Chapter 194 Preparations for the Games (1)

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Axikus said hello to the guards standing at the door of the wooden house, and then gently opened the door, an unpleasant stench came out of his nostrils, he just took a breath, without any uncomfortable expression.

Ivia in the room was also unaffected by the smell. She was wearing clothes specially made for animal trainers. Supporting the animal pen, he stared at the animal pen with a slightly nervous expression.

"Aviya... Aviya..." Maybe because Aviya was too focused, Axikus called out a few times, but she didn't respond, but the black cat turned around and stared at the door with big eyes Axiscus, and then called "Meow Meow" twice.

Only then did Ivia see Axicus beckoning at the door, she walked over a little unhappy, and whispered angrily: "Why did you chat with your brother-in-law for so long, Nana (a female antelope) is about to give birth. It's gone!"

"Just now, Lord Hiros's son Pekestas sent someone to find me, saying that he and his cousin brought some guests to the zoo, and they have been queuing outside. The weather is too hot and there are so many people that the children can't stand , want to come in early." Axicus told a small lie and changed the person who asked him for help to Pekestas.

This trick really worked, and Ivia immediately said: "Yeah, Big Brother Pekestas is here, let them in quickly! I'll-" Having said that, she looked back with some reluctance. In the animal enclosure, he changed his words and said, "After Nana is born, I will go to see him immediately."

In the past, the Henepolis family, Aristillas and Azuna family, Bagule and Andrea family, Hiros family were called by Davos to the king's mansion from time to time for family banquets... So Ivy Ya is familiar with several of Shiros' children.

"Then I'll go greet them first." After Axikus finished speaking, he turned and left.

At this moment, the trainer's voice came from the house: "Princess, Nana is born!"

When Avia heard this, she immediately became excited, grabbed her husband's hand and ran in: "Nana finally gave birth to a lamb! Pray with me, I hope Hades will bless you, this time the little guy can survive smoothly. !"

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While the Sosicles brothers took their guests to the zoo, an executive meeting of the kingdom ministers was taking place in the palace hall of the city of Turien.

The captain of the palace guard, Martius, saw that the deputy minister and the chief officials of various departments had arrived on time and sat down as usual, and immediately reported to Davos, who was resting in the side hall. The court clerk, Henipolis, walked calmly into the hall from the side door and stepped onto the throne.

The ministers immediately stood up and bowed respectfully.

"Sit down." Davos smiled and waved his hands, and the ministers sat down. Then he looked at the crowd and said in a slow but thick and clear voice, "Everyone, today is the last administration of this month. The regular meeting, the sports meeting will be held in Turiyi next month, so the focus of our discussion today is the issue of the sports meeting.”

Having said that, he turned his attention to Clotokatax, who was sitting at the bottom of the right side: "Consul, you are the main person in charge of organizing this Games, please give us a detailed introduction to the preparations for the Games. ."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Clotokatax, who had been the consul of the kingdom for more than 4 years, stood up calmly and said in a loud voice: "My lord, since His Majesty announced that he would hold a sports meeting in June of the previous year , two years and one month have passed, our preparation work has been basically completed, and now I will give you a specific report on the whole preparation situation."

Over the past two years, Clotokatax has devoted most of his energy to the preparation of the Games, doing most of the things himself, so he knew the whole situation well, and he didn't prepare a speech at all, he coughed lightly. ,

After sorting out his thoughts, he said loudly: "According to His Majesty's suggestion, the games held in Turui not only include traditional running, wrestling, boxing, racing, horse racing, and 5 sports (including running, long jump, discus throw, javelin, and wrestling). ) These 6 major events, but also added archery, iron ball throwing, high jump, pole vault, marathon, swimming—”

"I can understand everything else, but what is this marathon?" the new Chancellor Bagul couldn't help but ask (In early March, Hermon asked to resign from the post of Chancellor on the grounds of his old age, Diver With the support of the Lucanian elders headed by Hermon, the Senate elected Bagule, the administrator of the Roman region, to take over the post. month to officially perform his duties).

