Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"As a result, I am already weak in Syracuse, and I am likely to be ousted by these rioters led by Herolis! For me, this is a terrible thing! And yes As far as Sparta is concerned, this is not good news! Fibidas, I need your help now!" Dionysius rarely showed a begging look.

"Let's say, what do I need to do?" Pippidas couldn't see the mood swings on the blank face.

Dionysius was used to it, and he sincerely pleaded: "I hope you will meet these rebel leaders like Herolis, like last time, and convince them not to be in danger in Syracuse. Infighting with me at this time will only make Dionyans take advantage and threaten the survival of the people of Syracuse! We should unite and overcome this difficulty together! For this, as long as they can re-accept me Their general general, I am also willing to share power with them to satisfy their demands..."

"Okay, I'll give it a try." Fibidas agreed quite simply and said, "Do you need to tell them that you are back?"

"No! I will appear in due course." Dionysius immediately refused.

Seeing Fibidas leaving, Dionysius raised a few doubts in his mind: Why this time, Fibidas promised to be so fast?

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At the Syracuse City Hall, Herolis, who was elected as the interim chief general, and several other generals elected by the people during the riots were holding a meeting of the wartime general executive committee.

As a poet, Ferrosanus had a great reputation among the people, and because he had faced Dionysius many times in the face, he had also been Guan Shi prison, so the people trusted him and elected him as a general.At this moment, he arrogantly asked the representative of the port sailor and the poor Tethys: "Tethys, why haven't you seen the use of warships to block Ortijia?! This was negotiated yesterday!"

"Yesterday... Yesterday we also assumed the task of destroying Marcias’ soldiers. Now there are thousands of sailors looking for their trails in the mountains. Where else can we draw people to block Ortijia! "Tethys has a bitter look.

"Tecitis, don't quibble. You have enough manpower in the port area to completely block the mercenaries while blocking the island of Ortigia. This is an order issued after the committee's joint discussion, and you also accepted it. It’s not implemented yet. Do you think that the people’s election of you as a general just made you come here for fun!" Another friend from the city’s nobles, Herolis, and the newly elected general Kuzias proposed aloud. criticism.

Although Tethys is a novice in the political arena, he has been at sea for decades and has a rich life experience. At the moment, he is not annoyed by the rebuke. Instead, he shares his hands and says: "You have few people in the city and you can’t unite Doing things together, repairing a wall for a few days has not enough people to convene, and we still need to provide manpower, not to mention that our port area has a large population and complex sources, how can we completely obey my words! If you have comments on me, you can use me Take away the post. In order to be a general, I said every day that my mouth was broken, and I was misunderstood by the people of the port. Where there is freedom when I am a sailor, I have long thought about it!"

Tacitis threatened to resign, and several generals immediately stopped criticism, because they understood that Tacitis was already a good talk among the port poor, and if they changed other people, I am afraid it would never be so easy to cooperate. The Greek War evacuated a large number of urban citizens who desperately needed the power of the poor in the port area.

"Master Tethys!" Herolis broke the silence in the house. At this time, he was much more haggard than before the riot, and his voice became hoarse, that is, his eyes became sharper: "What difficulties are you experiencing now, we Discuss it together."

Tethytis respects Herolis and is no longer verbose. He directly said: "People in the port hope to be able to participate in the civic conference, discuss the various resolutions decided by the council, and you have promised to allocate to the port. The land has not seen any movement so far, and they suspect that the General Executive Committee is cheating them. In addition, they have undertaken many tasks before, and they feel unfair compared with the people in the city, so now they are not willing to listen to me anymore. command……"

"It's not fair! The poor in the port was originally—" Another general, Stacecos, couldn't help but want to argue again. Herolis interrupted him and thought for a moment, then said seriously: "Master Tethys, we will overthrow the rule of Dionysius and we will implement a democratic system, but Syracuse is not Athens, not all citizens can participate in the civic assembly, but... in simple terms, it is Only citizens who can afford a set of heavy infantry equipment and can perform military service at any time are eligible to participate in the civic conference. This is the political tradition that Syracuse has always been. We will not change easily! Not only the poor in your port area, The same is true in urban areas, and many citizens are also unable to participate in civic conferences."

