Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Oh, that's right." Burcos reminded again: "Our Ministry of Agriculture has specifically investigated the grain storage in the homes of urban residents such as Turui, Crotone, Grummentum, Cosenza, and Lockley. Situation, their food can last up to November!"

"How is the situation in Sicily?" Anta Oris asked.

"Sicily has plenty of rain this year. There should be no problem with the bumper grain harvest in cities such as Kataney and Naxos," Burcos answered.

"What about Campania?"

"The farmland in that area is not bad." After reminding Anta Oris, Burkos continued: "Carthage in Africa has not experienced drought. Only Central Greece and Peloponnese encountered the same situation as us. Situation, but their situation is slightly lighter."

After listening to the reports of his subordinates, Davers couldn't help tapping the table with his fingers, and his face was also not good-looking.But soon, he stretched his eyebrows again and said slowly: "The sky is overcast and unclear, people have a blessing, and the gods can't take care of us forever. This oncoming drought is just for us The test of the kingdom. But we have nothing to fear! We have been prepared for it, haven't we! At the previous meeting of the Senate, it was not always said,'The granaries we built, except for the occasional supply of legions to fight, most of the time It's a waste to be left empty.' And this time, these seemingly wasted granaries will save the lives of millions of Dionysians!"

Daphus's words shamed Lucias, Mercis and others.

After a little beating, Daveus continued to ask: "Brokes, have you done statistics, how long can the grain in our country's granaries keep the people of Southern Italy eaten?"

Burcos was prepared for this, he said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, there are now nine granaries in our kingdom, which are located in Grummentum, Turri, Cosenza, Crotone, and Trina. , Lockley, Katane, Udie, and Sylviem (they correspond to the residences of the 10 major legions), with a total of 100,000 tons of food, and a population of about 1.5 million in the South Italy area. If you only maintain food and clothing, you can guarantee food supply for about six months."

"It's only six months! These grains are not available for the people to eat until next year's autumn harvest!" Weisba sighed.

Several other rotating chairman glanced at him.

In order to prevent him from embarrassment, Mariji immediately explained: "In the past few years, citizens have made a lot of money because of the bumper harvest, and there are very few poor citizens. The grain in our granary is not supplied to them for free, but to A lower price is sold in the market, so that they can afford to overcome this difficulty, so as to prevent grain merchants from taking this opportunity to raise food prices frantically, causing panic among the people..."

Daveus pondered: "The 100,000 tons of grain is still slightly insufficient. The pickers must have sufficient food reserves to cope with this upcoming drought. And we have to reserve enough wheat seeds for next year's planting, so Merciers, before the news spreads, use the treasury to send people to Carthage, Cyranica, and even Egypt to buy large amounts of grain."

"Okay, Your Majesty, I'll do it right away!" Mercis answered very simply, without hesitation or excuse at all, because he knew that this was the top priority of the kingdom.

"Mariji, your Ministry of Commerce should strictly control the markets in various cities, so that grain sellers selling grains can sell grain at an appropriate price, and they must not arbitrarily disturb the market and raise prices blindly... Business, allow the Ministry of Commerce to punish it severely with the joint court!

At the same time, you must work together with the chief executives of various cities to check the identity of the purchaser when selling the grain in the granary. Each person is only allowed to buy a certain amount of grain per day, and cannot exceed it. Taking the opportunity to make a fortune, people who behave badly like this find one and severely punish one!"

"I see, Your Majesty!" Marigi was also serious.

"Burcos!" Daveus turned to the Minister of Agriculture again: "Now drought is coming, the river is shallow, and the role of the waterwheel is greatly weakened. To solve the problem of people's draught, digging a well is a good solution. You and The Ministry of Construction must work together to dig deep wells in various cities to solve the problem of water shortage for the people."

"Okay, Your Majesty, I will rush to the Ministry of Construction in a moment!" Burcos looked slightly.

Dave’s eyes finally fell on the five rotating chairmen: "Masters, the Senate needs to hold an emergency meeting to discuss a proposal to deal with the drought as soon as possible to remind the public to save food and water in the next time. And they also need to store more water at home... At the same time, they also need to comfort them without panic, keep calm, with the protection of Hades, with the full help of the kingdom, they will definitely overcome this difficulty!"

