Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 52: Envoy to Egypt (3)

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"Just friendly exchanges?" Pharaoh Nekhtanibu sat down again, his eyes gleaming.

Nektanib's rhetorical question caused Ansitanos for a moment, but listened to the Pharaoh continue to say: "Why not form an alliance?"

Ansitanos was really stunned. He didn't expect Pharaoh Nektanibu to speak so directly.

Pharaoh Nekhtanibu paid no attention to his surprise, and said seriously: "As far as I know, the citizens of Dionian are mainly Greeks. Egypt and Greece have always been friendly. It’s a testimony! And in the past few decades, the Greeks have helped Egypt fight the tyrannical Persians many times. There are still many tombs of Athenians outside the city of Memphis. It was 70 years ago that the Greeks and the Egyptians joined forces and fought against each other. The sacrifices made by Persia, we need to continue this friendship!" Pharaoh Nekhtanibu said with a little excitement. He apparently ignored the fact that the Athenians were hired by Persia and attacked Egypt a few years ago. NS.

It turns out that the Egyptians hoped to form an alliance with Dionia to help them resist the Persian attack! Ansitanos no longer wondered why Pharaoh Nekhtanib said the alliance was so urgent, although this diplomatic choice was originally planned by him and Daves.

But Ansitanos would never know that, in the eyes of Pharaoh Nekhtanibu, the threat from Persia to Egypt is by no means a potential, but a real danger.

In the first half of this turbulent year, in this town in the Nile Delta, some Egyptian officials secretly passed a secret letter to the land of Canaan, which is adjacent to the eastern border of Egypt and under Persian rule, in an attempt to surrender to Persia. , Let it reoccupy Egypt, which also includes some people in Memphis. Although the Persians have retreated from Egypt for more than 20 years, their alienation and seduction of the Egyptians has never stopped. Fana Bazos, the Persian governor of Asia Minor, has been rebuilding warships and gathering soldiers for several years.

Although the spies reported: This year, the Persian Governor Fana Bazos was summoned by the Persian king and led his troops to Babylon.

But Nekhtanibu never forgot: A few years ago, it was this Persian governor who led an army to burn, kill and loot in Egypt. Although he finally retreated, he actually suffered not much loss, and he could make a comeback at any time.

If it weren’t for Nekhtanibu’s slogan of “preferential treatment to monks” after raising his army (Pharaoh Khakol’s reign for more than ten years, restricting monks from owning too much land and farmhands), he won the vast temples of Egypt. With the support of the priests, Nekhtanibu's army was so powerful that even the troops stationed in Memphis surrendered to him and quickly stabilized in Egypt in just a few months. As for Upper Egypt centered on Thebes, it is still the world of priests.

Ansitanos realized what the pharaoh was really worried about, and immediately said solemnly: "Although Persia is far away from our Dionia, it also has its minions in the Western Mediterranean-Carthage, this Philippine Nikki’s sub-states have been supplying Tyre with gold and silver dug from the Iberian Peninsula for decades, thereby providing the King of Persia with funds for expansion and aggression, thus becoming extremely wealthy.

As a new kingdom, we, Dionia, adhere to the principle of living in harmony with neighboring countries. We signed a friendly agreement with Carthage more than ten years ago, but we did not expect that it would secretly support Dioni. Peripheral forces in Asia continue to oppose Dionia. After its conspiracy was thwarted one after another, the Carthaginians actually tore up the friendly agreement with our Dionia and threatened to start war against Dionia. Therefore, Dionia is willing to form an alliance with Egypt to help each other and jointly resist the aggression of Persia and its affiliated forces! "

Pharaoh Nekhtanib was surprised, because this incident had just happened and he had not received any news yet. He knew Carthage, which was a powerful city-state established by the Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean. Their merchant ships often passed by the seas of Egypt, and they even often traded with towns along the coast of Egypt. The Egyptians were even early I know that some Carthage ships carry gold and silver, but they have never thought of intercepting it, because the Egyptian army is not strong, and the navy is weaker. Except for the Egyptians who don’t like sailing, there is no dense forest in Egypt. For important reasons, the Egyptians can only make small papyrus boats. If they want to own large wooden warships, they can only buy them from abroad.

Therefore, Pharaoh Nekhtanibu immediately asked with concern: "I heard that Carthage is very powerful and has a powerful navy. If Dionia and Carthage have a war, can you win? "

"Honorable Pharaoh!" Ansitanos said with a smile: "More than ten years ago, Syracuse, the Greek hegemon of the Western Mediterranean, defeated Carthage one after another, forcing him to sign a humiliating peace. But this Syracuse, who defeated Carthage, suffered a disastrous defeat when attacking us Dionia. We defeated Syracuse’s powerful navy through a frontal naval battle, and we defeated Syracuse through a frontal battle. The powerful army eventually turned Syracuse into an ordinary city-state on Sicily.

