Vol 9 Chapter 219: Car racing (2)

Daves ignored the clamor of women and children, overlooking the huge yellow arena paved with fine sand and clay, and the long strip of isolation in the center of the arena, and asked: "Clotto , How many racing games are there today?"
As the team leader of the preparatory team for the Games, Croto Kataks can be said to know the entire schedule of all races. He immediately replied: "There are three racing games today."
At this time, cheers rang out from the audience. It turned out that the racers were driving the participating cars into their respective starting gates.
Davers looked at the row of starting gates at the southern end of the stadium with interest, and asked: "Which regions and city-states are players from the first game?"
"There are from the Po region of the Kingdom, Sinumibia, Thebes, the Kingdom of Bruti, Macedonia, Cyrenaica... well, and our Turíi area..." Crotocata Kesi is as precious as many.
"It seems that the competition in the first round is very fierce!" Daves said enthusiastically after listening: "The racers in the Po area should be citizens of Gaul. They are already good at battlefields with complex terrain. Driving a chariot for an impact, now it should be more like a fish in the arena. The Bruti area was originally a famous pastoral area in the kingdom. Although in the past Bruti horses were short and good at climbing, and were more suitable as thomas, but they have changed from A batch of Lusitania horses have been introduced to the Iberian Peninsula for large-scale breeding. It is said that they are not bad compared to Gallumas.
Cyrenaica’s bay horses are also very famous. It is said that they were sold in large quantities to the city-state nobles of the Peloponnese. Um... Macedonian cavalry, I believe you have already experienced their power in the Battle of Taga several years ago: There is also West Lumibia, which is also an area rich in horses. Our light cavalry corps is made up of West Lumibia... These players are all from famous horse-producing areas, whether they are horses or riders. It should be the result of choosing the best among the best. I believe the competition in the competition must be very fierce! "Davos commented with interest while touching his chin.
"Grandpa, what about Thebes?" Christod interrupted behind.
"Thebes...I don't think their cars are capable of competing with other players." Daves said confidently.
"Father, Thebes has won many racing championships in previous Greek Games, and this time the owner of the Thebes is Peropidas." Croto Kataks reminded.
"The past is the past. In the past, the Greeks did not allow foreigners to participate in the games. Macedonians who were close to them did not have the opportunity to participate. But at our games today, the Greeks will see that the entire Mediterranean world is more capable of driving horse-drawn carriages than they are. There are many races!" Daves still insists on his own judgment: "So no matter whether it is an individual or a country, you must not stand still, but face the world bravely and dare to compete with the strong players in order to have greater Improve! Chris, did you say that Grandpa was right?"
"Grandpa is too right!" Christod nodded like a chicken pecking at the rice.
Kristia, who hugged him by her side, couldn't help but laughed and cursed, "Little sycophant!"
Daves smiled kindly: "Chris, grandpa will ask you a question, who is Pelopidas?"
"The military commander of the Piotsia Alliance!" Kristod blurted out.
"Awesome!" Daves gave a thumbs up, then patted the couch next to him: "Come on to Grandpa to do it!"
Although Christod was eager to try, he still looked at his grandma first.
"Go, go." Kristia waved her hand, and then reminded Daves: "You can't allow him to approach the railing in front!"
Daves nodded.
Christod rushed to sit down beside Davers in excitement, and then asked: "Grandpa, haven't you mentioned the players in the Turiyi area?"
"Oh!" Daves patted his forehead: "How did I forget our own players! Croto, who is our Turriy racer? Who owns the car?"
"The driver is called Procris, the youngest son of the former cavalry hero Sobokos. He won the first place in the race racing competition held in the Turri region. The provider of the racing car he drives today should be the Turri carriage. Chamber of Commerce."
"Soboks..." Daves couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard this long dusty name: "I seem to remember the current president of the Turriy Carriage Chamber of Commerce...should also be the son of Soboks? "
"Yes, father, the president of the Turriy Carriage Chamber of Commerce is called Pebaricius. He is the eldest son of Soboks. He once served as an officer of the 1st Cavalry Corps. Ersi and Rome suffered a serious leg injury during the battle, and finally had to retire and run the carriage shop left by his father..." Cloto Catacs introduced.
"This family has made a lot of contributions to the kingdom!" Davers sighed.
"Uncle Croto, I see there are 8 starting gates below, but why did you only talk about 7 drivers?" Apox’s son Tisifonus said suddenly. He was three years younger than Christod. Inherited his father's wisdom and stability, and performed well in school.
