I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 297 You Are Thinking Of Me For A Fool
The city of Thebes, Egypt.

Pharaoh's palace.

The young Ahmose was waiting anxiously on the pharaoh's throne cast in gold.

Ahmose’s age is only [-] years old. As Kamose’s younger brother—the son of the moon god [Yahmose] born to Tao II and his concubine wife, Yahmose never thought of competing with Kamose for Pharaoh throne.

Unexpectedly, Kamose seemed to be cursed, and died on the battlefield like his grandfather Tao I and father Tao II.

In addition, Kamose had neither son nor nephew, and the throne of pharaoh fell from the sky to Ahmose.

Although Ahmose was not a pure-blooded prince, he was Kamose's only brother and the only male heir to the Pharaoh's royal family.

Originally, Ahmose thought that he would successfully inherit the Pharaoh's throne, and then, like his elder brother Kamose, he would inherit the last wish of his ancestors and continue to lead the southern Egyptians to expel the Hyksos.

Unexpectedly, Nafir, who nominally had a higher inheritance right than himself, not only did not want to intermarry with him to give birth to pure-blood descendants, but also wanted to compete with him for the throne of Pharaoh.

To make matters worse, the army left behind by Kamose actually supported Nafir.

Even if Ahmose has the support of traditional forces including the Temple of Amon, it is impossible to summon a large army to fight against Nafir in a short period of time.

So in order to keep his pharaoh's throne, Ahmose had to take the initiative to send envoys to negotiate peace with Nafer.

"Your Majesty Ahmose!"

Accompanied by the familiar call, the messenger of Ahmose hurried into the hall where the throne was.

Seeing his messenger, Ahmos asked excitedly.

"My friend, you must have brought good news for me."

The messenger said with a helpless wry smile.

"Your Majesty Ahmose, Princess Nafer's attitude is very tough, coupled with other people's bewitching, she has no intention of giving up competing with you for the Pharaoh's throne."

"Nafel was indeed bewitched."

Ahmose said with a frown.

"I know her character very well! After Brother Kamose died in battle, even if Nafier had some ideas about the throne, she didn't have the firm will to fight for the throne with me. She must have the support of other people—by Because of the bewitching of other people, she will do the crazy behavior of fighting for the throne with me."

The messenger nodded and said.

"The one who supported Princess Nafer and bewitched her was King Roy of Athens who defeated and killed His Majesty Kamose on the battlefield. If King Roy of Athens did not support Princess Nafer, what His Majesty Kamose left The generals will not be willing to submit to a little girl, after all, it is unprecedented for an unmarried princess to become a female pharaoh."

Just like in the history of the far east, there are many cases of empress dowagers regenting, and there was even a ridiculous empress dowager who directly proclaimed the emperor and changed the name of the country.

In the history of ancient Egypt, there were also many Egyptian princesses who ruled Egypt as female pharaohs [queen queens] after the death of their husbands.

But the true sense of the princess inheriting the throne - like Nafer, inheriting the throne as an unmarried princess has never happened in Egypt's thousands of years of history.

Normally, male generals would not obey Nafiel's orders at all.

Those generals were willing to obey Nafir, not only because Nafir had a higher inheritance than Ahmose, but also because Nafir had the support of Roy, a powerful demigod hero.

The generals refuse to support Nafel, who will likely let Roy kill the generals who oppose her.

Although the generals also believed that tradition was important, they would not be foolish enough to fight Nafir for Ahmose.

After all, Nafir is the pure-blooded princess of the pharaoh's family, and the children born to Nafir will have the blood and inheritance rights of the pharaoh's family that will not lose to Ahmose.

As long as the interests of the generals are not affected, it is not difficult for them to accept that Nafir becomes a female pharaoh.

"Your Majesty Ahmose! I observed Princess Nafel's barracks and found that her soldiers were very tired from the long journey. If we want to use war to solve the problem, we must take the initiative to attack Princess Nafel's army tomorrow. If Your Majesty does not want to use To solve the problem by war, your best choice is to divide Central Egypt and South Egypt with Princess Nafer. After three to five days, Princess Nafer's army regains its fighting strength, and His Majesty will lose the chance to choose."

"You let me divide and rule with Nafir..."

Because what Ahmose got was the pharaoh's throne that did not belong to him originally, so dividing the rule with Nafir is the bottom line that Ahmose can accept.

But this is also Ahmose's last option.

After all, who can be the pharaoh of Central Egypt and South Egypt, who would want to be the pharaoh of South Egypt only.

"Since Nafir is willing to divide the rule with me, it means that she also wants to avoid war. I will negotiate with her personally tomorrow."

the next day.

Ahmose personally drove a chariot and led [-] soldiers to the outside of Nafer's barracks, demanding to negotiate with Nafer.

After getting the news, Nafir left the barracks under the protection of Roy and came to Ahmose.

"Brother Ahmose!"

Stopping in front of Ahmose's chariot, Nafir smiled at Ahmose on the chariot and said.

"You are my only older brother now and I am really happy to see you in good health."

"You came to Thebes City with a large army in order to fight for the throne. I thought you wanted to kill me and make yourself the sole heir."

Ahmose first expressed his dissatisfaction, and then spoke in a softened manner.

"Nafel, for the benefit of our Egyptian kingdom, can't you give up fighting for the throne?"

Nafel shook his head without hesitation.

"I don't want to be a victim of intermarriage! If I don't seize the throne, I will definitely be forced to marry Brother Ahmose."

"If you don't want to marry me, then you can leave with King Roy of Athens."

Ahmose said helplessly.

"Do you think I want to marry you? I have no choice but to ask you to marry me because those traditional forces put pressure on me and because your inheritance rights are higher than mine. As long as you leave Egypt voluntarily, you will There is no threat to the throne, and those traditional forces have no reason to blame me. Both of us, brothers and sisters, can avoid the tragedy of intermarriage. When I am firmly on the throne, I, the elder brother, will definitely give you an incomparably rich dowry."

"Do you think I'm a fool?"

Nafel rolled his eyes and said.

"I was the supreme pure-blood princess of the Pharaoh's royal family in Egypt. I went to Athens with Roy alone. I was just a beautiful puppet in his palace. If my child does not get Roy's favor, my child will not be loved by Roy." Will not stand a chance to become a great king. But I stay in Egypt and become a female pharaoh, even if neither me nor my children get Loy's favor, I can leave my throne to my children. So even for Nor can I give up my claim to the throne, my child."

"You greedy girl, you are thinking about your future children before you get married—"

Looking at the firm expression on Nafer's face, Yahmos said with a wry smile.

"In order to prevent brother and sister from killing each other, I am willing to divide and rule with you. The sixteen city-states in the south will be ruled by me, and the seven city-states in the north will be ruled by you."

(End of this chapter)