Although Clotokatax had explained this issue several times in previous executive councils, he patiently explained to Baghule: "I think everyone knows that after the Athenian army defeated the Persians at Marathon a hundred years ago, , The legendary story of the soldier Fideppitz who ran from the marathon all the way back to the city of Athens and announced the good news to the people and then fell to the ground and died. In order to commemorate this historical event, His Majesty specially suggested that we set up this competition , so the marathon is a special long-distance race, and its running distance is the distance from the marathon to the city of Athens, a total of 84 miles."

"Eighty-four miles?!" Bagul exclaimed: "Who can run down such a long distance! Even if you can run down, I'm afraid you will be exhausted!"

"We have tested it specifically, as long as you don't run too fast, you can run down." Clotokatax replied earnestly: "Up to now, only the players in our kingdom who signed up to participate in this event have There are 10 people."

"Oh, as long as you can run." Bagul nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Your Majesty, I've always wanted to ask a question," said Olivers, the Minister of Military Affairs. (The previous year, Alexis also resigned from the post of Minister of Military Affairs on the grounds of his old age. Davos had originally drawn up several candidates to succeed him, Leoticides, Matonis, Lizaru and Olivers. , but the other three refused to leave the army, eventually hoping the youngest Olivers instead became Secretary of State.)

"Go ahead."

"The marathon is nothing more than a super long distance race. Why should it be named after the Athenian battle of Marathon? Instead of some famous battles that our kingdom's armies have fought in the past? For example, the First Legion at Wall The long-distance attack on the Roman army in the west, and the landing of our army on Peleus Beach and the long-distance raid on Larissa five years ago... Wouldn't it be better to use the name of these battles?" Olivers euphemistically expressed his opinion.

"Of course not!" Davos vetoed without hesitation: "Whether it is the Romans or Thessaly, they are now citizens of the kingdom, and using these battles as the name is disrespectful to them and will cause inconvenience to them. A good influence. And Marathon is a battle of the Greeks against the Persians, not only does not have this concern, but also shows our respect for the native Greek people, especially the Athenians, and helps to enhance the recognition of the native Greek people for us. , at least make them more enthusiastic to participate in the games."

"Your Majesty is right, in the reply Athens gave us, there were 5 Athens runners who signed up for the marathon." Clotokatax answered.

Olivers was puzzled, nodded and said, "Now I have no opinion."

"Everyone, in order not to waste time, after the consul has finished reporting, let him answer the questions in a concentrated manner," Davos reminded in a calm tone.

The hall became very quiet immediately, and Clotokatax continued: "...marathon, swimming, clipper rowing, sailing, and four military sports (including heavy equipment racing, javelin throwing, horseback riding, swimming) , there are 15 major events in total. At present, the venues and required equipment for all competition events have been fully prepared. All regions of the kingdom and all city-states that have received invitations, except Persia, have promised to send players to participate. According to their Reply, the total number of players who will participate in the competition is currently 1982, and the number of participants in each event exceeds 50...

According to the preliminary schedule, the games will last for 15 days, so we are going to vacate all the hotels around the arena in the Turii area and the rooms of the Kingdom Hotel in the inner city to provide free accommodation for players and officials sent by regions and city-states and diet to ensure that the players participating in the games can compete in a better state (initially, because of the annual Kingdom Rugby Finals and Football Finals, Turii City Hall temporarily set up athlete camps near various arenas, Later, hotels managed by the city hall were successively built on these temporary camps to provide accommodation for the players who participate in two ball games every year, and also to provide convenience for the tourists. took a lot of profit).

At the same time, we have also reached an agreement with the Turiyi Horse and Carriage Association, who will be responsible for transporting the athletes to the competition venue during the competition to avoid being late.

The team of priest judges from various temples led by the Temple of Hades has been trained for several months and basically mastered the judging standards of various competitions. I believe that the entire team of judges will be able to judge all competitions fairly by then. to avoid ugly phenomena such as cheating.

Mr. Stacey Cordas has provided us with great help. During the game, the medical department will send experienced medical teams to each arena to treat the injured players and spectators (Helps has retired in old age, medical Minister was succeeded by Stacey Kedas). "