A hundred years later, due to the Spartan invasion of Messenia, a large number of fleeing Messenians emigrated here, so that the whole city was changed, and even the original name was changed to "Messina", except for the symbol on the issued coins that always read "a sickle and a dolphin".

It had been destroyed by the Carthaginians a few years earlier, and then Dionysius had rebuilt the city, but its inhabitants had become colonists of Syracuse and Lokri and their allies.

Messina was only about 13 miles from Ligem, and the Dionian fleet was a moment away, and Seclian stood in the bow of the ship, looking with interest at the whole city of Messina ahead: the city itself was not large compared to the city of Ligem, because it was located in a low place between the mountains and the sea, and the area was narrow, and there was no large river around the city, but its extremely long curved breakwater made of rock and artificial stone slurry, and the harbor surrounded by rebuttals attracted Seclian's attention.

The Messenians were seen on the breakwater with a rush of recruits, some of them rushing to the docks, others carrying bows and arrows to the watchtowers on the embankment...... Sekrian didn't care, he didn't intend to lead his fleet into the harbor at all, but only did what he did in Lockley outside the harbor - ramming and sinking merchant ships entering and leaving the harbor, 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 were dominating the Western Mediterranean, and their anger and frustration can be imagined.

The fleet crossed the strait and arrived at the city of Taurina after a little more than an hour.

The Taurina and the Lijim Citizen Soldiers stationed there also cheered when they heard the news of Dionia's defeat of the Syracuse navy.

Sekrian originally thought that it would take a lot of money to convince Fidun, because Fidun had failed to lead his army and was ordered to return to Lijim for trial, and later, because there was no military talent among the citizens of Lijim who could replace Feidun in the fight against the terrible Syracuse-Lokri coalition, he finally returned to Taurina again with the support of Attilicruz to regain control of the army, and Sekrian feared that he would be afraid to attack the Silo coalition army.

However, when Sekrian explained his intention to the general of the Lijim army, Fitun did not hesitate, and he immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate with Dionya to contain the Syro coalition army, but because Sekrian could not negotiate an effective plan for the time being until he got in touch with Shilos in the Bruti region.

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At the same time, Henipolis had just gotten up.

Yesterday, the city of Laos was finally breached by the Dionian army in conjunction with the civilian population who had rioted in the city, and the nearly half of the defenders of the city were unwilling to fight.

Instead of wanting to be arrested, Arrobmas was humiliated by his nephew and committed suicide.

Henipolis did not rest on his laurels, and he decreed that all those who participated in the rebellion and did things for Arobumas should be punished!

You must know that when Arobumas usurped the throne, almost the entire bureaucratic class of the city-state took refuge in him, and Heripolis originally wanted to take this opportunity to defeat all the people who opposed him and hindered him, but he did not expect that in this way, the rioting civilians would be like getting the right to rob the officials, chiefs, and rich people of the city-state who oppressed and exploited them on weekdays, and the hatred and violence buried in their bones were completely released, which was a disaster for the city, and soon the whole city fell into a frenzy of killing and looting.

Henipolis saw that it was not good, and ordered: stop looting and killing, otherwise he will be severely punished!

But where can the poor, who have already killed the red-eyed, still obey orders, and even attack the soldiers who give orders.

Henipolis had no choice but to turn to Shilos for help.

Shilos immediately put an army in place to stop the riot caused by the poor people of Laos, and ordered that if there was resistance, he would be killed.

More than 5,000 duly trained Ionian soldiers entered the city and began to suppress the mob that had broken into the compounds of the houses and looted.

It was not until dusk that the riots were quelled. Moans and wails ensued throughout the city, and the city of Lars, which had become increasingly prosperous after years of efforts by Avinokis and Arrobmas, became devastated and riddled with dead and wounded in one day.

Henipolis, who rode into the city on horseback, could not bear to watch.

What disturbed him even more was that the eyes of the people who were holding the bodies of their loved ones and weeping bitterly on the side of the road looked at him with hatred......

Blamed and terrified, Henipolis found little comfort in seeing his rescued mother safe and sound. At night, he lay in bed, closed his eyes, and his mind was filled with the terrible images he had seen during the day, and his ears were filled with the cries of the people, and he tossed and turned, and could not sleep until it was almost dawn, when he fell asleep from excessive fatigue.

