Vol 7 Chapter 74: farewell

Behind Hercules, the herdsmen rushed 20 cows, followed by a large parade consisting of men, the elderly, women, and children, as well as pipers, drummers, and trumpeters blowing cheerful melody. The whole team talked and laughed, noisy, just like when the Hercules drove the cattle to the Western Mediterranean, and walked around the city of Turui, the whole city was full of hilarious atmosphere.
The end of the parade is just the beginning of the celebration, followed by various competitions.
The most important game in the celebration is the Hercules competition: the contestants must pick up a five-meter-long, thick-legged cedar wood and walk 40 meters away to pass the preliminaries. In the next elimination schedule, the players need to pick up the ever-increasing stone pillars, need to lift the five-kilogram shot put, and see how long it lasts... The most important difficulty is to pull the carriage, countless audiences for the players. Come on cheering, watch them pull a huge carriage with a certain weight, tighten the muscles, use all the strength, like a strong horse, pull the carriage forward.
The winners of the championship will be awarded the title of "Kingdom of the Kingdom" this year. After receiving the blessings of the priests of Hercules, they will wear a crown and cruise around the city with enthusiastic people. The reception of King Davers and the honor of eating together will also be rewarded with a lot of material rewards.
Another important game during the celebration was wrestling. Everyone knows that Hercules is a wrestler. Especially his battle with the giant Antais is even more well known. After nine years of development, the Wrestling Competition held at the Hercules Festival in the Kingdom of Dionia is no less than the traditional four Greek Games. Compared with winning at the four major sports events, the main achievement is the honor; winning the championship in the wrestling competition in Turui, you can also get a lot of gold and silver rewards, so the contestants are very popular, every game is quite Intense tension.
The wrestling competition lasted nearly a month, which coincided with the end of the celebration, and the champion also enjoyed the same treatment as the champion of the Hercules.
It is said that in the audience of these two competitions, there are often military personnel and military leaders. Because these two competitions not only allow citizens and reserve citizens to participate, but also allow free people, Gentiles, and even slaves to participate. If they get good grades, they will be lobbied by the Military Affairs Department to join the Kingdom of Dionia or to get rid of slavery, because such outstanding players will generally be excellent soldiers.
In addition to these two competitions, there are other interesting competitions for the celebration. For example: riding a cow race, racing sheep, catching pigs... This is also to show respect to the animal husbandry Hercules. The fun-filled mountain climbing competition is the adventure spirit of Hercules, and the hilarious wife running competition pays tribute to the romantic god...
Therefore, unlike other celebrations, Hercules was always full of laughter during the celebration. While being happy, Plato also found that at least half of the contestants and audiences in the competitions were non-Greek, and they could fully feel the reverence they received from the heart to the Greek god. The joy of the game, the harmonious interaction with the Greek citizens.
Plato did not wait until the end of the celebration. In early June, he went to the Daves and the Dionysian Academy to prepare to return to Athens. After all, there is a lot of business waiting for him to be dealt with in the Akademie Academy. .
Davers held a farewell party for him.
At the banquet, Plato said with pleasure: "This time, I am very grateful to Daphus for your great help to me! Let me have enough time to observe the operation of the government of the Kingdom of Dionia, I found Diony Compared with other Greek city-states, Asia has many advantages.
First of all, Diaonia attaches great importance to education. The government funds the construction of schools in various cities. The low cost of enrollment has enabled the children over the age of six in the Kingdom to implement almost universal basic education. This kind of education is all-round. It not only teaches mathematics, literature, rhetoric, logic, philosophy to children... but also teaches sculpture, music, and dance to nurture their hearts and exercise to strengthen their bodies. When they are adults, they are the gold and silver of Deonia, and they can easily become good citizens of the kingdom.
Secondly, although Dionia emphasizes the role of law, it actually emphasizes moral education. Otherwise, Hades will not be believed to be the protector of your kingdom. To promote Hades's just and prudent punishment of imprisonment to guide the people to do more good deeds during their lifetime... The same is true of your respect for Hera, guiding the people to love marriage and caring for the family, which plays a very important role in the stability of the kingdom. Deonia uses the gods to guide citizens towards goodness. This is a very novel, yet very effective method that is completely worth learning in other city states.
