Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Just friendly exchanges?" Nektany Pharaoh sat down again, his eyes gleaming.

Nektanibu's rhetorical question made Ansitanos stunned, but Pharaoh continued to say: "Why not form an alliance?"

Ansitanos was really stunned this time, he did not expect that Nektany Pharaoh would say so directly.

Pharaoh Nektanib did not care about his surprise, and said seriously: "As far as I know, the citizens of Dionysia are mainly Greeks. Egypt and Greece have always been friendly, and the city of Nauclatis is a witness! In the past few decades, the Greeks have helped Egypt against the tyrannical Persians. There are still many tombs of Athenians outside the city of Memphis. That is what the Greeks and our Egyptians joined forces to fight against Persia 70 years ago. We must continue this friendship because of the sacrifices!" Nektany Pharaoh said with a little emotion, he obviously ignored the Athenian hired by Persia and attacked Egypt a few years ago.

It turned out that the Egyptians hoped to form an alliance with Dionia to help them resist Persian attacks!Ansitanos no longer wondered why Nektany Pharaoh would have said that the alliance was so urgent, although this diplomatic choice was originally in his and Davis' plans.

But Ansitanos will never know that in the eyes of Pharaoh Nektany, the threat of Persia to Egypt is by no means a potential, but a real and real danger.

In the first half of this turbulent period, some Egyptian officials in this town in the Nile Delta secretly sent secret messages to the land of Canaan under the Persian rule adjacent to the eastern border of Egypt in an attempt to surrender to Persia and let it Reoccupy Egypt, which also includes some people in Memphis.Although the Persians have retreated from Egypt for more than 20 years, their alienation and temptation to the Egyptians never stopped.Fanabazos, the Governor of Persia in Asia Minor, has been rebuilding warships and recruiting soldiers in recent years.

Although the spies paid off: This year, the governor of Persia, Fanabazos, was called by the Persian king and had led his troops to Babylon.

But Nectanibu never forgotten: A few years ago, it was the Persian governor who led the army to burn and loot in Egypt. Although it eventually retreated, the losses suffered were not large, and it may come back at any time.

If it wasn’t for Nektanib’s launch of the army, he put forward the slogan “Preferential treatment of monks” (Pharaoh Harkall’s ten years, restricting monks to own too much land and farming), which was supported by the priests of the vast Egyptian temple Therefore, Nektanibu’s army will be in full swing, and even the troops stationed in Memphis have surrendered to him, quickly stabilizing Lower Egypt in just a few months.As for Upper Egypt centered on Thebes, it was still the world of priests.

Ansitanos realized what Pharaoh was really worried about and immediately said solemnly: "Although Persia is far away from our Dionysia, it also has its minions in the Western Mediterranean-Carthage, this Phoenician. Zibang, for decades, has continuously delivered gold and silver dug from the Iberian peninsula to Tyre, thus providing the King of Persia with funds for expansion and aggression, and therefore has become extremely wealthy.

As a new kingdom, Dionia, holding the principle of living in harmony with its neighbors, signed a friendly agreement with Carthage more than ten years ago, but did not expect it to secretly support Dionia’s surroundings. The forces are constantly fighting against Dionia.And after its conspiracy was defeated one after another, the Carthaginians actually tore up the friendly agreement with us Dionysia and threatened to wage war against Dionysia.Therefore, Dionia is willing to form an alliance with Egypt to help each other and jointly resist the invasion of Persia and its affiliated forces!"

Nektany Pharaoh was surprised because this incident had just happened and he had not received the news.He knew Carthage, a powerful city-state established by the Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean. Their merchant ships often passed through the Egyptian sea and even traded with Egyptian coastal towns. I know that some Carthage ships carry gold and silver, but they have never thought about interception, because the Egyptian army is not strong and the navy is weaker. Except that the Egyptians do not love sailing, there is no dense forest in Egypt. For important reasons, the Egyptians can only make small papyrus boats, and if they want to have a large wooden warship, they can only buy it from abroad.

Therefore, Pharaoh Nektany immediately asked with concern: "I heard that Carthage is very powerful and has a strong navy. If Dionysia and Carthage are at war, can you win?"

"Honorable Pharaoh!" Ansitanos said with a smile: "More than a decade ago, the Greek overlord of the Western Mediterranean, Syracuse, defeated Carthage one after another, forcing him to sign a humiliating peace treaty. But this defeated Carthage The Syracuse of Taiji suffered a fiasco when we attacked Dionysia. We defeated the powerful navy of Syracuse through a frontal naval battle, and we defeated the powerful army of Syracuse through a frontal battle. , Eventually turning Syracuse into an ordinary city-state on Sicily.

