I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 378 Patriarch Brutus and Caesar
The governance model of human civilization has always been closely related to the development of military technology.

Before the Bronze Age, human rule was dominated by tribes or villages.

The emergence of bronze weapons brought human civilization into the city-state era.

The appearance of iron weapons brought human civilization into the age of kingdoms.

The ruling mode of human civilization is related to the development of weapons. It is because of the mastery of more advanced weapons that we can suppress farther regions by force.

If there is no advantage in weapons, a group that uses wooden weapons or stone weapons wants to use force to conquer another group that uses wooden or stone weapons. Even if it succeeds, it will have to pay huge casualties.

The Apennine Peninsula has not yet entered the Bronze Age, so the locals of the Apennine Peninsula live in tribes or villages.

When a tribe or village is overpopulated and the territory of the tribe or village can no longer support the overpopulation, young people from the tribe or village will migrate to other areas to establish new tribes or villages.

In this era, the Apennine Peninsula had only the chief nobles who ruled tribes or villages, and there were no kings who ruled city-states.

These ancient Romans didn't even have the concept of a king, so of course they didn't understand what "Emperor" meant.

Hearing that Roy, a foreigner, claimed to be the emperor who ruled the land, the Sikur who looked like the chief nobleman said in a cold voice with displeasure.

"Outlander! Although I don't understand what "emperor" means, I can hear that you want to claim your rulership over us. You barbaric outlander, you are worse than those Phoenician brigands. While Phoenician brigands will rob us of our wealth and our population, the Phoenicians will also trade theirs with us when we are armed."

At this time, thousands of Roy's soldiers had landed, and there were only about 200 Sikuer in front.

Hearing the accusations made by the leader of the Sikur people, Roy pointed to the soldiers behind him.

"The Phoenicians didn't rule you, not because they didn't want to, but because they didn't have enough army to rule you. I have the most powerful soldiers in the world behind me. If you refuse to accept my rule, then I can only deal with you Suppressed by force."

Seeing the iron spear blades of the Athenian soldiers shining coldly in the sun, the leader of the Sikurs looked at the bronze spear in his hand again.

This bronze war spear was bought from the Phoenicians with five thousand catties of grain.

Just by looking at the blades of the bronze spears and the blades of the iron spears, it can be judged that the iron spears of the Athenian soldiers are more powerful weapons.

"I want to fight you!"

Seeing that Roy's soldiers were still landing continuously, and the scale had exceeded 2000, the nobleman, the leader of the Sikur people, suddenly said to Roy.

"If you can defeat me, we will move elsewhere and give you our domains—or accept your rule."

duel?

Hearing the request of the leader of the Sikuer nobles, Roy couldn't help laughing.

"How are you qualified to duel with me! There are only 60 men in your village who are over ten years old and under 200 years old. A village chief like you is not qualified to duel with the emperor of Athens. I can let you and my men Soldiers duel, if you can defeat my soldiers, I will surrender myself to a duel with you."

After speaking, Roy waved to a 500-man leader who was in charge of [-] soldiers.

The soldiers of the Kingdom of Athens all determined their positions by strength.

Soldiers who can become 500 men almost all have the strength close to the hero level [enemies of a hundred men].

The leader of 500 people designated by Roy immediately came to the leader of the Sikuer nobles with an iron gun and shield and said.

"Are you alone, or are you going together?"

"Of course I'm alone!"

The leader and noble rushed to the 500 men angrily with a bronze spear and a stone spear, and attacked with the bronze spear and stone spear at the same time.

The 500 commanders used their shields to block the attack of the bronze spears, and at the same time swept the blades of the iron spears at the body of the chief noble.

A loud bang!
The stone spear of the chief noble pierced the heart of the 500th man, but was blocked by the paper armor, and did not cause real damage to the 500th man's body.

The 500-man-long iron spear cut through the sackcloth clothes of the chief nobleman, leaving a wound on the chief nobleman's arm.

It was just the first round of confrontation, and the leader noble screamed in pain, turned and fled to his clan in a hurry.

Seeing that the leader of the 500 people did not chase and kill him, the leader noble threw away the stone spear and said to Luo Yi with his left hand covering the wound on his right arm.

"Why are the weapons you use so sharp?"

Roy didn't answer this question, and looked at the leader nobleman with a smile and joked.

"Are you still going to fight?"

The chief noble glanced at the iron gun blades in the hands of the 500 captains with fearful eyes.

If the weapons used by both sides are the same, the chief noble will never avoid a duel.

But the gap between the weapons of the two sides is too great.

"I lost!"

The chief noble said helplessly.

"We can move to other places, or accept your rule."

"I will not drive you away, because you will be my people from now on."

Roy said with a bright smile.

"Under my rule, you will soon usher in a better life than in the past. You are the first local chief noble under my rule, tell me your name!"

"Brutus."

The leader noble looked at Roy with awe and said.

"My name is Brutus, chief of the village of Catanzaro, and member of the Council of Chiefs of the Sikurs."

"The Council of Leaders—is the prototype of the Senate!"

Roy didn't like the Senate of the ancient Romans.

Because in the history of another world, the Senate was an institution where the chief nobles checked and balanced the king.

Legend has it that the seventh king of ancient Rome was exiled abroad by the elders of the Senate because he ignored the authority of the Senate.

Caesar, the uncle and adoptive father of Octavian, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, was assassinated by Marcus Brutus, the senator of the Senate, and other senators because he wanted to be the dictator for life.

Thinking of this period of history, Roy looked at his 500-man leader and said.

"500 people long! I will give you a name, from now on your name will be Caesar!"

"Follow His Majesty's orders!"

500 people long - Caesar immediately said excitedly.

"Caesar is my name now."

"Caesar! Brutus!"

Roy looked at Caesar and then at Brutus.

"It seems that the biggest problem for me to conquer the Apennine Peninsula is how to eliminate the Senate. Brutus! I hope you can help me contact the Senate of your Sikurs, so that the leaders and nobles of the Sikurs will come to you I surrender. You have personally experienced the power of the black iron weapon, and every soldier of mine wields this powerful weapon. If you Sikul choose to fight me with force, and I have to use force to suppress you, You will only sacrifice the precious lives of your people in vain, and in the end you still cannot escape the fate of resistance failure."

Brutus nodded and said.

"I will contact the other leaders immediately."

(End of this chapter)