Chapter 879 Otrus’ Gift

Zhang Heng was still investigating the true identity of Ortrus, but unexpectedly he received a gift from Ortrus first.

This gift was what Otrus promised to give him when they first met.

But nothing happened for a while. Zhang Heng thought that Otrus had forgotten about the gift. After all, Otrus also said that Zhang Heng had a great effect after drinking the glass of wine containing scopolamine. You may forget what happened next.

So in theory, even if he fails to fulfill his promise, no one will know.

However, people of Otrus's level obviously don't like to break their promises, even if the person he promised may not even remember it. Zhang Heng got a card at noon two weeks later, and there was no signature on the card. , just wrote a meaningless sentence "Your gift has been delivered, I hope you like it".

And in the afternoon, a shocking news suddenly broke out from the Senate, saying that Senator Divebraye was suspected of accepting bribes, and the amount was not small. Bribery was a very serious crime in Rome. Depending on the amount, even Treason was punishable by death and exile, although generally this crime was committed by lower-level officials.

Real nobles basically have a way to clean themselves up after receiving money, let alone a big shot like Divebraye. He will never come forward to accept bribes in person. Even if something goes wrong, he can only trace it to the following people. Otherwise, the Jewish Gang Lockyd and the others wouldn't have to worry about Divebraye becoming more and more greedy. At worst, they would bring this matter to the Senate, and both sides would be deadlocked.

In fact, there was nothing Lockyd could do about the vampire in the Jewish gang. Otherwise, there would be no need to make an agreement with Zhang Heng. He was willing to allow the patrol team, Soap and others to gain development space in exchange for Zhang Heng helping him solve this trouble.

But this time, Zhang Heng learned from the news he received that the situation in Divobraye was very pessimistic. The evidence exposed was very detailed, and there were many witnesses. The most terrible thing was that the corruption occurred at almost the same time. All while Divebraye was working as financial officer.

The largest amount was related to a newly built park in Rome.

This park was built by the former emperor Aurelius in memory of his deceased wife. The royal family was responsible for most of the funding. In addition, there were donations from many nobles. According to the news currently obtained, Diva Braye secretly Swallowed a third of the money. And by using this money, he offended the royal family and many nobles who subsequently invested. The situation was very serious.

However, those who can enter the Senate are not fuel-efficient lamps. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that someone is attacking Divebraye, because the evidence produced by the other party is so complete and perfect, it is obviously premeditated. Yes, but even so, everyone in the Senate had to admit that the opponent's move was indeed very powerful.

Because even if it is forgery, being able to forge evidence to this extent shows that the energy possessed by the other party is very powerful. Usually at this time, all the senators in the Senate will choose to stand behind Divebraye. After all, the other party today You can use this trick to deal with Divaublaye, and you can use this trick against them tomorrow. Who can enter the Senate these days will be completely clean behind his back, not to mention that Divaublaye rarely does anything. Even if he offends people, his popularity in the Senate has always been very good.

What everyone didn't expect was that very few people came out to support Divobraye in the first place this time.

On the one hand, the incident happened so suddenly that no one had any information before. The evidence and accusations were suddenly brought out by a young senator who usually had little presence in the Senate. No one has yet figured out which force is behind him, especially The nobles who had donated money in the park would not feel very good when they learned that their money had fallen into Divabraye's pocket, and there was no reason for them to immediately stand up to support him.

On the other hand, because Diva Braye sided with the young emperor in the matter of the Binotta Mine, it also caused dissatisfaction on the other side. The neutral image he had always created was weakened, just because there was no Conclusive evidence, no one has come to trouble him during this period.

On the contrary, some elders close to the royal family stood up and said a few words for Divaubraye, but in this way, it seemed that Diveubraye's stance towards the royal family was further confirmed.

But Divebraye has no choice now. With his past connections in the Senate, no matter who plans to make any waves, he can always get some news in advance, but this time the big wave is aimed at He came, but he knew nothing about it before and was completely kept in the dark. This in itself is a very scary thing.

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Zhang Heng may be one of the few people in Rome who knows who attacked Divobraye in the first place. At the same time, he also knows very well that this is not only Otrus showing favor to him, but also Austria. Truth's warning to him.

Otrus played this skill very beautifully. While completing the gift-giving agreement, he also used this incident to show off his muscles to him.

In just two weeks, Otrus was able to unearth so much dirty information about Divobraye, making an influential senator in the Senate so embarrassed. His planning and execution abilities are top-notch, and he is worthy of it. As the chief advisor to Commodus, Klind has always regarded Otrus as his competitor. However, in Zhang Heng's view, the gap between the two sides may be larger than imagined. They are not on the same level at all. Although the outside world will The two are called Commodus' right-hand men, but in fact their influence on Commodus is completely different.

When Zhang Heng thought of this, his expression suddenly changed. He realized what he had left behind.

This is actually an obvious thing, but Zhang Heng ruled it out immediately because he had a certain understanding of the history of Rome.

There is only one possibility for someone who is born into a noble family and will not arouse Commodus' suspicion, but is willing to trust him unconditionally.

——That is Commodus’ relatives.

The relative here does not refer to a distant cousin like Clind who has a weak blood connection with Commodus, but a brother like Lucilla who shares the same father and mother with Commodus. At the same time, unlike Lucilla, because of his physical disability, Commodus, the biological brother, could never replace Commodus and come to the stage, but could only live in the darkness and assist Commodus.

Only if all the above conditions are met will Commodus trust Otrus so much.

Zhang Heng quickly thought of someone, Commodus's twin brother.

Thanks to Huang Maoyuan and 800***928 Children’s Boots for the reward~