I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 240 The City of Knossos After the Disaster

If the Dorians enslaved the natives of the Peloponnese and the men of the Dorians formed the Spartan military group to maintain their rule as a professional military system, the earliest professional military system in the world was born in 500 years later.

Because in this era, the private soldiers of the royal family or nobles cannot be regarded as professional soldiers. They are not loyal to the city-state or kingdom, but to the master who supports them.

When there is a war, the rulers will recruit soldiers from the common people.

If the enemy's strength is too strong, the rulers will also choose to hire more powerful mercenaries to fight.

In the Kadesh War more than 300 years later, Ramses II of the Egyptian Empire recruited a large number of mercenaries in order to defeat the Hittite Empire, bringing his army to more than 2 people.

Ramses II ruled millions of people in the Egyptian Empire, but he would rather use mercenaries than recruit civilians, obviously because there is a huge gap in strength between civilians and mercenaries.

But this also reflects that there were no professional soldiers in the Egyptian Empire at that time.

After all, wars do not happen all the time. For the rulers of this era, it is a waste of wealth to support professional soldiers in peacetime.

For example, if a country only goes to war once every ten years.

Compared with supporting a professional army with ten years of finances, it is obviously more cost-effective to recruit mercenaries with two or three years of finances.

Later, the Dorians used their professional military system to sweep across the Peloponnese Peninsula, and the city-states including Athens, only then did a citizen system similar to the professional military system appear.

Of course, professional soldiers are more powerful than soldiers who work as soldiers in wartime and farmers in leisure time.

So under Roy's rule, even if there was no war, the Kingdom of Athens still supported a large number of professional soldiers, allowing these professional soldiers to train every day to improve their combat capabilities.

Port of Piraeus.

On the day when Roy was about to go to the city of Sais to rob food, [-] Athenian soldiers were summoned by Roy and boarded [-] warships at the port.

The soldiers boarded the warship in an orderly manner, and Aries immediately reported to Roy.

"Your Majesty, the [-] soldiers of the Athenian Legion have all boarded the ship, and now we can set off at any time."

"Let's go then!"

After speaking, Roy boarded his flagship with Aries.

Under the leadership of the flagship, fifty warships left the port in a mighty way and started a long voyage.

Roy stood at the stern of the flagship looking at the city of Athens, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy about this expedition.

Because this is the first time Roy has left the Aegean region.

When Roy's fleet sailed out of the waters of Athens, Roy did not let the fleet sail into the Myrtoon Sea in the southwestern region of the Aegean Sea, but let the fleet sail into the southeastern region of the Aegean Sea where the Cyclades Islands are located.

Because Roy wants to let the island city-states of the Cyclades Islands see the strength of the Athenian navy.

The island city-states of the Cyclades Islands were originally a vassal of the city of Knossos, but now that the city of Knossos has been destroyed by the tsunami with its ports and ships, it is no longer able to control the island city-states of the Cyclades Islands.

Now that Roy shows the strength of the Athens navy to the island city-states of the Cyclades Islands, they can take the initiative to become vassals of the city of Athens in exchange for the protection and help of the city of Athens.

If powerful island city-states like Naxos and Andros do not want to become vassals of Athens, Roy will use force to persuade them to let their king go to the underworld to confess his stupidity.

All the islands of the Cyclades Islands add up to an area of ​​only [-] square kilometers.

If these islands are not considered as a whole, even for the largest island of Naxos, Roy's fleet can be considered a giant.

Therefore, driven by the north wind, Roy's fleet entered the Cyclade waters and immediately caused a sensation among the archipelago.

Many small island kings who ruled hundreds of people took the initiative to meet Roy, wanting to become vassals in exchange for the protection and help of the city of Athens, and Roy accepted them all.

The kings of these small islands would take the initiative to become vassals of the city of Athens because they would always worry about being annexed by a powerful neighbor like Naxos.

The city of Athens is hundreds of miles away from their territory, even if they become vassals of the city of Athens, they don't have to worry about being taken away by Roy.

Perhaps the kings of these small islands still feel that Roy doesn't care about their small islands and hundreds of people at all.

These small island kings never imagined that when Roy had time to deal with them, they would turn their islands from vassals into part of the Kingdom of Athens.

Two days later, when Roy's fleet sailed out of the waters of the Cyclades, the four powerful island city-states except Naxos, and all the other island city-states of the Cyclades became vassals of the city of Athens. .

The fleet entered the Sea of ​​Crete, and Roy did not choose to sail directly to the Kasos Strait in the east of Crete to enter the Eastern Mediterranean, but let the fleet sail to the city of Knossos.

Because Roy wanted to see the damage to Knossos City with his own eyes.

Noon the next day.

Roy's fleet sailed into the messy port of Knossos city.

In fact, the main city of Knossos City is more than 2000 meters away from the port, and the tsunami did not cause too many casualties to Knossos City.

Even if all the people in the port area were drowned by sea water, the number of dead would be only a few thousand at most.

The biggest loss caused by the destruction of the port area by the tsunami was that the city of Knossos lost its status as a trading hub. No merchant ships were willing to come to the city of Knossos for trade, providing Knossos with a steady stream of wealth.

The resulting food problem will turn the city of Knossos into a miserable hell on earth.

Immediately after Roy landed at the port, a group of Knossos wandering nearby ran to Roy and knelt down and prayed.

"Please give me some food! My family has elderly parents and young children. Without food, our whole family will starve to death."

"The food in my family was soaked in the sea. In order to save food for my children and grandchildren, my parents took the initiative to go on a hunger strike and starve to death."

And the woman with the baby pleaded.

"Poor poor child, for the child's sake, give me something to eat!"

Facing these begging people, Roy raised his bronze spear and threatened with a blank expression.

"Go away! If anyone is unwilling to leave, I will kill him and help him get rid of the pain of hunger."

Roy knows very well that people don't suffer from scarcity but from inequality.

If you help some people, others will feel that they should help everyone.

It's a pity that Lowe is not capable of helping everyone.

Even if Roy was willing to let himself and [-] Athenian soldiers starve to death, and use all the military rations to relieve the Knossos, the result would be a drop in the bucket.

Because to solve the food problem in the city of Knossos, what is needed is not a few thousand catties or tens of thousands of catties of grain, but millions of catties of grain.

If Roy only relieved some people, those who did not receive relief would not only not praise Roy's actions, but would resent Roy's injustice because they did not receive relief.

(End of this chapter)