Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 548

[Chapter 215 Riot (2)]

As one of the original supporters of Dionysius, after Ortigia became the “Acropolis” of Dionysius, Herolis was also invited by Dionysius to move to Austria Tigia Island, but he politely declined it several times. The reason is that after his ancestors colonized Syracuse, they have lived here for generations, and have never moved, and have become accustomed to the life here.

Moreover, his sleep was not good, and he was easily awakened when he heard the sound. The night waves in Ortigia Island were too loud for him to adapt.

Dionysius made no further demands, but perhaps this was the beginning of his dissatisfaction with Haroris.

The mansion of Herolis is not too far from the city hall. He walks on the west side of the square, crosses the street of the theater, and then walks 200 meters to the west, passing through the wealthy area. His home is located in the civilian area and the Near the junction of wealthy areas.

Philistos strode forward, and the guards carefully guarded him in the center. These guards were all mercenaries, and were rejected and even hated by the people in Syracuse, so they were against Dionysius. Very loyal.

The slave who opened the room saw that Philistos was knocking on the door, hurriedly ushered him in, and said, “Master is resting in bed.”

“Is Heroris seriously injured?” Philistos was concerned asked a question.

“Master’s head was broken and there was a lot of blood! The doctor just came to see him and said that the master needs to rest… oh, that scene is terrible! Those thugs who should go to hell! Your lord, please be sure to catch them. They!…”

Philostos frowned, he did not answer the request of a lowly slave, but it was not good news for him that Herolis was seriously injured and unable to do anything.

When he came to the main hall of the mansion, Philistos was ready to go upstairs.

The slave looked embarrassed, glanced behind him, and said, “Lord, look…”

Philistos was thinking about things just now, but he didn’t pay attention for a while, and then he realized that whether it is a Greek commoner or a noble, according to traditional customs, the upper floor of the main building of the residence is the bedroom of the head of the family and his daughter-in-law. He was allowed to set foot, and he was considered a good friend of Haroris himself. He often came here as a guest, and he had never been upstairs, but today was a special situation.

Thinking of this, he turned around and said to the guards who followed him: “You wait here, I’ll go up.” The

guards hesitated and agreed. They were all Greeks, and of course they knew the Greek traditions. Besides, they had come here many times with Philistos before, and they never had any trouble.

The slaves did not dare to stop Philistos when he went upstairs alone, so he hurriedly called another slave to receive the 20 guards in the hall, and

took Philistos upstairs by himself.

Of course, Philistos couldn’t walk straight into Harolis’s bedroom. If there were female relatives serving Haroris, the scene would be embarrassing.

As his identity, of course, it is impossible to act so recklessly, so he let the slaves go in and report.

“My lord, master, please come in.” The slave said respectfully until he came out of the bedroom.

Philistos walked in, and just stepped over the door, he suddenly caught a glimpse of two dark shadows on both sides of the door out of the corner of his eyes. He was startled, and before he could react, his two arms were tightly clamped.

Astonished, he was about to shout when a ball of linen was immediately stuffed into his mouth.

He was pinned to the ground, his hands slashed back and tied with ropes, but he was pinching his neck and staring at the big bed in front of him.

Haroris, who was lying on his side on the bed, had already turned over and sat up, and his movements were so agile that he could not see any influence of the injury at all.

In fact, there was neither a bandage nor a trace of blood on his head.

Philistos now knew that he had been fooled.

Hololis looked at him with a complicated expression, and said in a deep voice, “Philistos, I’m sorry, for the sake of Syracuse, I can only imprison you temporarily!”

Philistos glared at him angrily, making a “woohoo” from his gagged mouth.

“Help him sit up.” Haroris motioned.

The two subordinates immediately pulled Philistos up and pressed him on the wooden chair.

At this time, there was a sound of fighting from upstairs, and Philistos, who was still struggling, suddenly became quiet, tilted his head toward the door, and listened.

Seeing his thoughts, Haroris sneered: “Don’t have any expectations for these mercenaries. Since I’ve made up my mind to keep you here, how could I forget these lackeys of Dionysius? , no matter how powerful they are, I have hundreds of warriors waiting for them here! They entered my house, like a mouse in an iron cage, how could they escape!

” Toss hummed.

