ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 599 Selection of the Chief Executive ([-])

"Now please sign up for the elders who want to serve as the administrator of Enona."

As soon as Cornelous finished speaking, a person quickly stood up and said loudly, "I want to run for election!"

Davos narrowed his eyes slightly.

This is Myron, the former chief general of Crotone who once fought against Davos.

After Crotone was merged into the Kingdom of Dionia, he first assisted Crotone's then administrator Cornelus in rebuilding the city of Crotone, and successively held several intermediate positions in Crotone: Construction officer, agricultural affairs officer, administrative deputy...

After Dionia conquered Messape, because Milon performed well in Crotone, Daves personally appointed Milon as the administrator of Udia, the central town of Messape region, showing his loyalty to His complete trust.And Milon lived up to expectations. After taking office, he acted vigorously and resolutely, quelling several riots and uncovering several tribes that were unwilling to surrender, including the family of Pashimerus (after Pashimerus failed at the Battle of Brindisi) He died violently soon. There are different opinions about the cause of his death. Some people think that he committed suicide because he felt that Messape had no future. Some people say that his family assassinated him in order to seize power. Some people think that other tribes in Udia had already killed him. He was dissatisfied with his dictatorship and took this opportunity to kill him).Milon treated them mercilessly, either executing, imprisoning or expelling them, which brought order to the entire Oudière region, and even the people in the nearby towns of Messape became much more honest.

Milon ended his term half a year ago and returned to Thurii without requesting re-election.

At this moment, Milon applied to go to Enona, but Davers was not very optimistic about him. After all, what Enona needed was someone who could handle the relationship with Campania and Samone and have flexible political methods without sacrificing political integrity. A tough-minded veteran, Milon's ruling style, called the "executioner" by some people in Udia, is too radical.

At this time, another elder stood up in the crowd.

Adrianx!Davos blinked again.

After the Southern Italian War, many city-states merged into the Kingdom of Dionia. Although the Senate also absorbed many new elders from these city-states, they could not be sent out immediately to manage a city independently, because their Loyalty needs to be verified, and they do not yet understand the political system and laws of Dionia, and they need a period of familiarity.

However, there are not many senior senators in the Senate, which makes these new senators the majority.As a result, the Senate urgently promoted many outstanding mid-level public officials to become senators, such as Asistes, Olivers, Matonis, Geogris, Sekelian, Aristocrates, and Fraucley. Ong, even Maticoris, Mentok Els, Stacy Kodas of Dionia Academy, etc., all entered the Senate during that period.

But at that time, there were not many senators with experience as city administrators, but there were many city administrator positions in the kingdom that were urgently needed for senators. For this reason, Davos and Kunogorata had to mobilize former employees. The military elders took on important responsibilities and volunteered to serve as administrators of these new territories, with newly promoted local elders as assistants. This encouraged the old elders to learn governance in practice and the new elders to understand the system operation of the kingdom through assistance. Davers I think this is a win-win situation, so there will be situations like "Antonios becomes the administrator of Naxos, Alexis governs Enona, and Hieros takes over Locle". It was common during that period, although there were some problems, but generally speaking, it has ensured the stability of order and the good operation of the political system in the Kingdom of Dionia.

Adrianx is also one of the veterans who has been pushed out of the game.Stimulated by the incident of "becoming a laughing stock in the Isthmian Games", he learned from the painful experience and strengthened his knowledge and culture. He also went to Dionia Academy to listen to Lycias's lecture on eloquence, so he served as an administrator for the first time. When he became the governor, he did not even ask the Senate to send new senators from local towns to assist. Of course, this town newly incorporated into the kingdom was also the best to manage.Castron - a small city next to Turui, has always been under the influence of Dionia, and its people's admiration for Dionia made Castron, who had not joined Dionia before, It looks like a satellite city of Turui.

Therefore, Adriancus successfully ruled Castellon for three years.His greatest achievement in Castellon was to lay the foundation for Castellon to truly become a satellite town of Thurii (another satellite town of Thurii is Bisignia).From the convenience of transportation to the expansion of the port, as well as allowing Castellon people to join the city rugby and football games in Thurii...etc., Adriankos has made a lot of efforts.He also wrote to the Senate several times to apply for transforming the tidal flat north of Castellon into a military port and inviting the First Fleet of Dionia to settle in.

