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Chapter 296 Ahmose Proposes Partition
The purpose of intermarriage in the pharaoh family is to prevent outsiders from using the princess of the pharaoh family to inherit the throne.

But in the long history, it is obvious to all that family intermarriage will give birth to unhealthy children.

Therefore, in order to avoid such tragedies, the normal pharaohs of the pharaoh family usually let the children born to their sisters marry the normal children born to other women.

Some pharaohs even broke the tradition of intermarriage in their families.

Known as the most beautiful woman in the world, Pharaoh Queen Nefertiti, the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt's No.18 Dynasty, is a queen who is not a Pharaoh princess.

Nafer did not become the wife of her elder brother Kamose because she and Kamose were both the legitimate sons and daughters of the queen. Kamose did not want himself and his sister to become victims of family intermarriage.

Ahmose wants to marry Nafel not only because he needs the support of traditional forces, but also because he needs Nafel to improve his inheritance rights.

Ahmose is not the legitimate son of the queen, so his name is Ahmose [Son of Moon God].

If Ahmose is the legitimate son of the queen, even if he wants to write the name of the god in his own name, his name should still be Amonmos [Son of the Sun God].

Ahmose is the son of Kongsi, the son of the sun god Amon, which is enough to explain his status.

Although as a prince, Ahmose's inheritance rights will be higher than that of Nafir as a princess.

But Nafer is the legitimate daughter born to the queen, and Ahmose is only the son of the concubine.

This makes the succession power of Nafer and Ahmose evenly matched, which is why the city-states of the Southern Egyptian Kingdom are willing to support Nafer or remain neutral.

In order to suppress the more powerful Temple of Amon, under Roy's persuasion, Nafir finally decided to use this civil war to transfer the capital and regard Sekhmet as the new protector of the country.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

Nafir's army traveled thousands of miles and finally came near the city of Thebes.

With half a month to prepare, Ahmose has assembled an army of [-] in Thebes.

So Nafer was not in a hurry to let the army go to Thebes City, but wanted to stay for a while to restore the strength of the soldiers who had been on the road for ten consecutive days.

Only when the soldiers had enough physical strength to fight could they defeat the [-] army in Thebes.

After Nafir's army stationed near the city of Thebes, Ahmose did not take the initiative to attack with his army of recruits, but sent messengers to communicate with Nafir.

Nafer's barracks.

Nafir sat on the wooden throne covered with a woolen blanket, and together with Roy received the envoy of Ahmose.

The young noble who served as the envoy walked into the barracks, and seeing that the envoy was someone he had met, Nafier asked with a smile.

"I have met you and know that you are a friend of Brother Ahmose. Brother Ahmose asked you to come to see me, what exactly do you want to tell me?"

The messenger bowed his head respectfully and said.

"Princess Nafer, now that your elder brother has inherited the throne of Pharaoh, you should respectfully call him His Majesty Pharaoh Ahmose. His Majesty Ahmose asked me to tell the princess that if the princess wants to become a queen, as long as you marry Your Majesty Ahmose, you are the unique queen of the Kingdom of Egypt, and His Majesty Ahmose will give you the greatest respect and power. Please consider the interests of the Pharaoh family and don't let outsiders use you to take away the throne of the Pharaoh family."

"The interests of the Pharaoh's family?"

Nafir said with a playful smile.

"The one who can represent the Pharaoh's family, is it Brother Ahmose or me? I am the pure-blooded princess of the Pharaoh's family, and Brother Ahmose is just a child born to an outsider. That is to say, I gave birth to an outsider. My child, the blood of the Pharaoh’s family will not lose to Brother Ahmose at all, and my child is a more orthodox heir than Brother Ahmose.”

"Princess Nafeel! Since you know that your right of inheritance is higher than that of His Majesty Ahmose because you are a pure-blooded princess born of intermarriage, you should know that you can only marry His Majesty Ahmose. Only then can a new generation of pure-blooded princes and princesses be born for the Pharaoh’s family. If you marry an outsider, the future heirs of the Pharaoh’s family will no longer be pure-blooded.”

The messenger said with a solemn face.

"Moreover, many temples, including the Temple of Amon, do not support the princess' succession to the throne."

Seeing that Nafier was speechless for a moment, Roy immediately smiled.

"The so-called truth is written by the blade of a spear! Princess Nafeel led the army all the way south from Sun City, passing through Memphis City, Itawi City, Medum City, Crocodile City, Heracliopolis Thirteen city-states, including the City of Lys, have recognized the succession rights of Princess Nafer. In addition to Sun City and Merimda City controlled by Princess Nafer, Princess Nafer has the support of [-] city-states. If Yahe Moss insists on his right of succession, so let his spearblade compete with Princess Nafel's spearblade to see which side is killed by the other side's spearblade. After the loser's life is taken away, there is no way to refute Truth declared by the victor."

Contest with spear blade?

Nafer's army is all veterans who followed Kamose to fight the Hyksos.

The army that Ahmose summoned in Thebes was almost all recruits recruited in the past half a month.

The strength gap between the two sides is clear at a glance, so even knowing that Nafir's army has traveled thousands of miles, Yahmos did not take the initiative to attack this exhausted army.

Seeing that Roy was not talking about tradition but about strength, and was speechless when Ahmose's envoy said, Nafiel said with a smile.

"Messenger! You just said that the Temple of Amon opposes my succession to the throne. This means that the Temple of Amon is also my enemy!"

No matter how courageous the envoy was, he would not dare to declare for the Temple of Amon that the Temple of Amon opposed Nafer's succession to the Pharaoh's throne.

After all, Nafer really broke the tradition and became a female pharaoh, and the Temple of Amon will continue to have a good relationship with Nafer.

If because of the envoy's nonsense, Nefer regards the Temple of Amon as an enemy, the revenge of the Temple of Amon can make the entire family of the envoy disappear overnight.

In another world, historical facts have proven that even the descendants of Nafir, the Pharaoh of the No. 18 Dynasty, would die young at the age of 20 because of being an enemy of the Temple of Amon.

"Princess Nafeel! The Temple of Amon did not object to your succession to the throne. The Temple of Amon supports you in inheriting the throne with His Majesty Ahmose."

After hastily explaining, the messenger sighed and said.

"Even if you have different mothers, you and His Majesty Ahmose are still brothers and sisters. Do you have to kill each other? Can we divide Egypt into three regions, the north, the south, and the middle, and His Majesty Ahmose will rule southern Egypt. Princess Phil ruled Central Egypt in the city of Itawi. Then we both attacked the Hyksos in northern Egypt, fulfilling the last wish of the ancestors of the pharaoh family to expel the Hyksos."

Hearing the envoy's proposal, Nafier showed a hesitant expression on his face.

Because he didn't want to kill each other with Ahmose, after all Ahmose was her half-brother.

"Go back and tell Brother Ahmose that I can consider dividing Central Egypt and Southern Egypt with him."

(End of this chapter)