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Chapter 135: Turiyi Diplomatic Incident

Davos took out a sandpaper roll from his arms and sneered: "The Turiyi people are really forgetful! Fortunately, I still have one here!" After saying that, he handed the paper roll over, and the elders passed it around to look at it. Sure enough, it contained Davos's promise to grant freedom to the slaves, as well as the signature of Burkos as a witness, as well as the signatures of the two generals of Turrii, Kunogorata and Neances.

At that time, in order to prevent the mercenaries from leaving the Subali Plain and holding on to the camp, Turiyi's generals tried their best to agree to any conditions.Judging from their experience, it is difficult for mercenaries to hold on for a long time. If they can consume more Lucanians, they will consume more. These more than 2000 slaves are just like meat buns beating dogs. I didn't expect mercenaries to dare to Take the initiative to attack the enemy and win.

Now that Neances, who is known for his careful calculation, is in power, he is certainly not willing to turn these more than 1000 slaves into free people.The key point is another important point: once these slaves are converted into free people, what about the other miner slaves?They will definitely have ideas. Don't forget that there are 9000 mining slaves. Once there is a commotion, it will be very difficult to deal with the current number of citizens in Turiyi.Not to mention that there are still a group of freedmen at the port who are still arguing about citizenship rights in Turiyi.

So when the paper was passed to Plesinas, he didn't even look at it. He bit the bullet and tore the paper into pieces with both hands: "This is fake! This is fake!"

This rogue and arrogant act immediately angered everyone present. The hot-tempered Scombras was the first to rush over, grabbed Plesinas, punched him, and cursed: "I told you Tear it apart! I tell you to tear it apart! Turiyi people who don’t keep their word! Turiyi people who deserve to go to hell!”

One punch, two punches... If others hadn't pulled Scombbras away in time, Plessinas would have been unconscious. At this moment, he shouted in fear: "Killing! Killing! Amendolara Are you going to start a war with Thurii?!!”

"Drive him out of Amendolara! Don't forget to stuff him with the silver coins that all the mining slaves who escaped to Amendolara should pay for their redemption, lest Tuliyi say that we stole their property." Daves said in disgust.

"Yes!" Mercis replied with a grimace: "But maybe the money is not enough."

Davos thought for a while and said: "Then write an IOU in the name of the Amendolara Senate. When we have money, we will pay it back."

"But if this happens, the other slaves who participated in the war will probably run away to Amendolara!" Cornelus reminded.

"Then let them come. They helped us win the war with the Lucanians and paid with their blood and lives. The just Hades hopes that we can fulfill our oath to him." Daves He said solemnly.

"That's really cheap for the Turiyi people!" Merses said angrily.

"Breaking the oaths made to the gods will always bring about the punishment of the gods." Davos said lightly, turned to Aristocrates, who was shocked by the scene just now, and said: "Now you are free, You can go wherever you want."

Aristocrates did not expect that the result they wanted would come so quickly, and his whole body trembled with excitement: "Thank you, sir! We... are willing to stay in Amendolara... and... I am personally willing to repay Amendolara's debt." Money paid to give us our freedom!”

Davos looked at him and saw that he was sincere in his words. He nodded appreciatively: "Okay!"

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When Plessinas returned to Thurii, he naturally publicized Amendolara's "evil deeds" in an attempt to arouse the anger of the people.

Of course, Amendolara also had countermeasures. They spread what happened in the Senate that day to the people of Turiyi through the mouths of Turiyi patients who came to Amendolara for medical treatment.

For a time, the people of Turiyi were unable to tell whether the two versions of the story were true or false.

But the Turiyi City Hall took action quickly. They strongly demanded that Amendolara return the fugitive slaves immediately, otherwise Amendolara would break the covenant, and Turiyi would never sit idly by.

The Senate of Amendolara refused and reminded Tuliyi that he should fulfill the promise he had made and grant freedom to Tulii's benefactors (the slaves who participated in the war).

Turui then announced that people in the city were prohibited from going to Amendolara.Foreign merchants going to Amendolara were charged heavy taxes when they came to Turii to trade.

Since the storage base in Amendolara has not yet been built, there are almost no businessmen going to Amendolara, but there are many foreign patients, which has little impact on Amendolara's already negligible trade.But Amendolara still took action. They arranged the military training of citizen soldiers by the Saraceno River, which made the Turii people and slaves farming in the Subari Plain feel nervous.

Apart from protesting to Amendolarati, Turii City Hall took no further action, and both sides suddenly fell silent.

