Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 50: Funeral

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Except for important matters that cannot be reached, such as Alexis who commanded the army to fight in Downey, most of the elders, even if they were chief executives in other places, rushed to the mourning hall of Kunogolata. To worship, many middle and low-level officials from the kingdom also came to mourn.

More are the people of Turei. Kunogolata provided tremendous help to Turri people who were burnt down and lost their homes in the city. In the following ten years, more than half of them During this time, Kuno Gorata was the chief executive of the city. Touriy can have today's prosperity, Kuno Gorata has contributed a lot, how can the people not miss his kindness! Therefore, on this day, the Turiyi people did not happily talk about the rugby game, nor did they go to the restaurant to drink, but the worshippers outside the mourning hall were always in a constant stream.

Although everyone looked sad and solemn, there was almost no scene of howling and crying, and they were relatively quiet. This is different from other Greek city-states. In the funeral halls of other city-states, family members may even hire professional weepers to add an atmosphere of sadness to the entire funeral process. According to the Codex of Hades, the souls of the deceased Dionian can enter the Elysee Paradise based on their performance during his lifetime. It is a beautiful paradise. Entering there is to enjoy blessings rather than suffering, so relatives and worshippers don’t have to Too sad, otherwise it is cursing the dead into purgatory.

The ritual to pay homage to the remains lasted for one day, and the funeral for Kunogolata began early the next morning.

The relatives put Kunogolata's body in a wooden coffin, which also contained some sacrifices for it to use in the final journey to Hades and Elysee. The wooden coffin was placed on a carriage, which was pulled by four black horses, and the relatives were wearing black gauze, guarding the carriage around and moving forward slowly.

Behind the carriage are members of the royal family, senior officials of the kingdom, elders and their families headed by Daves, all of them dressed in black veil and look solemn. The people who came after hearing the news consciously lined up in the back, gradually converging into a long invisible dragon, making the inspection station in Turyi had to send more people to maintain order.

The funeral procession was specially equipped with more than a dozen flute players and trumpeters. They played solemn and slightly melancholic elegy, which exaggerated the solemn and mysterious atmosphere for the entire funeral procession.

Plessinus in front of the carriage led a dozen black-robed priests to sing Hades carols silently, sprinkled the streets with clear water, and led the funeral procession to the hills of Hades.

Eight court guards dressed in uniforms lifted the wooden coffin and took steady steps to a small temple next to the Hades Temple. This is Hades’s god, the Tower of Death. The temple of Natos was built after the South-Italian War.

There is an incineration pond in front of the temple. The guards put the wooden coffin into the pond. The priests began to pour olive oil into the incineration pond through the pipes around the incineration pond.

The relatives of Kunogolata, such as Sostatus, Dika Okrat, and so on, were sad. The others also bowed their heads and prayed silently. Only Daves in a white robe walked to the incineration pond. , Opened his arms and yelled to the sky: "Great Hades, Dionian citizen Kunogolata will return to **** again today. I am your pious citizen. I implore you to follow his actions during his lifetime. , To give him the blessings he deserves after death!"

After speaking, he took the torch from Plycinus and threw it into the pool.

At the same time as the raging fire ignited, dozens of saints chanted in unison, and their light songs resounded across the hills, washing the people's sadness.

The wooden coffin was reduced to ashes in the singing, but the funeral was not over. Kunogolata’s relatives took out the remaining bones from the incinerated ashes, wrapped them in fresh linen cloth, and placed them. Into the urn.

Davos also spoke aloud to the people who came to the funeral about the great contribution Kunogorata had made to the Kingdom of Dionia during his lifetime, and announced that the bronze bust of Kunogorata will be settled in Kazakhstan. The Pantheon of the Temple of Diss is with the Kingdom of Dionia! His ashes will be placed in the Temple of Death, blessed by the underworld!

With the completion of these two things, the funeral will come to an end.

When many veterans and officials say goodbye to their relatives, they are no longer comforting, but congratulating them.

Before, the elders also participated in the funerals of Scombras and Bajilipi, but the funeral of Kunogolata not only participated in the most people, but also the honor that he enjoyed after his death reached the peak.

