Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1235

[Chapter 184 Establishment of the New Greek Alliance (2)]

On January 5th, the meeting of the new Greek alliance was officially held. It was chaired by Clotokatax and assisted by Hiros. Nearly 200 city-state envoys attended the meeting. Under the circumstance that the framework of the big alliance agreement has been established, the envoys are still there. There was a heated debate over some small details.

On January 11, the final alliance agreement was established, and its main contents are:

First of all, Article 1 is Dionia, Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Argos… The Greek city-states voluntarily established a new Greek alliance, and voluntarily elected Dionia as the permanent leader of the alliance;

After the establishment of the new Greek Union Parliament, each city-state recommends a citizen of the city-state to become a member of the alliance, and it changes every three years, but the member of Dionia will always serve as the chairman of the alliance;

Members of the alliance must not start wars against each other, otherwise the alliance will form an army, led by Dionysus, to crusade against the initiators of the war;

If members of the alliance have conflicts, they must be submitted to the alliance parliament, and Dionia is responsible for forming an investigation team to discuss and resolve them;

If the members of the alliance are invaded by a foreign enemy, the alliance will form an army, led by Dionia, until the foreign enemy is repelled to ensure the safety of all members of the alliance;

If the members of the alliance want to start a war, they can make a request to the alliance parliament. If the alliance is approved, they will help them. If they fail to pass the war, the alliance will not guarantee the security of their territory, and Dionys Asia has a one-vote veto;

If other city-states want to join the alliance, they must be discussed and approved by the parliament, but Dionia has a veto power;

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In addition, under the deterrence and strong insistence of Dionia, the new Greek alliance also confirmed the sphere of influence of the main members of the alliance:

Recognition of Athens as the territory of the entire Attica peninsula, including Aegina and Salamis;

Recognize Sparta’s territory as Lagonia, including Kythira (due to Argus’ timely surrender at the end of the Greek War and the active dispatch of troops to assist the Dionysian army, Dionia occupied Sparta Tetia, which had been around for hundreds of years, was returned to Argos, and the Spartans, who were still worried about their own fate at that time, had no intention of objecting);

Confirmed that Thebes established the Pioxia League dominated by Thebes, which included the entire Pioxia region and also included Oropus;

(Thebes, as the only Greek power that did not oppose Dionia in the Greek War, and supported Dionia in the later period of the war, which led to a faster arrival of victory, of course, Dionia would repay the allies and fully It has fulfilled the dreams that the top executives of Thebes, such as Pelopidas and Ipamironda, have been pursuing.

However, the Athenian envoys led by Callistratus firmly opposed the assignment of Oropus to Thebes. They believed that the Oropus had always been close to Athens and regarded Thebes as an enemy. Oropus has also always been considered a part of Attica and should be attributed to Attica, not Piosa…

As Pelopidas also argued vigorously, the result was that the issue was debated in the process of drawing up the covenant, and at last Clotokataxes intervened, who offered to return Aegina, occupied by Dionia. to Athens, and Oropus to the Union of Pioxia.

Aegina was clearly more important to Athens than Oropus, and Callistratus finally agreed, and Pelopidas satisfactorily fulfilled his wish.

For Dionia, since Athens has become an ally, it is natural for Aegina to return Athens, which just kills two birds with one stone.

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Confirm that Mandinia establishes the Arcadian alliance dominated by Mandinia, and that the territory of the original Tigea belongs to Mandinia (this is the firm support given by Crotokatax throughout the war) Dionysian Mandinia’s greatest return, also fulfilling his previous promises. Shiros even threatened other Arcadian city-states who had spoken out on the issue, claiming that “if they disagree, Then Dionysius will come and settle with them the account of betraying Dionysia in the war,

Tigea will be their example”. The Arcadian city-states did not dare to object at last);

It is confirmed that Olympia is under the jurisdiction of Elis, but Elis has no right to prevent the city-states of the New Greek Union from worshipping Zeus, or cancel his right to participate in the Games (it can be said that Elis can finally regain control of Olympia, thanks to the The intercession of other ex-Elean citizens such as Ionicus of Messenia, and the full cooperation of the Eleans when Clotokatax sent troops to surround Olympia to threaten its priests);

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On January 12, the envoys of the city-states signed the covenant one after another, and then a famous Greek sculptor engraved the covenant and its signature on a three-meter-high, one-meter-diameter copper pillar. Facing the bronze pillar engraved with words in turn, solemnly swear in the name of the twelve Greek gods: the city-state will abide by the covenant and never betray!

