Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1090

[Chapter 39 Plato’s Praise]

Plato smiled and said seriously: “My opinions have already been said at the previous scholar conferences, and there is nothing updated, so why would I be embarrassed to stand on the podium again. Besides, there are many young scholars at this scholar conference. Your speech is also very wonderful, especially your son Apox, so young to have such amazing discoveries, it is really enviable! And most of these young scholars are from your Dionysian Academy, so it can be seen that your Dionys Asia’s persistent investment in education has finally begun to bear fruit. In comparison, other city-states, including our Athens, are far behind!” When he said this, Plato’s face showed a bit of worry.

“Yesterday, Spicipes’ speech also won praise from many scholars! Plato, you don’t have to worry about no successor!” Lycias comforted.

Spicipes got up and thanked the elders.

Plato was not humble, he pointed to his nephew and said: “Compared with the first conference of scholars, Spicypus has indeed made great progress, but he is the only one in my academy so far. Can be called ‘young scholars’, but your academy has emerged many outstanding young scholars, this gap is very big!”

“The Dionysian Academy is a public institution of the kingdom, and is managed by the Dionysian treasury. Fund support, select the best students from the students who graduate from schools in various cities and towns in the kingdom every year, and then carry out further training, the natural success rate will be very high. And Akademi Academy is established by you personally, with funds, venues and teachers Due to the limitation of the number of students, you can’t recruit more students, which is of course incomparable.

However, I heard that the reputation of Akademi Academy has begun to spread in the Eastern Mediterranean, and I believe that there will be more students from various Greek city-states gradually. If there are outstanding young people willing to study in your academy, the situation will be greatly improved.” Lycias comforted.

Plato sighed: “As I wrote in the book “New Utopia”, ‘a country or a city-state wants to achieve sustainable and prosperous development, it must first focus on education, education can not only enable young citizens Possess wisdom, and can cultivate them to have a sound mind and morality from an early age. Only when the quality of citizens has been improved and they know how to think can the whole country develop healthily… ‘

Unfortunately, we Athens citizens don’t think so, They only value the immediate interests and hope to distribute the property in the treasury equally, so they unanimously agreed at the Citizens Assembly a few years ago to implement the Citizens Assembly Allowance System (that is, all Athenian citizens who attend the assembly will be given half a drake each time. As compensation for horses, as prices rise, this allowance also increases accordingly, and even extends to participating in other meetings to receive allowance compensation).

After tasting the benefits of sharing the wealth of the city-state, they formally adopted the ‘implementation concept of payment’ the year before. Theatrical stipend system’ (the occasional subsidy for the purchase of theater tickets to poor citizens during the Athens celebrations, a tradition that began in the era of Pericles), a special financial officer was also established to manage the theater allowance… …”

Plato said quite worriedly: “Now the citizens of Athens enjoy the benefits of sharing the wealth of the city-state.

They hope that the subsidies issued by the city-state will be more frequent and larger, and the remaining part of the Athens tax will be less and less, able to The ability to cope with the economic situation is getting worse and worse. But the citizens of Athens are living more and more comfortably, and they become reluctant to engage in hard and dangerous military operations.

Some time ago, Konon’s son Timothy was in the council. He proposed, ‘should lead the navy to sail around the Peloponnesus, attack the Spartan navy, and completely establish the superiority of the Athenian navy.’ Enthusiastic, Timothy had to raise money, hire soldiers, and pay the remuneration before he formed a fleet of expeditions.

As a result, after the conquest of Corkyra, the sailors refused to fight for him because of lack of funds, and the entire military operation ended in a hurry.

The military generals who encountered such a dilemma were not only Timothy, but also Ifikrates and Cabrias… These fairly good Athenian generals also suffered from military spending restrictions, which led to Athens’s military spending over the past few years. A series of military operations have had little success.

This also led to the fact that the outstanding generals who were willing to serve for Athens had to often serve for foreign monarchs, and also made them have enough money in their hands or the ability to borrow money to support their military operations for Athens. Like Ifikrates not only often Serving the Thracians, and also married the daughter of a Thracian king, Timothy had a high reputation in Ionia, and also married the daughter of a city-state king in Asia Minor

… Usually, they spend more time abroad than in Athens, because then they have more freedom and can live a life of luxury and pomp without the censure of public opinion.

