Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Kloto Kataks had just climbed onto his father's knee and was about to be taken away by his mother.

Davos didn't care about him at the moment, and turned back to Atili Cruz: "The Senate of Dionysia will be very happy to hear this news, I hope—"

Artili Cruz waved his hand and immediately said: "But Li Jim also has a small request, I hope Dionia can agree!"

The Greeks in South Italy all said that the Lijim were businessmen, and the baht must be compared, and Ateli Cruz was the best among them.Daphes rallied and said, "Please say it."

"You also know that the tyrant of Syracuse has rebuilt Messina. Messina has now completely fallen to Syracuse and is right against Lijim. And it has an accomplice-Tindaris, That was the colonial city where the tyrant placed the Messenians. It was not far from Messina. The two city-states united, often disrupting the trade routes of the Straits, and sometimes even detaining merchant ships who traded in Lijim... In the future, no merchant ship dare to come to Lijim to do sea trade, Lijim will be destroyed!" Artili Cruz said sadly.

"We have protested to Messina many times, but to no avail. We also sent a messenger to Syracuse, the tyrant did not even meet our messenger! So our deliberations decided to build on the Mile Peninsula A colonial city used to house the exiles of Sicilian city-states such as Katane, Naxos, Leotini..."

"Wait a minute." Daphes turned back to the slave who was with him. "Go to the study and get the map of Sicily." Although Daves has the habit of looking at the map every day, it is relative to the south. Familiar with Italy, Davers still has a poor memory of Sicily's terrain and city-state location.

"Katanai, Naxos and other Sicilian city-states were destroyed by Dionysius, and their exiles must have been full of hatred for Syracuse." Daphes knew that many city-states in Greater Greece were accommodated Sicilian exiles, this is because the great Greek city-state is wary of Syracuse, so it will be easy to help the opponents who were driven away from Syracuse, and Davis naturally thought of it at the moment. Aristilas.

"That's for sure, so they won't be easily attracted by the tyrant!" Artili Cruz said with a hate.

At this point, the map was brought in, and Daphes unfolded it on the wooden table where the cutlery had been removed.

"This is Messina... this is Tindaris..." Davers looked carefully on the map.

Artili Cruz also moved up and looked at the map made of parchment: obviously it was specially drawn, not only large in scale, but also detailed, not inferior to the one stored in Ligim City Hall, see The son-in-law who came to him did not pay much attention to Sicily.Even the newly built Lilly of Carthage, the new city of Messina, and Taura Merion...the locations of these newly built city-states are clearly marked, and some destroyed city-states are also marked and in An explanation was made on the side, such as Himela on the northern coast, which read "Destroyed by the Sicilian War launched by Carthage Commander Hannibal fifteen years ago."

"This is the Mile Peninsula..." Davis's finger was finally fixed in the northeast corner of Sicily.The Mile Peninsula is said to be a peninsula. On the map, Dave’s feeling is actually just a promontory. Just between Messina and Tindaris, the location of this colonial city is really wonderful. , Just to cut off the connection between the two cities, to know that Messina and Tindaris are new cities (Messina city was destroyed by Carthage), the strength is not strong, although there is Syracuse behind Yes, but Syracuse controls so many city-states, it is impossible to support Messina and Tindaris with all their strength.Although Lijim is not as strong as Syracuse, he is also a strong state and very rich. A lot of resources are poured into this soon-to-be-built city, which will soon make it stronger than Messina and Tinstars , So as to contain and deter them.

But there is an important issue here.

"Have you considered Syracuse's attitude?" Daveus asked quietly.

"According to ancient traditions, any Greek city-state has the right to establish a colony, not to mention that the location of our new city is not within the territory of Messina and Tindaris..." Artili Cruz said plausibly.

"With the personality of Dionysius, he wouldn't consider any Greek tradition." Daphes was not optimistic about this, and said seriously: "He finally controlled the west of Sicily, but there was a foreign The forces must reach into his sphere of influence, do you think he will agree?"

"So I came to Turri this time. Lijim hopes for your support!" Atili Cruz said anxiously: "For this reason, Lijim is willing to hand over our fleet to the command of Dionia."

