Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Your Majesty once said,'You can't hide it for a while, you can't hide it for a lifetime.'People like this will not only be severely punished by the law, but will also be tortured by hell after death!Therefore, since the establishment of our kingdom's assessment system, up to now, there has been no case of concealing cheating."

After finishing speaking, when he saw that the three thoughtfully thought, the urge to narrow their minds could not help but ask: "The official assessment time of the officials of the Kingdom of Dionysia is generally set in October, and occasionally in other It’s time to hold, and the assessments are happening in the past few days. Guess what is the reason?"

His questioning caused the three men to think, and the youngest Oreas asked tentatively: "Is it because of us?"

Henripolis looked at him with idiot eyes, and Plato rebuked seriously: "Oleath, don’t talk nonsense! It is a major event in the Dionysian country to assess citizens and select officials. How can it be as casual as playing games? ! I think Dionia will hold the assessment temporarily, it must be because the official has a shortage, is there a shortage of staff, right?"

"Yes." Henipolis nodded and said: "We conquered Dawn last year. In order to govern there, a large number of officials were sent from other regions, leading to the urgent shortage of public officials in other departments and cities, so from the beginning of the year to the present , There is always an assessment here."

"But what you just said is only in these few days!" Orleas said dissatisfiedly.

Henripolis blinked: "Of course these days are included in this period of time."

Several people said with a smile that they had come to the building.

Kentus, an official of the management assessment center notified by the guards, greeted him quickly: "Master Henripolis, welcome you to visit!" Kryentus saluted respectfully.

As a veteran of the veteran's hospital, Henripolis did not seem to hold a lot of official positions, but behind him stood King Daveus. No one dared to neglect him.

"Which of the departments are being evaluated today?" Henripolis asked him directly without greeting him.

"Court and construction."

"Are we going to take a break first? Or do we go now?" Henripolis asked Plato, looking back.

"We are not tired now and do not need to rest." Plato said.

"Then... Let's go to the court's assessment first." Hernipolis thought for a while and said.

Krientus immediately took them to a "treasury", with a wooden sign hanging on its door, which read "Court Assessment".

Krientus motioned them not to make a loud noise and walked in.

There is a lot of space in the room. There are nearly a hundred wooden tables on the ground, almost full of candidates, but it is extremely quiet.

Only the examiner sitting on the podium mimicked the accused in the courtroom, deliberately and intermittently and confusingly telling "his own experience".

Candidates must write a smooth court record according to his story, so no one looked up at the incoming Plato. They were listening carefully, and using a stylus to record on the wax board.

There are also three examiners in the examination room to prevent cheating.

Plato stood by the door for a while and then exited the examination room.

"Just rely on the level of writing they record to decide who is admitted and who will be eliminated?" Plato asked, apparently he thought the assessment was a bit simple.

"Of course it’s more than that. Next we have to examine their familiarity with the legal items one by one. The sum of these two scores is their final score. This time they had good luck and the courts of the entire Kingdom of Dionysia were in short supply. The establishment of 20 places, so more than 15 of them will be admitted."

Krientus seemed to see Plato's thoughts, and then said: "Don't think that as long as you pass this test, they can become judges."

"Isn't it?" Oreas asked curiously.

"Of course not." Henipolis took the lead and said, "Even if they pass, they will start from the low-level positions such as court recorder, orderer... and so on. After two or three years, according to their performance, Then evaluate them. By then, not only will all the legal provisions be tested, but also the real court debate will be simulated to examine their thinking ability and debate skills, as well as the application of legal provisions and the ability to control the court... …After these are passed, they may become intern judges or intern prosecutors, and then serve as De Mo, City Judges, and Senior Judges... This process takes about 20 years. If there are major work errors in the middle, then May be kicked out of court..."

Oleas couldn't help saying yesterday: "It seems too difficult to be a judge in Dionia!"

"It's really difficult," said Hippopolis: "The judge's assessment is the most difficult of all public office assessments, because we Dionysia emphasizes the rule of law. The judge is the representative of the law, and if his ability is not good, he will Affect the correct implementation of our laws!"

