Chapter 18 Election of the Chief Executive (1)
"Now ask the senators who want to be the chief executive of Enona to sign up."
As soon as Cornelius finished speaking, a man quickly stood up and said in a loud voice: "I want to run!" ”
Davers' eyes narrowed slightly.
This is Milon, the former chief general of Crotone who once fought with Davers.
After Crotone's annexation to the Kingdom of Dionia, he first assisted Crotone's then administrator, Colnerus, in rebuilding the city of Crotone, and successively held several mid-level positions in Crotone: construction officer, agricultural officer, and administrative adjutant......
After Dionia's conquest of Mesapi, and because of Milon's outstanding performance in Crotone, Davos personally appointed Milon as the governor of Oudière, the central town of the Mesapi region, showing his complete trust in him. Milon also lived up to expectations, and after taking office, he acted vigorously, quelling several riots and uncovering several tribes that were unwilling to submit, including the family of Pasimeros (Pasimeros died violently shortly after the defeat at the Battle of Brindisi, and there are different theories about the cause of his death, some believe that he committed suicide because he felt that Mesapi's future was hopeless, others say that his family assassinated him in order to seize power, and others believe that the other tribes of Udier had long been dissatisfied with his dictatorship and took the opportunity to kill him). Milon treated them mercilessly, either executing, imprisoning, or expelling, bringing order to the entire Udié region, and even the people of the nearby town of Mesapi became much more honest.
Only six months ago, Miron's term of office ended and he returned to Turiyi, without asking for re-election.
At this moment, Milon applied to go to Enona, and Davers was not too optimistic about him, after all, what Enona needed was a senator who could handle the relationship with Campania and Samonay, and his political methods were flexible but not tough, and Milon's governing style, which was called "executioner" by a part of the Udian people, was too radical.
At this moment, another patriarch stood up in the crowd.
Adriankos! Davers' eyes blinked again.
After the Southern Italian War, many city-states were incorporated into the Kingdom of Dionia, and although the Senate absorbed many new senators from these city-states, they could not be immediately sent out to govern a city independently, because their loyalty needed to be verified, and they did not know the political system and laws of Dionia, and it took a while to become familiar with them.
But the number of senior senators in the Senate was not large, but instead made these new senators the majority. As a result, the Senate urgently promoted a number of high-performing mid-level public officials to become senators, such as Acestes, Olivers, Mattonis, Giogris, Secrean, Aristocrates, Fraucleon, and even Matticoris, Mentotice, and Stacecodas of the Dionian Academy...... and so on, all of them entered the Senate during that period.
However, at that time, there were not many senators who had experience as city administrators, and there were many city administrators in the kingdom who urgently needed the positions of senators, so Davers and Kunogorata had to mobilize former mercenary senators to take on important responsibilities, volunteering to serve as administrators of these new territories, and using local new senators as auxiliaries, so that the old senators could learn to govern in practice, and the new senators could understand the operation of the kingdom's system with assistance. Antonios became the administrator of Naxos, Alexis governed Aenona, and Shilos took over Lokry" were common during that time, and although some problems arose, on the whole, the order and stability of the Kingdom of Dioonia and the good operation of the political system were well ensured.
Adriankos was also one of the veterans who were put on the shelves. Stimulated by the incident of "becoming a laughing stock at the Isthmus race", he learned from the pain, strengthened his knowledge and culture, and even went to the Dionian Academy to observe Lycias's lecture on eloquence, so when he first became administrator, he did not ask the Senate to send the new patriarch of the local town to help, although this newly incorporated town was also the best to manage. Castelon - a small town next to Tourii, has always been influenced by Dionia, and its people's admiration for Dioonia makes Castelon look like a satellite city of Tourri, which has not yet joined Dionia.
As a result, Adriankos was able to stay in Castelon for three years. His greatest achievement in Castelon was to lay the groundwork for Castelón to truly become a satellite town of Tourriy (another satellite town of Tourriy was Bissinia). From the ease of transportation to the expansion of the port, and the inclusion of the Castrons in the city of Touri, football games...... Wait, Adriankos has done a lot of hard work. He also wrote several letters to the Senate requesting that the tidal flats north of Castron be converted into a military port, and that the First Fleet of Dionyas be stationed.
