Peropidas looked at Luticli again, and then said calmly: "You Sparta, you have never heard of you owning the entire Greece, but in recent years, you can see you sending troops to provoke wars everywhere, we Thebes have been occupied by you, and the Piraeus port of Athens have been innocently harmed by you. In this way, Sparta is the biggest obstacle to Greece's restoration of peace! Temagolas, do you think I'm right?"

Temagolas was silent and did not respond.

Luticli was excited to refute, and Tribasus said loudly: "Sparta should indeed bear a great responsibility in the Greek wars over the years! The king gave Sparta great support, but Sparta failed the king's trust, which is indeed a pity!"

Having said that, when Tribasus saw Luticli's face turned pale, he sneered in his heart: The vulgar, rude, stupid and incompetent Spartan barbarians! If you weren't still needed you, and the king's efforts over the years would have been in vain, he would have let other Greek city-states unite to destroy you! Wait, one day he will settle the accounts with your Sparta!

"But the king believes that Sparta will learn from the past lessons and shoulder the important task of maintaining Greek peace again. Of course, this also requires the full assistance of other city-states such as Athens and Thebes! As for how you negotiate to sign a new peace treaty, we Persia will not intervene, but the king hopes that it is best to be based on the previous contract. For any city-state that does not negotiate seriously, even intends to obstruct, and wants to continue the war, they will bear the wrath of the king, and Persia will fully support its enemies to completely eliminate it!!"

In the last few words, Terebasus said loudly, which shocked Perropidas and others, and felt that the Persian king was indeed very concerned about the restoration of peace in Greece.

Tribasus suddenly sighed and said, "The reason why the king cares so much about Greece is that you Greeks have few thalassias, but they have always been able to compete with our powerful Persia. This makes him admire him very much! In his heart, he always had this idea-the Greeks were the masters west of the Mediterranean.

But now the situation has changed. In the years when you have frequent wars, a country called Dionys appeared in your colony, Greater Greece. It was like a monster. In just over 20 years, it not only conquered many alien races, but also annexed many Greek sub-states, and even Carthage became its vassal.

Now, it has become the overlord of the seas west of Greece. Next, it may face its greedy mouth against Greece very close to it. If Greece does not end the dispute as soon as possible, unite and resist this powerful enemy together, all that awaits you is destruction, just like the annexed city-states of Crotone, Locre, Katanai, and Syracuse! So the king hopes that after reaching peace, you can re-establish a new alliance and protect Greece's security!"

It can be said that the Western Mediterranean War, which happened a few years ago, had nothing to do with Persia, but the demise of the Eastern Phoenician fleet and the subsequent Persian envoys went to Dionia and demanded that their ceasefire were severely rejected. These two things greatly hurt the self-esteem of Persian king Artaxerxes: Even the most rebellious Sparta and Athens eventually crawled at my feet, a small barbarian kingdom dared to be so arrogant! ‘What does it mean that the Western Mediterranean is the territory of Dionia. If Persia wants to intervene, he will send troops if he has the courage to do so!’… This is the anger that Artaxerxes felt when he heard the messenger come back and add fuel to the air.

Although Dionys is far away, Artaxerxes has always held a grudge. Now he has finally found an opportunity to fight back against the Kingdom of Dionys that dares to offend his dignity.

After hearing Trebasus's words, the three messengers had a slightly complicated expression and were full of thoughts.

I heard that during the Western Mediterranean War, the Persians sent a fleet to participate in the war, but suffered a crushing defeat... It seems that this matter is true. No wonder the Persian king received us so kindly this time and hoped that we would reach peace! However... jointly resisting a Dionia, which is very aggressive in military and trade, is in line with the interests of Athens and the people's requirements, but should we establish another alliance? But if this alliance is to be dominated by Sparta, will it harm the interests of Athens again?... These may have to go back and discuss before making a decision... This is the idea of ​​Temagoras.

Form a alliance against Dionia?!...Luticli was in a bit complicated.

