In order to maintain his friendship with Sparta, Dionysius had to move the Messenians out of Messina and build the city of Tyndareus, not far from Messina, in an unobtrusive place, to house the Messenians.

The reconstruction of Messina and the new construction of Tyndares made Lijim on the other side of the channel like a man, and the Ligems felt that Dionysius coveted their city-state, and they even felt that it was not very safe to join the Southern Italian Alliance, because at this moment Syracuse not only unified the Greek city-states in the east of Sicily, but also basically conquered the Sikers, the strength was too amazing, whether the other city-states in the Southern Italian Alliance were willing to fight against the powerful Syracuse for Ligem, this is a big question! The only one who dares to call for Syracuse is probably only the southern Italian overlord Dionia, who has this strength.

So, the Lijim people held a citizens' assembly, which was discussed for several days without results.

At this moment, a fleet of Syracuse sailed into the port of Messina, which had been intended to escort the Syracuse army on its westward expedition to the north coast of Sicily, but it provoked the sensitive Lijim, and the citizens' assembly quickly passed the motion, and the messenger was quickly sent to Turiyi.

In the Dionian Senate, the senators, including Davers, were shocked when the Legislature suggested that "Ligium was willing to join the Dionian League". You must know that in the Dionian League, Laos, Castelón, Metapontum, Elia, Heraclia, and Galaguso are all small and medium-sized city-states in southern Italy, and although Pothenia is a big state in the alliance, it was forced by the situation and faced with the Dionian troops to join, and it was not very obedient to Dionia, and Dionya has been busy rectifying and governing Bruti and Picosis in the past two years, and has not had time to pay attention to Pothenia, which is far away on the edge of the mountains in the north of Dionia.

And now Lijim has volunteered to join the Dionian League! You must know that Ligem is not only a powerful state in Greater Greece, but also ranks first in the city-states of Greater Greece in terms of maritime trade wealth. With the addition of Ligem, Dionia's merchant ships and fleets could pass through the Strait of Messina, making it easier to trade with Iberia, Gaul and other Far Western Mediterranean regions. At the same time, it is also more conducive to the naval protection of Dionia's cities on the west coast of Italy, Knappetia and Picosius, as well as the allied city-states of Laos and Elia, connecting Dionia's territorial waters.

The Dionian senators were of course overjoyed to accept Lijim, but the Lijim envoy made a precondition: Davers, the Dionian consul, had to marry a Lijim woman, and this woman, the Lijim people, had already been chosen, and her name was Egnes.

Who is Agnes? Known as the "Rose of Lijim", she was so beautiful at the age of 16 that she even attracted a marriage proposal from the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse, which was firmly rejected by the vigilant Lijim.

The enraged Syracuse messenger threw down a sentence: "Our all-powerful general will open his eyes and see who is more qualified than him to marry Egnes!" ”

Dionysius then turned to the woman of Lockley and decorated the ship that welcomed his wife with jewels and gold, which became a hot topic in Greater Greece at the time.

In Lijim, because of the words thrown by the messenger of Syracuse, Agnes has not been able to marry, because as Syracuse continues to expand and become more and more powerful, not only Lijim's men, but the entire city-state does not want to provoke Dionysius, thus making Ligem the target of the anger of the tyrant of Syracuse.

As a result, after a few years, Agnes was already a 21-year-old single woman (Greek women generally marry after the age of 14, that is, at the end of puberty), and still no one dared to marry, and had to become the priestess of the famous virgin goddess Artenis among the Greek gods.

The real-life Lijim who are now facing the threat of Syracuse believe that Davers is the real ruler of Dionia, so they want to tie Davers and Lijim together through Egnes to deal with Dionysius together.

Davers saw through the minds of the Lijim people and immediately refused.

A few days later, the envoy of Ligim actually said that most of the senators of the Senate, even including Merses, Marigi, Kunogorata, Cornerus and others, visited Davers, hoping that he would agree to Lijim's request, and also refuted Davers's statement that "the law of monogamy in Dionya should be observed", because there was no such strong provision in Dionyan law, it was just a customary custom, even in Athens, where "monogamy" was expressly stipulated. During the Great Plague period that preceded the Peloponnesian War, polygamy was also promoted because of the drastic decline in the population.