Now that the land and population of our Kingdom of Dionysia have increased several times over ten years ago, how could Carthage be our opponent!The cunning Carthaginians just watched that Dionia suffered a drought this year and did not have enough food to supply the army, so they dared to declare war!"

Ansitanos's remarks were very emotional, and he also secretly pointed out the plight of Dionysia now.

Nektany Pharaoh was pondering, and the minister who had spoken to him suddenly interjected: "Egypt and Dionysia become an alliance. If one day, the Persian army invades Egypt, Dionysia will send troops, not far away. Come to Egypt to fight the Persians?"

Ansitanos replied with an arrogant gesture: "When we first established Dionysia, we risked extinction because of the aggression of the Allies and declared war on the powerful enemy. In Dionysian In the history of the founding of the country in the short period of nearly 20 years, most of the wars that occurred were caused by the aggression of the allies. In order to fulfill the covenant, Dionia had to fight the powerful enemy again and again. Fortunately, In the end, they all won.

If you ask someone from the Western Mediterranean, what is the greatest advantage of the Kingdom of Dionysia?He will tell you,'Dionia keeps its promise and never abandons its allies!'"

"I heard this phrase from the Greek merchants in Naukratis..." Nektany Pharaoh said. As a general, he heard this rumor and learned about the Dionysian messenger. After he arrived, he moved his thoughts of alliance.The strength of the Egyptian army was not strong. A few years ago, it was only with the help of more than 2,000 Greek mercenaries that they defended the line of defense.The same military force is stronger, more committed to its commitments, and farther away from Egypt to form an alliance. He believes that Dionysia is the best choice for Egypt to form an alliance.

What King Daveus has always insisted on and preached even splendid flowers in faraway Egypt, which was not expected by Ansitanos, but he was delighted by it.

Pharaoh Nectani budged the token to the ground and said aloud: "In return for the generous gift of King Daphes, I will use a hundred ships of wheat as a rebate! And after Egypt and Dionysia formed an alliance, Egypt will continue to provide Dionya with grain for free to solve the food shortage of the Dionysian people!"

Ansitanos, who had always been well-behaved, could hardly control the joy on his face.

For the pharaohs and ministers present, they did not think it was a big loss.Food is more in Egypt.With the protection of the Nile River, Egypt has produced a lot of crops, and the majority of Egyptian farmers have to hand over most of the harvest. Barns and temples in various towns are filled with collected grains, and even moldy because they are stacked for too long.

After finalizing the alliance, Nektany Pharaoh also kindly invited Ansitanos to have lunch in the garden of the palace.

After waiting for the garden, Ansitanos widened his eyes and showed him a huge artificial lake with vast waves, lotus leaves, lotus blooms, and a lush garden on the lakeshore, which can be seen everywhere from abroad All kinds of exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and animals...

Nektany Bharat took Ansitanos to dinner on a huge wooden boat in the lake, eating wine and food, talking about the past and present, and the beautiful maid dance...

For a time, the host and the host enjoyed themselves.

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While Dionysian Foreign Minister Ansitanos arrived in Egypt, an important meeting was taking place in the city hall of Kataney, Sicily.

Participants included Prosius (Leotizides), the commander of the 8th Legion of Dionysia, Flarios, Naval Commander of the Third Fleet, Cipros, Chief Executive of Katane, and Naxos. Chief Milon, Chief Executive of Messina Amiclis, Chief Executive of Siculi Apirosia, Chief Executive of Crena, Chief Executive of Herbita... In addition, there are two confederate city states, Leotti The chief generals of Nepal and Taunis participated.

It stands to reason that all the leaders in the cities are present, and there is not much difference in positions. Refer to King Daveus’s clever approach to this in the past many innovations in handling government affairs, that is, to implement a round table, so there is no High points.However, Cipros appeared at the top of the meeting, and Prosius was on the left side. This made the Chief Executive who was familiar with Cipros's character whispered in his heart, but even a little dissatisfaction did not appear on his face.

Sipunos looked around the crowd and said directly: "Masters, you all know that our First Army had gathered north a few days ago to help the Walsi and resist the Romans. If the Carthage fulfilled them, they were torn What was said in the agreement, then they will soon declare war on us and send troops to Sicily. In fact, all the signs returned from Carthage show that the Carthage are indeed preparing for war! Understand the situation of our Sicily preparations so that His Majesty and the Senate can control the overall situation of the war and formulate a better strategy. His Majesty sent the Fellowes of the Ministry of Military Affairs to Sicily for inspection. Below, please welcome Master Felix turn up!"

The chief executives were shocked: Felix had come to Sicily, and they had not been notified in advance!