Since the Spartans had participated in the Persian expeditionary force, they noticed early on that Dionia, established by mercenary leaders, had learned more about the entire process of Dionia from its weak city-state at its establishment to a powerful kingdom. In this process, Sparta used strategies to stumbling and wanted to hinder its development, because they remembered the threatening words that the King of Dionia had said to them, so even if the peace agreement was always in effect, they

He was also worried that he would be retaliated by Deaolia, especially since Sparta is now deeply trapped in the quagmire of Thebes, so the Persian proposal moved Luticoli because if it could be realized, it would undoubtedly give Sparta a security guarantee, but at the same time he was also worried that the establishment of this alliance would really anger Dionia? Can he truly resist the possible attack launched by Dionia? After all, the Spartans knew a little about the strength of the Dionians.

Pero Pidas looked at Tribasus in surprise. He seemed to hear another meaning from the favorite minister of Persian king: strangely, the Persians seemed to be afraid of Dionia?! Is the strength of the Kingdom of Dionia really that strong?!...

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Mr. Terebasus, the Persian king's advice is very good, but I have a small problem."

"What's the problem?" Tribasus looked at him.

"As far as I know, Sparta has always had close contact with the Kingdom of Dionia you mentioned just now, and has signed a long-term alliance agreement to allow such a city-state to lead the Greeks against Dionia. Is this possible?!——"

"Shut your mouth! Don't talk nonsense if you don't know!" Luticli interrupted him and emphasized loudly: "What Sparta and Dionia signed is a non-aggression treaty. In fact, our relationship with Australia is not good!"

"The king knows all these situations, so the king still proposes that Sparta lead the Greeks to defend against the possible invasion of Dioria. However, in order to resolve the doubts of other city-states, Sparta should best draw a clear line with Dioria as soon as possible and cut off contacts!"

Tribasus looked at Luticli coldly, then looked at the other two envoys, and said in a deep voice: "The King is very concerned about the security of Greece and will support you in restoring peace! He will also fully support you in forming an alliance to defend against Dionia! But if any city-state is still provoking war or refuses to join the alliance, defending against the Dionians, and even secretly colluding with it, then we Persia will call on other Greek city-states to unite and destroy it! If Dionia really invades Greece one day, the king promises that he will aid the Greek alliance's huge wealth and materials, and at the same time, a powerful navy will fully assist the Greeks in repelling the evil wolf in the west!..."

Tribasus's decisive words were both a strong threat and showed Persian generous and generous kindness. Perropidas and the other two were just messengers of the city-state and could not make a promise directly. They just thought about the pros and cons in their hearts, so that they could return to the city-state and persuade the people to make some choice. Therefore, the three of them remained silent at the same time.

But for Tribasus, he had completely conveyed the intentions of the Persian king to the three messengers. His purpose had been achieved, so he was unwilling to stay with the Greeks for too long, so the banquet ended in a hurry.

However, after the three of them returned to their rooms, the messenger of Athens, Temagoras, who was originally the silent messenger at the banquet, quietly knocked on the door of the messenger of Sparta. After seeing Luticoli, he said seriously: "Athen and Sparta need to have a good talk..."

Before the three messengers left Persia, Artaxerxes met them again, reiterating his hope of Greece restoring peace and forming an alliance to defend against Dionia, he showed his generosity and gave the three messengers great rewards, among which he also gave a cow of balm-soaked in spartan messenger Luticoli. He also heard that the messenger of Athens, Temagoras loved to drink milk and specially gave him more than a dozen good cows, but he did not show any speciality to Pero Pidas, which was somewhat contrary to his previous experience of meeting the three messengers.

In addition, he summoned Luticli alone once, specifically mentioning the "friendly agreement signed between Sparta and Dionia", and reminded him with a serious expression: Sparta must cut off relations with Dionia, otherwise Persia will instead support its enemy, Thebes.

Due to the pressure exerted by the Persian king, Luticli seemed to be worried on his way back.

Pero Pidas was also uneasy. Although the Persian king of Babylon had a good attitude towards him, he could feel that the Persians believed in and supported Sparta more, and in the previous talks they specifically mentioned, "The peace talks should be based on the contract of the king", which made him worry a lot.
Chapter completed!