At this time, Cleopatra and her children lived together in a luxurious villa on the outskirts of Rome. As for Caesar, he often came to visit Cleopatra and his children. After all, the queen

So beautiful! So fascinating to us men.

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But what we need to understand now is that maybe there is no so-called justice and evil in this world. In fact, from my point of view, this concept is also related to the gods of our ancestors in ancient times.

The concept has the same existence. It can be said that it was just a so-called lie from the beginning. It is also the same concept as what we call law today. What we call justice is just the development of principles and things that we think are beneficial to us in human thought.

.And evil is the development of principles and things that we humans think are unfavorable to us. But if we stand in front of the so-called laws of nature and everything that can happen is reasonable, then whether it is justice or evil, in fact

All are reasonable.

But I personally divide justice or evil into the concept of selfishness based on my own thinking model. Why do I divide it like this? In fact, this is not difficult to understand. The ratio: the filial piety that our China has inherited from ancient times to the present.

Everyone thinks that as a human being, one must be filial to one's parents. This is also so-called, because our parents gave birth to us, and we must go through a process of repaying it. But if someone is not filial now, everyone will say that this person has no

Filial piety is wrong, it is the so-called evil.

It's just that in our era, I think that when a mother gives birth to a child, to a certain extent, a small part of this process is not the so-called selfless love, but has a certain clear purpose. For example, parenting

The purpose of children is to be nurtured in the future. Then there are some parents who treat their children badly. In short, to put it bluntly, many times it is not the so-called selfless love at all, but the selfishness of us humans.

For example, if a good person seeks welfare for the common people, everyone says he is just. So someone once asked me a question, asking me: What kind of behavior does a hero do to save all people? I remember my own answer at the time was: A hero saves all people, just

The hero selfishly wants to see the beauty of the world. So I think the so-called justice is also a kind of selfishness.

Then let’s talk about the bad guys. When a bad guy deprives other people of their lives or even their wealth, he also wants to make himself or his family live a better life. However, we humans like to call this kind of behavior evil, but

In my opinion, this is also purely selfish.

Okay, now that we have determined that if we judge justice and evil according to our human thinking model, the answer given is unified selfishness. At this point, the next question is easy to understand.

Caesar was working hard to reform for the sake of more common people, hoping that the quality of life of the common people would be better. Therefore, in the minds of the common people, Caesar was a just monarch. But Caesar's behavior was infinite.

It also deprived the Roman aristocrats of some of their original interests in disguise. We can also say that the Roman aristocrats had a great desire for wealth and even status, so they thought that Caesar's reform behavior was like a devil. Of course, this

This is what the nobles said about Caesar being evil.

And we have also talked about this contradiction before, so after some years of development of the Roman Empire, really only a few years, Caesar has been safeguarding the interests of Roman civilians, which persecuted the interests of the nobles. Although the civilians

They really like Caesar, and there are a lot of civilians, but the nobles are powerful, and they can also spend money to turn things from black to white. This is also a kind of magic power of money. Of course, also

You can use money to hire murderers and then kill people. In many cases, money can also go against the law. We won't explain this. Everyone should understand it.

So we mentioned before that the nobles wanted to kill Caesar, and they started to take action. On March 15, 44 BC, Caesar came to the Roman Senate for a meeting alone without any bodyguards. When Caesar

Not long after he sat down, an assassin hired by the nobles pretended to report the situation and came to Caesar. Suddenly he pulled out the dagger hidden in his chest and stabbed Caesar.

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At this time, Caesar was completely defenseless. It could be said that he fell to the ground in an instant. The other conspirators swarmed up and stabbed Caesar twenty-three times. When Caesar saw his most beloved adopted son,

When Brutus also stabbed him with a knife, Caesar shouted in despair: Boy, do you also want to kill me? After Caesar said this, he used his robe to kill his own head.

Covering up and letting everyone assassinate him, Caesar maintained his own dignity until his death!

