Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Chapter 125: Izam the Dukya

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Turii was no longer angry at this moment, and they nodded reluctantly in agreement.

On the way back to Turii City, Kunogolata rode far ahead alone, making Neonsis feel chills in his heart. He tried to stop Kunogolata several times, but All held back. He was able to become General Turiyi because of the strong support of Kuno Gorata, who also suggested that Neonsis be in charge of the treasury and trade on the grounds that Neonsis was good at financial management and accounting. However, today, without consulting Kuno Gorata, he arbitrarily changed the decision that Kuno Gorata had negotiated in advance. With his knowledge of Kuno Gorata, this man has never been soft-hearted towards opponents. The general must have hated him so much! How to do? Neonsis asked himself eagerly in his heart, he had fallen in love with the position of the city-state general and did not want to be ousted from power.

Kunogolata really hates Neonsis. If he was calculative in the past, he might have made the same choice as Neonsis, just like he did against Ferris at the city hall last time, but the failure of the battle was a big deal. The fear in his heart arose, how many times he woke up in a dream because of the hideous face of the Lucalia people, after this battle, he discovered his vulnerability, war - it is a world completely different from politics, his That set of political tricks is completely unworkable on this bloody battlefield, and what's even more terrifying is that he found that Turiyi is strong in the outside world, so even if the financial situation is difficult, he will maintain this employment agreement, as long as the next six months strengthen the relationship with Diver I believe that the alliance between Turiyi and Amendolara will be solidified due to the connection of this military genius, but Neonsis, the "traitor", ruined everything!

Kunogolata's anger was hard to subdue: at the end of the meeting, the idiot who used to be just a lowly employee of a big businessman actually said to Ancitanos, "It's all alliances anyway, so why bother with hiring and wasting money. "He knows shit! Can alliances and employment have the same binding force on Amendolara? ! I didn't see that shrewd young consul of Amendolara wishing we could abandon this agreement sooner, so not only did he not refute at all, but he gave up on his own initiative! This idiot with no political savvy can't be at City Hall, he needs to get out of here!

Ancitanos was still annoyed that Davos had rejected his request for an interview, and he kept thinking in his heart: after the agreement was signed, how to find a reason to come to Amendolara and learn about the situation from other new citizens of Amendolara who had expedition to Persia . Therefore, he did not notice the abnormality of the two generals before and after.

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Davos returned home, remembered a very important matter, pondered for a long time, but still couldn't do anything.

So, he called Asistus and said: "Now, the alliance agreement with Turii is about to be signed. The plan for Lucaria is about to start pre-preparation. First of all, we need to understand Lucalia. What is the current situation in the region? Only then can we formulate the correct strategic plan and make targeted preparations according to the actual situation. But the problem is that the Lucanians rarely communicate with Turii and Amendolara, and it is even more impossible now. , we can only send people to investigate. However, the Greeks are definitely not good, the difference in appearance is too obvious, and the captured Lucanians are sent, because they are afraid that they will take the opportunity to escape, but will reveal the situation here... Alas!... Difficult Yaxi, do you have any suggestions?"

Asisters also pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled: "Master Consul, you forgot one person, I think he is quite suitable."

"Oh! Who is it?!" Davos was originally just a dead horse as a living horse doctor, but he didn't expect that Asisters really had a choice.

"Izam!"

"... The son of the Dukeya leader!" Davos then remembered. In Byzantium, Izam was in the camp of Timasson. At that time, the Duqa people had no use value. Everyone just regarded him as an ordinary soldier. In addition, the people's hearts returned and the army's hearts were fluctuating. No one cared. his movements. It's just that Davos vaguely remembered someone saying to him: Izam later joined his mercenary army, in Hieronymus' company. Now that I think about it, Izam is curious, clever, and has a strong ability to learn languages, which left a certain impression on Davos, not to mention that he also grew up in the mountains.

"Is he like Lucalia?" Davers asked uncertainly.

"It's more similar!" Asisters said affirmatively: "The stature and body shape are relatively similar, but the hair color is slightly different, but this can be made up. The most important thing is that he married a Lucalia woman as his wife, Language habits can be learned from his wife."

"Oh, it's the same as you!" Davos relaxed when he had a suitable candidate, and joked, "I didn't expect you to marry a Lucalia girl, and she was really Bagule's sister. !"

Now it was Asisters' turn to be a little shy and to stop talking.