At that time, the expansion of the city of Turiyi, and the military port temporarily built on the lower reaches of the Clatty River for the war between South and Italy was no longer suitable for the fleet to be stationed, and Adriankos preemptively provided a place for the fleet, which was equivalent to asking the Senate for funds to renovate this troublesome tidal flat for free, and by the way, to promote the development of the port of Castelon and small commerce. Although the main force of the First Fleet later moved to the great port of Tarantum due to the continuous expansion of the territory of Dioonia and the strategic needs of the kingdom, the military port of Castlon is still one of the important military ports in the Gulf of Taranto, so the people of Castlon still talk about his good to this day.
Later, Adrianks was transferred to the post of Administrator of Heracles, another large Greek city-state that had long been in the heart, Adriankos was not difficult to govern, but he was not idle: for three years in office, he led the people to dredge rivers, build bridges, and fill in swamps...... By the time he left, the annual floods of the Heraklians had been greatly reduced.
He then became the administrator of Ugentum. Ugentum is a seaport town in the Mesapi region, across the sea from Crimesa, due to the small population of the city and the occasional maritime trade with the Greek city-states of Greater Greece, the Ugentum people are not as wary of the Greeks as the people of Udiëre, so Adriankos's rule is still not in major trouble, and he takes advantage of Ugentum's proximity to the bay of Taranto and at the same time its proximity to Udiël, to vigorously expand the port and build the road to Udiël, This makes Ugentum a transit point between Turiy and Udié (because Turii – Ugentum – Udié is the most convenient route, usually only a day's journey), and thus brings benefits to the people of Úgentum.
Adriankos' achievements in three times as the chief executive are dazzling, and the Council of the Kingdom Officials Management has rated him as "excellent" in government affairs during his tenure, and has praised him for his ability to build towns and improve people's lives.
However, the situation of Enona is complicated with that of Castron, Heraclia and Ugentum, and whether Adrianques can handle it well, Davers is not sure.
Then another senator raised his hand, and most of the senators around him had mixed expressions: Nicomarcus, a senator from Lockry.
During the Great Greek War, Lockley became an accomplice of the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse, and was rumored to have been suspected of assassinating Davers, so the Lockley became rats on the street and were spurned by the Greeks. After the surrender of Lockley to Dionia, in order to stabilize the once great Greek power and its allies, several councillors with high prestige in the Lockley Council were elected as the Dionian senators, and as one of them, Nicomarcus, who drove out Demordokas and first proposed surrender, was one of them.
Nicomarcus, like Milon, stayed in Lockley to assist Shilos in governing Locke. The Lockley people quickly accepted Dionia's rule, thanks to Nicomarcus, and of course because Lockley's culture was compatible with Dionia, because the Lockley people had a natural affinity for the Dionians with Persephone, the wife of Hades, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love, as the patron saints of the city-state, and in addition, the harsh laws of Lockley made it easier for the Lockley to obey authority.
During his six years at Dionia, Davers named Nicomarcus as Administrator of Odrum.
Odrum is also a seaside city in the Mesapi region, unlike Ugentum, Odrum is located at the southeast end of the Italian peninsula, because of the surrounding fertile land, the town has a large population, and it is located at the outlet of the Adriatic Sea, it is the closest place in the Italian peninsula to the Greek mainland, two hundred miles away from the Adriatic Sea is the famous island of Corfu, so Odrum is also the town in the Mesapi region that is most influenced by the native Greek culture, Athenian merchants and Picias, representing the Spartans, can sometimes even be seen operating in its harbor.
After the conquest of the Mesapi, Odrum was the second most turbulent city after Udière, which shows the difficulty of its governance, but within three years of Nicomarcus's tenure, the political situation in Odrum was stable, and the people gradually returned to their hearts, which shows its ability.
In fact, Davers thought that Nicomarcus was the best candidate for the mayor of the city of Enona, but he had already stated in advance that he would not appoint a candidate, so the chances of Nicomarcus being elected were slim, since the Lochry were not popular with the Greek senators.
There was also a patriarch from Sicily, but unlike the other Sicilian senators, he was from Syracuse.
After the Great Greek War, Syracuse reached a peace agreement with Dionia, after which a group of Syracuse people and slaves strongly demanded to leave Syracuse, because Dionysius forcibly relocated the people of other city-states to enrich the land of Syracuse when he conquered the eastern central coast of Sicily, and Leotine was the majority.