I was a priest in the city-state era

The purpose of the Pharaoh family to conduct intermarriage is to prevent outsiders from using the princesses of the Pharaoh family to inherit the throne.

However, in the long history, it is a fact that intermarriage will give birth to unhealthy children.

So in order to avoid this tragedy, the normal pharaohs of the Pharaoh family usually let the children born by their sisters marry the normal children born by other women.

Some pharaohs even break the tradition of intermarriage.

Nefertiti, the Pharaoh Queen known as the most beautiful woman in the world, the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, is a queen who is not a Pharaoh princess.

Nefer did not become the wife of her brother Kamose because she and Kamose were both legitimate sons and daughters born by the queen, and Kamose did not want himself and his sister to become victims of intermarriage.

Ahmose wanted to marry Nefer not only because he needed the support of traditional forces, but also because he needed Nefer to improve his inheritance rights.

Ahmose was not the legitimate son born by the queen, so his name was Ahmose [Son of the Moon God].

If Ahmose was the legitimate son of the queen, even if he had to write the name of the god into his own name, his name should be Amenmose [Son of the Sun God].

Ahmose is the son of the moon god Khons, the son of the sun god Amon, which is enough to explain his status.

Although as a prince, Ahmose's inheritance rights would be higher than that of Nefer, who was a princess.

But Nefer was the legitimate daughter born to the queen, and Ahmose was only the son of a concubine.

This made Nefer and Ahmose's inheritance rights evenly matched, which is why the city-states of the Kingdom of Southern Egypt were willing to support Nefer or remain neutral.

In order to suppress the more powerful Temple of Amon, Nefer, under the persuasion of Roy, finally decided to use this civil war to move the capital and worship Sekhmet as the new guardian god.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

Nefer's army traveled thousands of miles and finally arrived near the city of Thebes.

With half a month to prepare, Ahmose had already assembled 50,000 troops in the city of Thebes.

So Nafir was not in a hurry to send the army to Thebes, but wanted to stay for a while to let the soldiers who had been traveling for ten consecutive days recover their strength.

The soldiers had enough physical strength to fight and defeat the 50,000 troops of Thebes.

After Nafir's army was stationed near Thebes, Ahmose did not take the initiative to attack with his new army, but sent an envoy to communicate with Nafir.

Nafir's barracks.

Nafir sat on the wooden throne covered with a wool blanket and met with Ahmose's envoy together with Roy.

The young noble who served as the envoy walked into the barracks and saw that the envoy was someone he had met before. Nafir asked with a smile.

"I have seen you and I know that you are a friend of Brother Ahmose. Brother Ahmose asked you to come to see me. What exactly does he want you to tell me?"

The envoy bowed his head respectfully.

"Princess Nefer, now that your brother has inherited the throne of Pharaoh, you should respectfully address him as His Majesty Pharaoh Ahmose. His Majesty Ahmose asked me to tell you that if you want to become queen, as long as you marry His Majesty Ahmose according to tradition, you will be the unique queen of the Kingdom of Egypt, and His Majesty Ahmose will give you the greatest respect and power. Please consider the interests of the Pharaoh family and do not let outsiders use you to take away the throne of the Pharaoh family."

"The interests of the Pharaoh family?"

Nefer said with a playful smile.

"Who can represent the Pharaoh family, Brother Ahmose or me? I am a pure-blooded princess of the Pharaoh family, and Brother Ahmose is just the child of my father and a woman outside. In other words, the blood of the Pharaoh family that I have with an outsider is not inferior to that of Brother Ahmose, and my child is a more legitimate heir than Brother Ahmose."

"Princess Nafir! Since you know that your inheritance right is higher than that of His Majesty Ahmose because you are a pure-blooded princess born from a family marriage, you should know that only by marrying His Majesty Ahmose can you give birth to a new generation of pure-blooded princes and princesses for the Pharaoh family. If you marry an outsider, the future heirs of the Pharaoh family will no longer be pure-blooded."

The messenger said solemnly.

"And many temples, including the Temple of Amun, do not support the princess to inherit the throne."

Seeing that Nafir was speechless for a moment, Roy immediately smiled.

"The so-called truth is written by the spear blade! Princess Nefer led her army all the way south from the City of the Sun. The thirteen city-states along the way, including Memphis, Itaw, Meidum, Crocodile City, and Heracliopolis, have all recognized Princess Nefer's right of succession. Together with the City of the Sun and Merimda controlled by Princess Nefer, Princess Nefer has the support of fifteen city-states. If Ahmose insists on his right of succession, let his spear blade compete with Princess Nefer's spear blade to see which side will be killed by the other side's spear blade. After the loser's life is taken away, it will be unable to refute the truth announced by the winner."

Competing with spear blades?

Nefer's army are all veterans who followed Kamose to fight the Hyksos.

The army that Ahmose summoned in Thebes was almost all recruits summoned in the past half month.

The difference in strength between the two sides is obvious at a glance, so even though he knew that Nefer's army had traveled thousands of miles, Ahmose did not take the initiative to attack this exhausted army.

Seeing that Roy did not focus on tradition but on strength, and made the envoy of Ahmose speechless, Nafir said with a smile.

"Messenger! You just said that the Amon Temple opposes my succession to the throne. This means that the Amon Temple is also my enemy!"

No matter how bold the messenger was, he would not dare to announce on behalf of the Temple of Amun that the Temple of Amun opposed Nafir's succession to the pharaoh's throne.

After all, Nafir really broke tradition and became a female pharaoh, and the Temple of Amun will continue to have a good relationship with Nafir.

If Nafir regards the Temple of Amon as an enemy because of the messenger's nonsense, the revenge of the Temple of Amon can make the messenger's whole family disappear overnight.

In another world, historical facts have proven that even the descendants of Nafir, the pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty, would die young at the age of twenty because of their enemies with the Temple of Amun.

"Princess Nefer! The Temple of Amun does not oppose your succession to the throne. The Temple of Amun supports you and His Majesty Ahmose in inheriting the throne."

After hurriedly explaining, the messenger sighed and said.

"Even if you have different mothers, you and His Majesty Ahmose are brothers and sisters. Do you have to kill each other? Can we divide Egypt into three regions, north, south, and middle, with His Majesty Ahmose ruling southern Egypt and Na Princess Phil ruled Central Egypt in the city of Itaw. Then we both attacked the Hyksos in northern Egypt and fulfilled the last wish of the ancestors of the Pharaoh family to expel the Hyksos."

Upon hearing the messenger's proposal, Nafir showed a hesitant expression on his face.

Because he didn't want to kill each other with Ahmose. After all, Ahmose was her half-brother.

"You go back and tell brother Yahmose that I can consider dividing Central Egypt and Southern Egypt with him."