Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Okreton immediately stood up, wanting to eliminate the impact of the other party's words on the veterans: "Pretacouba, do you know that Dionysia is now much stronger than Syracuse?" They have at least ten legions and four fleets. It is said that they have a population of 2 million. Their territory is also far from the land controlled by Syracuse and the city-state range, so it can easily form 100,000. Human army, and can we do it? So we should not fight with Dionia at the moment, but to speed up the expansion in the interior of Afrikaans, strengthen our strength, fortunately in the future with Dionysia negative!"

Pretacouba sneered: "The future? When is the future?! Wait for Dionysia to completely occupy the whole of Italy?! I think now is the best time to fight against Dionysia! Because Dionysia is going through Drought, they lack food! The adults should not have forgotten, not long ago we just rejected their request for food, let alone 100,000 people, I doubt that Dionysia can organize 50,000 soldiers is a problem !

And we have western Sicily, Numbia, southern Iberia, and are allies with the powerful state of Rome in central Italy and the Kingdom of Mauritania in western Africa.And I heard that the Samone who was defeated by Dionia last time and forced to ally with it are now very dissatisfied with Dionia. Daren... You look at Dionia as powerful, in fact, it has many enemies, and our chances of winning are great!"

Preta Kuba's remarks aroused the elders' discussion.

Hano, who kept silent, frowned slightly when he heard the word "Southern Iberia".

At this time, he saw the head of the neutral faction, Ethaluba, standing solemnly: "Everyone, you all know that I don't like war. The war with Syracuse cost me a son, but I think One thing to remind you, over the past year, our Carthage’s trade with Sardinia has been declining! What is the reason? I think you are all very clear that we have sent judges to various city states in Sardinia After investigation, the truth is that the people of these city-states secretly drove to the Dionysian cities of Enona and Poseidonia across the sea from Sardinia to buy pots, olive oil, and wine , Or even livestock... and so on.

Although our judges urged the Sardinian city-states to strengthen their management, they were repeatedly prohibited because the prices of goods sold by the Dionysians were much lower than ours.Unlike the previous Campania Confederate city-states, Dionysia simply ignored our protests and even imposed restrictions on our businessmen in Dionysia, such as the recent Dionysia’s business officials in Lockley Several of our businessmen were punished simply because the price of the grain they sold was higher than the price imposed by Dionysia.Tanit is on the top, and the price of goods is determined according to the needs of the people. This is the trading principle followed by the merchants of various city-states in the Mediterranean. It is unacceptable that Dionia punished our merchants.

Ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors of Carthage came here from Tyre to make a living by doing business and gradually prosper. Finally, with today's strength, without prosperous trade, there will be no strong Carthage. Trade is our root!I don’t care if Dionysia occupy more land, but now it is intentionally restricting our trade and trying to dig our roots, which must arouse our vigilance!We must also make a strong counterattack!The Dionysians want to make concessions in trade!"

Asyaruba’s speech was deafening and sensational, and it also resonated with the elders:

"Admiral Es Yaruba is right! My caravan is no longer selling wine to Sardinia, because there are only a few people buying it. These are the Dionysians who are doing it!"

"It is not enough for Dionysia to make concessions in trade, as long as it continues to expand, then there will be fewer and fewer cities and monopolistic routes available for our free trade, and Carthage will in the future because of trade And have to succumb to Dionysia! If we want to continue the prosperity of trade, we must eliminate the Kingdom of Dionysia!"

"Yes, we united with Rome and waged a war against Dionia together! Winning back our dominance over the Western Mediterranean!"

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Listening to these words in the meeting hall, Hano's face became more and more gloomy, he did not know in his heart that Dionysia's continuous expansion in recent years was the greatest threat to Carthage's security, but he did not want to launch at this time There are two reasons for the war: one is that the occupation of the Numbia region is still unstable; the other is that although Marco was rushed to the Iberian Peninsula, he occupied a large area of ​​land there and built several towns. , And appointing officials on his own, the orders of the senate are always unfounded. Hanuo repeatedly tried to strengthen Carthage’s management of those newly occupied territories, but some of the measures he took failed in the end, which made him a headache. .If the war against Dionysia was launched at this time, it just gave the militant family the opportunity to return to the Carthage House!

