ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 21 Mariji

"There is one more question." Davos withdrew his gaze and asked sternly: "Where on this road do you think you have left the jurisdiction of the Persian royal family?"

Mariji was eager to please Davos, thought about it seriously, and then drew a circle on the sketch: "Here! Past Mespira!"

"Mespira?" Davos looked at the pattern on the ground carefully.

"Mespira is Nineveh, the former capital of Assyria! After passing it, there is Dukeya." Maliji emphasized.

Davos nodded: "Are you familiar with Dukea?"

"I'm not very familiar with them. I just did business with them and exchanged grain for their mountain goods!" Mariji said, with an angry look on his face: "But they are unfaithful barbarians. They often fail to pay and even Hurt people and take things by force!”

After Davos listened carefully, he turned to Matonis and said: "Take his family to the supply camp and let Melses take good care of him, but you have to tell Melses not to abuse him and his wife and daughter. Don’t use them as slaves!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Mariji knelt down with a thump: "Please! Please! Let me go! And my wife and daughter! I said everything! Please let us go..."

"It seems that you understand Greek, and you pretended not to understand before." Davos said.

Mariji didn't defend himself at this time, he just kept crying.

"Actually, I don't let you and your family go because it's for your own good. Do you know that your lord, the king's brother Cyrus, has died in the battle!"

Mariji suddenly stopped crying, and the hands holding Davos's legs lost their strength. He asked weakly: "His Royal Highness Cyrus is really dead?"

"Actually, you have guessed it just now, haven't you? Otherwise, why would Tissaphernes bring us here, and he allowed us to plunder your village, because this is the punishment for the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger! This kind of punishment , I believe it will never be just this time! I’m afraid everyone who has a close relationship with him will not be able to escape, are you right? "

Mariji was already slumped on the ground, in a trance.

Matonis picked him up and dragged him outside.

"This man is not like an ordinary businessman." Hilos said to Davos as he watched Mariji being dragged out of the tent.

"You're right!" Davos nodded.The family lives in a dilapidated house, but they have a lot of gold, silver and gorgeous clothes. Just look at the temperament of him and his wife, they don't look like ordinary Persian businessmen. They are also proficient in Greek and know so many things. .Perhaps he was a relative of Cyrus the Younger, his supervisor, or his royal merchant. After learning that Cyrus the Younger was rebellious, he hid in a remote village in his territory to avoid trouble.If it weren't for the village chief's informant, I almost missed a big fish

Davos thought thankfully that he had selectively forgotten how he tortured the village chief and his family.He said to Xiros: "Captain, I have to trouble you to emphasize to Melses that no one is allowed to harass his family. He is very useful to us! Since little Cyrus is dead, I want to let him He truly trusted us!"

A soldier gave an order to his captain, but no one present found it strange that Davers' leadership position in the team had been established.

"Okay." Hilos quickly stepped out of the tent without hesitation.

"Pichols, thank you very much! You helped me a lot today!" Davos turned to a soldier and said.

"It's my honor to be able to help you!" Pickles said slightly respectfully.

Davos took out two drachmas and stuffed them into his hands.

"This...this..." Pickles pretended to refuse.

Daves said: "Please accept it! I really thank you for today's matter, and I hope you can keep it a secret, and don't let Menon know!"

After hearing this, Picolls stopped refusing, stuffed the silver coins in his arms, and said, "Don't worry, I don't like that guy either! Promise Hades, I won't reveal a word!" Picolls said Ers made a gesture to seal his mouth, and then said excitedly: "Next time you have such a job, just call me!"

"You will definitely be indispensable!" Davos smiled.

Pickles came out of the tent, and Gilgris immediately asked with concern: "Pickles is Menon's Persian translator. Is he reliable?"

"I heard that Menon can speak Persian. Pickles has nothing to do at all. Instead, he is often used as a coolie by Menon. He will be stupid enough to offend us, not to mention he can still make money." Olivers interjected.After he woke up, he knew that he almost went to hell, and he immediately thanked Davos. Unexpectedly, Davos reacted coldly to him. He realized something, so he has been quiet until now.