Croto Kataks froze for a moment, hurriedly counted, and immediately said apologetically: "I have said one less, and there is a car that should be... from Egypt."
"Oh, Egypt!" Daves looked at Croto Kataks calmly.
On the fifth day after he talked with his son that night, he received definite news from the African region: Jiehao found it. After a storm hit his boat, it crashed and crashed one hundred miles west of Cyrenaica. Under the cliffs outside the sea, the bodies of him and his entourage were also found among the rocks one after another. According to the chief executive of the African region,
all died of drowning
.
For this reason, Daves also urgently convened an administrative council of the kingdom yesterday, persuading the ministers to deal with this emergency according to his plan: On the one hand, Dionia sent envoys and fleets to rush to Africa, transported the corpses of Jeho and his entourage back to Egypt; on the other hand, the kingdom temporarily blocked the news that "Egyptian envoy delegation was destroyed by the storm", and at the same time asked the Ministry of Military Affairs to notify Calcidis and quietly assembled in Sicily Soldiers of several corps to observe the development of the situation.
Therefore, although the Egyptian athletes' delegation in Turiyi is puzzled about why their country's envoys have not arrived yet, they can still participate in various competitions in a calm mood.
"It is said that Egypt was the first country to use chariots among the Mediterranean countries. Chariot archers are still an important arms of Egypt. It seems that the first group of competitions will be really intense!" Daves sighed. Then he complained to his eldest son: "You, we are not as careful as our little Tissy! Tissy, watch the game with grandpa!" Then, he patted the seat on the other side.
"Oh." Tissifonus replied, got up and walked forward.
"I want to sit with Grandpa too!"
"I want to sit too!"
...
When the other children saw this, they all yelled one after another, letting their parents dissuade them from listening.
"Okay, okay, move a couch next to me, and let the children sit over." Daves said with a smile.
After watching the children sit down again, he pretended to be serious and said: "To watch the game with grandpa, you must agree to several requirements of grandpa. First, watch quietly and don't make noise; second, You must also actively answer Grandpa’s questions. If you get the correct answer, you will get a reward for going home!"
"Grandpa, what's the reward?"
"You'll know when the time comes. Can you meet my request?!"
"can!!"
"Good boy, let's watch the game together."
Seeing Daves teasing the children with a smile, Kristia gave a light mouth: "This old guy!"
I thought of Agnes's long voice: "It would be great if it were like this every day!"
Kristia was taken aback, looking at the happy scenes of Daves and the children, she couldn't help but sigh softly: "Yes!"
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While Davos was enjoying the pleasures of family in the royal grandstand, in the VIP seat not far below it, Saustatus, President of the Turíy Chamber of Commerce, saw an acquaintance: "Hey, Pebaricius, no I thought you would come to the racing game too!"
"Nonsense! I'm not watching this game, who will cheer for my brother!" Pebaricius is a soldier and speaks more directly.
"I know that your brother has won the qualification for the Turriy region to participate in the Games racing competition." Sostatus immediately asked curiously: "But is his race today?"
"There was him in the first race today. There is a car racing schedule announcement posted at the entrance of the arena. Didn't you watch it?"
"I don't have time to watch it!" Sostatus pointed to a group of people behind him~EbookFREE.me~ and whispered: "Look, I have to take care of so many friends. I can't be too busy. , There is no time to take care of others."
Pebaricius glanced at the crowd behind him and said with a sneer: "Master Sostatus, you really have a lot of friends. No wonder you can become one of the best businessmen in the kingdom. You should make a lot of money during the Games. ."
"Oh, let alone making money, it would be good if you don’t lose money!" Sostatus sighed: "You don’t know that there was a riot in the big market outside the main port of Turri the day before yesterday. The foreign merchants, because they could not rent the shop, united and sold the goods directly beside the road. As a result, two whole streets were blocked. The patrol team went to drive and clashed with them... You know, these days. Every market in Ley was full of tourists. At that time, it almost caused a riot, which caused tourists to suffer casualties due to panic trampling. Fortunately, a brigade of Legionnaires arrived in time to calm the situation.
Afterwards, officials from the Ministry of Commerce approached me, hoping that the Turiyi Chamber of Commerce could set an example by temporarily surrendering some of the stores in the market and renting it to these foreign merchants to ensure the smooth progress of the entire Games. What else did they say, "This is also beneficial to the future. The further expansion of the kingdom's trade to the Eastern Mediterranean will be beneficial to our businessmen"... Hmph, I am doing business in this area myself, it is really unnecessary! "
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