Now the land and population of our Kingdom of Dionia have increased several times over ten years ago. How could Carthage be our opponent! The cunning Carthaginians just saw that our Dionian suffered a drought this year and did not have enough food to supply the army, so they dared to declare war! "

The emotion of Ancitanos's remarks was intense, and the words secretly pointed out the dilemma that Dionia is currently facing.

Pharaoh Nekhtanibu was pondering, and the minister who had spoken to him suddenly interjected: "Egypt and Dionia have become an alliance. If one day, the Persian army invades Egypt, Dionia will send an army, Come to Egypt to fight the Persians not far away?"

Ansitanos put on a proud posture and replied: "When we first established Dionia, we were invaded by our allies, and we were willing to risk ruin and declare war on a powerful enemy. In In the short history of the founding of Dionia in the past 20 years, most of the wars that occurred were caused by the invasion of allied states. In order to fulfill the covenant, Dionia had to fight against powerful enemies time and time again. Fortunately Yes, they all won in the end.

If you ask a person from the Western Mediterranean, what is the greatest advantage of the Kingdom of Dionian? He will tell you, ‘Dionia keeps its promises and never abandons allies! ’”

"I have heard these words from the Greek merchants in Naukrates..." Pharaoh Nekhtanibu spoke. When he was a general, he had heard of this rumor, and when he learned about Dior It was only after the arrival of the Envoy of Nia that he thought about forming an alliance. The strength of the Egyptian army is not strong. A few years ago, it was with the help of more than 2,000 Greek mercenaries to hold the line of defense. He believes that Dionia is the best choice for Egypt to form an alliance with a country that is more powerful and keeps its promises and is far from Egypt.

The thing that King Davos has been insisting on and preaching turned out to be splendid flowers in far away Egypt, which Ancitanos did not expect, but he was delighted by it.

Pharaoh Nekhtanibu put the token on the ground and said in a loud voice: "In return for King Davos’s generous gift, I will use a hundred ships of wheat as a gift! And Egypt and Dionia have formed a bond After the alliance, Egypt will continue to provide free grains to Dionian to solve the food shortage of Dionian people!"

Ansitanos, who has always been self-serving, can hardly control the joy that overflows on his face at this time.

For the pharaohs and ministers present, they didn't think it was a big loss. Egypt has a lot of food. With the blessing of the Nile River, Egypt continues to produce high yields. The vast number of Egyptian farmers have to hand in most of the harvest. The barns and temples in the cities and towns are piled up with the harvested grains, and they even become moldy because they are piled for too long.

After finalizing the alliance, Pharaoh Nekhtanib also kindly invited Ansitanos to have lunch in the palace garden.

After waiting for the garden, Ansitanos' eyes widened, and in front of him was a huge artificial lake with vast smoke, lotus leaves and lotus blooming. The lakeshore was full of lush gardens, everywhere from abroad. Collect all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and animals...

Pharaoh Nekhtanibu took Ansitanos to dinner on a huge wooden boat in the lake, eating wine and delicacies, talking about the past and present, and beautiful maid dancing...

For a while, the host and the guest enjoyed themselves.

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As Dionian Foreign Minister Ancitanos arrived in Egypt, an important meeting was taking place in the city hall of Katane, Sicily.

Participants include Proseus (Leotizides), commander of the Eighth Army of Dionian, Flarios, navy commander of the Third Fleet, Cypros, chief executive of Katane, and Naque The chief executive of Sos, Miron, the chief executive of Messina, Amiklis, the chief executive of Siculi, Apirosia, the chief executive of Heena, Kleiro, and the chief executive of Herbita... In addition, there are two allied city-states. The chief generals of Leonid and Taunis participated.

Accordingly, everyone here is the head of the city, and there is not much difference in position. Refer to King Davers’s many innovations in handling government affairs in the past, which is a clever approach to this, which is to implement a round table meeting. In this way, there is no difference between superior and inferior. However, at the venue, Cipros appeared in the first place, and Proseus was close to his left. This made the chief executives who knew Cipros’s character mutter in their hearts, but even if they were a little dissatisfied, they did not show up on their faces.

Sipnos looked around at the crowd and said sternly: "My lords, you all know that our first legion had assembled northward a few days ago to help the Volsi and resist the Romans. If the Carthaginians fulfilled What they said when they tore up the agreement, then they will soon declare war on us and send troops to Sicily. In fact, all the signs from Carthage indicate that the Carthaginians are indeed preparing for war. In order to be able to understand the situation of our preparations in Sicily, so that His Majesty and the Senate can control the overall situation of the war and formulate a better strategy, Your Majesty sent Lord Felicius of the Ministry of Military Affairs to visit Sicily. Please welcome Felicity now. Master Hugh is here!"

The chief executives were all taken aback: Phillips had come to Sicily, and they hadn't been notified in advance!