"Alright, you two, please pause the discussion." "I assure you that Dionya will do his best to resolve the conflict in the Plains of Argos, and that any person or city-state who obstructs or tries to sabotage the process of a peaceful settlement will be severely punished!" ”

Davers paused and continued: "Now is not the time to discuss political matters, let's continue to watch the opening ceremony of the Games, and lo and behold, the third athletes' delegation has entered!" ”

Plato and Xenophon looked at each other calmly, and without speaking, they both looked at the field.

Although they are both students of Socrates, and both are citizens of Athens, and they have both written articles about Socrates, nostalgic and promote some of Socrates' ideas, and the relationship between the two during their study in Athens is not bad, but with the different experiences of each other, the ideas formed and the ideas pursued have been very different, plus they have not seen each other for decades, and now the two sides have become quite estranged.

At this moment, Davers regretted a little in his heart: it seemed that they should not have been invited at the same time.

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The wooden sign held up by the third team of athletes clearly reads "The Holy Kingdom of Dionya – Africa and Africa", which may be a wonder to some spectators from northern Italy who rarely go out: when will there be another region in the kingdom?

Actually, this area was only established last year.

There are many Phoenician city-states along the coast of the African continent, they were originally established by the Eastern Phoenicians when developing the commercial resources of the Western Mediterranean, and their original intention was not to colonize, until the rise of Carthage, these transit stations gradually developed into towns, but due to the original single economic base, extremely dependent on Carthage's support. However, after Ionia defeated Carthage and took away some of Carthage's important trade resources, most of the Phoenician city-states of Africa had to rely on the more powerful and marketable Divine Kingdom of Dionya.

As time passed, Phoenicia's trade ties with Dionya became stronger, and the prosperity of the former Phoenician city-state of Hadru Mentum, which was already a Dionian town, began to be followed by scattered Phoenician city-states asking to join the Dionian Holy Kingdom. After the end of the Greek War, the strength of Dionya was even more prosperous, and the discerning people even thought that Dionysia's domination of the entire Mediterranean was no longer too much of a problem. Thus, under the direction of Davers, the Divine Kingdom of Dionya had one more region - the Afrigian region, temporarily centered on Hadru Mentum.

More than half of the Africian delegation at the arena were Phoenicians, and they were known for the Greek Games, but this was the first time they had participated, so they were very excited and very active on the track.

Carthage's Sofitel Ocriton attended the opening ceremony, and when he saw this scene in the VIP seat, his feelings were extremely complicated: since Carthage became a subsidiary of Dionia, its commerce and trade not only did not decline, but became more prosperous, after all, Dionya provided it with a broader market, but Carthage's agriculture was shrinking sharply, and one of the important reasons for this was that Carthage lost the inland land of Numibia that it originally occupied. Dionya was able to provide it with sufficient and reasonably priced food, which made most of the Carthaginian people engaged in commercial activities, and Carthage could no longer survive independently of Dionia. Influenced by the nearby towns, there have also been calls in the city of Carthage in recent years for "complete annexation to the sacred kingdom of Dionya like other Phoenician city-states," and the Senate headed by him and the Court of the Hundred had already reached a tacit agreement and did not respond to this. But this pressure was always there, and he didn't know how long Carthage's independence would last......

The fourth to enter was the delegation of athletes from the Po region, the sacred kingdom of Dionya.

After the conquest of Dionya Gaul, the entire territory occupied by Dionya Gaul was divided into the Po River region, which can be said to be the most fertile and extensive plain of the Dionian Holy Kingdom, but also one of the most difficult to stabilize. It took Dionya nearly 10 years and exhaustive means to gradually accept Dionian rule from the Gauls, with the Po governor Capus being the most significant.

Since the conquest of the Gianul by the Dionian army, Kaps was transferred to the Po region by King Davers, and has served for nearly 10 years, working hard for the stability of the Po region and the integration of the Gauls into the kingdom.