At that time, the city of Thurii was expanding, and the military port temporarily built on the lower reaches of the Craty River for the South Italian War was no longer suitable for the fleet to dock. Adrianx provided a place for the fleet first, which was equivalent to asking the Senate for funds. , free of charge to transform this troublesome tidal flat, and incidentally promoted the development of Castellon port and small commerce.Although the main force of the First Fleet later moved to the large port of Tarantum due to the continuous expansion of the Dionia territory and the strategic needs of the kingdom, the Castellon Military Port is still one of the important military ports in the Taranto Bay. So the people of Castellon still talk about his good deeds.

Later, Adriancus was transferred to be the chief executive of Heraclea. This is another big Greek city-state that has returned to his heart a long time ago. Adriancus’s governance is not difficult, but he is not idle: he has been in office for three years, leading the people He vigorously dredged rivers, built bridges, and filled swamps... By the time he left, the annual floods experienced by the Heracleians had also been greatly reduced.

Then he became the administrator of Ugentum.Ugentum is a seaport town in the Messape region, across the sea from Crimesa. Due to the small population in the city and the frequent sea trade with the Greek city-states of Magna Graecia, the people of Ugentum are not like Udi. The people of Egypt were more wary of the Greeks, so Adrianchus still did not encounter big troubles in power, and he took advantage of Ugentum's proximity to the Gulf of Taranto and its proximity to Udia. The location, the vigorous expansion of the port and the construction of the road to Oudiè made Ugentum a transit point connecting Turiyi to Oudiè (because Turiyi-Ugentum-Oudiè became the most Convenient route, usually only a day's journey), thus also bringing benefits to the people of Ugentum.

Adriankers' achievements as chief executive for three times are dazzling. The Kingdom Officials Management Committee gave him an "excellent" rating for government affairs during his tenure, and commented that he is good at urban construction and can improve people's lives.

However, Enona's situation is more complicated than that of Castellon, Heraclea, and Ugentum. Davers is not sure whether Adrianx can handle it well.

Then another senator raised his hand, and most of the surrounding senators showed complicated expressions: Nicomachus, the senator from Locri.

During the Magna Graecia War, Locris, who was a Magna Graecia city-state, became an accomplice of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, and was rumored to have been involved in the assassination of Davos. Therefore, the Locris became rats on the streets and were attacked by Magna Graecia. Scorned by people.After Locri returned to Dionia, in order to stabilize the once powerful Magna Graecia and its allies, several members of the Locri Council who had high prestige were elected as Dionian senators to drive away Demo. Dorcas, Nicomachus, who first proposed surrender, was of course one of them.

Nicomachus, like Myron, stayed in Locri and assisted Xiros in governing Locri.The Lokri people quickly accepted the rule of Dionia, which is due to the credit of Nicomachus, and of course there is also the reason why Lokri’s culture fits with Dionia, because the Lokri people use Pluto’s wife Persephone and Aphrodite, the god of love, are the patron saints of the city-state, and they have a natural sense of closeness to the Dionians. In addition, Locri's severe punishment law also makes it easier for the Locri to obey authority.

In the sixth year of Dionia, Davos named Nicomachus as the administrator of Aldrum.

Odrum is also a seaside city in the Messape region. Unlike Ugentum, Odrum is located at the southeastern end of the Italian peninsula. Due to the fertile land around it, the town has a large population and it is located on the Adriatic Sea. The exit is the closest place on the Italian peninsula to mainland Greece. Two hundred miles across the Adriatic Sea is the famous Corfu Island. Therefore, Odrum is also the town in the Messape region that is most influenced by Greek native culture. Athenian merchants and Pythias merchants representing the Spartans could sometimes be seen in its harbor.

After the Messapians were conquered, Odrum was the city with the second most turmoil after Udiai, which shows the difficulty of its governance. However, within three years of Nicomachus taking office, the city of Odrum The political situation is stable and the people are gradually returning to their hearts, which shows his strong ability.

In fact, Davos believes that Nicomachus is the best candidate for Enona city administrator, but he has stated in advance that he will not appoint a candidate, so the possibility of Nicomachus being elected is extremely slim, because Lockry The man was not popular with the senators of Magna Graecia.

There was also a senator from Sicily who participated in the election, but unlike the other Sicilian senators, he was from Syracuse.

After the Magna Graecia War, Syracuse and Dionia reached a peace agreement. After that, a group of Syracuse people and slaves strongly demanded to leave Syracuse. It turned out that Dionysius conquered eastern and central Sicily. On the coast, people from other city-states were forcibly relocated to enrich the land of Syracuse, among which the majority were Leotians, and these people were one of them.

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