Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 9: Contradictions

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"Time flies. I remember that when you went to Enona to take office, Isafina was only a few months old. She didn't even speak, but only knew how to cry. At that time, I persuaded you to take Isab. Fenner stayed. Your aunt Doreen just gave birth to Antetoris, and she had enough milk to feed her two children, but you just didn’t agree...Unexpectedly, six years have passed in a blink of an eye, Isafina She has grown into a big girl, and Arik has become a little man!" Antonios listened to the laughter and exclaimed: "If your mother can see all this, she will be very happy. !"

Asistes was silent for a moment, and said: "Yes, you took me to be a mercenary, uncle, I never thought I would live like this, and I have to thank your majesty!"

Antonios was taken aback, then raised his glass: "Come on, let us have a glass of Your Majesty Daves!"

"Good!"

After drinking this glass of wine, the female slave of Sikel next to her was busy filling Asistes again, and then leaning towards Asistes.

Asisters glanced at her, and she immediately sat back.

Antonius looked in his eyes and laughed: "Yasi, Doreen is accompanying your wife in the main building to select gold and silver jewelry from Carthage. Don't worry, she won't come to the courtyard. "

"This has nothing to do with Tina, but I don't like it myself." Asistus said blankly.

Antonios was taken aback again, looking at the expression on the opposite side of Asisters, he suddenly pushed away the beautiful Sikel slave girl in his arms, and said: "Go down."

"Sir!" The female slave yelled and leaned on him again.

"Go down!" Antonios scowled, and the slave girl didn't dare to act like a baby anymore and left obediently.

"Go down, too!" Antonios pointed to the slave girl beside Asistes.

After both of them left, Antonios said in a deep voice: "Yasi, you have been feeling a bit wrong when you came to me today. Are you angry with me?"

"Uncle, I have not resigned from Enona. I heard that you and a group of Sicilian elders proposed in the Senate to let me be the chief executive of Naxos?" Since Antonios has spoken out. , Asistes asked directly without concealing it.

"That's the case." Antonios nodded and admitted, "Don't blame Uncle who didn't discuss with you in advance. That's because those Crotones also wanted to take possession of Naxos. Why are they! The South-Italian War? At the time, without our Dionia’s rescue, they would be over!"

"Crotone is now also the domain of the kingdom." Asistes reminded.

"Naxos was exchanged for blood and life by soldiers of the First Legion. We will never allow a group of cowards to be contaminated!" Antonios said angrily. He looked at Asistes: "And Yasi, your resignation time coincides with Stromboli’s resignation time. It just happens that you can take the post without delay, otherwise you can only wait for the next vacancy in the Senate. I am afraid that you will have nothing to do for a period of time. With your outstanding performance in being elected as the Chief Executive of Enona twice in a row by the Senate and six years in power, coupled with your Majesty’s trust in you, it is very easy to become the Chief Executive of Naxos!"

Asistes shook his head and said softly: "I have been outside for six years. I am already a little tired. I don't want to go to far away Sicily. I just want to stay in Turíy."

"Yasi, you are still young. You should take advantage of your vigor to serve as the chief executive in the east, west, south, and north cities of the kingdom to increase your administrative management experience so that... so that you can serve as a province in the future. Governor!" Antonios persuaded.

"The Governor of the Province?!" Asistes looked surprised.

"This is the news I got from others. It is said that your Majesty considers that there are too many cities in the kingdom, and the affairs are too complicated. He is going to set up provinces, and the governor will govern the cities in the jurisdiction. This will be more convenient... listen Said that he had secretly discussed with the old man Kunogolata." Antonios said lightly, but obviously it took a lot of energy to get the news.

Asistes lost interest when he heard this: "This location is still too far away from me. I just want to stay in Turei for a while. I haven’t seen it in a few years. Turri’s changes. It’s too big!"

"Yasi, with your majesty's trust in you, as long as you continue to enrich your local government affairs experience, and you can fully compensate for your age gap, one of the provincial governor's positions must belong to you! Provincial governor, then But being able to manage a region, three or four big cities, more than ten to two hundred thousand people, is far more honorable than being a Spartan king!" Antonios continued to persuade: "So you should take over. Chief Executive of Xos!"

"Uncle, you want me to go to Naxos so eagerly, are you really thinking about me?!" Assistus finally couldn't help but said.