It was noon when he woke up and had to eat breakfast and lunch together.

He was joined by his mother. Although Arobumas rebelled, he only put his brother's widow under house arrest, and the other treatment was as usual, so the woman did not suffer any harm, but was worried about the safety of her son, and now that Henipolis has returned safely and defeated the rebels, she has been in a good mood: "Child, Ariandos came to look for you several times in the morning, but I blocked you. ”

"Is there anything he's looking for me?" Henipolis asked listlessly, chewing on bread and thinking about something else.

He asked what to do with the civilians who were being held in custody. I asked him to release them all. "Henipolis's mother was the cousin of Tula, a Lucanian nobleman and the former chief of Laos, and Tula betrothed him to Avinogis in order to better control and encircle Avinogis as the head of the descendants of the Protobaris, so the relationship between Avinokis and his wife was not good.

Later, Avenogis united with Dionya to overthrow the rule of the Lucanians in the city of Laos, and Tula and his forces were almost wiped out, and the reason why they did not dispose of their Lucanian wife was partly because she was the biological mother of Henipolis, and partly because the Lucanians had ruled Laos for decades and gradually merged with the Greek descendants of Cybaris. When Avinokis rebelled, there were quite a few small Lucanian tribes that expressed their support and submission, so having a Lucanian wife was just right to reassure the restless Lucanians.

But the woman had the hatred of her family's demise in her heart, and today she had a real smile: "The 'black pigs' who usually only roll in the mud (the former Lucanian of Laos is a contemptuous name for the slaves of Syria) should have died a long time ago!" Son, you did a good job, it was these people who killed your Uncle Tula's whole family in the first place! You know, your uncle's second daughter, your cousin, is so pretty, I told Tula that I wanted her to be your wife in the future, but those damn ones—"

"Enough!" Henipolis slammed the wooden glass full of wine on the ground, and the wine splattered.

The woman was startled.

"I'm full." Henipolis stood up, not looking at his mother, and turned to walk out.

"Heni!" The woman cried out pitifully.

Hennipolis did not look back, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: he punished the officials and tribal leaders who helped Arobumas usurp the throne, not to avenge their betrayal, but to build a better political system, a system like Dionia, where everyone owns land and has the power to participate in politics, and he is not the same as his mother, who hated the people of Laos! But—

When I thought of the corpses everywhere, those hateful eyes ...... His mustering was immediately gone, and he began to doubt himself again: Did I really do something wrong? Like Arobumas said, I'm doing things too aggressively? ……

Arrobmas...... Henipolis remembered that when he saw the corpse of his only uncle last night, he did not feel the pleasure of revenge, but kept coming to his mind the situation of his uncle playing with him when he was a child, which made his heart feel empty and unsettled.

He wandered aimlessly, eventually to the town hall, which was next to his family's mansion.

A beautiful chair was placed in the center of the council hall of the town hall, and he walked up and sat down slowly, facing the circular layers of stone benches in front of him.

The synagogue was built by Henipolis' father three years earlier in reference to the Greek city-states, but unlike Dioonia and other large Greek city-states, there was an extra chair in the center of the synagogue, a chair for the consuls for life. He didn't know if his father and his uncle felt high and different when they sat in this chair, but he didn't have this wonderful experience at all, but it made him sick and uncomfortable like a lamb focused by the greedy gaze of dozens of hungry wolves. He had been to the council several times since he became consul, but he was reluctant to come again.

At this moment, he sat in a chair, facing the empty venue in a daze, until Ariandos hurriedly walked in: "My lord, I can be regarded as looking for you." ”

Hennepolis came back to his senses, looked at the anxious look on the face of his loyal subordinate left to him by his father, and asked with interest, "What is the matter?" ”

"The poor people who have been released do not want to leave, but ask when they will fulfill the promise you have made." Eriandos's words made Henipolis inexplicably angry: "Cash?!" They still want me to keep my promise?! Looking at all these things they have done, I have been merciful to them by not executing them all! ……”

Henipolis shouted and vented his dissatisfaction, he did not expect that the poor people who used to be poor in his eyes would become a vicious mob in the blink of an eye, and they were so greedy. But he was only talking about it, and of course he had fulfilled his vow to the gods, and the current situation of Laos did not allow him to repent.

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