I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 350 Three goals for the second half of the year
On the second day after returning to Athens, Roy began to perform his duties as the king of Athens.

The Royal Palace of Athens.

Roy was sitting on the throne in the hall of the palace, calculating the territory and population of the Kingdom of Athens.

The current territory of the Kingdom of Athens includes the Attica Peninsula, Corinth, Central Greece, Thessaly, the western Macedonian Great Plain, Crete, and the western Nile Delta, with a total area of ​​more than 60 square kilometers and a total population of more than [-] people.

In addition to the territory directly ruled by the Kingdom of Athens, the islands in the South Aegean Sea that became vassals of the Kingdom of Athens also have a land area of ​​[-] square kilometers and a population of more than [-].

Although in terms of area and population, the Kingdom of Athens is far inferior to the Kingdom of Egypt, the Kingdom of Hittites, and the Kingdom of Babylon in the Near East, but in terms of strength, the Kingdom of Athens is undoubtedly the most powerful country in the world.

This is not only because the Kingdom of Athens is becoming an iron civilization, but also because the Kingdom of Athens is a centralized ruling system, and Roy can mobilize all the manpower and material resources of the Kingdom of Athens.

The Kingdom of Egypt, the Kingdom of Hittites, the Kingdom of Babylon and other large eastern countries were ruled by kings in name only, but in fact each city-state was self-governing, and the king was respected as a co-lord by each city-state only in name.

"Now the only powerful forces on the border with the Kingdom of Athens are the Amazon tribe and the Kingdom of Mycenae, but the Kingdom of Mycenae has made a sacred oath not to attack the Kingdom of Athens. The Amazon tribe needs the Kingdom of Athens as an ally to fight against the Sun tribe, so Mycenae Neither the Kingdom nor the Amazon tribes pose a threat to the Kingdom of Athens. Although the North Macedonia Mountains, West Macedonia Mountains, Epirus Region, Aetolia Region, Ahai Region and Calydon Region also share borders with the Kingdom of Athens, they These Illyrians from Central Europe are still a backward tribal civilization, and their threat to the Kingdom of Athens is tantamount to nothing."

The three major ethnic groups in the Balkan Peninsula are the Pilaski people living in the southern Balkan Peninsula, the Thracians living in the northeastern Balkan Peninsula, and the Illyrians living in the northwestern Balkan Peninsula.

The Pilaski people migrated to the Balkan Peninsula before 3000 BC. They were the earliest inhabitants of ancient Greece and the main ethnic group of the Kingdom of Athens.

Thracians are blond and blue-eyed Caucasian people who migrated to the northern Balkans before 2000 BC and have been living a nomadic life on the great plains in the northern Balkans.

The Illyrians originally lived in Central Europe.

During the spread of the Illyrians to the Balkan Peninsula, because the Thracians occupied the fertile plains, the Illyrians could only live in Austria, Albania, North Macedonia, West Macedonia, Epi Rus region, Aetolia region, Calydon region, Elis region, Ahai region and other northwestern Balkans.

During the migration of the Illyrians from Central Europe to the Balkan Peninsula, some Nordic Germanic tribes also migrated to the Balkan Peninsula with them.

The ancestor of the beautiful silver-haired girl Kayone is likely to be the Germanic people who migrated to the Balkan Peninsula with the Illyrians.

The Illyrians could not compete with the Thracians for the fertile plains, and could only live a nomadic and hunting life in the barren mountainous areas and some plains in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, which proved that the Illyrians not only used wooden weapons or stone Tribal civilizations that make weapons, and their population is not large.

If the Illyrians had a large population, the nomadic and hunting lifestyle would not be able to provide them with sufficient food at all.

Not only does the Kingdom of Athens have no enemies in the Balkans, but even in Egypt, because the Egyptian kingdom ruled by Nafer and the Hyksos are hostile to each other, the Egyptian territory of the Kingdom of Athens will not be attacked by either of them.

Although the Libyans would launch a war to the west of the Nile Delta, the Libyans were nomadic tribes with backward civilization. They attacked the west of the Nile Delta, and they offered to provide prisoners of war and slaves to the Kingdom of Athens.

"It seems that as long as I don't take the initiative to start a war, I don't have to worry about the Kingdom of Athens facing a war. In other words, I can concentrate on preparing to marry Procne and Philomela next."

After listing marriage as the first goal, Roy began to think about the development plan of the Kingdom of Athens in the second half of the year.

"Now that the summer grain has been harvested, I will go all out to promote cattle and iron farm tools so that the farmers of the Kingdom of Athens can reclaim more fields and increase food production. In addition, the Great Plain of Thessaly has become the grain-producing area of ​​the Kingdom of Athens. The Kingdom of Athens will be self-sufficient in grain next year, and maybe there will be surplus grain that can be sold abroad."

In this era, food is undoubtedly the most important thing.

Even if a war is to be launched, there must be sufficient food support to domesticate the conquered people.

If there is no food to feed the conquered people, the captives can only be killed, or all of them are sold to other regions as slaves, wasting important population resources in vain.

In the history of another world, many great generals who are famous in history have records of slaughtering captives. The essence is that these generals simply do not have enough food to absorb captives.

"In addition to achieving self-sufficiency in food, I should also mine the coal resources of Yubia and Crete. After all, charcoal can only be smelted, and coal can be used as fuel to make steel. The Kingdom of Athens entered the iron civilization from the iron civilization. The latitude gap will be further widened. In order to increase the production of ironware, I will build an ironwork workshop on Yubia Island, the Otis area, and the Attica Peninsula where there are iron mines."

After listing the Kingdom of Athens' full access to iron civilization as the second goal, Roy began to think about the finances of the Kingdom of Athens.

"If the Kingdom of Athens wants to support a large army and civil service system, it must find a way to let soldiers and civil officials spend their wealth. After all, the military and civil service systems are high-income occupations in the Kingdom of Athens. If their wealth continues Accumulation will soon become an unstable factor. In order for them to consume, luxuries such as salt, spices, and cotton cloth must become necessities in the lives of the Athenians. Although the Athenians cannot be starved, they cannot be allowed to accumulate Wealth. They have to be kept at the line of food and clothing, so they will voluntarily become laborers and soldiers to work hard on the battlefield.”

Thinking of this, Roy was suddenly frightened by his own thoughts.

In order to make the Athenians voluntarily become workers and soldiers, he even wanted to deliberately exploit their wealth.

"Before I became king of Athens, my aim was not like this."

After the guilt in his heart was fleeting, Roy continued to think about how to take the greatest wealth of the Kingdom of Athens into his own hands, and turn everyone in the Kingdom of Athens into migrant workers for the Athenian royal family.

"Not only the profiteering industries such as salt, iron, spices, and olive oil must be monopolized by the royal family, but even industries such as food, clothing, logistics, footwear, etc. must also be set by shops run by the royal family."

That's the third goal Lowy listed.

(End of this chapter)