All the patriarchs stood up at this moment as a sign of respect. This was not spontaneous, but an act passed by the Senate of the Kingdom of Dioonia during this decade, which stipulated that all kings must have this etiquette when attending the meetings of the Senate. If there is a patriarch who does not stand up or do not bow, the Supreme Ombudsman may exercise his power to expel him from the meeting.

As for the entry of the palace guards in the venue, it is due to the fact that after the Southern Italian War, the number of senators of the Senate increased dramatically, although the guards guarding the Senate before entering the venue will search the senators to prevent anyone from carrying weapons, but some of the new senators who joined Theoria are very contradictory, such as Crotone and Lockrie Senator, Trina and Sibernian Senator, etc., in the debate of the bill, they disagree, often prone to conflict, and in some cases even threaten the safety of Davers, so it was proposed by Marigi and PlesinusWith the consent of more than half of the senators in the venue, Davers's palace guards were allowed to enter the venue, both to protect the king and to assist the procurator in maintaining order in the venue. Of course, after ten years of running-in and some improvements to the Senate meeting system, the current Senate meeting has become much more orderly.

Davers sat down in the leather chair, and since there were two steps below the seat, he was almost at the same height as the back seats in the room.

Davers stared at the nearly two hundred senators in front of him, most of them concentrated in the front of the center of the room, so that the speakers could be heard.

In the front row sat the senior senators, and the middle seat belonged to the Kunogora Tower, which was a tribute to what Davers had done over the years, and the senators recognized his ability and prestige. But he had been bedridden all this time, and when he heard Phelps say that his condition was getting worse, Davers was a little worried.

The seat next to him was supposed to be Cornerus, a veteran of hard work, but today he was standing at the wooden table next to the center of the hall in front of Davers's right as chairman. Ten years have passed, and he has a white beard and a rickety figure.

Davers sighed inwardly, if it weren't for the long absence of Kunogorata and the need for prestigious senators to guard him in the Senate, he might have considered letting Cornerus, who was almost 60 years old, not have to take up the position of rotating chairman, which was too much work to keep, because he was afraid that he would not be able to hold on.

At the forefront of the center sat the three permanent presidents of the Senate: Veesba, Sedorum and Lucias. Although Crotone's Lycias is a latecomer senator, on the one hand, out of respect for Crotone, a city that was once a powerful Greek state, on the other hand, after all, Crotone was the leader of Siritin, Trina, and Coronia, although it is already in the past, there are still some influences, so Licias, who was once the chief general of Crotone, became the rotating chairman of the Senate at the suggestion of Davers.

Also seated in the first row are Trito Demos, Protesilaus, Rafias, Antaoris, Phellisius, Mersis, Marigi, Plecinas, Burkos...... These senators who had made great contributions to the kingdom before the Southern Italian War.

In addition, the former mercenary veterans, who used to like to sit together, have also changed their seating situation. Antonios, for example, sat alone, surrounded by mostly senators from Sicily; Shilos didn't want to sit alone, but some of the elders of Lockry and his allies, who he conquered and surrendered, preferred to come to him, which made some of the former mercenary elders very disagreeable, and finally he had to stay away from the mercenary elders a little...... Later, in order to avoid a situation like Antonios, Davers sent two or three legions to attack the designated towns of Mesapi and Puchetti each time after the Battle of Brindisi, so that each soldier could gain combat achievements and training, and at the same time disperse the influence of the commanders on the conquered territories.

But even so, there were still some Mesapi and Puchetti senators who cheekily crowded among the former mercenary elders, and the largest group in the Senate gradually tended to be torn apart. Far from being worried, Davers was happy to see this happen, because he no longer needed to rely on these mercenaries to gain a foothold in the kingdom.

At this moment, Davers put his hands on the armrests of the chair, leaned back in a more comfortable position, and said to Cornerus, "Let's start." ”

The first item on the agenda of the Senate meeting was the debriefing of the Administrator of Ionona, Arcistes, whose term of office had expired.

Debriefing, this is a mandatory procedure for every Ionian senator who leaves public office.

