Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 20: Declare war on Dionia? (Two)

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Oclidon stood up immediately, trying to eliminate the influence of the other party’s remarks on the elders: "Pretakuba, do you know that the current Dionia is better than the original Syracuse Much stronger! They have at least ten legions, four fleets, and are said to have a population of 2 million. Their territory is far from the land controlled by Syracuse and the city-state, so it can be easily Form an army of 100,000 people, and can we do it?! So we should not go to war with Dionia now, but to accelerate the expansion in the inland of Africa, strengthen our strength, and fortunately with Dionia in the future Decide the winner!"

Preta Kuba sneered: "In the future? When is the future?! Wait for Dionia to completely occupy the whole of Italy?! I think now is the best time to go to war with Dionia! Because Dioni Asia is experiencing a drought, and they are short of food! You adults shouldn’t forget that we just rejected their request for food not long ago, let alone 100,000 people. I wonder if Dionia can organize 50,000 soldiers. It's all a problem!

And we own western Sicily, Numibia, southern Iberia, and are allies with Rome, a powerful state in central Italy, and the Kingdom of Mauritania in western Africa. Moreover, the Samonais, who were forced to form an alliance with Dionia, are also very dissatisfied with Dionia. It is entirely possible that they will be drawn over by us. There is also the Sparta who is afraid of Dionia’s mighty power. Experts... You see Dionia looks powerful, but in fact it has a lot of enemies, and we have a great chance of winning! "

Preta Kuba's words aroused discussion among the elders.

Hanno, who has been silent, frowned slightly when he heard the word "Southern Iberia".

At this moment, he saw the leader of the neutral faction, Isyaluba standing up with a serious face: "Everyone, you all know that I don't like war. The war with Syracuse made me lose a son. But I want to remind you one thing. Over the past year or so, our Carthage’s trade with Sardinia has dropped sharply! What is the reason?! I think you all know well that we have sent to Sardinia’s city-states. After investigation, the judges obtained the truth that the people of these city-states secretly sailed to the Dionian cities of Enona and Poseidonia across the sea from Sardinia to buy clay pots and olives. Oil, wine, even livestock... etc.

Although our judges urged the Sardinian city-states to strengthen management, they have been repeatedly banned because the prices of the goods sold by the Dionians are much lower than ours. Unlike the previous Campania allied city-states, Dionia ignored our protests at all, and even imposed restrictions on our businessmen in Dionia. For example, recently Dionia’s business officials were in Lokri. Several of our merchants were punished simply because the price of grain they sold was higher than the price imposed by Dionia. Tanit, based on the demand of the people, determines the price of the goods. This is the trade principle followed by the merchants of the Mediterranean city-states. Dionian punishes our merchants for this, which is simply unacceptable!

Dear patriarchs, our ancestors of Carthage came here from Tyre and lived on business, gradually prospered, and finally became strong today. Without prosperous trade, there would be no strong Carthage. Trade is us. The root! No matter how much land Dionia occupies, I don't care, but now it is deliberately restricting our trade and trying to dig out our roots. This must arouse our vigilance! We must also make a strong counterattack! The Dionians are required to make concessions in trade! "

Es Yaluba’s speech was shocking and resonated among the veterans:

"Master Aisi Ababa is right! My caravan no longer sells wine to Sardinia, because there are very few people buying it, and these are the Dionians playing tricks! "

"It is not enough for Dionia to make concessions on trade. As long as it continues to expand, the city-states and monopolistic routes for our free trade will only become fewer and fewer, and Carthage will be in the future. Will have to succumb to Dionia because of the exhaustion of trade! If we want trade to continue to prosper, we must eliminate the Kingdom of Dionia!"

"Yes, we unite with Rome to start a war against Dionia! We regain our dominance over the Western Mediterranean!"

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Listening to these words in the venue, Hanno’s face became more and more gloomy. He didn’t know that Dionia’s continuous expansion over the past few years was the greatest threat to Carthage’s safety, but he didn’t want to At this time, the war was launched for two reasons: one was that the occupation of Numibia was still unstable; the other was that although Margot was driven to the Iberian Peninsula, he occupied a large area of ​​land there and built Several cities and towns, and appointed officials of their own accord, the orders of the Senate always violated the rules. Hanno tried to strengthen Carthage’s management of those newly occupied territories many times, but some of the measures he adopted were ultimately unsuccessful. This made him It's a headache. If a war against Dionia were launched at this time, it would have just given the militant family a chance to return to the Carthaginian Senate!

