Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Ten years after the alliance agreement was signed again, Kirithops mentioned in his private conversation with Daveus that the Spartan elders’ meeting would be worried about Dionia’s frequent wars in the Apulia region and dissatisfied.

Daveus’ response to this was: “Apulia’s business is a matter of the Western Mediterranean. According to the covenant, Sparta is not necessary to worry about. Even in the late Corinth War, Thebes and the Corinthian emissaries had come to the map. Lie hopes that Dionia will be able to intervene in that war, thus preventing the interracial Persians from using Sparta to control Greece. Dionysia strictly abides by the requirements of the covenant and refuses their request. Although many Greeks in the kingdom Citizens were very dissatisfied with the fact that the Spartan confederate had bowed to the former Greek enemy, Persian, and obeyed their shit contract. They also flooded Mandinia in Sparta and ruined a Greek city-state by brutal means. The atrocities similar to those done by the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius made the Dionyan people very angry. But the Dionysian senate has repeatedly rejected many of the security officers at the end of the year’s security officer conference. "Condemn and punish Sparta" request.

In the past ten years, Dionia strictly adhered to the covenant and respected the Spartans of the allies. After signing the covenant this year, it will continue to implement the content of the covenant, hoping that Sparta can also deal with the two countries in strict accordance with the content of the agreement. Relationship, especially on the issue of'accepting the indigenous people who fled from Apulia', please reconsider and deal with it carefully.Dionysia is keeping his promise, but he will also treat the city-states that violate the promise as enemies...

Davies' words made Shari Thorps both ashamed and shocked. He immediately solemnly said: "Your Majesty King Davos, Sparta cherishes the friendship between the two countries, so I will take the initiative to send me to renew the contract. Sparta will continue to abide by the requirements of the covenant as before, and the East and the Mediterranean will always maintain peace!..."

After taking off the guest Lithops, only one day later, Turiri greeted the Carthage messenger Okriton.

He came not to renew the contract, but to protest.

The Carthage protested that Dionia violated the Covenant this time and unauthorizedly launched a war against the Sicilian free forces, the Sikels, and demanded that Dionia immediately stop this stupid action of "destroying the peaceful environment of Sicily."

The Senate of Dionysia refuted the demands of the Carthage. They gave facts, presented evidence, and reasoned, and told the Carthage envoy: it was not Dionysia who wanted to invade the Sikels, but the West The Tanikan tribe in the Kyle conspired to disrupt Dionia and wanted to be detrimental to Dionia. For this reason, Dionia has tried several Sicilian veterans such as Laodisian and also arrested Many officials from the Kingdom have to retaliate against the culprit of this incident. This is the punishment that the Tanikian tribe took to provoke Dionia to take the initiative!

Dionysia's tough rejection of Carthage's protests caused Okritton to return without success.

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A few days later, in the veteran courtyard of the basic city of Carthage, the veterans of Carthage had a fierce debate on this matter.

"Sir Hanno, now the Dionyans refuse to stop the war against the Sikels, I don’t know what measures you have to take on this matter?! Otherwise, if you do not take action, the weak Sikels can’t resist Dai Onia's army for a few days!" The veteran Pretacuba asked to get up.

Hanno looked at the veteran who questioned himself coldly.Since Marco was removed from the position of governor of Sicily, he did not return to Carthage, but instead went to Iberia with some mercenaries, and the leading figures of the Magonid family in the Senate and even Carthage became Preta Kuba, he is a distant relative of Marco, but he is much more cunning than Marco. In recent years, Hanno has caused some trouble in controlling the senate.

There was no need for Hanno to answer at all. Another elected Sofitel Pantilacco took the lead and said: "This is the case of the Tanikian tribe of Sikel who provokes Dionynia first, Dior Nia’s punishment is understandable. What we should do now is to constantly monitor this war and prevent Dionysia from taking this opportunity to expand it, thereby damaging our Carthage’s interests.”

"Oh, you just gave up the Sikel people in such a simple sentence! I still remember, it was Lord Hanno's suggestion of'supporting Tanikian's reunification of the Sikel people'!" Santipur, a Margonide veteran, immediately spoke ironically.

Hanno looked at him unhappy.

