Except for those who could not arrive for important business, such as Alexis, who commanded the army to fight in Dauni, most of the senators, even those who served as administrators in other places, rushed to the mourning hall of Kunogora Tower to pay their respects, and many middle and low-level officials of the kingdom also came to mourn.

More is the people of Turiyi, when the Kunogorata was burned down and lost their homes, the people of Turiyi worked hard and provided great help, and in the following ten years, it was Kunogorata who served as the administrator of the city. Therefore, on this day, instead of talking about rugby matches or drinking in restaurants, the people of Turii are always in a constant stream of worshippers outside the mourning hall.

But although everyone looked sad and solemn, there was almost no scene of wailing and crying, and it was relatively quiet. This is different from other Greek city-states, where mourners even hire professional mourners to add a sad atmosphere to the funeral process. According to the Hades Codex, the soul of the deceased in Dionya can enter the Elysée Paradise according to his performance during his lifetime, which is a beautiful paradise, and entering there is happiness rather than suffering, so relatives and worshippers need not grieve too much, otherwise they are cursing the dead to purgatory.

The ceremony of honoring the remains lasted for one day, and the burial of Kunogorata began early the next morning.

The relatives placed the body of Kunogorata in a wooden coffin, which also contained some offerings for use on his final journey to Hades and the Elysée. The wooden coffin was placed on the carriage, which was pulled by four black horses, and the relatives were dressed in black veils and guarded by the carriage as they slowly moved forward.

Behind the carriage were members of the royal family, high-ranking officials of the kingdom, senators and their families headed by Davers, all of whom were also dressed in black veils and looked solemn. The people who rushed to hear the news consciously lined up behind, and gradually converged into a long queue with no end in sight, so that the patrol post in Turii had to send more people to maintain order.

The funeral procession is specially equipped with more than a dozen flutists and trumpeters, who play solemn and slightly melancholy elegiacs, rendering a solemn and mysterious atmosphere for the entire funeral procession.

In front of the carriage, Plesinas led a dozen black-robed priests to sing Hades' carols, sprinkled the streets with water, and led the funeral procession to the foot of Hades' hill.

Eight court guards dressed in military uniforms carried the wooden coffin and walked steadily to a small temple next to the temple of Hades, which was built after the war between the gods of Hades, the god of death, Tanatos.

There was an incineration tank in front of the temple, and the guards placed the wooden coffin into the pool, and the priests began to pour olive oil into it through the pipes around the incineration tank.

Sostatus, Dika Okrat and other relatives of Kunogorata looked sad, and everyone else bowed their heads and prayed silently, only Davers, dressed in white robes, walked to the incineration pool, opened his arms, and shouted to the sky: "Great Hades, Dionian citizen Kunogorata is once again in hell today." I am your pious people, and I beseech you to grant him the blessings he deserves after his death, based on what he did during his lifetime! ”

With that, he took the torch from Plesinas and threw it into the pool.

At the same time as the raging fire was ignited, dozens of saints chanted in unison, and the light and spiritual singing resounded through the hills, washing the sorrow in the hearts of the people.

The coffin was reduced to ashes during the singing, but the funeral was not over, and the relatives of Kunogorata took the remains from the incinerated ashes, wrapped them in freshly made linen, and placed them in urns.

Davos also spoke loudly to the people who came to the funeral about the great contribution that Kunogorata made to the Kingdom of Dionya during his lifetime, and announced that the bronze bust of Kunogorata will be located in the Pantheon of the Temple of Hades and be with the Kingdom of Dionia! His urn will be placed in the Temple of Death, blessed by the Underworld!

With the completion of these two things, the funeral was declared over.

When many patriarchs and officials said goodbye to their relatives, they no longer comforted them, but congratulated them.

Previously, the senators had also attended the funerals of Scombras and Bachilipi, but the funeral of Kunogorata was not only attended by the largest number of people, but also reached the peak of the honor enjoyed after his death.

The ashes placed in the temple must be enjoyed by citizens who have been loyal to the kingdom, have worked diligently throughout their lives, and have performed sufficient meritorious deeds. It is even more difficult to enter the Panthéon, and it is only possible to have made a great contribution to Dionya and even influenced the development of the entire kingdom. After settling in the temple, it is necessary to erect a monument for it to write a biography and pass it on to future generations, which can be said to be a supreme glory. Since the establishment of Dionia, there has been only one Heraclid for more than a decade, and now there is the Kunogerata, for many senators and officials, the funeral of the Kunogerata has become the envy of them and the goal they fought for, which is exactly what Davers wanted.

