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Chapter 586 Inspectors and Tribunes

"Why?!" Diocasis said anxiously: "My lord, if we don't make a surprise inspection and give Paphogris enough time to prepare, it will be difficult to catch him!"

"Why?! Just because he is the son of Laodicean, and his brother-in-law is Antonios. In the past few years in Naxos, you don't know how influential Laodicean is here, and you just Guess, there is no evidence. Once the search fails, how much damage will be done to the reputation of Laodicean and his son? Do you know! Then you and I will face Laodicean's anger and revenge! " Ste Luang Boli said solemnly.

"As a senior senator, I am about to leave Naxos. Laodissian does not dare to do anything to me, but you and Galademos will stay here for two or three years (due to Dionysus). The rapid expansion of the territory of the Kingdom of Asia, and the frequent changes of officials in various cities were not conducive to the stability of the region. Therefore, the Senate passed a revised bill. The term of the city chief executive is three years, and the term of middle and low-level officials is generally five years.), last year it was added It’s not like you don’t know that Ladmos was suppressed and squeezed out at work because of tax issues. If you anger Laodicean this time, your life here will become very difficult in the future! As an elder, I would rather you not I’m going to take care of this case, and I don’t want you to get hurt!”

Stromboli's words were sincere, but Diocasis did not appreciate it. He shouted unconvinced: "This is the land of the Kingdom of Dionia. It is His Majesty Davos who has the final say. How can we allow a Laodicean to act so randomly! I don’t believe he dares to do anything to me!”

"Do you really want to check?"

"Yes, sir, I must investigate this matter! It doesn't matter whether it has anything to do with the Laodicean family or not!" Diocasis said firmly.

Stromboli looked to the other side noncommittally: "Galademus, what do you think?"

"My lord, I support Diocasis!" Galademos paused and said, "I will also try my best to help him. After all, I am familiar with that village."

"It's good to be young!" Stromboli looked at the two of them and sighed.

"My lord, when you were a senior judge, you were notoriously strict and undisclosed. I didn't expect that now..." Diocassis used words to run on him.

"When it comes to severity, I can't compare to Scombras. It's a pity that he has already gone to the Elysee..." Stromboli said with some sigh: "Sicily is different from Magna Graecia. There is not much freedom here. Most of the Dionian citizens who were born in the Sicilian city-state were exiles from the original Sicilian city-state. They were too easy to stick together. After the South Italy War, most of His Majesty's energy was devoted to governing and unifying the land of South Italy. In order to ensure To ensure the stability of Sicily, the Senate has absorbed many Sicilian exile leaders..."

Stromboli turned the wine glass in his hand, with a faint light in his eyes: "...If you want to rectify the territory of Sicily, unless your Majesty makes up his mind. I don't want to stop you from investigating this matter, but I hope you will take action. Keep it secret, collect conclusive evidence, and don’t let Laodissian’s people catch you, so that I can report the matter directly to His Majesty.”

Diocasis's eyes lit up: "I understand, my lord!"

"It doesn't matter even if this thing fails." Stromboli encouraged them: "You are citizens from Amendolara, you have the 'Silver Buckle of the Founder of Amendolara', and you have Amendolara behind you. With the support of Lara and many veterans in the army, no one dares to offend you (because most of the mercenaries under Davos married women from Amendolara, and these veterans of the military have a relationship with the original citizens of Amendolara) very deep).”

"Don't worry, I will definitely find out the truth!" Diocasis said confidently.

"My lord, are you about to step down from office?!" Galademos had the opportunity to ask at this time.

"Yes, it will be three years in September. At my age, I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to serve again!"Stromboli touched his gray beard and sighed: "According to the information I have received, the person who will succeed me is likely to be Lord Asistes or Lord Lysiperatus."

"According to the law introduced a few years ago, isn't it stipulated that 'a senator cannot serve as the chief executive of the city where he was born'?" Galademos said doubtfully.

"You have mistakenly remembered that Lord Lysipelatus is from Catana, but they Sicilians always like to get together... plus Asistes's uncle is Antonios, no matter who will be the Catanaan. The chief executive of Xosos will take care of the Laodicean family, so I didn’t want you to make this matter a big deal just now, lest it be detrimental to your future development!" Stromboli reminded.

Galademus and Diocasis looked at each other.

