Chapter 246 The Treatment I Give Is Really Good

In a modern civilized society facing the problem of declining birthrate, every child is a treasure that should be cherished.

But in an era when the average family has five children, children are actually no different from livestock in the eyes of their parents.

If a child could be exchanged for a farm cow, most parents would choose to accept it.

At this time, in order to become a citizen family and be eligible to be allocated fifty acres of land, the old man who traded with Roy directly brought all his sons to Roy and asked Roy to choose.

After Roy looked at the old man's sons, he looked at the old man's fifth son and said.

"Old man, this son of yours can be my soldier. Your son will serve as a soldier for five years, and your family will enjoy the treatment of a citizen family for the next twenty years. If he becomes a deserter on the battlefield, you will not only be revoked as a citizen The treatment of the family will also be subject to various punishments.”

Twenty years——

As long as one son becomes a soldier, he can enjoy the treatment of a civil family for twenty years.

The middle-aged and elderly people with more sons said to Roy one after another.

"You also want to see if my son can become a soldier. My son can move two hundred kilograms of rocks."

"I have seven sons. I am sure one of them will satisfy you."

"Please accept my son!"

Roy personally selected fifty soldiers who were no more than twenty years old, and then said to the villagers.

"Dear villagers, the only soldiers who meet the criteria now are the fifty people I just selected. Families without children who have been selected should not be discouraged, because the Kingdom of Athens recruits soldiers every year. Now I want to send a hundred kilograms of food to the recruits in advance. Please All new recruits line up to receive food.”

Fifty recruits lined up, and Roy immediately asked the Athenian soldiers to move five thousand kilograms of grain from the temple warehouse and distribute it to the recruits.

The recruits were given food, and the villagers' trust in Roy increased a bit.

After nightfall.

Roy took Aries to the courtyard of the temple and told Aries his plan.

"Aries! I plan to continue to conquer other villages in this area according to today's pattern. But I hope you can stay here and be responsible for the training of new recruits while commanding the workers to build the walls of Faros City. As a reward for you , when the city of Pharos is built, I will appoint you as the governor of Pharos.”

Aries immediately said flattered.

"Your Majesty, you can rest assured that I will not let you down."

"I trust you."

Roy patted Aries' shoulder with his right hand and said.

"The matter of allocating fields to the villagers will also be left to you."

the next day.

Roy left all the affairs of the city of Pharos to Aries, and Roy himself took a hundred Athenian soldiers and a guide to the second village in the Pharos area.

When Roy came to the second village, he saw that the priest and village chief of this village had received the news in advance and organized all the men in the village.

It's a pity that ordinary villagers don't want to fight to the death for the priests who rule them.

After all, when ordinary villagers were living a miserable life of hunger every day, the priests who ruled them would not give them food.

Only fools with abnormal brains would risk their lives to defend the people who rule and exploit them.

After Loy led the Athenian soldiers to attack, before the two sides fought, the villagers armed with wooden and stone weapons dispersed, leaving only more than twenty temple servants holding bronze weapons and Loy. Yi's soldiers fought.

After killing all the temple servants, Roy led the soldiers to the Wadjet Temple in the second village, only to find that the priest here had fled in a carriage with his family and belongings.

But they could only take away bronze, gold and other property, and what Roy really wanted was the food they couldn't take away.

After completing the occupation of the second village, Roy immediately called together the men over the age of sixteen in the village, told the villagers about the various policies of the Kingdom of Athens, and then recruited workers and soldiers among the villagers.

In order to make the villagers believe what he said, Roy asked the Athenian soldiers to move the grain from the temple warehouse. As long as they became workers and soldiers, they could take the grain home immediately.

Under the temptation of food, the villagers signed up one after another, and Roy successfully recruited fifty workers and fifty soldiers in the second village.

After distributing 10,000 kilograms of grain to new workers and soldiers, Roy appointed a village chief in the village with a monthly salary of two hundred kilograms of grain. Then he took the soldiers and workers to collect the remaining grain from the temple warehouse and the captured bronzes. All the war spears were transported back to Pharos City.

The third day.

Roy led his soldiers to occupy the third village.

The fourth day.

Roy led his soldiers to capture the fourth village.

As time went on, Loy met increasingly weaker resistance with each village he occupied.

Because after the news spread, nearby villagers already knew that not only would Roy not harm ordinary villagers, he would also allocate more fields to ordinary villagers, exempt them from all taxes, and even provide jobs for ordinary villagers.

Since Roy has no conflict of interest with ordinary villagers and will bring more benefits to ordinary villagers, there is no reason for ordinary villagers to sacrifice themselves for the priests.

The priests knew that they could not defeat Roy, and that Roy would brutally kill all their families, so they began to escape before Roy attacked their village.

The twelfth day.

Roy led his soldiers to occupy the twelfth village without encountering any obstacles.

When Roy came to the temple of this village, he was surprised to find that there was no property in the temple, and there was not even a grain of food in the warehouse.

He summoned the villagers to ask, and the villagers' answers made Roy laugh and cry.

Before escaping, the priest of this village distributed all the food to the villagers.

I don't know whether he did this deliberately to disgust Roy or to make Roy ask for food from the villagers.

Roy certainly would not break his image of having no conflict of interest with ordinary villagers for tens of thousands of kilograms of food, so Roy directly announced to the villagers that the food distributed to them by the escaped priest belonged to them, and even if the escaped priest came back, he could not ask them for the food again.

Then Roy recruited workers and soldiers in this village again.

Although Roy could not take out the food to distribute on the spot today, the villagers had already trusted Roy, so Roy successfully recruited fifty workers and fifty soldiers.

The thirteenth day.

Roy did not occupy other villages again.

Because the practice of the priests of the twelfth village distributing food to the villagers had spread, the priests of other villages might also distribute their food to the villagers before Roy arrived, so that Roy could only make a wasted trip.

Moreover, before the 600 recruits recruited by Roy formed combat power, the more distant villages were incorporated into the territory of the Kingdom of Athens, and Roy's soldiers could not rule effectively.

So Roy had to wait patiently for a while.

When the recruits became combat power, the territory of the Kingdom of Athens could continue to expand.

On the fifteenth day of landing in Egypt.

When Roy was training the recruits, an Egyptian warship sailed into the port of Pharos.

Then, Roy received the news that Ramses II, the envoy of the Egyptian King Cepheus, visited him.