Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"Poor short-lived ghost, son of impermanent sorrow, why do you force me to say something that you would rather not hear? That wonderful thing you can't get at all, that is: don't be born, don't Existence must become nothingness. And the next best thing for you is to die quickly."

——Titrooi to King Midas

6000 drachmas, exactly one talent, and a full 13 kilograms of silver.

After Solon's reforms, Athens divided citizens into four levels according to income, with the highest level requiring an annual income of more than 500 wheat buckets.The "wheat bucket" here is roughly equivalent to 1 bushel of wheat, which is 1 drachma silver coin.

In other words, Phthia promised to give her son the annual income equivalent to 12 Athenian nobles every month.

The estate left behind by my grandpa certainly didn’t produce that much. Apart from past savings, I really don’t know what kind of efforts my mother put in to raise all this money!

From here we can also see Pi’s mother’s expectations for her son.

Pyrrhus couldn't help but praise in his heart that "only mother is good in the world".

Generally speaking, in ancient times, when people sent money, they would bring a letter to prevent the messenger from enriching his own pockets.But Hippias was no outsider, and his mother's style was indeed regal.

These people are the few loyal veterans left to him by his father, and Pyrrhus's friends are also selected from their descendants.

At that time, Pyrrhus gradually stabilized in Epirus, and his mother Phthia asked them all to take their families to Pharsalus with her, and Pyrrhus himself led a group of young people here. The official takes office.

The political situation in Epirus has always been unstable, so they simply asked them to bring their children with them. Once the situation changed, Pyrrhus and others could just lift up and leave to avoid a recurrence of the bloody turmoil of the past.

Secondly, their status in Epirus is not as good as that of elders like Underclyde, but after all, Pharsalus is an enemy territory and requires reliable and capable people to take charge.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be said, which is that the purpose of the hostages is not to guard against Hippias and the others, but to worry about the emergence of betrayers among these inexperienced young people...

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All in all, these six thousand drachmas really saved the country.

Pyrrhus secretly made up his mind to find a way to defeat Cassander.

Firstly, it was to avenge his father, and secondly, he wanted to fulfill his grandfather's last wish - to liberate Thessaly from the tyranny of Cassander!

After receiving a big red envelope from my mother, of course I had to write back and say something nice.

As soon as he spoke to Hippias, Hippias said: "No need, your mother told me when I set out. If something happens to you, I will take you back; if you are safe, I will stay." Be by your side to assist you.”

Ah, this... what does "take me back if anything happens" mean?

Is the six thousand drachmas still a king's money for collecting corpses? !

Pyrrhus couldn't help but sigh:

The old mother’s heart is so hard!

However, not to mention the Queen Mother's expectations for Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus himself also wanted to make a career.

Then he began to think about how to spend the money.

Taking refuge with his future brother-in-law is just a temporary solution. Whether it is based on historical trends or his ideals, sooner or later he will be on the opposite side of these successors, and Dmitri is no exception.

Although he is just a deposed king living abroad, is he really worse than these great successors?

Pyrrhus didn't think so.

The Classic version of Pyrrhus in history has achieved as much success as its successors, and now this DoublePlusGood version of Pyrrhus will only be even stronger!

Although he is only fifteen years old now, if he wants to do something big, he must do it as early as possible. When he is nearly [-] years old, he will lament that he has been idle for half his life and he will be finished!

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During the siege, there was a proposal to destroy the statues of Antigonus and Demetrius in the city, but this was immediately rejected by widespread opinion.The reason is that if something goes wrong, they can use this small act of kindness to cater to Dmitri's vanity and get a more preferential treatment.

So even though they fought bloody battles with Dmitry at the top of the city this year, they did not show any disrespect to these two stones in the end.

I have to say that the Rhodesians really saw these successors very clearly.

When face is not available, the first thing Macedonians want to ensure is face.

In order to bring face back from Rhodes Island, Dmitry indeed made no less efforts than siege the city.

He tried his best to induce an Athenian envoy to come to him for help without leaving any trace, so as to show that the failure of his siege was only due to the interference of external factors;

Later, when signing the peace agreement, he tried every possible means to persuade the Ptolemaic and Aetolian alliance to persuade the Rhodians on the other side to "take the initiative" to "ask King Antigonus and Demetrius King Li surrenders"

-- provided, of course, that if a war broke out between the Macedonians and Ptolemy, they could remain neutral.

What a joy!

Dmitri gained the greatest step, allowing him to claim final victory in Rhodes before the Olympiad.

So when the Rhodes people made a humble request to leave them a rare siege machine as a souvenir, Dmitri agreed so generously.

Although, at this moment, Dmitri was sitting in the tent under Rhodes City, with no joy as a winner on his handsome face.

Peace had come here half a month ago, but the year-long siege left a huge mess to clean up, not to mention the proper burial of so many dead comrades.

Among the many generals under his command, Pantaux and Alcimus were the most brave and adept at fighting.

During the war, Cyprus sent two iron breastplates as tribute to Demetrius. It is said that they were made by the famous craftsman Zoilas himself. Each pair weighed more than one talent, which is converted into today's units. 13kg.

Dmitri wore one pair himself, but gave the other pair to no one.

Because ordinary people think that one talent of clothing is enough, but with such a breastplate, a helmet, a shield and other equipment, the whole body weight has exceeded two talents.

Even Pantaux found it too heavy, and only Alcimus could wear it without being affected.

Unfortunately, such treasured armor could not save Alsimus' life.

Dmitri looked at the breastplate in front of him. It was covered with knife marks and bloodstains, and the original gilt pattern could no longer be seen at all.

"I remember that Alcimus was also from Epirus," he said suddenly:

"My brother-in-law, Pyrrhus, has just won the 'Triple Laurel' at the Olympic Games. It is an enviable honor - but he lost one laurel and gained three. I don't know if this counts. Lucky--take this breastplate as a gift."

The companion took the breastplate and should claim it was.

Dmitri then ordered: "Of course you can't just send it away like this, you have to repair it properly...I will write a letter later and you will take it with me..."

Before he finished speaking, a guard suddenly came in from outside the tent and said he had a letter from his father, King Antigonus.

Dmitri took the papyrus roll, examined the wax seal, then opened it and read it carefully.

After reading it, I fell into silence.

Neither his friends nor the guards dared to disturb him.

But at this moment, there was a sudden loud noise in the camp, and Dmitri immediately stepped out of the tent.

In the distance, the Rhodes people were dragging a huge black shadow slowly moving.

It was the siege tower that shared the same nickname as him, and the wooden wheels that were turning at this moment were screaming under the pressure of the superstructure.

This is the masterpiece he is most proud of designing and building.The square base below alone is 15 meters high and 10 meters wide, with dense arrow windows on the front; plus the tower above, it is almost nine stories high.

When he captured the island of Cyprus, the hostile Lysimachus sent envoys requesting to see his famous siege engines.After his curiosity was satisfied, Lysimachus immediately retreated without looking back.

At that time, in order to deal with Ptolemy's navy, Antigonus built ships on a large scale in Sidon and cut down almost all the cedars on the east coast.Dmitri left the best parts of the materials to create these terrifying monsters, and also achieved the reputation of "Besieger".

Although he didn't know yet that the Rhodes people were about to use the dismantled materials to build a wonder that would be famous for future generations, in short, he felt a little regretful now.

He looked back and found that his friend was still there, so he said to him:

"Let's deal with the breastplate like this, but there's no need for the letter..."