Chapter 150 Rebuilding Sparta (3)

With the assurance of Clotokatax, everyone settled down a bit, and in addition, they were eager to leave, and temporarily put this somewhat troublesome issue behind them.

Clotokatax also specially instructed his men to prepare rations for them and prepare horses, and his warm-hearted performance completely eliminated their doubts.

After sending these people away, Clotokatax breathed a sigh of relief, but he quickly regained his spirits and walked to a room next to the venue.

Even if the Helots were timid and clumsy, Clotokatax would not have agreed with the Piriasi's original proposal to exclude the Helots from the management of the new government. Without the Helots Contained, it may not take a few years for the Piriasians to become the new Spartans.

Of course, he will not let the Spartans be marginalized in this new government. On the one hand, there are Spartans, and Dionysus can confidently face the doubts of the Greek city-states who are concerned about Sparta. Say "they didn't destroy the old city-state, they just changed its polity, as Sparta did to other city-states when they were strong"; on the other hand, let the weakest Spartans join In the new political system, it may make the political situation of New Sparta more stable and more conducive to Dionia's control of Sparta.

After Clotokatax returned the military salute to the Dionian soldiers guarding the door, he gently pushed open the false wooden door.

The room was crowded with 30 Spartan elders headed by Agsilaus and 5 inspectors, but the assassin was unusually quiet.

This was a bit of a surprise to Clotokatax, his eyes swept slowly over everyone's face, and finally a smile appeared, because despite the calmness of these Spartans, they couldn't hide it. The anger in their eyes: "Everyone, I believe you have all heard what I said in the venue just now, and I am afraid it has been discussed. Can you tell me your decision now?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a younger inspector couldn't help roaring: "You are a humiliation to the Spartans! As the descendants of Hercules, we will never share the filthy and lowly Helots. —"

"Cough! Cough! Cough!..." Agsilius suddenly coughed loudly, and turned his head to look at the inspector coldly.

The Inspector's roar stopped abruptly.

Agsilaus coughed again, then looked at Clotokatax, and said calmly: "We Spartans have all become your captives, there can be no more choices, We can only follow your arrangements...but I wonder how we Spartans can work with the Periasis and those...Heros to form a new Spartan government? "

Clotokatax did not respond directly,

Instead, he looked at the roaring Spartan and asked again, "Are you really willing to accept our arrangement?"

The man glanced at Agesilaus, lowered his head, gritted his teeth and said, "...Yes."

"If we don't do this, can we have more choices?!" Agesilaus said loudly, "If we Spartans accept the fate of Heluos, we might as well choose death!"

His words were not so much an answer to Clotokatax, but rather a reminder to the Spartans, all of whom fell silent in dejection.

"It seems that you have reached a consensus, which is very good!" Clotokatax said loudly on purpose, the unwillingness and pain in their eyes made him feel a little happy: "You Spartans must also be within 4 days. Elected 10 deputies and two ombudsmen to form the new government of Sparta together with the candidates chosen by the Piriasians and the Heros!"

"30 members of parliament, 6 inspectors..." Agesilaos deliberately said softly with tentative eyes: "It doesn't sound much different from the previous Sparta."

"No, there is a difference." Clotokatax answered bluntly: "They are only responsible for the operation of the entire government. The designation and promulgation of decrees and major decisions must be discussed and passed by the Citizens Assembly. All New Spartans All citizens have the right to participate in this assembly."

Speaking of which, Clotokatax also made a special mention: "Of course, Sparta also had a citizens' assembly in the past, which is indeed somewhat similar."

Everyone's face changed slightly: Sparta's citizens' assembly has always been a pretense, and the real supreme power lies in the council of elders, but the new government of the Dionysians has completely changed the power structure of Sparta.

An elder couldn't help but asked aloud, "Then what about the king?"

Clotokatax said loudly: "The new Sparta will no longer have a king, and two consuls will be elected for a one-year term, mainly responsible for commanding the army in battle."

Everyone subconsciously turned their attention to Agesilaus.

Agesilaus seemed very calm, as if the matter had nothing to do with him, and asked, "When will you be able to release the Spartan people from their imprisonment?"

