Chapter 18 - Trip to Olissipo (Lisbon) (1/2)

During the following three months, July has a underwent a great change of personality, the Spartan training of his nephew change his way of thinking, he no longer took time to drink until he was in a coma, he learned the value of responsibility in blood thanks to these efforts.

In the months that Flavio's uncle was being trained, Flavio fell in love with how simple Hellena is, she is not a spoiled girl who behaves in an unpleasant way to get attention.

On the contrary, she is very intelligent and always seeks to get ahead, sometimes while she sleeps next to Flavio on her face some tears are reflected but only Flavio needs to hug her with her little hands so that she can sleep peacefully again.

Hellena also calls Julia mother, this seemed to like her mother very much since whenever she does, Julia hugs her, to see that her fiancee and her mother get along, it is a rare scene but Flavio likes to see.

When July left Emerita Augusta and arrives Rome asked his father to allow him to command the invasion of Britannia, August was surprised by the change of attitude of his son and wondered what it was that he had lived with his grandson.

August first tested the capabilities of his son to test his son's ability to command, he left him a simple task, he had to go fight in the city of Neapolis to kill the rebel slaves in the city.

July accepted his father's test and left Rome with only 2000 legionaries and 500 cavalries, to face them he would use one of the tactics he learned with his nephew.

The doors of the city of Neapolis were made of wood, so he bought in the market of Rome before leaving oil used by farmers for cows.

When he arrived in the city he waits for the night and under the shelter of darkness he fills the north door of the city with oil, to prevent the attack from failing, the south oil door is also filled as a hook measure.

The south door was first lit and with it, the slaves went to put out the fire, unfortunately, they neglected the north door and soon after in the city the legionaries entered to kill any slave present.

In the morning July undertook his way with the leader of the slaves without legs and hands, he had suffered the punishment of Vitellius for killing Romans inside the city of Neapolis.

When July arrived in Rome, Emperor Augustus realized that his grandson had turned his stupid son into someone to trust the empire.

After that August entrusted his son part of the invasion of Britain taking as his second in command General Agrippa.

In emerita Augusta Flavio began to plan the development of the port of Olissipo (Lisbon currently), to reach the Americas it is not complicated the approximate time to reach Coatzacoalcos with the current technology is 90 days (3 months)

The question is that is only a one way trip there is no return, as soon as there is no return it is due to the future Flavio may know that his grandfather and his uncle will allow a trade to the Americas, but what happens if one day the imperial regime of the family falls through other emperors

They will not leave a large piece of meat in their sight,  they will send troops to the Americas and start a great war and colonization, in the end, no one will win in these wars sooner or later Rome will fall and with it the Americas would be fragmented and only will form a kind of American Europe

So it is better to centralize power from the center of the continent (Mexico), go south and reach the darién (Frontera Panama, Colombia) create a wall to separate the wild south of the developed north, after that colonize the islands of the Caribbean and start trade in Asia