the Guards.

It's obvious that it was Tony who took advantage of the situation this time!

He... is it really so simple to capture three elders?

Chapter 383: The Senate... Use the Knife

Unlike the Nero recorded in the world Tony lived in in his previous life, the Nero in this world is not only not a tyrant, she even has a slight aversion to killing.

Of course, later archaeological and historical research proved that Nero, the world where Tony lived in his previous life, actually didn't like killing very much.

If possible, Nero would never take the initiative to kill or hurt anyone.

However, in some cases, this does not apply to Nero.

For example...when it comes to whether my brother and I can truly be together.

Because he was oppressed by Agrippina the Younger when he was a child, Nero had developed a certain obsession after exiling his mother. He couldn't even control his own mother. Shouldn't he get what he wanted? If anyone dared to obstruct... he would kill them!

It was obvious that the Senate was the one preventing her and her brother from being truly together.

In that case, then...let's cut it off.

And these three senators were the unlucky ones, or rather, it was Nero's determination to take action against the Senate.

The Royal Guards went out to arrest the three senators, and even marched them through the streets openly. This... seemed to confirm one thing from the side.

The Senate is indeed related to the assassination of the Queen Mother!

This time, the whole city of Rome was in an uproar!

The Senate assassinated the Queen Mother, how could this be tolerated?

To the public, the Senate’s reputation is neither good nor bad.

As we all know, the former Roman Republic was a republic, but this republic referred to an aristocratic republic. Although commoners occasionally came to power, these commoners were either assimilated into aristocrats or excluded by other aristocratic elders.

There are no real civilian elders.

After these three senators were arrested, Tony, who did not have a good impression of the senators, unceremoniously ordered the Guards to take action, requiring them to "thoroughly investigate the case of the Senate assassinating the Queen Mother."

Listen, at this time Tony had directly classified the case as the assassination of the Queen Mother by the Senate, and did not give the three senators any chance to refute.

What about the three arrested elders? As nobles, they had never experienced such a scene before. After a little intimidation, the three elders almost rushed to reveal all their plans.

"You said that you were worried that His Majesty would take the opportunity to attack the Senate, so you took a step ahead and wanted the governor of Aosta to take the blame?"

In the Praetorian Guard camp in the southeast corner of Rome, Tony lowered his head and glanced at the confession on the cloth. Suddenly he raised his head and looked at the three elders kneeling in front of him, and asked in a somewhat unpredictable tone.

"Yes, Your Highness, everything we said is true!" Seeing Tony's interested expression, these elders did not dare to say any more nonsense. They could only kowtow continuously, hoping that His Royal Highness would spare their lives.

"Every word is true? Do you believe what you said?" Tony sneered, gently pointed at the confession, and said with disdain: "Are you worried that His Majesty will take the opportunity to attack the Senate, so you want to force the chief executive of Aosta to take the blame? I say, do you think that I am a child and therefore easy to deceive?"

"No..." One of the elders opened his mouth, thinking that His Highness was a child and therefore easy to deceive? What a joke! Who dares to underestimate His Highness's wisdom?!

"No?" Tony narrowed his eyes slightly, suddenly slammed the table, and said angrily: "If you are really worried that His Majesty will take this opportunity to attack the Senate, why don't you just find the real murderer? Or... do you actually already know who the murderer is? Are you just looking for a scapegoat?"

"No, Your Highness!" The three elders looked at each other and cold sweat instantly broke out.

Doesn't this sentence imply that the Senate is the murderer? !

"No? Then explain to me why you want someone else to take the blame instead of finding the murderer yourself?" Tony asked the three elders with a sneer.

"This... because... it's faster to find someone to take the blame than to find the murderer..." An elder lowered his head, not daring to look up at Tony.

"Really?" Tony shook his head, stood up and looked at Finius who was standing beside him, and said, "General Finius, is this the answer you gave me? Think about it yourself, are you satisfied with this answer?"

Hearing Tony's honorifics, Finius broke out in a cold sweat. The look in the boy's eyes, and the aura he exuded... If he really killed himself because he was not satisfied with the answer, I'm afraid that even Bruce, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Guards, would not dare to say anything.

"Your Highness, I know... what to do." After swallowing with some difficulty, Finius lowered his head and replied.

"Then, I hope you can give me an answer that satisfies me." After patting Finius' arm and giving him a few words of encouragement, Tony left the Royal Guards camp.

Overall, Nero still had a certain degree of control over the Praetorian Guard.

In addition to captains like Finius who are loyal to Nero, the current commander of the Praetorian Guard, Bruce, like Seneca, is also Nero's teacher. However, although he can guarantee the loyalty of some officers to him, Nero cannot guarantee the loyalty of others.

