I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 267

【囧!The title is wrong, 266 has been typed as 268]

After leaving the Wajit Temple, Roy immediately came to the west gate of Bhutto City and found his 5000 Egyptian soldiers and more than [-] captives.

After taking them to a square suitable for speeches, Roy stood on a high platform, looked down at the crowd and said loudly.

"My soldiers, I have good news for you. The city of Butuo has been conquered by us, and our war is temporarily over. As long as you seriously maintain the order in Butuo city, your wages this month will be two hundred catties of grain."

Hearing Roy's words, the five hundred Egyptian soldiers immediately shouted excitedly.

"Long live the King of Athens!"

"Long live the King of Athens!"

"Long live the King of Athens!"

When the thunderous shouts stopped, Roy continued.

"Prisoners! As I promised you, you are all free now to go home. If you want to be my soldiers—or if you want to be soldiers for the sake of citizenship, you can stay and accept my offer. Screening. As long as you become my soldiers, your family can enjoy 20 years of citizen family treatment. As long as you are not a deserter, the citizen family treatment will not be withdrawn in advance. You only need to serve for five years, and I will provide you with The best weapons and equipment are guaranteed to keep you alive on the battlefield. After you become junior soldiers, your monthly salary is [-] catties of food. As your soldier level increases, your salary will also increase."

After Luo Yi finished these treatment in one breath, more than 5000 captives shouted to Luo Yi to sign up as soldiers.

After all, what Roy gave was really too much.

After some screening, Roy selected 5000 soldiers from more than [-] captives as the defenders of Butuo City.

After arranging the task of taking over Buto City for [-] soldiers of Buto City, Roy called [-] Athenian soldiers to his side and arranged Athens soldiers to manage Egyptian soldiers.

Roy himself drove a carriage out of Butuo City and headed to the river bend where his fleet was anchored.

When passing through the battlefield on the way, Roy told the good news of the capture of Buto to the one hundred Egyptian soldiers who stayed here, and asked them to go to Buto after the work of burning the corpses was over.

When they came to the river bend where his fleet was moored, Roy told the good news of the capture of Buto to the [-] Athenian soldiers and Andromeda who were guarding the warship, and then drove Andromeda and her troops in a carriage. Three maids go to Bhutto city.

On the way to the city of Buto, Andromeda curiously asked Roy.

"Loy! You can conquer the city of Bhutto with such a small force. It's really amazing. How do you plan to rule the city of Bhutto next? I think you can learn from the way our Hyksos ruled the Egyptians. In our Under the rule of the Hyksos, the northern Egyptians did not show any resistance. Only those southern Egyptians who were not under our rule kept trying to drive us away."

Andromeda actually recommended the Hyksos rule to him, Roy couldn't help laughing.

"Andromeda, your Hyksos rule did not arouse the resistance of the northern Egyptians because your rule did not touch the interests of the priests and nobles. But it also allows you to rule the northern Egyptians only in name, and cannot Really control the manpower and material resources of Northern Egypt. If the Northern Egypt is truly controlled by you, you will be crushing an ant, crushing the Southern Egyptians who are very backward in civilization and technology."

"You said that we Hyksos used the wrong method to rule the Egyptians, so how do you plan to rule the Egyptians?"

"I have driven away the priests and nobles in Butuo City. Next, I will send soldiers to sweep up the villages under the rule of Butuo City, and wipe out all the priests and nobles in the villages."

"You—you wiped out all those priests and nobles, then how do you rule the Egyptians?"

"Do you think I can't rule the Egyptians without the help of priests and nobles?"

Roy explained with a smile.

"Andromeda! I know that this is the era of aristocratic slavery, and you all think that ruling the common people is inseparable from the nobles. But I can prove to you right away that the bureaucratic system I have established can not only rule the common people normally, but also It can give the king supreme authority."

"Officials?"

"In my Kingdom of Athens, except for the royal family centered on me, everyone else is a commoner. I will select capable people from among the commoners and let them manage villages, towns and even cities. These are given management rights by me. The common people are officials. Their power comes from me, so they must be absolutely loyal to me. If they let me down, I can take everything from them at any time."

"In other words, your Kingdom of Athens does not need nobles..."

"Because those who have the strength to fight against the king, or even replace the king, are almost all nobles rather than commoners."

The pharaohs who ruled Egypt built pyramids and temples generation after generation, instead of using precious manpower and material resources to expand the territory.

Are these pharaohs all fools?

Do not!
It is because these pharaohs are too smart that they are obsessed with deifying themselves, regardless of the flood after death.

They all know very well that the royal power in their hands may be taken away by others at any time.

The Pharaoh royal family in Egypt will engage in intermarriage within the family because there are too many cases in history where nobles married pharaoh princesses and then took away the kingship by peaceful means.

Even in the Middle Ages after 2000, royal power was still fragile in front of noble lords, and there was even a famous saying [My vassals' vassals are not my vassals].

Before 600 BC, the so-called king was nothing more than the leader of the nobles.

If you dare to deprive the interests of all the nobles, what awaits the king is the death of the country.

In the history of another world, the Pharaoh of Egypt's No.18 dynasty died young at the age of 20 because he betrayed the god of protection, Amon.

In a world where gods do not exist, the one who caused the pharaoh to die at the age of 20 is of course not the nonexistent Amon God, but the one who served the Amon God and gained power and wealth in the name of the Amon God Priests and nobles.

Historical facts have proved that even the pharaohs of Egypt could not afford to offend the priests and nobles.

"Andromeda! I know that if I destroy these priestly nobles, it will cause their resistance. If I propose the policy of eliminating the priestly nobles after I have conquered the whole of Egypt, the resulting resistance will definitely subvert my rule. But if I conquer a city now, I will destroy the priests and nobles in this city and all the surrounding villages, and the resistance will be very small."

Andromeda said with a complex expression.

"But your actions will make the priests and nobles in other cities resolutely resist your invasion, and those priests and nobles may even push all the cities to destroy you together."

Looking at the worried expression on Andromeda's face, Roy said with a smile.

"Andromeda, your worries are unnecessary. Before the war between you Hyksos and the southern Egyptians is over, I will destroy one or two cities—or even the priests and nobles in three or four cities. The attention of all priests and nobles in Egypt."

(End of this chapter)