Chapter 166 The Guilt of Henepolis

A hundred years later, because of Sparta's invasion of Messenia, a large number of fleeing Messenian people immigrated here, which changed the entire city, and even the original name was changed to "Messina", and only issued The symbol on the coin is always "a sickle and a dolphin".

A few years ago, the Carthaginians destroyed it, and then Dionysius rebuilt the city, but the inhabitants of the city have become colonists of Syracuse and Locri and their allies.

Messina is only about 13 miles away from Lijim, and the Dionysian fleet will arrive in a moment. Sekelian stands on the bow, looking at the whole city of Messina in front of him with interest: Messina City and Lijim City In comparison, the city itself is not big, because it is located in the lowland between the mountains and the ocean, with a narrow area, and even there is no large river around the urban area, but its extremely long arc formed by mixing rocks and artificial slugs The breakwaters, and the harbor surrounded by rebuttals, caught Sekelian's eye.

Seeing a group of Messina people being urgently summoned on the breakwater, some rushing to the boats on the pier, some holding bows and arrows to board the tower on the embankment... Sekelian didn't care, he didn't care at all. He planned to lead the fleet into the port, but just did what he did in Locley outside the port - rammed and sank the merchant ships entering and leaving the port, and after showing off his might, he continued to sail north.

The Syracuse colonists in Messina never imagined that they would be attacked like this when they dominated the Western Mediterranean in Syracuse. The anger and frustration in their hearts can be imagined.

The fleet crossed the strait and reached Taurina in over an hour.

The Taurean and the Ligium civic soldiers stationed here were also cheering when they learned that Dionia had defeated the Syracuse Navy.

Sekelian originally thought that it would take a lot of words to convince Feidun, because Feidun failed to lead the army to attack, and was once ordered to return to Lijim for trial, and later because there was no Lijim citizen who could replace Feidun and the terrible Syracuse. Za, the military talent that the Lokri coalition fought against, eventually returned him to Taurina to take over power again with the support of Artilicruz, and Sekelian feared that he would be afraid of attacking the Silo coalition.

But when Sekelian explained his intention to the general of the Lijim army, Feidun did not hesitate. He immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate with Dionia to contain the Silo coalition, just because Sekerian did not have a relationship with the Greeks in the Bruti area. Before Ross got in touch, it was temporarily impossible to negotiate an effective plan.

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Meanwhile, Henepolis had just woken up.

Yesterday, the Dionysian army cooperated with the rioting civilians in the city, and the defenders were almost unwilling to fight, and the city of Laos was finally broken.

Arobmas was humiliated by his nephew after despairing not to be arrested,

suicide.

Henepolis did not give up, he issued an order: Anyone who participated in the rebellion and worked for Arobmas should be punished!

You must know that when Arobmas usurped the throne, almost the entire city-state bureaucracy turned to him. Heripolis originally wanted to take this opportunity to overthrow all those who opposed him and hindered him, but he did not expect such a riot. As if the civilians were legally robbed of the city-state officials, leaders, and rich people who oppressed and exploited them, the hatred and violence buried in their bones were completely released, which was a disaster for the city. The city was caught in a frenzy of killing and looting.

Seeing something bad, Henepolis ordered: Stop looting and killing, or you will be severely punished!

But the poor people who have already killed the red eyes can still obey orders, and even attack the soldiers who gave orders.

Henepolis had to turn to Hiros for help.

Hiros immediately dispatched all the troops to stop the riots caused by the poor of Laos, and ordered: if they encounter resistance, they will be killed.

More than 5,000 Dionian soldiers, who were formally trained, entered the city and began to suppress the mobs who broke into the various deep houses and looted them.

Until dusk, the riots were quelled. What followed was moans and howls that enveloped the whole city, and the city of Lars, which had become increasingly prosperous after years of hard work by Avinogis and Arobmas, became full of eyes in one day. Barbarians, dead and wounded everywhere.

Henepolis, who rode into the city, could not bear to watch.

What made him even more uneasy was the hatred in the eyes of the people who were crying with their loved ones' bodies on the roadside when they looked at him...

Even though Henepolis, who was deeply remorseful and frightened, saw that his rescued mother was safe, it did not give him much comfort. At night, when he was lying on the bed, as soon as he closed his eyes, the tragic images he saw during the day appeared in his mind, his ears were filled with the cries of the people, he tossed and turned, and he couldn't fall asleep. Too tired to fall asleep.

