Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 291: Acquaintances

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Seeing that the turmoil in the city is intensifying, the high priest of the Temple of Apollo is very worried. Although he has just served as high priest for a few years, he is far from the previous high priest who has a great influence on Syracuse (in Thanks to the efforts of the previous high priest, the various forces of Syracuse were able to resolve their differences and contributed to the structure of today’s political system, allowing Syracuse to restore peace and tranquility, so it has a high prestige), but he decided to learn from his ancestors. We must do our best to restore the order of Syracuse to stability.

For this reason, he took the initiative to find Theagennis and Falekus and persuaded them to stop attacking each other, otherwise he would only give the enemy in the north a chance.

Actually, after learning about the chaos in the city, Taegnis and Falekus felt scared. After all, Dionian’s tens of thousands of troops were staring in the north. At this time, if the city of Syracuse appeared Civil strife, that can be dangerous!

It happened that the high priest came to persuade them, and the two of them went down the hill and said one after another: for the sake of Syracuse, they are willing to reconcile.

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In the early morning of the third day, all of Syracuse’s parliamentarians entered the meeting place with serious expressions. Before the meeting started, news came suddenly: A Dionian army had left the city of Katane. It is marching south, with more than 50,000 people.

Members of the Council suddenly rushed: Is Dionia going to attack us? !

When everyone was panicked, Taegnis stood up, took the initiative to show his favor to Falekus, and gave a generous speech, reminding everyone not to be fooled by the Dionians, and to unite and defend. The coming offense.

Falekus and other neutral lawmakers responded positively to this and began to actively discuss how to deal with the coming war.

There was no more quarrels in the venue, even more harmonious than previous meetings, as if the quarrels, insults and conflicts here had never happened yesterday.

However, the fact that politically literate generals can reach a compromise in the face of a crisis and restore order to the council does not mean that ordinary people can do it easily. Moreover, they still don’t know what happened in the council. The change, although the city hall sent additional patrols, there were still conflicts in the city, which caused a tragedy.

Several young people who supported Theagennis had a dispute with a group of neutral fans, which led to a fight. They were outnumbered and were besieged.

When the patrol team arrived to disperse the crowd, they suddenly found that a young man was stabbed in the chest by a dagger and fell into a pool of blood, and no one could see who had assassinated him.

The patrol team didn't know how to deal with this matter for a while, but the people who supported the democratic faction had rushed to the scene one after another. Seeing the tragedy, the crowd was enthusiastic, and angrily demanded that the murderer be punished.

The news spread to the council, and the lively meeting place suddenly became calm. The democrats and the neutrals are conducting urgent consultations on their own. What measures should be taken to satisfy their supporters and make Syracuse? Being stuck in such a crisis does not cause turmoil.

At this moment, the sentry returned a piece of news: Dionia's army passed through the ruins of Paragonia and continued to the south. The leading cavalry might have approached Gela.

The congressmen were stunned, and then all cheered, and some even burst into cheers: "It turns out that the Dionian army is not going to fight Syracuse, but to attack the Carthaginians!"

Without the dark clouds of war, the atmosphere of the venue suddenly became relaxed.

At this moment, Tay Gennis stood up and pointed out sternly: "Since there is no way to know who the real culprit is, the neutral fans who participated in the fight are all responsible and should all be arrested and brought to trial!"

Of course, Falekus and others resolutely opposed, and the quarrelling sounded again in the venue.

It didn’t take long before Cerpenus’ speech once again intensified the conflicts between the democrats and the neutrals that had subsided. He said: “Although the Dionians have begun to attack the Carthaginians, but We in Syracuse are still in a state of hostility with Dionia. In order to ensure that there will be no accidents in the future, and to allow the Dionia to attack the Carthaginians with all their strength, it is necessary for us to temporarily restore friendship with Dionia. Yes, so I think-the conditions given by the Dionians must also be fulfilled!"

The condition given by the Dionians is to ask the Syracuse Council to punish Falecus and others! Suddenly, the turmoil in the venue became bigger and bigger.

Although Hiktas did not participate in it, the democrats and the neutrals attacked each other, and the content revealed made him feel grief and distressed. He understood a lot of things that he didn't understand before: why the port civilians had been agreed upon. At the meeting, some MPs suddenly supported a resolution that was unfavorable to the civilian population in the port? Why did the port civilians gradually become disunited and split? ......