"Your Majesty, we will have a meeting in the afternoon." Cornelius immediately replied.

Daveus nodded and glanced at everyone present. Their dignified expression showed tension again, so he asked aloud: "Luxias, what happened to you when drought occurred in Great Greece 25 years ago Respond?"

"Your Majesty." Lucias recalled the situation at that time, and there was a bit of pain on his face: "The people of Crotone raised gold and silver at that time to buy food in Carthage, but the cunning Carthage People knew that we had a drought and immediately doubled the price of cereals. So we couldn’t buy more food. The council had no choice but to send some people to Iberia to colonize by drawing lots. Of the people were killed by indigenous Iberian attacks..."

"Yeah! The elementary school is weak, and in such natural disasters, it can only endure the pain of family and friends leaving and breaking up their families. But the Kingdom of Dionysia has the ability to save every family member of the kingdom from this kind of suffering. We want to see This drought is a bad thing, but it is also a good thing! It will make the minority people who are still enamored with the long history of the original city-states and delusional about the independence of the city see and want to understand. Only staying in such a powerful kingdom can guarantee peace. Through every natural and man-made disaster, their homeland will have long-term peace!"

The words of Davers inspired the spirits of the elders present, and they resonated with them. They worked hard for more than ten years in the unique kingdom of this polity, and even Lúcias, who joined the latest, increasingly recognized this powerful country.

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After Daveus sent Cornelius to them, they did not wait for him to take a breath, Aristilas came in: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Intelligence has heard about Rome from the north."

As soon as he heard Rome, Daveus raised his spirit and asked quickly, "What's the situation?"

"The Wolsci in the south of Rome combined with the Aequi in the east of Rome and the Hernicũ in the southeast were invited by Praeneste, the rebellious Roman Latin Confederate, Invaded the territory of Rome, it is reported that its strength is about 20,000."

Priest?After thinking about it for a while, Daffers had no impression in his mind, and immediately turned to the clerk Hernipolis ︚ "Heny, go and get the map of central Italy."

The map was on the desk, and Daveus looked down and finally found the location of this Latin city-state: Prínister is a larger Latin city-state located more than 60 miles southeast of Rome and close to the mountains. It is the entrance to the lowland between the mountains, which guards the access to the Equa and Helniki.This in turn means that its mutiny would allow the Equa and Helniks to easily invade Rome's Latin allies and threaten the city itself...

"Did Rome's troops heading north of it and attacking Etrunia have been transferred back?" Daveus asked again.

"No news has been received yet." Aristilas replied.

Davers touched his chin and fell into contemplation.

In the three years of Dionia (namely 390 BC), Celtic King Brunus, who was entrenched in the upper reaches of the Po river in northern Italy, united most of the Celtic tribes and invaded the southern Ete Runia.

They destroyed all the way, defeated many Etruscan forces, and captured many towns.Just as they began to siege the city of Clusium, Rome as an confederate sent troops to rescue. As a result, the Celtics and the Roman army fought in the battle near the Aria River, and eventually Rome was defeated.

What Davies didn’t know was that the Celtics didn’t set aside because there were no messengers sent by Dionysius in this life (Dionysius died in the hands of Fibidas two years ago). The Etruscan towns along the way did not go to attack, and made rapid advances, approaching the Roman city, but continued to kill all the way, looting all the way, and did not cross the Tiber River until more than two months later.

At this time, the Roman city walls were dilapidated, and the entire Roman city was not even completely surrounded. In addition, half of the city’s young and middle-aged people were killed or injured, and most of the civilians in the previous years because of the conflict between nobles and civilians The conflict eventually broke away from the city of Rome and settled in the city of Vai.Therefore, this is because there is no enough troops to defend in the city of Rome. Except for a small number of elderly people who are weak and unwilling to leave their homeland, there are a few people who are willing to stick to the Acropolis of Capitoli. Most people have to evacuate the city of Rome. .

Some of them went to Victoria, and a few went to a city of Latinum called Ardea in southern Rome.Camillus, a famous Roman general who had once defeated Wei Ai but was expelled for being framed, was here.

The Celtics easily occupied the city of Rome and slaughtered the old people in the city, but they could not capture the dangerous Capitoli Acropolis for a long time. They had to surround it and send other troops to the surrounding area to collect food and grass. Towns and villages were ravaged.