In the long run, how much loyalty do they have to Athens?

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This is simply a vicious circle!

But the citizens of Athens do not see these dangers. Most of them only value the free play and the money they can get by going to various venues every day… This is the saddest thing!

After hearing this ,

Davos didn’t want to express his opinion on Athens’ affairs, but he thought about it again and said sternly: “The Athenian government’s unwillingness to pay from the treasury to form an army to fight will lead to a worse result. The Athenian generals paid the mercenaries with their own money, and the mercenaries naturally obeyed the orders of the generals rather than the Athenian government. The Athenian government completely lost control of the army, and it was difficult to order the army to execute its strategy.

Even if the general of the army had some ambitions for Athens and ordered the army to attack Athens, do you think these mercenaries would obey?

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Plato was stunned when he heard it, and slowly put down the wine glass that was brought to his lips, and then hesitantly said: “Although Timothy and Ifikrates have some contradictions, these Athenian generals today are still full of Athens. Loved… But you are right, since the army serves the city-state, the city-state should of course also pay the soldiers to ensure their lives, and the two sides have obligations to each other. But if one party gives up this obligation, the other party will of course also With the right not to carry out this obligation… The

day before yesterday, I came to Turii, and I have heard about ‘Dionia raises taxes to form a border army’. It is true that the people of Dionia have a strong and wise government It is a very happy thing!”

Plato took a sip of wine and did not want to discuss this annoying issue any more, but continued: “The reason why I came to Turii this time around the end of the scholar conference is because flowers I spent some time visiting other towns in Dionia.”

“Oh!” Davos said regretfully: “You should tell me in advance, and let me arrange it for you, so that your travel itinerary will be better. It’s more convenient and safer.”

“I won’t tell you, just to make my wandering more free and make what my eyes see more real.” Plato pointed to his eyes and asked narrowly: “Dear Davos King, you want to arrange for me, are you afraid that I will see something bad?”

Davos smiled heartily: “You should know me, I have nothing to worry about.”

“Indeed, I should tell you Congratulations!” Plato said with great interest: “I went to the south, the former Carthaginian military town of Lilibe, and to the north, the great city of Rome, and the former central town of Bereventu. I’ve been here for two days…Dionia’s land is indeed vast, and it took me a lot of time just on the road.

However, I want to correct what you said just now, King, the road is safe, no matter whether it is By sea or by land, I did not encounter pirates, nor mountain bandits, nor did I see wars, and everywhere I passed seemed peaceful and peaceful, even among the Samonei people who were called ‘fierce barbarians’ by the Greeks The same is true in the territory.

You must know that more than ten years ago, more than 20 years ago, the Greater Greece and Sicily were at war with the Greek mainland. The war in Greece… Now the war in mainland Greece continues, but in the west of the Adriatic it is a completely different scene, UU read www.

sonicmtl.com This is the great change brought by the existence of the Dionysian kingdom to the Western Mediterranean!

Plato took another sip of wine and continued to speak loudly: “I also have to mention another important change. Although the journey is long, the traffic is very convenient

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The facilities are relatively complete and the management is orderly.

As for the land road, I have to mention that the roads that you have spent on the treasury and built on a large scale are smooth, broad, and solid, even in the continuous mountains of Samonay and Lucania, they still exist.

You also build roads in the allied territories of the Volsci and Campania… oh, you call it the ‘road network’, it’s really a network that connects most of the races in the Italian peninsula Being together has provided great convenience for their travel and trade, and has also strengthened communication between people of all races.

When I walk on the avenue, there is always a steady stream of pedestrians on the road, most of them have an optimistic spirit on their faces, and in their faces I see a desire that forces them to appear in a hurry , whether it’s rushing a pack car or carrying a package, but this rush is not because of poverty, but for a better life… And this desire is exactly what the kingdom of Dionia bestows!

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