Nearly half of the contestants failed to finish the race in the marathon, and several contestants even fell into a coma halfway and were sent to the hospital for emergency rescue, which made the audience sigh.

That night, the celebration banquet held at the Palace of Dionia was the final arrangement of this sports meeting and also adhered to the tradition of various Greek sports meetings. However, Dionia made it particularly grand, not only invited champions from all competition events to the meeting, but also invited important envoys from all friendly city-states participating in this sports meeting.

King Davers personally hosted the banquet, and the atmosphere was very warm.

At the banquet, he had a cup with Caralistratus, Iphicratus, Ipa Mironda, Agsilaus and others. Now, with the authority of the entire Greek world, he treated these historical celebrities in his previous lives as if they were others, not too curious or talked too much to avoid misunderstandings from other city-state envoys. This made Agsilaus' idea of ​​making some requests to King Davers whom he had finally met was dashed.

At the end of the banquet, Davers announced two things: First, given the success of this sports meeting, the Holy Kingdom of Dionys will hold a sports meeting every four years in the summer, and will do its best to make it the grandest celebration in the entire Mediterranean world; Second, the Greek Parliament will hold an important enlarged meeting tomorrow, which will not only invite Greek city-state envoys to participate, but also invite envoys from other allies to participate, and discuss important matters with them.

Important events?!... The messengers returned to the hotel they checked in with all kinds of speculations, and some of them didn't even sleep well all night.

At the Greek Union meeting on the second day, Davers also attended and presided over the meeting.

Faced with the crowds of city-state envoys and parliamentarians, he solemnly proposed the suggestion of "declaring war on Persia and forming a coalition to attack Asia Minor", which really surprised all participants.

In fact, King Daphs was not the first person to make this proposal in front of the envoys of Greek city-states. As early as ten years ago, Athenian orator Isocrates repeatedly declared in the Greek Games and other public places that "Greece city-states should stop all conflicts and internal frictions, unite, and while defending against the threat of Dionia in the west, bravely launch an attack on the east enemy Persia, completely eliminate the culprit that caused the endless civil strife in Greece, and obtain land that was enough to support more people for the Greeks..."

Although Isocrates' speech was scoffed by the senior leaders of Greek city-states, it had a certain impact on the Greek people. After the Greek War, the pioneer said that "if Isocrates continued incitement, Athens would not have joined the anti-Dionian alliance, which eventually led to the current dilemma"... So a few years ago, he was exiled by his citizens with pottery pieces and went into exile in Asia Minor.

Now, after King Davers made this suggestion, he immediately announced that whether the Greek Conference agreed or not, the Holy Kingdom of Dionys will dispatch more than 100,000 troops to launch an attack on Persia!

This shocked the messengers.

At the same time, Davers also made a suggestion: as long as the allies send troops to form a coalition, after each battle, Dionyha will divide the spoils with him, and after defeating Persia, he will divide a part of the conquered Persian territory as the overseas territories of the allies in Asia Minor according to the contributions of the allies in the entire war...

As we all know, Persia is a wealthy kingdom, and the Persian king is even richest. For the Greek city-state with small and thalassin poverty and financial difficulties, it is of course a good thing to be able to earn wealth from Persia and nourish itself.

For Greek powerhouses such as Athens and Thebes, Dionys controls the Greek alliance, which makes them no longer have room to expand their power. If they can defeat Persia and gain the territory of Asia Minor, they have given them another way to develop their national strength... So most of the Dionys allies were moved by Daphs' proposal, not to mention that Dionys had some unswerving fans in the Greek parliament, such as Mesenia, Arcadia, and Zakinsus... So the resolution to declare war on Persia was finally passed.

The next step is to carefully discuss the formation of the Greek coalition and formulate plans to attack Persia.

A few days later, the news of "Dionia declared war on Persia" spread throughout the kingdom, and the enthusiasm that the people had not yet completely faded because the kingdom successfully held a sports meeting was rekindled.

While the people were discussing this kingdom event in the streets and alleys of various towns, Davers summoned Leoticids in the palace office.

"Have you watched this sports meeting?"

