Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 807

[Chapter 153 1 Letter]

If they said what they said at the beginning, it could make the civilians vigilant, but the subsequent slander of Marcus touched the sensitive nerves of the civilians: “I know you, you are the lackey of the Cominelius clan, You were the one who framed Lord Marcus at the Citizens Assembly!”

“Gleus, you were among the nobles who captured Lord Marcus, and you dare to appear in front of us

”

When the crowd was excited, a voice shouted: “Kill them to death and avenge Lord Marcus!” Soon, the quarrel turned into a fight, and the venue became chaotic, with screams and crying.

“Your Majesty!” Seeing this situation on stage, Thormid was afraid of trouble, so he hurriedly asked Davos for instructions: “Do you want to stop it?”

Davos shook his head: “Wait a minute.”

After a while, The bugle blew, the soldiers on the sidelines roared again, and sent a detachment to squeeze into the crowd, only to see the dozen or so nobles and diners who were beaten to the death, and the soldiers dragged them out and left them on the sidelines. , but sent doctors to treat other injured civilians.

At this time, Davos continued to speak loudly to the calm crowd on the high platform: “I’m afraid you still don’t know that Marcus quietly wrote a letter to his family after learning that he had been falsely accused. , shows his determination to die, do you want to know what he said in the letter?!” The

Roman people listened to the translator’s translation, and their curiosity and guilt prompted them to shout without hesitation: “Think!!!… “…”

“Then let Pubrius Manlius read this letter to you.” After Davos’s words, the Roman people were surprised: Pubrius Manlius Sko is the elder of the Roman Senate and the current patriarch of the Manlius clan. He actually took refuge with the Dionysians?

The people who were skeptical about this widened their eyes in amazement when they saw the man walking on the high platform: that was indeed Publius Manlius.

Facing the gazes of the Roman people, the current patriarch of Manlius bowed his head in shame.

At this moment, Davos’s voice sounded in his ear: “Let’s start, Lord

Publius!”

He cut off the heads of more than a dozen Roman nobles he was familiar with in a row. The blood and heads shattered the fragile resistance in his heart. For the survival of the family, he chose to surrender, just like when Marcus was executed by the Senate. , he quickly made the decision to “submit to the elders and no longer use the family name of Capitolinus”.

Under Davos’ smiling gaze,

his hands trembled slightly, and he took out the letter written by himself imitating Marcus under Davos’ dictation: “… Publius, my brother, you don’t have to… persuade me again, I know very well the despicable tricks of the Senate, slandering me to restore the king’s government, this is to kill me!

I have always been in my life. Fighting bravely, I have never yielded to anyone, so I will never kneel and beg for mercy to them, even if they slander my reputation with monstrous crimes, usurp my honor, and make the commoners who follow me in disputes suspect me , and I have nothing to fear!

My only regret is that I once made a promise to help the people who believed in me, followed me, and fought against the Senate together, to relieve their heavy debts, to let them All of them have their own land, so that their cattle and sheep can also graze on the common land of Rome! In fact, there is a promise in my heart that I have not told them, that is, they can also have the opportunity to run for high-ranking offices in Rome and become Elders, serving as consuls… It’s a pity that all these can no longer be realized.

I finally understand now that it is almost impossible to win power for the commoners through words!

If the gods would give me another chance, I would certainly arm the people, and with sharp spears and anger in my heart overthrow the terrible and greedy rule of the Roman nobles, and build a elephant as I have often told you. A beautiful government like the kingdom of Dioria south of Rome, regardless of nobles and commoners, every citizen enjoys equal rights!

When reading this, Pubrius Manlius raised his head and glanced at Davos not far away. The real writer of the letter was listening carefully, as if the letter really existed. When he turned his

eyes

to the bottom of the high platform, he saw that many people were already sobbing, he was stunned for a moment, subconsciously increased the volume, and continued to read: “Publius, my brother, In the future, the family will depend on you to take care of it. If possible, try to help a group of poor civilians… I am very unwilling to be named as a dictatorship and die!

The gods are above, there will be punishment for my wrongs, and those who benefit from my death don’t rejoice too soon!

