Portitus' words made Camillus look ashamed.

At this moment, Ambustus, another respected senator, raised his right fist and said loudly: "I choose Camillus as dictator!" ”

Pantius also spoke immediately: "I also support Camillus as dictator!" ”

Paulus followed: "Camillus is my choice!" ”

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As the shouting of Camillus continued to resound through the room, Marugineensis, who had always disagreed with Portitus, remained silent.

Under Quintus' envious gaze, Camillos clenched his fists......

In December of the 13th year of the Dionian kingdom (i.e., 380 BC), the senators agreed to elect a dictator to lead Rome in the war against the Dionian kingdom.

At the following meeting of the 100 people in Mars Square, Camillus, who was favored by the senators, was once again elected dictator by the assembly to deal with the war with Dionia.

For the next period of time, the battlefields in the north fell silent.

After discovering that the cities of Antium and Satnikum were heavily garrisoned, the Wolsi temporarily halted their plans to retake the towns occupied by the Romans, considering their own lack of troops, and Amintas's suggestion, and while having their warriors train with the First Dionian Legion so that they could strengthen their cooperation in future battles, they began to contact more ethnic forces that were dissatisfied with the Romans, such as the Helnikians, the Masi, the Aqueids, and even the Sabines...... to fight Rome.

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"With the Roman army of 50,000 overwhelming, the weak Walsy people, with the help of the Dionians, actually repelled the Romans!" The news soon spread throughout central Italy, and it did get some of the forces moving.

So, Tapirus, who was staying in the city of Selcher, began to get busy.

The news that the Romans had been defeated by the Dionysian-Wolsey coalition also reached the neighboring mountains of Samonay, and the top officials of Kautini, who had been dissatisfied with Dionia's delay in returning the captives and were ready to send emissaries to Turriy to protest, immediately stopped and quietly observed the situation.

And this news was accompanied by the words of the Romans questioning the Carthaginian envoy: "If the Carthaginians do not attack Dionysa again, Rome will have to sign an armistice with Dionia!" When it reached Carthage and the Iberian Peninsula, and into the ears of Marco, he immediately realized that he had to change his strategy and not continue to stalemate with Hanno on the question of whether to send troops or not, otherwise it would be very difficult for the Romans to truce with Dionya and the Carthaginians to attack Dionya independently. Even with his knowledge of the conservative fellows of the Senate, it is likely that they would abandon the declaration of war on Dionya and re-sign a peace agreement with it.

Therefore, he immediately convened a meeting of the members of the family, and after reaching an agreement, he quickly sent a messenger to the Carthaginian Senate, and asked Pretakuba to say at the meeting that the Iberian colony was willing to send 20,000 troops under the command of the commander-in-chief appointed by the Senate.

Hanno, who had regained control of Margo's reins, was satisfied, but he also knew that the situation did not allow him to delay any longer, so the Senate quickly decided to "send a large army to Sicily and attack the Dionian territory".

The commander of the Carthaginian army appointed by the Senate was Monte Adno, a member of the Hannonite faction, who had been implementing the political concept of "developing inland" advocated by Hanno over the years, leading the army to defeat the tribes of Numibia many times, and making great contributions to the Carthaginian conquest of the Numibian region. Therefore, Hanno let this veteran, who was also considered to be an outstanding veteran, serve as the commander of the expedition to Sicily, and he was still more relieved.

As a result, the entire city of Carthage, its allies, and the region of Numibia under its control sprang into action, and began to recruit soldiers, gather ships, and prepare baggage......

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At this time, the riot in the free city of Lijim, the free city of the Kingdom of Dionia, had subsided for dozens of days, and the citizens of the city were holding an important citizens' assembly with only one theme - voting on whether to completely annex Lijim to the Kingdom of Dionia.

The results were clear: the starving masses of the population voted in favor, the merchants who wanted their family's trade to be further enhanced, and the citizens with greater political ambitions voted in favor...... Despite some strong opposition, the Citizens' Assembly voted in favor of this important proposal, which concerns the future development of Lijim,

When Lijim's messenger brought this important news to Turiyi, Davos was prepared, and he immediately wrote an enthusiastic letter, praising the people of Lijim for making the most correct decision, and solemnly promising that Lijim would continue to prosper in trade when he truly became part of the kingdom, and that his people would receive more rights and better care......

At the same time, at his suggestion, the Senate quickly appointed Prottesilaus as the administrator of Lijim, with the simultaneous appointment of Judge Lijim, the tax officer, and the registrar officer...... The main officials of the city went south in a fleet carrying a lot of grain from the granary.

