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Agassius was taken aback by the powerful words of Ipamironda and the fearless expression on his face.

Callistratus was a bit unhappy to see the situation and was about to resolve it.

However, the Persian messenger Datis said sharply: "After signing the contract, we must act in accordance with the contract, stop all wars, and restore peace in Greece. This is the aspiration of the people of the Greek city-states, and it is also the urgent demand of the great Persian king! After this, any city-state dared to provoke war and invade other countries. Persia will strongly support other city-states that signed the contract to form a coalition and severely punish them! Thebes, I advise you to perform the contract obediently! "

Ipamironda sneered a few times, looked directly at the Persian messenger, and his eyes were dazzling: "Before I believed in your Persian words, we signed the King’s contract and disbanded the Pioxia Union. The result! The result is Spartan. Violated the contract, sneaked into Thebes, captured our acropolis, and enslaved our people! What did you do in Persia for this shameless violation of the contract? Nothing! So...hehe, what peace! What independence! Let them all go to hell! Our Thebes now only believe in themselves!"

Ipami Lunda spoke of excitement and even squeezed his fist, causing the Persian messenger to subconsciously step back a few steps.

However, Ipa Milunda did not hit this fist in the face of the Persian messenger, but turned around resolutely and walked out of the venue, and several other Thebes followed the venue.

The Thebes messenger group went away without anyone to stop, and for a time the venue was silent.

"Is the signature of Thebes still a good one?" Callistratus' voice broke the silence.

"Of course not!" Agsilaus said with a sullen face. "Since the Thebes have no intention of signing, we don't need to force them in. I suggest deleting this signature!"

The envoys of the city-states have all agreed, and so are the envoys of Athens.

"The Thebes are arrogant and unreasonable. I am afraid that they will continue to wage war after returning home. The Persian king will never allow this to happen!" At this time, the Persian messenger Datis shouted angrily: "We Persian will strongly support you to form a Army, give Thebes punishment to maintain the sacred peace!"

"Datis is right, we should do this!" Agsilaus immediately looked at Calistratus: "What do you Athenians think?"

Kalistratus said without hesitation: "We in Athens also support this decision. If Sparta wants to punish the Thebes, we will provide naval support, just as we did for the Thebes."

The Thebes had no navy at all, and the navy you provided in Athens was completely useless... Agsi Laos knew it clearly, but he did not dispute it, because he felt that regardless of whether the navy provided by Athens had any effect on Sparta. With the help of Athens, the action of Athens itself is of great significance, so that other city-states in Greece can see that Athens is on the side of Sparta, and with this first support, there will be a second Second, third time...the days are still long.

So Agassius immediately thanked the Athens Mission.

As the messengers of the city-states continued to negotiate the contract, the Thebes messenger had already rode out of Sparta City and headed straight to the sea port.

At this time, a Thebes messenger only had time to complain: "Ipami Lunda, although your speech at the venue was exciting, but this will irritate Sparta and strengthen the attack on our Thebes! "

Ipa Milunda looked back at them and said with a deep voice: "Some of us had some illusions about this peace talk before. I believe they can be completely utterly stubborn! Our ally Athens has betrayed us, they Like the Spartans, we do not want our Thebes to unify the entire Piosia region!"

"Ipamironda, you are right!" another Thebes messenger said angrily: "Although what was said in the contract'to guarantee the independence and freedom of each city-state, to dissolve the formed alliances or alliances', but He also said, "The various city-states can voluntarily help each other." Even if Athens and Sparta disbanded their alliance, with the influence and strength of their city-states, the original alliances would still voluntarily attach to them and be driven by them. And once we disband the Pioxia Alliance, it will soon become a piece of sand!"

"Athens and Thebes are worried that we will be able to fight against them after integrating the Pioxia region, so they will try their best to stop us, and we must not give in!" Ipamironda said firmly.

"But this time Sparta has the support of Athens and Persia, and the offensive against us will be even more violent!" The Envoy of Thebes said worriedly.

"We are not fighting alone, the Cesarians will fully support us, and we can also ask the Kingdom of Dionysia for help." Ipamilunda comforted them.

"Dionia has been friendly with Sparta for more than ten years. Will they choose to help us?"

"Peropidas and I discussed this issue and agreed that there must be hatred between Persia and Dionysia. Since Sparta has now reached a contract, it has abandoned the friendly agreement with the Kingdom of Dionysia and chose Persia. Then Dionysia is likely to accept our proposal and form an alliance with Thebes."