Signed: Marcus Manlius Capitolinus ”

Publius read the letter, the square was already crying, and most of the people did not doubt the authenticity of the letter, they They were moved by Marcus’s persistence in fighting for their rights before he died, and they were ashamed for not being determined to save such a great and noble leader.

In the cry, someone shouted excitedly : “Marcus!

”

Received a loud response from countless people: “Marcus!

Marcus!

“…”

The people in the square shouted his name in unison. The

shouts echoed over the city of Rome, which even attracted the elders and nobles on Capitoline Hill to stare at the square. They saw the crowd gathered in the square. The crowd thought that these Roman people were fighting against the Dionians, but they didn’t know that these Roman commoners were excitedly mourning one of the aristocratic traitors they hated the most.

The excitement of the Roman people lasted for a while before gradually calm down.

At this time, Davos said loudly: “A year after Marcus was killed, a plague broke out in Rome. This is by no means the warning of the gods to Marcus who is trying to dictatorship, as the priests said, but the God’s punishment for those who framed a great Roman hero! And today, we Dionians came to Rome, also in response to the curse of Marcus, to overthrow those Roman nobles who were high above and cruelly oppressed you, Build a new Rome with you as Marcus said in his letter!”

When Davos gave a passionate speech, Publius Manlius kept nodding aside.

Although the Roman people were still full of vigilance and suspicion, they looked at Davos with less anger.

Someone dared to ask loudly: “How do you want to build a new Rome with us?!”

“Good question!” Davos responded immediately: “Then my newly appointed Roman administrative adjutant will answer you. Issue my order!”

Then, the Roman people saw a gorgeous Bolton man with black piping and white stripes walking up the high platform with his head held high, and after he saluted King Davos respectfully, he turned around To the people in the audience.

Among the people who stood at the front and lived in the slums of Rome, some people suddenly widened their eyes in surprise: Isn’t this Valques?

Others couldn’t help shouting: “Valques, is that you?!”

Valks raised his head and said proudly: “I am now the Roman administrative adjutant appointed by His Majesty the King, which is better than the position of the municipal official that you are familiar with. Even higher, please show me respect when you speak next time!” As soon as he finished speaking

, there was an uproar in the audience, and everyone was chatting, and soon the news spread throughout the audience: a man who used to be like them Roman civilians, who were once reduced to slaves, have now become high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Dionia, standing on a high platform and exhorting them.

Davos calmly watched the commotion off the stage, and was very satisfied with the huge impact that Valques’ example had on the Roman civilians. Citizens break away from the original city-state for some reason and enter another city-state, maybe even an enemy state, but they are basically not reused, and they will not enter the inner circle of the city-state, but often become civilians, which is also important for Roman civilians. One of the sources (of course there are also some clans from other countries who brought their families and hundreds of people to join Rome, and were accepted by the Roman clan commune and shared power, but then they became nobles).

Like Persia, it can open its mind to accept foreign fugitives, even enemies, and give them reuse. After all, such practices are very few in the entire Mediterranean countries, which has also caused although the Greeks and Persia is a mortal enemy, but once they are expelled from their own state, they often go to Persia.

And now what will the Roman commoners do when they suddenly see the great change in Valques’ social status?

Davers waits and sees.

The neat roar of the Dionian soldiers restored calm in the square again.

Valks cleared his throat, took a few breaths, recalled what he tried to memorize yesterday, and said loudly: “Well, His Majesty King Davos announced to all the Roman people, ‘Since Dionysus owns the city of Rome , all the debts owed by the Roman commoners to the nobles are abolished, and all the slaves of the Roman nobles and the public servants of the former Roman city have become free people'”

Valques just finished this sentence, the slaves at the back of the square Cheers came.

In comparison, the Roman civilians seemed a little calmer. Rome was occupied by aliens. Most of the elders and nobles went to the Capitoline Hill. Of course, it was impossible to ask them to repay their debts, but they also stretched their brows. , I know in my heart: as long as the nobles cannot repel the Dionians, their debts may be written off forever!