From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Upper Egypt, Asiot.

People are harvesting the fast-growing wheat that was planted three days ago.

These yellow wheat fluttering in the wind, the ears of the wheat hang down heavily, and the growth is extremely gratifying-it is absolutely unimaginable that they are the crops that were just sown three days ago.

And the places where these wheats grow are even more unimaginable.They seem to grow randomly in the streets and alleys of this city, in the front yard and backyard, on the walls, and even on the roof and ceiling——

As long as there is space and a surface on which wheat seeds can be attached, these wheat seeds can bravely grow in all directions.

This effectively solves the problem of scarcity of arable land on the outskirts of Assiut.People only need to sow enough wheat seeds to eat for three days, and the harvested wheat will be quickly processed, ground into flour, and made into bread, and the straw of wheat will be sent to the stove eye of the oven as fuel.

Simultaneously with the harvest, another batch of wheat seeds is planted - and during these three days, the previous batch of bread is slowly consumed.

When they are exhausted, a new batch of fast-growing wheat will be ripe and harvested.Therefore, the Asiut people do not need a lot of land or manpower, nor do they need to worry about starvation when they run out of food.

But every Asiut is still cautious. The wheat grains that fall on the ground will be picked up, and the brats who spoil the grain will also be spanked.

The magical wheat seed bestowed by God must not be wasted!

This is the consciousness of the Asiut people.

At the beginning, Nanna, the envoy of the God of War, sent enough wheat seeds to this small town.But it also stated that these are only for emergency use.

After all, there are twenty nomes in Upper Egypt, and most nomes don't have enough food.It is impossible for the gods to only favor the Asiuts.

These miraculous wheat seeds grow fast, do not pick the land, and make bread that tastes good. The only disadvantage is that the wheat produced cannot be reproduced again, and can no longer be used as wheat seeds.

But the Asiut people don't care too much, because if the wheat is cooked every three days.If the wheat seeds produced can continue to be ripened every three days, then the entire Asisut City will soon be completely filled with barns full of wheat, and there will be no room for other things...

One should not be too greedy—the people of Asiut comforted each other.

Their life is much better now than before they got these wheat seeds.

Prior to this, the Upper Egyptians had been thinking all day about any way to bypass the embargo on the border of Lower Egypt and get some food.

But now the situation seems to be reversed. What the Upper Egyptians need to beware of now is that from time to time, the Lower Egyptians sneak up to them—to steal vegetables.

The term "stealing food" was spread from the mouth of Nanna, the envoy of the God of War. She likes to say loudly in that bold and masculine voice: "My lord, the priest of Amon God, said that in the evening and in the early morning, people should be properly arranged in the city." Patrol, guard your rations, and prevent someone from stealing food."

People don't understand what it means to steal food.After all, here in Asiut, even if someone came to steal, they could only steal wheat.

But it turns out that once the Lower Egyptians became anxious, they stole everything, not just wheat.

They even stole the fruit from the towering baobab trees, so that people kept getting injured and broke their legs or something.

The Asiuts were puzzled, and all the thieves they captured gathered together and asked, "Didn't you have Pharaoh's food in every nom of your Lower Egypt? Before, you tried everything possible to block it, not allowing a single grain of wheat to be transported to Upper Egypt. Why is it now?" In turn stealing our food to go to Egypt?"

The captured Lower Egyptian thieves said angrily: "Where did the Pharaoh provide food to our remote Nome? The food was sent to Giza for the [-] minions to build the tomb for the Pharaoh—"

The news finally spread throughout the Noms of Lower Egypt.After all, these [-] civilians are all civilians recruited from various Nomes.

At this most desperate time, the nomes in Lower Egypt not only did not receive food for relief from the royal treasury in Memphis, but almost most of their strong laborers were also taken away by Pharaoh to serve in labor.

Facing the fertile land washed away by the flood of the great river, each nome has no manpower at all.

Seeing that even the next year's harvest has become a problem, it is the most normal thing for people in Lower Egypt to fluctuate.

As for going to Upper Egypt to steal food, there is nothing you can do if you are extremely hungry.

The people of Asiut have always been simple, and many of them are still thinking about the fact that their relatives and friends who lived in Lower Egypt sent them food earlier. In Egypt, they will also be given a bag full of wheat, with a fruit of the baobab tree in the bag, and ask them to bring it to their relatives and friends in Lower Egypt to try it out.

Unexpectedly, such kindness made the behavior of the Lower Egyptians steal vegetables out of control.

Later, it turned out to be a special calculation of the time for the Asiut people to harvest wheat, and groups rushed to the city of Asiut to plunder.Among the looters, a large part of them were Lower Egyptian soldiers in disguise.

Asiut people said: Uncle can bear it, auntie can't bear it!

This sentence is also Nanna's mantra. According to the God of War envoy herself, she also learned it from the priest of Amon.

The meaning is simple: Uncle has a good temper, so he may be able to bear this kind of thing.But my aunt is in charge of housekeeping, and the rations used to make bread are gone, so how can I swallow this breath?So it is unbearable to be called uncle and aunt.

The Lower Egyptians who broke through the border and entered the city of Asiut to plunder finally encountered stubborn resistance from the Asiut.

Almost all the middle-aged men in the city took up simple weapons, such as sticks, wooden paddles, rolling pins, axes, harpoons, and bricklayer knives...all of them came in handy at the moment.

