He wanter to extend his command for as long as possible as he was faced with charges of impiety by Bibulus, who was his co-consul ten years earlier. This carried the death sentence, but as a pro-magistrate Caesar had immunity as long as he could hang on to it by having a command.
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He tried to keep this pro-magistracy going, his emissaries in Rome even going so far as to reduce his requirement to a minor province with one legion. When this was refused, he knew what was on, and had no option other than to capture Rome and take over the remnant of the Senate which was friendly to him. And so came the next phase of the civil wars against the rest of the Senate led by his ex-partner in government Pompey.
