The Holy King is not noble and righteous but noble, the law will be clear, the order must be done, then it is finished. - "Han Feizi Eight Sayings"
As the saying goes, there are no rules and no circles, and if a country wants to develop peacefully, it must have rules. In the period of feudal society, the supreme ruler of the country is the emperor, it can be said that the emperor is the person with the highest status in the country, and no one dares to disobey their orders, so most of the rules of a country are established by the rulers, and they establish the rules to maintain their own status and for the stability of the country.
In ancient China, when a minister saw the emperor, he had to bow down to show respect, and this rule was also to show the emperor's status and honor. In the far West, there is a country with a history as ours, that is, the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was once a powerful country, from the beginning of a small tribe to a large empire across eurasia, the territory of the expansion of the same time in order to maintain the rule, the Roman Empire formulated various codes, it is also the world's earliest to formulate the code of law.
The birth of Roman law made Rome a place with a great emphasis on rules, and if you were born in the Roman Empire, then you have to follow the rules. When the Roman Empire was in its heyday, even the emperors of other countries had to obey the rules of Rome when they went to Rome, and today we will tell the story of Cleopatra when she asked to see Julius Caesar, and was asked to obey the rules and undress and meet him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > First, Cleopatra sought Caesar's help</h1>
With the continuous military expansion of the Roman rulers, Rome has become one of the most powerful countries in the world at that time, and it is because of this that Rome attached great importance to the rules and regulations in order to maintain its own rule, and formulated various codes to restrain its citizens. Rome's power attracted the attachment of many small Eurasian countries, and Cleopatra at that time sought the help of the Roman ruler Julius Caesar.
At that time, Egypt was run by Cleopatra and her brother, but Cleopatra was only a ruler in name only, and her beauty was amazing to the world, and her ambitions were not small. She was not willing to be a nominal ruler of Egypt, she wanted to have real power, and in order to achieve her goal, she decided to use her beauty to ask Julius Caesar for help. At that time, Rome was very powerful, and it had enough strength to subvert the politics of any neighboring country, but these small countries needed to pay a certain price, some taking money and some taking land, Cleopatra had nothing but her own beauty.
She could only exchange herself for Rome's help, so she came to Rome to see Julius Caesar. Cleopatra knew that the first meeting with Julius Caesar was extremely important and fateful, and she needed to show her advantages in this meeting, so as to attract Caesar's attention and possibly help her. Cleopatra's biggest advantage is herself, her beauty at that time can be said to be extremely outstanding, and her figure is good.
After all, rome's strength has created the arrogance of the Roman rulers, she must show weakness to gain Caesar's sympathy, if she shows her ambition at the beginning, then Caesar will certainly not help her, the proud Roman ruler will not like an ambitious and intelligent woman. Cleopatra must seize this opportunity, knowing that if she could marry Caesar, then her purpose could be easily achieved, and Caesar would not send troops to occupy Egypt.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > second, strip naked and meet Caesar</h1>
In this way, Cleopatra went to Rome alone, and after being summoned by Caesar, she came to the basilica alone, and in order to show that she came with enough sincerity, she wrapped herself in a blanket to win sympathy. Caesar was attracted by cleopatra's beauty as soon as he saw her, and by this time Caesar had let down his guard and intended to help this beautiful woman, but Caesar, as the ruler of the entire Roman Empire, was not a layman.
Caesar would not give up his ambition to occupy Egypt because of a beautiful woman, and he decided to test Cleopatra to see if she was really sincere and worthy of his own help. So Caesar asked Cleopatra to strip naked in front of him, and everyone was surprised to hear the news, and everyone did not expect Caesar to make such an unreasonable request. In fact, Julius Caesar had his own ideas, and he only did this to do things according to the rules of the Roman state.
The mighty Roman state has always had a rule that if anyone submits to Rome, he must strip naked in front of the Roman ruler. One is to show respect for the Roman state and show loyalty, and the other is to strip naked also means a new life. Cleopatra understood what to do after Julius Caesar made this request, so without hesitation agreed to Julius Caesar, who was quite satisfied with it.
After that meeting, Caesar intervened directly in Egypt's internal contradictions, successfully making Cleopatra the ruler of Egypt with real power. In return, Cleopatra gave herself to Julius Caesar, in fact, Caesar already wanted this woman after seeing Cleopatra, and naturally accepted it in the face of Cleopatra's embrace.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > third, mutually exploitable interests</h1>
But Cleopatra's younger brother was reluctant and took the lead in rebellion, and the result was the same, cleopatra won the victory without suspense with the help of Julius Caesar. After that, Cleopatra gave birth to a son for Julius Caesar, and the family of three lived happily, Cleopatra gained a foothold in Egypt with the help of Caesar's power, and the presence of the son also allowed Julius Caesar to easily control Egypt, so that Cleopatra had the most solid backing.
In fact, the combination of these two people is simply because of interests, and there are not many feelings, which can be proved by Caesar's will, although he spent some time in Egypt, but in his will there is not a word about the mother and son, the only thing for Cleopatra is the child. Such a result, presumably Cleopatra, is also very clear in her heart, people like Caesar have always been sober, and he finally chose Octavian as his heir, which proves that only Rome is loved in his bones.
Caesar was brave and mighty, but what really killed him was the rules he had made. Once Caesar said that he was going to avenge him for the sake of a dead subordinate, but the people on the road said that only the king could do it, so those who disobeyed Caesar took the opportunity to spread rumors, and Caesar was assassinated.
In general, Caesar was a powerful emperor, and although he died in the end, everything he did remained in people's hearts, and he did not come to this fate in vain. Caesar was killed by nothing else, but by the rules of Rome, which sounded indeed regrettable, but there were no rules and no circles, and these rules also sent him to the end of the road when they helped him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > Conclusion:</h1>
In the face of the harsh rules of the Roman Empire, Cleopatra did not refuse, but accepted it calmly, which shows that she is a very endurance and intelligent woman. In the end, she succeeded in becoming the ruler of Egypt, and in addition to Caesar's help, she was also very capable of ruling the whole of Egypt.
Today's society also has a variety of rules, but there are also human feelings in addition to the rules. Even so, we must always abide by the rules and look at the rules with a good attitude, after all, without the rules we would not live in such a peaceful society.
References: "In Search of Ancient Roman Civilization", "Cleopatra"