Chapter 366 Establishment of the New African Order (2)

"Great! We are very willing to attack the city of Carthage with Dionia!" Almost all the Numibians were delighted, and Davos's words could be said to completely relieve their doubts, and they successively Expressed his willingness to form an alliance with Dernia.

At this time, a voice suddenly rose: "Dear King Davos, I am Tinum, the leader of the Masili tribe in West Numibia, and I have a question. Dionia is a kingdom, and we Numi Biya is not only divided into two parts, east and west, but each is composed of many tribes, and the interests of each tribe are not the same. Once they form an alliance with Dionia, in case of war between the tribes, as an alliance Who will Dionysian choose to help?"

Davos looked at the slender, eagle-eyed leader of Numibia. He was no stranger to his name, and immediately said sincerely: "Leader Tinum, I have heard that you can be brave this time. rose up against the Carthaginian army, you played a great role in it, I am very grateful for this, and will not forget your tribe's contribution!"

Davers looked at him directly. Although he didn't make the promise to him face to face that it would not change, he believed that he could understand the meaning of the words.

Sure enough, Tinum had a smile on his face and bowed slightly in return.

"The question you just asked is a very good question. What I want to emphasize to you is that the alliance that we have formed with Dionia and you in East and West Numibia is not like the city-states of Carthage and Phoenicia. I think you all know that the kind of alliance that the other Phoenician city-states must obey the orders of Carthage, and what I want to establish is an alliance of equals, every tribe of your Numibia, big or small, Strength and weakness are equal to Dionia, so you can rest assured that Dionia will respect each of your tribes according to the covenant and will not interfere in your internal affairs.

Of course, if there is a conflict between you and you take the initiative to ask for Dionia's help, we will try our best to mediate for you, but we will never support one party eccentrically, let alone provide materials or send troops, so You can rest assured! And as far as I know, you Numibians are a relatively united race, and basically there has been no major conflict between tribes..."

Davos complimented the Numibian tribes for unity and few conflicts. This is only a superficial fact, but the fundamental reason is that the tribes of Eastern Lumibia are struggling to cope with the pressing Carthaginians, and are struggling to survive. In the case of all problems, where can there still be energy to seek the development of the tribe; and for the West Numibia tribe, Carthage controls it more closely. The conflicting tribes have been severely attacked and weakened, just as the Masili tribe had to become disciplined after a few lessons. In this way, for a long time in the entire Numibia region, many tribes gathered together for warmth, not only maintained peace, but also had good relations.

But the shrewd Davos will never mention: when the threat of Carthage is eliminated in the future, whether such peace can still be maintained among the tribes of Numibia.

However, the vast majority of Numibians cannot have a long-term vision and think deeply. Instead, after listening to Davos's words, they nodded again and again with pride on their faces. Now they are very happy with Davos' answer. Satisfied, their doubts and worries have been eliminated one after another, and there is only one thought - Dionia is indeed different from Carthage, and it will become the most steadfast ally that the Numibians can rely on.

Therefore, they raised their glasses one after another and toasted Davos to express their gratitude, and Davos and the generals also raised their glasses in return, and the atmosphere of the banquet became more enthusiastic.

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The late night banquet is over,

The Numibians left one by one drunk and contented, and the generals also returned excitedly because the war would not end soon.

Only Henepolis did not leave, and followed Davos into the living room.

The servant brought hot water and clean linen, and Davos covered the hot linen on his face, and suddenly felt that under the fumigation of the heat, the pores on his face were all opened, as if the smell of alcohol was brought out. Go away, refreshed.

He lay on his back for a while, until the cloth towel became cold, then got up and took it off. Seeing that Henipolis was still sitting quietly beside him, he asked in surprise, "Heney, what else are you doing?"

"Your Majesty." Henepolis bowed and asked softly: "We have completely defeated the Carthaginian army. You also said at the banquet tonight that we are going to land in Africa and attack the city of Carthage. So is it necessary to negotiate with the Carthaginians again?"

