During this difficult time, a town in the south suffered from civil strife, and the king of the town led his loyal people to Sparta, and Sparta was greatly strengthened, and with their help, he finally won the war of Laconia, thus establishing Sparta's leadership in the region.

The Rassidimon people of the surrendered villages were called the Periasis (i.e., the frontier people of the dominant city-state), who had personal liberty and the right to conduct local affairs, but had no political rights in the Spartan city-state, and were placed under the supervision of military governors sent by Sparta to ensure that they could perform military service and cultivate the royal estates.

And the people of the conquered villages, even if they were once compatriots, were ruthlessly reduced to slavery, and this is the origin of the black labors.

It was also from this time that Sparta established a dual monarchy (one was a king born in Sparta itself, from the Agidian clan; One is the previous king from the south, from the Eulipontides clan).

Now, Crotocatacs wants to take advantage of this great opportunity to conquer Sparta and completely overthrow the original political structure of Sparta and establish a new form of government.

He sent emissaries to the villages of the Periasians, inviting them to Sparta and promising them that Dionya would never do them any harm, but that he would give them the right to participate in the formation of a new Sparta.

In addition, he personally spoke with the captured Piriasi soldiers and then released them. At the same time, he sent messengers to Messenia to summon a group of New Messenian citizens of Helot origin, and told them to meet the Helots who were hiding in the mountains, and persuaded them to come down the mountain and cooperate with Dionys, by their own example.

At the same time, Klotocatax did not talk to any of the Spartans. Just as he had finished his assignment and waited for the arrival of the Piriasians and the Helots, he suddenly received a report from the garrison of the defensive camp in the upper reaches of the Eurotas River: they had intercepted nearly a thousand Spartan routs from the north, and when they learned that Sparta had been captured, they surrendered without a fight, and among the captured routs was the Spartan king Agesillaus.

When Klotocatax heard the news, he almost jumped for excitement: the capture of Agesilaus and his army had removed the last vestiges of his worries, and he could free himself to carry out his plans in the land.

In order to prevent accidents, he also sent a brigade of heavy infantry to escort the ten Spartan routs.

A day later, Crotokataxus met the captives at the northern entrance to Sparta, ragged, unkempt, and staggering as if they were about to fall at any moment. Klotocatax now understood why the garrison company of the fortified camp could easily capture the nearly 1,000-strong rout with only 200 men.

His eyes and those of his generals were focused on the Spartan man in the lead: pale hair, beard, gray face, skinny, left leg curled, clubbed with a cane, staggering forward with the help of others, only the eyes seemed to be attentive.

Seeing Klotocatax and the others in front of him, the old man pushed away the people who were supporting him, and stubbornly and with difficulty approached.

"Honorable King Agesilaus!" Instead of assuming the arrogance of a victor, Klotocátácucks said in a gentle tone: "Hello! I am the Dionian commander Klotocatax. ”

"I know you...... Son of Davers. Agosilaus seemed a little calm at the moment, and said in a hoarse voice: "This time it was our Spartan defeat...... I wonder what you do with it...... Our Spartan populace?! ”

The last sentence trembled a little, but it still revealed the worry in his heart.

A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Klotokattac's mouth, and he said in an accentuated tone: "They have all been imprisoned, and many of them are still unwilling to accept the fact of defeat, and it seems that they still have hope for the coalition army led by you!" ”

Agosilaus was silent for a while, then looked directly at him, and said in a deep and meaningful voice: "Defeat is defeat, the city of Sparta has been occupied, what else is there to expect...... However, we Sparta have been very influential in the whole of Greece for decades, and if Dionya wants to thwart the Persian conspiracy and dominate these Greek city-states, we Sparta can still provide you with great help! ”

This old man, known as "the toughest main battle faction in Sparta", actually revealed to him that he wanted to cooperate actively, which surprised Klotocatax, and he calmed down and responded: "Our disposal plan for Sparta has been determined, I believe you will know it soon, and I hope you will lead the people to actively cooperate when the time comes." ”

