Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 201: Cretan players participating in the sports meeting

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"By the way, what did Ptolemy, the regent of Macedonia, who married the widow of Amintas (the stepmother of Alexandria, Padicas, and Philip), have done recently?"

"Your Majesty, I am going to report to you. The secret agent in Ege has discovered that in the past six months or so, businessmen from Asia Minor have come and go to Ptolemy's mansion from time to time."

"Businessmen in Asia Minor..." Daves asked musingly: "You mean Ptolemy might be in collusion with Persia?"

Aristiras said cautiously: "In order to fear Ptolemy’s alertness, the Intelligence Department did not conduct further investigations on the Asian Minor businessman. However, there was a gap between Padicas and Ptolemy during this period. The relationship is very tense. Patikas has publicly accused Ptolemy of taking too much power in order to be king, and Ptolemy also publicly retorted, "Padikas is naive, and rewards and punishments are unfair. Without him, he would supervise him. , Macedonia does not know what the chaos is like'...

It is reported that when Philip sneaked to Turriy, Padicas once suspected that his younger brother was being held hostage by Ptolemy, and sent a guard to ask him. I think if it weren't for the asylum of our Dionia, the powerful Ptolemy might have rebelled. "

"You are right. A few years ago, after our army helped Macedonia put down the rebels, the Intelligence Department did not discover evidence of collusion between Ptolemy and the rebels. Ambition, only because he was afraid of us Dionia has been tolerated, and now he dared to conflict with Padicas, no longer afraid of our Dionia's interference, who gave him the courage? It could only be Persia!" Davers finished speaking with confidence, and then emphatically reminded: "But your intelligence department only needs to send someone to monitor him, and don't care about the others."

Davos said this, but he thought in his heart: If the kingdom's only powerful enemy and potential hidden dangers can be solved at the same time, wouldn't it be just right!

"Yes..." After Aristilas responded, he still had no intention of leaving. Davers couldn't help but ask: "Do you have anything else?"

Aristilas hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "Your Majesty...I have a request!"

"You said." Daves was curious: the intelligence director, who has always been cautious in his words and deeds, rarely asks him.

"Your Majesty, since I have worked for you, I have never left Turye! This time I hope to be able to follow you on an expedition to Persia!" Alistairs said earnestly.

Davers looked at him and was silent for a while. He didn't know if the main purpose of Alistairs' request was to resign from the post of director of the intelligence department in disguise, especially after he had just rejected his resignation. Case.

"Your Majesty, this is a bit of my selfishness. If I can follow you and share a little bit of the glory of conquering Persia, the power of the East, I will be able to speak proudly in the face of inquiries from my descendants in the future. Moreover, it will be more convenient and more convenient for me to go to Persia. Quickly mobilize personnel from the Ministry of Intelligence to spy on Persian intelligence and disrupt the domestic order..."

Aristilas once again said earnestly: "You don't have to worry about domestic security. In fact, I have basically let go of it for more than six months. The specific affairs of the Intelligence Department are specifically responsible for the specific affairs of the Department of Intelligence. Coupled with the full assistance of the clerk Maximus, the work efficiency of the Intelligence Department will only be stronger than before!"

Davers stared at him and suddenly laughed: "Oh, you Aristilas, it's rare to see you say so much to your heart! In order to go out and relax, you don't hesitate to belittle yourself! You have done this. To the point, can I still disagree? But during the time when the sports meeting is held, you have to arrange the affairs of the intelligence department, oh, and... after the plan of the expedition to Persia is made public, you have to ask Aso Na admits that you are going to go by yourself, not my request, hahaha..."

Looking at the back of Aristiras leaving, Daves thoughtfully: It seems that Aristiras has already seen that he wants to exchange veterans and pave the way for Croto Catacs. Thoughts. If he agrees to go to Persia, then the important departments of the kingdom have basically been taken over by young and powerful ministers... Oh, there is also Sedorum who has always been in love with him. It seems that I have to find a suitable person to do it at the right time. Wake him up...

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Perhaps because most of the inhabitants of Crete are immigrants from Laconia, the city-states on Crete are somewhat similar to Sparta’s political system, for example, they all have councils of elders, both Citizens’ assemblies all have an ombudsman system, and the boys of the Cretan city-state have to receive learning (mainly military training) from an early age...

