Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 43: Tarantum’s actions and Agarcia’s regrets

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Seeing Phoebedas embarking on the ship unwillingly, leaving the port of Tarantum, Diomilas immediately changed his expression and said to Umakas earnestly: "The Spartans There is a saying that is quite right, Tarantum will not cheer up, even a new city-state like Dionia without any historical tradition will despise us!"

"Do you really want to go to war against Mesapi?!" Umakas hesitated.

"Didn’t the Mesapis have been waging war against us!" Diomilas asked back, and he said sadly: "It is because we have been tolerating the Mesapis that it will think more and more Only when we are weak in Tarantum will the intrusion on us increase more and more, and other city-states in Great Greece will increasingly ignore the existence of Tarantum! We must fight back and completely solve the problem of Mesapi!"

"Resolved completely?! That's not what you told me last time!" Umarcus frowned.

Diomilas missed his words and said hurriedly: "I mean, first of all, we must concentrate our efforts to seize Manduria, which is the most threatening to us, and then look for opportunities to seize Brindisi. In this way, our strength will be greatly enhanced! Other Mesapi city-states can slowly capture..."

Umakas was a little excited, but he still hesitated: "Do we have the strength to defeat the main force of Mesapi?"

"Of course we have!" Diomilas said firmly. In order to persuade his colleagues, he added: "And we have a strong reserve force!"

"What reserve force?" Umarcus was taken aback.

Diomilas pointed to the west side of the sea: "Dionia, our alliance, we have helped it for so long, it should also contribute!"

Umarcas finally said: "I will support your proposal in the Senate."

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"Damn, the great Greek city-states of Dionia, Castellon, and Tarantum are all in one group!" Phoebe Das said angrily on the ship.

"Should we go to Crotone?" Dorobicis suggested cautiously.

Phoebidas glared at him and said, "Go to Syracuse!"

Of course, Phoebe Das knew that Crotone and Dionia had a bad relationship because of the previous war. But he couldn't go, because Crotone's enemy was not only Dionia, and Lorri had a worse relationship with it, and Lorri was the ally of Sparta's ally Syracuse in Great Greece. If he had gone to Crotone, it was estimated that Syracuse would have gone to Sparta to sue. Although he wanted to retaliate against Dionia, he did not imagine Tiblonyi being banished, not to mention that Syracuse was a better partner than Crotone.

Just getting along with the overbearing tyrant of Sicily, Phoebe Das felt that he should learn from the lessons of being too public in Great Greece, and try another way to achieve his goals more obscurely.

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The newly-built Christoya restaurant in Turíy is located in the southwest of the city near the pier. Compared with the other Christoya restaurant next to Turíy’s market, the main customers it faces are alliances. Citizens, foreign envoys, and wealthy businessmen therefore provide high-end dishes such as beef and lamb shabu-shabu. To this end, a part of the restaurant was specially partitioned into small open-air courtyards to exhaust smoke during barbecues.

When Timathon, Zanteparis, and Crianno were invited into the courtyard by Agarcia, they were not unfamiliar with everything in front of them, after all, they had enjoyed it in Daves' mansion.

Criano is interested in the price of beef and mutton soup, and asks the slave serving next to him as he eats it: "How much does it cost to eat this once?"

The slave thought for a while and said, "Honorable guest, it depends on how much you eat? Normally, one person needs two to five drachmas."

"It's so expensive!" Criano shouted in surprise: "I can't earn a drachma a day now!"

"It's more expensive than ordinary dishes, but it's worth the price!" The slave patiently explained: "First of all, the beef and lamb in our restaurant are purchased from Niutum, Lucaria. It is famous all over Greece, and the price is of course not cheap. Secondly, restaurants need to send people to the top of the high mountains in the west to collect the unmelting ice and snow to freeze the meat. This is a very risky thing! Then , There are also some meat-cutting slaves with good knives who constantly cut out evenly thick slices of meat for you. The store also hired chefs from Egypt to prepare various flavors of sauces for you. Finally, I also always serve you Your service... Look, there are so many complicated processes and so many people can make the beef and mutton that you like to eat. Do you still think it is expensive?!"

"You have a clever mouth!" Kriano couldn't help sighing after hearing it. Then he sighed again and said bluntly: "It's a pity to be a slave!"

