Chapter 91 Leoticides

In the early days of the kingdom, the elders went to the Senate and various departments every day to attend meetings and handle political affairs, often with only one or two servants. Later, several incidents of pedestrians harassing the elders forced the elders to bring guards every day to avoid An accident occurs.

Since slaves are not allowed to carry weapons according to the law, free people carrying weapons on the streets in Turei will also be subject to strict interrogation and interrogation by the inspection team. Only citizens are relatively tolerant, so a special Industry - Veteran escort line (in fact, some wealthy businessmen and officials later hired escorts).

In order to establish an escort line, it is not only necessary to obtain a business license from the Commerce Department, but also to obtain the approval of the Turii Supervision Office, and it must also be supervised by the Turii Barracks, since the vast majority of the escorts are Legionnaires or reserve soldiers must be well coordinated with the military training of the barracks, so they are often funded by retired officers in the legion, which also solves the livelihood problems of some injured retired soldiers, so they are also subject to military affairs. Ministry support.

When Leoticides passed through the east gate of the inner city, the city guards respectfully saluted the famous commander of the army of the kingdom.

The mansion of Leoticides is located next to a more lively street, and the area is not small. It is a typical "Sun"-shaped double-storey residence built by the richest people in Dionia, on the side of the mansion facing the street. There are also several shops that are rented out to vendors.

At the main entrance stood a footman leading a big yellow dog, staring at the door eagerly, which made passers-by dare not stay for a long time. But as soon as Leoticides arrived at the door, the big, ferocious-looking dog wagged its tail and jumped up excitedly, licking and rubbing.

Leoticides patted it hard on the head, and the big dog went silent immediately. Then, Leoticides strode into the mansion.

This mansion looks decent from the outside, but it looks simple inside. There are no mosaic floors in the surrounding corridors, no pools and statues in the center of the vestibule, no garden in the backyard, and no kiosk for chatting and drinking in the middle. The front and back yards are completely connected, forming a large mud playground in the middle.

On one side of the playground, his 7-year-old son is practicing horseback riding, and on the other side his 17-year-old eldest son is practicing fighting skills with the valet with a shield and sword (Leoticides had three children, a second daughter). died a few years after birth).

His wife was sitting on the corridor beside the playground watching, with two dogs crawling under her feet, the originally drowsy dog ​​suddenly stood up and ran towards the door like a child.

Hearing their excited calls, the wife found out that her husband had come home, and she immediately greeted her: "Why did you come back so late today?"

"The Ministry of Military Affairs has important matters to discuss," Leoticides said.

He ripped off the elder Bolton, who was wearing it, and shouted to the playground: "Tertotis, I'll accompany you to practice!"

"Okay!" The eldest son Tertotis stopped attacking and replied loudly: "Father, I won't give up easily this time!"

Leoticides strode into the playground, took the wooden shield and wooden sword from the slaves, set up his posture, and said in a deep voice, "Come on."

Watching the father and son fighting on the court, Ritina showed a puzzled look. After living with Leoticides for so many years, she could feel that her husband was a little excited. This situation was too rare, and she couldn't help but have some doubts in her heart: What happened? What's the matter?

At this time, the youngest son Pagandas got off his horse, quickly ran to the side of the field, picked up a can of water, and gulped it down.

Ruifina hurriedly said: "Pagandas, don't drink too much, it's not good for your health! I soaked a big watermelon in the well, and I cut it up later to quench your thirst."

This residence of Leoticides is very simply decorated, not like an old man's mansion. The only extravagant place is that at the beginning of the construction of the house, Rifena paid a lot of money to ask someone to dig a private well in the house. Deep, well water is cold and piercing, usually more used to keep vegetables and fruits fresh.

"Oh." Pagundas put down the water jug ​​obediently, and sat on the ground, watching his father and brother fight, was pulled up by Rifena, and kicked his butt hard: "Look at you You're sweating all over, go take a shower first!"

After driving her youngest son away, Ruifina shouted to the two female slaves who were following her: "It will be dark soon, you two don't stay here foolishly, go to the kitchen and urge them to prepare dinner as soon as possible. it is good!"

Twenty years have passed, even though Leoticides has entered the high-ranking kingdom and has a distinguished status, the pungent temperament of Rifina, who was born by Brut, is still the same as before.

