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"The Dionian League has no intention of going to war with any Greek city-state, but if there are city-states who want to provoke war, who want to humiliate us, who invade our land! Ladies and gentlemen, what is our answer? Davers asked aloud, looking around.

"Fight to the death! Destroy the enemy! ”

"Fight to the death! ......" the former mercenary elders shouted in unison.

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Phoebe Das came out of the council hall with a blue face, and Dorobises stepped forward, seeing that his complexion was wrong, he asked urgently: "How's the situation?!" ”

"Let's go! Embarkation! Get back! Phoebe Das squeezed out a sentence angrily.

Under the "escort" of the patrol, Phoebe Das and his party hurriedly walked back, got on a passenger ship, and sailed to the sea under the supervision of two patrol boats.

"You say, if my boat crashes over!" Phoebe Das pointed to the patrol boat that sandwiched his boat in the center on the left and right, and asked angrily, "Will they sink?!" ”

"Huh? ......" Dorobises was taken aback, before arriving at the council hall, he had a premonition that the mission would fail, but it actually made Phoebidas angry like this, what happened in the council hall? He didn't dare to ask.

Phoebidas looked at the city of Turiyi, which was about to disappear from view, and secretly buried the shame in his heart this time, and said in a cold voice: "Let's go to Castelon!" ”

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"Your Excellency, driving out the Spartan envoy this time will probably be detrimental to the Alliance." Cornerus said worriedly.

"I said a long time ago, get rid of those mercenaries! You have to stay, now the trouble is coming! Polyxis said dissatisfied.

In the face of criticism, it is really difficult for Kaps and Agacia, who were once comrades-in-arms of these mercenaries, to refute. At this time, Plecinas stood up and said, "Didn't those mercenaries get punished by the laws of the Alliance?!" Didn't the other freedmen do wrong?! Why do you have to get rid of those mercenaries?! Ladies and gentlemen, our Union is now desperately short of labor, and it is precisely by virtue of its open, free and egalitarian attitude that it has attracted so many Gentiles and freedmen, and there is no reason for any rash expulsion of those who have defected to the Union will only destroy the image of the Union and will only make all the Greeks who want to take refuge in us doubt! ”

"But what if Sparta declares war on us?" Oriffith asked, a little worried.

"So what, do you want to accede to Sparta's unreasonable demand for Lord Davers to lead our citizens to Asia Minor?!" Plesinas retorted.

"I ...... I ......" Oriffith glanced at Davers weakly, not daring to speak.

"Sparta may not dare to go to war with us!" Davos smiled confidently, "We are not a small city-state, but a powerful force in Greater Greece!" If Sparta wants to win, I'm afraid it won't be so easy! But now most of its energy is focused on Asia Minor, and the war with Persia is not an easy task, nor is it so easy to end! I also heard that Sparta had just been at war with the city-state of Alice, which was responsible for hosting the Olympia Games...... It can be seen that even in the Peloponnese, there were quite a few city-states dissatisfied with Sparta, and at this time it dared to start another war in Greater Greece, I doubt it! Davers said this, and in his heart he already regretted that he had agreed to Agacia without careful consideration. There is never an absolute thing in the world, in case Sparta goes crazy and has to go to war with the Dionian Alliance, although Davers is not afraid to fight Sparta, but the original plan for the expansion of the alliance will be in vain.

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The Spartan warship's move towards Castelon was unexpected by the Alliance, and the patrol ship immediately reported the discovery to the Senate.

After urgent deliberation with the senators, Davers decided to send an envoy to Castelon at once, bringing an order from the Senate that Castelon should refuse to receive the Spartan envoy.

When the messenger rode fast horses and took advantage of the newly built Turiyi-Castron Avenue to rush to the city of Castron, the chief general of Castron, Amicles, had already led the other generals and some members of the Council of Hundred to the port to prepare to meet the Spartan messenger. After all, the envoy of Sparta, the overlord of the Greek city-state, came, and as a small remote state, they certainly did not dare to slack off.

Seeing Phoebidas who had disembarked from the ship, just about to introduce each other and salute and say hello, his subordinates hurried over and handed Amicles a piece of papyrus. ”

Then, without waiting for Phoebedas' reply, he took the general and the councillors into the distance.

