Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Cornelius is old, and his voice is not loud, and even trembling. It is impossible for people behind the venue to hear clearly, but several speakers in front of him repeated his words with a loud voice.

At this moment, he took out a scroll of papyrus from his arms, unfolded it carefully, coughed a little, and then began to read: "Dear veterans of the Kingdom of Dionysia! Places of towns and cities Representatives of Parliament! At the time of the Kingdom Assembly, I was unable to attend the meeting, for which I express my deep apologies to you! The war with Carthage, Rome, and Samone was not initiated by us, but we We have to fight, because it is related to the life and death of the Kingdom of Dionysia, and to the fundamental interests of each of our citizens!

Up to now, this war has lasted for a year. During this year, our soldiers fought blood on the front line, and behind you, you have spared no effort to maintain the stability of the domestic order and have worked hard to prepare for the war. A lot of materials, we can successively defeat Rome and Samone, inseparable from your hard work!

Some time ago, our Sicilian Fleet and the Third Fleet almost wiped out the Carthage Fleet, and just yesterday I wrote, our land army reinvented Carthage’s 100,000 army in Serinus, Captive Marge, the military commander of Carthage—"

Cornelius read it here and paused intentionally, as expected, and thunderous cheers from the venue instantly.

"Great! Another big victory!"

"Win! Win! We won this war!"

"We won Carthage! We became the new Western Mediterranean Overlord!!"

...

People danced and hugged each other, and the joy was overwhelming. It is important to know that Carthage has dominated the Western Mediterranean for many years, including the elders. Most of the people present did not have too much confidence in this war, but this is beyond expectations. The results only surprise them.

At this time, even the order officers who were in charge of the order of the meeting place smiled, and did not immediately stop the disturbance in the meeting place. After a while, they asked for silence again.

Cornelius continued to read: "...We have defeated Carthage's navy and now have defeated Carthage's army. The Carthage have basically lost the ability to fight our Dionysian , So they sent messengers and demanded peace talks with us.

Ladies and gentlemen, I know that this year’s war has had a great impact on the kingdom, the treasury is almost exhausted, food prices are rising, a large number of young and middle-aged citizens have been drawn, labor is lacking, soldiers have suffered many casualties, and some territories have been ravaged by the enemy. Urgently need to be rebuilt...Many of you may hope to gain some benefits and reconcile with Carthage to restore order to the kingdom.

However, although the Western Mediterranean is large, it can't accommodate two powerful countries. Do we want to see the severely damaged Carthage after the armistice, learn lessons, cultivate self-cultivation, and restoring strength to challenge us again?

I think your answer must be'No!', so we can't stop at the current victory, and continue to fight until we finally get the ideal result we want, that is, we Dionysia must gain an absolute advantage, so that Carthage can never challenge, Let the Western Mediterranean always have only one overlord, and that is us-Dionysia!"

Cornelius read it here, and his voice became louder, and everyone in the room was full of eyes and his head was upright.

"...So I hope that you will continue to unite, make the greatest efforts, continue to appease the people, maintain the stability of the kingdom, and do our utmost to provide the army with sufficient supplies until we win the final victory!...The above is written by Your Majesty. The content of the letter." Cornelius finished reading the letter and handed it to Lucias next to him.

At this moment, someone in the venue suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty Dapheus!"

Once again, the meeting place was lively: "Your Majesty Dapheus!"

"Wonderful Kingdom of Dionysia!!!"

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Pupulius sitting in front of the venue was enveloped by this passionate atmosphere. He never expected that he would feel the ambition of this kingdom on the first day he entered the temple of the highest power in the Kingdom of Dionia -Become the only overlord in the Western Mediterranean.

Although he was not as excited as other people, he was a little more proud in his heart, and he also breathed out: Fortunately, he was lucky to be a citizen of this kingdom in time!

At this time, Cornelius took the opportunity to say: "It seems that everyone not only has no objections to the decision made by His Majesty, but also very supportive. In the next two days, we will discuss how to better complete His Majesty's proposal Requirements. But now, we first invite the chiefs of various departments to summarize the situation of the Kingdom last year. Since everyone is interested in the military situation of the Kingdom, first of all, please ask the Secretary of the Army Hilos to come to power."