Having operated in the Senate for more than ten years, Hanno has completely controlled it.Although Pretacouba and Asyaruba have greatly touched the veterans of the venue, as long as Hanno did not finally nod, the veterans who attached to him will not easily vote for this. This proposal It will be impossible to form a final resolution because there are not enough people to support it.

Hanno was under pressure, and he didn't express his position for seven days.

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Cadiz, a colony established by the Phoenician Power Bangtel in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula.It is said that its discovery was made hundreds of years ago when a senior officer of Theil encountered a storm while heading to the Balearic Islands. The ship was blown off the route, passed the pillar of Hercules, and stayed on a beach After the surviving people expressed their gratitude to the god God Maierkat, they found that they were located at the end of a long and narrow cape, facing the water environment on three sides, making it difficult to overcome by land, but easy to enter from the sea. It is an excellent natural harbour, so the colony of Cadiz was established here.

With the discovery of a large number of silver veins, iron and other metals in the southern Iberian Peninsula, the trade between the Phoenicians and the Kingdom of Tartesus in the southern Iberian Peninsula strengthened, and they actually controlled the entire southern Iberian With the mining industry and metal ore processing industry, Cadiz became prosperous, and it quickly became the main transportation hub for the Phoenicians’ trade activities in Iberia, and may even be the entire Phoenician colony in the Western Mediterranean. The most prosperous one.A large amount of silver from the Iberian Peninsula, mined, melted, and processed, was continuously sent to Tyre to meet the needs of its sovereign country, Assyria, thereby gaining more freedom for the Tyre.

However, in the following hundred years, wars occurred frequently in the eastern Mediterranean, and hegemony changed. The mother Terr declined, and Carthage subsequently rose to replace Tyr’s position. Through hundreds of years, all Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean were colonized. All points are under their own jurisdiction, and Cadiz is no exception.

The silver and other metal ingots processed in the urban area of ​​Cadiz were first transported to Carthage, and the Carthaginians took control of all trade matters with the Eastern Mediterranean Motherland.

After the Margonides set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, they were not allowed to intervene in Cadiz's administration in accordance with the regulations of the Carthage House.But for more than a decade of business, Cadiz has been secretly brought under the control of the Margonides.

On this day, a tattered merchant ship drove outside the port of Cadiz, which surprised the people of the port that it was a group of Greeks.

So, the informed Cadiz City Hall immediately sent a patrol to detain the people on board. Only then did the merchant ship come from the Kingdom of Dionia, originally it was to trade in the Greek colonial city of Sagunto in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula , But did not expect to encounter a storm, the cargo ship was blown near the coast of Cadiz.

The friendly agreement between Carthage and Dionysia stipulates that, except for trade with Carthage, the Dionysians shall not conduct direct transactions with other colonial city-states or affiliated city-states of Carthage, otherwise they will be punished. However, the punishment must be handed over to the officials of both parties for trial.If for some reason you enter Carthage’s territory by mistake, you can let it go after you have figured out the situation, and you may not stay there.

Therefore, after the Cadis understood the situation, they urged the merchant ship to leave, but the problem was that the merchant ship was too damaged and had to be repaired before going out to sea. Therefore, the Cadiz had to send the ship to the shipyard for repair, and these The Dionysians are not allowed to go out under house arrest, and of course they have to pay for the repairs and meals.

During this period, someone quietly slipped into the room of the merchant ship's owner Ionis, who claimed to be a Phoenician from Huelva, whose owner was a big merchant of Huelva, with thousands of diggers Mining slaves control the mining rights of several silver mines. There are a few tons of silver ore mined every month, which could have earned more wealth, but Carthage forced them not to sell them. After the mined metal ore is processed and sold to Carthage, the profit is much less.Therefore, his master was very dissatisfied with this, hoping to find a secret sales channel and sell the mountains of silver at a higher price...

Ionis was a little moved after listening.Once a liberated slave of the Kunogolata family, and later obtained citizenship, he became a businessman with the aid of Sostatus, and he often contacted the owner of Sostatus, who knew Dior The Ministry of Commerce of the Kingdom of Niya has a concern.