I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 380 Shocked the Romans in Athens

"You said that the senate of your Sikurs—the chief council wants to contact me?"

When Brutus told Roy the news, Roy only hesitated for a moment, and said to Brutus.

"I agree to contact the Senate of your Sikul people. When shall we go to the Senate?"

"I can take you there at any time, but you can only bring fifty soldiers with you at most."

Hearing the request made by Brutus, Roy nodded and said.

"can!"

Then, Roy said to Caesar, the leader of the 500 people.

"Caesar! You take 49 soldiers with me to the Senate of the Sikurs, and prepare food and water before departure."

After Caesar and the soldiers prepared food and water, Brutus set off with Loy and others.

The Senate of the Sikurs is not very far from the port of Catanzaro.

When night falls.

Brutus walked for a hundred miles with Roy and others, and finally came to the Senate.

The Senate House illuminated by the light of torches.

When Roy saw the 49 leaders and representatives of the Senate, he took the initiative to speak to them.

"Dear elders! Before we start negotiating, let my soldiers prepare dinner! After walking a hundred miles in a row, my soldiers are already very tired. We can negotiate while enjoying dinner."

Lowy's request was very reasonable, so the elders did not refuse.

So under the curious eyes of the elders, some of Roy's soldiers set up iron pans, some cut vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, and some laid out salt and various spices.

It didn't take long for all kinds of food to emit aromas that the elders had never smelled.

The elders of the Sikur people couldn't help asking curiously.

"Dear strangers, what is this thing you use for cooking?"

"What tools do you use to cut vegetables and meat?"

"What are these dry plants? Is it because of these dry plants that your stir-fries and roasts give off an amazing aroma?"

Seeing the elders asking various questions like curious babies, Roy introduced with a bright smile.

"The tools we use for cooking are iron pots. Iron pots can be used not only for cooking vegetables and meat, but also for cooking porridge and frying meat. The tools we use for cutting vegetables and meat are kitchen knives. These dry plants are spices. These spices Not only can it make food more delicious, but it is also a herbal medicine that can treat diseases."

"Is this a medicinal herb?"

After listening to Roy's introduction, an elder said with wide eyes angrily.

"You actually eat healing herbs as normal food? Do you know that herbs can save lives when you are sick and injured. Many people in my tribe died because they couldn't be cured when they were sick. .”

Another elder suppressed his excitement and said.

"Outlanders! We don't have all the things you have, whether it's iron pots, kitchen knives, salt or spices. Are you willing to sell them to us?"

"Everyone eat first!"

At this time, Roy's soldiers had already prepared the stir-fry, barbecue and oatmeal, Roy said to the elders.

"We ate and talked."

After speaking, Roy took the lead in eating.

The elders ate the food with salt and various spices, and were all shocked by the deliciousness of the food, and even praised it in whispers.

After all the elders had tasted the food, Roy said to the elders.

"Dear elders! I believe Brutus has told you that the Apennine Peninsula where you live is already a Roman province of the Athenian Empire, and I am the emperor of the Athenian Empire. Now I will give you two choices. One option is to leave the Apennine Peninsula and migrate to survive outside the territory of the Athenian Empire. The second option is to become a citizen of the Athenian Empire and serve allegiance to me, the Athenian Emperor. If you choose to join the Athenian Empire, the Athenian Empire will protect For your safety, you don’t have to worry about any enemy taking away your living space in the future. You can also buy various commodities in the Athens Empire at normal prices. For example, these iron pots, kitchen knives, and spices and herbs that can cure diseases. "

After listening to Roy's words, the consul of the Senate asked Roy.

"Outsider! We surrender to you, what kind of demands will you make of us?"

"I know that you are now half-nomadic and half-farming. Half of your food comes from raising cattle and sheep and hunting, and half comes from farming, but your farming is very small. After you become citizens of the Athenian Empire, I will say You register your household registration and allocate [-] mu of land to each of your families, and let you cultivate [-] mu of land for grain."

"Twenty acres of land—that's too much!"

An elder couldn't help but said.

"We only need to plant ten acres of land, and the grain produced is enough for us to eat."

"It is only the most basic requirement for you to plant twenty acres of land. In the future, you will give up your semi-nomadic life and become a real farming nation. In addition to planting the twenty acres of land allocated to you, your ordinary families also need Cultivate my fields by working part-time. In addition to farming, I also ask you to serve as soldiers. In order to protect your safety, I want to recruit soldiers among you Sikul. I will give soldiers the world The most advanced equipment will also be given to the soldiers. The families to which the soldiers belong will enjoy the treatment of citizen families and have [-] acres of arable land.”

"Fifty acres—"

One elder couldn't help but gasped and said.

"Ordinary families can't even take care of [-] acres of land, yet you want us to cultivate [-] acres of land."

"Don't worry, I will sell you the farm tools for farming, so that you can easily cultivate [-] mu and [-] mu of land."

Roy glanced at Caesar, and Caesar immediately brought two sets of farm tools with the soldiers.

Roy pointed to the iron plow and said.

"Let me introduce to you, this is an iron plow. Using the animal power of oxen, horses and donkeys together with the iron plow, plowing will become very simple."

While Roy was speaking, Caesar brought a horse and put a wooden shaft around the horse's neck, and then Roy performed plowing with an iron plow himself.

When the iron plow plowed a long furrow on the hard ground, the elders' eyes widened in shock again.

Roy walked back and forth, plowed two ravines on the ground, and then put the sowing cart around the horse's neck.

"Dear elders! Our Athenian empire not only has iron farm tools for plowing, but also iron farm tools for sowing. Now I will show you how to sow seeds with columbine carts."

In order to maximize the performance effect of sowing, Roy put a catty of grain into the seed box of the columbine cart.

As the columbine cart plowed the ground under the pull of the horse, the elders lay down on the ground and dug the ground where the columbine cart passed, and actually found a few grains on the ground.

Roy pushed the columbine around, and returned to the elders. All the elders looked at Roy with excited eyes, as if they saw a god come to the world.

Seeing the reactions of the elders, Roy said while unloading the coupe.

"You used to maintain a semi-nomadic life because you couldn't grow food on a large scale to meet your food needs. Now that you can get enough food from farming, what reason do you have against becoming a real farming nation?"

(End of this chapter)