In order to show his sincerity, Jason also stopped the siege and led his army back to Philae.

The Fasarusians faced a difficult choice, and finally decided to make a final effort and sent Poridamas to Sparta for help.

At the Spartan Elders' Council, Polydamas told the Spartan Elders and Prosecutors in detail, and he also reminded: "If you Sparta decide to rescue us, Thessal, it is best to send out your most elite troops, because if you only send an army composed of ordinary officers as commander, mainly composed of the freed Black Rous, then it is best not to act rashly! Because Jason not only has a powerful army, but he himself is a smart, capable and visionary general. The battle he commanded has never failed, so he will be Spartan's strong enemy!"

After the speech of Poridamas, the Spartans did not make an immediate decision, but they obviously paid attention to it. They sent people to Thessali for a period of time to understand the situation, and at the same time carefully counted the number of troops stationed overseas.

Finally, the Elders Council gave Polydamas a clear reply: "Dear Polydamas, our main force of Sparta is either fighting with the Athenian Navy or fighting with the Thebes, so we cannot provide you with enough reinforcements for Fasarus for the time being. However, we hope that the Thessalian Allied states led by Fasarus will not surrender to Jason easily. As long as you can resist the invasion of Philare's army, when our war with Thebes is over, we will immediately send powerful reinforcements to support it!"

When Polydamas came to Sparta, he saw that the area was sparsely populated, so he had some expectations. So after receiving the actual reply from the Elders' Council, he did not show any negative emotions such as surprise or disappointment. He calmly thanked the Spartans for their frankness and set off to return home.

As soon as he returned to Fasarus, he asked for a citizen meeting to be held immediately and told everyone about Sparta's decision.

The disappointed and frustrated citizens of Fasarus finally made a decision after intense discussion.

Polydamas once again served as an envoy, and met Jason and stated to him: "As long as Jason makes a promise, he will not harm the people of Fasarus, do not encroach on Fasarus' land, and do not destroy the Acropolis of Fasarus, the Fasarus people are willing to become Jason's sincere ally and help him establish Tagus' rule..."

Jason was overjoyed after hearing this and immediately made an oath with Polydamas.

Subsequently, Polydamas even sent his son to Jason as a hostage.

Not long after, the Fasarus people, led by Polydamas, convinced them to their close allies. In the spring of 374 BC (19th year of the Kingdom of Dionys), the messengers of the Thesarus city-state gathered in Fasarus and jointly elected Jason as the Tagus of the Thesarus.

After Jason became Tagus, he began to unite the city-states of Thessali. While promising not to interfere with the internal affairs of the rest of the city-states, he also formulated a new law of Tagus: no wars shall occur between the city-states, and conflicts shall be handed over to him for negotiation and ruling; each city-state shall not sign any agreement with other city-states, join any alliance, and all diplomatic affairs shall be decided by him; each city-state must pay tribute on time every year, and the amount paid shall be determined by him according to the financial resources of each state; each city-state must provide a certain number of cavalry and heavy infantry, and the specific amount shall be determined by him according to the strength of each state. He will regularly train these soldiers in normal times and lead them to wartime...

In addition, he adopted Polydamas's opinion, unified and reduced trade taxes between city-states and allowed the free circulation of goods, which greatly strengthened the economic ties between Thessaly city-states and gradually made inland trade prosperous.

By the end of this year, Jason had obtained more than 8,000 cavalry from the entire territory of Thessali, with the number of heavy infantry not less than 20,000, and the number of light shield soldiers was equivalent to that. After further strengthening his strength, he immediately issued instructions to various races and tribes in the mountainous areas around Thessali, requiring them to pay tribute according to the amount determined by Tagus Scopas of the Thessali during the Hippo War decades ago. If there were no one to pay, they would be attacked by his army.

Some tribes feared Jason's terrible strength and chose to surrender, while some unruly tribes rejected his request.

So Jason decisively led his army to attack, which also caused war to ignite in Northern Greece.

