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They blinked their big smart eyes, their eyes moved with Zheng Fei and Santiago, and they all blew a nice whistle, which was not actually a whistle, but just a certain animal's call.

Following the leader as he walked quickly down the stone-paved road, receiving the strange gazes of the Spartan inhabitants on either side, Santiago looked left and right, feeling unbearable for the children hanging from the trees.

"I don't think it's like a prisoner of war camp. ”

"This is Sparta. Zheng Fei said, waving to a child who had been smirking, and the child stuck out his tongue happily.

It's a pity that I didn't bring candy with me, but when I think about it, what can I do? Strict parents will definitely not allow them to eat it.

Although centuries have passed since the end of history, the descendants of Sparta have retained their most characteristic styles—harsh discipline, dictatorship, and, above all, militarism.

Militarism refers to the ideology and political system of advocating force and military expansion, taking reckless military force and aggressive expansion as the foundation of the country, completely placing the country under military control, and making all aspects of politics, economy, culture, and education serve the expansion of arms and foreign wars.

Militarism is full of cruelty and reactionary nature, and has brought great disasters to mankind; it denies peace, insists that war is inevitable, and even believes that war itself is beautiful and fascinating, and that the survival and development of the country mainly depends on foreign plunder and expansion.

There are three typical representatives of militarism: the city-state of Sparta in ancient Greece, Fuso from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and Germany during Hitler's time.

Even though the city-state of Sparta has long since disintegrated, and after thousands of years of baptism and polishing, the war-loving fanaticism of the descendants of Sparta has not changed.

The only difference is that they are temporarily unable to go to war with the outside world.

More than 1,000 years ago, their ancestors left the disintegrated city-state and made a long trek to the mountains of Romania, where they stumbled into this uncontested Elysium hidden behind a cliff.

At first, there were only a dozen of them who depended on each other, planting and recuperating here, waiting for the day when they could leave this paradise and regain their own Sparta!

With the passage of time and thousands of years of multiplication, the number of people has grown from a dozen to 20,000, and it has become a huge army or a small country.

But they knew that 20,000 men might be able to dominate the mountains, but they were still far from reviving Sparta.

They still need time, they need more offspring, they need to train the most perfect warriors, and when they can form a crusading army of hundreds of thousands, the moment will come when they will come out of the mountain!

Hundreds of thousands of Spartan warriors, enough to make the whole of Europe and even the Ottoman Empire hear, what a magnificent war would it be?

They will be on the continent of Europe, Asia and Africa, setting off an unprecedented wave of conquest!

Prove to the world: Sparta, immortal!

......

Walking on the road, Zheng Fei noticed that in the Spartan station, all the people are soldiers, as long as it is a man, he must have a strong muscle, and his eyes are not fierce, but he only needs to look at each other, as if he can feel the powerful explosive power hidden deep in the other party's body.

Oh, there was a man who looked like a carpenter, and he was repairing a broken bench and hammering nails into it, using ...... Fist.

"Santiago, do you say they are stronger or are primitives stronger?"

"I don't know......" Santiago stared directly at the fist that kept colliding with the nails, and his heart was pounding, and as the fist rose and fell, the corners of his mouth grinned, with a deep sense of amazement.

"It's so tough!" he added, sighing that he rarely admired someone from the bottom of his heart.

And now, walking in the habitat of the Spartans, almost all adult men put him to shame.

It's like a proud rooster suddenly came to the cranes.

Zheng Fei noticed that in addition to the houses and lush trees, there were many huge cages on the side of the road, some of which were for fierce beasts, while others were for unclothed people.

When the leader passed by the cage, he raised the corners of his mouth disdainfully, raised his hand to signal Zheng Fei to wait for a while, and then specially ran over and kicked the person in the cage.

This scene made Zheng Fei mutter.

Slave?, he guessed.

All the people of Sparta were soldiers, and any healthy adult man joined the army at the age of seven and underwent rigorous training, so that the trivial tasks of daily life, such as building a house, could only be done by slaves.

Before the dissolution of the Spartan city-state, that is, more than 1,000 years ago, the brave and warlike Spartans turned the people there into slaves and called them "Helots people" every time they conquered a city-state.

There is a poem that reads:

Carrying an unbearable burden like a donkey,

They are oppressed by violence;

The fruit of hard work,

Half of it is to be sent to the owner's barnhouse.

Due to the fact that the Spartans often waged wars against foreign countries, the military service burden of the Helots was very heavy. During the Greco-Persian Wars, the Spartans conscripted more than 30,000 Shilots to accompany the army at one time, and they were forced to take the lead, using their lives to find out the enemy's reality and reduce the enemy's combat effectiveness.

Slaves were an important part of Sparta.

What Zheng Fei didn't understand was that there were no other forces in this mountain range except for a small number of bandits, so the warlike Spartans could not fight, so where did the slaves come from?

Slaves, also Spartans.

Since militarism cannot be abandoned, men must join the army, and at the same time need slaves to help with things, so they can only be selected from among the weak.

When the army trains soldiers, it will always eliminate some relatively weak ones and reduce them to the lowest level of society, which not only solves the problem, but also helps to exert a sense of oppression on the soldiers, injects a steady stream of motivation into the training, and greatly improves their combat effectiveness.

Slaves not only have to obey their slave owners unconditionally and endure all abuse and spitting, but what is more terrible is ...... They have to play a sport.

Zheng Fei is about to see this cruel sport.

The sound of commotion and fighting through the woods, houses, and crowds poured into his ears.

Looking up, I saw a large number of people surrounded by Wu Yi in the distance, with high-pitched and excited emotions, I don't know what I was looking at. (To be continued.) )