I was a priest in the city-state era

After Taurus trotted up to Roy, Roy stretched out his right hand and patted Taurus on the shoulder.

"You're not dreaming, I'm really here to visit you now."

After confirming that he was really not dreaming, Taurus said excitedly.

"Priest Roy, since you placed us here, we have been doing our best to complete the tasks you gave us. Now we have not only made more than a thousand bronze war spears for you, but also made fifty large war ships for you. Boat."

"I have seen the fifty large warships you mentioned in the port of Okalia."

Roy said with some gratitude.

"Taurus! Whether it's the bronze war spears you made or the fifty large warships you made, it will be of great help to me in defeating the enemy. Now if you are dissatisfied with your life, as long as you bring it up, I will definitely I will do my best to satisfy you.”

Taurus hesitated for a moment, then plucked up the courage to speak.

"Priest Roy, we have lost our home in our hometown of Phenicia. Now we not only have a place here, but also enjoy food and clothing. We are very satisfied with our current life. If Priest Roy can make We have our own wives, and we are willing to smelt bronze and build ships for you for the rest of our lives.”

"Your request is not too much, and I can satisfy your request so that each of you can have your own wife."

Roy said with a serious expression.

"But before I meet your demands, I need you to fight for me as soldiers, because the city of Athens I rule is about to go to war with the city of Knossos. After this war is over, I will arrange for unmarried soldiers to fight with the city of Athens Unmarried women and widows are on a blind date. You can find a wife you like in this blind date. This war is very important to me, so if you win this war, I will let you have a wife and children who can support you. "

Taurus and others did not follow Cadmus and become pirates, which proves that these Phoenicians wanted to live a stable life more than the life-threatening life of licking blood with their swords.

Now that they have lived a stable life, they definitely want to stay away from the brutal fighting on the battlefield.

After all, the battlefield not only takes the lives of the enemy, but also their own lives.

It's a pity that their current life still lacks the most important other half.

Taurus only hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said to Roy.

"Our current life is given by you. If you lose to the enemy, we will also lose our current stable life, so we are willing to fight for you."

Hearing Taurus's answer, Roy smiled with satisfaction.

"You start to prepare now. In five days you will take a boat to the city of Athens. During these five days, you try to make bronze war spears. The more bronze war spears you make, the greater our hope of defeating the enemy. ”

Taurus nodded, then as if something suddenly occurred to him, he took out a piece of dark red ore about the size of a thumb from his body and said.

"Priest Roy, when we were digging for copper ore, we found an ore that is harder than copper ore. Our blast furnace can melt copper ore into copper water, but it cannot melt this ore."

Looking at the ore in Taurus's hand, Roy said with a surprised expression.

"Taurus, the ore in your hand is iron ore. You cannot use the blast furnace to smelt bronze to melt the iron ore because the melting temperature of iron ore is higher than that of copper ore. After our war with the city of Knossos is over, , I will teach you how to make charcoal, maybe you can use charcoal as fuel to melt iron ore, and then make iron objects that are stronger than bronze utensils.”

Iron tools have extraordinary significance in this era.

More than four hundred years later, the nomadic Dorians were able to conquer the Peloponnese Peninsula with overwhelming force because of their use of iron weapons, and established the era of Dorian hegemony.

The Thracians, a nomadic people in the north of the Dorians, were able to invade the Asia Minor peninsula and establish the powerful Phrygian Kingdom because of their use of iron weapons.

If Roy's soldiers had used iron weapons four hundred years earlier, they would have been able to carry out dimensionality-reducing strikes on any area in this era.

Moreover, using iron to make various agricultural tools can also increase food production, making the Kingdom of Athens self-sufficient in food production.

Even the barren Attica Peninsula produced enough food to feed a population of more than 80,000 people during the Iron Age.

Together with the fertile land of Thebes and the island of Eubia, the Kingdom of Athens could produce enough food to feed a population of half a million as long as iron farm tools were widely used.

After coming back to his senses, Roy said to Melanius.

"Governor Melanius! Now that I have told Taurus what I need to say, take me to your Okalia tribe as a guest!"

"Your Majesty Roy, do you need me to ask all the clan members to come out to greet you?"

"Of course not! I only come here once in a while, there is no need for everyone to mobilize their troops for me."

On the way to the Okalia tribe with Roy and Yiole, Melanius thought that there were many fishermen in the Okalia tribe, so Roy said to Melanius.

"Governor Melanius! I hope your Okalia tribe can send some soldiers who have been sailors to participate in the war between the city of Athens and the city of Knossos."

After hearing Roy's request, Melanius said with an embarrassed expression.

"Our Okalia tribe has a small population, so I can only send two hundred and fifty soldiers."

"Your two hundred and fifty Ocarian soldiers plus my two hundred and fifty Phoenician followers, five hundred reinforcements from Eubia, plus a thousand from Thebes Soldiers, now I have 1,500 reinforcements. As long as the city of Corinth gives me another 500 soldiers as reinforcements, I can have an army of 3,000 with bronze weapons to deal with the city of Knossos."

The Marathon region in the northeastern part of the Attica Peninsula.

The ruler here is no longer the leader of the Marathon tribe, but Pandion, who recently led three hundred soldiers with bronze spears to conquer the Marathon tribe.

When Loy was a guest of the Ocarian tribe, Pandion met a messenger from the city of Athens.

After hearing the messenger's intention, Pandion said with disappointment.

"Your master is as short-sighted as a mouse! Now the city of Athens is about to go to war with the city of Knossos. As long as the city of Athens defeats the city of Knossos, it will have a chance to become the new overlord of the Aegean Sea. Your master actually wants me to Use this war to regain the throne. Although I have a lot of dissatisfaction with Roy, he is my son-in-law after all, and my grandson will be the future king of Athens. How can I create chaos at this time and let the city of Athens lose? to end this vital war.”

If it were in the ancient East, because daughters and grandsons were not considered heirs, even if they wanted to destroy the future of the city of Athens, Roy, an outsider, could not take advantage of him.

But in the West, because his daughter and grandson were also heirs, Pandion was not bewitched by the messenger.

Lavrio region in the southern part of the Attica Peninsula.

Erechtheus, who ruled the tribe of Lavrio, also saw an envoy from the city of Athens.

After hearing the envoy's intention, Erechtheus said to the envoy expressionlessly.

"Your master underestimates me! Although I want to destroy the city of Athens that belongs to Roy, I cannot destroy the city of Athens that belongs to my future nephew. In the war between Athens and Knossos, I will not go Help Roy, but I will not help the enemies of Athens."