I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 346 Food Problems of the Nomads

Will nomads voluntarily convert into farming peoples?

The answer is of course no.

In the history of another world, after the nomadic Dorians conquered the Peloponnese, they turned the native Spartans and Pylos into serfs, and the Dorians turned into a non-productive military group. This situation lasted for about 800 years.

Historical facts have proved that nomads will not voluntarily transform into farming nations even if they come to the region of farming nations.

Later, the Thracians turned into a farming nation because of their large population. Even if some of them migrated to the Asia Minor peninsula, they still could not solve the food shortage crisis.

In order to survive, the Thracians had to transform into farming peoples.

The history of another world has proved that only when nomads face the survival crisis of population explosion, they will voluntarily convert into farming peoples.

The population problem in Thrace is not serious now, as long as they buy food from the outside world, their food needs can be met.

Under the circumstances that the Thracians did not need to transform into farming nations, Roy would not naively think that if he married Hippolyta and became the king of the Amazons, he would be able to order the Amazon tribes to transform into farming nations.

If Roy really married Hippolyta, he would probably become an Amazon tribe and parasitize the Kingdom of Athens.

When the Amazon tribe needs food in winter, Roy must provide food for the Amazon tribe and fulfill his responsibility as the king of the Amazon.

In order to ensure the safety of the Amazon tribe, Hippolyta will also ask Roy to provide the Amazon tribe with bronze weapons or even black iron weapons.

Under the support of the Kingdom of Athens, the strength of the Amazon tribe will become stronger and stronger, and eventually conquer the entire Thrace region.

Then Hippolyta became Queen of Thrace, and Roy became King of Thrace.

All Thracians will parasitize on the Kingdom of Athens, and Loi must provide food and weapons for all Thracians.

Then the Thracians continued to expand and conquered all nomadic peoples in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe.

Hippolyta would be queen of millions of nomads in Europe, and Roy would be king of millions of nomads in Europe.

It would also fall to Lowe to feed and arm Europe's millions of nomads.

If Roy has no food to feed them, this group of Roy will take out food to feed them, and the nomads armed with weapons provided by Roy will go south to invade Roy's Kingdom of Athens——

"You turned our Amazon tribe into a farming people?"

Hippolyta looked at Roy suspiciously and asked.

"Why should we transform into an agricultural nation?"

"It's too much trouble to explain."

Roy said helplessly.

"As the population of your nomads increases, your food will not be able to feed more and more people. When the crisis of food shortage comes, how do you plan to solve the food problem?"

"I will use our cattle, sheep and horses to exchange food with your farming peoples."

Hearing Hippolyta's answer, Roy couldn't help laughing.

"The population of your nomads is increasing, and the population of our farming peoples is also increasing. If the farming peoples don't have enough food to sell to you, what will you do?"

Hippolyta was silent for a moment, and finally said expressionlessly.

"If the farming peoples don't sell us their food, then we will use war to rob you of your food. Although I know that many people will die if the farming people lose their food, my people can survive."

"What if you can't beat the farming people?"

Roy said with a serious face.

"In the future, I will let all the soldiers of the Kingdom of Athens use black iron weapons and wear iron armor. How will you survive if you can't beat us?"

"I...I don't know..."

Hippolyta said with a blank expression.

"We have no food... and we can't defeat your Kingdom of Athens, how can we survive?"

"The grasslands occupied by your nomads are all fertile plains. As long as your nomads transform into farming peoples, the grain you grow will not only meet your own needs, but you will also sell the surplus grain to us."

"But we are nomads, and our ancestors lived like this for thousands of years."

Hippolyta said with a painful expression on her small face.

"If you make us a farming nation, it's like asking wolves to eat grass like sheep."

"Hippolyta, just pretend I didn't say anything!"

Roy shook his head in disappointment and said.

"I have known for a long time that unless you nomads are facing an existential crisis, you will never voluntarily become a farming people."

"Loy!"

Hippolyta took a deep breath, then looked at Roy with a firm face and said.

"I will marry you and give you my authority if you promise to take care of the Amazon tribe—"

"I will not support a huge ethnic group that does not produce in order to get a woman."

After speaking, Roy left Wang's tent directly.

When only Hippolyta and Felice were left in the royal tent, Felice asked suspiciously.

"Sister Hippolyta, why do you beg him so humblely and offer to marry him?"

"Princess Phyllis..."

Hippolyta looked at Felice with a wry smile and said.

"You are now a princess protected by your father, so you don't know, we Thracians have always been facing food problems. In order to reduce the demand for food, many tribes will check newborn children, children with weaker constitutions will be killed. Even if we cruelly kill newborn children, we still cannot solve the food problem, so we Thracians often have wars between tribes. Killing weaker children reduces the population, and through tribes The war between the Amazons reduces the population—I don’t want to use these two cruel ways to solve the food problem. If my marriage can be exchanged for the happy life of all the Amazon tribes, of course I am willing to propose to Roy.”

"The real reason why our Thracian tribes kill weaker children, and there are frequent wars between tribes - is it to reduce the population and reduce our need for food?"

Phyllis frowned and said.

"This is too unbelievable. When I get back to my father, I will ask my father and let him tell me the answer."

"Phyllis, you still don't want to worry about yourself."

Hippolyta persuaded.

"So what if you know these problems, you can't figure out how to solve them."

The camp of the Sun Tribe.

Sitting in his king's tent, Aeetes was thinking about whether to agree to Roy's request.

"One year... it's just a one-year truce with them, and the lost territory and population can be regained after one year. Their request is not unacceptable."

In order to redeem his daughter, Aeetes finally decided to accept Roy's request.

"Before the five big tribes in the west of the Marmara Sea are sent to the Amazon tribe, I will take away all their young men and food, leaving the old and weak women and children to be taken care of by Hippolyta. Wait for Hippolyta to help them Get through a tough winter and I'll get them back tomorrow summer."

After finishing speaking, Aietes had a smug smirk on his face.

(End of this chapter)