Resistance is not the same as recklessness. The 13-member council of the Asiuts came up with a strategy:

Once the Lower Egyptians rushed into the city of Asiut and stretched out their hands to the fast-growing wheat that was about to ripen, the Asiut people jumped out of the buildings in the two sections of the city and blocked the road to let the intruders None of the marauders could get away.

Then they slowly put pressure on the city, blocking all the vegetable thieves to the center of the city, in the center of the square planted with towering giant trees.

"My good fellow, you have counted the date right and come to grab the wheat that the gods gave us!"

The Asiut shouted loudly, and a few slaughterhouse owners sat by the square and started sharpening their knives.

The Lower Egyptians immediately recalled how they dealt with the people who sent food to Upper Egypt——

At that time, on the border of Lower Egypt, there were human heads on top of tall wooden poles.And the fiercest fish in the big rivers are quick to feed.

Thinking of these past events, the raiders in Lower Egypt trembled and wanted to ask for mercy, but they didn't know whether the other party would agree.

Finally, the knife is sharpened.

The flesh-faced Asiut butcher walked forward with his knife in hand, and began to stroke the joints of the looter's neck, as if planning where it would be more clean to scare the knife.

The looters from Lower Egypt were scared to pee in an instant.

"I beg you to spare our lives, because everyone also believes in the sun god Ra!"

Someone begged.

Immediately, an Asiut jeered and said, "It seems that the believers of the sun god Ra are all guys like you who have neither ability nor integrity!"

The sturdy butcher was not moved by these pleadings, and continued to reach out and stroke every joint on the back of each neck.

Every time he showed a smile, the person being stroked would tremble uncontrollably, thinking: Is my head really that easy to chop off?

Finally, the butcher touched every back of the neck, and nodded to the 13 members of the council standing under the giant tree in the middle of the square.

Among the 13 people, one stepped forward and shouted at the looters who were staggering and unable to kneel in front of them: "Because you invaded the land of Upper Egypt, you intended to rob the people of Asiut for their rations. Captured by us."

"Now you have only two choices—"

"Either switch to Upper Egypt and believe in the true god Amon we believe in, or accept the monstrous anger from the Upper Egyptians."

"You choose!"

At this point, the looters had no choice. They all expressed their willingness to convert to God Amon, and under the witness of all Asiut people, they solemnly swore under the sacred tree baobab bestowed by God Amon.

"Strange..." The plunderer who surrendered couldn't help complaining, "I have dealt with you Asiut people before, and I didn't think you were so tough!"

Suddenly, there were sneers from Asiut people all around.

"The gift from the gods is not up to us to protect, who will protect it?"

After the series of ceremonial operations for the conversion of beliefs were completed, the raiders were immediately put on ships and escorted to other Nomes in Upper Egypt, where they would cut off all ties with Upper Egypt and witness the destruction of Amon All kinds of wonders bestowed by the gods, and accept the ideological education that must be received before becoming a believer in Amun.

Most of these looters have become devout believers of Amon after passing through these places, and most of them are Upper Egyptians.

After a certain degree of simple labor training, they can become militiamen and reserve soldiers in the Nomes of Upper Egypt.

Among them, those with special skills may have the opportunity to become craftsmen, and even enter technical schools to study.

Thus, these raiders left their homes forever and never returned to Lower Egypt.

The increase in the population of the nomes in Upper Egypt naturally increased the demand for fast-growing wheat varieties.

These new demands were collected in Thebes and sent to Elyse.

Erich nodded after listening to Nanna's report: "I have confirmed that the pharaohs in Lower Egypt did provide the food accumulated over the years to the militia team who built the royal tomb near Giza."

She had confirmed this to Jangalai, her favored member of the militia, through the Eye of Horus.

Nanna pursed her lips when she heard the words, and said, "This pharaoh, why does he only care about building the royal tomb, and the whole of Egypt doesn't care? It's like, like..."

Erich immediately frowned—this was indeed the Delos she was not familiar with. Judging from the reactions of the Nomes in Lower Egypt, Delos seemed to be putting all his eggs in one basket regardless of the consequences.

But as an emperor, no matter how desperate he was, he shouldn't be building a royal tomb for himself.

It's as if... Delos had foreseen that after his death, the whole of Egypt would be buried with him.

Nanna was still scratching her head, wondering how to describe Delos' decision.Alicia took a look, helped Nanna, and said, "There is no tomorrow."

"Yes, yes, yes, sleep tonight, there will be no tomorrow!"

Nanna patted her thigh, "That's how it feels."

Erich was inspired by the hypothesis she provided, and she sat there alone and pondered: Could it be that the moment Delos built the king's tomb, the lower Egypt... the whole Egypt would...

She shook her head quickly, not daring to continue thinking about this idea.

Fortunately, the Pharaoh's pyramid was not built in a day. She had a follower in the militia team building the royal tomb, who could monitor the progress at any time and report any special situations in time.

Alicia knew very well that there were only two things she needed to accomplish as soon as possible:

One is to confirm whether the god Osiris has fallen. If so, she must send the key of life to the goddess Isis as agreed.

The second thing is that the power brought by the original seed is so powerful that she has to covet several other original items: the potter's flywheel, the original lotus, and the original waterfall.There was even an item she didn't even know the name of.