Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 135

[Chapter 34 Turiyi Diplomatic Incident]

Davos took out a sandpaper roll from his bosom and sneered: “Turiyi people are really forgetful! Fortunately, I still have a copy here!” Said, handed the paper roll over, and the elders passed it to each other. Sure enough, it was written Davos’ promise to give slaves freedom, and the signature of Burkes as a witness, as well as the signatures of the two generals of Kunogolata and Neonsis.

At that time, in order to keep the mercenaries from leaving the Shibari Plain and stick to the camp, the generals of Turii did their best to agree to any conditions.

Judging from their experience, it may be difficult for mercenaries to hold on for a long time. If they can consume a little more Lucanians, they will consume a little more. These two thousand slaves will be treated as meat buns and dogs. Dare to take the initiative to attack the enemy and win.

Now Neonsis, who is known for his careful calculation, is in power. Of course, he is not willing to turn these more than a thousand slaves into free people.

The key point is another important point: after these slaves have been converted into free people, what about the other miner slaves?

They will definitely have ideas. Don’t forget that there are eight or nine thousand slaves in these mining operations. Once there is a commotion, with the current number of citizens in Turiyi, I am afraid it will be very difficult to deal with.

Not to mention that there is a group of free people at the port who are still arguing for citizenship in Turii.

So when the scroll passed into Plessinas’ hands, he didn’t look at it, bit his head, and ripped the scroll to shreds with both hands: “This is fake! This is fake!”

This rascal The arrogant move immediately angered everyone present, and the hot-tempered Skombras rushed over first, grabbed Plessinas, punched him directly, and cursed: “I told you to tear me up! I told you to tear it up! The untrustworthy Turians! The Turians who deserve to go to hell!”

One punch, two punches… If someone else hadn’t pulled Scambras away in time, Plessinas would have been sane It’s unclear, at this moment he cried out in fear: “Killing! Killing! Is Amendolara going to war with Turii?!!”

“Drive him out of Amendolara! Don’t forget, put him in the All the silver coins that the mining slaves who fled to Amendolara should redeem themselves, lest Turii say that we stole their property.” Davos said with disgust.

“Yes!” Mersis replied with a bitter face: “However, the money may not be enough.”

Davos thought for a while and said, “Then write an IOU in the name of the Amendolara Senate, and when we have money, we will pay it back.”

“However, in this way, other slaves who participated in the war would have to pay it back.

I’m afraid I’m going to run to Amendolara!” Cornelus reminded.

“Then let them come. They helped us win the war with the Lucanians, with blood and lives, and the just Hades is above, and I hope we can fulfill our oath to him.” Davos said solemnly.

“That’s really cheap for the Turians!” Mersis said angrily.

“Breaching the oath made to the gods will always bring punishment from the gods.” Davos said lightly, turned to Aristocrates, who was shocked by the scene just now, and said, “Now you are free, You can go wherever you want.”

Aristocrates didn’t expect the results they wanted to come so quickly, and his whole body trembled with excitement: “Thank you, my lord! We…willing to stay in Amendolara… And… I am personally willing to repay the money Amendolara paid for giving us freedom!”

Davos looked at him and saw his sincere, nodding appreciative: “Okay!”

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Plessinas returned to Turii, and naturally he publicized Amendolara’s “evil deeds” to arouse the anger of the people.

Of course, Amendolara also had countermeasures. They spread what happened in the Senate on that day among the people of Turui through the mouths of the Turei patients who came to see a doctor in Amendolara.

For a time, the people of Turiyi could not tell whether the two versions of the story were true or false.

But the Turii City Council quickly took action, and they strongly demanded: Amendolara immediately returned the fugitive slaves, otherwise Amendolara would break the covenant, and Turiel would never sit idly by.

The Senate of Amendolara refused and reminded Turii that he should fulfill his promise to give freedom to his benefactors (that is, slaves who fought in the war).

Turui then announced that the people of the city were forbidden to go to Amendolara.

Foreign merchants who went to Amendolara were charged a heavy tax when they traded in Turii.

Since Amendolara’s storage base has not been built, there are almost no merchants going to Amendolara, but there are many foreign patients, which has little impact on Amendolara’s negligible trade.

But Amendolara still took action. They arranged the military training of the civic soldiers by the Saraceno River, and they made a huge noise, which made the people and slaves of Turii who were farming in the plains of Shibari nervous.

The city hall of Turii took no further action except to protest to Amendolara, and the two sides were suddenly silent.

For Davos, he didn’t want to have a deadlock relationship with Turii, but when things came to this, he had to make a choice: choosing Turri would help him attack Lucania in the future. plan, but had to destroy the promise he made before; choosing to free the slaves, fulfilling his promise, may jeopardize the alliance with Turii.