“Because many competitions were held at the same time, I only watched part of them.”

"How do you think?"

"Although the Greek city-state has achieved some good results in traditional competitive events, the championship and second and third places of any competition closely related to the military are almost all won by athletes in our kingdom, which shows that the military qualities of the citizens of Dionia are far superior to other allies."

"You! You!" Davers laughed in silence: "Three words are inseparable from military."

"Your Majesty, you are here to come to me this time, don't you just want to chat with me, right?" Leoticids asked calmly.

"I heard that there is resentment in your words. Isn't it that I'm still dissatisfied with the fact that I transferred you from the First Legion to the Turiyi Barracks and served as the chief instructor of the reserve legion?" Davers said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Leoticids remained silent.

The year before yesterday, Davers issued a new instruction to the Ministry of Military Affairs: to establish a commander position above the commander of the corps. As the highest level of front-line officers, the commander who has commanded multiple corpses or joint forces to win many victories can be promoted to this position after passing the inspection by the Ministry of Military Affairs. It not only has a major improvement in salary and position for the officers of the Kingdom of Dionys, but also has the honor of directly entering the Senate without being elected. When war breaks out, the Kingdom can directly appoint these commanders as the commander of the army.

This was a great inspiration for all the kingdom officers, but Davers knew that transferring generals with outstanding military achievements and high prestige from the army in peacetime and holding some idle positions would definitely make generals like Leoticides who don’t care about their positions and devote themselves to the army dissatisfied. However, in order to maintain the stability of the royal family and the kingdom in the future, he must try his best to improve the system of the kingdom army while he is still in power and reduce the burden on Crotokatax and his descendants.

Of course, Davers would not say these secret thoughts at this time, but just coughed a few times, and then said in a gentle tone: "Have you heard of the news that the Kingdom has officially declared war on Persia?"

"I already know. Your Majesty is probably related to this time." Leoticidos said with a calm expression.

Davers said slowly: "After I discussed with the Ministry of Military Affairs, I thought you were the best candidate for the commander of the coalition army to be formed, but I don't know what you want?"

Leoticids' dull face suddenly changed, and he immediately said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to take on this important task!"

A smile flashed across the corner of Davers' mouth. He picked up a booklet on the table and said, "Since that's the case, you are the candidate for the commander of the Greek coalition! These are some of the matters that have been initially determined by the Greek coalition meeting these days. You can take a look first."

Leoticides immediately took it and looked through it carefully. Suddenly his face changed slightly and he asked: "Your Majesty, why is there a single line behind the 3,500 troops and 40 tons of wheat in Sparta...Agsilous sent 500 Spartan soldiers?!"

Davers looked at him and said meaningfully: "That was added after Agsilous talks with me alone. Agsilous will personally lead all the Spartan warriors on the land of Laconia to participate in this military operation. He hopes that after the complete defeat of Persia, the Kingdom will give the real Spartans a good territorial in western Asia Minor..."

"Agsilus wants all the Spartans to move out of Laconia and colonize Asia Minor?!" Leoticides, who was always calm, showed some surprise.

"Yes." Davers nodded and said softly: "After Laconia formed a new government, the political situation was relatively stable at the beginning, but when the original Black Roxers gradually got used to the new citizenship and eliminated their fear of the Spartans, their hatred for Sparta increased day by day... Alas, this is also something I didn't think too thoughtful at the beginning! After all, there have been countless Black Roxers who have been persecuted by the Spartans for so many years and died in their hands. This hatred cannot be simply eliminated!

Although the Black Rows did not dare to conflict openly due to the regulations of the kingdom, they could suppress the Spartans through citizen assembly or other political means. After all, their citizens accounted for more than half of Lagnia, and the Piriasi also had hatred against the Spartans. Therefore, over the past year, the Spartans have had trouble living, and colonizing Asia Minor may be a better choice for them..."

In recent years, Leoticids has deliberately blocked the news from Sparta, not knowing that the Spartan people are living in a difficult situation. After hearing Davers's words, he felt a little guilty, but at the same time he was very sad: Laconia is the homeland where the Spartans have lived for hundreds of years, so he left like this?...
Chapter completed!