In order to maintain friendship with Sparta, Dionysius had to move the Mesenians out of the city of Messina, and built the city of Tindares not far from Messina to accommodate these Messenians.

The reconstruction of Messina and the new construction of Tindares made Lijim on the other side of the strait feel like a hint of light. The Lijim people felt Dionysius' covetousness of their own city-states. They even felt that joining the Southern Italian League was not very safe, because at this moment, Syracuse not only unified the Greek city-states in the eastern Sicily, but also basically conquered the Sikels. The strength was too amazing. Whether other city-states in the Southern Italian League were willing to fight against the powerful Syracuse for Lijim is a big question! The only one who dared to challenge Syracuse is probably the only overlord of Southern Italian, Dionia, who has this strength.

So, the Lijim convened a citizen meeting and the discussion lasted for several days without results.

At this moment, a fleet of Syracuse sailed into the port of Messina. Originally, this fleet was to escort the Syracuse army to continue to fight the north coast of Sicily, but it stimulated the sensitive Lijim people. The Citizens quickly passed the bill and the messenger was quickly sent to Turiyi.

In the Senate of Dionys, when the messenger of Lijim proposed that "Lijim is willing to join the Dionys League", the elders, including Davers, are quite shocked. You should know that in the Dionys League, Laus, Castron, Metapontum, Elia, Heraclia, and Galaguso are all small and medium-sized city-states in Southern Italy. Although Potendia is a major state in the alliance, it was forced by the situation at that time that the front of Dionys's troops was forced to join and was not very obedient to Dionys. Dionys have been busy rectifying and governing Bruty and Picosis in the past two years, and have no time to pay attention to Potendia, far away on the edge of the mountainous areas in northern Dionys.

Now Lijim actually voluntarily requests to join the Dionysian League! You should know that Lijim is not only a powerful country in Greece, but also ranks first among the Great Greek city-states in terms of maritime trade wealth. With Lijim's joining, Dionys' merchant ships and fleets can successfully pass through the Strait of Messina, which is not only more convenient to trade with Iberia and Gaul, such as the Far Western Mediterranean. At the same time, it is also more conducive to the navy's protection of Dionys's cities in Knapetia, Picoses, and the alliance city-states Laus and Elia, connecting the territorial waters of Dionys.

The elders of Dionys were of course very happy to accept Li Jim's joining, but Li Jim's messenger proposed a prerequisite: Dionys consul Davers must marry a Li Jim woman, and this woman, Li Jim's man, has been chosen, her name is Agenice.

Who is Agenice? She is known as "Legime's Rose". She was very beautiful when she was 16 years old, and even attracted the proposal of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, but was firmly rejected by the vigilant Legime.

The angry messenger of Syracuse threw a sentence: "Our almighty general will open his eyes and see who is more qualified to marry Agenice than him!"

Then Dionysius turned to marry Locre's woman and draped the passenger ship to welcome Locre's wife with jewelry and decorated it with dazzling golden light, which became a hot topic in Greater Greece at that time.

In Lijim, because of the words left by the Syracuse envoy, Agenus had never been able to marry, because as Syracuse continued to expand and became stronger, not only Lijim's men, but the entire city-state did not want to anger Dionysius, so that Lijim became the target of the angry attack of the tyrant of Syracuse.

As a result, in just a few years, Agenis was already a 21-year-old single woman (Greek women usually get married after the age of 14, that is, they can get married at the end of adolescence). No one dared to marry her and had to become the priestess of Arthenis, the famous virgin goddess among Greek gods.

Now facing the threat of Syracuse, the real-life Lijim people believe that Davers is the real ruler of Dionysia, so they want to tie Davers and Lijim together through Agents to deal with Dionysius.

Davers saw through the thoughts of Lejim and immediately refused.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the messenger of Lijim actually persuaded most of the senate, including Mercis, Marigi, Kunogorata, Cornerus and others. Lianjue visited Davers, hoping that he could agree to Lijim's request, and also refuted the law of "observing the monogamy of Dionys", because there was no such tough rule in the law of Dionys, which was just a conventional habit. Even in Athens, which had explicitly stipulated "monogamy", during the great plague before the Peloponnesian War, polygamy was advocated due to the sharp decline in population.

