Antipater never seemed to have any intention of putting his son Cassander in the position of regent. www.biquge.info In fact, Antipater, although he trusted Cassander, never let him do any work alone, but used him as the second executor in many important tasks. During the operation he left Europe to fight Padicka, he gave the responsibility of remaining in Macedonia to Polybecon rather than Cassander. In the fiefdom of Tripaladisus, Antipater arranged for his son to succeed Seleucus as commander of the cavalry of his allies, and at the same time to exterminate Eumenes as Antigonus's lieutenant, rather than giving him a separate governorship. In the subsequent disagreement between his son and Antigonus, he fully supported Antigonus and took Cassander with him in case he got in the way.

Perhaps Antipater felt that it was not his son's turn to take the throne in terms of seniority, so he let him accumulate experience step by step, and it was not too late to let the juniors take the throne when the old people of the same age as himself and Philip II were sick and died. Eventually, therefore, Antipater made an arrangement for his death: Polybeccon would succeed him as regent of Macedonia after his death, exercising guardianship over the mentally handicapped king Philip III and the infant king Alexander IV. Cassander was established as the prefect of the Macedonian court, assisting Polybecon as his deputy.

Cassander had plenty of reason to be dissatisfied. He had hoped that his father would pass on the regency to him, since until Alexander IV grew up, the position of regent was equivalent to that of de facto king. But his father didn't seem to think about his feelings at all. Kassander was not ready to accept his father's arrangement of being his deputy, and he decided to obtain the power he craved by his own hands: I had waited so long and been my deputy so many times, and now it was my turn to be the master of Macedonia!

Even in the hours before Antipater's death, Cassander, who was already delirious, began his own secret conspiracy. He sent a general named Nicano to the port of Piraeus in Athens and secretly succeeded the original leader of the garrison under the guise of the regent's order.

In the Second Diadochi War, Cassander declared war on the regent with Ptolemy I, Antigonus I, and King Philip III's ambitious wife, Eurydic III, while Polybeccon joined forces with Eumenes and Olympia. In 318 BCE, Antigonus destroyed Polybecon's fleet, Macedonia fell to Cassander, and Polybeccon was forced to flee to Epirus with Roxana and Alexander the Younger. A few months later, Olympia persuaded her relative, King Epirus of Epirus, Aaccades, to join Polybecon in attacking Macedonia. When Olympias came to the battlefield, Eurydice's army betrayed Eurydic by refusing to fight Alexander's mother. After that, Polybokon recaptured Macedonia. Philip and Eurydic were captured and executed in 317 BC, making Alexander IV king and Olympia essentially regent of Alexander.

Athens, inside the Palace of Cassander.

"General, according to the spies, there have been recent changes in the city of Pella, the army has been transferred frequently, and there are many envoys going out." Glaucias said.

"Didn't you find out what's going on?" Cassander dissatisfied.

"Because that vicious woman went on a killing spree in Pella, killing not only King Philip and the queen, but also a large number of dissidents, including your brother Nikano, and blocking all lines of communication, we know that information is still very limited. However, I will continue to send someone to investigate, please rest assured. ”

"Old witch!" Cassander slammed his fist into the wall, with such force that it spilled a few debris on the wall and his hand grinded away.

"Swear to Apollo that I will dig your heart out." Cassander spat out every word heavily.

"Do we need to take action?"

"What do you say?" Cassander stared at Glousias and said, with a calm but murderous look in his eyes, Glausias was startled, and quickly lowered his head and said nothing.

"You go and get ready now, and in ten days you'll be sent to Pella."

"Yes, General."

Standing on the balcony with a panoramic view of the whole city of Athens, Cassander looked out and thought: without his father by his side, he could do it freely, and no one could control him anymore. Everything is fake, only strength is true, strength represents everything, and without strength it is nothing. Queen mothers, kings, queens, to hell with them, I am the king, I am the lord of Greece and Macedonia! …,

Three days later, a man in black came to the gate of the Kashande Palace.

"Who are you?" When the soldier saw him, he pointed a gun at him and asked.

Without saying a word, the man in black snatched the weapons from the guards and knocked them to the ground. When the soldiers inside heard the commotion, they immediately rushed over and prepared to kill this impudent fellow, but the man in black took out a gold medal, and everyone looked at it and fell to a halt.

The man in black looked at the two people underground with disdain, and laughed: "In this way, it can also be guarded?" ”

The two guards looked angry, but helpless, and the man in black laughed and left.

"Karenos!" As soon as he arrived at the main hall, Cassander called his name, but he turned his back to him.

"Yes, my lord, your servant Karenos has returned." The man in black knelt down respectfully and said.

"What the hell is happening in Macedonia right now?"