Ipa Milunda's words sent the rest of the Thebes messengers into contemplation.

"But no matter who we are allied with, we Thebis must rely on our own strength to grow stronger!" Ipa Milunda looked forward with a determined look.

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Two days later, the Athenian Mission also left Sparta and returned to their motherland.

On the way, Calistratus was contented and said to Kallias: "This time in the peace talks, we in Athens have benefited the most and gained the most."

Kallias was a little puzzled: "Under the favor of the Persian messenger, we had to assist Sparta in attacking Thebes. This is actually to re-recognize Spartan's status as the leader, and it should be Sparta's biggest gain. Correct."

Although Calistras despised the mediocre Athens messenger, as the torch bearer of the Eleusis Smith, Calias not only in Athens, but also in Peloponnese Small influence, otherwise this contract will not be named with his name in the end: the Calias contract.

Since Calistratus agreed to assist Sparta in attacking Thebes, after returning to Athens, he will definitely be attacked by some political enemies. He needs to be fully maintained by Calias, so he explained to him patiently. : "Our Athens has been completely weakened since the Peloponnesian War, not only controlled by Sparta, but also forced to dissolve all the alliances. This is undoubtedly an extremely important for Athens that depends on sea trade prosperity. The blow. After the Corinthian War, our national strength in Athens was restored, but the signing of the King’s contract forced us to disband our allies that had trusted us again, until this time the contract was signed—”

Kalistratus emphasized: "Sparta has recognized the existence of the Athenian Maritime Alliance, and in fact has placed Athens on the same position as Sparta. As for our agreement to assist Spartan combat That’s just giving Sparta a false name. In fact, you don’t need a navy to fight against Thebes. Even if Sparta wants us to send an army in the future, we can think of ways to perfunctory.

Sparta has now become our ally, but will also fight against Athens in the future; Thebes once became an ally because of Sparta and us, but don’t forget that it was a long time enemy of Athens because what.

This time, Thebes did not sign a contract, which will surely lead to the war between them and Sparta, which is a good thing for us.Thebes now has a great increase in national strength. Sparta will not easily defeat it. The continuation of the war will consume the strength of both sides. When the right time comes, we will intervene in Athens to determine the final victory. Negative, thereby earning the greatest benefit!..."

Calias was persuaded by him.

After the messenger group returned to Athens, Calisstratus received an urgent notice from the council: secret news came from the city of Thebes, and they sent Peropidas to envoy Dionia to try Alliance!

Callistratus was shocked.

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Despite being a king for many years and experiencing many things, having seen many famous people, Davers couldn't restrain his curiosity, and looked at the Thebes messenger standing in the middle of the palace hall, because this person is too legendary .

When Sparta conquered Central Greece and Northern Greece successively, almost all Greek city-states succumbed under the force of the Spartans, and the young man who was still infamous at the time brought a few like-minded friends and bravely Sneak back to Thebes, assassinate the puppets supported by the Spartans, and call on the people to drive away the Spartan army in Thebes; when many Greeks think that the resistance of Thebes is only a short-lived, he Not only did the Thebes government headed out by the Spartan army's continuous offensives, but the Thebys gradually grew up in the war, and in the end, even the Spartans could fight in court.

Peropidas...Daveus was nagging the name in his heart. In his previous life, he didn’t know much about the history of ancient Greece. He remembered only one ipamironda for Thebes. Now he thinks the same person in front of him It's also a great character.

Peropidas is also looking at King Dionia with curiosity. He thinks that he has done a great job so far, but compared to the one in front of him, he is a little witch, and it is too far away: in When he was a grown-up, and was still keen on attending banquets, playing sports, and enjoying dramas, this person had already led mercenaries through thousands of dangers, returning from the hinterland of Persia, and winning a great reputation; The troops repulsed the natives, occupied Turiri, created the Kingdom of Dionysia, defeated Crotone, defeated Syracuse, and defeated Carthage. In just over 20 years, this kingdom became the real Western Mediterranean Overlord!

He had been to Persia and had seen the prosperity of Babylon. When he set foot on the land of Dionynia, he carefully observed all the way, especially the grand scale of the city of Turui and the prosperity of the port, making him feel no worse than Persia. So he was surprised and excited, thinking he had come to the right place.