The ashes placed in the temple must be a citizen who is loyal to the kingdom, has a lifetime of diligence, and has done enough meritorious service to be able to enjoy it. It is even more difficult to enter the Pantheon. This is possible only if it has made a great contribution to Dionia and even affected the development of the entire kingdom. After entering the temple, it is necessary to set up a stele to write a biography and pass on the name to later generations, which can be said to be the supreme glory. Since the establishment of Dionia, Heraclid has been the only one for more than a decade, and now there is Kunogolata. For many veterans and officials, Kunogolata’s funeral has become their envy. And the goal of fighting for it, which is exactly what Davers hopes.

For ordinary people, they don’t have such a big goal. After death, they can be cremated in the main temple of Hades, because the cremation of bodies is usually done by ordinary Hades gods. Only citizens who have made merits can apply for the cremation in the main temple of Hades.

The person who approves this application is not the Senate, but the priests of the Temple of Hades. The final decision is in the hands of Daves, because he is not only the king, but also the high priest of the kingdom. The descendants of Hades in the minds of the people. However, under normal circumstances, he would let the priests headed by Plycinus decide. Finally, he could take a look. Only the death of important figures in the kingdom needs him to decide whether he has the ability to enter the Hall of Valor, the Pantheon, Qualifications for the death temple and the wicked prison.

After Kunogolata's funeral, the football finals continued, and everything seemed to be back to the past.

Only the elders felt the slight change. Anta Auris was added to the rotation chairperson of the Senate, and his seat was moved forward to the center of the front row of the venue.

When Dionia was first established, the position of rotating chairman of the Senate was held by the elders in turn. It only played a role in maintaining order in the venue and had no real power. After the South-Italian War, Daves became king. He no longer let the veterans serve as rotating chairmen instead of appointing them as “too many new veterans and not familiar with the operation of the Dionian regime”. Several veterans will take turns in this position, usually every ten days.

At the same time, he also asked the Senate to give more responsibilities to the rotating chairperson, and let them be responsible for organizing each Senate meeting, and the main topics of each meeting were decided by King Davers and the rotating chairperson on duty. , When Davers attends the meeting, he will upload it to ensure that the meeting will be carried out in accordance with the king’s wishes. When Davers is absent from the meeting, he has the right to guarantee the smooth progress of the meeting, and he can even command the guards to drive out the veterans who interfered with the meeting, and he only needs to report the results of the meeting to Davers after the meeting.

Because of the increased power of the rotating chairman, this position has become an important indicator of the status of a senator in the Senate.

Before, the rotating chairman of the Dionian Senate was Cunogolata, Corneiros, Sedorum, Vespa, and Lucias. Today, Kunogorata has passed away, and Anta Oris has filled the vacancy.

In addition, there is a change. Because this time Raodixian and other Sicilian veterans committed malfeasance, some officials in Naxos, Siculi, and Katane were also investigated for involvement in this matter. They were all recommended by these offending elders to take office. Yes, so Daves took this opportunity to get angry in the Senate. He believed that the reason why the Management Committee of the Kingdom’s Officials failed in the selection of middle and low-level officials was because it was affected by too many other senators in the Senate. The appointment of officials is fair, and the appointment of middle and low-level officials should not have been intervened by the Senate...

At the beginning of the establishment of the alliance, the official management committee was responsible for drafting the candidates for public officials in the cities of the alliance, and it was finally implemented by Davers reviewing and signing, but each time the candidates on the list will be read out in the Senate for the elders We know that sometimes they will raise objections to some of the candidates. The committee will make some adjustments based on their opinions. Davers will not do too much obstruction, because Davers controls the Senate, so everything is Under his control. In recent years, with the expansion of the territory and the increase of officials, Daves spent half of his time dealing with political affairs in the palace, and the control of the committee could not be as strict as before.

This time, Daves requested that the office of the Royal Management Committee be moved to the palace, and no more discussion about the appointment of officials in the Senate. Of course, some senators expressed objection, but he calmly threatened that he was considering Is Sesta to investigate officials in other cities in the kingdom to avoid a series of malfeasance cases like Sicily?

Finally, Daves' proposal was approved and the committee moved to the second floor of the palace.

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The day after Kunogolata's funeral, Kerry Thorpes was received by Daves.

For Sparta's request to "renew the contract that was about to expire for another ten years", Daves and the Senate agreed to this request without much dispute.

After all, the center of gravity of the Kingdom of Dionia is in Italy, followed by Sicily. Regarding the disputed mainland of Greece, neither Daves nor the elders have much interest in getting involved. The previous peaceful ten years gave Dionia enough time to absorb the refugees, expand the population, develop agriculture, trade, expand the land...Of course, they still want to continue to have such a peaceful surrounding political environment.