Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1201

[Chapter 150 Rebuilding Sparta (3)]

With the assurance of Clotokatax, everyone settled down a bit, plus they were eager to leave, and temporarily put this somewhat troublesome issue behind them.

Clotokatax specially instructed his men to prepare rations for them and prepare horses, and his warm-hearted performance completely eliminated their doubts.

After sending these people away, Clotokatax breathed a sigh of relief, but he quickly regained his spirits and walked to a room next to the venue.

Even if the Helots were timid and clumsy, Clotokatax would not have agreed with the Piriasi’s original proposal to exclude the Helots from the management of the new government. Without the Helots Contained, it may not take a few years for the Piriasians to become the new Spartans.

Of course, he will not let the Spartans be marginalized in this new government. On the one hand, there are Spartans, and Dionysus can confidently face the doubts of the Greek city-states who are concerned about Sparta. Say “they didn’t destroy the old city-state, they just changed its polity, as Sparta did to other city-states when they were strong”; on the other hand, let the weakest Spartans join In the new political system, it may make the political situation of New Sparta more stable and more conducive to Dionia’s control of Sparta.

After Clotokatax returned the military salute to the Dionian soldiers guarding the door, he gently pushed open the false wooden door.

The room was crowded with 30 Spartan elders headed by Agsilaus and 5 inspectors, but the assassin was unusually quiet.

This was a bit of a surprise to Clotokatax, his eyes swept slowly over everyone’s face, and finally a smile appeared, because despite the calmness of these Spartans, they couldn’t hide it. The anger in their eyes: “Everyone, I believe you have all heard what I said in the venue just now, and I’m afraid I have already discussed it. Can you tell me your decision now?

” The Inspector couldn’t help roaring: “You are a humiliation to the Spartans! As the descendants of Hercules, we will never be with the dirty and lowly Helichs—”

“Cough! Cough! Cough!…” Agsilius suddenly coughed loudly, and turned his head to look at the inspector coldly.

The Inspector’s roar stopped abruptly.

Agsilaus coughed again, then looked at Clotokatax, and said calmly: “We Spartans have all become your captives, there can be no more choices, We can only follow your arrangements…but I wonder how we Spartans can work with the Periasis and those…Heros to form a new Spartan government? Klotokatax

did not respond directly,

but looked at the roaring Spartan just now and asked again, “Are you really willing to accept our arrangement?”

The man glanced at Agesilaus , lowered his head, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: “…Yes.”

“If we don’t do this, can we have more choices?!” Agesilaus then said loudly: “We Spartans. If you accept the fate of Heroth, you might as well choose death!”

His words were not so much an answer to Clotokatax, but a reminder to the Spartans, who all fell silent in dejection. .

“It seems that you have reached a consensus, which is very good!” Clotokatax said loudly on purpose, the unwillingness and pain in their eyes made him feel a little happy: “You Spartans must also be within 4 days. Elected 10 deputies and two ombudsmen, and formed the new government of Sparta together with the candidates elected by the Piriasis and the Heros!”

“30 deputies, 6 ombudsmen…” A With a tentative gaze, Gesilaus deliberately said softly, “It doesn’t sound much different from the previous Spartans.”

“No, there is a difference.” Klotokatax answered bluntly: “They just Responsible for the operation of the entire government, the designation and promulgation of decrees and major decisions must be discussed and adopted by the Citizens Assembly, and all citizens of New Sparta have the right to participate in this assembly.”

Speaking of which, Klotokatax also made a special mention: “Of course, Sparta also had a citizen assembly in the past, and it was indeed somewhat similar.”

Everyone’s face changed slightly: Sparta’s citizen assembly has always been a pretense , the real supreme power is in the council of elders, and the new government of the Dionysians has completely changed the power structure of Sparta.

Some elders couldn’t help but asked: “What about the king?”

Clotokatax said loudly: “The new Sparta will no longer have a king, and two consuls will be elected for a one-year term. Responsible for commanding the army to fight.”

Everyone subconsciously turned their attention to Agesilaus.

Agesilaus seemed very calm, as if this matter had nothing to do with him, and asked, “When will you be able to release the Spartan people?”

