Cypros continued: "Now Niutum and Grummentum, two towns that once belonged to the Lucanians, are now part of the Dionian League, and many Lucanians have become Dio A citizen of Nia. Then how can the Lucanians of other tribes really hate Dionia! On the contrary, with the help of your Elia, Dionia can take advantage of the power of the Lucania tribe. When it is weak, occupying the entire Lucania region will strengthen Dioria's power even more, so how could Dionia not ally with Elia!"
Kanios fell silent, thinking about everything Cypros said, and said for a long time: "Dionia has become stronger, aren't the other city-states belonging to the South Italian Alliance afraid?"
Cypros hadn't completely come out of his excitement, he drank heavily, and said without hesitation: "No matter what other city-states think, I think Dionia's strength is a good thing for Elijah, we have already Tired of the frequent wars between the city-states and the invasion of the Brutians, the more powerful Dionia is, the more peace it can bring to this land. After all, judging from Dionia's past practices, treating its allies, It's always friendly, unless you violate it. It's far less brutal than Syracuse to the south!"
Canios understood what Cypros meant by "brutal". After Dionysius captured the Greek city-state of Sicily, he sometimes slaughtered the local residents and turned all the remaining captives into slaves. No one had ever done this in the history of the Western Mediterranean, which greatly shocked the Greeks in Sicily and Greater Greece, so Canios could be heard even as far away as Elia. He looked at Cypros across the table and wondered maliciously in his heart: Is Dionysius' brutality also one of the main reasons why these southern Italian city-states are willing to form an alliance with Dionia
He asked curiously: "Dionysian's political system is so special, presumably the southern Italian city-states, including Trina, should have noticed it. Has any city-state tried to implement these pairings of Dionia's city-states? Expansion of beneficial bills?"
Cypros was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "At today's celebration, I briefly talked about this topic with a few members of the Council of Crotone that I know, this is basically impossible, you think first of all the city-states Will citizens agree?"
As soon as Kanios reminded him, he suddenly realized: how could the conservative and exclusive citizens of the Greek city-state allow outsiders to share the wealth and rights of the city-state! And the city-state's highest authority, the Citizens' Assembly, is composed of most of the city-state citizens, so it is impossible for them to pass these unfavorable bills!
"Why is Dionia able to implement it?" Kanios asked his own question.
"This..." Cypros patted the table lightly and said thoughtfully, "I don't know the detailed reasons, but the great power and prestige of Dionysian Archon Davos is undoubtedly the most important reason. ."
This point, Kanios also agreed, but it is impossible for a consul like Davos to appear in Elia.
"But..." Cypros looked at Kanios and said hesitantly, "There are still some problems with the emerging city-state alliance like Dionia..."
"What's the problem?" Kanios asked anxiously.
Cypros glanced back, not knowing when the waiter in the restaurant had already stood behind him, he shook his head and stopped talking.
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The next morning, the inauguration ceremony of the Temple of Hades continued.
This time, it was presided over by Davos, the high priest of Davos, in front of the temple. In the name of Hades, the Hades, he gave freedom to the slaves in the alliance.
Since this was the first time, there were not many freed slaves, mainly the Union public slaves who had performed well in the past year, and most of the private slaves came from the Davers family.
With the expansion of the territory of the Dionysian Union, the banks and restaurants opened by Cristoia are also expanding rapidly. At the same time, she is also constantly exploring new business channels, such as the Cristoia store, which mainly sells newly built She bought a large number of slaves for the school supplies, football and football equipment of the Dionia School to ensure sufficient labor and at the same time give freedom to the outstanding slaves. On the one hand, he wanted to follow their example, give hope to other slaves, and encourage them to work harder; on the other hand, Davos set an example as a consul, guiding the people to treat their slaves well, so as to ease the entire Dionysian alliance. Contradictions of internal slaves to their masters and to society as a whole.
Among the slaves released by Davos is Cristoia's personal maid, Azuna. Azuna has told Cristoia before that even if she is free, she is still willing to continue as a hired worker. Serving Christoya, of course, is very welcome. In fact, aside from the change in status, Azuna's lifestyle is not much different from before, including getting paid, because Cristoia gave her a close slave girl a long time ago.