Of course, due to the small terrain of Crete, the lack of materials, and the failure to unify Laconia like Sparta, the city-states have established alliances, but still maintain their own independence, so they do not have enough financial and material resources. To develop heavy infantry, but according to the actual situation of the island, focus on training archers.

After the Greek war broke out 5 years ago and Sparta was conquered by Dionia, all the Cretan city-states that received the news were shocked, and a few months later, when Dionian’s huge fleet circumvented While sailing offshore of Crete, the councils of elders of the city-states of Crete quickly made a decision: join the new Greek alliance and express surrender to Dionia.

After the establishment of the New Hellenic Alliance, peace and tranquility have finally been restored in Greece in the past few years. The citizens of Crete have never been conscripted by the city-states and have been involved in wars on the mainland of Greece. Ya is still grateful.

The year before last, King Dionia announced that "a grand sports meeting would be held" and sent invitations to the Mediterranean city-states and countries. When the Cretan city-states also received the invitation letter, the Cretans I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was archery in the competitions listed in the letter.

In the past, Cretans also participated in sports games held in Greece, but more of them were played by aristocratic children, because their wealthy families could provide enough money for them to receive professional training in public fitness facilities. The level of competition is obviously far from theirs, but this time it is different. Archery is a skill that Cretan civilians are good at.

Since Dioria only gave a total of 5 archery entries from all the city-states of Crete, the Crete League also held a grand archery competition, and finally selected the 5 best performers The players, together with the players participating in other events, formed the team of Crete. In early June, they took the boat to Turei. Because this time the Games will implement some new rules, they need to rush to adapt first.

Mecca Kiddes, a 20-year-old young man, a civilian from Heraklion, Crete, won the championship in this archery competition across the island of Crete. The people of Crete He has great expectations of him, and he himself is full of confidence.

After he arrived in Turri, he started to adapt to the field and discovered that the target used in the archery competition of the Dionian Games was not a human head target, but a novel circular target with 5 concentric circles drawn on the target. , The closer the arrow is to the center of the target, the higher the score. This requires players who want to win the championship to further improve their archery accuracy.

At the beginning of practice, McGill Kiddes's score was not high, and he was a little flustered, but with the continuous practice of these twenty days, he has begun to adapt.

At this moment, he drew an arrow from his quiver, draped it on the bowstring, hooked the string with the **** of his right hand, and slowly pulled it back, while holding the bow with his left hand, slowly raising it, his eyes always looking forward 50 At the target at a meter away, until the bowstring was half full, his arms were motionless, and his breathing was steady, he unconsciously released his fingers, and the arrows flew out.

"Nine Rings!" The target reporter shouted from the front.

McGaids shook his head slightly dissatisfied, and rubbed his aching right arm with his left hand.

"This time, the three arrows have shot a total of 26 rings. After four rounds of shooting, I can still have such training results. It is already very good!"

After listening to the targetman’s praise, McGaidz was not happy. He unconsciously turned his head to look at the contestants who were seriously training on other target positions.

Originally, he participated in this sports meeting with the mentality of being inevitable. However, after practicing these days, he learned that many archery players have high archery skills, and most of them are Comes from various regions of Dionia. As far as he knows, these Dionian players have also participated in military training since they were young. Young people who excel in archery will have special teachers to help them strengthen their training in this area. They conduct archery tests. The best performers will be given priority to be selected into the light infantry brigade, and the ones who are almost the ones will become members of the reserve team. Then they will continue to carry out military training year after year, day after day, and sometimes rush with the corps. Battlefield, join the battle...

He once asked a player from Dioria East Sicily. The player told him: The East Sicily region had an archery trial two months ago. Since there is no age limit for archery competitions, they signed up. The number of participants exceeded 5,000. The entire trial lasted for 10 days. In the end, three players were selected through an extra round (there are only three archery places in Dionia)......

The number of people participating in the archery trials in Dionia exceeds that of Crete, and there are dozens of regions in Dionia. The contestants selected from such a large number are naturally outstanding. Their performance on the training ground really made McGill Kiddes feel the pressure.

"One more round!" he said in a deep voice.

The reporter did not hand him the arrow. Instead, he looked up at the sky, and then warmly persuaded: "You have shot five rounds, and if you continue to practice, you will easily strain your arm. Let’s say that the Games will be held on the next day. Go back early and have a good rest. You will have the energy to attend the ceremony held by the Kingdom for the Games tomorrow..."