Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 47: Li Jim’s request

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Little Cloto Kataks had just climbed onto his father's knees and was about to be carried away by his mother, crying and making noises upset.

Davos didn't bother to care about him at the moment, and turned around and said to Atili Cruz: "The Dionian Senate will be very happy to hear this news, I hope--"

Atilly Cruise waved his hand and said immediately: "But Li Jim also has a small request, I hope Dionia can agree to it!"

The Greeks in southern Italy all say that Lijims are businessmen, and they must compare each other. Attili Cruise is one of the best. It really is not profitable and early! Daves cheered up and said, "Please tell me."

"You also know that the tyrant of Syracuse rebuilt Messina. Messina has now completely fallen to Syracuse, fighting Lijim everywhere. And it has an accomplice——Tinda Reese, it was the colonial city where the tyrant settled the Messinas. It was not far from Messina. Together, these two city-states often disrupted the trade routes of the Strait, and sometimes even seized merchant ships coming to Lijim for trade. …For the long term, if no merchant ships dare to come to Lijim to do sea trade, Lijim will be ruined!” Attyli Cruz said with a melancholy face.

"We have repeatedly protested to Messina, but to no avail. We have also sent an envoy to Syracuse. The tyrant did not receive our envoy at all! So after discussion, our council decided to go to Millais. A colonial city was built on the peninsula to house the exiles of some Sicilian city-states such as Katane, Naxos, and Leottini..."

"Wait a minute." Daves turned his head and said to the slave at the side: "Go to the study and get the map of Sicily." Although Daves has the habit of looking at the map every day, Compared with the familiarity of Nanyi, Daves' memory of Sicily's topography and city-state location is still worse.

"Sicilian city-states such as Katane and Naxos were destroyed by Dionysius, and their exiles must be full of hatred towards Syracuse." Daves knows many city-states in Great Greece. All have taken in exiles from Sicily. This is because the Greek city-states are wary of Syracuse, so it will be easy to provide help to the opponents who were driven away by Syracuse. Daves is naturally at this moment. Thought of Aristilas.

"That's for sure, so they won't be attracted to that tyrant easily!" Attyli Cruz said bitterly.

At this time, the map was brought, and Daves unfolded it on the wooden table where the cutlery had been removed.

"This is Messina...this is Tindaris..." Daves looked carefully on the map.

Attilly Cruise also leaned forward and looked at the map made of parchment: obviously it was specially drawn, not only in large scale, but also detailed, no less than the one stored in Lijim City Hall. Vice, it seems that his son-in-law's attention to Sicily is not low. Even Carthage’s newly-built Lilipi, Messina New City, Taurome Leon... these newly-built city-states are clearly marked, and some of the destroyed city-states are also marked, and in An explanation was made on the side. For example, in Himera on the northern coast, it reads "Destroyed by the Sicilian war initiated by Carthage commander Hannibal fifteen years ago."

"This is the Mile peninsula..." Daves's finger was finally fixed in the northeast corner of Sicily. The Mile Peninsula is said to be a peninsula, and Daves’s impression on the map is actually just a prominent promontory. Just between Messina and Tindaris, the location of this colonial city is really wonderful. , Just to cut the connection between the two cities, you must know that Messina and Tindaris are both new cities (Messina was destroyed by Carthage), and they are not strong, although there is Syracuse behind Support, but Syracuse controls so many city states, it is impossible to fully support Messina and Tindaris. Although Lijim is not as strong as Syracuse, it is also a strong state and very rich. A large amount of resources are poured into this upcoming city, which will soon be able to surpass Messina and Tinsidas. , So as to achieve the purpose of containing and deterring them.

But there is an important question here.

"Have you considered Syracuse's attitude?" Daves asked in a deep voice.

"According to the ancient tradition, any Greek city-state has the right to establish a colony, not to mention the location of our new city is not within the territory of Messina and Tindaris..." Attyly Cruz said plausibly.

"With the personality of Dionysius, he would not consider any Greek traditions." Daves was not optimistic about this, and said with a serious expression: "He finally took control of western Sicily, but at this time There is an outside force who wants to reach out to his sphere of influence, do you think he will agree?"

