I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 243 The Village Guarded by Wajit
Seeing the city of Knossos turned into a hell on earth due to the food problem, Roy's biggest feeling was that this kind of thing must not happen in the Kingdom of Athens.

But to really solve the food problem, and to make the grain of the Kingdom of Athens rich enough to support Loy's expansion of the Kingdom of Athens, the Kingdom of Athens must have a grain-producing area.

Egypt, which was regarded as a grain-producing area by the Roman Empire, was obviously the most suitable target.

If it weren't for the fact that the number of soldiers in the Kingdom of Athens was too small, Roy even wanted to get involved in the war between the Egyptian king Kepheus and the southern Egyptian pharaoh Kamose, and directly seize the ruling power of the entire Egypt.

Although Roy does not have the strength to conquer Egypt now, Roy feels that it is not completely hopeless to turn the western part of the Nile Delta into a part of the Kingdom of Athens.

The day after Lowe's fleet landed on Pharos.

Roy took the white sheep and fifty Athenian soldiers to the land south of Pharos Island and walked towards the local village.

The Nile Delta is formed by the main stream of the Nile River entering northern Egypt and then diverging into the Mediterranean Sea. This area is low and flat, with fertile soil, criss-cross river network, and dense canals. It concentrates two-thirds of Egypt's cultivated land.

Because of the hot and dry climate, strong sunlight, abundant water sources, and well-developed irrigation agriculture, it has the highest population density in the world.

The Egyptian fishing village across the water from Faros Island, although not very large, has a population of about a thousand people.

Luo Yi and the others entered the fishing village composed of earthen houses and wooden houses, and saw many children running around with only a piece of sackcloth wrapped around their waists.

When the Egyptians in the village saw Luo Yi and others, they would panic and take their children back home, and then hid behind the door to secretly observe the armed outsiders.

Because Roy has a huge fleet, the locals don't regard Roy as a pirate, but they are still wary of seeing foreigners.

After walking in the village for a while, I saw a thin old man sitting outside his house, not hiding out of fear of foreigners, so Roy came to the old man, took out a bag of salt and said to the old man.

"Old man, I have some questions to ask you. As long as you answer my questions, I will give you these salts as a reward."

"What did you say?"

I don't know if he couldn't hear Roy's voice, or couldn't understand Roy's words, the old man said full of doubts.

"What did you just say?"

"I just said, as long as you are willing to answer my question, I will give you the salt."

After Roy finished speaking loudly, the old man immediately looked at the salt in Roy's hand with bright eyes and said.

"Are you really going to give me this salt?"

Luo Yi didn't speak, and directly handed a bag of salt about a catty to the old man.

After the old man took the salt, as if he was afraid that Roy would repent, he deliberately put his dusty and dirty hands into the white salt.

After staining the snow-like white salt, the old man showed a sly smile and said to Roy.

"Dignified outsider, you can ask me any questions now, and I promise that I will not hide anything."

"Then tell me now, which city-state governs your village, and who is the head of this village?"

"Honorable strangers, our village is nominally ruled by the city of Sais, but in fact it is ruled by the city of Bhutto. Our village head is a priestess who serves the patron saint of Bhutto, the goddess Wajit."

"Then do you know the number of people ruled by Sais City and Buto City?"

After Roy finished speaking, the old man immediately looked at Roy in a daze.

"Why do you ask me to answer this kind of question? I can only tell you my guess. The ruling population of Bhutto City is more than [-], and the ruling population of Saisi City is more than [-]. But I can't guarantee that the number I guessed is Really, there may be a difference of ten thousand or twenty thousand."

"It doesn't matter if there is an error of [-] to [-]."

Roy turned his head, looked at the stone house made of stone and wood in the center of the village and said.

"Now I want to know, is that stone house the house of your village chief? How many soldiers does your village chief have—how many men are willing to take up arms and fight for her?"

The old man looked at the stone house and said.

"That is the shrine of the goddess Vajit, and it is also where the village chief's family lives. Our village chief has five sons and twenty grandchildren, plus the male servants, there are 62 men who are willing to fight for her with arms .Dignified stranger, even though you have fifty soldiers, don’t provoke the village head easily, because the village head’s descendants and servants are all very strong, and they can’t lose to soldiers who have gone to the battlefield at all.”

Roy nodded with a smile, then took out a cloth bag containing salt and said.

"Old man, I want to exchange salt with people in your village for food. You can trade with me at the price of fifty catties of grain for one catty of salt. Is there anyone in your village willing to trade with me?"

After listening to Roy's words, the old man suppressed a smile and said.

"Young stranger, it looks like we have surplus grain for your salt? After our grain is paid to the village chief, there is not enough grain left to feed ourselves, so we must often fish to fill our stomachs. If you want to exchange salt for food, you can only go to the village chief to make a deal."

"Old man, thank you for answering my question, this bag of salt is for you."

After handing the second cloth bag containing salt to the old man, Luo Yi led Bai Yang and others to the Wajit Temple.

Aries couldn't help but said as he followed Roy.

"Your Majesty, you are so amazing that you can speak the language of the Egyptians."

"What do you mean? Don't the Egyptians speak the same language as the Greeks?"

"How can our language be the same as that of the Egyptians? We can't understand or speak the Egyptians' language, and the Egyptians can't understand our language. So when you spoke the first sentence to the old Egyptian, His reaction is also that he can’t understand your words. He can communicate with you only if you use the Egyptian language later.”

"I have been communicating with that old man in Egyptian language just now?"

Roy's eyes widened in surprise. He didn't expect that he could not only understand other languages, but also speak other languages ​​naturally.

Seeing that the Temple of Wadget was close in front of him, Roy didn't bother with such trivial problems, and began to look at the Temple of Wadget seriously.

As the place where dozens of members of the village head's family live, the scale of this temple is very large.

After all, he was the village chief who ruled a population of 1000. This temple was even worse than the palaces of some small tribal leaders.

At this moment, sixty heavily armed men rushed out of the Vajit Temple and stood in front of Roy and the others.

Half of these sixty men wore rattan armor and carried bronze weapons, and the other half wore thick linen clothes and carried wooden weapons.

After Roy's fifty Athenian soldiers confronted the sixty men, an old female voice said immediately.

"Outsiders! This is the divine domain of the goddess Vajit, you cannot approach this temple at will."

Then, an old priestess with white hair and a wooden scepter walked out of the temple accompanied by two middle-aged men.

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