Once again, Daves said to you before you, 'You will not impose a strict division of labor on the citizens of the kingdom,' but Diaonia has a strict division of the public's public officials through a method called "assessment". . Let the legal person be a judge, let the producers be good at supervising, let the profitables manage the trade, and let the statisticians take charge of the money... even your generals are promoted by the soldiers and team officers. Most of your city chief executives also have extensive experience in urban management. This is not like most of the Greek city-states, including Athens. Most of the city-state officials selected by the people through the Citizens' Congress are mostly hypocrites who greet the people and do not know how to manage a city-state, let alone know how to manage a city-state. Lead the troops to win. The blind ignorance of the people allows these people to master the power of the city-state, and how can the city-state be strong!
Also, under Daveus, you let girls and boys receive the same education from an early age, conduct physical training, and give them more property and life freedom when they are adults, although they have not yet done so that women can also serve in the kingdom. But compared to other Greek city-states, you have done very well on the issue of equality between men and women.
Also, Diaonia has achieved fairness in the distribution of property. Each kingdom citizen can be divided into five acres of land, and then according to the contribution of citizens in the kingdom, can be redistributed to land and other property rewards, rather than let the kingdom's public property be earned by nobles and rich people. take……"
After hearing these words, Davers was in a good mood. Half-jokingly and half-heartedly said to other veterans who came to the feast: "Have you heard that our party members have so many advantages, you should have more confidence and hard work in the kingdom. Correct!"
Others also responded with a smile.
Plato did not laugh. He looked at Davers and said seriously: "I found that one of the biggest advantages of Dionia is that Davers is leaving you!"
"I?"
"Yes." Plato began to exclaim with excitement: "As a king of a country, you are not above the law, but act in accordance with the law. You do not squander, pursue a luxurious life, but a low adjustment system. As far as I know, the dynasty of the Kingdom of Dionia and these bills that I am amazed are mostly from your suggestion. If you don’t have profound knowledge, deep observation and good judgment are very difficult to do. Everything can only be a philosopher! Philosophers don't have to write and be widely known. My teacher Socrates always said nothing, but Daphus did not say it, you are a real person. The philosophical king!"
Having said that, Plato is excited and his eyes are bright: "My previous judgment was wrong. My ideal country is not in reality, but it is being realized, just in Dionia!"
In the past life, Plato had traveled to Tarantum. At that time, Tarantum was in a strong period. Plato saw Achta, who had been the governor for a long time, because he was an important figure in the Pythagorean school. Achta is the typical image of the "philosophical king" that Plato hopes in his mind, so he highly praises Achta in his own works. But in this world, Achta died early, and Tarantum also became a free city in the Kingdom of Dionia, but Plato turned his attention to Davers, who created more glory than Achta.
Of course, Plato, who is proud of the farewell party, did not admit that he had a clear flaw in the book "Ideology" compared to the current situation in Dionynia~EbookFREE.me~that was his eyes narrowed before. Focusing on only one city, I even think that the number of city-states is 5040, and Diaonia has a large population and vast land, which can also be well managed, which makes him feel a big touch.
With a reluctance and a vision of the future, Plato left Turui and returned to Athens. While focusing on teaching, he also devoted most of his energy to thinking deeply about the political system of the city state, and wrote the Daves article a few years later, claiming that the value of this article is far more than he used to be. The articles such as "The Lysian", "Gorgia", "Shipias", etc., are no less than the book "The Republic of China". This is a postscript.
Note: I finally finished this volume! I have never dared to write Plato, write philosophy, and write academic controversy. Because I am not good at this, I have a book friend who advised me to avoid it, but I later thought that since I wrote ancient Greece, how can I not have classical culture? Hundreds of contending scenes, so I wrote the scalp. I read a few books for this purpose. Although I wrote a relatively superficial book, I was defeated by myself.
The next volume is even more exciting, because there are things you want to see: Rome, Carthage, Etruscan, Egypt, Celtic, Iberia...
So the name of the next volume is "West Mediterranean Storm"!