At noon, he woke up and had to eat breakfast and lunch together.

His mother also dined with him. Although Arobmas rebelled, he only put his brother's widow under house arrest, and other treatment was the same as usual, so the woman was not hurt, but was worried about her son's safety. Now Henepolis has returned safely and defeated him again. Rebel, she has always been in a good mood: "Child, Iriandos came to you several times in the morning, but I blocked you back."

"Does he have anything to do with me?" Henepolis asked listlessly, chewing his bread and thinking about other things.

"He asked what to do with the imprisoned civilians? I asked him to release them all." Hernepolis' mother was the cousin of the Lucanian nobleman and former chief of Laos, Tula. His betrothal to Avinogis was actually to better control and win over Avinogis, the leader of the descendants of the original Baris, so Avinogis and his wife did not have a good relationship.

Later, Avinogis and Dionysus united and overthrew the rule of the Lucanians in the city of Laos. Tula and its forces were almost slaughtered. The reason why they did not dispose of their Lucanian wife, On the one hand, because she is the biological mother of Henepolis, on the other hand, the Lucanians have ruled Laos for decades, and have gradually merged with the Greek descendants of Sybaris. When the Avinogis rebelled, many small Lucanian tribes expressed their support and surrender, so having a Lucanian wife was just enough to reassure the restless Lucanians.

But this woman kept the hatred of her family's destruction in her heart, and today she has a real smile: "Those 'black pigs' who only roll in the mud on weekdays (Luos of Laos in the past) A derogatory term used by the Kanians for slaves in Sybaris) It's long overdue! Well done son, the same people who killed your Uncle Tula's family! Did you know that your uncle's second daughter, your cousin, looks like a So beautiful, I told Tula that I wanted her to be your wife in the future, but those darn--"

"Enough!" Henepolis suddenly smashed the wooden glass full of wine on the ground, splashing the wine.

The woman was startled.

"I'm full." Henepolis stood up, turned and walked out without looking at his mother.

"Heney!" the woman cried pitifully.

Henepolis did not look back, and he held a sigh of relief in his heart: he punished the officials and tribal leaders who helped Arobmas usurp the throne, not to avenge their betrayal, but to establish a better political system, a Just like Dionysus, everyone owns land and has a system of political power. He is different from his mother who hated the people of Laos! but--

As soon as he thought of the corpses all over the place, the eyes of hatred... His buoyed up spirit was immediately vented, and he began to doubt himself again: Did I really do something wrong? Like Alobmas said, I'm going too far? ...

Arobmas... Henepolis remembered that when he saw the corpse of his only uncle last night, he didn't feel the pleasure of getting revenge at all. Instead, what kept popping up in his mind was how his uncle played with him when he was young. It made his heart feel empty and unfulfilled.

He wandered aimlessly all the way, and finally came to the town hall next to his house.

There was a beautiful seat in the center of the City Hall Council. He walked up to it and sat down slowly, facing the ring of stone benches in front of him.

This synagogue was built by the father of Henepolis three years ago with reference to the Greek city-states, but unlike Dionia and other great Greek city-states, there is an extra chair in the center of this synagogue, a special chair for lifelong rule. Officer's chair. He didn't know if his father and his uncle felt aloof and different from sitting in this chair, but he didn't have this wonderful experience at all, instead, it was as if he was being focused by dozens of hungry wolves' greedy eyes. Like a lamb, it made him sick and uncomfortable. After he became consul, he came to the council several times, but he didn't want to come again.

At this moment, he was sitting in a chair, staring at the empty venue in a daze, until Ariandos walked in in a hurry: "My lord, I have found you."

Henepolis came back to his senses, looked at the anxious face of the loyal man his father left him, and asked nonchalantly, "What's the matter?"

"Those who were released did not want to leave, but instead asked when to fulfill the promise you made, my lord." Eriandos's words made Henepolis inexplicably angry: "Carry out?! They still want me to fulfill it. Promise?! Look at what they have done, I have not executed them one by one, it is already a kindness to them!  …”

Henepolis shouted and vented his dissatisfaction. He did not expect that the poor poor in his eyes would turn into a vicious mob in an instant, and he was so greedy. But he was only talking about it like venting his hatred. Of course he would fulfill the oath he made to the gods, and the current situation of Laos would not allow him to go back on it.