I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 379 The Elders' Meeting of the Sikurs

After Brutus left with his villagers, Roy's soldiers began to cut down trees in the port of Catanzaro, dig the foundation, improve the port, and prepare to build a port city in Catanzaro.

While the soldiers were in full swing, Roy walked outside Brutus' village, observing the ancient Roman village, and thinking about how to conquer these ancient Romans.

Roy was able to conquer all the areas where the Pilaski people lived in the Greek region because the Pilaski people were the main ethnic group of the Kingdom of Athens.

Roy was able to conquer the Nile Delta region because the northern Egyptians had long been accustomed to being ruled by foreign conquerors, and the foreign rulers were more benevolent than the local rulers.

The situation in the Apennine Peninsula is different from that in Greece and Egypt.

Loy wants to turn the Apennine Peninsula into a Roman province, and the locals will definitely regard Loy as hostile to foreign conquerors.

If the local ruling class exploits the common people very seriously, Roy can also conquer the locals just like conquering the northern Egyptians.

However, because the ancient Romans were in a backward tribal civilization, the exploitation and rule of the common people by their chief nobles was not serious.

Roy forcibly conquered the locals by force, and it was impossible to use [-] soldiers to establish effective rule over the millions of people in the Apennine Peninsula.

Therefore, if Roy wants to rule the Apennine Peninsula, he must let the locals willingly join the Kingdom of Athens.

Only in this way can Roy recruit soldiers from the locals and control the entire Apennine Peninsula.

"Since it is unrealistic to conquer by force, we can only use the contradictions between the four major ethnic groups of the ancient Romans."

Although the Roy were foreign conquerors, the four major groups of the ancient Romans had even greater enemies, that is, their neighbors who had competed with them for living space for thousands of years.

Now Sikurs, Sabines, Latins, and Etruscans—it is not too much to say that there is blood feud among these four major ethnic groups. As long as Roy makes good use of the contradictions between them, he can realize The goal of the Romans to rule the Romans.

As Roy contemplates his plan to conquer the Romans—

Brutus rode from his village on a swift horse to the senate, the chief council of the Sikurs.

The senate of the Sicurians is located in the center of the Calabria region.

After Brutus came here, he immediately asked people to ring the alarm bell to summon all the elders.

As the place where the chiefs hold meetings, although the Sikur Senate is a house built of wood and stone, the interior decoration can be called luxurious.

The Sikur people are in a backward tribal civilization. They built the Senate so luxuriously because the leaders or representatives of the leaders of the various tribes of the Sikur people lived in the Senate for a long time.

Hearing the alarm bell to summon the elders, all the leaders or representatives of the leaders living in the Senate rushed to the meeting room.

Senate meeting room.

After all fifty leaders or leaders' representatives were present, the consul at the head of the elders immediately asked the elders.

"Who sounded the alarm to call us?"

"it's me!"

Brutus walked up to the consul and explained with a serious face.

"Princes! Deputies of chiefs! I have summoned you because a group of powerful outlanders has appeared in the port of our village of Catanzaro. These outlanders sail in huge ships as many as birds, and their soldiers seem to be densely packed. There are as many ants as there are, and all their soldiers use a black weapon. This black weapon is very sharp, and it is stronger than the bronze weapons that the Phoenicians sell us."

After speaking, Brutus raised his right arm to show everyone his wound.

At this moment, although Brutus's wound was already scarred, it could still be seen that it was a wound half a foot long.

Seeing Brutus' wound, a leader who had a good relationship with Brutus immediately said.

"Dear Brutus, do you want to unite our [-] Sikurs and help you drive away the foreigners?"

Brutus shook his head and said.

"Although there are 5 Sikurs in Calabria, I dare say that all our men take up arms and fight, and it is impossible to defeat powerful foreigners. Those foreigners who use black weapons will attack us. One-sided massacres. I have called you together because the ruler of the Outlanders, the self-proclaimed Emperor, demands submission from all of us."

"Brutus, are you scared stupid by foreigners?"

After listening to Brutus' words, a leader said unhappily.

"You actually acted as a sounding board for foreigners, and said that we Sikurs combined could not defeat them. It is not that we have not fought wars with the Phoenicians, although hundreds of Phoenicians used powerful bronze weapons Killed thousands of us, but we finally defeated the Phoenicians with wooden and stone spears, and forced the Phoenicians to promise normal trade with us."

"Is it an honor for us to defeat the Phoenicians with ten times the casualties?"

Brutus said angrily.

"And don't you forget that our enemies are not only foreigners, but also Sabines and Latins who want to drive us into the sea. Now I don't really give in to the strangers, I just think, maybe we can use Outlanders against Sabines and Latins, to take back our lost homeland."

All the elders' eyes lit up.

Brutus' friend agreed.

"Brutus is so right! We can use these foreigners and let them deal with the Sabines and Latins. In the end, whether the foreigners fail or the foreigners defeat the Sabines and Latins, for us It’s only beneficial. And the number of foreigners is at most a few thousand. They drove out the Sabines and Latins, and the land they took back belonged to us Sikurs.”

Even the Consul said.

"Under the persecution of the Sabines and Latins, we had to migrate to Sicily. But our shipbuilding technology is very backward. Over the years, we have 15 people from our own ethnic group to Sicily in boats made by ourselves. As a result, many ethnic groups Died in the sea. Now there are only [-] Sicurs in Calabria and Sicily combined. If we don’t want to solve the threat of the Sabines and Latins, even Calabria Territories would be taken away, and we would end up being conquered and assimilated by the Sabines and Latins, or driven to Sicily."

"Since even the consul is not opposed to using foreigners, let's get in touch with them!"

"Compared with the savage Sabines and Latins, even strangers are civilized."

Seeing that the elders reached an agreement, Brutus said with a smile.

"Since everyone has no objection, I will invite the emperor of the foreigners over tomorrow. I have a premonition in my heart that these foreigners will definitely help us regain our lost homeland."

At this time, Roy didn't know that while Roy wanted to use the Romans to rule the Romans, the Sikurs also wanted to use Roy to deal with the Sabines and Latins.

Even if he knew, Roy wouldn't care.

Because Roy is confident in conquering the Romans from the spiritual level, turning the Romans into the Romans of the Roman province of the Athenian Empire.

(End of this chapter)