"Of course it is necessary to continue the negotiation." Davos explained patiently: "For the Carthaginian remnants who escaped into Segsta and Mazara, our army cannot relax and must continue to attack. And... Mazar Ra, Segsta, Eryx, Sikan... These remnants of Sicily need time to subdue and deal with them, so as to ensure our peace of mind, so it may take some time for the army to land in Africa.

And during this period of time, I don't want the Carthaginians to see through our true intentions completely, so they will do everything possible to make adequate defense preparations, which will cause great difficulties for our landing army, so we still Gotta keep acting with them, let their guard down, buy us time. "

"Your Majesty, this victory will probably make the Carthaginians more eager to negotiate with us. If we continue to negotiate according to the previous conditions, it is very likely that the Carthaginians will agree."

Henipolis' reminder made Davos ponder, and after a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Herny, you are right, since we have won a new major victory, then ask for more benefits. Of course, who asked the Carthaginian messenger to agree to our conditions earlier?"

"Yeah, during the last negotiation, I specially reminded that messenger named Okriton." Henipolis also smiled wickedly.

"This new condition... is to let the Carthaginians cede southern Iberia to us, what do you think?" Davos asked.

"...The gold and silver mines in southern Iberia are an important source of Taiji's precious metal trade. We occupied Sardinia before, and now we want southern Iberia. If Carthage agrees, their precious metal trade will be If it is completely destroyed, its treasury revenue will also drop sharply. I don’t think they will agree to it easily. What’s more, the inland area of ​​southern Iberia was developed by the Margonid family with more than 10 years of painstaking efforts. Foundation, they will never agree to this condition! In this way, we can bargain with the Carthaginians and achieve the purpose of delaying time..." Henipolis analyzed seriously.

"Yeah! In Carthage, the Margonids and the Hannos were deeply hostile and contradictory, and it was precisely because they held back each other in the war that they created a lot of conditions for our victory." Davos said with a sigh, he didn't say some words, but hid them in his heart.

Davos remembered that in the history of the previous life, after the First Punic War, Carthage ceded Sicily to Rome (Sardinia was later forced to cede), but the Hannibal family mainly relied on the development of Ibi The financial and human resources accumulated in southern Leah caused a huge disaster to Rome in the Second Punic War... So he put forward this condition not just to delay time, but to make up his mind to completely occupy this area Treasure land, so that Carthage has no chance to turn over.

"Your Majesty, are we really going to capture the city of Carthage...to destroy Carthage completely?" Henepolis' voice made Davos recover from his thoughts.

Looking at the face of the court clerk worrying about gains and losses, Davos smiled: "Why, reluctant?"

"I am... worried that attacking the city of Carthage will cause a lot of casualties to our army..." Henepolis did not fully tell the truth, despite his bad attitude towards the envoys of Carthage in the negotiation, but as a A highly educated citizen of Dionia, in the study of Carthaginian intelligence over the years, he gradually became interested in the culture created by the Carthaginians, and did not hope that such an ancient and glorious city-state would completely perish. .

Davos didn't break his mind, and said in a light tone: "In ancient times, there was a giant snake. It was fierce and powerful, and no one dared to provoke it. But it has a disadvantage, it is very greedy, I was eating from morning to night, and in the end I was able to eat myself to death..."

Henipolis blinked and said, "Your Majesty, are you worried that the kingdom's expansion is too fast... it will cause danger?"

Davos stretched out his hand and counted down one finger at a time: "Campania, the mountains of Samone, the Latinum region, Corsica, Sardinia, all of Sicily, and if possible Iberia. The south and the new towns in Africa... In this war, the land that Dionia has acquired has exceeded the original land area... It is only necessary to digest and absorb these lands and integrate the people of the land into Dionia Kingdom, we will spend a long time, a lot of manpower and material, this is not easy to do.

Africa on the other side of the sea is a wider continent, and we are completely unfamiliar with it, and the Carthaginians have lived there for hundreds of years and have a great influence. And by destroying Carthage, can we replace Carthage in Africa? "

Davos looked at Henepolis solemnly.