According to the previous procedures of the Kingdom Assembly, first of all, King Davers made a comprehensive summary of the situation of the Kingdom last year, and then the chiefs of various departments made specific introductions about the situation of the department, but now Daves is out of the country. , Prudent Cornelius, Lucias, they dare not cross the line, and simply skipped the first link, and the speeches of various departments generally start from the finance department. After all, money is the most concerned issue for everyone, but now Military has become the most concerned issue for everyone, so Hilos is the first to play.

After years of hard work, the mercenary-general military minister stood at the center of the venue and had a calm and dignified attitude that attracted everyone's attention.

He spoke in a comprehensive and concise manner with a quick and unhurried speed of the whole process of the occurrence, development and status quo of the war fought by Dionia with Rome, Samonei and Carthage, and roughly talked about Dai The strategies and tactics formulated by King Firth and the Ministry of Military Affairs against these three hostile forces also mentioned the contributions made by various legions and fleets in the war.

Even though everyone has roughly understood the war of last year through various channels, Hilos' comprehensive and professional narrative still makes them refreshing, so everyone is listening carefully.

For Pubrius, he only knew why Dionysia dared to ignore the Carthage’s attack at the beginning, and King Daveus led the army to attack Rome first. It turned out that they had been seriously discussed and discussed. After deductions, elaborate preparations were made and a perfect plan was drawn up. How could Rome be unbeaten in a hurry!

Puglius felt the terrible place of the establishment of the Ministry of Military Affairs in the Kingdom of Dionysia. He let a group of people with rich war experience do nothing else and deal exclusively with military affairs. They only study how to defeat the enemy every day. How much time was spent on city-state affairs and foreign affairs, and how the Roman nobles who convened citizens and considered tactics before the war could match!

What surprised Publius even more was the series of data that Silos said: In the past year’s war, the Kingdom of Dionysia used a total of eleven regular legions, a reserve legion, and four The cavalry corps and more than 700 warships in four fleets, the army alone employed 110,000 people (not counting the reserve soldiers added later). This is a powerful military force that can make this powerful military. The normal operation of the power for one year also shows that the Kingdom of Dionysia is powerful!

Publius, who had been a Roman veteran for many years and has been engaged in cumbersome government affairs, was deeply aware of this, and now recalling: the Roman Senate rejected the "hope that they would reach a truce with Walsey" proposed by the Dionysian emissary. It’s ridiculous to demand and arrogantly shout "Don’t be afraid of Dionia to join the war."

Of course, at the end of the speech, Hilos also mentioned heavily: Although the Dionysian army won a huge victory in this year’s war, it also paid a lot of casualties. So far, there have been nearly 3 Ten thousand people died and more than 40,000 were injured (this includes the navy crew, and they accounted for the bulk of the deaths).The Ministry of Military Affairs will try its best to arrange the aftermath of the soldiers killed in war, send the pension to his home as soon as possible, and properly solve the livelihood problems of the families of the dead and injured soldiers, so that the soldiers who are still fighting have no worries.

When Silos finished speaking, no one asked questions, and everyone responded with warm applause.

The second one who came to the stage to summarize is Finance Minister Melhis. His speaking style is obviously different from that of Hilos. As soon as he spoke, he complained that the war had made the Kingdom’s treasury savings for many years. The expression of heartache on his face was definitely not Pretend.

Throughout the whole story, he was mostly complaining that the war cost a lot of gold and silver, even though he also mentioned that he had won a lot of loot in the captured city-states such as Rome, Syracuse, etc. Started to mine precious metals from mines in Corsica and Sardinia, which actually made up a large amount of the treasury's shortfall, but his tone and his expression seemed to indicate that these are not worth mentioning at all. Stop the war immediately, and this year the Kingdom will be in trouble due to lack of finances.

Pubulius knew from the whispering of the people next to him: This is the consistent style of this greedy Minister of Finance of the Kingdom. He will always complain about the lack of gold and silver in the treasury.

However, Publius was still taken aback by the expression of Mercis: the Kingdom of Dionysia had seven or eight hundred Talents per month, which was close to tens of thousands of Talents this year. This is still due to the impact of war, which led to a significant drop in taxes.But even so, compared with the previous Romans, its income was only about a fraction of the Kingdom of Dionysian. If the military has a military power in Rome, it is not worth mentioning in terms of financial resources. The demise may be expected.