"Something seems to have happened?" Dorobises said curiously when he saw them in a circle, arguing about something.

Phoebidas didn't speak, he stared into the distance, feeling something wrong.

Amicles recame to him with a bit of determination on his face: "Honorable Spartan Emissary, I'm sorry to tell you that Castron, as a member of the Dionian League, has just received a stern request from Dionya not to let you enter Castron!" So—" Amicles beckoned apologetically, and a group of soldiers walked up.

"You're humiliating Sparta! Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this?! Philidas angrily threatened, he had originally thought that after entering Castron City, he would drive a wedge between Castron and Dionia, and it would be better to get it out of the Dioria League, because as far as he knew, Castron had not been in this alliance for long. In addition, he wanted to stay here for a few days, send soldiers into the port of Turiyi, capture a few mercenaries who had fled here, and return to the Council of Elders to report to the Council of Elders, while at the same time taking revenge on the Diorian League, which now seemed impossible.

Seeing Phoebeidas leave angrily, Amicles breathed a sigh of relief for a while, and then became worried: the Diorian Alliance was too bold to provoke the Spartans, in case they really led their troops to attack, what should Castron do?!

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Still unrelenting, Phoebidas turned the ship around and sailed towards Tarantum.

As a powerful state of Greater Greece, Phoebidas did not think that the Dionian League could influence it, and Tarantum was a sub-state of Sparta, and the two sides had friendly relations.

The establishment of Tarantum was somewhat dramatic: hundreds of years ago, Sparta coveted the fertile land of the Messenia region west of Laconia, so they launched a war, and after nearly a hundred years of war, Sparta finally completely annexed Messenia, turning the Messenians of the same race into helots. However, due to the long-term war of the Spartan men, the women were lonely at home, and as a result, they had a relationship with the Pireasians in Sparta and gave birth to a group of babies, and they were not recognized by Sparta when they grew up, so their leader Franços, after many efforts, got the opportunity of Sparta to allow him to ask Delphi for an oracle, and as a result, the temple of Apollo gave a confusing oracle: to find a place where rain could fall from the clear sky and build a city. So, Sparta agreed that Franços would lead the bastards and exiles out of Sparta and establish a colony.

Franços led his party west in search of settlement, and their fleet crossed the Adriatic Sea and then to the Gulf of Taranto, seeing many places along the way, all of which did not meet the requirements of the oracle, and the long voyage at sea caused the people who accompanied him to complain, and Franços was also frustrated. He confides in his wife about his troubles, who rests his head on her lap to comfort her, but the sentimental wife becomes depressed, and when Franços feels her tears splashing on his forehead, he suddenly realizes the true meaning of the oracle, for his wife's name means "clear sky". He immediately ordered the men to disembark from the ship, which was later in the Gulf of Puglia in Tarantum. They built a city here and named it after Taras, the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea.

Although the founder of Tarantum left because he could not obtain Spartan citizenship, and by later on, Tarantum had developed into a democratic city-state (but its dual consulship, senate, and citizens' assembly were all born out of the Spartan two kings, senates, and citizens' assemblies, except that there was no overseer, and it was less oligarchic), and it was a thriving commercial city, very different from the mother state of Sparta, which had always adhered to the agricultural tradition, but it has always maintained good relations with Sparta. During the Peloponnesian War, Tarantum remained firmly on the side of Sparta and refused to allow the Athenian fleet to anchor and provide food and water when it passed through Greater Greece on an expedition to Sicily. Retaliated against Athens, who vigorously supported the Mesapi against Tarantum.

Phoebidas' arrival was of course welcomed by Tarantum, but after Phoebitas greeted Tarantum higher-ups, he immediately mentioned the arrogance of the Dionian Alliance and its lack of respect for the traditional Greek city-states. And remind the senators of Tarantum: the Dionian alliance is a danger to the greater Greek city-states by its emphasis on force and aggression!

He also advised Tarantum not to ally with the Dionian League again, but to limit its expansion.

The newly appointed consuls Theomilas and Eumacus only talked about him left and right, and kept laughing, until Phoebidas repeatedly forced him to express his position, and then smiled and said: There must have been some misunderstanding between the Dionian Alliance and Sparta, and Tarantum is willing to help you mediate. Nothing else.