While passing through the port of Lorkrie, the Seventh Legion, which had been informed, sent a large group of soldiers to board the flotilla.

The fleet eventually reached the port of Ligem, where Alcibidas and Fidun led a large crowd to greet them.

When Protsillaus read out King Davers's appointment to himself, none of the people present spoke out against it, but were overjoyed to see the large amount of food that the soldiers had escorted ashore.

At the same time, Protsilaus announced another appointment, which was signed by King Davers and the Senate, electing Alcibidas and Fitun as the Patriarchs of the Kingdom of Dionia.

The people of Lijim cheered.

However, the two new senators were not to go to Turii immediately, but to stay for the time being to assist Protesielaus in taking over the affairs of the entire city-state.

With the full assistance of the two of them, the 1,000 soldiers of the Seventh Legion to maintain order, and the political skills honed by Prottesilaus in these more than ten years of administrative experience, the whole process of taking over Lijim was relatively smooth.

A few days later, Alcibidas and Fitun received an invitation from the Senate to attend this year's National Assembly of Ionians in Turiyi.

And by this time, the wounded soldiers of the 1st Regiment and the remains of the dead had already been returned to Turii.

This coincides with the upcoming Assembly of the Councillors and Tribunes of the Kingdom of Dionia, as well as the annual Kingdom Football Finals. On January 1, the 14th year of the kingdom (i.e., 379 B.C.), according to the tradition that has been established since the establishment of the kingdom, on the first day of the new year, the king, the senators, and the representatives of the local councils and tribunes of various cities of the country gather in front of the temple of Hades on the sacred hill.

King Davos, as High Priest, read aloud the obituary in honor of the Heroes.

Amid solemn music, the court guards carried the inscriptions of the names of the soldiers who died in Wolsey and Campania into Valhalla, where they would be blessed by Hades and worshipped by the people, and their spirits would guard the land they had defended with their lives.

Because of this, the relatives of the deceased who also came to pay their respects rarely wept bitterly, although they were sad, but on the contrary, they all had pride and anticipation in their eyes.

The next day, the same group of representatives of the parliamentarians and tribunes sat in the VIP seats of the main arena of Dionya and watched the opening ceremony of the Kingdom Football Final and the first match that followed.

For the first-time Turriyi councillors from the Douni region, the 50,000-odd spectators cheered in unison shook their spirits and caught their eye......

On the third day, the General Assembly of Parliamentarians was convened.

The venue was in the Senate Hall, which could accommodate thousands of people, and it was finally fully functional and full. In order to ensure that the participants could hear clearly, more than a dozen voice transmitters were arranged around the podium in the center of the venue.

Of course, as was customary in the past, shortly after the start of the convention, all the parliamentarians applauded Lijim to join the kingdom.

This time, the attendees' attention was focused on two issues – drought and war – so when Minister of Agriculture Burkos spoke about last year's relief in the kingdom and some of the new initiatives to be taken in agriculture this year, the parliamentarians spoke enthusiastically.

One of the Mesapi councillors from Oudière said something that represented the hearts of many people, this old man also experienced the great drought in southern Italy more than 20 years ago, because the Mesapi people were not as prosperous as the Greeks, they could buy grain everywhere, and they could also go to colonization, so he saw many Mesapi people starving to death in front of his eyes, and for this drought no less than 20 years ago, so far, he had not heard of a Mesapi starving to death, so he excitedly praised the kingdom's disaster relief achievements, which resonated with quite a few people.

Of course, some people have expressed concern: "Although the drought has ended, the domestic food supply is becoming more and more tight, not to mention that now that the war has broken out again, can the domestic grain last until this year's autumn harvest?" ”

Note: The 100-member assembly is one of the three major citizens' assemblies in Rome, at this stage it is the highest level of the citizens' assembly, according to property and class to form the 100-member group can only have one opinion, and according to the status of the 100-member group, from high to low to vote, when the proposal is supported by more than half of the vote, the vote is immediately terminated, often the following centurians often do not have the opportunity to vote, and they are mostly composed of civilians.

The other two were the Curias, which were entirely open to Roman clans and were completely excluded from the plebeians, which had a great deal of power during the reign of the Monarchy, and which at present was greatly reduced, but also dealt with some matters relating to the nobility. At this stage, the Tribus Folk Association was only a meeting of the Roman commoners according to their own Tribus, and the resulting proposals were only valid for the common people. It was only a hundred years later that it became the main legislature of Rome.