I was a priest in the city-state era

After the slave merchant took the remaining slave men and left by boat, he saw that the more than fifty slave men and women he had bought looked numb, as if they had no hope for their own future. Roy took the initiative Speak to these slaves.

"You can rest assured that I will not let you be enslaved to death by me as lifelong slaves. As long as you work for me for five years, I will make you free people and give you a considerable amount of wealth as a reward for your work. The Kingdom of Athens does not need foreigners like you to protect it, so the job I assign you will not be to go to the battlefield. The hardest job for you slave men is to carry things. , which means cleaning and cleaning.”

After hearing what Roy said, more than fifty slaves and men opened their eyes in disbelief, unable to believe what they heard.

In this era, it was considered lucky to have a master who kept slaves fed and clothed.

But Roy not only wanted to make them free people after five years, but also paid them for their work.

This is not the treatment of slaves. Roy completely treats them as workers from other places.

The eyes of the slave men and women who were originally numb now all have the light of hope in their eyes.

One slave man said boldly.

"You're not lying to us, are you? Where in the world can there be such a kind-hearted master who will give us freedom as long as we work for five years. The hardest work is just to let us carry things, and in the end we will be paid -"

"I am the King of Athens, and my words are equivalent to the laws of the Kingdom of Athens. The treatment I give you slaves will become the legal standard of the Kingdom of Athens in the future. In the future, any slave who works in the Kingdom of Athens for five years will be treated as a free man. identity."

Roy said with a smile.

"Although I will give you slaves the best treatment in the world, I will also give you slaves the harshest punishment. If a slave tries to escape, the slave will not have a chance to be forgiven, because the penalty for escape is Death penalty. And before death, escaped slaves would be brutally tortured.”

"No one will escape."

these slave men and women said one after another.

"When we return to our hometown, we will be captured by the king and taken to the battlefield."

"I would rather stay here as a slave than return to the chaos of my hometown."

There were roughly three sources of slaves in this era.

The first source of slaves was slaves who were taken as prisoners or trophies of war and then sold to slave traders.

The second source of slaves is slaves who were captured by bandits on land or pirates from the sea and sold to slave merchants.

The third source of slaves was debt slaves, who were poor people who were sold to slave traders by their creditors or by their families.

Regardless of the origin of the slaves purchased by Roy, they would not be better off in their hometown than in the city of Athens.

After handing over these slave men and women to Chione's management, Roy returned to the Acropolis and happened to see a soldier running towards him from the palace.

"His Majesty!"

The soldier came to Roy and said happily.

"It's great to meet you here. Princess Procne asked me to inform you that there is an envoy from Arcadia who wants to see you."

"Messenger of Arcadia——"

The city of Athens has no exchanges with the Acadia region, a mountainous area in the central Peloponnese Peninsula. The purpose of the envoys from the Acadia region coming to Athens immediately aroused Roy's curiosity.

Royal Palace of Athens.

Roy came to the hall and saw Procne and Philomela sitting on the throne together to receive envoys from the Arcadia region.

"Brother Roy!"

Procne saw Roy smiling happily, and Philomela said in surprise.

"Brother Roy came back so quickly. The soldiers sent to find you just left!"

Roy walked to the steps where the throne was, then turned around and sat down. He put his arms around the slender waists of Procne and Philomela, looked at the young messenger standing in the center of the hall and asked.

"Are you the envoy from Arcadia? What is your purpose in coming to our city of Athens?"

"Great King Loy of Athens, let me introduce myself first. I am Pandaros, the son of Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, the most powerful city-state in the Arcadia region. I came to Athens to seek Help because the Mycenaeans are invading the Arcadia region."

Seeing that Roy didn't speak, Pandaros continued.

"The Mycenaeans are really hateful. Not only did they actively invade the Arcadia region, they also belittled and humiliated the Arcadian tribes who defended the goddess Artemis. The Arcadian tribes on Mount Cerunea were After the Mycenaeans conquered it, the Mycenaeans devalued the Arcadian tribe there as the doe of the goddess Artemis in the myth they made up for Zeus, and described the Mycenaean leader as a giant who caught the doe alive. Hero. After the Arcadian tribe on Mount Erymantus was conquered by the Mycenaeans, they were also made up myths and devalued as wild boars of the goddess Artemis, describing the Mycenaean leader's plan to capture him alive. The achievements of the wild boar. Now my father Lycaon is leading the Arcadians to resist the Mycenaeans. The Mycenaeans hate my father and make up myths that my father Lycaon will be killed by Zeus. Turn into a bloodthirsty wolf."

"To put it simply, you Arcadians can't defeat the Mycenaeans, so you want help from our city of Athens."

Roy couldn't help but said.

"It's obviously something that can be explained clearly in one sentence, so why do you need to popularize these things that I don't need to know."

"We Acadians can defeat the Mycenaeans."

Pandaros said without confidence.

"It's all because the Arcadian tribes who worshiped Pan, the god of fauns, surrendered to the Mycenaeans that we are in the current unfavorable situation. In the Arcadia region, the great goddess Artemis protects the entire Arcadia. The highest god of the region, Pan, the god of fauns, was one of the vassals of the goddess Artemis. However, in order to replace the goddess Artemis as the patron saint of Arcadia, the god of fauns, Pan, actually accepted the thief as his father and became the god of the Mycenaeans, Zeus. The son was also renamed Hermes by Zeus. Pan, the tribe of the god Hermes, also became an accomplice of the Mycenaeans in attacking our city of Arcadia."

After listening to Pandaros' words, Roy said expressionlessly.

"Prince Pandaros! I have deep sympathy for the fact that your city of Arcadia is about to be conquered by the Mycenaeans, and that the goddess Artemis is about to be taken away from the throne of the patron saint of Arcadia by Hermes, the god of fauns, but I There is nothing I can do to help you, because the city of Athens is now competing with the cities of Donia and Knossos on the island of Crete for hegemony in the Aegean Sea, and there is really no force to assist you. "

Pandaros said with wide eyes in disappointment.

"Great King of Athens, my sister Callisto is a virgin who has sworn to remain unmarried and serve the goddess Artemis. As long as you help us, my father Lycaon is willing to marry Callisto to you. "

Callisto——

In the myth of another world, the Mycenaeans first conquered the Argos region, so Io, the daughter of Inachus, the king of Argos, was the first human wife of Zeus, the king of the gods of the Mycenaeans. .

The second place the Mycenaeans conquered was the Arcadia region, so Callisto, the daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia, was the second human wife of Zeus, the king of the gods of the Mycenaeans.