The crowd cheered as they watched all this, while the Lucanian slaves who were involved in digging the canals and erecting the waterwheels were stunned and suspected to be the work of ghosts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lord Davers, Zeus bless, this is amazing! That's great! With this...... Water...... The waterwheel, we have added more than 300 acres of good fields in Amendorala! Cornerus was excited.

"Not only has the fields been increased, but the people will also have more access to water in the future!" Scombras also looked delighted.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is not Zeus's blessing, thanks to Lord Davers! The waterwheel is a drawing designed and provided by Lord Davers himself, and if there is a god who really cares for it, it must be Hades! Marigi's unkind words embarrassed Cornerus slightly.

Davers neither stopped Marigi's impoliteness nor showed modesty, he needed to make these old citizens understand that Amendora, under his control, would bid farewell to the past and shine brightly!

The jubilation of the crowd contrasted sharply with the unease of several old civic elders.

Just then, Assistes came and told him that Izzam had returned!

Davers immediately handed over the task of presiding over the celebration to Cornerus, who took on the glorious task with a complicated expression.

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Davers hurried back to his mansion with Acestes.

Dressed in dust, with a squirry face, long unkempt hair and long beard, dressed in a tattered Lucanas leather robe, and barefoot, Izzam stood in front of Davers in such a way that Davers could barely recognize him personally.

It turned out that Izzam returned to the city and came directly to Davers without going home first. As a superior person, Davers praised Izzam's enthusiasm for his work, but also showed concern, so he asked the slave girl to take Izzam to bathe, cut his hair, and trim his beard first (the Greeks, unlike the Romans, they had beards), and at the same time arranged a sumptuous lunch, inviting Izzam to eat and talk.

In the relaxed atmosphere deliberately created by Davers, and after drinking several glasses of wine, Yizzam gradually relaxed: "Master Davers...... Uh......" Izzam burped and said, "I followed your orders, disguised myself, and crossed the mountain roads in the western mountains of the Sybari Plain, and went to Laos first, which is located at the mouth of the river called "La River" by the locals, the city is not large, but it is a stone town, and there is a port, so the precautions are not too strict, I went in, worked at the docks, carried goods every day, and thus met a few slaves at the docks, guess who they were?" Izzam asked mysteriously.

"They should be Greeks." Davers was not surprised, the Lucanians invaded the Turiy region several times, and many Greeks were taken captive.

But then Izzam's answer did surprise him: "To be precise, they are the descendants of the Sybaris, and Laos was built by the Sybaris." According to these people, the people of Xubaris built Laos to make it a transit port for Syria to trade with the cities of Napolis, Etruscan, and Massinia, so Laos was prosperous at that time...... However, after the destruction of the city of Syria, Laos had no backup and was soon occupied by Niutum in the south. ”

"Oh, that's ......," Davers asked, as he did feel a little surprised, "So, the original Sybaris have all become slaves?" How many Greek slaves are there in Laos now? ”

"I don't know how many Greek slaves there were, but when the Lucanians attacked Laos, some of the Greeks surrendered and joined Lucania...... One of the chieftains of Laos, Avinogis, was a descendant of these people, and the tribe he led was also a descendant of the Sybaris, who considered them not pure-blooded Lucarians and did not trust them very much, often insulting and suppressing them. Although the Greek slaves also spit on them, believing that it was their betrayal that led to the fall of Laos, they did not hate Avinokis very much, and mostly thought that he was a good man, as he often helped them ......"

Izzam took a few more sips of wine and said with some excitement: "Now the city of Laos is not stable, because some Lucanian tribes led by Tula, the great leader of Laos, in order to prevent Avinogis from sharing the spoils, only let his tribe stay and did not participate in the invasion of Turiyi. I didn't expect you to lead us to wipe out almost all the Lucanians who invaded Turiyi! Ha ha...... Tula, the great leader of Laos, fled back to the city with only a few dozen warriors, and Avinokis became the strongest leader in the city, and guess what happened? ”

Itzam seemed to be a little drunk, and he didn't pay attention to his words, but Davers didn't care, his heart moved, and said: "The big leader of the blackmail wants to annex the tribe of Avinokis? ”

Izzam slapped the wooden chair and said, "My lord, you are so good, you can guess it!" He grabbed a piece of bread, tore a large piece of it, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it with a clatter.

