Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 30: Envoy to Syracuse

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"Young man, don't be so angry." Ansitanos sat still, comforting his student gently. He pointed to a clay pot on the table next to him: "Come on. , Taste the horse milk honey syrup from Carthage to quench your thirst. This syrup tastes good, sour and sweet, and very special. I just asked my entourage to buy it at the Syracuse market."

"Don't drink!" Hernipolis sat angrily on the wooden chair, and the wooden chair made a painful "creaking" noise.

"Heni." Ansitanos knew the student's temper, but he didn't think it was a pestle. Instead, he said in a coaxing tone: "You will be the consul of Laos in the future. You can't do things. On impulse. If we don’t even see Dionysius and we go back like this, not only will the mission of our mission not be completed, but we will be blamed, and the Syracuses will laugh at us for not knowing. Etiquette——"

"Obviously Dionysius didn't understand etiquette and didn't meet us in time, so how could he blame us instead!" Henipolis shouted unconvincedly, interrupting Ancitanos' words.

"They can say,'Because they are busy negotiating with the Carthaginians, they can't get out to meet us for the time being...'. After all, for the Syracuses, Carthage is better than our Dioni Asia is much more important." Ansitanos said calmly.

Henipolis snorted coldly and looked at Ansitanos: "Teacher, in fact, Dionysius just wanted to snub us and make Dionia embarrassed, right?!"

"If Dionysius is such a small-minded person, he would not be able to sit as the tyrant of Syracuse. It's probably just that he treats different things and pays different attention to different things." Ansitanos touched. I have a gray beard, and a wise light flashes in his eyes: "So we don't worry at all, and wait slowly...just to see what the weight of the Dionysian League is in Dionysius' heart." /

Henipolis is young and vigorous, but not a fool. On the contrary, his talent is the reason why Ansitanos is willing to let this student accompany him and travel to Syracuse together: "Well then, we will compare our patience with Dionysius and see who I can’t stand it! In the afternoon, I will go to the theater in the city to watch a drama. To be honest, although Syracuse is larger than Turie and has a larger population than Turie, it does not have the vigorous vitality of Turie. There is no ball game to watch, no food to eat, so I can only go to watch the drama." Henipolis said jokingly, picked up the clay pot on the table, took a sip, and then he " "Puff", all vomited on the ground: "This thing is sour and fishy, ​​too ugly, much worse than beer!"

"Young people don’t know how to taste." Ansitanos quickly took the pot, for fear that he would spit out all the water in it: "You know, this water is from the Carthage from Numibi. I learned it from Yaren, and has undergone some minor improvements, making the taste more suitable for mariners on the sea. In Numibia, this thing is not only for thirst quenching, it is part of the food..."

"What does Numibia have to do with us? Listening to your tone, it seems that I want to study the history of this race." Henipolis said disapprovingly. He thought he knew his teacher better. .

"It's not me, it's the owner of the house you usually live in. He has asked me many times about Numibia." Ansitanos took a sip of water and said .

"You mean Lord Daves?!" Hernipolis immediately became interested: "What did he ask Numibia?! You know that the Dionian Alliance and Numibia are separated by the ocean. , Sicily, Carthage, it is impossible to have any direct contact."

Ansitanos pointed to his chest and slowly said: "There are always one or two people in this world who think about problems from a height that no one else can reach, because theirs here is so vast."

"Master Davos is indeed an amazing person!" Henipolis said sincerely. Suddenly he remembered something and said: "Teacher, now the Carthaginians have chosen a truce, I am afraid to meet us Dionysius is not good, and it will be bad for Dionia!"

Ansitanos looked at his students appreciatively and asked: "Why?"

Henipolis knew that the teacher was testing himself again, so he carefully straightened out his thoughts, and said: "In the Western Mediterranean, Syracuse has always been the most powerful Greek city-state, but it has always been confined to Sicily. The biggest reason for this island is the Carthaginians. The powerful forces of the Carthaginians on Sicily not only kept the Syracuse on alert, but also threatened its survival many times. Syracuse dealt with it. Carthage is very difficult, there is no energy to care about things outside of Sicily.