"How do you say such a thing! I am your uncle, of course I am considering it for you!" Antonius' expression turned ugly when he heard this, but he was still suppressing his anger.

But Asistes said unceremoniously: "No, you are not thinking about me, you are harming me! My uncle, the Conqueror of Catania, is His Majesty’s praise for you in the triumphal ceremony of the year. But you and I all know that Alexis did not put the title of "victor of Samona" on his mouth, and Silos did not put the title of "conqueror of Lockley" on his mouth. Speaking of words, and in that great war, his Majesty who commanded the Dionian army to win the entire war did not call himself the "Conqueror of Syracuse". Only you, uncle, were there. With the flattery of the Sicilian veterans, I really regarded myself as the "conqueror of Catania". Not only did I allow others to hang it in my mouth every day, I also integrated Catax into your name... you obviously I forgot, if there is no your Majesty’s prior plan, and without the help of Lord Antrapolis, the First Legion would never be able to defeat the Syracuse coalition forces that are several times greater than yours! But you can see Antrapolis usually How calm and never publicize it—"

"Enough! Don't associate me with that sneaky villain! My name is Antonios Kataks! Isn't your majesty's eldest son also called Croto Kataks! This is my honor, the honor of our First Legion!..." Antonios shouted angrily at Asistes.

Asistes continued without being surprised: "Uncle, don't you think you have changed in the past few years! You have been the chief executive of Naxos for six years, and the people there are awed and flattered to you. You have forgotten who you were! Look at the candles in this courtyard, these dishes, and the slave girl just now..."

Asistus pointed to a table full of dishes. There were many novel dishes on the table that he hadn’t seen or eaten before: "Uncle, I heard that you have come here to visit frequently in the past few years. Most of the gifts given are from Sicilian. The **** in Turyi has also raised a protest. It seems that you have not restrained too much... In the Senate, the Sicilian elders are headed by you, and you speak for them everywhere. Their interests, don’t you know that other elders have very opinions on you, including your former mercenary comrades! Do you really think you are the king of Sicily?! Uncle, you should wake up! Dai! Onia has only one king, and it can only be His Majesty Daves!——"

"Shut up!" Antonios grabbed the wine can on the table angrily and slammed it to the ground with a "bang", and the wine splashed all over.

Asistes only felt a pain in his cheek, and the fragments of the clay pot cut his skin. He reached out to touch it, and heard Antonios roar incoherently: "Nonsense! Nonsense! What do you know!" What do you know!!..."

"I have been by your Majesty's side for so long, and I know more than you!" Assistus said without showing any weakness: "Why am I not willing to go to Naxos? That's because I don't want to be your Majesty." I think that I have also become one of your Sicilian elders, and even made him suspect that you want to bond with Baggul and Hermon, and you must join hands in the Senate! Wake up, uncle! You have been killed If you hold it too high, you can't see how dangerous the place you stand under your feet. Don't be foolishly used as a gun by others!..."

"Oh, what's the...what's wrong?! Making such a big movement!" The voice of Antonios' wife Doreen sounded in the courtyard.

"Asistes, why is your face bleeding?!" Tina ran up to Asistes in surprise, trying to reach out to touch it, but Asistes grabbed her hand: "I It's okay, a little scratch."

"Oh, why did the wine jar break?!" Doreen looked at the fragments on the ground in surprise, and then said to the slave who was standing by: "What are you doing in a daze? Clean it up! And, go again. Bring a can of wine!"

There was a woman present, and Antonios could not get angry anymore, waved his hand vigorously and said, "Stop drinking! Stop drinking!"

"Tina, call the kid, we should go back." Asistos grabbed his wife's hand and squeezed it twice.

Tina immediately went to call the child knowingly.

Even though Doreen felt a bit strange here, she kindly said, "It’s still early, and Tina and I are having a good chat. Assistes, you and your uncle have not seen each other for so many years. Chat for a while."

"If there is anything to talk about, let him go if he wants to go!" Antonios said angrily.

"Antonius, look at what you said, I think you are drinking a bit too much." Doreen hurriedly beat him lightly, then turned to Asistes and said apologetically: "Your uncle's recent affairs Too many, not very good-tempered. I was angry with me at home a few days ago. What did he say is wrong, don't blame him!"