Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 21: Recalling the past of Maepu (2)

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He was very fortunate that instead of blindly following some people into Brindisi, he fled northward back to his hometown. Because within a few days, Brindisi fell.

Later he heard that during the battle, the Dionians had more legions from the two wings, rounding the sides of the Mesapi and Puchetti formations, and the Cavalry of the Maple Alliance was also worn. The two cavalry regiments of Onia were defeated, and the Maple coalition had no chance of victory from beginning to end, and they were almost completely surrounded and wiped out.

It is said that at the end of the battle, King Tremoni shouted, "Daves of Dionia, can you dare to fight me?! Can you dare to fight me?!..." When the king flag of the Dionian Army was located, he was surrounded by soldiers from the Dionian Legion, and they all died in the battle.

Hearing the news of the king's death, Elems sighed. He believed that all the Puchetti soldiers who had experienced that great battle could not have the courage to fight against the Dionians.

The following two years, the Puchetti people spent their time in panic, and because of who took over as the new king, several important towns and tribes in Puchetti quarreled with each other, and even had a lot of battles...

In the process, news came from the south from time to time.

"Manduria was captured by the Dionians..."

"Ugentum surrendered to Dionia..."

"Udrum was captured..."

"Udia was captured..."

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Elems, who is over forty years old, knew that the Dionians would soon set foot on Puchetti’s territory, and with the current chaos in Puchetti’s territory, it was impossible to stop Diony The footsteps of the runner-up, even for a moment.

Sure enough, when the Dionian legions poured into Puchetti one by one, the Puchetti, who claimed to be more fierce than the Mesapi, performed much worse than the Mesapi, Blera (Blera) Descended, Silvium descended, Barium, Venusia descended, and finally Kanusian, where Eloms lived, also descended...

In less than four months, the Dionians had completely conquered all of Puchetti, but that's good, Puchetti had already died too many people.

Erams and the other people were in a mixed mood as the heavily armed Dionian soldiers escorted the city’s new leader into the city, and then the Dionians gathered the Kanusian people to square.

Agarcia is the name known as "Chief Canusian". He first comforted the Kanusian people present not to be afraid, because they are already Dionian citizens and will be subject to the "Dionian Law". Protection, no one dares to hurt them.

Then he began to read the new decree issued by the Kingdom of Dionian. The content of this decree Elems still remembers to this day: "...All the Puchetti tribes in the Kanusian territory must be disbanded. A Kanusian will have independent freedom. In addition to being under the jurisdiction of the Dionian administrative agency and complying with the "Laws of the Kingdom of Dionian", you will no longer be governed by other organizations, and you will truly belong to You only need to pay 1% tax on your own land every year. In addition to military service, no one will force you to do additional labor..."

At the time, Elems, like everyone else, thought he had heard it wrong.

But the next move by the Dionians proved that they were not talking empty words. They issued an official document to all the tribes in the Kanusian Territory: First, the tribes were asked to surrender their occupied land and handed over to the city hall to renew it. Distribution; the second is to allow all ethnic groups to register at the household registration office of the city hall.

Erams knew how much this official document caused the various tribes of Kanusian. Within three days, there were six riots and commotions in Kanusian territory, but they were all attacked by the powerful Dior. The Nya army was quickly calmed down, and groups of leaders and nobles who led the riots were escorted to the square to behead their heads for several days. The heads of the murderers were rolling and blood was everywhere.

This situation and this scene were also staged in other Puchetti towns. This **** killing also killed the courage of the Puchetti people (because Dionia was in the process of conquering Mesapi, Mesa The constant riots and riots of the Pi tribes made Daves and the Senate realize the difference between the Mesapis and the Lucanians and Brutis, and the great strength of Dionians has also given Dave. Si’s confidence allowed him to make up his mind to stop using the method of subtly and slowly disintegrating the indigenous tribes. Puchetti who may have rebelled against Dionian rule).

Obviously, Daves overestimated the ferocity of the Puchetti. Soon after the riots were put down, the leaders of Puchetti's tribes rushed to show their loyalty to the city hall, including the tribal leader of Elmus.