The city-states in the Dionysian League did not have such a degree of freedom in bargaining with Dionyssia, but Lijim was the only major Greek power to join the alliance. After all, it was different from other affiliated small states. The Senate has shown enough tolerance and respect for it, and in order to enhance Dionysia’s right to speak in the Southern Italian League, in the past year, Davos invited Li Jim to join the Southern Italian League, like Crotone. When other city-states did not strongly oppose it, it can be seen that the influence of Lijim, a veteran strong state, also made Lijim the only Greek city-state that belonged to both the Dionysian Alliance and the Southern Italian Alliance.

Daphus was silent: support?It’s easy to say, but it means war, and Dionysia is now aggressively avoiding this from happening, otherwise why should he sign a friendly treaty with Syracuse, Lijim wants to bring Dionysia into the water Yeah!

"I think such an important matter must be decided after discussion by the Senate, and even needs to be discussed with other city-states in the Southern Italian League." Davers said vaguely without giving an immediate reply.

It was not easy to send away the unhappy Atelier Cruz. Davers was still pacing back and forth in the living room, thinking about the Strait of Messina.

Finally, he called Aristilas.

"There will definitely be war!" Aristilas said affirmatively: "The reason why Messina and Tindaris dared to invade Li Jim so boldly was originally the result of Dionysius' support behind him, saying Perhaps what Li Jim wanted to do was exactly what he wanted. He just happened to be able to wage war against Li Jim, not only to retaliate Li Jim—" Aristilas said here and glanced at Davis.

Daveus didn't care what he implied and said, "Go on."

"And Syracuse occupied Ligim and controlled the entire Strait of Messina, and Dionysius was able to collect taxes on the passing merchant ships to feed his huge army. Master, according to intelligence, Syracuse In the negotiations with Carthage, he demanded a large amount of war compensation, and used the money to buy food, build warships, and pay for mercenaries, not just to treat a Lijim!" Aristila Si said anxiously.

Daveus pondered, he knew all the information.

Aristilas said quietly again: "Also...Master, from the intelligence gathered recently in Dionysia, I found a situation that I hope will attract your attention."

"Oh, what is it?" Daveus looked at him.

"Now there is a concern spreading among pre-citizens and registered free citizens. They are worried that even if they become full citizens of Dionysia, they will no longer be able to acquire land..." Speak slowly.

Daveus raised an eyebrow.It is true that the land in the plains of the Dionysian Union’s territory has been basically divided. Only the Lucanian mountains and the Bruti region have some spare land, but that is not enough for the allocation of so many reserve citizens.

"So they want to leave?" Daveus raised his lips slightly, jokingly and half-seriously.

"Dionysia is a paradise for free people, how can they leave!" Aristilas paused and said with added tone: "They hope that war will take place, use war to seize more land, take part in Fight to shorten the period of becoming a citizen, and use the record to win the opportunity to get a place!"

Davers was in a low mood.The military system he designed for Dionysia can be said to be a source of attracting Greek free people to flock to bring Dionysia, and it is also the reason that inspired them to desire to fight and not be afraid of death.

"If you forget the war, you will be in danger, and if you are a warrior, you will die..."The commanding power of the Dionysian army must be firmly in his hands, otherwise, if it is out of control, the consequences will be unimaginable.But now, Dionia is still weak and needs this system to strengthen itself.

"Land..." Dave Smore held his chin.The current Dionysia is indeed a bottleneck for expansion: to the south, there is a strong Syracuse; to the north, is the Samonais, and Daphes knows that the Romans in past history spent decades It took time to conquer this warlike race, and suffered several fiascos in the meantime. Before it was ready, Dionia will not easily provoke it; further east, the Mesapi and Puchti people In terms of distance, it is the closest place to Dionia, but these two races are not good, and they are united together. Dionysia needs to work hard to conquer them. However, the current situation is not allowed, and there is a Tarantum in the middle. The relationship with Dioria is not very harmonious and cannot receive its full support. Davers is afraid to send troops to attack May. Sapi's.