At the same time, they also emphasized that Dionysius of Syracuse and the other tyrants of the Sicilian city-state had many wives, so the life consul of Dionia, the overlord of southern Italy, could of course also be.

They also refuted fears that Davers believed that Dionya would be dragged into the war with Syracuse by Lijim. Phellisius, Antonios and others believed: Don't look at the seemingly powerful Syracuse, the Carthaginians will always be its great enemy, how dare Dionysius risk fighting on both sides and rashly offend the equally powerful Dionia.

In fact, the news from Sicily seems to prove this: the army of Syracuse swept west along the north coast of Sicily and began to approach the city of Sorus, and finally made the Carthaginian senate, which had been angry with Dionysius besieging Tauromenan, finally made up its mind, appointed Silmico's brother Marco as commander, recruited soldiers, and prepared to lead the army to Sicily again to resist the attack of the Syracuses.

For the senators in charge of the Ionian Senate, the acceptance of Lijim was not a big risk, but on the contrary it was very beneficial; For the military veterans, Lijim had a relatively powerful naval fleet that could compensate for Dionia's shortcomings.

Under the persuasion of everyone, Davers was a little hesitant. At this point, his wife, Christoya, stood up and expressed support for the Senate's desire for Davers to marry another Lijim wife, and persuaded Davers to accept Agnes.

Born in Miletus, Asia Minor, Christoya was influenced by Persian culture since she was a child, and was not too resistant to polygamy, and Cyrus the Younger had more than a dozen favorite concubines. Already a successful businessman, she knew the importance of Lijim's submission to the Dionian trade.

Davers was finally persuaded to marry the 21-year-old Lijim woman, Agnes, into the official residence of the Dionian Consul, and Lijim successfully joined the Dionian League.

This incident shocked the whole of Greater Greece.

When Dionysius learned of this, he was leading his army to besiege Solus, and he had already ordered a retreat, but he gave the order again: blow the trumpet of the attack......

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During these two years, in the lands of Asia Minor, the allied Greek army led by Dekyridas caused great trouble for Persia.

So in 396 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes, at the suggestion of his mother, appointed Conon of Athens, who was temporarily residing in Persia, as Admiral of the Persian Navy (Conon was the commander of the Athenian navy, but suffered a crushing defeat to Spartan Lysander at the Battle of the Sheep River, which eventually led to the surrender of Athens to Sparta).

Conon fled to Persia and was always seeking revenge on Sparta, so he often sought to curry favor with the Persian queen mother, Palysatis. Now that he was finally in power, he immediately led 300 Persian warships and actively cooperated with the Persian land forces, which soon inflicted heavy casualties on the Spartan army and put it in a difficult situation.

As a result, Persia proposed an armistice and peace talks, but Sparta refused.

At this time, Sparta, who was already the overlord of Greece, was unwilling to accept peace talks when the war was passive, which not only made the terms of peace talks very unfavorable to Sparta, but also damaged Sparta's prestige among the Greek city-states. The Council of Elders decided to send King Agosilaus to replace Dekyridas and wage a greater war in Asia Minor.

Agosilaus has always shown his approachable and humble side to the Spartan populace, but under the mask of abiding by Spartan traditions and laws, he hides an ambition that has never been known. He longed for great glory and worshipped the heroes of the ancients, hoping to make the world forget his lameness and remember only his exploits with unprecedented victories. So when he received the order from the Council of Elders, he already thought in his heart that he was the Agamemnon of this age, going to conquer the new Troy, that is, Persia.

He led part of his army to the city of Aulis (in the region of Piosia, the most famous of which was Thebes), and offered sacrifices to the temple of Artemis, just as Agamemnon, the king of kings, had done before he had led the entire Greek army across the sea against Troy.

But in the course of the solemn worship, the Thebans appeared, claiming that the Spartans had not informed Thebes of their actions, thus forcibly interrupting the ceremony.

This incident cast a shadow on the already tense relationship between Sparta and Thebes. And for the extremely self-respecting Agesilaus, this is a great disgrace! From then on he remembered Thebes.

Eventually, Agosilaus led an army of 2,000 new Spartan citizens and a military council of 30 men, including Lysander, to quietly cross the sea to Asia Minor and enter Ephesus.

When Lysander thought he had propped up Agesilaus, the mild-mannered king would rely on him, the true "king" who had conquered Asia Minor, and would put the command of the Spartan army in his hands.