ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 590 Contradictions
"Time flies so fast. I remember that when you went to Enona to take office, Isafina was only a few months old. She couldn't even speak and could only cry. At that time, I advised you to keep Isafina. Come down, your aunt Doreen has just given birth to Antedoris, and she has enough milk to feed the two children, but you just don’t agree... Unexpectedly, six years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Isafina has grown up They gave birth to a big girl, and Alex has become a little man!" Antonios listened to the laughter and sighed: "If your mother can still see all this, she will be very happy!"

Asistes was silent for a moment and said: "Yes, uncle, when you took me to be a mercenary, I never expected that I would have a life like this today. I have to thank Your Majesty for this!"

Antonios was stunned for a moment, then raised his glass: "Come on, let's have a drink with His Majesty Davos!"

"it is good!"

After drinking the glass of wine, the Sikel slave girl next to her hurriedly filled it up for Asistes, and then leaned towards Asistes again.

Asistes glanced at her, and she sat back down immediately.

Antonios saw this and chuckled: "Assi, Doreen is accompanying your wife in the main building to select gold and silver jewelry from Carthage. Don't worry, she won't come to the courtyard."

"This has nothing to do with Tina, it's just that I don't like it." Asistes said expressionlessly.

Antonios was stunned again. Looking at Asistes's expression across from him, he suddenly pushed away the beautiful Sikel slave girl in his arms and said, "Go down."

"My lord!" the slave girl shouted softly, leaning against him again.

"Get off!" Antonios said with a serious face. The slave girl no longer dared to act coquettishly and left obediently.

"You go down too!" Antonios pointed at the slave girl next to Asistes.

After they both left, Antonios said in a deep voice: "Yasi, you have been in a bad mood when you came to my place today. Are you angry with me?"

"Uncle, before I resigned from Enona, I heard that you and a group of Sicilian senators proposed in the Senate that I should be the administrator of Naxos?" Since Antonios took the conversation away, Assi Stace asked directly without covering up.

"That's true." Antonios nodded and admitted, "Don't blame your uncle for not discussing it with you in advance. That's because those Crotones also wanted to get involved in Naxos. Why should they! During the Southern Italian War, Without the rescue of our Dionia, they would have been finished!"

"Crotone is also the territory of the kingdom now." Asistes reminded.

"Naxos was earned by the soldiers of the First Legion with their blood and lives, and we will never allow a bunch of cowards to contaminate it!" Antonios said angrily. He looked at Asistes: "And Asistes, Your resignation time coincides with Stromboli's resignation time. You can take office directly without delay. Otherwise, you will have to wait for the next vacancy in the Senate. I'm afraid you will have nothing to do for a while. With you After being elected as the administrator of Enona by the Senate twice in a row, your outstanding performance in power for six years, and His Majesty’s trust in you, it is very easy to become the administrator of Naxos!”

Asistes shook his head and said softly: "I have been abroad for six years and am already a little tired. I don't want to go to distant Sicily anymore. I just want to stay in Thurii."

"Yasi, you are still young. You should serve as administrator in various cities in the east, west, south, and north of the kingdom while you are still energetic, to increase your administrative experience so that... so that you can serve as provincial governor in the future!" Antonios persuaded.

"Provincial Governor?!" Asistes looked surprised.

"This is the news I got from others. It is said that His Majesty has considered that there are too many cities in the kingdom and the affairs are too complicated. He is planning to set up provinces and let the governors govern the cities in their jurisdiction. This will be more convenient...I heard that he also I secretly discussed it with the old man Cunogorata." Antonios said it easily, but obviously it took a lot of energy to get this news.

When Asistes heard this, he lost interest: "This position is still too far away from me. Now I just want to stay in Turiyi for a while. I haven't seen you in a few years, and Turiyi has changed too much." Got it!"

"Yasi, given His Majesty's trust in you, as long as you continue to enrich your experience in local government affairs, you can completely make up for the age gap between you. One of the positions of provincial governor will definitely belong to you! The provincial governor can manage One region, three or four big cities, more than ten to 20 people, that is far more glorious than being the king of Sparta!" Antonios continued to persuade: "So you should take over the throne of Naxos Chief Executive!"

"Uncle, are you really thinking about me if you want me to go to Naxos so eagerly?!" Asistes finally couldn't help but said.