Davos believed that the alliance with Turii was destroyed, and it could be made up in the future, but once the promise was broken, the bad impression left on the Great Greeks would be difficult to eliminate, even if the promise was only for slaves.

Keeping the promise is related to his integrity, but also to the integrity of Amendolara.

Because many of the new laws that Amendolara is promulgating now have to rely on the trust of the people and outsiders to be realized, to make them believe that Amendolara will keep its promises under any circumstances, so this is Amendolara. The foundation of Nippon!

And just when the relationship between Amendolara and Turii was in a stalemate, a guest came to Turiyi City – the messenger of Crotone.

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At the end of June, the Senate of Amendorara met to discuss a trial competition to select athletes for the Isthmus Games in the summer following the Olympia Games, the Panhellenic world-famous four One of the competitions, although not as old as the Olympia Games, is equally high-profile, and Davos and the Senate hope that the athletes will show the Greek city-states the style of the nascent Amendolara.

Davers even considered going to Corinth (as Corinth is home to the Isthmus Games) with the selected athletes.

In the previous life, he had no money or time to watch the Olympic Games live, but in this era, he can be a VIP and enjoy the most authentic classical games.

Just when the elders were happily discussing how to hold this trial, an astonishing news came: something big happened in Turiyi City!

It turned out that the messenger of Crotone came to Turii to inquire.

He claimed that Turii had previously built a city on the site of Sybaris, in violation of the agreement signed with Crotone.

Neonsis and the others quickly explained: Because the Lucanians were aggressively attacking, Turiyi had no choice but to let the mercenaries temporarily build a camp there, which was quickly withdrawn…

But Croto The inner emissary refused to accept this reasoning, insisting that Turii violated the agreement and must be compensated for such behavior if he did not want to have serious consequences for the relationship between the two countries.

In fact, the real reason why the messenger asked Turri was that after Crotone ended the war with the Brutians, its treasury had consumed a lot of money and materials. Someone in the council of the city-state put forward such a suggestion. At that time, the strength of Turiyi was greatly weakened, so the Crotone people believed that Turiyi should not risk offending the strong state of Crotone and veto Crotone’s request, at most in the amount of compensation. There is an argument, but that’s a bargain.

So the Crotone messenger made a huge list of compensation.

When the generals of Turii saw the list, they immediately understood: Crotone was not here to ask for guilt, but to extort!

Immediately, the generals quarreled, especially after Neonsis became the chief general, although he had a more comprehensive view of the problem, his nature of careful calculation had not changed. Thousands of city-state slaves became free people, and naturally they were unwilling to accept Crotone’s extortion.

So he said to the messenger: “The Council of Turii needs to discuss this matter collectively before it can give Crotone an answer.”

After the messenger left, he immediately asked Plesinas to secretly inform the people of the incident, inciting them to protest at the hotel where the messenger stayed.

The purpose of Neonsis is: first, to allow the messenger to see the anger and determination of the Tuturi people and to create conditions for the next negotiations; second, even if a compensation agreement is signed in the future, it can also reduce the public’s anger and determination. City Hall’s accusations.

Neonsis’s abacus is very good, but he never expected that the people of Turii have become more crazy and irrational after the last Kunogolata eviction incident. , what’s more, driven by someone with a heart, it is not within Plessinas’ control at all.

These people with hearts are the descendants of the Sybaris.

A hundred years ago, Crotone defeated Sybaris and tore down the city of Sybaris. The Sybaris who lost their homeland rebuilt Sybaris a few years later, and soon brought it back to prosperity.

After Crotone knew about it, he sent troops to capture Sybaris again, completely destroying the city.

The exiled Sybaris had no choice but to seek help from the Greek city-state, and finally Pericles of Athens responded to their request and called on all Greeks to rebuild Sybaris.

So the elites of Athens and immigrants from all over the country flocked to build Turii on the plain of Sybari.

But soon after, the Sybaris clashed with the Athenians and other immigrants, because the Sybaris wanted to make the Turii the Sybaris’ Turii, which of course was not accepted by the other immigrants, which eventually happened Bloodshed, the Sybaris were expelled.

However, the Sybaris are local local snakes after all, so a few people secretly stayed.

In the hearts of these people, Crotone is the life-and-death enemy who destroyed their homeland and brought them down to such a state. They passed on this hatred. When the opportunity presented itself, how could the descendants of the Sybaris let it go? .

Thousands of crazy people could not be stopped by a few soldiers. They rushed into the hotel and beat the messenger of Crotone. When Neonsis heard the news and arrived with a large guard, the messenger. has become deceased.