“It seems that you don’t believe me. After all, I am the target of Hyparinus’ key surveillance. How can there be so many warriors in the house?!” Haroris said with a little self-satisfaction: “Don’t forget, yesterday morning I specially I have applied to you to persuade the nobles in the city so that they can take the lead in sending their clansmen to participate in this second cross-sea expedition. I remember you happily agreed at that time. But you know, no matter if I go to them My mansion, or I invite them to come to my mansion, they all travel by carriage, and there is not only one person in the carriage…”

When Philistos heard this, the light in his eyes dimmed a lot, but he Immediately, his eyes widened again, and he glared at the good friend he once trusted who was sitting beside the bed.

Herolis felt the emotion in his eyes, and said in a deep voice again: “Philistos, I remember that you once said to me proudly at your banquet, ‘Dionysius’. Syracuse under the rule of Syracuse is stronger than ever. Not only will no city-states and forces dare to invade our city-states, but Syracuse will become the most powerful in the whole of Great Greece and even the entire Greek world. city-state, earn more honor and wealth for its citizens! And all we have to do is to assist Dionysius to achieve and maintain this great goal for a long time! … ‘I echoed your words at the time, and now I tell You, my true thoughts—”

Herolis looked at him and said calmly but solemnly: “I was a supporter of Dionysius just like you at the time, because in Syracuse faced the invasion of the Carthaginians and the political situation fell into chaos. At the time, only Dionysius had the ability to boost morale, unite citizens, repel the Carthaginians, and stabilize the volatile political situation in Syracuse, so we fully support him as the plenipotentiary general of Syracuse! In recent years, he has continuously expanded the territory of Syracuse, forced the Carthaginians to make peace with us, freed the Greek city-states of Sicily from the threat of Carthage, and made Syracuse the overlord of Sicily, and even the great The Greeks trembled when they heard his name, and even Sparta changed its arrogant attitude and negotiated with us friendly… I know, this is the splendor of Syracuse you have always hoped to see, for this you Help Dionysius with all your strength!”

Herolis sighed and said with emphasis: “But what I expected was different from what you expected, and what I saw was very different from what you saw. What I see

in

my eyes is that Dionysius destroys Naxos and Catane who were once friendly allies with Syracuse, just because Syracuse needs more land, population and slaves!

I What he saw in his eyes was that Dionysius could obviously drive the Carthaginians out of Sicily in one fell swoop, making the island completely free from the threat of the Carthaginians. The

Carthaginians made peace!

What I saw in my eyes was that many Syracuse democrats were tortured and killed by him as a ‘treason’ because they opposed Dionysius before, and even their family members did not Forget it, even Philothanus just said a joke and was thrown into the stone prison by him!

What I see in my eyes is that the people of Syracuse are living in hardship due to the war tax that has been rising year after year, and the people in the city are struggling. Because of the rampage of mercenaries and the surveillance of Hiparinus, he became extremely careful when speaking and doing things! On the other hand, Dionysius took the people who lived on Ortigia Island for decades or even hundreds of years. Expel and turn the whole island into his palace!”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, his face filled with grief and anger: “Dionysius is no longer the hero who wants to save Syracuse, but to maintain his power, his hands are covered with Syracuse. The devil who pierces the blood of the people and the Greek compatriots in Sicily! Under his dictatorship, Syracuse is no longer the great motherland that makes us rich and allows us to exercise our rights freely, but Dionysus. Hughes is a tool to realize personal desires! In order to achieve personal greed, he drove seventy or eighty thousand people of Syracuse to take great risks to invade Great Greece, which has never been malicious to Syracuse, and let several The bones of ten thousand people have been left in a foreign land! If no action is taken, Syracuse, our great city-state, will eventually be defeated by Dionysius! I supported him in his seat as a tyrant. , today I will do my best to make up for the biggest mistake I made!”

After saying these words that had been in his heart for several years, Hololiston felt relieved, and he stood up with determination.

“Woo! Woo! Woo!…” Philistos stared at him nervously, shaking his head vigorously.

Hololis ignored him and turned his eyes to the strong man behind him: “Go down and see if those mercenaries have been killed?” As soon as he finished speaking

, the confidant slave hurried upstairs: “Master, most of those guards are all killed.

They were killed, and only a few rushed out of the siege and were about to run out of the house!”

When Philistos heard this, hope burned in his eyes.

Then, he heard Herolis say, “Very well, everything is going according to plan.”