At the dining table, when Rifena asked again, "What happened today?" Leoticides finally put down the ox bone he was biting and said solemnly, "Your Majesty has decided to support Thebes. Man, send troops to Peloponnesus, attack Sparta, and let me - commander of this expedition."

"Father, are you going to lead your troops to conquer Sparta?!" the younger son exclaimed, and the older son Tertotis also showed a surprised look.

In the past, Leoticides didn't have much time to go home, and every time he came home to stay with the children, he either trained them or told them stories after training, and most of these stories were It's all about Sparta's legends and heroes. I hope that children can gradually develop a feeling of admiration for Sparta, but in fact, the effect is not very obvious. Children are more eager to defeat Sparta, the perfidious Bad guys, after all they spend more time at school.

Although Ruifina is careless, she is actually very shrewd. At the beginning of her marriage, she was completely unfamiliar with things in Greece, but after so many years, she has some understanding. Her husband is Argos, and she should hate Sparta. , but it was not the case in ordinary conversation, which inevitably made her puzzled, but Leoticides did not say it, and she never took the initiative to ask, but now she couldn't help asking: "You did not accept this Appointed?"

"Of course I accept it." Leoticides looked at his wife and seemed to understand what she was thinking, and added a rare sentence: "I'm happy to teach the Spartans a lesson!"

This is the real thought in his heart. When he fled from Sparta, he made a poisonous oath: one day, he would lead the army to kill Sparta and kill all the Spartans who humiliated him and forced his mother to commit suicide. Kill them all!

In the palace meeting room, the reason why he behaved abnormally was because he did not expect the opportunity to fulfill his vows to suddenly come to him, and he was desperately suppressing the excitement in his heart.

"Tertotis," Leoticides continued, "this time you go out with me."

"Great!" Tertotis almost jumped up in excitement.

At this time, Rifina reminded her guardingly: "Tertotis is not yet 18 years old and cannot serve in the military!"

"He's with me, serving as my chores, and doesn't have to go into battle to kill the enemy." After Leoticides finished speaking, he buried himself in the meal, which made the family's mood unsettled.

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Regarding the possible changes in the situation in Greece after the Battle of Leuctra, although Davos held several meetings to analyze and judge the situation, the development of things exceeded their expectations.

First of all, Thebes and Sparta signed a truce so quickly that Dionia was caught off guard, but this did not affect their preparations, and the expedition was still going on in an orderly manner.

Secondly, Jason's series of performances after the battle aroused Davos' vigilance, and he specifically ordered Aristillas to strengthen the monitoring of the territory of Thessaly.

Then, originally Davos and the others thought that the failure of the battle of Leuctra would make Sparta desperately retaliate in order to regain its prestige, but they did not expect that Sparta quickly signed an armistice agreement, and really did not follow Any hostile action against Thebes was due to the impact of the battle on Central Greece and the entire Peloponnese that the Dionysian executives could not have foreseen.

After all, Davos and the others did not live in mainland Greece, and they had almost never suffered defeat in the wars they experienced. They could not understand the feelings of the native Greek people towards Sparta. It dates back to after the Messenian War and before the Hippo War. The Partisans dominated the whole of Greece, and their long-term strength has created an inherent concept for the Greek people: unless the enemy has a great advantage in strength, the Spartan hoplites are simply invincible in battle. Unbreakable principles.

But in this huge battle for the Greeks, the Thebes actually defeated Sparta with less victory, and their king was killed. Since the death of Hot Spring Pass, no Spartan king has been killed on the battlefield, so when the detailed process of the battle spread throughout the Greek mainland, many city-state people suddenly realized that the Spartans were not so terrible, Thebes We can do what we can do.

As a result, many city-states were incited. Two months ago, after the Kalias contract was signed, according to the contract, Sparta should have withdrawn the military commanders stationed in the city-states. The military commander sent by Bada was expelled.

What is even worse for Sparta is that, as an oligarchic city-state, it has always promoted and supported oligarchy in the city-states and allied states it controls, and these oligarchs who have mastered power will in turn oppose the democrats in the city. People persecuted and aggravated the exploitation of ordinary people in the country (on the one hand, it also met the military needs of Sparta). Now inspired by the victory of the Thebes battle, exiled democrats from various city-states have returned to their home states, inciting the disaffected people and setting off a wave of riots.

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