But in fact, the Syracuse people have always been interested in us, Greater Greece. I remember a few decades ago, Syracuse’s tyrant Hieron sent troops into Great Greece. But in recent years, the situation in Sicily has been very different from the past. Two large-scale military operations in Carthage suffered a disastrous defeat. I heard that more than 20,000 people were injured or killed this time, so they had to propose a truce. I am afraid that it has little power to pose a threat to Syracuse. "

Ansitanos nodded and applauded the students’ opinions, but he didn’t think Syracuse would conduct military operations against Great Greece. The Syracuses were fighting against the forces of the entire Greek city-state. How could the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta and Napoli in Campania allow foreigners to complete the war? Occupy Sicily, thereby cutting off the trade routes between the eastern and western Mediterranean, and even threatening their rear (referring to Sparta). I believe that after these two fiascos, the Carthaginians will become smarter and will no longer easily provoke them in Sicily. War, with its strength in Africa, it will still be Syracuse’s greatest threat."

"You are right, sir! But, at least for now, Syracuse’s power is already much stronger than Carthage. This time, after their peace talks with Carthage, I’m afraid Carthage People will retreat to the west of Sicily by a large margin. The unification of Sicily by Syracuse is something that anyone can see and may happen in the near future." Henipolis said worriedly.

"Yes, this is the issue that our alliance will always pay attention to." Ansitanos said with a deep voice.

"You can’t just pay attention. I don’t think Dionysius will be content to dominate Sicily. Dionysius is a greedy man. In these two wars with Carthage, he took the initiative to expand his territory. Caused, if Sicily stabilizes, he might target Great Greece."

Although Ansitanos does not agree with Hernipolis exaggerating the threat of war in Syracuse, as a scholar, he likes to debate with students, which helps to inspire him. So he frowned and asked: "Why must it be Great Greece?"

"Because Sicily is Carthage to the south, Dionysius, no matter how arrogant, dare not go to the real territory of Carthage to go wild; and to the east, that is the sphere of influence of Sparta; to the west is Iberia. The Asian peninsula, not only has a long voyage, but also heard that there are many colonies established by the Carthaginians. Unless Dionysius is dizzy, he will never be able to expedition and make the mistakes of Athens. Therefore, it can only be north. Great Greece is separated from Sicily by a narrow Strait of Messina. Dionysius can send 100,000 troops to the land of Great Greece in half a day.

And I think Dionysius has long been coveted for Greater Greece, otherwise he would not marry a Lockley woman as his wife and make an alliance with Locke Lee. Today, when he is fighting Carthage, he has not forgotten to send a spy to disrupt Dionia. His ambition for Great Greece is already very obvious! "

"Heny, you have to understand that having ambition is one thing, and whether you can start a war is another. Dionysius may have a covetous heart for Great Greece, but Great Greece now has us. Ionian Alliance.” Ansitanos said, and a strange thought suddenly came up in his heart: If Turri was still the former Turri, the big and small city-states of Great Greece would face the behemoth Syracuse. , Its prospects are really unimaginable. Thanks to Hades for sending Davos, he established the Alliance of Dionians, and almost integrated the power of Great Greece, so Dionysius had to treat this with caution!

"And in Siracusa’s Years’ War, I heard that the treasury has been unable to make ends meet, and the people are also very dissatisfied. Can Zha launch a large-scale war like the previous one against Carthage? I think it is impossible. Moreover, this time we came to Syracuse to let Dionysius know that we Dionia The determination of the alliance completely dispelled his unrealistic ambitions!" Anshitaros said confidently.

Henipolis nodded cautiously because of his infection.

At this time, the entourage walked into the guest room and said, "Master Ansitanos, someone is looking for you outside, saying that it was sent by Felistos."

Phelestos, a great minister of Dionysius? Ansitanos and his students looked at each other...

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Ansitanos was invited to the banquet hosted by Felistos tonight.

As soon as dusk arrived, the carriage sent by Philistos had arrived at the hotel, and Ancitanos took Hernipolis into the carriage.

The place where the envoy of Ancitanos lives is the city center of Syracuse. The initial colony of the Syracuses was the island of Ortigia. Until a few decades ago, Dillon became the tyrant of Syracuse. He led a large number of immigrants and began to expand inland. The expanded area was Syracuse. In the current central area of ​​the city, most temples, theaters, markets, etc. are concentrated here. But this already large area only occupies a small part of the subsequent expansion of the Syracuse.

In the decades after the reign of the tyrant Dillon, the Syracuse extended the city to the northeast and included an area close to the coast three times larger than the central area into the city of Siracusa. Called "Acladina", this coastal area also includes a rich quarry.