Looking at the countless raised right arms ahead, Achita said with joy and regret: "Davers, your wish is fulfilled, congratulations!"

Davers breathed a sigh of relief and said sincerely: "Thank you! I sincerely hope that Tarantum Senate will agree to my proposal in the future, so that we can become allies!"

"There were 1,382 people participating in the vote for this bill, 1,076 people agreed, 306 people opposed, and the bill was passed! I announced-" After learning the result, Cornerus's mood was a little complicated at the beginning, but he quickly felt relieved. He used all his strength and shouted: "From now on, all mercenary soldiers will become citizens of Amendorala!!!"

As soon as Cornerus finished speaking, the soldiers around Davers were cheering. Davers was hugged warmly again and again by the excited team officers. A sentence that I often hear in my ears is: "Chief, we have a home!!!"

Hearing this, Davers was a little dazed: Home?!... It's a pity that my real home is not in this world...

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Just as the Amendolar Citizens' Conference was held, the Turiyi's emissary was still led by Ansitanos to the gate of Amendolar City.

"We are the messengers of Turiyi. We want to meet your leader, please open the door!" Burkes shouted to the sentry in the city.

Before the sentry could answer, a man rushed out from beside the city and cursed sternly: "Get back, Turieren! Amendorala does not welcome you, go back!"

When he heard this, the people in the messenger group were a little angry, and even Ansitanos, who had always been gentle, shouted angrily: "Rude mercenaries, don't think that you can do whatever you want if you defeat the Lukari people, ignore the laws that are common in Greek city-states, and forcefully occupy other people's cities!"

The man sneered, "Hmph, what a fair and selfless tone, it seems that he really cares about the life and death of the Amendorala people! Open your eyes and see clearly. I am an Amendorala citizen who has lived here since childhood!"

Ansitanos was stunned, and Bulcos recognized him. After all, he was a merchant and often came to Amendolar to trade. He met many people: "It's you, Antiqueris?!"

"I didn't expect that I was still alive!" Antichris's words were full of resentment: "By your Turiyi, the Lucanians cut off my right hand, but fortunately I survived. And my neighbors and most of my comrades were dead. Because of your selfish demands and coercions, they were eager to move to the damn Turiyi city, but they were attacked by the Lucanians without any warning. The sufferings suffered by Amendorala were caused by Turiyi! From now on, the Turiyi people are not welcome here! This is not my personal wish, but the common wish of the Amendorala who survived!"

Burcos was stunned, Ansitanos was stunned, and the messengers were stunned. They did not expect that the citizens of Amendolar would treat them in this way.

Although Amendorala and Turiyi are all alliances, the strengths of the two are very different: Turiyi has more than 20,000 citizens, with a total population of about 100,000, plus the free people are close to 140,000, which is not considered the slaves; Amendorala has a population of only more than 10,000. Therefore, Turiyi treats Amendorala more like his own affiliated city-state, and rarely considers the feelings of the other party. Amendorala was captured by the Lucanians, and the Turiyi gets news, not only expresses regret, but also worrys about whether it will threaten the northern part of the Sobari Plain. When the newly escaped Amendorala citizens asked Turiyi to recover the lost land, Turiyi considered how to defend against the Lucanian attack and ignored it. Now, when they feel that the resentment of Amendorala citizens is so deep, they are shocked, but also shocked...

"Don't think about asking for anything from Amendolara. Amendolara will never obey! Hearing the cheers?!" Antichris laughed wildly, patted the sentry's shoulder with his left hand, and said, "All the people of Amendolara have voted to accept all the mercenaries as Amendolara citizens! Therefore, they did not occupy Amendolara. They became citizens of Amendolara legally! I heard that the Lucanian coalition that defeated Turiyi twice was annihilated by the mercenaries. I think in the future, anyone who wants to invade Amendolara must first taste the power of the shield guns of us, the new citizens!" The threatening meaning in Antichris's words made the emissary group look unfair.

Amid Antiqueris' laughter, the Turiyi's messenger returned again in disappointment.

Antichris stopped laughing, turned his head to look at the sentry beside him in a relaxed mood. When he saw the sentry feeling bleed, he showed satisfaction and asked, "What's your name?"

"Trotidis."

"Where are people?"

"Thessali, the fellow townsman of the leader Davers."

“How old?”

“Twenty-eight.”

...

After asking a series of questions, Antichris said directly to the sentry who was still somewhat puzzled: "I have two daughters. One is twenty-one and has a good appearance. Her husband is dead and has a two-year-old son. The other daughter is only sixteen years old and has no engagement. Choose one and be my son-in-law. Make a choice tonight, and I will take you to my house to get married tomorrow."

Trotidis was stunned. The other sentries came forward to congratulate and said directly, "Antiqueris, you have two daughters, so why not let me be your other son-in-law."

There was a lot of laughter on the city wall.

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The Turiyi emissary group was yelling.

"Who is that Antiqueris?" Ansitanos asked in a low voice.

"The nobles of Amendorala were formerly the captain of the patrol and the captain of the firefighting team." Burkos replied.

Ansitanos said "Oh" and didn't say anything more.

"General, although the Amendoralas have opinions about Turiyi, I understand Davers, the mercenary leader, who is young and very steady in his work and has a good impression of Turiyi. Besides, we have an employment agreement with him and will not be easily encouraged by the Amendoralas. I believe that after a while, when the Amendoralas calms down, we can still have a good talk with Amendoralas." Burkos comforted.

"I hope so." Ansitanos sighed: "The mercenaries have now become citizens of Amendorara legally, and our protests have been invalid. Given this situation, we have to discuss new countermeasures when we go back. Alas!...Burquez, do you know what I am thinking?"

"have no idea."

"My teacher once said, 'After the Hippo War, Sparta was proud of being superior to others and treated neighbors with strictness and inhumanity. Therefore, all Greek city-states were far away from Sparta and went to deal with the more kind Athens, which eventually led to the formation of the Tino Alliance.'" Ansitanos thought, while blaming himself with pain: "Is our Turiyi's approach really too domineering? Without strong strength, he has to make a proud attitude. This is not a good phenomenon?!..."

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After the referendum, the women and children withdrew from the square, and Cornerus asked Achita to leave, because next was the real civic conference of Amendora.

In addition to the sentries patrolling the city walls and the soldiers guarding the captives, there were 512 former Amendolar citizens and 2920 newly promoted citizens (including 1,837 mercenaries in Davers and 1,083 other mercenaries), a total of 3,432 Amendolar citizens.
Chapter completed!