Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1134

[Chapter 83 The Decision of Thebes]

Agathilaus was taken away by Ipamironda’s sonorous words and the fearless look on his face, and he was stunned for a while.

Seeing that the situation was a little bad, Callistratus was about to open his mouth to resolve it.

But I heard the Persian messenger Datis said sharply: “When the contract is signed, we must act according to the contract, stop all wars, and restore peace in Greece. This is the desire of the people of the Greek city-states, and it is also the great Persian King’s urgent request to you! After that, if any city-state dares to provoke war and invade other states, Persia will strongly support other city-states that signed the contract to form a coalition and punish them severely! People of Thebes, I advise you to obey the contract! Ipamironda

sneered a few times, looked directly at the Persian messenger, and his eyes were piercing: “Because we believed your Persian words before, we signed the Great King’s contract and disbanded the Pioxia Alliance, and the result! The result is Sparta. People violated the contract, attacked Thebes, captured our acropolis, and enslaved our people! What did you Persia do to this shameless breach of contract? Nothing! So… hehe, what peace What independence! Let them all go to hell! We Thebes only believe in ourselves now!”

When Ipamironda was excited, he even clenched his fists, causing the Persian messenger to take a few steps back subconsciously.

However, Ipamironda did not hit the fist on the face of the Persian messenger, but turned around resolutely and walked out of the venue, followed by several other Thebes.

The Thebes messenger group walked away without anyone to stop it, and the venue was silent for a while.

“Is this signature of the Thebans worth it?” Callistratus’ voice broke the silence.

“Of course not!” Agsilaus said with a sullen face, “Since the Thebes have no intention of signing a contract, there is no need for us to force them in. I suggest that this signature be deleted!

” Agree, the same goes for the Athenian messenger.

“The Thebes are arrogant and unreasonable. I’m afraid they will continue to wage war after returning. The king of Persia will never allow such a thing to happen!” At this time, the Persian messenger Datis roared in anger: “We Persia will strongly support you to form a team. An army, and punish Thebes to maintain the sanctity of the peace treaty!”

“Datis is right, we should do it!” Agesilaus immediately looked at Callistratus: “You guys What do the Athenians think?”

Callistratus said without hesitation: “We Athens also support this decision. If Sparta wants to punish the Thebes, we will provide naval support, just like when we helped Thebes. The same is true of the people of Athens.” The

Thebes had no navy at all, and

the navy provided by you Athens was completely useless… Agesilaus knew it well, but he did not raise any objection, because he felt that no matter what Athens provided the navy to Athens Whether Bada has any practical help, the action of Athens itself is of great significance, so that other city-states in mainland Greece can see that Athens is on the side of Sparta, and with this first support, There will be a second time, a third time…the days to come are still long.

So Agesilaus immediately expressed his gratitude to the Athenian envoys.

Just as the envoys of the city-states continued to negotiate the contract matters, the Thebes envoys had already rode out of the city of Sparta and went straight to the seaside port.

At this time, a Thebes messenger had time to complain: “Ipamironda, although your speech at the venue just now was exciting, it will definitely anger Sparta and strengthen the attack on our Thebes! Ipamironda

looked back at them and said solemnly: “Some of us had some illusions about this peace talks before, I believe they can give up completely now! Our ally Athens betrayed us, They, like the Spartans, didn’t want us, Thebes, to unify the whole of Pioxia!”

“Ipamironda, you are right!” Another Thebes messenger said angrily: “Although the contract said ‘to guarantee the independence and freedom of each city-state, and to dissolve the various alliances or alliances established’, but What about ‘the city-states can help each other voluntarily’, even if Athens and Sparta disbanded their alliances, with the influence and strength of their city-states, those original allies would still voluntarily depend on them and be driven by them, And once we disband the Pioxia League, it will soon become a mess!”

“Athens and Thebes are worried that we have the ability to fight against them after integrating the Pioxia region, so they will try their best to stop us, We must never give in!” Ipamironda said firmly.

“But this time, with the support of Athens and Persia, Sparta will attack us more violently!” The Thebes messenger said worriedly.

“We are not alone, the Thessaly will fully support us, and we can also seek help from the Kingdom of Dionia.” Ipamironda comforted them.

“Dionia and Sparta have been friendly with Sparta for more than ten years. Will they choose to help us?”

“I discussed this issue with Peropidas, and we agreed that Persia and Dionia must have a grudge. Since Now why did Sparta reach a contract, abandon the friendly agreement with the kingdom of Dionia, and choose Persia, then Dionia is likely to accept our proposal and form an alliance with Thebes.”