For Davers, he originally did not want to have a stalemate with Thurii, but when the matter came to this, he had to make a choice: choosing Thurii would be conducive to his future attack on Lucania. plan, but had to destroy the promise he had made before; he chose to free the slaves and fulfilled his promise, but it might jeopardize the alliance with Thurii.Davos believed that he could make up for the broken alliance with Thurii in the future, but once the promise was broken, it would be difficult to eliminate the bad impression left on the Magna Greeks, even if the promise was only for slaves.Keeping his promise is related to his integrity, and even more to Amendolara’s integrity.Because many of the new bills Amendolara has now promulgated must rely on the trust of the people and outsiders to be implemented. They must believe that Amendolara will keep its promises no matter what the circumstances, so this is what Amendolara is doing. The foundation of a nation!

Just when the relationship between Amendolara and Thurii was in a stalemate, a guest came to the city of Turii - the messenger from Crotone.

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At the end of June, the Senate of Amendolara held a meeting to discuss holding a selection contest to select athletes to participate in the Isthmian Games held in the summer of the following year of the Olympia Games. Ancient, but also high-profile, Davos and the Senate hope that the athletes will show the new Amendolara to the Greek city-states.

Davers even considered traveling to Corinth with the selected athletes (since Corinth was the site of the Isthmian Games).In his previous life, he had no money or time to go to watch the Olympic Games in person, but in this era, he can be a VIP and enjoy the most authentic classical sports games.

Just as the elders were happily discussing how to hold this trial, a shocking news came: something big happened in the city of Thurii!
It turns out that the envoy from Crotone came to Thurii to question him.He claimed that Thurii had violated the original agreement with Crotone by building a city on the site of Sybaris.

Neances and the others quickly explained: Because of the massive Lucanian attack, Thurii had no choice but to let the mercenaries temporarily build a camp there and quickly withdrew...

However, the Crotone envoy refused to accept this reason and insisted that Thurii violated the agreement. If he did not want to cause serious consequences to the relationship between the two countries, he must make compensation for this behavior.In fact, the real reason why the envoy questioned Tulii was that after Crotone ended its war with the Brutians, its treasury consumed a lot of money and materials. Someone in the city-state council made such a suggestion, and in addition to this At that time, Thurii's strength was greatly weakened, so the Crotone people believed that Thurii would not take the risk of offending Crotone, a powerful country, and vetoed Crotone's request. The maximum amount of compensation would be There was a dispute, but then it was bargaining.So the Crotone envoy issued a huge list of compensation.

When the generals of Thurii saw this list, they immediately understood: Crotone was not here to accuse, but to extort!

Suddenly, the generals started to clamor, especially after Neances became the chief general. Although he looked at the problem more comprehensively, his calculating nature did not change. He did not hesitate to have a stalemate with Amendolara, but was unwilling to give way to Thousands of city-state slaves became freedmen, and naturally they were unwilling to accept Crotone's blackmail.So, he said to the envoy: "The Council of Thurii needs to discuss this matter collectively before giving Crotone an answer."

After the envoy left, he immediately asked Plessinus to secretly inform the people of the incident and incited them to protest at the hotel where the envoy was staying.Neonsis's purpose is: first, to allow the envoy to see the anger and determination of the people of Tuturii, and to create conditions for subsequent negotiations; second, even if a compensation agreement is signed in the future, the people can reduce their opposition to City Hall accusations.

Neances' calculations were very precise, but he never expected that the people of Turiyi would become even more crazy and irrational after experiencing the last expulsion incident of Kunogora Tower, not to mention that under the guidance of thoughtful people, , is simply beyond the control of Plessinas.

These thoughtful people are the descendants of the Sybarites.A hundred years ago, Crotone defeated Sybaris and tore up the city of Sybaris. The Sybaris people who lost their home rebuilt the city of Sybaris a few years later and soon made it prosperous again.When Crotone found out, he sent troops again to capture Sybaris and completely destroy the city.The exiled Sybarians had no choice but to seek help from the Greek city-states. Finally, Pericles of Athens responded to their request and called on all Greeks to rebuild Sybaris.So the elites of Athens and immigrants from all over flocked to Thurii on the Sybari Plain.But soon after, the Sybarians clashed with Athens and other immigrants, because the Sybarians wanted to make Thurii the Thurii of the Sybarians, which of course was not accepted by the other immigrants, and eventually happened There was bloodshed and the Sybarians were expelled.However, the Sybaris people are the local snakes after all, so a few people stayed secretly.In the hearts of these people, Crotone is the life-and-death enemy who destroyed their homeland and reduced them to such a situation. They pass on this hatred. When the opportunity arises, how can the descendants of the Sybaris people let it go? .

Thousands of crazy people could not be stopped by a few soldiers. They rushed into the hotel and beat up the Crotone envoy. When Neances heard the news and arrived with a large group of guards, the envoy Already dead.

　Magna Graecia is making waves again!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)