v8 Chapter 20： Declare war on Dionya? (2)

Oklahoma immediately stood up and wanted to eliminate the influence of the other party's words on the veterans: "Preta Kuba, do you know that the current Dionya is much stronger than the original Syracuse? They have at least ten legions and four fleets. It is said that there are 2 million people. The territory of the territory is also far from that of Syracuse. The land and the city-state are far from being comparable, so it can easily form 100,000. People's army, and can we do it?! So we should not fight with Dionya now, but to speed up the expansion in the interior of Africa and strengthen our strength, so that we can win with Dionia in the future. negative!"

Preta Kuba sneer: "What will the future? In the future?! Waiting for Diony to completely occupy the whole of Italy?! I think it is the best time to fight with Dionya! Because Diaonia is going through Drought, they lack food! The adults should not have forgotten. Not long ago, we just refused their food purchase requirements, let alone 100,000 people. I doubt whether Dionia can organize 50,000 soldiers. !

And we have the west of Sicily, Numisia, southern Iberia, and are also ally with the strong state of central Italy, Rome, and the Mauritania kingdom in western Afrika. And I heard that the last Samonai who was forced to be allied by Denia was now very dissatisfied with Dionia. It is entirely possible that we will be drawn by us, and we fear the strong Sparta of Dionia. Daren... You see that Deonia seems to be powerful. In fact, it has a lot of enemies. Our chances are great! ”

The words of Preta Kuba caused the arguments of the veterans.

Hanno, who had been silent for a long time, heard the word "South of Iberia" and frowned slightly.

At this time, he saw the leader of the neutral party, Es Yaruba, standing up seriously: "You, everyone knows that I don't like war, and the war with Syracuse has made me lose a son, but I think Remind you of one thing. Over the past year, our Carthage’s trade with Sardinia has been sharply reduced! What is the reason?! I think you are very clear, we sent to the divisions of various city-states in Sardinia. After investigation, the truth is that the people of these city-states secretly drove to the city of Denon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, across the sea from Sardinia, to buy clay pots, olive oil and wine. And even livestock... and so on.

Although our judges urged the city-states of Sardinia to strengthen management, they were repeatedly banned because the prices of goods sold by the Diaonians were much lower than ours. Unlike the former Campania city-state, Dionia simply ignored our protests and even restricted our merchants in the territory of Dionia, such as the recent business officials in Dionia in Lockheed. Several of our merchants were punished simply because the price of the grain they sold was higher than the price that was imposed by Dionia. Tanit is on the basis of the demand of the people to determine the price of the goods. This is the trade principle followed by the city-state merchants in the Mediterranean. It is unacceptable that Diaonia has punished our merchants for this purpose!

Ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors of Carthage came here from Tell, living for business, gradually prospering, and finally have the power of today, without prosperous trade, there is no powerful Carthage, and commerce is our root! I don't care if Dionynia occupies more land, but now it is deliberately restricting our trade and trying to dig our roots. This must be our vigilance! We must also make a strong counterattack! Let the Dionynes make concessions in trade! ”

The speech of Es Yaruba was aroused, and it even triggered the resonance of the elders:

"Isaiah Aruba is right! The caravans of my family are now not selling wine to Sardinia, because only a few people buy them, and this is where the Dionys are among them!"

"It is not enough to let Dionia make concessions in trade. As long as it continues to expand, the routes of cities and monopolies that can be freely traded by us will only be less and less. Carthage will be traded in the future. The failure has to succumb to Diaonia! If we want trade to continue to prosper, we must destroy the Kingdom of Dionia!"

"Yes, we are united with Rome, and we will wage war against Dionia! We will regain our dominance of the Western Mediterranean!"

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Listening to these words in the venue, Hanno’s face is getting more and more gloomy. It’s hard to know in his heart that the continuous expansion of Dionya in recent years is the biggest threat to Carthage’s safety, but he does not want to start at this time. There are two reasons for the war: First, the occupation of the Numidia region is still unstable; second, although Marco was rushed to the Iberian Peninsula, he occupied a large area of ​​land and built several towns. And the appointment of the bureaucrats on their own, the order of the Senate is always ruthless, Hanno has repeatedly wanted to strengthen Carthage's management of the new occupied land, but some of the measures he took were ultimately unsuccessful, which made him a headache. . If the war against Dionia was launched at this time, it just happened to give the militant family a chance to return to the Carthage Senate!

