Chapter 9 Contradiction

"Time flies so fast, I remember when you went to Enona to take office, Isafina was only a few months old, she couldn't even speak, she only knew how to cry. I persuaded you to keep Isafina at that time. Come down, your aunt Doreen has just given birth to Antetoris, and she has enough milk to feed her two children, but you just don't agree... Unexpectedly, six years later, Isafina has grown up A big girl has become a big girl, and Alex has become a little man!" Antonios listened to the laughter and sighed: "If your mother can still see all this, she will be very happy!"

Asisters was silent for a while, and said, "Yes, when you took me to be a mercenary, uncle, I never imagined that I would have such a life today. I have to thank your majesty for this!"

Antonios was stunned for a moment, then raised his glass: "Come, let's have a glass of His Majesty Davos!"

"it is good!"

After drinking this glass of wine, the slave girl Sikel next to him hurriedly filled up Asisters again, and then leaned towards Asisters again.

Asisters glanced at her, and she sat back immediately.

Antonios saw it in his eyes and laughed: "Assi, Doreen is accompanying your wife to choose gold and silver jewelry from Carthage in the main building. Don't worry, she won't come to the courtyard."

"This has nothing to do with Tina, it's just that I don't like it myself." Asisters said expressionlessly.

Antonios was stunned again, looking at the expression of Asisters opposite, he suddenly pushed away the beautiful Sikele slave girl in his arms, and said, "Go down."

"Sir!" the slave girl shouted coquettishly, leaning on him again.

"Go down!" Antonios raised his face, the slave girl no longer dared to act like a spoiled child, and left obediently.

"Go down too!" Antonios pointed to the slave girl beside Asistes.

After they both left, Antonios said in a deep voice, "Yasi, you have been in a bad mood when you came to me today. Are you angry with me?"

"Uncle, before I left Enona, I heard that you and a group of Sicilian elders proposed in the Senate that I should be the chief executive of Naxos?" Steth asked directly without concealing it.

"There is such a thing." Antonios nodded and admitted: "Don't blame my uncle for not discussing it with you in advance, that's because those Crotone people also want to get involved in Naxos, why are they! During the South Italian War, If it weren't for our Dionysian rescue, they would be dead!"

"Crotone is now also part of the kingdom.

' Asisters reminded.

"Naxos was bought by the soldiers of the First Legion with blood and life, and a group of cowards will never be allowed to be contaminated!" Antonios said angrily, he looked at Asistes: "And Assi, Your resignation time coincides with Stromboli's resignation time, so you can take office without delay, otherwise you will have to wait for the next vacancy in the Senate, and I am afraid that you will have nothing to do for a while. Having been elected by the Senate for two consecutive times as the chief executive of Enona, having been in power for six years, and your Majesty's trust in you, it is very easy to become the chief executive of Naxos!"

Asisters shook his head and said softly, "I've been away for six years, and I'm already a little tired. I don't want to go to distant Sicily anymore, I just want to stay in Turii."

"Yasi, you are still young, you should take advantage of your energy to serve as the chief executive of the eastern, western, southern, and northern cities of the kingdom, and increase your administrative experience so that... so that you can serve as the governor of the province in the future!" Antonios persuaded.

"Provincial Governor?!" Asisters looked surprised.

"This is the news I got from others. It is said that His Majesty considers that there are too many cities in the kingdom and the affairs are too complicated. He is going to set up a province and let the governor govern the cities in the jurisdiction. This will be more convenient... I heard that he also Secretly discussed with the old Kuno Goratana." Antonios said it easily, but obviously it took a lot of energy to get the news.

Hearing this, Asisters has lost interest: "This position is too far from me, I just want to stay in Turui for a while now, I haven't seen it for a few years, and Turui has changed too much. It's gone!"

"Yasi, with His Majesty's trust in you, as long as you continue to enrich your local government experience, you can completely make up for the gap in your age. The position of the governor of this province must belong to you! Governor of the province, that can be managed. One region, three or four big cities, more than ten or two hundred thousand people, that is far more honorable than being a Spartan king!" Antonios continued to persuade: "So you should take over Naxos. Chief Executive!"

"Uncle, you want me to go to Naxos so eagerly, are you really thinking of me?!" Asisters finally couldn't help saying.

