I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 332 The Gold Queen Sitting in the Gold Mine

Roy wants to live in peace with Hippolyta, of course not because of Hippolyta's beauty.

Even if Hippolyta was a man, after defeating her, Roy would take the initiative to propose that the two sides live in peace.

Because Roy knew that even if he killed Hippolyta, the Amazon tribe would elect a new leader to fight against the Kingdom of Athens.

Even if Loy wiped out the Amazon tribes, other Thracian tribes would enter the Macedonian Great Plains and become enemies that the Kingdom of Athens must face.

If the Kingdom of Athens wants peace, the best choice is to let Hippolyta survive.

Hippolyta refused to live in peace with the Kingdom of Athens, so Roy mercilessly killed Hippolyta.

Pelos Tribe.

After Hippolyta's three thousand soldiers began to capture the men of the Pelos tribe, Roy stood beside Hippolyta, admiring her beautiful profile all the time.

Perhaps because she couldn't bear Roy's gaze, Hippolyta quickly blushed and put on her mask and helmet again.

After hiding her face again, Hippolyta said in a low voice.

"Don't you think you're being rude?"

"Don't get me wrong!"

Roy immediately explained.

"I just kept staring at you out of curiosity. Queen Hippolyta, I want to know why you have three thousand soldiers but only five hundred bronze spears."

"The gold we mined can only buy five hundred bronze war spears. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Hearing Hippolyta's answer, Roy's eyes lit up immediately.

The bronze war spears of the Amazon tribes were bought with gold, which shows that the Amazon tribes did not master the bronze smelting technology, or did not discover the copper mines in Macedonia.

But Amazon tribes are mining gold, indicating that Amazon tribes have discovered gold mines in Macedonia.

Although Roy does not yet have enough population to control the Macedonian region, Roy has already regarded the gold mines in Macedonia as his own property.

Amazonian tribes mined gold in their territories, and Roy felt his fortune was being stolen.

"I've answered your question, you can answer mine too!"

Hippolyta turned to look at Roy and asked.

"The black weapons you use are stronger than the bronze weapons. Where did you get them?"

"Black weapons—our weapons are black iron weapons."

Roy said confidently.

"This is a weapon unique to our Kingdom of Athens. It is impossible for you to buy black iron weapons anywhere else."

"Then can I buy black iron weapons from you?"

Hippolyta said in a eager tone.

"I will use the same weight of gold to trade you for the same weight of gun heads."

The same weight of gold is exchanged for the same weight of black iron gun heads——

After listening to Hippolyta's words, Roy couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

In this age of barter, gold could neither be eaten nor made into weapons or farm implements.

Anyone with a right mind will understand that black iron is worth more than gold.

Seeing Roy's reaction, Hippolyta continued.

"If you are not satisfied with the price, I can buy your black iron weapon with twice the weight of gold. The sea merchants who trade with us told me that our gold is a very valuable metal. Is gold in your hands? The value of the Kingdom of Athens is very low? Then I will use five times—I will use ten times the weight of gold to buy your black iron weapon, so you will not accept it?"

Ten times its weight in gold—

The weight of the black iron gun head is one catty.

In other words, Hippolyta had to use ten jin of gold to buy a one-jin black iron weapon.

This is the arrogance of the gold queen who owns a super large gold mine?

Only now did Roy understand why in the mythology of another world, Hercules, the great hero of the Mycenaeans, wanted to snatch Hippolyta's golden belt.

In Greek mythology, treasures such as golden swords, golden belts, and golden fleeces are just symbols of their owners' great wealth.

So what Hercules, the great hero of the Mycenaeans, really wanted to snatch was not Hippolyta's gold belt, but Hippolyta's gold mine.

In the setting of Greek mythology, the country of Amazon women lives on both sides of the Telmodon River on the south bank of the Black Sea.

But in the history of another world, the first Greeks reached the southern shore of the Black Sea around 1000 BC.

This is the era 200 years after the end of the Trojan War and 100 years after the Dorian conquest of the Mycenaeans.

The Mycenaeans had been conquered for 100 years before the Greeks came to the southern shore of the Black Sea.

Obviously, Hercules, the great hero of the Mycenaeans, came to the Telmodon River on the southern bank of the Black Sea to snatch Hippolyta's golden belt-this myth has no realistic prototype at all.

This myth would be very plausible if the mythical daughter-land of the Amazons lived on the banks of the Strymon River in the Macedonian region.

The pronunciation of [Telmo] in Telmodong River and [Tremont] in Stremon River happen to be somewhat similar.

The Dorians have a culture of cultivating girls to receive military training. The Thracians are also Caucasian nomads like the Dorians. The Thracian tribe in Macedonia cultivates female warriors, and this tribe happens to have a queen. Then this queen with a large gold mine will perfectly fit the image of Amazon Queen Hippolyta with a golden belt symbolizing wealth.

In Greek mythology, the transfer of the Amazon tribe that was supposed to live in the Thrace region to the south coast of the Black Sea is actually related to the migration of the Thracians in history.

Amazonian tribes did inhabit the Thrace region before the Mycenaean kingdom was destroyed by the Dorians.

But at the same time when the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese Peninsula with black iron weapons, the Thracian tribes who also used black iron weapons also invaded the Asia Minor Peninsula after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, and established Phras in the Asia Minor Peninsula. Kingdom of Regia.

When people fabricated myths after 100 BC, the Amazon tribe had already moved to the Asia Minor peninsula, so the people who fabricated the myth set the Amazon tribe on the south coast of the Black Sea, completely ignoring that the Kingdom of Mycenae had no contact with the south coast of the Black Sea. historical facts.

"I have already decided to buy your black iron weapon with ten times the weight of gold, do you still want me to buy your black iron weapon with twenty times the weight of gold?"

Hearing Hippolyta's dissatisfied tone, Roy came back to his senses and shook his head.

"Queen Hippolyta, even if you offered a hundred catties of gold to buy a catty of black iron gun heads, I would not trade with you."

When Roy has enough people to migrate to the Macedonian region, Roy will launch a war against the Amazon tribe and take the super large gold mine in the Macedonian region as his own.

Now Roy trades weapons with Hippolyta, and in the future the soldiers of the Kingdom of Athens will be killed by the black iron weapons made by the Kingdom of Athens.

"You bastard—why wouldn't you sell me the weapon?"

Hippolyta gritted her teeth.

"If you are worried that I will use your weapons against you, then I can assure you that as long as you don't wage war on me, I will never use your weapons against you."

"Queen Hippolyta, do you know what a monopoly is?"

Roy explained with a smile.

"I can't sell you black iron weapons because the Kingdom of Athens must ensure that its military technology is ahead of all other regions in the world."

(End of this chapter)