At dusk, Hiktas was exhausted and returned to the harbor residence, but was told by his family: A civilian said that he was looking for something important and was waiting in the lobby.

As a general of the port civilians faction, Hiktas often meets some port civilians and even freedmen at home, listens to some of their opinions and requests, and tries to help them solve some difficulties.

While the servant was preparing dinner, he decided to meet this man first.

Seeing Hiktas walking into the living room, the civilian stood up to salute without rush.

Seeing that he looked ordinary and didn't have any impression in his mind, he should have never seen him before, so he asked: "What is your name? What can I do for you?"

A mysterious smile appeared on the face of that person's **Van Munar, and he said softly: "Master Hiktas, Master Antrapolis asked me to say hello to you!"

Xiktas's long-lasting memory was stirred up by this sentence, and his heart was shaken, and his muddy eyes suddenly became sharp, looking directly at the man.

The man looked at him calmly.

Soon, Hiktas reacted and turned to his confidant servant and solemnly said: "You go out first and tell others that you are not allowed to enter here without my order!"

After the servant went out, Hiktas asked, "Are you a Dionian?"

"Yes. My name is Artemis, a citizen of Dionian, from Katane." The man said frankly.

"Dionians, you are so courageous!" Hiktas slapped the back of the chair sharply, and shouted sharply: "Quickly, how many of you are in Syracuse?! Appeared in the city. Did you cause the turbulence?!"

The man was not frightened. Instead, he smiled and said positively: "The common people in the port of Syracuse have not had a good life in the past two years! The area they own is shrinking, and some have even been Relocation, the number of people participating in the citizen assembly is limited, the number of people elected to the council is limited, and even the number of people elected as generals has decreased...The civilians of the port cannot unite and go for their own benefit. The resistance, instead, was divided into several factions, fighting with each other for the interests of ship unloading and fishing at the port and dock, and it gave the council a reason to suppress you...Hiktas, if Antrabo Master Reese knows the situation of civilians in the port today, and he will be very sad!"

Although Antrapolis no longer served in the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Dionian, it was he who appointed personnel to help the civilians of the Syracuse port unite and finally successfully launched the riot. Therefore, although Sigg Tas and the others have not seen Antrapolis, but they are not unfamiliar with this name, which is why Artemis mentioned him several times.

Hiktas's face was blue and purple when he heard these words, and he was quite ashamed: The plight of the port civilians today is of course related to his lack of ability and lack of leadership.

But he quickly came back to his senses: sitting in front of him is the enemy of Syracuse!

He immediately lowered his face, trying to refute.

Artemis suddenly took out a papyrus scroll tied with a black rope from his arms, and said in a deep voice, "Master Antrapolis is far in the northern part of the kingdom. Of course, he cannot understand what is today Syracuse. The poor condition of the civilians in the port of Zha, but His Majesty King Daves in Katane learned about the situation in Syracuse from us very carefully, expressed exceptional concern about your situation, and said that he would do his best. Help you, he also wrote this letter, let me bring it to you!"

Speaking, he sent the roll of paper in his hand forward.

Xiktas stepped back subconsciously, staring straight at the scroll, and his pupils shrank sharply: This is the most feared enemy of Syracuse’s generals and parliamentarians-Dioni Letter from the King of Asia! I am afraid that I will be tempted to take it, and I am afraid that once things are leaked, it will become evidence of collusion with the enemy; but if I don’t take it, I am worried that I will miss a great opportunity. The current situation of the civilians in the port is indeed not good, and today’s meeting is again. It was a blow to myself...

Hiktas was very contradictory in his heart, and stood still; while Artemis kept holding the scroll without saying a word...the whole picture seemed to be still.

For a long time, Hiktas sighed softly: "I'm getting old..."

He cautiously took the paper roll that was light and heavy with both hands...

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Syracuse’s sentry did not actually notice that while the Dionian army was marching south, there was also a Dionian army out of the west gate of Katane earlier. March toward the mountains in the northwest.

In the afternoon, the army reached Agilion, not far to the west of Mount Etna.

Krelu, who had received the news in advance and was waiting outside the city, greeted him.

"Master Kleiro, I have kept you waiting!" Lizaru and Epithenis hurriedly dismounted, apologizing. Although Krarulu was a dozen years younger than them, he was also a senator, and this time he was specially ordered to temporarily abandon administrative affairs to assist them. The two dared not wait any longer.