"Okay, I won't say much more about this matter. Tonight was a farewell party I held in advance for myself and you, but it was almost ruined by you kid Diocasis." When Rompoli said this, he raised the wine glass in his hand and said loudly: "Children, come on, let's drink to tonight's party first!"

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That night, in order to thank Stromboli for taking care of him in the past few years, the Diocasis family and Galademos frequently raised their glasses and toasted, but ended up getting drunk.

Near noon the next day, a hungover Diocasis rushed to the town hall and got the news: the freeman canceled the report and explained that he and his wife were busy working and had forgotten his daughter. Yesterday afternoon, my relatives took me to Katanai to play.

At dusk, the number of customers at Krystoya’s restaurant in Naxos City gradually increased.

A middle-aged man with a scar on his face walked in and walked straight to the waiter at the counter: "I have an appointment with Diocasis, may I ask -"

"Please come with me." The waiter took him to the second floor and opened a room, where Diocasis sat alone.

As soon as he saw the person coming, Diocasis said dissatisfiedly: "Captain Selicis, how can you manage your soldiers if you are so unpunctual?"

Selixis was too lazy to talk to him, and sat down directly opposite him: "Why did you invite me to dinner?"

Diocasis did not answer immediately, but turned to look at the waiter: "Hurry up and bring all the dishes I ordered. I'm starving. Celysis, what are you drinking?"

"Beer, of course."

"Bring two more jugs of beer, and close the door when you go out."

"Okay, your wine and dishes will be delivered soon." The waiter went out and closed the door.

Selises looked at Diocasis and asked again: "What's the matter with coming to me in such a hurry?"

Diocasis rested his right elbow on the dining table and asked in a deep voice: "Master Tribune, don't you know what happened in Prosdemo where you are in the past two days?"

Celysis was the tribune elected by the citizens of Prosdemor.According to the provisions of the "Dionian Laws": the tribunes are elected every two years, and one tribune is elected from a Demo region. There can only be a maximum of ten tribunes in a city.Therefore, in large cities like Thurii and Crotone, the number of demos is far more than ten, or even as high as twenty or thirty, and 20 citizens of each demo are randomly selected to deal with the first one. A round of preselectors voted, and ten tribunes were chosen.Naxos is not a big city, and it was established less than ten years ago. There are only seven Demo regions.

Selicis was an exiled soldier ten years ago. He fought alongside the First Legion and won military honors in the battle to defeat the Syracuse coalition.Later, after the Catania Plains completely belonged to the Kingdom of Dionia, Davers ordered the Ministry of Military Affairs to establish the Eighth Army in the Sicilian territory. Selicis, who had combat experience and military exploits, naturally became the Eighth Army smoothly. A junior team officer.

In the past ten years, he has become a captain, but he has never wanted to develop in local government affairs. In the past few years, he directly signed up to run for tribune, completely ending his future in political affairs.It is precisely because he has great prestige in Prosdemor and the conditions for his election are very good (the hero of the recovery of Naxos, as evidenced by the scars on his face, the captain of the Eighth Legion, who pays taxes on time and has no illegal record) , and was thus elected tribune of Prosdmer twice in a row.

At this moment, he thought about it carefully: Diocassis is a city inspector, and his job is to maintain law and order, catch criminals and arrest robbers. He came to him in a hurry, probably because of this aspect. After all, the two people before They have cooperated with each other many times due to violations of law and discipline in the city.And what happened to Prosdemo in the past two days...

He said uncertainly: "Are you referring to the free people losing their daughters?"

"It seems that you are quite competent as a tribune." Diocassis joked.

"I heard that the freeman has found his daughter." Celysis added.

Diocassis knocked on the dining table with his fist, and said in a deep voice: "Shit! He said his daughter went to Katana with her uncle, but I asked the neighbors around him carefully, and no one saw any guests coming. I went to his house, and no one saw his daughter go to the port. On the contrary, I went to Christia's bank and found out that he had deposited a thousand drachmas of silver coins this morning..."

You must know that the background of Christoya Bank is too strict, and there is a rule of "not leaking customer deposit information to anyone". It is impossible for anyone to make the employees of this bank bow their heads.However, at the suggestion of Davos, Christoya later added a stipulation, "If it is related to the safety of the kingdom and the people of the city, they can cooperate appropriately with the order of the local chief executive." Diocasi Scott asked Stromboli to consult it.

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