ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 602 Recalling Maple's Past ([-])
He was lucky that he did not blindly follow some people into Brindisi, but fled north back to his hometown.For within a few days Brindisi fell.

Later, he heard that during the battle, the Dionysians had more legions appearing from both wings, bypassing the Messape and Pucetti military formations, and the cavalry of the Mepu coalition was also defeated by the Dionysians. The two cavalry regiments were defeated. The Map coalition had no chance of victory from the beginning to the end, and was almost completely surrounded and annihilated.

It is said that at the end of the battle, King Tremoni shouted, "Davos of Dionia, do you dare to fight against me?! Do you dare to fight against me?!..." leading his elite guards towards Daivos. The royal flag of the Onian Central Army was located, but it was surrounded by swarming Dionian Legion soldiers, and eventually all died in battle.

When he heard the news of the king's death, Elems just sighed. He believed that all the Pucheti warriors who had experienced that battle could not muster the courage to fight against the Dionians.

In the next two years, the Puchetti people spent the next two years in panic, and several important towns and tribes in Puchetti argued with each other over who would take over as the new king, and there were even quite a few battles...

During this process, news came from the south from time to time.

"Manduria was captured by the Dionians..."

"Ugentum surrendered to Dionia..."

"Uldrum has been captured..."

"Udiay was captured..."

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Ellems, who is already in his 40s, knows that the Dionians will soon set foot on Pucetti's territory, and with the current chaos in Pucetti's territory, it is impossible to stop the Dionians from advancing. Footsteps, even for a moment.

Sure enough, when the Dionian legions poured into Puchetti one by one, the Puchetti people, who claimed to be more fierce than the Messapians, performed much worse than the Messapians. Blera fell, Silvium fell, Barium fell, Venusia fell, and finally Canusian where Eloms lived...

In less than four months, the Dionysians completely conquered the entire territory of Puchetti, but that's fine, too many people have died in Puchetti.

Ellems and other ethnic groups watched with mixed emotions as the heavily armed Dionian legionnaires escorted the new ruler of the city into the city, and then the Dionians gathered the Canusian people into the square.

Agarcia is the so-called "Canusian Administrator". He first comforted the Canusians present not to be afraid, because they are already Dionian citizens and will be protected by the "Dionian Laws". Anyone dares to hurt them.

Then, he began to read out the newly promulgated decree of the Kingdom of Dionysia. The content of this decree is still remembered by Ellems to this day: "...all the Pucheti tribes in the Canusian territory must be disbanded, and every Kanusian tribe must be disbanded." The people of Xi'an will all have independent freedom. In addition to being governed by the administrative agencies of Dionia and abiding by the "Laws of the Kingdom of Dionia", you will no longer be governed by other organizations, and you will obtain the land that truly belongs to you. , you only need to pay 1% of the tax burden every year, except for military service, no one will force you to do extra labor..."

At the time, Erums, like everyone else, thought he had heard wrong.

But the next steps of the Dionians proved that they were not talking empty words. They issued official documents to all the tribes in the Canusian territory: first, they asked each tribe to hand over the land they occupied and hand it over to the city hall for redistribution; It is to let all ethnic groups register at the household registration office of the city hall.

Ellems knew how much shock this official document caused to the tribes of Canusian. In just three days, six riots and commotions occurred in Canusian territory, but they were all defeated by the powerful Dionian army. To quickly restore peace, groups of leaders and nobles who took the lead in the rebellion were escorted to the square and beheaded. This continued for several days, with heads rolling down and blood everywhere.

This scene was also staged in other Puchetti towns. This bloody killing also killed the courage of the Puchetti people (due to the fact that in the process of Dionia's previous conquest of Messape, the Messapian tribes The constant riots and riots made Davos and the Senate realize the difference between the Messapians, the Lucanians, and the Brutians, and the current strength of Dionia also gave Davos enough The confidence made him determined not to use the subtle method of slowly disintegrating the indigenous tribes, but to cut the knot quickly and completely eliminate the fierce Meshapi people who were far away from the influence of Greek culture and who were likely to resist Dai. Puchettis ruled by Ionia).

Obviously, Davers overestimated the ferocity of the Pucheti people. Shortly after quelling the riot, the leaders of the Pucheti tribes rushed to the city hall to express their loyalty, including the leader of the tribe where Ellems belonged.