Agosilaus gave him a deep look, then looked back at the routs passing him, "Okay. But before that, I hope we can take a good shower and have a full meal. ”

"Don't worry, we'll take care of it." "I have good news for you, your son Archidamus was wounded and fled into the mountains, but because of the wound suppuration and infection, he fell into a coma, his guards carried him out of the mountains, surrendered to us, and is now being treated by our doctors in the city of Tegya, he was not awake when I left, but his physical condition is much better than before." ”

Archidamus is the only son of Agesilaus, the direct bloodline of the royal family of Ageidaus, hearing this news, the heart that Agesillaus has been worried about, he suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said lightly: "Dying on the battlefield is the glory of the Spartan warriors, too many Spartan warriors have died in this war!" But anyway, thank you for the rescue, there is one more real Spartan! ”

Klotocatax looked at the distant back of Agosilaus in a daze, and after a while, he turned around and said to Sekrian and the others in a deep tone: "This king of Sparta may have been in the mountains for several days, hungry like this, and finally walked back, and learned the bad news that the whole of Sparta was occupied, and he was still able to behave so calmly, it is really not simple!" It's just that...... I hope he will be able to maintain such composure after learning of our plans to reorganize Sparta! ”

The hint of resentment in Klotokatax's tone surprised Seklian a little, and he certainly didn't know that Klotocatax blamed the Spartan commander Agecilaus for the death of Adoris in battle.

Some of the Helots who had fled to the mountains heeded the advice of the messengers from Messenia and returned to Sparta, and as the messenger said, instead of capturing them, the Dionian army gave them lodging and food, which prompted more starving Helabors to run down the mountain.

The people of the villages of Periasi, after listening to the persuasion of the Dionian messenger, sent their representatives to Sparta one after another.

A few days later, Klotocatax invited the representatives of Piriasius and Helot into the Spartan council and seated them on the wooden chairs where the Spartan elders had sit.

When everything was ready, Crotokataks stood at the front of the room, looked at the delegates who were a little fidgeting, and said softly: "Ladies and gentlemen, today is an important day for you, and first of all, allow me to call you the Rassidian Dreamers. Don't be surprised, both you Periasians and you Helots were once the same race as the Spartans, but after your ancestors suffered defeat in the war against Spartan unity of Lagenia hundreds of years ago, you not only lost your land and rights, but also deprived you of your true racial name, and those who surrendered became Periasians, and those who were captured became Helots—"

At this point in Klotocatax's words, there was a great commotion in the venue.

Although the Piriasians have a little heritage, the real history has long been obscured after hundreds of years, and the Spartans have been deliberately preaching the statement that it has become clearer and clearer in the memories of generations of Piriasians: they were foreign immigrants who were allowed to settle on the borders of the land after an agreement with the Spartans.

And the situation of the Helots is even worse, they have been slaves for generations, the Spartans will never let them read and write, so the vast majority are illiterate, under the stick education of the Spartans, they have to serve the Spartans hard all their lives, they do not know the history of their race, they do not even know the names of their parents, they live numbly, there is no hope......

And today, suddenly, they were told: "You, like the Spartans, were once masters of this land!" This completely subverted their previous perceptions, and they were all shocked like never before.

They talked to each other suspiciously, and even had the courage to ask Klotocatax.

"We Dionian scholars have studied the history of Sparta and have obtained some very valuable information that proves that you were once all Rasidemon. If you want to see it, when the situation in Greece stabilizes in the future, I invite you to read these treasures in the library in Turiyi.

Now I want to tell you that the reason why the Dionian army conquered Messenia was to regain the independence of the Messenians, who had been enslaved by the Spartans, and you have spoken to them before, and it should be clear that we Dionyas have done what we say

And one of the important reasons why Dionya has conquered Sparta now is to let you, who are now enslaved, regain your lost land and rights, and become the true masters of Ragnia! ”