"Why did you say such a thing! I am your uncle, of course I am thinking about you!" Antonios' face turned ugly when he heard this, but he still suppressed his anger.

But Asistes said unceremoniously: "No, you are not thinking about me, you are harming me! My uncle, the 'Conqueror of Catania', was the one who won the victory that year. Your Majesty's praise for you in the ceremony. But you and I both know that Alexis did not talk about the title of 'Victor of Samnai', nor did Hieros talk about 'Conqueror of Locle', but In that grand war, His Majesty, who commanded the Dionian army to win the entire war from beginning to end, did not call himself the 'Conqueror of Syracuse'. Only uncle you - those Sicilian senators Under the flattery of you, you really regard yourself as the 'Conqueror of Catania'. Not only do you allow others to talk about it every day, but you also incorporate Catax into your name... You obviously forgot , without His Majesty's prior plan and without the help of Lord Antrapolis, it would be impossible for the First Army to defeat the Syracuse coalition forces that are several times yours! But look at how calm Antrapolis is at ordinary times, Never publicize—"

"That's enough! Don't associate me with that sneaky little man! What's wrong with my name being Antonios Cartax! Isn't His Majesty's eldest son also called Clotokatax! This is me The honor was the honor of our First Legion!..." Antonios shouted angrily at Asistes.

Asistes continued calmly: "Uncle, don't you think you have changed in the past few years? You have been the administrator of Naxos for six years, and the awe and flattery of the people there have made you already Forget who I used to be! Look at the candles placed in the courtyard, these dishes, and the female slave just now..."

Asistes pointed at a table full of dishes. Many of the novel dishes on the table were things he had never seen or eaten before: "Uncle, I heard that guests have often come here to visit and give gifts in the past few years since you came back. Most of them are They are all Sicilian, and the tribune of Thurii even protested. It seems that you have not restrained yourself much... In the Senate, the Sicilian senators are headed by you, and you speak for them everywhere and safeguard their interests. , don’t you know that other senators have opinions on you, including your former mercenary comrades! Do you really think you are the king of Sicily?! Uncle, you should wake up! Dionia There is only one king, and it can only be His Majesty Davos!——"

"Shut up!!" Antonios angrily grabbed the wine can on the table and slammed it to the ground. There was a loud "bang" and the wine splashed everywhere.

Asistes felt a pain on his cheek, and the fragments of the clay pot scratched his skin. He stretched out his hand to touch it, and heard Antonios roaring incoherently: "Nonsense! Nonsense! What do you know! What do you know? !!..."

"I have been with Your Majesty for so long, and I know a lot more than you!" Asistes said without any sign of weakness: "Why am I unwilling to go to Naxos? That's because I don't want to be thought by Your Majesty that I He also became one of your Sicilian senators, and even made him suspect that you wanted to form a good relationship with Bagulu and Hermon and join forces in the Senate! Wake up, uncle! You are praised too much. Gao, you can no longer see how dangerous the place you are standing on is, don’t be so foolish as to be used as a weapon by others!..."

"Hey, what's going on?! Making such a big noise!" The voice of Antonios's wife Doreen sounded in the courtyard.

"Asistes, why is your face bleeding?!" Tina ran to Asistes in surprise and reached out to touch her, but Asistes grabbed her hand: "I'm fine, a little bit" Small scratch."

"Oops, why did the wine jar break?!" Doreen looked at the broken pieces on the ground in surprise, and then said to the slave standing by: "What are you still doing? Clean it up quickly! Also, go pick up another jar. Here comes the wine!”

With a woman present, Antonios couldn't get angry anymore, so he waved his hands vigorously and said, "No more! No more!"

"Tina, call the children, we should go back." Asistos grabbed his wife's hand and squeezed it twice.

Tina immediately went to call the child knowingly.

Although Doreen felt something strange here, she still said kindly: "It's still early, Tina and I are chatting happily. Asistes, you and your uncle haven't seen each other for so many years, please chat a little longer .”

"If there's anything to talk about, let him go if he wants to leave!" Antonios said angrily.

"Antonios, look at what you said, I think you drank a little too much." Doreen hurriedly gave him a light punch, then turned to Asistes and said apologetically: "Your uncle has too many things recently. He has a bad temper. He was angry with me at home a few days ago. If he said anything wrong, don’t blame him!"

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