Assistes raised his eyebrows and was about to reprimand him, but Davers waved his hand to stop him.

"I heard from the slaves at the docks that once Tula invited Avinogis to a feast, and I don't know what happened, and when I came back I saw that several of his guards were wounded. From that day on, Avinogis hid in his house and never went to the city to discuss matters again, and I walked around his house, surrounded by armed warriors patrolling, and heard that the reason why Avinogis did not raise an army to resist was to observe the situation in Niutum. ”

"Niutum?" Davers listened attentively.

"Yes, sir." Izzam scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I was going to go north and go deep into the heart of Lucaria to investigate, but Niutum controls the passage north in the upper reaches of the La River, and now it is heavily guarded and cannot be passed by strangers. Laos was originally under the orders of Niutum, but this time the soldiers of Niutum were all killed, and I heard that the great leader of Niutum, Utl, died at our hands, and his strength suffered a great loss. Speaking of this, Izzam was a little smug: "Several chiefs in the city of Niutum are busy fighting for the position of the big chief, and I heard that there is almost a fight. ”

As Izzam spoke, he subconsciously picked up his glass, but found that the glass was empty, so Davers got up and poured it for him.

Izzam sat still and only thanked him, but Davers did not care, sat down and continued to listen to him: "My lord, I remember that after we annihilated the main force of the Lucanian coalition, we rushed to their camp, didn't we see that the camp had been burned to ashes, and there were many corpses. At the time, there was speculation that it was caused by the infighting among the Lucanians, but I now know who did it. ”

"Who is it?" Davers leaned forward, showing concern.

"Vig!"

"Vig?"

"My lord, the city of Vig is south of Laos, not too far from Laos, it is the city of the Brutis. However, because of the strength of the Lucanians before, it was forced to join the Lucalian tribal alliance, but because it was a foreigner, it could often be oppressed, so it ......"

"Well, the Brutis ......," Daversmo rubbed his chin at him, knowing even less about this indigenous race, which was also a neighbor of the Turriy, only that it posed little threat to the Turriy for geographical reasons, but was a big nuisance to the several Greek city-states to the south.

"When they heard that the Vigs had fled back, they declared their independence from the Lucaria tribal alliance, built walls, sent many warriors to patrol the border, and blocked the passage of Laos to the south." With that, Izzam raised his head and took a few more sips.

"You only know how to drink, and after all that, is there any news of Grummentum?" Arcises said impatiently.

"Izzam went to the strange Lucania alone to investigate, endured a lot of hardships, and brought back valuable information, what is it to drink some wine, but you can't just drink alcohol, eat more fruit, this is good for the body." Davers said with concern.

"Yes." Yizzam responded gratefully, immediately put down the wine glass, coughed dryly, and said seriously: "Although I didn't go to Grumentum City to reconnoitre, I still got more accurate information from him. ”

As soon as they heard this, both Davos and Assies were two hundred percent spirited, after all, Grummentum was the culprit who started the war last time, and he was the leader of the Lucalian Alliance, and his every move was related to Davers's offensive plan.

"Picosis is another port city in the Lucania region, and it is the second most powerful state in the Lucalian Union after Grummentum, and I heard that it is also a stone city." Izam didn't mention Grummentum first, but instead turned the conversation to Picosis.

Stone Town! When Davers heard this, his heart moved. According to his understanding of more than half a year, the Greeks loved to build cities with stones, and the hill tribes mostly built cities with wood, and with the precedent of Laos, and it was a seaport city, he could not help but suspect that this Picosis was also taken by the Lucarians from the Greeks.

"Pikosis and Laos have maritime trade, so some news from the merchants and sailors of Pikosis to Laos, it is said that most of Grumentum's warriors died in our hands, although its great leader Akpiru escaped, but has been unconscious, after the news spread, many tribes that were forcibly annexed by Grumentum began to break away from Grumentum's control, but Grummentum was powerless to stop, because the leaders of the city were busy fighting for the position of the big chief. Akpiru's tribe was still the strongest of the city's tribes, but his son Lusau had a formidable opponent, Gnanet, the son of Sincinag, the chief of Picosis—" With that, Izzam picked up a dried fig and stuffed it into his mouth.