"The palace is very tightly guarded, and it is difficult for me to enter, but through some other channels, I learned a big secret." Carynos said without humility or arrogance.

"What's the secret?" Cassander remained calm.

"Olympias may have to run!"

"Run?!" Cassander looked back, puzzled, "Where are you going?" ”

"It is said that he is going to the east to meet Eumenes."

Cassander's face was full of doubts, and he thought: Olympias is leaving Macedonia, the place where he has been for nearly forty years? If that's true, then this behavior is really weird. Already occupied Macedonia, and if you don't manage it well and want to give it up, just give it to me for nothing?

Cassander will never know why, of course, Macedonia will definitely not give it to him in vain, Alexander has sent a letter to the Thracian governor Lysimachus, just waiting for two people to rob you to the death, and these two people will definitely fight, even if Alexander tells them their thoughts, they still have to rob, this is the Yang conspiracy, knowing that they are calculated, but they still have to drill into the set designed by others, this is driven by interests, no one will give up the land of the Macedonian Empire.

"Plus, there's bad news."

"What else?"

"Olympias seems to have sent someone to Thrace."

"Oh?" Cassander was puzzled for a moment, then came to his senses, baring his teeth like a lioness with a wounded head, "What a vicious woman, she wants me and Lysimachus to fight to the death." ”

"That's terrible! I don't know how I came up with it. ”

"It's not difficult to come up with this plan for the two tigers to compete for food, but the strange thing is why did she leave? Could it be that she is afraid that I will attack her, so she will not take the initiative to give up Pella! Everything is incredible. Cassander only knew that Olympias was a power-hungry man, but he didn't believe that she had much political talent. In fact, he guessed correctly, everything that happened was not her own meaning, but her grandson Alexander IV, who was only 6 years old.

After listening to Carenos's report, Cassander rewarded him with 200 silver drachmas and told him to continue to listen to the information, and Carrenos left happily after receiving the reward. The guards on the side couldn't help but salivate when they saw the bulging bag of coins. You know, their monthly salary is only 90 drachmas. Karenos pouted at the guards and swaggered out of the door. The guards were angry and jealous, but they were really helpless.

Kassander did not delay and immediately went to Dmitry's mansion in Falerum. As soon as Dmitry saw Cassander personally visiting, he hurried to greet him, and the two exchanged pleasantries.

"I wonder if there's anything I need you to come over in person?" Dmitry, as a puppet, asked very respectfully.

"There's a change in Macedonia, Olympias wants to run."

"What's going on?"

So Cassander told him everything about the situation, and both of them fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Dmitry said: "There is me here in Athens, and I am still holding on, I believe that there will be no trouble." You can go with confidence, Macedonia is the political center after all, and now someone is going to throw it away, and there is no reason not to pick up this ready-made. As long as you capture Macedonia, you will control the entire peninsula, and no one will be able to compete with you. ”

"Then it's all up to you......" The two made eye contact for a moment, and Cassander left. …,

At the same time that Cassander learned the news, Alexander had already set off for Athens, the economic and cultural center of the classical Greek era, which was the location of Cassander's temporary base camp. Of course, just as Cassander couldn't figure out why he wanted to abandon Macedonia, so did he not think of going to Athens.

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1 Cassander (Greek, Κ?σσaνδpo?, c. 350-297 BC), king of Macedon (305-297 BC), eldest son of Antipater, founder of the short-lived Antipater dynasty. Cassander was a man of literary cultivation but brutal and ambitious. He rebuilt Thebes, which had been destroyed by Alexander, transformed Saima into the city of Thessaloniki, and founded the new city of Cassander on the ruins of Potitia. (On the right is a bust of Cassander, which portrays Cassander's cunning temperament very well)

2 Drachma: The currency of Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic regions of the Hellenistic era, 1 drachma was a silver coin weighing about 4.3 grams.

3Dmitry of Phallum, or Dmitry Phalerum (Greek: Δημ?tpio?Φaληpe??,c. 350 BC – c. 280 BC), was an Athenian orator, statesman, philosopher, and writer. He was born in Phalerum and later became a pupil of Theophrastus and a member of the early School of Escape. He later became a prominent political figure and was appointed tyrant of Athens by Cassander of Macedonia. Dmitry ruled Athens alone for 10 years, during which time he made important legal reforms and kept Athens in a pro-Cassander oligarchy. It was not until 307 BC that Dmitry was expelled by hostile forces from Cassander, and he was forced to leave Athens for Thebes, and after 297 BC came to the court of Alexandro Tolemy. He left behind many works, including historical, rhetorical, and literary criticism, and he was the first person in the record to compile Aesop's Fables.

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