Ipamironda The words made the rest of the Thebes messengers fall into contemplation.

“But no matter who we ally with, we Thebes have to rely on our own strength to become stronger!” Ipamironda looked forward with resolute eyes.

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Two days later, the Athenian envoys also left Sparta and returned to their home country.

On the way, Kalistratus was complacent and said to Kalias: “This time in the peace talks, we Athens got the most benefits and gained the most.”

Callias was a little puzzled: “Under the favor of the Persian messengers, we had to assist Sparta in attacking Thebes, which is actually re-recognition of Sparta’s status as the leader of the alliance, and it should be Sparta’s greatest talent. Yes.”

Although Callistratus somewhat despised this mediocre Athenian messenger, as the torch bearer of Eleusius Smith, Callias was not only in Athens but also in Peloponnese. It also has a lot of influence, otherwise this contract will not be titled with his name in the end: the Kalias contract.

Since Callistratus agreed to assist Sparta in attacking Thebes, after returning to Athens, he would definitely be criticized by some political enemies, and he needed the full protection of Callias, so he patiently explained to him : “Since the Peloponnesian War, our Athens has been completely weakened, not only under the control of Sparta, but also forced to dissolve all the allies. For Athens, which relies on maritime trade to prosper, this is undoubtedly an extremely important event. After the Corinthian War, our national strength in Athens was restored, but the signing of the Great King’s contract forced us to disband our allies again, until the contract was signed this time–”

Callistratus added The tone said: “Sparta has recognized the existence of the Athens Sea Alliance, and has actually placed Athens on an equal footing with Sparta. As for our agreement to assist Sparta in fighting, it is just for Sparta. It’s just a false name. In fact, we don’t need a navy to fight Thebes. Even if Sparta wants us to send an army in the future, we can find a way to do it.

Sparta is now our ally, but it will still be in the future. Competing with Athens; Thebes used to be an ally because of Sparta and us, but don’t forget why it was an enemy of Athens for a long time before.

This time Thebes did not sign a contract in the end, it will As a result, the war between them and Sparta will continue, which is a good thing for us. Thebes’ current national strength has grown a lot, and Sparta will not defeat it so easily. The war continues It will consume the strength of both sides, and when the right time comes, we Athens will intervene in it to decide the final victory and defeat, so as to earn the greatest benefit!”

Kalias was persuaded by him.

After the envoy returned to Athens, Callistratus received an urgent notice from the council: there was a secret message from Thebes, and they sent Pelopidas as an envoy to Dionysus in an attempt to deal with it. Ally!

Callistratus was taken aback.

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Although he has been the king for many years, experienced a lot of things, and met many famous people, Davos could not restrain his curiosity and looked at the center of the palace hall. The Messenger of Thebes, because this man is too legendary.

When Sparta conquered Central Greece and Northern Greece successively, and almost all Greek city-states succumbed to the force of the Spartans, this young man, who was not well-known at the time, brought a few like-minded friends to bravely Sneaked back to Thebes, assassinated the puppets supported by the Spartans, and called on the people to drive out the Spartan army in Thebes; The Thebes government led by the formation not only did not collapse in the continuous attack of the Spartan army, but the Thebes gradually grew during the war, and in the end it was even able to compete with the Spartans.

Peropidas… Davos recited this name in his heart. In his previous life, he didn’t know much about the history of ancient Greece. He only remembered one Ipamironda from Thebes. Now he thinks that the person in front of him is the same. Also an amazing person.

Peropidas is also looking at King Dionia curiously. He thinks that he has done a great job so far, but compared to the one in front of him, he is insignificant, and the difference is too far: in When he was just an adult and was still keen to attend banquets, compete in competitions, and enjoy plays, this man had already led a mercenary army through thousands of dangers, returned from the Persian hinterland, and won a great reputation; The troops repelled the natives, occupied Turii, created the kingdom of Dionia, defeated Crotone, defeated Syracuse, and defeated Carthage. In just over 20 years, this kingdom has become the real estate of the Western Mediterranean. the overlord!

He has been to Persia and witnessed the prosperity of Babylon. When he set foot on the land of Dionia, he carefully observed all the way, especially the grand scale of the city of Turii and the prosperity of the port, which made him feel that he was not much worse than Persia. So he was both surprised and excited, thinking he had come to the right place.

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