“When the new Spartan government is established.”

“We All the people are locked up, how can elections be held?!” Someone protested.

“Tomorrow, all Spartan adult men will be gathered in Hillers Harbor for election.”

“I have one more question.” Agsilaus looked at him and asked seriously, “I just listened to you just now. Said, you are going to distribute the land to the Piriasis and the Herroes, which means you are going to let them divide the land that originally belonged to our Spartan citizens?”

“Please note that Dionia has occupied the land.

For the whole of Sparta, you have all become prisoners, and the land of Lagonia has become the spoils of the Dionysian army! In order to rebuild Sparta, His Majesty King Davos generously gave these lands to the willing Citizens who serve this new government. To

put it bluntly, even if these lands are still owned by you, the Pirians and the Heros have been freed and no longer have any obligations to you, it is up to you That little manpower can’t take care of so much land at all. What’s more—” Clotokatax raised his eyebrows and showed a mocking smile: “Do you Spartans know how to farm?”

Everyone’s faces were a little ugly, but they couldn’t refute for a while.

The guards beside Clotokatax stepped up their vigilance, but he didn’t seem to see it, and continued: “I have carefully checked some of your Spartan information in the past few days, and found a problem, you Spartans The number of citizens has been decreasing year by year, and the war is not the main reason. According to the data, many people have not only lost the right to participate in public meals because they have not been able to pay a sufficient share of the stipend for a long time. Deprived of the land… I originally thought that it might be because of the perennial wars, even if the Helots helped them cultivate the land, but they did not have enough time to supervise and manage the fields, so the harvest of the fields never met your requirements.

But strange The nobles of Sparta were able to pay their taxes in full every year. Later, someone secretly told me that this was because they were often able to serve as resident commanders in some city-states and strategic places controlled by Sparta. Bribery or other means to get a lot of money, which is more than enough to buy food, pay taxes…

I also found a problem. The land you took from the Spartan civilians was eventually distributed to the royal family and nobles, reason It’s because they have the ability to guarantee a better harvest of the fields, and as a result, the land is gradually concentrated in the hands of your nobles, and the Spartan civilians are losing their land more and more and become inferior… Don’t you realize that? Now Sparta How is the situation very similar to the situation before the rumored Spartan sages came to Kugu to change the political system!”

“You are talking nonsense!” Someone blurted out.

Clotokatax looked at him, not angry at all, but said with pity: “Are you an inspector? Whether as a commoner or an inspector, you did not find that the greedy nobles were embezzling the commoners. Land, this is your dereliction of duty! You should also thank Dionia, if we hadn’t forcibly rebuilt Sparta, there would have been one after another of Ginadians on this land!”

The faces of everyone in the room became ugly .

Agsilaus coughed lightly and immediately changed the subject: “How much land do you plan to allocate to each new citizen of Sparta?”

“About five acres.”

“There are too many people in Helots, I’m afraid it’s not enough.”

Clotokatax said calmly: “We gave the territory of Taigia to the Mandinians, but the population of Mandinians is not enough. There is not much to take care of such vast and fertile new land. With our persuasion, I believe they are willing to accept these Helots who have not been allocated land in Sparta as new citizens

of

Mandinia.”

Gesilaus was taken aback for a moment: “What about those Taigeans?”

“They are all being taken to the Turii slave market for sale. This is the end of their betrayal of the covenant and secretly attacking their allies. ” Clotokatax said coldly.

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and at that moment they didn’t dare to make contact with the young man’s eyes.

Seeing this situation, Klotokatax suddenly felt a little bored, no matter how much he frightened the Spartans, he could not get back his brother Adoris’ precious life, he said indifferently: “Okay, Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you will organize your citizens after you go back today, and lead them to Port Hilles safely tomorrow, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the election.”

Clotokatax left, and the room was silent.

After a long time, someone asked uneasy: “King Agsilius, what should we do now?”

Agsilius still seemed calm, and he whispered: “We can only endure temporarily to avoid suffering from Tiger. The fate of the demi-humans. But wanton acts like the Dionysians will surely force Athens and Corinth to unite against Dionysus, and then our chance will come!”

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