Finally, the sacred bronze pillar will be transported to Turii and erected in front of the gates of the new Greek Union Parliament under construction.

On March 1, a grand triumphal ceremony was held in Turii, the capital of the Holy Kingdom of Dionia.

When the news of the “conquest of the Greek mainland” spread to Dionia’s territory, the people of Greek descent were ecstatic, knowing that most of them were either refugees from the Eastern Mediterranean or descendants of immigrants from the native Greek city-state. Even though the country is rich and the people are strong, there is still a hint of colonial humility in the heart, and now those Greek city-states that they once regarded as their mother state have bowed their heads to Dionia, so their proud pride is beyond words.

They sprinkled flowers, sang and danced to greet the soldiers who had been waiting for this triumphal ceremony for months.

On the platform in front of the Great Hall, Davos was as happy as the people, especially when he saw his son who strode up, those eyes never stopped looking at him.

When Clotokatax came close to him, his feet “banged together, and he gave a military salute very powerfully, and shouted loudly: “Your Majesty, the commander of the Greek Expeditionary Force, Clotokatax s, salute to you!

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At that moment, Hades Davers, who had been in power for more than 20 years after experiencing countless storms and waves, was actually a little excited, and his voice trembled slightly and said, “Child…you have lost a lot of weight, but you are more energetic! Well, it did not live up to my expectations for you!”

His father’s kind words transformed the perseverance that Clotokatax had cultivated in the battle for more than half a year. He suddenly had red eyes and said softly with guilt: “Father, please forgive me, I didn’t take good care of my eldest brother!”

Davos comforted softly: “It’s not your fault! Your mother and I didn’t blame you, neither did Cynthia and Edui! After the triumphal ceremony, we’ll go home together to Adoris’ tomb. Worship before!”

He patted Klotokatax’s shoulder hard, handed the golden scepter to him, and said encouragingly: “But now you must cheer up and join the people of the kingdom to celebrate the victory of countless soldiers. A great victory in blood!”

Clotokatax nodded, squeezed out a smile, turned around with Davos to face the thousands of soldiers and people in the square, and raised his scepter high.

The cheers suddenly rose from wave to wave like a raging tide.

A month later, Davos appointed Clotokatax as the consul of the Dionysian Holy Kingdom, and together with the six co-ministers, he handled state affairs.

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In the Attica territory of Athens, there is a Mount Aegalius, which is the city of Athens to the east, and a small town called Selesia at the foot of the mountain to the west. Because of the high-quality clay on the nearby river bank, it is made of high-quality clay. The pottery industry is famous all over Greece.

There are many pottery houses and kilns in the town. Every day, countless smoke columns rise here, day and night, shrouding the whole town in smoke and dust.

When outsiders see this situation, they are often worried for the residents of the small town.

sonicmtl.com and the Athenians will calmly tell them at this time: This is a good thing, which means the prosperity of the ceramic industry in Athens!

In fact, this is indeed the case. Even after the establishment of the new Greek alliance and Dionia becoming the new hegemon of Greece, the worries of the Athens pottery merchants did not appear. Not only did the Athens ceramics industry not decline, but the orders were far greater than before.

Early in the morning, Hesklaus took a pack from the outskirts of Athens and arrived at Thelesia.

A large house near the town gate in the western part of the town is his pottery farm. As soon as he entered the courtyard, the foreman in charge of the entire pottery factory immediately came to report to him that the last batch of pottery was about to come out of the kiln.

He immediately rushed to the kiln. The kiln had just been opened. In the hot air full of black ashes, pieces of pottery that were burned red were displayed in front of everyone: their shapes were various, but they were different from the traditional ones. of Athenian pottery.

Everyone present was accustomed to this, because the pottery was custom-made by the buyer, and the styles were also provided by the buyer, and the buyer was a Turii merchant.

You must know that when Hesklaus initially handed over the new patterns provided by buyers to potters who were responsible for making embryos and shaping, these highly skilled Athenian potters refused to make them, believing that these patterns were deviant and random designs.

Hesklaus fired one potter after another for this, and the collective boycott of the pottery once put his budding pottery business into desperation, but later more than half of the pottery farms in the whole of Thelesia received the money from Dionia. Orders, and the price is considerable, the potters who wanted to dress and eat finally chose to give in.

While waiting for the temperature of the pottery to drop, Hesklaus went to the bottle painting room next to him. He wanted to thank the painter Onehimos and his assistants who drew the patterns for this batch of pottery works, and gave him a generous reward. .