Hanno has been in full control of the Senate for more than ten years. Although what Preta Kuba and Aisyaluba said greatly touched the veterans in the venue, as long as Hanno did not finally nod his head, the elders who depended on him would not easily vote in favor of this proposal. It will be impossible to form a final resolution because the number of supporters is not enough.

And Hanno insisted on resisting the pressure and didn't make a statement for seven days.

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Cadiz, a colony established by Phoenician Strongbontel in the southern Iberian Peninsula. It is said that it was discovered hundreds of years ago when a senior official of Tyre was in a storm while heading to the Bariari Islands. The ship was blown off course, passed the Pillars of Hercules, and stayed on a beach. After these people who survived express their gratitude to the **** Melakat, they found that they were at the end of a long and narrow promontory, facing water on three sides, making it difficult to conquer by land but easy to enter from the sea. It is an excellent natural harbor, so the colony of Cadiz was established here.

With the discovery of a large number of silver veins, iron and other metals in the southern Iberian Peninsula, the trade between the Phoenicians and the Kingdom of Tartesus in the southern Iberian Peninsula strengthened, and they actually controlled the entire Iberian Peninsula. The mining industry and metal ore processing industry in southern Asia, Cadiz became prosperous, and it soon became the main transportation hub for the Phoenicians in Iberian business activities, and may even be the entire Phoenician in the West. One of the most prosperous colonies in the Mediterranean. Large amounts of silver from the Iberian Peninsula, mined, melted, and processed, are continuously sent to Tyre to meet the needs of its overlord Assyria, thus fetching more freedom for the Tyre people.

However, in the following hundred years, the eastern Mediterranean has frequent wars and repeated hegemonies. The mother Bontel declined, and Carthage subsequently rose to take the place of Tyre. Through hundreds of years, all the Philippines in the Western Mediterranean The Nikki colonies are all under their own jurisdiction, and Gaddis is of course no exception.

Silver and other metal ingots processed in the city of Cadiz were first transported to Carthage, and the Carthaginians were in charge of all trade matters with the mother state of the Eastern Mediterranean.

After the Magonis set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, according to the regulations of the Carthage Senate, they were not allowed to interfere in the government of Cadiz. However, after more than ten years of operation, Gaddis has been secretly brought under the control of the Magonyd family.

On this day, a dilapidated merchant ship sailed outside the port of Cadiz. What surprised the people in the port was that it was a group of Greeks.

So, the city hall of Cadiz, which received the news, immediately sent a patrol to detain the people on board. Only then did they know that the merchant ship came from the Kingdom of Dionian, and it was originally going to the Greek colonial city of Sagon in the northern Iberian Peninsula. Entrusted to trade, but unexpectedly encountered a storm, the cargo ship was blown near the coast of Cadiz.

The friendly agreement between Carthage and Dionia stipulates that in addition to trading with Carthage, the Dionians shall not directly trade with other colonial city-states or affiliated city-states of Carthage, otherwise they will Subject to punishment, but the punishment must be handed over to the officials of both parties for a joint trial. If you stray into the territory of Carthage for some reason, you can leave it after clarifying the situation and not stay in place.

So after the Cadiz people understood the situation, they urged the merchant ship to leave, but the problem was that the merchant ship was too badly damaged and had to be repaired before going to sea. Therefore, the Cadiz people had to send the ship to the shipyard for repairs. They put these Dionians under house arrest in the hotel and not allowed to go out. Of course, they had to pay for the ship repair and food expenses.

During this period, someone sneaked into the room of Ioannis, the owner of this merchant ship. He claimed to be a Phoenician from Huelva, and his owner was a large merchant in Huelva. Thousands of mining slaves control the mining rights of several silver mines. The amount of silver ore mined every month is several tons, which could have earned more wealth. However, Carthage forced them not to sell them. Only after processing the mined metal ore and selling it to Carthage, the profit obtained is much less. Therefore, his owner is very dissatisfied with this, hoping to find a secret sales channel to sell the piles of silver at a higher price...

Ioannis was a little tempted after listening. Once an emancipated slave of the Kuno Gorata family and later obtained citizenship, he became a businessman with the funding of Sostatus, and he knew that Dio, who was often in contact with the benefactor Sostatus, The Ministry of Commerce of the Kingdom of Nia has a worry.