Okreton immediately refuted loudly: "You are really good at forgetting! At the beginning, the Tanikians came to Carthage in the name of the'old allies who once fought side by side with Himirko' and they first found you. Is also the first proposal for'helping the Tanik An' in the Senate, and Lord Hanno just conforms to your wishes, hoping that the actions of the Tanik An can better control Sicily over Carthage To provide help, I did not expect them to daring to provoke Dionynia, nor did you think that you, who had the support of Lord Hanno, now falsely accuse Lord Hanno! (Carthage Commander Similco attacked Syracuse in a big attack) , In order to win over the Sikels together against the Syracuses, the Taromannian fortress was built and given to the Sikels, so he and King Agiles of Sikel-he is the leader of Tarikan Ako Nice’s father formed an alliance. However, when Similco defeated himself and Dionysius counterattacked Carthage’s power in Sicily, Agilis fell back to Syracuse and was eventually killed by Dionysius. Murder.)"

Pretacouba immediately changed the subject and put on a worried look: "Master Hanno, Syracuse has suffered a lot in the past few years. The Greek city-states in Sicily mostly have good relations with Dionia. Not only do they often send The messengers attended various celebrations in Dionysia, and some even sent teams to participate in Dionysia’s rugby games. Now that Dionysia controls the Sikels, then is the situation in Sicily back? During Dionysius, this was very bad for Carthage!"

Hanno looked at him coldly and suddenly said, "Master Pretacouba, given the situation in Sicily, what is your suggestion? Continue to support a Sikai tribe that is about to be destroyed with gold and silver and supplies?! Or send troops to support the Sikels?!"

"Since Dionia refused a truce, we of course only sent troops to make them realize that Carthage will never only use words to protest, we are serious!" Elder Santipur said harshly.

The elders were in an uproar.

"That means war!" Pantilacco warned loudly.

"Since Dionysia wants to expand his influence in Sicily, and refuses to heed the warning of our Carthage, then give them a war!" Santipur waved his fist hard.

Many elders exclaimed, and the voice of controversy began.

Hano was wary in his heart, and he immediately realized that this was definitely the idea of ​​the Patriarch of the Margonide family, thousands of miles away. He wanted to provoke the war between Dionia and Carthage. Return to Carthage by yourself and provide a good opportunity to control the political situation!

Thinking of this, Hanno stood up abruptly and shouted: "Whether Carthage will tear up the covenant and intervene in this Dionysian war to punish the Sikels. A conflict with Dionys may be protracted and depleting. Huge war? Now the Senate is voting and agreeing to the proposals of Pretacouba and Santipur. Send the army to Sicily to raise the hand!"

Except for the very few veterans of the Margonides family, other veterans did not even hesitate.

In the past decade, the Carthaginians followed Hanno's proposal and turned their targets to the inland area south of Carthage's territory-Numbia. There are many indigenous tribes on this vast land, but none of them In a unified country and organization, the Carthage people directly dispatched troops to collect, buy, and alienate many measures, so that Carthage controlled most of the Numibian land, and Carthage citizens also received a lot of inland land , And hired the Numisbians to farm, the veterans of Carthage doubled their wealth, and also doubled Hano’s prestige in Carthage.The only concern of the Carthage is the rebellion of the Numisbians from time to time. For this reason, several troops composed of Carthage’s citizens have rotated several important strongholds stationed in Numisbia.

It was not only the reluctance of the majority of the elders, but also the carthage citizens who did not want Carthage to fight against the mighty Dionysians. Compared to the Dionysians and Sikels in eastern Sicily, they Concerned about the increased land harvest in Numbia and the control of numerous Numbian slaves and Numbian laborers.

Hanno looked around most of the silent veterans and glanced at the handful of veterans who supported the war. He had foreseen such a powerful advantage: if there were no unexpected accidents, the Carthaginians would never be willing to If there was a war in Dionia, Marco’s conspiracy could not be realized.Of course, Marco, who now occupies that piece of Iberian land, is inconvenienced by the orders of the Carthage senate, and it also makes him headache.

At this time, Hanno put his hand in his arms, took out a paper roll, held it in his hand, and said aloud: "This is a letter written by King Dionysia to me! In the letter, he promised,'Dioni Ya always remembers the covenant with Carthage, but only punishes the Tanikian tribe, and will never expand the territory of attacking other Sikels. Please rest assured.'In addition, he also asked me to consider the renewal of the covenant. "As he said, he handed over the letter to the senator nearby.

The veterans present clearly relaxed.