Cornerus was old and his voice was not loud, and he even trembled. It was impossible for the people behind the venue to hear clearly, but in front of him, several voice transmitters retelled his words in a loud voice.

At this time, he took out a scroll of sham paper from his arms, spread it carefully, coughed lightly, and began to recite: "Dear veterans of the Kingdom of Dionys! Dear representatives of local councillors from all towns of the Kingdom of Dionys! When the Kingdom Conference was held, I was unable to attend the meeting. For this, I apologize to you deeply! The war with Carthage, Rome, and Samone was not initiated by us, but we had to continue fighting because it was related to the life and death of the Kingdom of Dionys and the fundamental interests of each of our citizens!

Until now, this war has lasted for a year. During this year, our soldiers fought bloody battles on the front line, and you in the rear tried your best to maintain the stability of domestic order and prepare for the large amount of materials needed for the war. Our ability to defeat Rome and Samone one after another is inseparable from your hard work!

Some time ago, our Sicilian fleet and the Third Fleet almost wiped out the Carthage fleet. Just yesterday when I wrote, our land army severely damaged Carthage's 100,000 troops in Selinus and captured Carthage's military commander Ma Ge——”

When Cornerus read this, he deliberately paused. As he expected, thunderous cheers came from the venue in an instant.

"That's great! Another big victory!"

"Win! Win! We won this war!"

"We beat Carthage! We became the new Western Mediterranean overlord!!"

...

People danced and hugged each other, and their joy was beyond words. You should know that Carthage dominated the Western Mediterranean for many years, including the elders, most of the people present did not have much confidence in this war, but it was this unexpected result that surprised them.

At this time, even the order officials in charge of the order of the venue smiled and did not immediately stop the commotion in the venue. After a while, they asked to remain calm again.

Cornerus continued to read: "...We defeated the Carthage navy, and now we defeated the Carthage army. The Carthaginians had basically lost the ability to fight our Dionia, so they sent an envoy to ask for peace talks with us.

Everyone, I know that the war this year has had a great impact on the kingdom. The treasury has almost been exhausted, the food prices have risen, the young and middle-aged citizens have been removed in large quantities, labor is short, soldiers are killed and killed, and some territory has been ravaged by the enemy and needs to be rebuilt... Many of you may hope to gain some benefits and make peace with Carthage to restore stability to the kingdom order.

However, although the Western Mediterranean is large, it cannot accommodate two powerful countries. Do we hope to see Carthage, which was severely damaged, learn lessons, cultivate oneself and restoration after the truce, and challenge us again after regaining its strength?

I think your answer must be ‘No!’, so we cannot stop at the current victory, and continue to fight until we finally get the ideal result we want, that is, we, Dionia, have an absolute advantage, so that Carthage will never challenge, and the Western Mediterranean will always have only one overlord, that is, we - Dionia!"

When Cornerus read this, his voice couldn't help but become louder, and everyone present had their eyes bright and their heads held high.

"... Therefore, I hope you will continue to unite and make the best efforts to continue to appease the people, maintain the stability of the kingdom, and do your best to provide sufficient supplies to the army until we achieve the final victory!...The above is the content of the letter written by His Majesty." After reading the letter, Cornerus handed it to Lucias next to him.

At this moment, someone in the venue suddenly shouted: "His Majesty Davers wins!"

Let the venue be lively again: "His Majesty Davers wins!!!"

"The Kingdom of Dionia is a thousand victories!!!"

...

Publius, sitting in front of the venue, was shrouded in this passionate atmosphere. He never expected that on the first day he entered the temple of the highest power in the Kingdom of Dionia, he felt the ambition of the kingdom - to become the only overlord of the Western Mediterranean.

Although he was not as excited as others, he felt a little more proud in his heart, and he also breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, he was lucky to become a citizen of this kingdom in time!

At this time, Cornerus took the opportunity to say, "It seems that everyone has no objection to the decision made by His Majesty, but also very supportive. In the next two days, we will discuss how to better fulfill His Majesty's request. But now, we will first invite the chief officials of each department to summarize the situation of the Kingdom last year. Since everyone is interested in the military situation of the Kingdom, then first, please invite the Minister of Military Affairs Hilos to power."