"How does she look? Isn't she the same as his brother?" Davers asked with a curious smile.

"It's okay... It's okay..." Asisters hummed embarrassedly for a long time, and squeezed out a sentence.

"Alright?! That's pretty good!" Davos, who knew his own messenger well, said with certainty, "Weisba is the leader of the entire tribe, and of course he will choose the most beautiful woman in the entire tribe as his wife. The daughter she gave birth is definitely not bad, as for Bagul... that's a crooked one."

Davos continued to tease: "However, your eldest brother is also very powerful. Just like this, the number one beauty in Amendolara still loves him and is willing to wait for him for five years."

Seeing that Yasis didn't speak, but just smiled, Davos said again: "Yasi, I'll give you a suggestion. You'd better have an understanding and tolerant attitude, learn from your wife, and seriously understand. Lucanians. Maybe one day, when you're competent enough, I'll actually send you to Lucania."

"Lord Davos, can we really capture the Lucaria region?! I heard from my wife that there are five or six major towns in the Lucania region, with hundreds of tribes and a population of hundreds of thousands..." Yaxi Stacey asked worriedly and suspiciously.

"As long as you dare to think about it, and have careful preparation and correct planning, everything is possible!" Davers encouraged him confidently.

Asisters was thoughtful.

Davos said, "Go and call Izam over."

"Yes!"

"Wait a minute!" Davos remembered something, and stopped Asisters, who was about to walk out of the living room: "I'll give you an important task! I need to keep abreast of the movements of the surrounding city-states, Tarantum, Turui, Heraclea, Clotone, etc., some new laws and changes made by them in trade, politics, and military affairs, as well as the situation of the people in the city-state, etc., need special people to organize manpower, collect intelligence, and make summaries Then report to me in time, so that we can formulate corresponding bills and measures in a timely manner according to the situation of neighboring countries. You are responsible for doing this first, and it requires money and manpower, and I will add it to you. "

"Okay, Lord Davos." Asisters agreed without hesitation.

Davos saw that he was very enthusiastic, and reminded him: "Doing such a city-state intelligence collection is a tedious and huge job that requires patience and care. You have no experience at the beginning, you can only do it from Turui. Since..." Davos told Asisters carefully about the principles and experience of intelligence gathering he had seen in books and on the Internet in his previous life.

Asisters listened and remembered carefully, and his heart was very excited, because this was the first time he was independently responsible for a specific thing, which was obviously more interesting and important than the previous messenger who just called people and conveyed orders. many.

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Izam and his Lucania wife are working in the fields.

As a Dukya mountaineer, Izam has no Greek tradition of not allowing the housewife to show her face, and when his new wife asks to join him on farm work, he not only agrees but is delighted. In Dukeya, when manpower was in short supply, women would go out hunting and even fighting with spears. If his wife asked to work with him, it meant that she had integrated into this new home, and Izam was of course happy. Although on the way to the fields, the people of the city-state he met gave them strange looks, he was still in high spirits and kept communicating with his wife in stammering Lucarian.

Because Izam joined the mercenary army very late, the land he was assigned to the former dead citizens of Amendolara was not very good, not only five acres of land, but also far from the river, closer to the mountains, and the quality of the land was not good. high. Fortunately, when he chose to be a guide for the Greeks, he expressed his willingness to go out to his stern father Camorro, and the leader of Duquea gave him a considerable amount of money, which can finally come in handy. At the suggestion of a close comrade-in-arms, he bought three slaves from Tarantum in one go. Two Egyptian slaves were responsible for cultivating the fields for him, and a Greek slave was dedicated to herding cattle and sheep for him. After all, his land is close to the mountains, so grazing is more convenient (the mountains are the public property of the city of Amendolara, and anyone can go in and out for grazing, but the cutting of trees requires the consent of the city-state treasurer, and a certain amount of money must be charged according to the situation. Expenses, this is a motion proposed by Davers and passed by the Senate, mainly to prevent deforestation). In fact, if Christoya hadn't opened a bank to provide loans at low interest rates, many comrades in arms would have borrowed money from him.

Although he has never held a sickle or a plow, Izam humbly asked the Egyptian slave for advice. His wife was pulling out the weeds in the wheat field with her hands, and another Egyptian slave had already arrived at the Sini River. They went to fetch water, while the Greek slaves drove up to the hillside early in the morning with a dozen cattle and sheep that had just been bought for a few days.