A few days later, the Elems family, who had been registered as Dionian citizens, was allocated a new land. Elems, who had been living in the tribe for the first half of his life, was both at a loss and a little excited: at a loss, because he suddenly lost the support of the tribe, he felt a little panic and helpless; excitement was to break away from the constraints of the tribe. Elms has a feeling of being free.

Although, as a tribal warrior, he originally had land, but the regained land only needs to pay very little tax every year, and the following three years are tax-free.

The "three-year tax exemption" bill has reduced the dissatisfaction of the Puchetti of the newly allocated land with Dionia.

Under the rule of Dionia, more than two years have passed. The city of Kanusian has changed a lot. I am afraid that the only thing that remains unchanged is the Temple of Lykaon still standing in the city. Many people still visit each year. Worship, but this number is declining, and more and more people are beginning to believe in the Hades from Greece. His temple is not far from the temple of Lykaon. Because the priests of the Hades Temple can treat the people for free, and their medical skills are good, they also actively help the believers in difficulties. Compared with the higher priests of the Laikaon Temple, they are too friendly.

The young people in Kanusian are fond of rugby and football games invented by the Dionians, including his children. In the slack season, they play from morning to night in the open space inside and outside the city. In order to play these games, they also actively learn Greek, because their coaches are all Dionians from across the Gulf of Taranto. .

These Dionians are army recruits who have participated in the conquering of Mesapi and Puchetti over the years. Their Senate assigned them a place in Kanusian. They settled down and were taken from the very beginning. Rejection, resistance, and even disputes and conflicts, until the situation slowly opened up, and gradually began to be accepted by the Puchetti people, first relying on the popular ball games in Southern Italy, and secondly military training.

Under the compulsory decree of the city hall, the young men of Puchetti must participate in military training, and it is these newcomers of the Dionian regiment who train them to fight and fight with them. Friendship is nurtured in this seven-day training.

For Elems, what attracts him the most is Dionian's cuisine. In the past two years, Elems has had a good harvest on the farmland by the Ofanto River. Since he does not have to pay taxes and save enough for his own use, he will take the remaining grains to the city’s market for sale. At the same time, he will raise the sheep every year. A few of them were separated and sold to the Kristia restaurant in the city. The price was not low.

For this reason, Elems, who has money, is often dragged by his former comrades to Kristia’s restaurant for small gatherings, drinking cool beer, eating delicious food, recalling the joy of fighting in the past, and complaining. Today's various changes make them happy. In fact, deep down in their hearts, they admit that today's comfortable life is much better than two years ago.

While they were drinking small wine, cursing Dionia, and looking forward to their future life, a piece of news shocked the peaceful city of Kanusian for a long time: Dionia declared war on the Daonia!

Playing with Dawnies, Puchetti people are happy. After all, they are dead enemies for decades. But Elems, who has just passed his birthday two years after his birthday, is just as worried as some elderly Puchetti people. This war will bleed again the Puchetti, who have experienced many wars and caused a sharp decline in their population.

It turns out that they think too much.

When the mighty army marched in from the south and built a huge barracks not far from Kanusian City, Elems knew that there was nothing about the Puchetti in the next war. Son.

The Puchetti people were a little unhappy. Some young people ran to the city hall or training camp outside the city to protest, demanding to participate in the war against the Dauni. Some people such as Elems set up a temporary market near the barracks under the organization of the city hall to sell the daily needs of the soldiers on the expedition. In the past, the brave and fierce Kanusian people began to have a sense of business. Perhaps this is the biggest change in their concepts like Elems in the past two years.

Elems’s booth is near the entrance of the temporary market. This is a good position. It depends on him getting up early this morning. It was in the military camp over there when he was thinking about it. There was loud cheers, and Ellemston was refreshed: According to yesterday's experience, this should be the end of the soldiers' training.

Suddenly, the vendors in the whole market stopped chatting and wandering, they were all busy putting the goods for sale neatly on the stalls, grapes, olives, boiled beef and mutton, pulp, bread, Salted fish, cloth, ironware...

As soon as Elems and his wife put their things in place, they saw a group of soldiers flooding into the market.

"Adoris, this is the delicious syrup shop I told you." Several soldiers stood in front of Elems’s booth, surrounded by a young man who was about eighteen or nine years old. .

The young man heard this, looked at the booth, and said immediately: "Bring me a glass."