At this time, the Senate has exploded, and the quarrel between the main battle faction and the main peace faction has become white-hot, but due to the loss of the outer islands, the main peace faction has taken advantage. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"You soft bones, the people elected you for their welfare, and you want to give away the city, isn't it a traitor? I don't want to be poked in the back. A white-robed young man in his thirties shouted, obviously a young and vigorous guy.

"Are you an idiot? Now that everyone has fought under the city, and the defense of the new city is so good, have all been captured, do you still think we can hold this place? Have you all forgotten what happened sixteen years ago? Don't forget, the other side is more than 30,000 people, how many of us are there, and there is no shame in surrendering, because that can save more than 100,000 people in the city from doom, and also prevent our soldiers from dying in vain. A congressman in his fifties retorted, feeling a sense of regret that hatred is not made of steel.

The words of the old councillor calmed down the venue, everyone felt something, the vast majority of people present had experienced the events of sixteen years ago, although Alexander later showed more tolerance, but there were still more than 2,000 soldiers crucified, this is not how brutal Alexander the Great was, it was really they did too much, repeatedly tortured Alexander's envoys to death and threw them down the city, even Alexander the Great's teacher This practice was extremely rare in Greece, which claimed to be a civilized country at that time, That's why the Emperor made such a move.

"Report-" A soldier hurried into the Senate chamber.

"What's going on?" The councillor in his fifties asked.

"The Macedonian envoy Laomedon asked to enter the city."

"Oh!" The old man glanced at the young councillor just now, and then said to the soldier, "Please! ”

"Yes!"

Laomedon was allowed to enter the city without waiting long outside the city, but the other party asked the army to retreat 2 Stadia distance to the queen, Laomedon did not have any fear, the more timid the other party became, the more afraid the other party did not dare to do anything to himself, and besides, this time is different from the past, although the Persian Empire at that time was declining, but the land was still vast, and there were hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, so Tyre had no fear, and now he was only a semi-vassal state of the Ptolemaic of Egypt, and nominally still belonged to the territory of the Macedonian Empire, If you do what you did back then, then you are really looking for death.

Raomodon went straight into the Senate and saw a variety of expressions, anger and fear, but without exception with a depressed mood. As Raomo was about to speak, a young parliamentarian asked: "Is this how you Macedonians trample on the dignity of other countries and occupy other people's lands at will?" ”

When Rao Modong heard this, he laughed secretly in his heart: The soldiers still dare to speak to me in such a tone when they are in the city, it is really unbelievable.

As soon as the old councillor heard the young councillor's words, he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "The angel is coming, and I hope to forgive my sins if I miss the distance." This kid is young and vigorous, I don't know what to say, you must not take his words to heart. In fact, we have no intention of resisting your army, but His Majesty the King has launched a sudden attack, and I have no choice but to resist instinctively, and I wonder if your envoy can tell him how His Majesty will treat the people of Tyre? ”

Raomedon smiled and talked eloquently: "First of all, let me introduce myself, my name is Laomedon, and I am the envoy of Alexander of Macedon. Your Majesty is merciful and does not want to cause more murder, as long as Tyre can surrender, he will not harm your interests, and you nobles and merchants can still do what you want to do and enjoy your luxurious life. As you know, Tyre is our first stop and our stopover, and we just want to use this as a forward base, and Tyre is not our destination. All we need is such a foothold, you only need to provide the necessary supplies, and Your Majesty will not extort against you. The new city has been occupied, His Majesty has not ordered the slaughter of a single civilian, not even a prisoner, and the new city is now in order and living the same life as before, and it is only one morning. Then again, with our military appearance, razing Tyre to the ground is not a problem, and it doesn't take much effort at all, even the new city was taken by us overnight, how long do you think the old city can hold on? And I would like to say that Ptolemy had acquiesced in our occupation of Tyre, and he would not interfere. ”…,

Of course, everyone knows that the strong defense of the new city has been easily taken, and the city on this shore is flat on all sides, and it is impossible to defend it with the comparison of the number of people on both sides, even if they ask for help from the surroundings, not to mention how small the probability of success is, I am afraid that the city will be broken before people come, let alone Egypt, people have already sold themselves. And the most important thing is that Raomodon said that it will not harm their interests, which is undoubtedly the most lethal, as long as their own interests are not damaged, what else is it? Looking at the parliamentarians who were talking, the old councillor was very suspicious in his heart, how could there be such a good thing in the world, and just wanted to say something, Raomodon continued: "Of course, as the defeated one, the supreme authority of Tyre is no longer your Senate, but naturally our Macedonian noble assembly, and the people among you who are highly respected and have made meritorious contributions to Macedonia can become members of the noble assembly and participate in the distribution of national interests. In addition, the king proposed to form a chamber of commerce with merchants as its components, and to appoint a capable person as its president, and to leave some commercial affairs to the chamber of commerce. As long as everyone works together to assist His Majesty the King, not only will your own interests not suffer any loss, but as the King's power continues to expand, the scope of your trade will become larger and larger, and then the Chamber of Commerce will monopolize the trade between the East and the West, and you will all gain endless wealth. The best of you can become a royal merchant and thus gain great convenience. ”

When all the councillors heard this, their hearts were unusually excited, and even the young councillor was obviously encouraged. When the old councillor heard that the other party had already thought of a long-term policy, and knew that the king attached great importance to commerce, he did not doubt him, so he made up his mind to surrender, but for the sake of face, he said to Raomodon in a serious manner: "Your Excellency has worked hard, you go and rest first, we must discuss it, and we will reply to you later." ”

"Okay, I'm sure you'll make the right choice." With that, the guards led Laomodon out.

The meeting room was lively again, and the councillors formed small groups to discuss one by one, and when the meeting finally calmed down, the old councillor began to appeal: "Ladies and gentlemen, I think the envoy has made it very clear, what do you care about, is it that you have a place here, and you can express your thoughts loudly and unscrupulously?" Don't say you don't care about money, it's nothing without it. Now it is rare that the king will accept our surrender, and if he were to take this city, it would be easy, but why? I don't know how kind he is, but I've heard he's only 7 years old. 7 years old! A 7-year-old child is already in power, do you think he is a genius? You must know that his father was also 20 years old before he began his plan to conquer the world. I think his vision must be very vicious, he doesn't care about the plunder, Tyre's wealth is known to everyone, as long as he gives an order, thousands of Tarrant's wealth is at his fingertips, but he doesn't want the money of this moment, so if he kills or robs us all, he can't get more wealth, and the better we live and get better, we can pay more taxes, in order to give him long-term support. ”

"Yes! Such a wise king, we are right to follow him! I'm in favor of surrendering, and I won't lose anything anyway. A councillor shouted.

"Yes, there is no shame in surrendering, it is shameful and hateful to ignore the interests of the masses!" Another member added.

Almost everyone raised their hands and voted to agree to surrender, what else did the young parliamentarian want to say, but seeing that so many people agreed, he knew that it was useless to say more, and his own temptation to the other party was also a little itchy, after all, he was young, and the road ahead was still long, if he could become a royal businessman, it would be even more promising, so he also raised his hand. The end result was that everyone raised their hands in surrender.