But as soon as he spoke, the tent fell into a brief silence.

"Davos, how did you know that the Persian businessman buried the money in the yard?" Geogris asked suddenly.

Davos understood that Georgris wanted to liven up the atmosphere and said smoothly: "It's very simple. When we captured Mariji, I found that besides worrying about his wife and daughter being bullied by us-" Davos Speaking of this, he glanced at Olivers: "I secretly glanced at the old tree in the yard from time to time. I walked over and took a closer look. There was a place under the tree that was a little different in color. It was new soil. Of course I Suspicion arose, but in the end, without even trying to scare him, this guy was cowardly and took the initiative to confess.”

Several people loudly praised Davos's attentiveness, especially Olivers who spoke the loudest.

Daves said to Geogris: "The money is of great use to us, you go to the baggage camp every day to check, don't let that fat man take advantage of it."

"Ok."

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After many plunders by Greek mercenaries, the marching column of the team became even larger and bloated.

Over the next few days, as Mariji tells it, the army marched along the right bank of the Tigris, then crossed the river and reached the city of Caine.Here they were once again well supplied.However, the Greek mercenary soldiers became increasingly suspicious of the Persians, and new rumors continued to spread among the army, leading to an increase in conflicts between the soldiers of the two armies after the camp was set up.

When they finally reached the Zapatas River, soldiers from the two armies engaged in a large-scale armed fight. More than 100 people from both sides fought with weapons, killing more than ten people.If the leaders of both sides had not arrived in time and sent troops to separate the two sides in time, the consequences would have been disastrous.

This resulted in the cancellation of the next day's march, and soldiers in each battalion were restricted from leaving the camp.They were marching every day, and Davos and the others were exhausted physically and mentally. With a rare day of free time, everyone took a nap.

Melsis of the supply camp took the time to slaughter some of the looted livestock and make them into sausages.

Just when Davos just woke up, Antonios got into the tent with an anxious look on his face: "Davos, Menon, Clearchus, Proxenus and other leaders are going to the Persian military camp. Go negotiate!”

"What!!!" Davos turned over and sat up in shock.

"I heard that because of what happened last night, Clearkus immediately went to negotiate with Tisafonis, hoping to eliminate the suspicion of mutual distrust between the two sides and avoid such hostile acts from happening again. Maybe the two sides talked very well. , Clearkus spent the night directly in the Persian camp. He returned safely this morning, and then sent someone to notify the leaders of the camps to go with him to the Persian camp and have further talks with Tisafonis. It is said that other camps There were many soldiers and team officers who objected to their going, but in the end the leaders reached an agreement, and they are about to set off." Antonios quickly finished what happened.

"Why didn't anyone in our camp inform about this?" Hilos asked in surprise.

"Menon didn't discuss it with the others. He only quietly brought along the two squadron leaders Capers and Milstick." Antonios said with an embarrassed look.He knew in his heart that after the last collective "forced pregnancy" incident,
Most of the team officers and soldiers were no longer willing to obey Menon's orders. After Menon lost all his prestige, he did not want to discuss it with them anymore and directly went to two squadron leaders who were still willing to listen to him.

Antonios did not explain in detail, but said: "I also heard the soldiers in the nearby Socrates camp making noise, and I found out about it after asking."

"Who are the people going?" Davos stood up and asked seriously while dressing quickly.

Antonios' heart "thumped", and Davos's expression confirmed the uneasiness he felt: "The five leaders Clearchus, Proxenus, Menon, Socrates, Agias, and More than a dozen squadron leaders.”

"Go! Go! Take me to find them. If it's too late, it'll be over!!!" Davos put on his linen lining and anxiously pulled Antonios out, followed closely by Hilos and the others.

　I wrote a new introduction to the novel. Some of the city-states, countries, and characters mentioned above may be something Davos will encounter in the future.

　　Finally, the wind blows. How should Davos respond?
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