I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 57 Recruiting Three Hundred Soldiers
Pandion was not a militaristic ruler.

So the Athenian tribe had a population of 5000, and Pandion recruited [-] soldiers at a ratio of ten to one.

These 5000 Athenian soldiers can barely protect the safety and order of the [-] population of the Athenian tribes, and of course it is impossible to separate a part of them to protect the Eleusis.

So Procne finally nodded and said.

"Priest Loi! In order to protect the Eleusinian people, I agree to recruit three hundred Eleusinian soldiers. But we must control them and make them loyal to the Athenian tribe and my father."

"That is for sure!"

Roy said with a smile.

"In the future, the Eleusis soldiers will eat the food given to them by the leader of Pandion. Of course, they will be loyal to the leader of Pandion."

Now that Procne was persuaded, Roy immediately asked Aries to take his companions to Paar and Pendelli villages to recruit soldiers.

Of course, the men of Eleusis wanted to protect themselves. When they learned that the Athenians wanted to recruit soldiers, all the men of Eleusis eagerly signed up.

After a moment.

Fifty teenagers brought three hundred Eleusis men to Luo Yi and the others.

After dividing the three hundred Eleusis men into two teams of 150 people, Roy walked among them and said loudly.

"Soldiers! Although you already know this, I want to tell you once again that you became soldiers not for the Athenians, but to protect your wives and children. If you cannot obey all my orders as soldiers, you will now You can leave. If you have made up your mind, you must accept the training and tasks I have arranged for you in order to protect your wives and children, and to protect your fellow clansmen in Paar Village and Pendeli Village."

After Roy finished speaking, Kaone walked up to Roy and said loudly.

"Everyone, I am Chione, the daughter of Celeus. In the past I was the daughter of the leader who ruled over you, but now I am an Eleusinian who is equal to you. I want to tell you as a fellow, Eleus. The safety of the Lycians cannot be placed on the Athenians, so you must obey the orders of Priest Loi and pass training as soon as possible to become powerful elite soldiers."

Procne and Philomela were watching this scene, and Philomela couldn't help but said.

"Sister! I always feel that these Eleusis soldiers will not be under our control in the future."

"Phiromela, you have to trust the ability of Priest Loi."

Procne said with a smile.

"Priest Loi has never failed. I believe he can control these Eleusis soldiers well."

Philomela rolled her eyes helplessly, because Procne misunderstood her meaning.

What she was worried about was that the Eleusis soldiers were completely controlled by Roy.

Since Procne didn't realize the hidden danger of Roy's control of the Eleusis soldiers, Philomela didn't say any more.

Because Philomela didn't think that Roy would become his father's enemy.

Divide fifty teenagers into two groups to train the newly recruited [-] Eleusis soldiers, and Roy took Procne, Philomela, and Keone to inspect the villages of Par and Pendelli. The situation of the two villages.

Now simple wooden houses have been erected in the villages of Paar and Pendeli, and almost all the Eleusinians have temporary homes.

After inspecting the two villages, Roy and others came to the mountain road between the two villages. Procne asked Roy curiously.

"Priest Loi! The Eleusis will build the wooden house tomorrow. What kind of work should we arrange for them tomorrow? If they don't have a job, we can't give them food for nothing."

The territory of the Athenian tribes was an area of ​​food scarcity.

So under Pandion, only hard-working Athenians were able to get food to feed themselves and their families.

The Eleusis were outsiders who had just been conquered by the Athenians. If the Eleusis did not work, even if they would starve to death, the Athenians could not give them food for free.

"Princess Procne, tomorrow I will arrange for the Eleusinians to make cement, and use cement to build the walls to protect the villages of Paar and Pendelli."

Seeing Procne, Philomela, and Keone all staring at him curiously, Roy explained to them.

"The cement I'm talking about is a building material. A city wall made of cement can not only be as hard as a stone, but also can easily be built with a height of more than five meters. Cement can not only build city walls, but also be used to build houses. The house is not only airtight, but also completely waterproof. Compared with the cement house, even the stone house where the leader lives will become as simple as a wooden house."

The cement Lowy is talking about is certainly not the cement of the modern world.

Because without climbing the technology tree, there is no equipment and raw materials to manufacture cement in the modern world.

The cement Lowy wants to make is the cement used by the ancients more than 2000 years ago.

Although this kind of cement is completely incomparable with the cement of the modern world, in the era of 600 years ago, the ancient cement made by Lowy is enough to reduce the dimensionality of this era.

Procne and Philomela were already convinced of Roy's inventiveness.

Kaone didn't know anything about Roy's inventive ability, so after hearing Roy's words, Kaone immediately said suspiciously.

"Is the cement you mentioned really so magical?"

Before Roy could speak, Procne and Philomela spoke.

"Princess Kayone! Don't doubt Priest Loi. He is a priest who serves Metis, the goddess of wisdom, and possesses the wisdom bestowed by Metis, the goddess of wisdom."

"When you see the candles, paper, pens, lanterns and other things invented by Priest Loi, you will understand the greatness of Priest Loi."

Unexpectedly, Procne and Philomela praised Roy's invention so much, Kione said suspiciously.

"Then I'll look forward to the inventions you mentioned!"

It's afternoon.

Pandion took Erechtheus, Pallas, the captain of the bodyguard, and thirty soldiers of the bodyguard, and carried the bodies of Celeus, the leader of the Eleusis tribe, and his sons to the village of Pal and Pendelli. Open space in the middle of the village.

After the Eleusinians from the two villages were summoned, Pandion held a cremation ceremony for Celeus and his sons in the presence of the Eleusinians.

After Pandion himself lit the pyre under Celeus' body with a torch, he turned and shouted to all the Eleusinians.

"Eleusis! I am Pandion, the leader of the Athenian tribe, and I will be the leader of you Eleusis from now on. Although I killed your former leader Celeus, in order to express my respect for Celeus , I repaired the corpses of Celeus and his sons, and held a solemn cremation ceremony under your witness. I promise you in front of the corpse of Celeus that I will protect you like the Athenians from now on, I hope you will be as loyal to me as the Athenians. In the future, you will no longer be Eleusinians, but Athenians like me. We will accept the protection of the goddess Metis, and I will let you have more good life."

After hearing Pandion's impassioned words, the Eleusisians did not respond.

After all, they wouldn't really believe Pandion just because of Pandion's empty words.

(End of this chapter)