After Tony left, Finius slowly turned his head and looked at the three elders kneeling on the ground, and said with a fake smile: "Your Highness, did you all hear clearly what he said? If you can tell me something that he wants to hear, it will be good for both you and me. But if you can't tell me these things, then... I'm afraid you will have to suffer some physical pain."

……

After leaving the Guards camp, Tony looked up at the sun in the sky. He had made his attitude so clear. He believed that Finius should be able to understand what he meant and provide him with some answers that he might be interested in, right?

The Senate...although it is the most essential part of the Roman Empire and the true elite of the empire, what is the point of keeping these disobedient elites?

It would be better to just replace them with a group of obedient elites.

As for how to replace it...it depends on the methods of General Finius.

Of course, Tony had no intention of giving General Finius a good ending.

Finius Rufus, the new commander of the Praetorian Guard who took office after Bruce's death, was one of Nero's confidants. He was also one of the generals who betrayed his majesty in 68 AD. Together with Sophnius Tigenenus, another confidant of Nero and also one of the commanders of the Praetorian Guard, they responded to the Senate's call for "public enemy" and abandoned their emperor, which directly led to Nero's misjudgment of the situation and his eventual suicide.

Now, Nero is Tony's designated wife. What? You want to kill my wife? Fine, I'll kill you first.

Chapter 384: Forcing Wendykes to rebel!

In a sense, Finius was indeed unlucky.

Phineus was a very opportunistic person. Since he became a member of the Praetorian Guard, he had been constantly trying to curry favor with powerful people. In the past few years, he finally succeeded in currying favor with Nero.

At that time, Nero was just a princess, but because Drusus was dead and Tony was missing, there were no external competitors, so Nero was already the confirmed successor to the emperor. So, in addition to Finius, there were many people who wanted to curry favor with Nero.

And Phineus also knew that compared with these big guys, he was just an exempted veteran of the Guards and had nothing to show for Nero's attention. The only thing he could do was to be loyal.

Absolute loyalty to Nero.

It was precisely because of this loyalty that Finius was now able to take the position of captain of the Guards. Even according to the calculation of time, it would not be long before he could go one step further and become an excellent tribune of the Guards.

His loyalty naturally won the trust of His Majesty, but it could not win the trust of His Royal Highness Prince O'Donnell.

In his previous life, Tony had commented that the Roman Empire's Praetorian Guard was nothing more than a "mercenary army in the guise of a professional army." The essence of this was to mock this group of Praetorian Guards, who could even assassinate the emperor for money in the later period.

Sometimes Tony even thought, if Augustus knew that the Guards he founded originally to protect the head of the empire would later become such an army, he would probably scatter Tiberius' ashes directly into the Tiber River, right?

Far away.

Although the Guards were relatively loyal at the moment, Tony knew that in a dozen years or so, this seemingly loyal Guards would do something extremely treasonous, that is, respond to the Senate and abandon the emperor.

But at that time Seneca had retired and Bruce had died, and the two major commanders of the Praetorian Guard had almost been replaced, and these two new commanders were considered by Nero to be his confidants... hehe.

Judging from this point alone, Tony's attitude towards these two people is very simple: they can be reused, but not trusted.

……

Finius understood what Tony meant.

Tony was not satisfied with this confession. His dissatisfaction was not about whether these elders told the truth, but whether they bit the Senate.

So, His Royal Highness's meaning was very simple. He wanted a confession, a confession that looked real and was unfavorable to the Senate.

In fact, Finius was a man of both civil and military talents. Needless to say, his military prowess was outstanding. As the captain of the Imperial Guard and a middle-level general, he must have some military proficiency. As for the civil aspect... To be honest, the reason why he could later become the commander of the Imperial Guard, besides his absolute loyalty at the moment, the most important thing was that he knew what the people above him wanted.

Such as now.

Under the preparation of Finius, a confession that satisfied Tony was soon produced.

"Good." In the study of the palace, Tony looked at the confession handed over by Finius and nodded with great satisfaction.

The content of the confession was very simple. It simply stated that the Senate was very dissatisfied with Nero's suppression, so several senators chose to unite and assassinate Agrippina the Younger as a warning, hoping that the Claudius family would be more restrained.

Strictly speaking, the content of the confession was very vague. It did not say that this was planned by the Senate, but generally stated that it was an assassination planned by several senators. As for whether the Senate was behind it... no one knows.

"But... Your Highness, there is one thing I don't understand." Looking at Tony, Finius suddenly gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice: "Why did Your Highness specifically instruct that Elder Wendex's name must appear on this?"

"Why? It's simple. I just want to force this elder to show his true colors." Tony said with a cruel smile on his face.

That's right, Tony intends to take advantage of the opportunity to take action against this most radical veteran!

