Davers looked up at the three-sculled warship next to him, only to see someone waving at him on the side of the ship. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hi Xenophon, I thought I wouldn't have a chance to say goodbye to you!"

"Davers, I accepted the request of Anaxis, hurried to Byzantium, ready to reassemble our mercenaries, and hurried to Asia Minor, I didn't expect you to go to Great Greece! Stay and let's continue to fight side by side together! Xenophon made a sincere request to Davers.

Davers secretly said that it was dangerous, then shrugged his shoulders and said seriously: "Unfortunately, I have signed an agreement with Turiyi and sworn to Hades!" ”

"That'...... What a coincidence! Xenophon, who respected the gods, gave a look of regret: "We can't fight together!" ……”

"It seems that Sparta is going to war with Persia. I can only wish you the protection of Zeus in the next battle! Davers said this from the heart.

"I wish you the same!" Xenophon said sincerely: "I would have invited you to Athens to meet my teacher Socrates, who will be very interested in your new ideas!" And one of his students, my friend Plato, has a similar point of view to you, and you two will definitely become friends! It's a pity ......"

"Someday I'll go to Athens! I'm sure you've finished writing the story of our battle in Persia by then, and don't forget to give me a copy. Davers only knew that Xenophon later wrote the Long March, but he did not remember Xenophon's life experience, after all, he was not a historian in his previous life.

"Don't worry, I'll give you an extra copy." Xenophon laughed.

Davers vaguely remembers that Socrates was poisoned by the Athenian authorities, and he did not know the exact time, but he remembered that Socrates could have chosen to be expelled from Athens, but he insisted on staying, wanting to wake up the numb Athenian citizens with death. So Davers gave up on reminding Xenophon and just waved his hand and said, "Goodbye!" ”

"Goodbye!"

Who knew that with this wave of his hand, when he said goodbye, it was already a sea of vicissitudes, and his friend became an enemy. The world is unpredictable and embarrassing......

As the fleet moved forward, the Spartan ships vanished into the turquoise sky......

Seeing that Davers was still standing in the stern of the boat, Bulcos couldn't help but walk over and say, "Still thinking about your Athenian friend?" ”

"Xenophon is a talented, capable man!" Davers was stunned, after all, Xenophon was the first historical figure to connect this world with his past life.

"Athens relied on batch after batch of talented people to create its glory!" Burkos said with deep feeling: "Even we are stained with the light of Athens, so that we have the scene of prosperity as soon as Turriy is established!" ”

"Oh, really?" Burcos's words succeeded in piquing Davers's interest.

At that time, the leaders responsible for the formation of Turii were two very capable Athenians, Rambon and Theloclitus, and the famous Athenian scholar Protagoras made laws for Turii, and Athens also invited the famous Greek engineer Hippodamos to design the city for Turii and was responsible for the construction of the ...... At the same time, two Athenian dignitaries emigrated to Turiyi, one was Herodotus, the scholar who wrote the Histories, the other was the famous rhetorician Ticias, and even the Spartan Creandridas commanded the battle for Turiyi. Therefore, Turii was able to keep peace with Crotone to the south; to the north, to fight with Tarantum for the plain of Seris; to the west, to defend against the invasions of the Lucanians and Brutis; East; Strengthened trade with Greece. Thus, in one fell swoop, become a great power of Greater Greece! Bulkos reminisced about the past, and his eyebrows fluttered.

Davers listened intently.

Then the proud expression of Bulkos darkened: "It's a pity that Athens lost to Sparta. Now Sparta is the overlord of Greece......"

"Does it have a big impact on Turii?" Davers asked urgently.

Bulkos didn't want to say more, but replied: "When you get to Turii, you'll know slowly." ”

Davers smiled and comforted him: "You don't have to worry, Sparta's supremacy will not last long." ”

Davers's astonishing words immediately caught Burcos's attention: "Why? ”

"Because the Spartans began to take bribes." Davers said half-jokingly, half-seriously: "The unique system developed by Laikugu for Sparta was intended to train all Spartan citizens into fierce warriors, so that they could suppress the black laborers, who were much more numerous than the Spartans, internally and dominate Greece externally." For this reason, all Spartan citizens should maintain a simple and simple life, in order to guarantee basic equality, otherwise there will be Spartan citizens who will object, 'Why should you be well fed and clothed, I will have to be brutally trained from a young age, and I will not be able to leave the single life in the barracks until I am thirty years old,' so they closed the country, forbade commercial trade, forbade the use of more portable currency, forbade debate, forbade drama, forbade poetry, forbade writing and selling books other than military...... Everyone said that Spartan warriors were terrible because Spartans had no other pleasures, and fighting and killing were their only pleasures! Well, now that the Spartans are the hegemon of Greece, strategic points need to be garrisoned, their fleets need to cruise, and the Spartans go out and stay outside for half a year and a year, of course, they will come into contact with things that they have not been exposed to before. It's not easy to cultivate a simple and simple life, but it's too easy to destroy it! Once the fighting spirit that allowed the Spartans to dominate Greece has been eroded, how long can Sparta's hegemony be maintained!! ”

Bulkos had never heard anyone analyze the Spartan political system in such simple and vivid language, like a sharp dagger piercing the fragile core of the Spartan system, which sounded very plausible. He looked at Davers in a daze, this young man made him feel a little awe, he suddenly remembered the rumors about Davers being a "god", he opened his mouth, found that his throat was a little dry, coughed a few times, and couldn't help asking: "What if...... If so, then who will be Sparta's opponent in Greece? ”

Davers shrugged: "I'm not a god, how would I know." As he spoke, he raised his head and looked up at the blue sky with the seagulls flying with their wings, Thebes, Macedonia...... A long list of city-state names flashed through my mind, and for some reason a sense of pride rose in my heart......

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After being intercepted by the Spartan warships, Bulkos was afraid of another accident and ordered the fleet to travel day and night.

After arriving at the island of Euboea a few days later, he went ashore to replenish food and fresh water, and then sailed through the Cyclades, skirting the Attica Peninsula of Athens.

The fleet then passed through Argos, and carefully rounded the Peloponnese until it reached the island of Zakynthos, where it went ashore for a night's rest. The next day we continued our voyage north to Corkyra, at which point we turned west and entered the bay of Taranto, named after the great Greek state of Tarantum.

This is a calm harbor, the humid sea breeze does not set off a wave, the blue sea is as quiet as a piece of smooth blue silk, and countless ships are like silver shuttles shuttling constantly, weaving beautiful pictures on this huge blue silk.

When the mercenaries saw this beautiful scene, their bodies and minds, which had been exhausted by the long sea voyage, suddenly became excited, and they began to laugh and laugh loudly.

Bulkos's small fleet also attracted the attention of those who were interested, and several three-layer oared warships with sails painted with the pattern of "man riding dolphins" greeted them.

"It's okay, it's Tarantum's cruiser." Burkos was speaking to Davers as the lead ship of the fleet had arrived.

"Did we enter the sea controlled by Tarantum?" Davers asked curiously.

"Not yet. It's just an agreement between the city-states of this bay to keep each other in breath in order. Burks explained.

The ship of Tarantum turned around and left, and the fleet continued on its way......

After about an hour, Burkos pointed ahead and said, "Ahead is Turiyi." ”

Davers hurriedly held on to the side of the ship and looked at it with wide eyes: more than 500 meters ahead was a green coastline, among which there was a white "streamer" from west to east, straight into the sea; At the end of the "streamer", countless white sails converged, and thousands of seagulls circled in the sky, but there was no shadow of the city......