After operating in the Senate for more than a decade, Hanno has completely controlled it. Although the words of Preta Kuba and Essiyaru have greatly touched the veterans of the venue, as long as Hanno does not finally nod, the elders who attached to him will not easily vote for it. It will be impossible to form a final resolution because the number of supporters is insufficient.

Hanno is always under pressure, and he has not expressed his position for seven days.

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Cadiz, a colony established by Phoenician Bonbon in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. It is said that it was discovered hundreds of years ago that a senior Tyre official suffered a storm when he went to the Balearic Islands. The ship was blown off the route, passed the column of Hercules and stayed on a beach. After these grateful people thanked the **** Meyer Carter, they found that they were located at the end of a long and narrow cape, three facing the water environment, making it difficult to get from the land, and easy to enter from the sea, even It was an excellent natural harbour, and the colony of Cadiz was established here.

With the discovery of a large number of silver veins, iron and other metals in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, the Phoenicians strengthened their trade with the Kingdom of Tartus in the southern Iberian Peninsula, and they actually controlled the entire southern part of Iberia. In the mining industry and the metal ore processing industry, Cadiz has become prosperous. It soon became the main transportation hub for Phoenicians in Iberian trade activities, and may even be the entire Phoenician colony in the Western Mediterranean. One of the most prosperous. The massively mined, melted and processed Iberian peninsula is continually sent to Tyre to meet the needs of its sovereign state, Assyria, thereby gaining more freedom for the Thais.

But in the following hundred years, the war in the eastern Mediterranean was frequent, the hegemony was changed, the mother-in-law Tyre fell, and Carthage subsequently rose, replacing the position of Tyre, and through the centuries, all the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean. Points are included under their own jurisdiction, and Cadiz is no exception.

Silver and other metal ingots processed in the city of Cadiz were first transported to Carthage, where the Carthaginians controlled all trade with the Eastern Mediterranean.

After the Magonid family set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, they were not allowed to intervene in Cadiz’s administration in accordance with the regulations of the Carthage Senate. But for more than a decade of operation, Cadiz has been secretly included under the control of the Magonid family.

On this day, a ruined merchant ship sailed outside the port of Cadiz, which surprised the people of the port. This is a group of Greeks.

So, the Cadiz City Hall, which got the news, immediately sent a patrol to detain the crew, only to know that the merchant ship came from the Kingdom of Dionia. It was originally traded to the Greek colonial city of Sagunto in the northern Iberian Peninsula. But did not expect to encounter a storm, the cargo ship was blown near the coast of Cadiz.

There is a stipulation in the friendly agreement between Carthage and Dionia that the Daonians must not deal directly with other colonial city states or affiliated city states of Carthage, except for trade with Carthage~www.novelhall.com ~ Otherwise, it will be punished, but it must be handed over to both officials for trial. If, for some reason, it has been mistakenly entered into the territory of Carthage, after you have figured out the situation, you can let it leave and not stay in the same place.

So after the Cadizs understood the situation, they urged the merchant ship to leave, but the problem was that the merchant ship was damaged too much and had to be repaired before going out to sea. Therefore, the Cadiz had to send the ship to the shipyard for repair and these The Dionyrians are not allowed to go out in the hotel. Of course, the cost of repairing the boat and eating it is up to them.

During this period, someone sneaked into the room of the owner of the merchant ship, Ionis. He claimed to be a Phoenician from Huelva. His owner was a large businessman in Huelva, who had thousands of diggers. The slaves of the mines control the mining rights of several silver mines. The silver ore mined every month is several tons, which can have earned more wealth, but Carthage forced them not to sell them, but only After the excavated metal ore was processed and sold to Carthage, the profits obtained were much less. Therefore, his owner is very dissatisfied with this, hoping to find a secret sales channel, selling the mountain of silver at a higher price...

Ionis was a little tempted to listen. Once he was a liberated slave of the Knogorita family and later acquired citizenship, he became a businessman under the support of Sostatus, and he often contacted the lord Sostatus to know D'Oro. The Ministry of Commerce of the Kingdom of Nigeria has a worries.