I was a priest in the city-state era

In the far east, rulers did not need to worry about their daughters and sons-in-law competing for the throne.

Because the daughter and son-in-law have no inheritance rights at all.

A family with only one daughter is considered an extinct household. As long as the male owner dies, the family property will be divided among brothers and nephews.

Therefore, in past history, we can see cases of the emperor's distant relatives and nephews inheriting the throne, but we cannot see the emperor's daughter and son-in-law inheriting the throne.

But in the Western world, princesses as daughters also have inheritance rights and have caused many wars throughout history.

For example, three thousand years later, the Hundred Years War between France and Britain was caused by the marriage between the French royal family and the British royal family, which caused the British king born to a French princess to believe that he had the right to inherit the French throne.

In the city-state era 3,600 years ago, there were endless stories of princesses’ husbands usurping the throne.

In order to avoid this kind of thing, the Egyptian pharaoh family instituted intermarriage within the family and prohibited the marriage of princesses outside.

Because the Hittite Kingdom was established not long ago, it has not yet used laws to reduce the inheritance rights of princesses.

It was not until Tie Lieping usurped the Hittite throne that the inheritance law was promulgated to reduce the princess's inheritance rights to reduce the possibility of the princess's husband usurping the throne.

It's a pity that Tie Lieping's inheritance law is a joke, because Tie Lieping himself married a Hittite princess and usurped the throne.

In fact, the best way to avoid the princess and her husband competing for the throne is undoubtedly to marry the princess to a commoner or a low-level noble.

If the princess is married to a big noble or a city-state prince, the more noble the princess's husband is, the more powerful he will be to compete for the throne.

Oman Pass.

The mountain road where the Hittite army and the Athenian army collided fiercely.

Hearing Roy say that he wanted to imitate him, Hantili's face became very ugly.

Although Hantili usurped the throne of his uncle Mursili, he did not want anyone to imitate him because Hantili wanted to leave his throne to his son.

Seeing the change in Han Tili's expression, Roy teased jokingly.

"Hantili! Don't you be so naive as to think that others will not imitate you? For example, your good son-in-law Zidanta, who is now also your daughter - the husband of a Hittite princess, do you think he will imitate you? This good father-in-law, take away the throne you want to leave to your son?"

Zidanta explained hurriedly.

"Father, please don't believe his provocation. I will never compete with my brother for the throne."

Will Hantili believe Zidanta?

Zidanta is a rebellious person who helped his father-in-law Hantili usurp the throne——

As long as Han Tili thinks about it seriously, he will understand that his good son-in-law Zidanta will definitely follow his example and usurp the throne.

Under Roy's instigation, Hantili and Zidanta, who were originally able to work together as father and son to deal with Roy, immediately turned out to have their own agendas.

After Roy launched a fierce attack on Hantili and Zidanta, Hantili suddenly and decisively escaped, leaving Zidanta to fight against Roy alone.

It was obvious that Hantili wanted to use Roy to kill Zidanta.

Without Hantili to share the pressure, Zidanta managed to hold on under Roy's attack, and suffered more and more wounds on his body.

Seeing that Roy really wanted to kill him, Zidanta suddenly gritted his teeth and said.

"Brother Roy, my wife and Princess Hatpurna are cousins, and we are also relatives! Please don't kill me. I am willing to help you overthrow Hantili and support you to inherit the Hittite throne. My father is Hittite One of the most powerful city-state princes in the kingdom, our private army includes——"

Roy interrupted Zidanta.

"If your family is not a city-state prince of the Hittite Kingdom, I might consider not killing you. Just because your family is a city-state prince with a private army, I must kill you."

"You bastard, you even killed your own cousin-"

"Your father-in-law Hantili killed his uncle Mursili! As Hantili's accomplice, you also helped him kill his own cousin."

"Brother-in-law Roy, please, for the sake of your cousin and nephew——"

Poof!

Before Zidanta could finish speaking, Roy penetrated his heart with a gun blade.

Zidanta stared at Roy with wide eyes, and his body slowly fell backwards.

After killing Zidanta, Roy's eyes scanned the battlefield looking for Hantili, hoping to send the cousin to the underworld to be with his good son-in-law.

Huhuhu——

Pieces of snowflakes fell with the cold wind.

Roy did not find Han Tili on the battlefield. Instead, he saw heavy snow falling from the sky.

At this time Hantili escaped from the battlefield, Zidanta was killed by Roy, and the Hittite army no longer had the will to fight.

Seeing the heavy snow falling from the sky, the Hittite soldiers turned around and fled.

Loy did not lead the Athenian army in pursuit of the fleeing Hittite soldiers.

Because the heavy snow came so suddenly, Roy's Athenian army was unprepared.

In order to prevent the Athenian soldiers from dying in the snow, Loy ordered the Athenian soldiers to capture more than 300 Hittite soldiers who were injured and unable to escape, and then returned to the city of Samar with the Athenian army.

After the human war ended, the goddesses Alina, Selene, Istanus, and Aphrodite also left the battlefield and returned to their respective temples.

Samar City.

After leaving the Oman Mountains and returning to Samar City, Roy immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Because the snowfall only covers the higher Oman Mountains, only light rain falls in the city of Samar.

While Roy was treating the wounded soldiers in Samar and cremating the bodies of the dead, the news of the battle in the Oman Mountains quickly spread to the Kizyuwatna region.

The Kizyuwatna region was conquered by the Hittite Kingdom only for 25 years.

Moreover, the region was dominated by a single ethnic group, the Cilicians, so the Hittite Kingdom's rule here was very fragile.

In the history of another world, the Hittite Kingdom had ruled the Kizyuwatna region for 60 years, and the Cilicians broke away from the Hittite Kingdom when Zidanta usurped the throne.

For the next 160 years, the Cilicians stubbornly fought against the Hittite Kingdom until they were conquered by the Mitanni Kingdom established by the Hurrians.

If it was the Yamhad region where the Amorites enslaved the Ebla people, perhaps they would not have broken away from the Hittite Kingdom at the beginning, let alone fight against the Hittite Kingdom for 160 years.

Now that they knew that Hantili's Hittite army was defeated by Roy, the Cilicians in the Kizuwatna region immediately launched a rebellion, killing or expelling the governor and nobles sent by the Hittite Kingdom.

The Kizuwatna region covers an area of ​​more than 30,000 square kilometers and has a population of about 400,000.

In its heyday, Hantili's Hittite army would definitely be able to suppress the rebellion launched by the Cilicians.

After being defeated by Roy in the Oman Mountains, Hantili's army suffered thousands of casualties.

Although there were still more than 20,000 soldiers who were not injured, the morale of these soldiers was very low, so Hantili had to quickly return to Hattusa with his army.

Two days later.

Upon learning that Roy had defeated Hantili, Hatepuna came from Alalakh to Samar.

Adana in the Kizuwatna region also sent an envoy.

The Governor's Mansion in Samar.

Roy and Hatepuna met the envoy from Adana in the hall together.

The envoy from Adana said directly.

"Your Majesty! Now we Cilicians have driven out the Hittites. The Kizuwatna region no longer belongs to the Hittite Kingdom. The war between your Athenian Empire and the Hittite Kingdom has nothing to do with us Cilicians."