Gaius Julius Vindex, a senator and governor of the Gaul province of Lugdon, was the initiator of the last major rebellion during Nero's reign. In February 68 AD, Vindex joined forces with Galba to launch a rebellion. Although Vindex's rebels were quickly wiped out by the Germanic Legion, Nero, who received false information, mistakenly believed that the entire Roman Empire was in the midst of war at this moment, and that Gaul and Spain had already separated from the empire. Therefore, this emperor who admired art finally chose to commit suicide on June 2, 68 AD.

If it comes to completely destroying the Senate, sorry, Tony really doesn't dare to do it. After all, the senators in the Senate are currently the backbone of the entire Roman Empire. If the Senate is completely destroyed, then there will undoubtedly be a large amount of power vacuum in the Roman Empire from the central to the local levels. For a country, this is very fatal. But forcing a senator to death...ha, is this a big deal?

That’s right, Tony plans to force Windykes to rebel ahead of time!

In the history of Tony's world in his previous life, it can be said that Windykes had many allies in his rebellion, whether it was Galba or the Senate that declared Nero the "public enemy". Moreover, due to certain policies at that time, Nero was not as popular as he was ten years ago. At the same time, there was a Jewish rebellion in the East, Britain had just experienced a great rebellion of Boudica, and even in Rome, Christians were crazy about the death of the heavens and the rise of the yellow ones. Not to mention that he was deserted by his friends and relatives, but at least Nero's reputation in the empire at this time was far less than when he first ascended the throne.

It was in such an environment that Vindice rebelled. Although he was defeated, he successfully created an excuse for the Senate to declare Nero as the "public enemy."

But what about now? It is now 55 AD. Although Nero in this world is also very incompetent and does not care about state affairs, she still has a group of capable ministers headed by Seneca. The new inheritance law announced by Nero in the past few years also makes her very popular among the people. At the same time, St. Peter is still alive, and the Christians have not started to make crazy demands. Even because of Tony, the Senate and the Guards have to avoid him.

This is the most prosperous moment of the Claudius family, and it is also the best time to take action!

Wendex didn't know that at this moment, he had already been on the blacklist of His Royal Highness the Prince.

"Mr. Windex, three of our colleagues have been arrested. What do you think we should do?" In a secret room next to the Senate Hall, a senator looked at Windex anxiously and asked.

"What are you panicking about?" Wendex glanced at the young elder who was speaking, and said with disdain, "We are upright and honest. Whether there is a plan to assassinate the Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Prince have no evidence in their hands. What can they do to us?"

Chapter 385: Sacrificing Pawns to Save the Chariot

What Wendykes said does sound reasonable.

The assassination of Agrippina the Younger really had nothing to do with the Senate. After all, if you really had to say it, it was nothing more than a few senators who were crazy and wanted to force the governor of Aosta to take the blame in order to shut Nero up and prevent Nero from taking the opportunity to attack the Senate.

Moreover, after thinking for a long time, Windex still couldn't think of any reason why Nero had to take action against the Senate.

That's right, for now, although the Senate and the Claudius family are not on good terms, at least there are certain rules of the game in the political confrontation between the two sides, and it has not yet come to the point where they have to force the other side to death. Whether it is the Senate or the Claudius family, what they want is nothing more than power. However, he never expected that the biggest variable in the middle would be Tony.

If Tony traveled to the Roman Empire in the previous world and became Nero's younger brother, the unlucky Bonitanicus, he would probably not only not help Nero, but might kill his brother first. But unfortunately, he came to the Roman Empire in the Type-Moon world, the Roman Empire ruled by his wife.

Therefore, he will definitely overcome all difficulties for the sake of his wife in his previous life, who is his sister in this life, such as... killing Wendex!

Soon, under Tony's arrangement, a piece of news spread among the people again.

In order to warn His Majesty, several senators in the Senate chose to assassinate the Queen Mother!

Although the entire confession still has some major loopholes, it is at least logically tenable and sufficient to manipulate public opinion.

Therefore, under Tony's secret promotion, many emotional Roman citizens gathered outside the gate of the Senate Hall to oppose the Senate, or to be more specific, they demanded that the planner of this incident, Senator Windex, be stripped of his senator status and the post of governor of the province of Lugdon in Gaul.

Windex was dazed, so dazed that he didn't even know what was going on.

Oh no, wait a minute, what does the assassination of Agrippina the Younger have to do with the Senate? Okay, even if you say that there are a few senators in the Senate who are really stupid and want to force the governor of Aosta to take the blame...but what does this have to do with me?

I, Windex, haven’t done anything well, okay?!

Are you poisonous?!

How can you be so shameless at such a young age?!

Windykes was very angry and very sad. Although he was very radical, he was not stupid. At least, he was not stupid enough to assassinate the Queen Mother.

After all, assassinating the Queen Mother would do no good to either the Senate or himself.