"But the last time—" Tethys also wanted to argue.

Herolis waved to stop him and said seriously: "You listened to me first! I promised you to allocate the land before, why didn't you do it immediately? Because we don't know how many Syracuses are fighting in Great Greece We can come back alive, so we are still not sure how much land we can vacate, and we also need some people to re-measure these lands before we can distribute the land fairly and justly to the ports and citizens without land in the city.

But since'land' has become a matter of greatest concern to the people of the port, it has also affected our unity.To know that we have not occupied the island of Ortijia, Dionysius and his mercenaries may be able to kill back at any time, and put our freedom in exchange for blood back into the chains!"

Herolis said at the end, his voice became sharper. He was reminding Tethys and several generals, including Ferrosanus: "So I suggest that the 5000 led by Masias Mercenaries and the land owned by the 1,000 mercenaries stationed in the city were first distributed to the people of the port (these mercenaries are actually citizens of Syracuse, but the successful riots in Herolis think they are Dionysius Faith's faithful running dog refused to recognize their Syracuse citizenship)!"

"The land occupied by those mercenaries is a huge piece of land!" Ferrosanus reminded loudly.

"For Herolis's proposal, I think it is acceptable." Stacecos agreed.Unlike Ferrosanus, who was outspoken but not politically aware, when Herolis’s proposal was just exported, Stacecos realized what the chief general meant: the village built by these 6,000 mercenaries was actually The above is not within the traditional territory of Syracuse, but Dionisius' outward expansion after conquering southeastern Sicily, which of course includes the land of the neighboring city-states forcibly occupied.The 6,000 mercenary village is located in the southwest of Syracuse, next to Acre, a subsidiary state of Syracuse, where the city-state army on the south coast must pass through to reach Syracuse.Herolis put the port poor there, not only to let these greedy and afraid people die for the land and continue to die with the mercenaries who fled into the mountains, but also to guard against the possible new generation of Syracuse on the south coast city-state The hostility of the regime, and the fact that the land is far from Syracuse, the distribution will not let the people of the city protest their injustice, but also dispel the dissatisfaction of the civilians in the port and make them feel the sincerity of the general executive committee.

Therefore, not only did Staceyz realize the benefits of Herolis' proposal, several other generals also agreed.

Herolis continued with spoils: "However, Dionysius had given them too good conditions in order to encircle the mercenaries. Each mercenary had ten acres of land, which was too much. I hope The people who are temporarily allocated to the port have five acres of land for each person, and they must be eligible for the poor people who actively participated in this anti-tyranny operation. Master Tacitis, you will provide the list. After verification by the city hall staff, Start allocating immediately, what do you think?"

Tethys did not think so much, the committee was able to promise to allocate the land immediately, so that he did not have to be questioned and accused by the people after returning to the port, which made him overjoyed, so he said with relief: "I agree!"

Herolis took the opportunity to say: "People in the port who own the land can accumulate wealth, buy weapons and equipment, act as heavy infantry, and participate in the civic assembly is also a matter of time, so Lord Tethys you just said ' The people of the port demand to participate in the civic conference', as long as the land is allocated, this is not a problem at all, are you right?

"Yes! Yes! You're right!" Tethystis promised.

"Now that the problems have been solved." Herolis's expression became serious: "I hope you will immediately let the decayed warships anchored in the big port re-export from the port, completely sweeping the whole island of Ortygia Is blocked, don’t allow any ship to enter or leave this island! Although we are temporarily unable to attack Ortijia, as far as I know, the grain stored on the island can also allow up to two thousand mercenaries and residents three , Four months of consumption, by then they will have to surrender.

"Master Herolis, you can rest assured that with the promise of allocating land, the people of the port will actively participate!" Tethystis immediately agreed, greeted the generals of several generals: the port poor are really a group of snobbery Villain!