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Chapter 42 Davos's Mind

Although there was no participation from Davers, Achita and others, the victory celebration of Turiyi was still held. The whole city temporarily suppressed its sadness and celebrated this hard-won victory.

In particular, the banquet held by the generals lasted until late at night. Ansitanos, who drank countless pots of wine, slept until midday. When he left the city, it was almost noon. When he arrived at the empty camp of Davers, he was stunned. Fortunately, they saw Tarantum reinforcements who were still stationed in the mercenary camp, and only then did they know that all the mercenaries had gone to Amendolar.

Mercenaries took the city of Amendolar! This amazing news shocked Ansitanos and Burkos again.

The group immediately accelerated to the north, eager to see Davers. Halfway through, Ansitanos suddenly stopped the team: "Let's go back immediately."

"Why is this, General?" Bulcos asked in confusion.

Ansitanos, who calmed down, sighed: "The mercenaries were so anxious that they captured Amendolara last night. Today, even their slaves and supplies were moved into Amendolara. What does this mean?"

Burkos shouted in surprise: "Does... do they want to occupy Amendolar?!"

Ansitanos nodded and said with some sorrow, "More importantly - Achita also went to Amendolara, what does this mean?"

Burkos was reminded by Ansitanos and immediately woke up and shouted in surprise again: "Does Tarantum support the mercenaries to occupy Amendorala?!"

"Maybe it's just Achita's personal wish..." Ansitanos was comforting Bulcos and comforting himself. He smiled bitterly: "If Tarantum really supports the mercenaries, can we Turiyi refuse? Tarantum and the mercenaries are both heroes who saved Turiyi..." Ansitanos sighed again, with a worried look on his face: "Oh... But from now on, Tarantum's power has crossed Heraclia and approached the Sobari Plain!"

"Then...what should we do now?" Burkes asked anxiously.

"Of course I'm going back and discussing countermeasures, and then..." Ansitanos said, judging from his helpless expression, he obviously didn't think Turi had any good solutions for the mercenaries to occupy Amendorala.

On the way back to the city, he kept muttering to himself lonely: "Ah... after only half a year, Turiyi became like this... It was still the teacher right, 'War is the fastest way to change the rise and fall of a city-state', and what Turiyi lacks now is military talents like Davers and Achita!..."

Hearing this, Burkes remembered that he had not had time to invite Davers to join Turie. Now it seems that even if he said it, Davers would not agree. He remembered that his confidant slave Moras led Davers to venture into Amendolara. At that time, Davers had the idea of ​​this mountain city! Before the situation was clear, he actually began to plan Amendolara and finally achieved it. Is this luck? No! The victory of these two battles was obtained by him leading the mercenaries, and it was finally achieved through his own step-by-step efforts!

Although the mercenaries' forced occupation of Amendorala infringes on Turi's interests, Bulkos can't tell whether it is more resentful or more awe...

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Davers is accompanying Achita to visit Amendolara.

While listening to Davers's story about the capture of the mountain city last night, Achita checked the mercenaries' attack route on the spot and tried enthusiastically how to use the rope hook.

After entering the city gate, Achita saw the most bloodstains along the way, which were the mercenary soldiers who were three steps and five steps. Their faces were filled with excitement and pride as Davers. He hesitated and decided to make suggestions to Davers: "Davers... I think that if you mercenaries want to successfully enter Amendolara, it is best to get the consent of the citizens of Amendolara."

"Okay! OK!" Davers responded.

Achita saw his perfunctory behavior. He thought about it and was ready to persuade: "If a city-state wants to have good order, it must not only have strict laws, but also always abide by it. Over time, the law will form a good tradition of the city-state and become a natural cornerstone of the city-state order, bringing stability to the people and development to the city-state. If it is destroyed at the beginning..." Achita stopped and pointed to the pine tree with strange shapes growing on the hillside, saying meaningfully: "It's like this tree grew crooked from the beginning. In the end, even if it grows desperately, it cannot become a towering tree."

Of course, Davers understood the metaphor in Achita's words, which made him think: the Chinese historical tradition emphasizes the result that no matter what means he uses, everything he did before will be forgiven and finally recognized, so there are deep words such as "the successful one is the king and the loser", "the matter is urgently followed by power". However, Davers, who graduated from the University of Political Science and Law in his previous life, knew that in the Roman Republic, which was known as the "son of the law", hundreds of years of inheritance made its laws and traditions restrict the extreme behavior of those in power later, and even a series of turmoil would not cause great turmoil in the country. For example, Caesar, who crossed the Rubicon River, did not allow the army to enter the city of Rome.

Because this is a tradition; Anthony, who loved Cleopatra, did not agree to her request and incorporated the Jewish Kingdom into Egypt, because it was the duty of every Roman citizen to not harm the interests of Rome. This is a tradition; Octavian, who held great power, did not turn the Roman Republic into an empire all at once, because the Senate and the Citizens' Assembly were deeply rooted in the center of Rome's rights, and he could only slowly change the Roman power institution bit by bit for decades... But when the commander of the Guards was originally out of public interest, he assassinated the Roman emperor Caligula who had been guarding since childhood and acted extremely, he had since established the bad tradition of the Guards' frequent assassination of the Roman emperor...

It would be fine if Davers was just a leader who only cared for immediate interests and wanted to enjoy it for a while, but his ambition was not limited to a small Amendolar. Achita's advice woke him up as a blow: the mercenaries' actions not only need to consider the feelings of the people of Amendolar, but also to consider the feelings of the mercenaries as an outsider who were rooted in Great Greece, and the surrounding city-states were concerned, and the act of robbery was obviously unpopular and easily isolated.

Davers decided to change his previous approach to quick success and instant benefits. At the same time, this deep thinking also changed his later behavior and began to think about problems from the perspective of a real Greek.

"Akita, thank you for your reminder!" Out of thanks to Acheta, Davers decided to take one of his ideas immediately: "I heard that the Pythagoras school was not in a good situation in Greater Greece."

Upon hearing this, Achita's face turned slightly dark and said with a complicated expression: "Yes. Many people in the Great Greek city-states do not agree with the concept of our school and use various means to suppress the members of the school, forcing most of the disciples to leave Great Greek and settle in Freos, the native Greek land. Now only Tarantum is tolerant of the school."

"I agree with your school's concept of 'everything is counted'. I think if you use 'number' to manage the city-state, it will definitely be more refined and more efficient. And your school encourages the people to be self-control, abstinence, purity, and obedience. I also agree very much. At the same time, you dare to break the secular world and participate in the study of women, which is even more innovative!" Davers said sincerely: "If the mercenaries become the masters of Amendorala, I will definitely invite members of the Pythagoras school to come here to train students, establish colleges, and provide funding from the city-state."

The reason why Achita confessed the Pythagoras school so frankly is that the Pythagoras school is well known to everyone in Greece. Davers also expressed his favorable feelings for the school before, but he did not expect that Davers' favorable feelings for the school to reach such a level. He could not believe it for a moment: "Are you true?"

"Do you want me to swear to the gods?"
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