"Well said!" Ansitarus's loud admiration did not interrupt Plato's desire to continue: "Dear King Davos, you have criticized my views in the Republic of Ideals, saying, 'I have only the citizens of the city-state in my eyes, and despise slaves and aliens', and what you have seen and heard during your travels in the north and south of Dionya has shaken me greatly!

The Romans, Phoenicians, Samonians, and even the Wolsi who were not citizens of Dionya struggled to speak Greek (Dionian), though mostly in a blunt manner. I have also met several children of different races who have asked me questions...... All this made me realize that even the completely ignorant and backward natives could be educated to be as wise and love Greek culture as we are, and that those Greeks who are illiterate but unwilling to change really deserve our despise! ……”

Plato took another sip of wine, raised his voice again, and said: "At my first meeting with you, the King, I praised you as a true philosopher-king, and now I find that this statement is not entirely true. This time, I spent some time in Rome, in Benitum, and in Lilibe, and carefully observed the governance of the towns under their jurisdiction by the Dionian officials, and although each of these towns had different circumstances and different circumstances, one thing was the same - the Dionian officials there were all performing their duties very conscientiously and responsibly, and all governed the towns under their jurisdiction in accordance with the laws of Dionia, and as far as I could observe, they were all well governed and very efficient......

I once said, 'How can a city-state develop well if a man is sick and has to find a professional doctor, and a merchant who wants to ship goods by sea knows how to find an experienced captain!' But that's exactly what many Greek city-states did!

As far as I know, the senior officials of the towns of Dioonia have been promoted step by step, and they have enough experience and wisdom to deal with and solve the various problems encountered by the towns, which is what you once said to me, 'meritocracy'. So, I have to change what I said, 'Not only King Davers, you are a true philosopher, but many of your officials are also philosophers, and it is under your rule that Dionya is as powerful as it is today!'" ”

"Dear Platonic scholars." Davers, who was in a high position, had heard too many compliments over the years, and had become accustomed to it, but he was still a little proud to receive praise from a great man who had been called the "father of Western philosophy" in his previous life, and he smiled pleasantly on his face, and tried his best to humble himself and said: "Are you here today to praise Dionia?" ”

"If Dioonia is doing a good job, why not praise it!" Plato raised his glass and exclaimed, "Come, let us praise Dionya together!" ”

Davers smiled and raised his glass as well.

After making this glass with the others, Plato shook his head, as if to shake off the drunkenness that had swelled up, he pinched his face vigorously, and continued: "Dear King Davers, do you remember Isocrates?" ”

"Of course I do." "The famous orator and rhetorician of Athens, we invited him to speak at the 1st and 2nd congresses of Greek scholars, but when we invited him to come later, he refused to come again, and I used to think that he was dissatisfied because we did not take good care of her in the previous reception. ”

"Your Majesty, although Isocrates is a strict man and does not like to talk much, he is not a person who likes to care about this aspect." Lycias, who had lived in Athens for many years and had a close relationship with Isocrates, explained: "From what I have learned, he also built a school in Athens and has been busy teaching students for several years, so he may not have time to attend the congress in Turij. ”

"Oh, yes, he built a school too." Davers looked at Plato with amusement and asked, "Isn't that a competition with your school?" ”

Plato said frankly: "I'm in a school with Isocrates that has different goals, and his school is more focused on teaching students how to choose words and sentences, how to speak, and how to better conduct public and political life...... More practical. My Akademi, on the other hand, was more concerned with studying the polity of the city-state and exploring how to build a more perfect state...... But it's true that there is some competition between our two colleges, and just last year I had a debate with him. ”

"Oh?" Davers looked surprised, but in fact he was not only aware of the debate, but also had a rough record of it in his mansion.