"Although I am a slave now, my benevolent master still pays me every day. According to the slavery bill issued by the Union,'a slave can raise enough money to pay the ransom as long as he has worked hard for the master for more than four years. If you can get the consent of the master, you can become a free citizen.” And our master Christoya is as kind as Lord Daves, she has made a sacred promise to the great God Hades in front of us! Therefore, I I think in ten years, I will definitely become a Dionian citizen!" The slave's eyes flashed with gratitude and hope.

Davers, you can really buy people's hearts! Isn't it afraid of those slave owners opposing it? Criano looked at the slightly excited slave, did not say this, and asked casually: "What is your name?"

"Tanarus."

"Hope your wish can come true." Kriano said against his will.

Tanarus responded happily: "Thank you for your blessings, kind guests!"

"Look, there is finally Quocliano's heart!" Timathon joked.

"Tima Song, are you jealous?!" Cliano pretending to be angry, holding up the beer can: "Come on, let's drink!"

"Hey, just your drink, want to pour me out?!" Timathon stopped taking the wine glass, and picked up the wine jar: "Come on, let's finish it in one gulp!"

"Drink and drink!" The two raised their heads to drink.

Zantiparis yelled anxiously: "You two drink slowly, Agarcia will spend a lot of money to invite us to dinner!" Then he jokingly said to Agarcia: "This restaurant It should be regarded as Davers’s property, and he should be asked to charge less when he settles the bill."

"Uh... don't worry about Agarcia. He is the senator of the Senate, how can he not even get dozens of drachmas!" Criano said loudly, belching his wine. There is a sour taste in the words.

"Criano is right, you don't have to worry about money. Tonight we will let go of eating and drinking!" Agarcia said loudly as if not hearing the irony in Kriano's words.

"Bring me another can of beer!" Timathon said to Tanarus: "This wine is good, I love it!"

"Give me another can too!" Criano shouted after him.

"Please wait." Tanarus hurried to the door and shouted out the guests' needs to the waiter in the hallway.

The banquet lasted for about half an hour, and everyone was slightly drunk.

"A year ago, we fought with the Persians every day, and we saw the stiff bodies of our comrades around us every day. At that time, we didn’t even have much hope of whether we could return to Greece alive, let alone think of us. Today, I will drink and eat meat with great joy..." Zantiparis said with emotion, "It's not easy! We really have to thank the gods for their blessing!"

"Cheers for us to get together alive!" Timathon proposed a toast.

"Thanks to Zeus (Hades) for your blessing!" Others responded one after another.

Zantiparis put down his wine glass and said, "Agarcia, don't you just let us have a drink and dinner?" He was careful to find that Agarcia's expression was a little depressed.

Agarcia stretched out the colander to scoop the meat and paused in the air. For a moment, he put down the colander, wiped the wine stains from his mouth, looked at the three people who cast their gazes, and said in a deep voice: "Today, the messenger of Sparta is here, and he asks the Alliance to arrest you and give it to Sparta..."

The news of the arrival of the Spartan warship in Turri had spread in the port. Of course Timathon and the others knew it, but they didn't expect that the Spartan messenger would come specifically for them.

"How did you answer the Spartans?" Kriano asked urgently, and the other two were also nervous.

"Don't worry, even though the Spartans threatened with war, Daves still firmly rejected the Spartan messenger!" Agarcia's answer made the three breathe out.

"Davos deserves to be the leader who often wins battles, and he is not afraid of the threat of the Spartans!" At this moment, Criano praised Daves again.

"Actually, the Spartans are not terrible. We followed them in Asia Minor for more than half a year and knew Spartans. Their generals were indeed very experienced in combat, but they could really send the Spartans to the battlefield. There are too few citizens in Darfur, and they mainly rely on allied troops and mercenaries to fight abroad. The combat effectiveness is actually not very strong. Just dealing with Persia has made them very difficult. I don’t think they have enough power to come to the alliance. Provocative!..." Timathong also exhorted.

These words don’t seem to have much effect on Agarcia. He stared straight at the ground in front of him, and muttered apologetically on his face: "I was the one who forcibly obtained Davers’s consent to go to Asia Minor. To attract you...In order to attract you all, I also arbitrarily set out some conditions that the alliance does not exist. I wanted you to live a peaceful life like us after you came, but I didn't expect... …There will be so many conflicts and disputes that will cause you to suffer so much and suffer from the dissatisfaction of the citizens of the Union... Alas, now it has caused Sparta to be hostile to the Union! For this reason, Daves is also affected by the veterans. Blame! I... Did I really do this thing wrong?!"