Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 83: Thebes’ decision

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Agsilius was taken over by Ipamironda's sonorous words and fearless look on his face, and he was also taken aback for a while.

Kalisstratus saw that the situation was a bit bad and was about to resolve it.

But I heard the Persian envoy Datis sternly said: "After signing the contract, we must act in accordance with the contract, stop all wars, and restore peace in Greece. This is the desire of the people of the Greek cities and states, and the great Persian king's for you. Urgent request! After this, any city-state dare to provoke wars and invade other states. Persia will strongly support other city-states that have signed the contract to form coalition forces and impose severe punishment on them! Thebes, I advise you to be obedient. Fulfill the contract!"

Ipamirunda sneered a few times and looked directly at the Persian messenger, with a cold light in his eyes: "Because we believed your Persian words before, we signed the King's Agreement and disbanded the Piosha Alliance. As a result! The Bada broke the contract, attacked Thebes, captured our acropolis, and enslaved our people! What did you Persia do to this shameless breach of contract? Nothing! So... hehe, What peace! What independence! Let them all go to hell! We Thebes now only believe in ourselves!"

When Ipamirunda talked about the excitement, he even tightened his fist, causing the Persian envoy to step back subconsciously.

However, Ipamirunda did not slap the fist on the face of the Persian messenger, but resolutely turned around and walked out of the meeting place. Several other Thebes also followed out of the meeting place.

The Envoys of Thebes left in groups, and no one stopped them. For a while, there was no sound in the venue.

"Does this signature of the Thebes still count?" Callistratus' voice broke the silence.

"Of course not!" Agcilius said with a sullen face, "Since the Thebes have no intention of signing a contract, we don't have to force them in. I suggest deleting this signature!"

The envoys of the city-states all agreed successively, as did the envoys of Athens.

"The Thebes are arrogant and unreasonable. I am afraid they will continue to wage wars after they return. The Persian king will never allow this to happen!" At this time, the Persian envoy Datis shouted in anger, "We Persia will strongly support You form an army to punish Thebes to uphold the sanctity of the peace treaty!"

"Datis was right, we should do it!" Agsilius immediately looked at Callistratus: "What do you Athenians think?"

Callistratus said without hesitation: "We Athens also support this decision. If Sparta wants to punish the Thebes, we will provide naval support, just like we helped the Thebes. ."

The Thebes don’t have a navy at all, and the navy provided by Athens is completely useless... Agsilius knew it in his heart, but he did not object to it, because he felt that regardless of whether Athens provided the navy to Sparta With or without practical help, Athens’s action is of great significance in itself, so that other city-states in Greece can see that Athens is on the side of Sparta, and with this first support, it will be There were second and third times... the days after that are still growing.

So Agsilius immediately expressed his gratitude to the Athenian Mission.

As the envoys of the various city-states continued to negotiate the contract, the Thebes envoys had rode out of Sparta and headed straight to the sea port.

At this time, an envoy of Thebes had time to complain: "Ipamirunda, although your speech at the venue just now was exciting, it will inevitably anger Sparta and strengthen our treatment of Thebes. Offense!"

Ipamironda looked back at them and said in a deep voice: "Some of us had some illusions about this peace talks before. I believe they can give up completely now! Our ally Athens has betrayed. We, they, like the Spartans, do not want us Thebes to unify the entire Piotia region!"

"Ipamilunda, you are right!" Another Thebes envoy said angrily: "Although it says something in the contract, the independence and freedom of each city-state must be guaranteed, and the various alliances or alliances that have been established must be dissolved. ', but what else can be said that'each city-state can voluntarily help each other', even if Athens and Sparta disband their alliance, relying on the influence and strength of their city-states, the original allies will still voluntarily depend on them and be affected by them. They drove it, and once we disbanded the Piosha Alliance, it would soon become a mess!"

"Athens and Thebes are worried that we have the ability to fight against them after integrating the Piosha region, so they will try their best to stop us. We must not give in!" Ipamirunda said firmly.

"But this time Sparta has the support of Athens and Persia, and it will attack us more fiercely!" The Thebes envoy said worriedly.

"We are not fighting alone. The Sesari people will fully support us, and we can also seek help from the Kingdom of Dionia." Ipamirunda comforted them.

"Dionia has been friendly with Sparta for more than ten years, will they choose to help us?"

"I discussed this issue with Peropidas and agreed that Persia and Dionian must have enmity. Now why Sparta has reached a contract and destroyed the friendly agreement with the Kingdom of Dionian. In Persia, then Dionia is likely to accept our proposal and form an alliance with Thebes."