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Just as Jason was elected the Sesalitagus, the Athenians encountered difficulties: on the one hand, they saw that their former enemy, the neighbor Thebes, grew stronger with their help and their strength continued to increase, but they still refused to pay tribute to help maintain the expenses of the Athenian fleet; on the other hand, Athenian's own finances were short of money due to various military expenditures. Of course, even so, Athenian citizens were unwilling to reduce subsidies for watching dramas.

Therefore, at the suggestion of Chief General Kalistratus and others, the Citizens' Congress passed a resolution: to negotiate peace with Sparta alone.

Athens soon sent envoys to Sparta.

Sparta was desperate for it: in recent years, their army had been fighting in Piosha. Although they had achieved some small victories, they had never been able to defeat Thebes. Instead, the strength of Thebes became stronger and stronger. Sparta's prestige declined year by year, and it is becoming more and more difficult to fight with it. The Athenian Navy gave Sparta a headache. Not only were they unable to fight against it, but they could not stop the Athenian Navy from cruising in the Peloponnese waters like wandering in their back gardens, wantonly attacking Sparta's allies, seriously threatening the security of Sparta's rear.

Therefore, the armistice agreement between Sparta and Athens was soon signed.

After receiving notice from the General Executive Committee, Timothus, the Athenian naval general who was fighting abroad, was preparing to lead the fleet back to Athens. However, on the way back, he landed on Zakynthos Island without authorization, controlled the city-state on the island, and announced that the city-state would be allowed to return to his hometown (after Zakynthos became a Spartan alliance, he received support from the Spartans and expelled the democrats).

After learning the news, Sparta believed that Athens had violated the armistice agreement, so he called on allies to jointly invest in the formation of a fleet to protect the rights and interests of all allies in this sea area.

At the same time, Sparta also asked the new commander to lead the fleet to launch an expedition against Kerkira.

The attacked Kerkira people quickly asked for help from Athens.

Athens cannot allow Kekira, who had just joined the maritime alliance, to be bullied by the Spartans, otherwise Athens, as the leader of the maritime alliance, would inevitably lose the trust of the allies. What's more, Kekira has a unique geographical location, controlling the Gulf of Corinth and the city-states on the south coast of Kekira, and is the best stronghold for launching an invasion of the Peloponnese from the west. At the same time, this is also a must-pass place for important trade routes between the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Mediterranean, so it must not be given up.

For various reasons, this time, the Athenian citizens did not elect Timothus as the commander of the fleet, but chose Iphicratus, one of the Athenian generals.

As a result, the armistice agreement reached between Athens and Sparta lasted less than a few months, and war broke out again.

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Wars continued on the east side of the Adriatic Sea, while peace and prosperity were on the west side.

After September, after enjoying the joy of harvest, the people of Dionian are looking forward to the Hades celebration that will soon arrive. Every day, thousands of people flock to Turiy, the largest city in the Western Mediterranean, making the center of the Kingdom of Dionian every day and the constant joy.

Ocreton entered the city of Turiyan in such a lively, breathtaking joy.

Since the Western Mediterranean War, he has not been on a mission to Dionya. This time, he came to Turiyi because the Dionya sent an invitation and asked Carthage to send envoys to participate. The Hannover faction had important matters to discuss with Dionya, so he forced Ocreton, who was quite familiar with Dionya, to attend the Hades celebration.

Although Okritun has negotiated with Dionia on behalf of Carthage many times in the past, he has actually never gone to Turiyi. This big city with hundreds of thousands of people has shocked him even more than when Haka came to Turiyi. After all, there were far more migrant people in the city during the celebration than usual.

He stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the busy scene of countless piers on both sides of the Krati River, and couldn't help but wonder: If Carthage won in that war, would the city of Carthage have the same scene?!

But the facts cannot be changed. Thinking about it more is just a matter of increasing worries. The more prosperous Turiyi is, the more powerful the Kingdom of Dionia is, which undoubtedly adds a lot of difficulty to the subsequent negotiations... Ocredon frowned and fell into thinking.

I took a boat to enter the city of Turiyan, but stopped outside the pier. Because many ships were already docking in the pier and were busy unloading the cargo, there were no extra piers for the time being, so some passenger ships lined up in long queues and waited outside the pier, and Carthage's passenger ships arrived at the latest, so they could only be at the last.
Chapter completed!