A few days later, the Elems family, who had registered as citizens of Dionia, was allocated new land.Elems, who had been living in the tribe for the first half of his life, felt confused and a little excited at the same time: confused because he suddenly lost the support of the tribe, and he felt a little panic and helpless; excited because he was freed from the constraints of the tribe, Elms felt a sense of freedom.

Although as a tribal warrior, he originally had land, the land he re-acquired only requires a small tax burden every year, and it is tax-free for the next three years.

The "three-year tax exemption" bill made the Puchetti people in the newly divided land less dissatisfied with Dionia.

Under the rule of Dionia, more than two years have passed. The city of Canusian has changed a lot. The only thing that remains unchanged is probably the Lycaon Temple still standing in the city. Many people still go to worship every year. But this number is constantly decreasing, and more and more people are beginning to believe in Hades from Greece, whose temple is not far from the Lycaon Temple.Because the priests of the Hades Temple can treat people's illnesses for free, and their medical skills are also good, and they actively help believers in need, they are too approachable compared to the superior priests of the Lycaon Temple.

The young people of Canusian fell in love with the rugby and football games invented by the Dionians, including his children.During the off-farm season, they played from morning to night in the open spaces inside and outside the city. In order to play these games, they also actively learned Greek because their coaches were all Dionians from across the Gulf of Taranto. .

These Dionysians were recruits of the legions who had participated in the conquest of Messape and Pucetti over the years. Their Senate assigned them land in Canusian. They settled down and were rejected and resisted from the very beginning. , and even disputes and conflicts occurred, and the situation gradually opened up and was gradually accepted by the Pucheti people. First of all, it relied on the popular ball games in South Italy, and secondly, military training.

Under the compulsory decree of the city hall, the young men of Pucetti must participate in military training, and it is these new Dionian legionnaires who train them to crawl with them and fight in formation, and friendship lies in Breed in this seven-day training.

For Ellems, what attracts him most is the food in Dionia.In the past two years, Ellems' farmland on the banks of the Ofanto River has achieved a bumper harvest. Since he does not have to pay taxes, after keeping enough for his own use, he will sell the remaining grains to the market in the city. At the same time, he will raise the sheep he raises every year. A few were separated and sold to Kristoya's restaurant in the city, and the price was not low.

For this reason, Elams, who had money, would often be dragged by his former comrades to Krystoya's restaurant for a small gathering, drinking cool beer, eating delicious food, recalling the joy of fighting in the past, and complaining about today's various events. Change makes them happy.In fact, deep down in their hearts, they acknowledge that their comfortable lives are much better today than they were two years ago.

Just as they were drinking wine, cursing Dionia, and looking forward to their future life, a piece of news shocked the peaceful city of Canusian: Dionia declared war on the Daoni people!

The Puchetti people are happy to fight against the Dauni people. After all, they have been sworn enemies for decades. However, Ellems, who has just lived a happy life for two years, and some older Puchetti people are worried about this war. It will cause the Puchetti people, who have experienced many wars and led to a sharp decline in population, to bleed again.

It turns out they were thinking too much.

When the mighty army marched in from the south and built a huge military camp not far from the city of Canusian, Ellems knew that the following war would have nothing to do with the Puchetti people.

The Puchetti people were a little unhappy. Some young people ran to the city hall or the training camp outside the city to protest, demanding to participate in the war against the Downey people.Under the organization of the city hall, some people, such as Elems, set up a temporary market near the barracks to sell the daily necessities of the soldiers on the expedition.The Kanusians, who used to be aggressive and ruthless, have begun to have business awareness. Perhaps this is the biggest change in concepts like Elems in the past two years.

Ellems's stall was near the entrance of the temporary market. It was a good location. He got up early this morning to occupy it. Just as he was thinking about it, there was a shock coming from the military camp over there. Hearing the cheers, Ellem suddenly became energetic: According to yesterday's experience, this should be the end of the soldiers' training.

Suddenly, the vendors in the entire market stopped chatting and wandering around, and were all busy placing the goods for sale neatly on the stalls, including grapes, olives, boiled beef and mutton, syrup, bread, salted fish, Cloth, iron...

Ellems and his wife had just put their things away when they saw a group of soldiers pouring into the market.

"Adoris, this is the delicious syrup shop I told you about." Several soldiers stood in front of Ellems' stall, surrounded by a young man about eighteen or nineteen years old.

After hearing this, the young man looked at the stall and immediately said: "Bring me a drink."

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