On the one hand, it is to let other elders understand and evaluate their actions during their tenure. If you perform well, then it will be easier to take up a new position in the next election, and if you perform poorly, then there will be a reason to be idle next time, which also forces the senators to dare not slack off when holding public office, and are regarded as incompetent by their colleagues, and no one can stand it.

On the other hand, it is convenient for the other senators to understand the current situation and difficulties in the office or in the region through the outgoing person, so that they will consider it carefully when deciding on the bill relating to it or when deciding whether to take over the office.

Assistes had already debriefed on Énona three years earlier, so this time he was familiar with the road and said it briefly.

After he finished speaking, there was applause all around, of course, many of them were social.

At this time, the rotating chairman, Cornerus, said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, now is the time to ask Lord Assistes questions. ”

Ashistton was nervous, and the hardest time for the debriefing was here!

As soon as Cornerus finished speaking, Phellisius immediately stood up: "My lords, I remember that three years ago Master Asistes said, 'Enona will be a bridge between the Campanian League and the Kingdom of Theoria. 'I would like to ask Lord Asistes, what has Enona achieved in this regard in the past three years?' ”

Assistes breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Pherisius gratefully: worthy of being an old commander among the mercenaries, this is completely helping himself.

In his previous debriefing, Assistes had already mentioned this, and now it would be enough to explain it in more detail: "Thank you, Your Majesty and your lordships, for your wise decision to ally the Kingdom of Dionya with the Campanian League, which is the basis for the rapid development of relations between Enona and the city-states of Campania!"

As we all know, some of the city-states have fallen into the hands of the Samonai as a result of the Samonai invasion of the city-states of Campania, including the ancient city-state of Capusa. Although a peace agreement was reached between the Samonai and the Campania Alliance through our mediation, the lands occupied by the Sammonai could not be returned, so there were a large number of landless Campanians in the Campania region.

In the past, most of them had to work as mercenaries in order to survive. And since Enona became a new piece of land in the kingdom, although the original inhabitants of the Samonai have left, the population of its towns has grown slowly, because Greek immigrants from the eastern Mediterranean prefer to settle in the greater Greek region of the kingdom, which is closer to the Greek mainland and has the same and more familiar customs, while few people are willing to come to Enona in the middle of the west coast of Italy, and in previous years the inhabitants of Enona were mainly some soldiers and families who had settled in the original Third Legion——"

At this, Asistes nodded slightly to the Lucanian senators such as Vespa and Hermon, because the soldiers of the Third Legion were mainly Lucanians: "There is a large amount of wasteland in Enona, but there is a lack of labor, so since the time of Lord Alexis, some measures have been taken to attract Campanians to come to Enona as hired laborers. And I insisted on the practice of Lord Alexis, and as a result of the further improvement of the diplomatic environment, I proposed some new measures, such as allowing Campanians to rent five acres of land even if they did not wish to become Ionian citizens, and more than ten acres at a time if they were to reclaim wasteland...... In the past six years, a large amount of wasteland in Enona has been developed into mature fields, and tax revenues have also been greatly increased.

At the same time, I provided cheap accommodation for the Campanians in the city of Enona, and all the places that required labor, such as ports and markets, were open to them, and they were basically treated on the same footing as the freedmen and reserve citizens of Dionia, which led to the influx of a large number of Campanians into Enona, which greatly promoted the rapid development of the port of Enona, so that the port of Enona, which had only a simple dock ten years ago, has now become one of the important ports of the kingdom in the middle of the west coast of Italy! ”

The more Arcistes spoke, the more agitated he became: "The influx of Campanians into Enona also provided us with the basis for spreading the culture of the kingdom. They love to eat our food, they love bathing, they prefer to watch intense rugby, soccer matches, and even organize their own teams to practice. When I found out about this, I hired experienced players to teach them, and in recent years I have allowed Campanians who were working in Enona to form teams to participate in rugby and soccer matches in the city, and when they returned to Campania, they spread these hobbies to their home countries. Last year, Enona held a special rugby tournament with the neighboring cities of Pompeii, Naples, Sorrentum, Capreae...... When the city-states of Campania formed a team to participate, the tournament was held very successfully, so in this year's Kingdom Rugby Finals, Pompeii, as our ally city-state, actively requested to participate, and was approved by His Majesty...... (https:)

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