Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 1: Byzantium

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In 657 BC, the prince Byzant of Mekala (next to Athens, to the southwest of it), the native Greek city-state, prepared to lead the tribe to establish a colony on the coast of Asia Minor, and asked Delphi for an oracle in order to choose a suitable one The place where the city was built, but I got a vague answer: build the city on the opposite side of the blind man.

Byzance didn’t understand the meaning of the oracle at first, but when his ship came to the city of Charcydon on the east side of the Bosphorus, he suddenly understood the meaning of the oracle, because Charcydon’s The location is so bad that I can't see the Golden Horn on the opposite side. It is clearly a city that can only be built by blind people. Therefore, he established a colonial city on the opposite bank of Charcydon and named it Byzantium.

Because Mecca is not a strong state, the immigrants it can provide are limited. After hundreds of years of development, Byzantium is still a small city, but its location has gradually become more important. After the rise of Athens, the food came mainly from the city-states in the Eunice Sea. As a result, Byzantium, which had conquered Chalcedon, as a hub city guarding the sea passage between Eunice and the Aegean Sea, naturally became the focus of attention of Athens. Later, Byzantium joined the city. The Delian League became an ally of Athens.

After the Peloponnesian War, the victors of the Spartans also took a fancy to Byzantium’s geographical location. Not only did they support a puppet regime in Byzantium, they also stationed troops in the city to control the Bosphorus. .

One day in the early spring of 399 BC, Burkos’ ship sailed into the Byzantine port. Standing on the bow, he watched from a distance to see more than a hundred warships moored densely in the port. His heart was temporarily relaxed. Tone: It should be caught up.

Just as he was instructing the crew to slowly steer the ship into the designated pier according to the instructions of the port management personnel, the people who were busy in the port suddenly screamed. In the chaos, many people jumped on the ship in panic. If you open the rope, you have to leave the port. Without coordination and command, the ships collided with each other and were in chaos, and even the ship was knocked over, and the crew panicked and fell into the water...

Burkos hurriedly ordered the boat to be rowed back. Fortunately, he had not entered the dock and escaped. He was unwilling to park the ship outside the port and watched the developments. Many people had the same ideas as him. After a while, hundreds of large and small ships were moored outside the port, floating up and down with the sea.

Looking at the previously busy port, it became empty in the blink of an eye, leaving a mess. Burkos was puzzled, so he asked the neighboring ship loudly: "Hey, what happened?"

"Damn mercenaries! Those mercenaries returning from Persia are going to attack Byzantium!"

"The mercenaries attacked Byzantium?!" Burkos's heart jumped suddenly: "Why?"

"I don't know. I heard that the Spartans lied to them and said,'As long as you go to Byzantium, you will give them support.' But when they arrived in Byzantium, they failed to fulfill their promises and cheated them out of the city and closed the city. Door, so these mercenaries are angry. Alas, in this world, soldiers with shields and spears are everywhere like robbers, and all the unlucky are ordinary citizens like us!" An old man who looked like a captain answered Afterwards, he said: "Brother, you are not a Byzantine. Where are you from?"

Burkos hesitated a little, and said: "Turiyi."

"Turiyi...oh, I know if that city is in Greater Greece? I haven't been, but I've been to Tarantum. It's a good place, too rich! I said... …It’s better with your place! Now there is chaos everywhere in Asia Minor, and wars are possible everywhere!..."

Burkos was unwilling to listen to an old man talking and asked: "Who is in charge of Byzantium now?"

"Spartan General Criande." The old man complained: "The Spartans only know how to kill, but don't know how to manage the city! It has only been a few years since they occupied Byzantium! You see, it's better than before. It's a lot worse...Oh!"

Burkes' heart moved and asked: "Old man, what is your name? You have been a captain for many years! The owner of this place should be familiar with it!"

"Pisiras of Byzantium. When Pericles of Athens became the chief general, I went out to run the boat. At that time, he led the Athens fleet to the Sea of ​​Yoke to buy wheat, and I saw Pass him! I know the captain and boatman here. Many of them I watched grow up..." The old man boasted about his past, and asked seemingly unintentionally, "Why do you want to use a boat?" "

"Um... it's possible," Burcos said vaguely.

"What is it transporting?" The old man did not shy away from it, and continued to babble: "Food? Wood? Stone? Olive oil?..."

Faced with the thorough questioning of the old man who leaned on the old and sold the old, Burkos was a little helpless, thought for a while, and said, "...maybe it's a human."

The old man's eyes widened, and the experienced man immediately thought of something: "Are they the mercenaries?! No wonder you have to ask me if I know all the shipowners here! Good! Great! Quickly get rid of them. , Our Byzantium may be quiet for a while!"

Burkos neither admits nor denies.

At this time, a signal came from the port: to signal that everything is safe and let the ship enter the port.

"Hey, brother! If you want to use a boat, you can come to the port and say to any Byzantines in the port, "Look for Old Piri", and they will bring you to find me!" The boats sailed into the dock one after another. , The old man was still in the stern, leaving a message to Burkos loudly.

"Okay!" Burcos replied, wondering: Should I go to visit the Spartan chief of Byzantium, Criande first after going ashore?

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In some Thracian villages not far from the Byzantine city, there are endless barracks of Greek mercenaries. It is already dusk, and most of the soldiers have rested. There is still candlelight in a large tent.

Davos was thinking hard in the big tent, so much so that Christia came in without noticing it.

"My dear, what are you thinking?" Kristia stretched out her snow-white arms and hugged Davers from behind, and asked softly.

Daves sniffed her hair lightly, sighed, and said: "Today we arranged for the soldiers to perform a scene, let the angry them make a posture to attack Byzantium, forcing the Spartans to temporarily Service soft, agreed to give us some supplies, but this does not solve the fundamental problem.

Mercis rushed into the city and got some news. The Spartan general, Tiburon, was appointed Governor of Sparta's Asia Minor. He has arrived in Ephesus and began to recruit soldiers. It seems that your judgment is correct. Sparta is ready to go to war with Persia!

Criande of Sparta trapped us here, and wants us to help them eliminate the Thracians in this neighborhood. I am afraid there is still the possibility of including us to help them fight the Persians. "

"Didn’t Kerrythorpes take you seriously? When I went back to report, he entrusted Anaxes to take care of you, but unfortunately you ignored Anaxes’ wooing, and now he is fighting Xenophon. It's hot." Kristia stroked his face and teased.

"Xenophon is good at this, but I'm not interested in Sparta." Daves scratched his head irritably: "If you keep playing with Sparta, I'm afraid I won't even have a place to be buried. , It’s a pity that we are now a fish out of the sea, and only have to be slaughtered!"

Christoya lightly kissed his face: "My dear, don't be so depressed. I met someone when I came, and he might be able to solve your troubles."

"Who?" Davers heard the words.

Christoia turned around and shouted out of the account: "Martius, let him in."