"After the new Spartan government is formed."

"Our people are locked up, how can we conduct elections?!" Someone protested.

"Tomorrow, all the Spartan adult men will be gathered in Hillers Harbor for election."

"I have another question." Agesilaus looked at him and asked earnestly, "I heard you say just now that you are going to allocate land to the Berias and the Helots, which means you To let them divide the land that belonged to our Spartan citizens?"

"Please note that Dionia has occupied the whole of Sparta, you have all become prisoners, and the land of Lagonia has become the spoils of Dionia's army! His Majesty King Davos is trying to rebuild Sparta. , and then generously gave these lands to citizens who were willing to serve the new government.

To put it in a bad way, even if these lands are still owned by you, the Periasians and the Helots have already been freed and no longer have any obligations to you. You simply cannot take care of so many people with your little manpower. land. What's more-" Clotokatax raised his eyebrows and showed a mocking smile: "Do you Spartans know how to farm? "

Everyone's faces were a little ugly, but they couldn't refute for a while.

The guards beside Clotokatax stepped up their vigilance, but he didn't seem to see it, and continued: "I have carefully checked some of your Spartan information in the past few days, and found a problem, you Spartans The number of citizens has been decreasing year by year, and the war is not the main reason. According to the data, many people have not only lost the right to participate in public meals because they have not been able to pay a sufficient share of the stipend for a long time. Deprived of the land... I originally thought that it might be because of the perennial wars, even if Heluos helped them cultivate the land, but they did not have enough time to supervise and manage them, resulting in the harvest of the fields never meeting your requirements.

But the strange thing is that the nobles of Sparta can pay their taxes in full every year. Later, someone secretly told me that this is because they can often serve as the resident commander of some city-states and strategic places controlled by Sparta. Officials, get a lot of money through bribes or other means, and use this money to buy food and pay taxes more than enough...

I also found a problem. The Spartan commoners' lands you seized were eventually distributed to royals and nobles on the grounds that they were able to guarantee better harvests of the fields, and as a result the land gradually concentrated in the hands of your nobles and the Spartan commoners more and more Lost land, reduced to inferior... Don't you find it? How is the current situation of Sparta very similar to the situation before the rumored Spartan sages came to Kugu to change the government! "

"You are talking nonsense!" Someone blurted out.

Clotokatax looked at him, not angry at all, but said with pity: "Are you an inspector? Whether as a commoner or an inspector, you did not find that the greedy nobles were embezzling the commoners. Land, this is your dereliction of duty! You should also thank Dionysus, if we hadn't forcibly rebuilt Sparta, there would have been one Kinadon after another on this land!"

The faces of everyone in the room became ugly.

Agesilaus coughed lightly and immediately changed the subject: "How much land are you going to allocate to each new citizen of Sparta?"

"About five acres."

"There are too many people in Helaus, I'm afraid it's not enough."

Clotokatax said calmly: "We gave the territory of Tygia to the Mandinians, but the population of Mandinians is not large, and they cannot handle such vast and fertile new land. . With our persuasion, I believe they are willing to accept these Helots who failed to get land in Sparta as new citizens of Mandinia."

Agesilaus was stunned: "What about those Tigerians?"

"They are all being sent to the Turii slave market for sale. This is the end of their betrayal of their covenants and secret attacks on their allies." Clotokatax said in a cold tone.

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and at that moment they didn't dare to make contact with the young man's eyes.

Seeing this situation, Klotokatax suddenly felt a little bored, no matter how much he frightened the Spartans, he could not get back his brother Adoris' precious life, he said indifferently: "Okay, Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you will organize your citizens well after you go back today, and lead them to Heales Harbor safely tomorrow to ensure the smooth running of the election."

Clotokatax left, and the room was silent.

After a long time, someone asked uneasy: "King Agsilaus, what should we do now?"

Agesilaus still looked calm, and he whispered: "We can only endure for a while to avoid the fate of the Tygeans. But the reckless actions of the Dionysians will definitely force Athens and Corinth to unite. Against Dionysus, then our chance will come!"

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