Since domestic slaves spend a long time with their masters day and night, they often have feelings similar to relatives, so it is not uncommon for the masters to release the slaves before their death or continue to serve the masters after their freedom. It's just that for Dionia's emancipation of slaves, there is one more thing they must do as soon as possible, and that is to immediately apply to the Union household registration officer to prepare for citizenship.
After the emancipation ceremony, the joyous celebration begins.
The play, paid for by the alliance and free for the public to watch, will be performed non-stop for three consecutive days in the newly built theater in Turii. If it is in Athens, there will be countless people lining up to compete for the number plate, rushing to go in and enjoy it. But in Dionia, especially in Turii, the people are more interested in the Dionia rugby game. Last year, only four cities of Amendolara, Turii, Niutum and Laos participated. The rugby match has attracted the attention of countless people. This year, Crimissa, Castellon, Aspurstum, and even Grummentum, who has just been merged into the league, have teamed up. Participated (which consisted mainly of soldiers of the 3rd Corps relocated to Grummentum). The expansion of the participating teams has made the competition more intense, and the opening ceremony has become more formal.
VIPs from the city-states of the Dionian League and the South-Italian League received invitations. After the entire arena was filled with seats, loud bronze horns rang through the arena, and players from each city lined up to enter the arena one by one, going around the arena for a week.
The crowd cheered enthusiastically, especially when they saw the players from their own city.
When Armickles watched Castellon's players line up through the main stand, he applauded vigorously and said loudly to the people around him: "Look, those are our Castellon players! Kirkis, look at them as strong as a herd of Lucanian bulls!"
The people around let out good-natured laughter.
Antaoris, Eurycopus, and Pleades, the three Crimissa elders who had just entered the Senate, did not understand why the chief general of Castellon was so excited, Kunogolata He smiled and explained to them in a low voice: "We also invited Castellon to the rugby game last year, but Laos attended, but Castellon didn't, so many people laughed and said, ' Castrons are timid and weak by nature, and dare not participate in this kind of fierce men's game.' It seems that these words really stimulated them, and this year they specially formed a team to prove themselves, even their general Gorkis They all went out on their own.”
For the three who had never watched the game, they could not understand the enthusiasm and madness displayed by the people of Dionia, but the frenetic atmosphere around them also infected them. The players in the parade clapped.
Then, they saw the team representing Crimesa, because the leading player held a wooden sign with the dazzling red letters of "Crimiza" engraved on it, and most of the more than 50 people in the team were unfamiliar faces.
Antaoris knew that in the past few months, citizens and prospective citizens of Dionia had been relocating to Crimea for land distribution, so even if the time to join the Dionian Union was short, this branch of The team's technology is probably not too bad.
Antaoris also saw several familiar faces in the team. Like the other players, their faces were full of excitement. While chatting cordially with their teammates, they kept waving to the audience outside the field. It has only been a few months since the citizen of Crimesa became a citizen of Dionia, but he has naturally integrated into the team.
Antaoris was in a complicated mood for a while.
"Lord Antaoris, I'm looking forward to seeing the performance of the Crimisa players." Kunogolata's meaningful words brought Antaoris back to his senses.
"Don't worry, they must have performed better than Castellon." Antaoris said pretending to be relaxed, and several people laughed.
Eight teams finally stand in the middle of the field.
At this time, Davos stood up from the spectator seat, and the originally boiling arena gradually quieted down.
The distinguished guests of the South-Italian Alliance were all shocked and envied: Davos' great prestige among the people of Dionia is evident!
Davos's voice sounded in the arena: "Hundreds of years ago, the great god Zeus created the Olympia Games. Since then, fierce competition has replaced bloody slaughter, and the Greek city-states have reduced wars and increased peace! Years ago, the great Hades brought us football. Since then, football has flourished in the Dionysian League. People have gained health, happiness, unity and friendship in this intense sport. Today, the Dionysian League and the league's best players gather here, and in thanks for Hades' gift, there will be the most exciting and fierce football game to compete for the one and only championship! Fight, players! Ha! Dis will bless you!"
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