Ipamilunda's words made the rest of Thebes messengers lost their thoughts.

"But no matter who we are allied with, we Thebes have to rely on our own strength to become stronger!" Ipamirunda looked forward firmly.

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Two days later, the Athenian Mission also left Sparta and returned to the motherland.

On the way, Kallistatus was very proud and said to Callias: "This time the peace talks, our Athens has benefited the most and gained the most."

Kalias was a little puzzled: "Under the favor of the Persian messenger, we had to assist Sparta in attacking Thebes. This is actually re-acknowledging Sparta’s lordship. It should be Sparta. The biggest gain is right."

Although Callistratus somewhat despises this mediocre messenger of Athens, as the torch bearer of the Eleusis’ Secret Ceremony, Callias is not only in Athens, but also in Peloponnese. It also has a lot of influence, otherwise the contract will not end up with his name: the Kalias contract.

Since Callistratus agreed to assist Sparta in attacking Thebes, after returning to Athens, he will definitely be attacked by some political opponents. He needs to be fully defended by Callias, so he patiently He explained: "Our Athens has been completely weakened since the Peloponnesian War. Not only was we under the control of Sparta, but we were also forced to disband all allies. This is undoubtedly for Athens, which depends on the prosperity of maritime trade. An extremely serious blow. After the Corinthian War, our national strength in Athens was restored, but the signing of the king's contract forced us to dissolve our allies again until the contract was signed this time—"

Callistratus emphasized: "Sparta has recognized the existence of the Athenian Maritime Alliance, and has actually placed Athens on the same level as Sparta. As for we agreed to assist Sparta. Fighting with Bada is just giving Sparta a false name. In fact, fighting with Thebes does not require a navy at all. Even if Sparta wants us to send an army in the future, we can think of ways to perfunctory.

Sparta is now our ally, but in the future it will also have an interest in fighting with Athens; Thebes once became an ally with us because of Sparta, but don’t forget that it was an ally of Athens for a long time. What is the enemy.

This time, the Thebes did not sign a contract in the end, which will inevitably cause the war between them and Sparta to continue. This is a good thing for us. The current national power of Thebes has greatly increased, and Sparta will not defeat it so easily. The continuation of the war will consume the strength of both sides. When the right time is right, we will intervene in Athens to decide the final victory. Negative, so as to earn the most profit! ……"

Kalias was persuaded by him.

After the envoys returned to Athens, Calistratus received an urgent notice from the council: a secret message came from the city of Thebes and they sent Peropidas to Dionia, Attempt to ally with it!

Kalisstratus was surprised.

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Although he has been a king for many years, has experienced many things, and met many famous people, Daves could not restrain the curiosity in his heart, and looked at the Thebes messenger standing in the middle of the palace hall, because this man was too rich It's legendary.

When Sparta conquered Central Greece and North Greece successively, and almost all the Greek city-states succumbed under the force of the Spartans, this young man who was not well-known at the time brought a few like-minded friends. , Bravely sneaked back to Thebes, assassinated the puppets supported by the Spartans, and called on the people to drive away the Spartan troops in Thebes; when many Greeks believed that Thebes' resistance was only a short-lived moment. Not only did the Thebes government headed by him fail to destroy the Spartans’ continuous offensives, but the Thebes gradually grew stronger in the war, and in the end it was even able to fight against the Spartans.

Peropidas...Daves was chanting this name in his heart. In his previous life, he didn’t know much about the history of ancient Greece. He only remembered one Ipamirunda for Thebes. This person is also an amazing person.

Peropidas is also looking at King Dionia curiously. He thinks that he has done a great job so far, but compared to the one in front of him, it is insignificant. Yuan: When he was just an adult and was still keen on participating in banquets, competitions, and watching dramas, this man had led a mercenary through thousands of adventures, returned from the hinterland of Persia, and won a great reputation; then he went to Great Greece with insufficient use. Thousands of troops repelled the natives, occupied Turri, created the Kingdom of Dionia, defeated Crotone, defeated Syracuse, and defeated Carthage. In just over 20 years, this kingdom became a kingdom. The real overlord of the Western Mediterranean!

He has been to Persia and witnessed the prosperity of Babylon. When he set foot on the land of Dionia, he carefully observed all the way, especially the grand scale of the city of Turri and the prosperity of the port, which made him feel no better than Persia. How much worse, so he was both surprised and excited, thinking that he had come to the right place.