The three listened and were touched.After all, in Athens, all courts have no judges, but the citizens of the jury decide the case. This determines the outcome of a case depends on the plaintiff and defendant's debate skills and emotional guidance to the jury.

"I just saw in the room that there were still a lot of interracial people taking part in the assessment?" Spicy said suddenly.

"You are talking about the Lucania, Bruti and Mesapi." Henipolis replied disapprovingly: "It's not surprising that they are all citizens of Dionysia, Of course, it also has the right to participate in the assessment and become a judge."

"Actually, there was an alien in that room, and a liberated slave was taking part in the assessment," Kryentus interjected.

There are also liberated slaves?!The three Plato were shocked.

As the person in charge of the assessment center, Kryentus knows the identity of each candidate clearly. At this time, he explained: "His name is Plaka, from Libya under Cyranica, is A slave in the army of Syracuse that invaded Great Greece. After the surrender of the Syracuse army, he became a slave to our kingdom. He has always performed well and has been a heavy burden in the war to conquer Mesapi. One of the members of the team also made great contributions and was therefore free.

He was granted Dionysian citizenship last year. According to the testimonial issued by Turriy City Hall,'He has worked as a laborer for Turrii courts and a cleaner in the library in these years...and has been performing well , The money you earn is either going to school to learn knowledge, or reading books in the library..."

After hearing this, Genpolis could not help but move, he exclaimed: "It is this diligent citizen who worked so hard to dare to take the examination of the judge. In the kingdom, citizens who liberate slaves are in The Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, City Hall and other departments have served, but the court has not yet, if he can become a judge, he can set an example for others. Any official position in the Kingdom is to open the door for any born citizen , As long as they work hard enough!"

"Master Johnpolis, you are too good!" Krientos praised.

Oreas and Spicyps are somewhat at a loss, and non-Greek and slave-born people can hold important public office in the city-state, which is completely beyond their cognition.

Plato recalled the euphemism criticized by Davis when he met him, arguing that "the ideal country he wrote excludes slaves and strangers, the thinking is too narrow, and everyone should be given equal opportunities to let the entire Society has an upward flow...

Plato couldn't help but look back at the examination room, thinking and sighing in his heart: Is this the demeanor of achieving a powerful kingdom?!

Then they went to watch the assessment of the construction department.

The assessment of the cultural level of the candidates is lower here, and only the candidates are required to be able to recognize words and do simple writing.The most important exam is on the open space, requiring candidates to bring two or three kingdom slaves next to each other, use fixed materials, build a short section of city walls, a short section of road, or make a siege machine within a specified time... In this way, we examine the candidate's own practical ability and the supervision and command ability of coordinating the arrangement of personnel for construction.

This special assessment also opened up the horizons for both of them, and also inspired Plato’s spirit. He believes that the assessment of the public officials of the Kingdom of Dionysia is exactly the "ideal city state" he proposed in "Ideal State" The first principle established is the practical embodiment of the view of strict social division of labor.

Just after he walked out of the gate reluctantly, Genipolis told him regretfully: "Tomorrow is the Hercules celebration of the Kingdom of Dionysia, please forgive me for not being able to continue your visit with you for the time being! I also recommend You will also participate in this celebration tomorrow, relax well, you will find that it is a very interesting celebration!"

After his reminder, Plato, who had been busy visiting during this time, realized that the number of pedestrians in the city of Turi in recent days has increased, and the hotel is full, which was originally related to this.

However, there are many Greek deities, and most of the protection gods worshipped by Greek city-states are different, resulting in many city-state celebrations a year, but they are not exactly the same. The Panathena festival like Athens is unique in the Greek world. .The Hercules celebrations are held in Sparta, but the Spartans advocate frugality and prohibit pleasure, and the celebrations are extremely simple.So Plato didn't care too much about it.

But the next day, they discovered that the Hercules celebration in Dionysia was very unusual.

Early in the morning, the parade that took part in the celebration started from the Temple of Hercules in the outer city of Turui. At the forefront of the team was the champion of the Hercules competition held at the celebration last year. Take a big stick, topless, posing in various shapes showing muscles, playing Hercules.