At the same time, they also emphasized that Dionysius of Syracuse and other Sicilian city-state tyrants married several wives, so of course, the lifelong consul of the Southern Italian overlord Dionia can be.

They also refuted the concerns that Davers believed that Dionys would be dragged into the war with Syracuse by Lijim. Phelisius, Antonios and others believed that: Although Syracuse seemed powerful, the Carthaginians would always be its enemy, how could Dionysius dare to risk fighting on both sides and rashly offend the equally powerful Dionys.

In fact, the news from Sicily seemed to prove this: the Syracuse army swept west along the north coast of Sicily and began to approach the city of Sorus. Finally, the Carthage Senate, who had been angry because Dionysius led his army to besiege Taurumenan, finally made up his mind to appoint Sylmiko's brother Mago as commander, recruit soldiers, and prepare to lead the army to Sicily to resist the attack of the Syracuse people.

For the veterans in charge of government affairs in the Dionia Senate, accepting Li Jim is not a big risk, but on the contrary, it benefits a lot; for the veterans in charge of military affairs, Li Jim has a relatively powerful naval fleet, which can make up for Dionia's shortcomings.

Under the persuasion of everyone, Davers was a little hesitant. At this time, his wife Cristoya stood up and expressed support for the Senate's hope that Davers would marry another wife of Lejim, and persuaded Davers to accept Agents.

Cristoya, who was born in Milidu, Asia Minor, was influenced by Persian culture since childhood and was not very resistant to polygamy. At that time, Cyrus had more than a dozen beloved concubines. She was already a successful businessman and knew more about the importance of Lijim's surrender to Dionia's trade.

Davers was finally convinced to marry 21-year-old Lijim woman Agenis into the residence of the consul of Dionia, and Lijim also successfully joined the Dionia League.

This incident shocked the entire Greater Greece.

When Dionisius learned of the news, he was leading his army to besiege Sorus and had already ordered a retreat, but he ordered again: the attacking horn is sounded...

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In the past two years, on the land of Asia Minor, the Greek coalition led by Dekiridas caused great trouble to Persia.

So in 396 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes appointed Connon, the Athenian man who was temporarily living in Persia as the admiral of the Persian naval (Connon was originally the commander of the Athenian naval army, but he was defeated by Lesander of Sparta in the Battle of Yanghe, which eventually led to Athens surrendering to Sparta).

Connon fled to Persia and had been revengeing Sparta, so he often went to please the Queen Mother of Persia Palusatis. Now that he finally had military power, he immediately led 300 Persian warships and actively cooperated with the Persian land forces, which soon caused great casualties to the Spartan army and put them in trouble.

So Persia proposed a truce peace talks, but Sparta refused.

At this time, Sparta, who was already the Greek overlord, was unwilling to accept peace talks when the war was passive. Not only was the terms of peace talks very unfavorable to Sparta, but it also damaged Sparta's prestige in the Greek city-state. Therefore, the Elders Council decided to send King Agsilous to replace De Chiridas and launch a greater war in Asia Minor.

Agsilous has always shown his approachable and modest side to the Spartan people, but under the mask of observing Spartan traditions and laws, he hides an ambition that has never been known to others. He longs for great glory, worships ancient heroes, and hopes to make the world forget his lameness and only remember his achievements with unprecedented victory. Therefore, when he accepted the orders from the Elders' Council, he already regarded himself as the Agamemnon of this era, and wanted to conquer the new Troy, namely Persia.

So he led a part of his army to the city of Oris (it was located in the Piosha area, the most famous city-state in this area was Thebes), and just as Agarmenon, the king of the kings, did before commanding the Greek army to cross the sea to attack Troy, he offered sacrifices to the Temple of Artemis there.

But during the solemn worship process, the Thebes appeared, and they claimed that the Spartans did not inform Thebes, thus forcibly interrupting the ceremony.

This incident cast a shadow on Sparta and Thebes, who were already tense, a relationship. For Agsilous, who was extremely self-esteem, it was a great humiliation! From then on, he remembered Thebes.

Finally, Agsilous led an army of two thousand new Spartan citizens and a 30-man military committee led by Lesander, quietly crossed the sea to Asia Minor and entered Ephesus.

Leshande thought it was Agsilous whom he supported. After arriving in Asia Minor, this gentle king would rely on him, the real "king" who had conquered Asia Minor, and would hand over the command of the Spartan army to him.

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