Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 8: Arrival

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Daves looked up at the three-tiered oars next to him, and saw someone waving at him from the side of the ship.

"Hi, Xenophon, I thought I had no chance to say goodbye to you!"

"Daves, I accepted Anaxes’ request and hurried to Byzantium, ready to regroup our mercenaries, and rush to Asia Minor. I didn’t expect you to go to Great Greece! Stay! , Let us continue to fight together!" Xenophon made a sincere request to Daves.

Davos secretly said that it was dangerous, then shrugged and said seriously: "It's a pity that I have signed an agreement with Turey and swear to Hades!"

"That...what a coincidence!" Xenophon, who respects the gods, showed a look of regret: "We can't fight together!..."

"It seems that Sparta is going to war with Persia. I can only wish you the shelter of Zeus in the next battle!" Daves said this from the heart.

"I wish you the same too!" Xenophon said sincerely: "I wanted to invite you to Athens to meet my teacher Socrates. He will definitely appreciate your novel ideas. Interested! And one of his students, my good friend Plato, has a similar point of view with yours, you two will definitely become friends! What a pity..."

"One day I will go to Athens! I believe you have finished writing the story of our battle in Persia by then. Don't forget to give me a copy." Daves only knows that Xenophon later wrote "Long March" , But can't remember Xenophon's life experience, after all, he was not a historian in his previous life.

"Don't worry, I will copy one more for you." Xenophon laughed.

Daves vaguely remembered: Socrates was convicted and poisoned by the Athens authorities. He did not know the exact time, but he remembered that Socrates could have chosen to be driven from Athens, but he insisted on staying and wanted to die. Awaken the numb citizens of Athens. So Daves gave up the decision to remind Xenophon, just waved and said, "Goodbye!"

"Goodbye!"

Who knows that this wave of hands, goodbye is already in the vicissitudes of life, and friends have become enemies. The world is unpredictable, it is embarrassing...

The fleet moved forward, and the Spartan warship gradually disappeared under the turquoise sky...

Seeing that Daves was still standing at the stern of the boat, Burkos couldn't help walking over and saying, "Still thinking of your Athens friend?"

"Xenophon is a talented and capable person!" Daves was stunned. After all, Xenophon was the first historical celebrity to connect this world with his past life.

"Athens relied on batch after batch of talented people to create its brilliance!" Burcos said with deep feeling: "Even we are also in the light of Athens, only to have Turey. A scene of prosperity as soon as it is established!"

"Oh, is it?" Burkos's words successfully aroused Davers's interest.

"At the time, the leaders responsible for the formation of Turri were two very capable Athenians, Lamborn and Seroklitus, and the famous Athens scholar Protagoras made the law for Turri. At the same time, Athens also invited the famous Greek engineer Hippodamus to design the city for Turei and be responsible for the construction...At the same time, two distinguished guests from Athens moved to Turei, one was Herodotus, a scholar who wrote "History." One is the famous rhetoricist Tiziyas, and even the Spartan Kryandridas commanded the battle for Turri. Therefore, Turri can keep peace with Crotone to the south; To the north, compete with Tarantum for the Serris Plain; to the west, to defend against the invasion of Lucanians and Bruti; to the east; to strengthen trade with Greece. Therefore, in one fell swoop, it became a strong state of Great Greece!" Burkos recalls In the past, the talk was ecstatic.

Davers listened carefully.

Then Burkos' proud expression turned dim: "Unfortunately, Athens lost to Sparta. Now Sparta is the overlord of Greece..."

"Does it have a big impact on Turey?" Daves asked urgently.

Burkos didn’t want to say any more, and only replied: "You will know when you get to Turriy."

Davers smiled and comforted him and said: "Don't worry, Spartan's dominance will not last long."

Daves’ amazing words immediately attracted Burkos’ attention: "Why?"

"Because the Spartans have begun to accept bribes." Daves said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "The unique system developed by Cugu for Sparta was intended to train all Spartan citizens to become ferocious. In order to suppress the Black Laos, which is much more numerous than the Spartans, and dominate Greece externally. For this reason, all Spartan citizens can maintain a simple and simple life in order to ensure basic equality, otherwise they will Some Spartan citizens raised objections, “Why do you eat well and dress well? I have to receive cruel training since I was a child, and I must be thirty years old to get out of my single life in the military camp.” Therefore, they closed the country, prohibited commercial trade, and prohibited Use currency that is more convenient to carry, prohibit debate, prohibit drama, prohibit poetry, prohibit writing, and sell other books except military... Everyone says that the Spartans are terrible because the Spartans have no other fun and fight. Killing and killing are their only fun! Now well, the Spartans have reached the hegemony of Greece. They need to be stationed in strategic locations, and their fleets need to cruise. The Spartans go abroad and stay outside for half a year and a year. Of course they will come into contact. It’s something they haven’t touched before. It’s not easy to cultivate a simple and unsophisticated life, but it’s too easy to destroy this kind of life! Once the fighting spirit of the Spartans dominating Greece is eroded, Spartan’s How long can the hegemony last!!"

Burkos has never heard anyone analyze the Spartan political system in such a simple and vivid language, like a sharp dagger piercing the fragile core of the Spartan system, it sounds very reasonable. He looked at Daves in a daze. The young man made him feel a little awe. He suddenly remembered the rumors that Daves was a "favorite". He opened his mouth and found that his throat was a little dry. He coughed a few times. Sheng, can’t help asking: "If...if so, then in Greece, who will be Spartan’s opponent?"

Davers shrugged: "I'm not a god, how would I know." Then, he raised his head and looked up at the flying seagulls in the blue sky. Thebes, Macedonia... flashed in his mind There is a lot of city-state names, and I don’t know why there is a sense of pride in my heart...

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After being blocked by the Spartan warship, Burkos was afraid of another accident and ordered the fleet to travel day and night.

After arriving at Euboea a few days later, he went ashore to replenish food and fresh water, and then sailed through the Cyclades and bypassed the Attica Peninsula in Athens. As there was no time to stay ashore, Daves could only regret it. On the boat, he looked westward at the famous Athens that was out of sight.

Then, the fleet passed through Argos, and then carefully bypassed the Peloponnese, until it reached Zakynthos Island, before going ashore to rest for one night. On the second day, we continued to sail north to Coquila Island. Only then did we turn to the west and entered the Taranto Bay named after the great Greek power Tarantum.

This is a calm harbour. The damp sea breeze can't make any waves. The azure blue water is quiet like a piece of smooth and clear blue silk, and countless ships are like silver shuttles that are constantly shuttled in this huge blue. Beautiful pictures are woven on silk.

When the mercenaries saw this beautiful scene, their mind and body, which had been exhausted by the long time of HNA, suddenly became excited and began to talk loudly and laugh.

Burkos, a large fleet of ships, also attracted the attention of those who are interested. Several three-tiered oars with the "Man Riding Dolphin" pattern on the sails greeted us.

"It's okay, it's Tarantum's cruise ship." Burkos said to Daves, the fleet's pilot boat had already greeted him.

"Did we enter the sea controlled by Tarantum?" Daves asked curiously.

"Not yet. This is just an agreement between several city-states in this bay. Keep ventilating with each other just in case." Burks explained.

I saw Tarantum's warship turned around and left, and the fleet continued to move forward...

About an hour later, Burkos pointed his finger forward and said: "Turiyi is in front."

Davers was busy holding the ship’s side and widened his eyes to look out: more than 500 meters ahead is a green coastline, in which there is a white "streamer" from west to east, straight into the sea; at the end of the "streamer", countless Scattered white sails gather, thousands of seagulls circling in the sky, but no shadow of the city is seen...