I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 177 The Coronation Ceremony of the King of Thebes

After listening to Roy's words, Harmonia forced a smile and said.

"Darling! Although I feel jealous that you started a war with Knossos for the sake of Pandora, I am not a girl who doesn't discriminate, so I am willing to help you win this war. The person you really need to persuade is not I, but thousands of Thebes, let them accept your reason for war with the city of Knossos."

It was the Athenian city of Athens, not the Thebes city of Thebes, who was at war with Knossos.

If there is no legitimate reason, the people of Thebes will definitely not support this war, and the soldiers of Thebes will not go to the battlefield with their lives.

So Roy had to convince the Thebes and Thebes soldiers to fight with all their might on the battlefield.

"Harmonia! I've already thought of a reason to convince the Thebes. When will you gather the Thebes?"

"tomorrow!"

Harmonia pulled Roy to stand up from the grass, and then said while pulling Roy to her palace.

"My dear! I plan to summon the people of Thebes to crown you the king of Thebes in the name of the goddess Mnemosyne. Today I need to do a lot of preparations, such as having someone build a coronation altar in the city square .”

The two came to the palace of Harmonia, and Harmonia took Roy to sit at a stone table, and then ordered the maids to bring food and wine.

While waiting for the food, Roy couldn't help asking.

"Halmonia, the population of Thebes was originally only 2, why has it increased to [-] now?"

"In order to strengthen the city of Thebes, I have been annexing the surrounding Thebes tribes. However, the main reason why the population of Thebes city can increase so much is that the Dorians in Thessaly region invaded south, causing the population of Thebes to increase so much. Some Theban tribes in the north of the Bes area went south to seek refuge."

As long as it is an area without war, the population must have been increasing, and the nomadic Dorians in Thessaly are no exception.

But the area of ​​land and the food it produces do not increase with population.

Once the food of the Dorians was no longer sufficient to feed their population, they invaded the surrounding area to plunder the food.

In the myths and legends of another world, the Dorians in the Thessaly region were reduced to savage half-man half-horse monsters. They not only attacked heroes who broke into their territory for no reason, but also often robbed women.

The Dorians have this kind of image in mythology. Obviously, it is not the people who fabricate the myths deliberately discrediting them, but the Dorians are indeed a barbaric and plundering nation.

In real history, after the Dorians conquered the Peloponnese Peninsula, they were so cruel that they let the conquered locals serve as slaves to support them, the conquerors.

So Lowe was not surprised that the Dorian raids had led some Theban tribes to seek refuge south.

If there is no Roy, the Dorians will invade the Peloponnese 400 years later and establish an era of hegemony belonging to the Dorians.

"Harmonia! The Dorians invaded the Thebes area, which gave me one more reason to convince the Thebes."

After recovering, Roy said with a smile.

"In order to thank the Dorians, after the war with Knossos, I will enter Thessaly to attack the Dorians as revenge for their invasion of Thebes."

"Honey--"

Harmonia immediately said with a solemn face.

"It is not difficult for us to defeat the Dorians in the mountains north of the Thebes region, but the Thessaly region is a flat plain, and the Dorians can ride around on horseback. Even if the Dorians can't beat us head-on, they We can't catch up with them if we ride away on horseback."

In the era of cold weapons, fighting cavalry with infantry has been an unsolvable problem since ancient times.

It's like the phrase magic beats magic.

The best way to defeat cavalry is to use cavalry against cavalry.

Roy said with a confident smile.

"Harmonia! Without my wisdom, the Thebes could only repel the Dorian invasion in the mountains, and could not enter the Great Plains of Thessaly to avenge the Dorian tribe, but I have a way to make them The infantry defeated the cavalry. At that time, I will not only rob the Dorians of cattle, sheep and horses, but also control a grassland in the Thessaly area and train our own cavalry. If we do not take the initiative in the war with the Dorians, Dorian People will become more and more of a threat to us."

After listening to Roy's words, Harmonia threw herself into Roy's arms and said excitedly.

"Honey, if you can sincerely treat the Thebes as your people, my choice is indeed right."

After finishing speaking, Harmonia raised her head and bit Roy with her cherry lips.

Blink to the second day.

After Roy and Harmonia had breakfast, they dressed up under the service of the palace maids.

The two held hands and came to the square outside the palace, and saw thousands of Thebes men being summoned around the square.

Under the watchful eyes of thousands of people, Harmonia pulled Roy to the altar and said loudly.

"Everyone of Thebes! I have summoned you to tell you that as the population of Thebes continues to increase, I plan to rule Thebes as a city-state. I will rule Thebes and all Thebes The king of Thebes of the Besians is my fiancé Roy."

Normally, the people of Thebes would definitely not be able to accept an outsider becoming the king of Thebes.

But Roy's identity is not only an outsider, but also Harmonia's fiancé.

So the Thebes did not stand up against Roy.

For most Thebes, what they accepted was not an outsider becoming the king of Thebes, but the husband of Harmonia becoming the king of Thebes.

Seeing that no one stood up against Roy becoming king of Thebes, Harmonia climbed the steps of the altar and prayed in the direction of Mount Helicon.

"The great goddess Mnemosyne, please grant Roy the authority to become the king of the Thebes and protect the Thebes on your behalf."

With the authority of Harmonia, she can only make Roy the ruler of Thebes.

If Roy wants to become the king of all Thebes in the entire Thebes region, he must be recognized by the goddess Mnemosyne, and become the king of Thebes region who holds both royal and divine power.

"Eh……"

With a helpless sigh, Mnemoshine descended from the sky in the form of a god with a height of [-] meters, and landed on the open space behind the altar.

Roy raised his head, just in time to meet the eyes of Mnemosyne who lowered his head.

Mnemoshine looked at Roy with complicated eyes and said.

"Do you think that as a foreigner, and you don't worship me in your heart, are you suitable to be the king of Thebes and have the power to threaten me?"

In real history, the Pharaoh of Egypt’s No.18 Dynasty once abolished the identity of the sun god Amon as the protector of the country with the power of the pharaoh, and made Amon fall from the throne of the king of the Egyptian gods.

Roy became the king of Thebes, and he could also use the power of the king of Thebes to abolish Mnemosyne's status as the patron saint of Thebes.

So the king of Thebes did have the power to threaten Mnemosyne.

(End of this chapter)