Since Dionyas had only begun to migrate to the Po region in recent years, and the Greeks still had a very small percentage of the population in the region, the vast majority of the delegation were Gauls, tall and with messy hair, some with oil paint on their faces, some bare-chested...... Facing the audience, he roared from time to time and made gestures to show his muscles.

In the eyes of some Greek dignitaries, it was a barbaric and untamed performance, but in the eyes of the Ionian audience, accustomed to the intensity of rugby matches, it was a sign of character, and the cheers were even more enthusiastic.

The main sports for the Po region are horse racing and motor racing, and the next delegation is likely to be their rivals, as the athletes come from the famous pastoral region of the Kingdom of Dionia, Bruti.

The Bruti delegation was followed by the delegation of the Campania Union. Today's Campania League is really only Naples and its neighboring sub-states, and the other city-states in the original alliance have joined the Kingdom of Dionia, and Naples is now in a situation somewhat similar to Carthage.

The next delegation to enter the stadium was the Divine Kingdom of Dionia, the Eastern Plains of Campania, where the strongest event of the Greek, Etruscan, and Samonai was the Javelin, and of course they had to compete with the Samonai delegation.

Next up was the Corinthian delegation. But when he appeared on the field, the vast majority of the audience was stunned, because there were only two players behind the young man holding the card, compared with the delegations in front of them, which were less than a dozen people and more than nearly 100 people, it was too different. Although Corinth was only a city-state compared to the previous regions and leagues, it was the venue for the Corinthian Games, and the citizens of the country admired sports and had strong strength in traditional competitions, so Dioonia gave a lot of places in the invitation letter to Corinth.

"It seems that the Corinthians still have a lot of opinions about Dionya holding the Games, I think if it weren't for the fact that you Dionya is powerful and the leader of the Greek League, the Corinthians probably wouldn't even send a single player." Xenophon commented with some schadenfreude.

Davers smiled slightly and said confidently: "If the Corinthians don't compete, it won't have any impact on this sport, but it is the biggest loss for Corinthians and Corinthian athletes!" Because the Deonian Games will be the biggest celebration in the Mediterranean, and it will also be a big theater for city-states, regions and athletes to show themselves to the countries of the Mediterranean! Are you right? ”

Xenophon and Plato looked at the thousands of spectators from all over the world and all races, as well as the athletes from all over the world and all races in the arena, and they all fell into deep thought.

The polite Dionian crowd cheered the two Corinthian athletes, but the cheers were mixed with a lot of laughter.

Sitting in the VIP seat, the Corinthian general Cleonion was so ashamed that he couldn't find a crack in the ground to get into. Not only did Corinth send only two athletes perfunctorily, but they also deliberately delayed it, and by the time they learned that the other city-states had sent a lot of athletes, it was too late to inform Corinth to make the change again.

At this time, the Corinthian general still clearly remembered that after hearing the news, the Corinthian councillor who was originally stationed in the Parliament of the Greek Union in Turiyi heard the news, and scolded the Corinthian council in front of him as short-sighted fools, which would surely lead to the failure of Corinth's efforts in the past few years.

What efforts did Collins make?

After the Greek War, the Corinthians saw that Dionya supported Thebes to unify Piosia, Mandynia to establish the League of Arcadia, Ellis to unify the northwestern Peloponnese, and Argos to unify the northeastern corner of the Peloponnese, so they also asked Dionysia to "unify the Isthmus of Corinth".

Davers reluctantly agreed, but demanded that Thebes must consult with Megara.

There were only two city-states in the entire isthmus, Corinth in the south and Megara in the north-central region. Although Megara was a little less powerful than Corinth, it was also a city-state with a long history and a good reputation in Greece, and of course it was unwilling to be integrated by Corinth.

Since both city-states surrendered to Dionya in time during the Corinthian War, Dionysia did not favor anyone, and the matter was put on hold.

But Collins didn't give up. The Corinthians were indeed more nimble than the Argos, and when the Megarians were adamantly opposed to being unified by the Corinthians, the Corinthians soon changed their plans and proposed to form an isthmus alliance with the Megarians on an equal footing.