I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 210 The Arcadians Ask for Help
After the slave trader took the rest of the slave men and left by boat, he saw that the more than 50 slave men and women he had bought all looked numb, as if they had no hope for their own future. said the slaves.

"You can rest assured that I will not let you be enslaved to death as lifelong slaves. As long as you work for me for five years, I will make you free men and give you a considerable fortune as compensation for your work The Kingdom of Athens does not need you outsiders to guard it, so the job I arrange for you will not be to let you go to the battlefield. The hardest job for you slave men is to be responsible for moving things. The hardest job for you slave women , is to sweep and clean.”

After listening to Roy's words, more than 50 slave men and women stared in disbelief, unable to believe what they heard.

In this era, being able to meet a master who fed and clothed slaves was considered lucky.

But Roy not only wanted them to be freed after five years, but also paid them for their work.

This is not the treatment of slaves, Roy completely treats them as laborers from other places.

The eyes of the originally numb slaves and men were all blazed with hope.

A slave man said boldly.

"You didn't lie to us, did you? Where in the world would there be such a kind master who would give us freedom as long as he worked for five years, and the hardest work would only be to let us carry things, and in the end he would give us a reward—"

"I am the king of Athens, and my words are equivalent to the laws of the Kingdom of Athens. The treatment I give to you slaves will become the legal standard of the Kingdom of Athens in the future. Any slave who works in the Kingdom of Athens for five years in the future can get free people identity."

Roy said with a smile.

"Although I will give you slaves the best treatment in the world, I will also give you slaves the most severe punishment. If a slave tries to escape, this slave will not have a chance to be forgiven, because the punishment for escaping is The death penalty. And before death, the escaped slaves were brutally tortured."

"No one will escape."

These slave men and women said one after another.

"When we return to our hometown, we will be captured by the king and sent to the battlefield."

"I'd rather stay here as a slave than go back to my chaotic hometown."

There are probably three sources of slaves in this era.

The first source of slaves was slaves who were taken as captives or spoils of war and then sold to slave traders.

The second source of slaves was slaves captured by land robbers or pirates from the sea and sold to slave traders.

The third source of slavery was debt slaves, who were either impoverished people who were sold to slave traders by their creditors, or sold by their families to slave traders.

No matter which source the slaves Loy bought belonged to, they would not be better off returning to their hometown than staying in Athens.

After handing over these slaves to Keone for management, Roy returned to the Acropolis, just in time to see a soldier running towards him from the palace.

"His Majesty!"

The soldier came to Roy and said happily.

"It's great to meet you here. Princess Procne told me to inform you that there is an envoy from the Arcadia region who wants to see you."

"Arcadia's envoy—"

The city of Athens had no communication with the Arcadia region, a mountainous region in the central part of the Peloponnese Peninsula. The purpose of the envoys from the Arcadia region coming to Athens immediately aroused Roy's curiosity.

The Royal Palace of Athens.

When Roy came to the hall, he saw Procne and Philomela sitting on the throne together to receive the envoys from Arcadia.

"Brother Roy!"

When Procne saw Roy smiling happily, Philomela said in surprise.

"Brother Luo Yi came back so quickly, the soldiers sent to look for you just left!"

Roy walked to the steps where the throne was, then turned around and sat down, put his arms around the slender waists of Procne and Philomela, looked at the young messenger standing in the middle of the hall and asked.

"You are the envoy of the Arcadia region? What is your purpose in coming to our city of Athens?"

"Loy, the great king of Athens, let me introduce myself first. I am Pandarus, son of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, the most powerful city-state in the Arcadia region. I came to Athens to seek Help, because the Mycenaeans are invading the Arcadia region."

Seeing that Roy didn't speak, Pandarus continued.

"The Mycenaeans are really hateful. Not only did they take the initiative to invade the Arcadia region, but they also belittled and humiliated the Acadian tribes who defended the goddess Artemis. The Acadian tribes on Mount Kerunia were killed After the Mycenaean conquest, the Mycenaeans degraded the Acadian tribes there as the doe of the goddess Artemis in myths fabricated for Zeus, and described the Mycenaean leader as a giant who captured the doe alive. Hero. After the Acadian tribe of Mount Erymantus was conquered by the Mycenaeans, they were also fabricated by the Mycenaeans to belittle the wild boar of the goddess Artemis. The deeds of the wild boar. Now my father Lycaon is leading the Arcadians to resist the Mycenae. Become a bloodthirsty wolf."

"Simply put, you Arcadians can't beat the Mycenaeans, so you want to get help from our city of Athens."

Roy couldn't help but said.

"It's something that can be explained clearly in one sentence, why do you need to popularize things that I don't need to know?"

"We Arcadians can defeat the Mycenaeans."

Pandarus said without confidence.

"It's all because the Acadian tribe who worshiped Pan, the god of shepherds, surrendered to the Mycenaeans, and we are in this unfavorable situation. In the Arcadia region, the great goddess Artemis is the guardian of the entire Arcadia. The highest god in the region, Pan, the god of shepherds, is one of the subjects of the goddess Artemis. However, in order to replace the goddess of Artemis as the patron saint of Arcadia, the god of shepherds, Pan, even recognized the thief as his father and became the son of Zeus, the god of the Mycenaeans. His son was also renamed Hermes by Zeus. Pan, the god of shepherds, the tribe of Hermes the god of shepherds, also became the accomplice of the Mycenaeans to attack our city of Arcadia."

After listening to Pandarus' words, Roy said expressionlessly.

"Prince Pandarus! I deeply sympathize with your city of Arcadia, which is about to be conquered by the Mycenaeans, and the goddess Artemis, who is about to be robbed of the seat of the patron saint of Arcadia by Hermes, but I There is nothing I can do to help you. Because the city of Athens is now competing with the cities of Donia and Knossos in Crete for the hegemony of the Aegean Sea, and there is really no troops to help you."

Pandarus said with eyes widened in disappointment.

"Great King of Athens, my sister Callisto is a virgin who vowed never to marry and serve the goddess Artemis. As long as you help us, my father Lycaon is willing to marry Callisto to you .”

Callisto—

In the mythology of another world, the Mycenaeans were the first to conquer the Argos region, so Io, the daughter of King Inarchus of Argos, was the first human wife of Zeus, the king of the gods of the Mycenaeans. .

The second conquest of the Mycenaeans was the region of Arcadia, so Callisto, the daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia, was the second human wife of Zeus, the king of the gods of the Mycenaeans.

(End of this chapter)