"This debate is also about you Dionia." Plato said seriously: "I think one of the main reasons why Isocrates has not agreed to your invitation to attend the conference of scholars in recent years is that he thinks that the existence of the Kingdom of Dioonia is a great threat to Greece itself-"

"How is this possible-" Lysias was a little surprised, but before he could finish his words, he was picked up by Ansitanus: "For this, I can also prove that in the fourteenth year of the kingdom (380 BC), our war with Carthage had just begun, and at the 99th Olympian Games, Isocrates gave a speech "Dedication to the All-Greek Event", the main content of which was to call on the Greek city-states to stop the war, unite, and unite with the outside world, Cursed is to restore the glory of the Greeks of their forefathers in the Greco-Persian Wars, to complete their unfinished business, and to liberate their fellow Greeks in Asia Minor, who had been enslaved under Persian rule......

But later in this speech, he also mentions...... Well, that's what the original text says......

Today we are gathered in Olympia to thank Zeus for his protection of the Greeks, but we should feel that this event is much more deserted than it was a few decades ago, not only because of the war, but also because of the lack of participation of many city-states. Tarantum, Crotone, Lokri, Turiyi, Syracuse, Agrigento...... The vanity and shallowness of these colonial city-states of the Western Mediterranean do make us despise the vanity and shallowness of their populace at the previous events, but the absence of them would make us feel lonely. They were once part of our Greek family, but now they are all towns of the Kingdom of Dioria.

Was Dioonia a country of the Greeks?

They were never seen at the Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, and Isthmus Games, and Delphi did not set up a treasury for them, which shows the attitude of the priests representing the will of the gods towards the kingdom of the western Mediterranean, not only because there were too many barbarian citizens in the country, but also because it distorted our perception of the gods! Dionyas believed that Hades was the lord of the gods and not Zeus, and he also allowed the citizens to worship the gods of aliens, and Dionys, who could have such terrible behavior, could not call it a Greek state! Cultians, nurtured by this misconception, could not have become Greeks of the same faith as us!

But why don't we protest against their wrong practices, or even send troops to intervene? Because Dionya was very powerful, the great power it had gathered through the annexation of many Greek colonial city-states was able to force Naples, which was still an independent city-state and a relatively powerful state, not to participate in this grand event, just because it was afraid that Dionya would be dissatisfied with it.

At the time when we were killing each other for the sake of our own interests, at the instigation of the Persians, Dionia, which had annexed our sub-states and colonial cities in the western Mediterranean, had swelled into a vast kingdom, and although it had not shown any ill will towards us so far, it was so different from us, and so close to us, that in the event of a conflict, the consequences would be severe!

O wise Greeks! To the east of us, the Persians, who have never given up their desire to enslave us, and to the west of us, a mighty kingdom whose minds we cannot fathom, are we in such a precarious situation that we should not abandon our prejudices and reunite as we did decades ago in the face of the invading Persian armies, defend our homeland, and regain the glory of our forefathers......"

"How did I not know there was such a speech?!" Lysias was surprised when he heard this.

"Because at that time Thebes and Athens were already at war with Sparta, and neither side dared to offend Persia and us, so as not to cause a change in the situation of the war, so they deliberately banned the popularity of this speech, which was still a manuscript obtained by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when they went to Greece proper." Ansitanos explained: "From this speech, it is clear that Isocrates sees us as a potential threat to Dionysia in Greece proper. ”

"Since your victory over Carthage, since last year, Isocrates has regarded Dionysia as a real threat to Greece proper, to Athens, and has not only often preached this view to his students, but also made several speeches at citizens' meetings to remind the people, and since I attended the first conference of Greek scholars, I have written many articles positively about the government of the Dionian kingdom, suggesting that the Greek city-states led by Athens can learn from it, and each time there are many Athenian citizens, even Thebes, Corinth and other city-states vied with each other to copy and circulate the ......" Plato said with a serious expression: "So Isocrates thinks that I am a fan of the Dioonic kingdom, and I must be disproved in front of the public, so that the citizens of Athens can be unified." ”