"So I came to Turri this time. Lijim hopes to get your support!" Attyli Cruz said eagerly: "For this reason, Lijim is willing to hand over our fleet to Dionia. ."

The city-states in the Dionian League did not have such freedom to bargain with Dionian, but Lijim is the only great Greek state to join the League, which is different from other small states after all. The Senate of Dionia showed enough tolerance and respect for it, and in order to strengthen Dionia’s right to speak in the Yugoslavia League, Daves invited Lijim to join the Yugoslavia League last year, and Xiang Ke Rotone and other city-states actually did not strongly oppose it. It can be seen that the influence of Lijim, a powerful old-brand state, also makes Lijim the only great Greek city-state that belongs to both the Dionian League and the Southern Italy League.

Davers is silent: Support? It’s easy to say that this means war, and Dionia is now trying to prevent this from happening. Otherwise, why sign a treaty of friendship with Syracuse? Lijim wanted to drag Dionia into the water. Ah!

"I think such an important matter can only be decided after the Senate's discussion, and even needs to be discussed with other city-states in the Southern Italian League." Davers said vaguely, without giving an immediate answer.

After finally sending away the displeased Attilly Cruise, Daves was still pacing back and forth in the living room, thinking about the Strait of Messina.

Finally, he called Aristilas.

"War will definitely break out!" Alistairs said affirmatively: "The reason Messina and Tindarius dared to invade Liji so boldly was originally supported by Dionysius. As a result, maybe what Lijim wanted to do was exactly what he hoped, he could just launch a war against Lijim, not only could he retaliate against Lijim—" Alistairs said this, and glanced at Daves.

Davos didn't care what he was alluding to, and said, "Go on."

"And Siracusa occupied Lijim and controlled the entire Strait of Messina. Dionysius was able to collect taxes on passing merchant ships to feed his huge army. Your lord, according to the intelligence, Syracuse obtained a large amount of war reparations in the negotiations with Carthage, and used the money to buy food, build more warships, and salaries for mercenaries, not just to treat a Lijim!" Ali Stellas said worriedly.

Daves is silent, he knows all this information.

Aristilas said in a deep voice: "In addition...sir, from the intelligence gathered in Dionia recently, I found a situation that I hope will attract your attention."

"Oh, what is it?" Daves looked at him.

"Now among the pre-citizens and the registered freedmen, there is a kind of worry that is beginning to spread. They are worried that even if they become official citizens of Dionia, they will no longer be able to obtain land..." Aristi Lars said slowly.

Daves raised his eyebrows. Indeed, the land in the plains in the territory of the Dionian Alliance has been basically divided. Only the Lucania Mountains and the Bruti region have some vacant land, but that is not enough for the allocation of so many citizens.

"So they want to leave?" Daves' lips turned up slightly, and he said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Dionia is the paradise of free people, how can they leave!" Alistairs paused, and said in a more accented tone: "They want war and use war to win more land. , Use combat to shorten the number of years of becoming a citizen, and use the record to win the opportunity!"

Davers feels slightly sinking. The military merit system he designed for Dionia can be said to be the source of the Greek freedmen flocking to bring Dionia, and it is also the reason why they are eager to fight and fear death.

"If you forget the battle, you will be in danger, and the warrior will die..." Daves muttered these words silently. The commanding power of the Dionian army must be firmly controlled in his hands, otherwise, once it loses control, the consequences will be disastrous. But now, Dionia is still weak and needs this kind of system to strengthen itself.

"The land..." Daves rubbed his chin. The current Dionia has indeed reached a bottleneck of expansion: to the south, there is the mighty Syracuse; to the north, it is the Samoites. Daves knows that the Romans in the past life have spent decades. It took time to conquer this warring race, during which it suffered several fiascos. Before he was ready, Dionia would not provoke it easily; further east, it was the Mesapi and Puchetti. In terms of distance, there is the closest place to Dionian, but neither of these two races is good, and they are united together. Dionian needs to work hard to conquer them. However, the current situation does not allow it, and there is a Tarantum in the middle. The relationship with Dioria is not very harmonious. Without its full support, Daves dare not send an army to attack May. Sapi's.