For ordinary people, they don't have such a big goal, and being cremated in the main temple of Hades after death is their greatest hope, because the cremation of ordinary corpses is carried out in ordinary Hades temples, and only citizens who have made meritorious deeds can pass the application and obtain the qualification for cremation in the main temple of Hades.

The decision of the Senate was not for the Senate, but for the priesthood of the Temple of Hades, and the final decision was in the hands of Davers, who was not only the king, but also the high priest of the kingdom, and a descendant of Hades in the eyes of the people. However, under normal circumstances, he let the priesthood led by Plesinus decide, and in the end, he just had to look at it, and only the death of important people in the kingdom needed him to make a decision, whether he was eligible to enter Valhalla, Panthéon, Temple of the Dead, and Prison of the Wicked.

After the funeral of Kuno Gorata, the rugby finals continued and everything seemed to be back to the way it was.

Only the senators felt the slight change, and the rotating president of the Senate was replaced by the addition of Anta Orris, whose seat was moved forward to the central area of the front row of the room.

When Dionya was first established, the position of rotating chairman of the Senate was held by the senators on a rotational basis, and it only played a role in maintaining order in the meeting, with little real power. After the Italianate War, Davers became king, and on the grounds that "there were too many new senators and they were not familiar with the workings of the Dionian polity", he no longer had all the senators in the rotating chair, but appointed several senators to take turns in this position, usually every ten days.

At the same time, he asked the Senate to give the rotating chairmen more responsibilities for organizing each Senate meeting, and the main agenda of each meeting was to be decided by King Davers and in consultation with the rotating chairman on duty, and when Davos was present, he was to upload and issue orders to ensure that the meeting was carried out according to the king's wishes. In Davers' absence, he has the right to ensure that the meeting runs smoothly, and can even direct the guards to drive out the elders who interfere with the meeting, and only need to report the results of the meeting to Davers after the meeting.

It is precisely because of the increased power of the rotating chairman that this position has become an important indicator of a veteran's status in the Senate.

Previously, the rotating chairmen of the Dionian Senate were Cuno Gorata, Cornerus, Sedorum, Veesba, and Lucias. Today, Kunograta has died, and Anta Oris fills the void.

In addition, there is a change. Because this time Laordisien and other Sicilian senators committed dereliction of duty at the same time, Naxos, Sikuli, and Catane also had some officials involved in this matter and were investigated, and they were all recommended by these guilty senators to take office, so Davers took this opportunity to be angry in the Senate, he believed: The reason why the Kingdom Officials Management Committee failed to do a good job in the selection of middle and low-level officials was because they were influenced by too many other senators in the Senate to choose officials fairly, And the appointment of middle and low-level officials should not have been the intervention of the Senate......

At the beginning of the establishment of the alliance, the responsibility of the official management committee was to draw up the candidates for public officials in the cities of the alliance, and finally it was approved and signed by Davers before it could be implemented, but each time the candidates in the list would be read out in the Senate to let the senators know, and sometimes they would raise objections to some of the candidates, and the committee would make some adjustments with reference to their opinions, and Davers would not do too much obstruction, because it was Davers who controlled the Senate, so everything was under his control. In recent years, with the expansion of his territory and the increase of officials, Davers spent half of his time in the palace dealing with political affairs, and his control over the committee could not be as strict as before.

This time, Davers demanded that the office of the Council of the Kingdom Officials be moved to the palace and that the question of the appointment of officials should no longer be discussed in the Senate, and of course the Senate objected, but he quietly threatened that he was considering whether to have Sesta investigate the officials of other cities in the kingdom as well, so as to avoid another series of cases of malfeasance like in Sicily.

Eventually, Davers's proposal was passed, and the committee moved to the second floor of the palace.

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The day after Cuno Gorata's funeral, Chrysops was received by Davers.

In response to Sparta's request to "renew the expiring covenant for another ten years," Davers and the Senate agreed to this request with little debate.

After all, the center of gravity of the Kingdom of Dioonia was Italy, followed by Sicily, and neither Davers nor the senators had much interest in getting involved in the disputed Greece itself. The previous quiet decade gave Dioonia ample time to absorb the displaced people, expand the population, develop agriculture, trade, and expand the land...... Of course, they still want to have such a peaceful surrounding political environment.