I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 482

When Hartpurna could only rely on Roy to avenge her father Mursiri, Roy told Hartpurna that she should be a queen who treated the Hattites and Hittites equally.

As a result, Hartpurna used her actual actions to prove that her heart is biased towards her own people after all.

Roy has already decided in his heart that he wants to find someone to manage the Hittite Kingdom with Hartpurna, but unfortunately there is no suitable candidate right now.

Taisha City.

With the surrender of the Hittite army, the second capital of the Hittite Kingdom was also included in the territory of the Athens Empire by Loy.

Palace hall.

Roy and Hartpurna throw a huge banquet.

Except for Han Tili who was killed by Loy and Tielepin who escaped, all the city-state princes and nobles who participated in the battle of Taisha City accepted the banquet.

Roy and Hartpurna sat on the throne overlooking the hall, and Roy took the initiative to speak.

"Dear city-state princes! All nobles! I believe you are no strangers to my identity. I am the husband designated by the great moon goddess for Princess Hartpurna. Since Hantili can inherit the throne as the princess's husband and has not been subject to your If these city-state princes and nobles object, then I will inherit the Hittite throne as the husband of Princess Hartpurna, and you will not stand up to oppose it!"

The city-state princes and nobles all remained silent.

After all, they were all prisoners who lost to Roy on the battlefield. Of course, the prisoners were not qualified to oppose Roy.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Roy continued.

"Since you don't object, then I will exercise my power as the Hittite king. First, I will abolish slavery in the Hittite Kingdom. From now on, the Hittites and the Hittites will be compatriots with equal status. Then I will Abolish the city-state princes and nobles. In the Hittite Kingdom, except for the royal family centered on me, everyone else is a commoner with equal status. Finally—I will redistribute the fields in the Hittite Kingdom, and everyone will be deprived of illegal occupation field."

No matter in any era, fields are the most important wealth.

Even in the industrial age, humans will not be able to survive without fields to grow food to fill their stomachs.

Hearing that Roy said that they would deprive them of their most important wealth—the fields, a young nobleman stood up angrily and said.

"I have no problem with you not letting the Hatti people be our slaves, and I have no problem with you degrading us to common people. But you want to deprive us of our fields, is this to make us die? Do you know that I have How many family servants and followers, if they lose their fields—”

"You can survive without illegally occupied fields."

Roy said in a cold voice with no expression on his face.

"As long as you get rid of the servants and followers in your family, the jobs I've arranged for you will make your family have no worries about food and clothing."

"You asked us to dismiss our servants and followers—"

The young noble said angrily.

"We don't have slaves or followers. If you persecute us in the future, how should we resist? I understand that you limit our wealth to make us civilians and unable to resist your rule."

"You're pretty smart."

Roy said directly and frankly.

"I just want to turn you city-state princes and nobles with huge wealth and private armies into real civilians, so that you can't pose a threat to the royal power. If you can accept my policy, you will be my people in the future. You will be held accountable for the crimes you have committed against the Hattites in the past. If you do not accept my policies, I will reduce all of your families to slavery and confiscate the wealth accumulated in your time."

After Roy finished speaking, Governor Kushala immediately stood up and said earnestly.

"I have decided to accept His Majesty's arrangement and give up my status, power and illegally occupied fields. Since we lost to His Majesty the Emperor on the battlefield, we have no right to choose. This is the best result for us .”

Hearing Governor Kushala's words, some city-state princes and nobles lowered their heads unwillingly.

In the past, the Hittites lost to the Hittites on the battlefield, so the Hittites became slaves of the Hittites, and the wealth, wives and daughters of the Hittites were taken away by the Hittites.

Now Roy defeated the Hittites on the battlefield, but did not degrade the Hittites into slaves——

Compared with the behavior of the Hittites themselves, they really have no right to be dissatisfied.

"In the future, the Hattites will take revenge on us, what should we do?"

A city-state prince said worriedly.

"How much the Hittites hate us, we Hittites know best."

"You don't believe me, don't you believe Princess Hartpurna?"

Roy said with a smile.

"My Athens Empire has a vast territory, so I will not stay in Asia Minor Peninsula forever. When I leave Asia Minor Peninsula, Hartpurna is the queen who will rule Asia Minor Peninsula instead of me. Don't you think that Hartpurna will not protect you Clansmen, will you be retaliated by the Hattites?"

Hartpurna continued.

"If you are really worried, then join the recruitment of soldiers of the Athenian Empire! As a soldier of the Athenian Empire, you can not only enjoy the welfare of citizens and families, but also have the force to protect the Hittites. After all, I am the Hittites Princess, if my subordinates are all Hattite soldiers, I will also worry that the Hattite soldiers will not obey my orders."

Governor Kushala said immediately.

"Princess Hartpurna, I will let my son bring all the Hittite soldiers from Kushala City to join the Athens Empire."

The princes and nobles of other city-states also expressed their views that they wanted their sons and Hittite soldiers to become soldiers of the Athenian Empire.

In the Battle of Taisha City, the Athenian and Hittite armies killed thousands of people and injured as many as 4000 soldiers.

As a result, Loy's soldiers not only did not decrease, but increased to 6.

After the original 4 Hittite army laid off old, weak and wounded soldiers, they all joined Roy's command.

Not only doubling the military strength, but also the governors of the city-states such as Kushala, Salissa, Samha, Amkuwa, Tamnia, and Vasusana also donated the city-states they ruled. To Roy, in exchange for the treatment of a first-class citizen and a big businessman.

While Roy sent Athens soldiers to take over these city-states, he brought Hatpurna, city-state princes and nobles, and an army of [-] to Hattusha.

Hattusha City.

When Roy came here, he received several important messages.

The first news is that the Hattite city-states Hakpisa, Nerik, and Chalpuwa, which were conquered by the Hittite Kingdom 40 years ago, rebelled. control.

The Hittites who now control these three city-states have sent envoys to peacefully coexist with the Hittite kingdom ruled by Loi.

The second news is that Tiliepin left the Hittite Kingdom with [-] Hittite soldiers and entered the territory of the Paclei people in the northwest of the Hittite Kingdom.

The purpose of Tielepin is probably to conquer the Paclei people.

The third news is that the Yisuwa Kingdom, one of the three Hurit kingdoms, sent an envoy to marry Roy.

Roy's marriage partner is not only the princess of the Hurits, but also the priestess who serves the goddess Sauska, which is enough to prove that the Kingdom of Isuva attaches great importance to this marriage.

(End of this chapter)