"How can you say such a thing! I'm your uncle, of course I'm thinking of you!" When Antonios heard this, his face became ugly, but he was still angry.

But Asisters said unceremoniously: "No, you are not thinking about me, you are hurting me! My uncle, 'Conqueror of Catania', this was the triumph of the year Your Majesty's praise for you. But you and I both know that Alexis did not put the title 'Victor of Samona' on his lips, nor did Heros call 'Conqueror of Locri', and In that grand war, His Majesty, who commanded the Dionian army to win the whole war from beginning to end, did not call himself the 'Conqueror of Syracuse', only you, uncle, those Sicilian elders Under his flattery, he really regarded himself as the 'conqueror of Catania', not only allowed others to put it on his lips every day, but also incorporated Catacus into your name... You obviously forgot , Without His Majesty's prior plan and without the help of Lord Antrapolis, the First Army would never have been able to defeat the Syracuse coalition that was several times your size! But you can see how calm Antrapolis is usually, Never advertise-"

"Enough! Don't associate me with that sneaky little man! What's wrong with my name is Antonios Katax! Isn't His Majesty's eldest son also called Cloto Katax! This is me The honor is the honor of our First Legion!..." Antonios angrily shouted at Asisters.

Asistes continued calmly: "Uncle, don't you think you've changed over the years! I've been the chief executive of Naxos for six years, and the people there are in awe and flattery for you, making you already Forget who you used to be! Look at the candles placed in this courtyard, these dishes, and the female slave just now..."

Asisters pointed to a table full of dishes, many novel dishes on the table that he had never seen or eaten before: "Uncle, I heard that in the past few years when you came back, guests often came here to visit and give gifts. They are all Sicilian, and the tribune of Turii has also raised a protest, it seems that you have not been too restrained... In the Senate, those Sicilian elders are headed by you, and you speak for them everywhere and safeguard their interests. , don't you know that other elders have a lot of opinions on you, including your former mercenary comrades! Do you really think you are the king of Sicily?! Uncle, you should wake up! Dionia There is only one king, and it can only be His Majesty Davos!—"

"Shut up for me!!" Antonios angrily grabbed the wine can on the table and slammed it to the ground with a loud "bang" and the wine splashed.

Asisters only felt a pain in his cheek, and the shards of the clay pot cut through his skin. He reached out to touch it, and heard Antonios roar incoherently: "Nonsense! Nonsense! What do you know! What do you know? !!..."

"I've been with Your Majesty for so long, and I know a lot more than you!" Asisters said without showing weakness: "Why am I unwilling to go to Naxos? It's because I don't want to be considered by Your Majesty, I You have also become one of your Sicilian elders, and even made him suspect that you have intentions to get married with Bagule and Hermon, and to join hands in the Senate! Wake up, uncle! You are being held up too much. Gao, I can't see how dangerous the place under my feet is, don't be fooled by others as gunmen!"

"Yo, this is... what's the matter?! Make such a big noise!" The voice of Antonios' wife Doreen resounded in the courtyard.

"Asisters, why is your face bleeding?!" Tina ran to Asisters in surprise and wanted to reach out to touch it, but Asisters grabbed her hand: "I'm fine, a little Small scratches."

"Oh, why did the wine can break?!" Doreen looked at the debris on the ground in surprise, and then said to the slave standing by: "What are you doing, hurry up and clean it up! Also, go pick up another can Here comes the wine!"

With a woman present, Antonios couldn't get angry anymore, he waved his hands vigorously and said, "Stop drinking! Stop drinking!"

"Tina, call the child, we should go back too." Asistos grabbed his wife's hand and squeezed it twice.

Tina immediately went to call the child knowingly.

Although Doreen felt something strange here, she said kindly: "It's still early, Tina and I are having a good time chatting. Asisters, you and your uncle haven't seen each other for so many years, let's chat a little longer. ."

"If there is anything to talk about, let him go if he wants to go!" Antonios said angrily.

"Antonios, look at what you said, I think you've been drinking a little too much." Doreen hurriedly thumped him lightly, then turned around and said apologetically to Asisters: "Your uncle has been too busy lately, I don't have a good temper. I was angry with me at home a few days ago. If he said something wrong, don't blame him!"