ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 499 Henipolis’ Guilt
A hundred years later, due to Sparta's invasion of Messenia, a large number of fleeing Messenian people immigrated here, thus changing the entire city. Even the original name was changed to "Messina". Only the issuance of The symbols on the coins are always "a sickle and a dolphin".

A few years ago, the Carthaginians destroyed it, and Dionysius rebuilt the city, but the residents had become colonists from Syracuse, Locle and their allies.

Messina is only about 13 miles away from Lijim, and the Dionian fleet will arrive in a moment. Sekerian stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the whole city of Messina ahead with interest: Messina City and Lijim City. In comparison, the city itself is not big, because it is located in the lowlands between the mountains and the ocean, with a narrow area. There are not even large rivers around the city. Instead, it is an extremely long arc made of rocks and artificial slurry. The breakwater, and the harbor surrounded by refutations caught Sekrian's eye.

Seeing groups of Messinians who had been urgently summoned on the breakwater, some were running towards the ships at the pier, while others were holding bows and arrows and boarding the sentry tower on the embankment... Sekerian didn't care at all, he didn't care at all. He planned to lead his fleet into the port, but just did what he did in Lockley outside the port - rammed and sank merchant ships entering and leaving the port, showed off his power, and then continued sailing north.

The Syracuse colonists in the city of Messina never imagined that they would be attacked in this way when Syracuse dominates the Western Mediterranean. The anger and frustration in their hearts can be imagined.

The fleet passed through the strait and arrived in Taurana more than an hour later.

The Taurinas and the Lijim citizen soldiers stationed here also cheered when they learned that Dionia had defeated the Syracuse Navy.

Cykrian originally thought that it would take a lot of words to convince Feidun, because Feidun failed to lead an attack before and was ordered to return to Lijim for trial. Later, because there was no citizen in Lijim who could replace Feidun and the terrible Syracuse, Za-Lokli's military talent who fought against the coalition forces was eventually allowed to return to Taurina to regain military power with the support of Atilicruz. Cykrian was worried that he would be afraid of attacking the Sylo coalition forces.

But when Sekerian explained his intention to the Lijim general, Feidun did not hesitate. He immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate with Dionia to contain the Silo coalition, just because Sekerian did not have any relationship with the Greeks in the Bruti region. Before Ross got in touch, it was temporarily impossible to negotiate an effective plan.

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Meanwhile, Henepolis was just getting up.

Yesterday, the Dionian army cooperated with the rioting civilians in the city, coupled with the nearly half-intentional fighting of the defenders, the city of Laos was finally breached.

Arobomas committed suicide after being humiliated by his nephew after he was desperate not to be arrested.

Henipolis did not give up. He issued an order: Anyone who participated in the rebellion and worked for Arobmas should be punished!
You must know that when Arobmas usurped the throne, almost the entire city-state bureaucracy surrendered to him. Heripolis originally wanted to take this opportunity to knock down all those who opposed him and hindered him, but he did not expect that this would lead to a riot. It was as if the civilians had obtained the right to legally rob the city-state officials, leaders, and rich people who usually oppressed and exploited them. The hatred and violence buried in their bones were completely released. It was a disaster for the city, and soon the whole city The whole city was plunged into crazy killing and looting.

Henipolis saw that this was not good and ordered: Stop looting and killing, otherwise you will be severely punished!
But the poor people who were already red-blooded could not obey the orders, and even attacked the soldiers who gave the orders.

Henipolis had no choice but to ask Hiros for help.

Hilos immediately sent out all the troops to stop the riots caused by the poor people of Laos, and ordered that in case of resistance, they would be killed without mercy.

More than 5000 formally trained Dionian soldiers entered the city and began to suppress the mobs that broke into various deep houses and robbed them.

It was not until dusk that the riot was quelled.What followed was groans and wailings that enveloped the entire city. After several years of efforts by Avinogis and Arobumas, the city of Lars, which had become increasingly prosperous, became gray in one day. Barbarians, dead and wounded everywhere.

Henipolis, who rode into the city, could not bear to watch.

What made him even more uneasy was that the people who were holding the bodies of their loved ones and crying on the roadside looked at him with hatred in their eyes...

Henipolis, who blamed himself deeply and was frightened, did not give him much comfort even if he saw that his rescued mother was safe and sound.At night, he was lying on the bed. As soon as he closed his eyes, the tragic scenes he saw during the day appeared in his mind. His ears were filled with the cries of the people. He tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. It was not until dawn that he finally woke up. Overtired and fell into a deep sleep.