According to the previous procedures of the Kingdom Conference, King Davers first made a comprehensive summary of the situation in the Kingdom last year, and then the heads of each department gave a specific introduction to the situation in which the department was responsible. However, now Davers is out, the steady Cornerus and Lucias dare not interfere, so they simply skipped the first link. The speeches of each department usually start from the Finance Department. After all, money is the most concerned issue for everyone, but now military has become the most concerned issue for everyone, so Hilos is the first to appear.

After years of training, this mercenary-born military minister stood in the center of the venue and had a calm and majestic temperament, attracting everyone's attention.

He used a comprehensive and brief speech speed to describe the entire process of the war between Dionia and Rome, Samonet and Carthage from its occurrence, development and status quo. He briefly talked about the strategies and tactics formulated by King Davers and the Ministry of Military Affairs against these three hostile forces. He also mentioned the contributions made by each legion and fleet in the war.

Even though everyone had a rough understanding of last year's war through various channels, Hilos's comprehensive and professional narration still refreshed them, so everyone was listening carefully.

For Publius, he knew why Dionia dared to ignore the Carthaginian attack at the beginning, and King Davers first led a large army to attack Rome. It turned out that they had already made careful discussions and deductions, made careful preparations, and formulated a complete plan. However, Rome responded in a hurry, so how could it be unbeaten!

Publius roughly felt the terribleness of the establishment of the Military Affairs Department of the Kingdom of Dionia, and made a group of people with rich war experience do nothing else, specialize in military affairs, and study only how to defeat the enemy every day. This made people spend a lot of time on city-state affairs and diplomatic affairs in normal times, and summon citizens only when they were in wartime, and how the Roman nobles who considered tactics could match it!

What surprised Publius even more was a series of data that Hilos said: In the past year's war, the Kingdom of Dionia used a total of eleven regular legions, a reserve legion, four cavalry legions, and four fleets of more than 700 warships. The army alone used 110,000 people (not counting the reserve soldiers added later). What a powerful military force, and the ability to make this powerful military force operate normally for one year also shows the strong national strength of the Kingdom of Dionia!

Publius, who had been engaged in cumbersome government affairs for many years, deeply realized this. Looking back now, the Roman Senate rejected the request of the Dionysian envoy to "hope them to reach a truce with Volsey" and arrogantly shouted "not afraid of Dionys joining the war". Now it seems ridiculous.

Of course, at the end of the speech, Hilos also mentioned with a heavy expression: Although the Dionian army won a huge victory in the war this year, it also suffered considerable casualties. So far, nearly 30,000 people have died and more than 40,000 were injured (this includes the navy crew, and they accounted for the majority of the death toll). The Military Affairs Department will try its best to arrange the funeral of the soldiers who died and died and sent pensions to their homes as soon as possible, and properly solve the livelihood problems of the families of the dead and injured soldiers in the future, so that the soldiers who are still fighting have no worries.

When Hilos finished his talk, almost no one asked questions, and everyone responded with warm applause.

The second one to go on stage to summarize was the Minister of Finance Melsis. His speaking style was obviously different from Hilos. He complained that the war had destroyed the savings of the kingdom's treasury for many years. The expression of heartache on his face was definitely not pretended.

During the whole story, he was mostly complaining that the war consumed a lot of gold and silver. Even he mentioned that he had obtained a lot of trophy from the captured city-states such as Roman cities and Syracuse, and had begun to mine precious metals from the mines in Corsica and Sardinia, which actually made up for the large amount of deficits in the treasury. However, his tone and his expression seemed to indicate that these were not worth mentioning at all. If the kingdom did not stop the war immediately, the kingdom would be in trouble this year due to financial scarcity.

Publius knew from the whispers of the people next to him that this was the usual style of the greedy kingdom's finance minister, who always complained about the insufficient gold and silver treasury.
Chapter completed!