Although Caesar died at this time, the wheels of the Roman Empire were already in motion, because we have talked a lot before. Caesar worked his entire life for the Roman Empire, and many of the rules and regulations that Caesar left behind are

It is still in use.

But after Caesar's death, the Roman nobles and the Senate temporarily gained the upper hand. We can also say that at this time, the Roman civilians began to live in dire straits again.

The Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, had only lived in a villa on the outskirts of Rome for a few years at this time. Suddenly she learned the news that Caesar had been assassinated, so she left Rome very sadly, and then returned to Rome.

to her Egypt.

But this period of the Egyptian Empire is completely different from before. In the past, the Pharaohs were so majestic! Even all countries had to pay tribute, but now the Egyptian Empire is, to put it bluntly, just like a slave country. The glory of the Egyptian Empire has long been gone.

The Egyptian Empire has long since become a piece of meat that can be slaughtered. Queen Cleopatra urgently needs to find a bigger backer to protect her. Currently, the Roman Empire is the most powerful, so

It was also necessary to find support from the Roman Empire.

Now let's put aside the matter of the Queen of Egypt, because the Roman monarch Caesar died, and there was a state of leaderlessness. At this time, we learned about the current city of Rome from another person, this person was Octavian.

I accepted a Rome city built of bricks, but left a Rome city of marble. This is what Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire, said with pride. Augustus's lifelong ambition was to make Rome

People were liberated from endless wars and could live in peace forever. He did fulfill his promise. During the forty-three years that Augustus ruled Rome, the Roman Empire entered the most prosperous period in history.

During the prosperous period, in view of Augustus's great achievements, when he died in August 14 AD, the Roman Senate listed him in the ranks of gods and named August Augustus to commemorate.

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Augustus' original name was Gaius Octavian, and Augustus was the title given to him by the Roman Senate, which means sacred, majestic, and great. When Octavian was four years old, his father

After his death, his mother married Marcus Philippus, and Octavian was raised by his stepfather from then on. When he was twelve years old, Octavian gave a speech at the funeral of his grandmother Julia

Eulogy, this was also the first time Octavian appeared in public. When he was fifteen years old, he was elected to the priesthood. At the moment when Caesar was assassinated, he was only nineteen years old and was in Apollonia.

The city, which is the area in today's Algeria, was receiving education and preparing for Caesar's expedition to Parthia, which is the area in today's Iran. Caesar donated three-quarters of his property in his own will.

Octavian and made Octavian his heir.

From here it is not difficult to see that Caesar was foresighted! Because Caesar knew that he was going against a group of extremely selfish people and would definitely not end well, so he made a will in advance, and the people in the Senate did not

It can be said that they themselves killed their own Roman monarch, so Caesar's will became very important. This was something that the Roman Senate and nobles did not expect.

So when Octavian learned about Caesar's assassination, he quickly returned to Rome, using the power of Caesar's will, and even Caesar's favor for himself and Caesar's influence, and this began

Activities seeking Roman domination. Octavian asked Caesar's general, the consul Antony, who held the actual power of the Roman army at this time, to inherit Caesar's power, but Antony rejected him!

From here it is not difficult to see that for Antony, holding real power is actually more important than Caesar's will, so Antony does not take Caesar's will seriously.

At this time, Octavian also understood that if he wanted to gain power, he must have an army of his own and then kill Antony! For this reason, Octavian raised funds everywhere, even auctioned off his family property, and recruited Caesar

In less than a year, Octavian had formed his own army.

This is actually very easy to understand. Although Antony held real power, he still could not manage Caesar's old troops well, because Caesar's old troops only liked Caesar and did not like Antony, and Antony also dismissed Caesar

So when Octavian, the heir recognized by Caesar, recruited him, Caesar's old troops must have been organized.

In 43 BC, Octavian already had an army, and while Antony was away fighting, he led his army into Rome. The Senate saw that Octavian had a strong army, so they had no choice but to compromise and approved Octavian's army.
Chapter completed!