He didn't wake up until noon and had to eat breakfast and lunch together.

Dinner with him was his mother.Although Arobomas rebelled, he only put his brother's widow under house arrest, and other treatment remained the same as usual, so the woman was not harmed, but only worried about her son's safety. Now Henipolis returned safely and defeated Rebel, she has always been in a good mood: "My child, Eliandos came to see you several times this morning, but I blocked him back."

"What does he want from me?" Henipolis asked listlessly while chewing bread and thinking about other things.

"He asked what to do with the imprisoned civilians? I asked him to release them all." Henepolis's mother was the cousin of Tula, a Lucanian noble and the former leader of Laos. Tula would His betrothal to Avinogis was actually to better control and win over Avinogis, the leader of the descendants of the Protothebalis people. Therefore, the relationship between Avinogis and his wife was not good.

Later, Avinogis united with Dionia and overthrew the rule of the Lucanians in Laos City. Tula and his forces were almost slaughtered. The reason why he did not deal with his Lucanian wife was On the one hand, this is because she is the biological mother of Henipolis, and on the other hand, the Lucanians have ruled Laos for decades and have gradually merged with the Greek descendants of Sybaris.When Avinogis rebelled, many small Lucanian tribes expressed support and submission, so having a Lucanian wife could just reassure the restless Lucanians.

But this woman kept the hatred of her family's destruction in her heart, and today she finally had a real smile: "Those 'black pigs' who usually just roll around in the mud (the former Lu of Laos) The Canian people's derogatory name for the slaves of Sybaris) should have died a long time ago! Well done to you, son. These are the people who killed your uncle Tula's family! Do you know that your uncle's second daughter and your cousin look like So beautiful, I promised Tula that she would be your wife in the future, but those damn things——"

"That's enough!" Henipolis slammed the wooden cup filled with wine to the ground, causing the wine to splash everywhere.

The woman was startled.

"I'm full." Henipolis stood up, turned and walked outside without looking at his mother.

"Hernie!" the woman cried pitifully.

Henipolis did not look back, he was holding a breath in his heart: he punished the officials and tribal leaders who helped Arobmas usurp the throne, not to avenge their betrayal, but to establish a better political system, a country like Like Dionia, everyone owns land and has a system of participating in political power. He is different from his mother who hates the people of Laos!but--

When he thought of the corpses all over the place, those pairs of hateful eyes... all the energy he had raised was immediately drained away, and he began to doubt himself again: Did I really do something wrong?Like Arobumas said, have I gone too far? …

Arobmas... Henepolis remembered again that when he saw the body of his only uncle last night, he didn't feel any pleasure of revenge. Instead, what kept coming to his mind was the scene when his uncle played with him when he was a child. This made him feel empty and unfulfilled.

He wandered aimlessly and finally came to the city hall next to his residence.

There was an exquisite chair placed in the center of the city hall meeting hall. He walked up to it and slowly sat down, facing the circular stone benches in front of him.

This assembly hall was built by Hennipolis' father three years ago based on the Greek city-states. However, unlike Dionia and other Magna Greek city-states, there is an extra chair in the center of this hall, one specifically for lifelong rule. The chair where the official sits.He didn't know if his father and uncle felt superior and different sitting on this chair, but he had no such wonderful experience at all. Instead, he felt like he was being focused by dozens of pairs of greedy eyes like hungry wolves. Like a lamb, it made him sick and uncomfortable.After he became consul, he came to the council chamber several times, but he did not want to come again.

At this moment, he was sitting on a chair, facing the empty venue in a daze, until Ariandos hurried in: "My lord, I have found you."

Henipolis came back to his senses, looked at the anxious look on the loyal man his father had left for him, and asked indifferently: "What's the matter?"

"The poor people who were released did not want to leave, but asked when they would fulfill the promise you made, my lord." Ariandos' words made Henipolis inexplicably angry: "Fulfill it?! They still want me to fulfill it Promise?! Look at what they have done. I didn’t execute them one by one, which is already a kindness to them!..."

Henipolis yelled to vent his dissatisfaction. He did not expect that the poor people who used to be pitiful in his eyes would turn into a vicious mob in an instant, and they were so greedy.But he was just talking like he was venting his hatred. Of course he would fulfill the oath he made to the gods, and the current situation in Laos did not allow him to go back on his words.

　Brothers, rejoice!The World Cup is coming!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)