Chapter 267: The Pharaoh Is No Match for the Priests and Nobles
【Embarrassed! The title is wrong, 266 was changed to 268]
After leaving the Temple of Wadjet, Roy immediately came to the west gate of Buto City and found his 500 Egyptian soldiers and more than 5,000 prisoners.
After taking them to a square suitable for speeches, Roy stood on a high platform, looked down at the crowd and said loudly.
"My soldiers, I have good news for you. Butuo City has been conquered by us, and our war is temporarily over. As long as you conscientiously maintain order in Buto City, your salary this month will be two hundred kilograms of grain."
After hearing Roy's words, five hundred Egyptian soldiers immediately shouted excitedly.
"Long live the King of Athens!"
"Long live the King of Athens!"
"Long live the King of Athens!"
When the thunderous shouts stopped, Roy continued.
"Prisoners! As I promised you, you are now all free and can go home. If you want to be my soldiers - or if you want to be soldiers for the sake of citizen treatment, you can stay and accept my Screening. As long as you become my soldiers, your family will enjoy the treatment of a citizen family for twenty years. As long as you do not desert, the treatment of a citizen family will not be withdrawn in advance. You only need to serve for five years, and I will serve you. We will provide you with the best weapons and equipment to ensure your survival on the battlefield. After you become a junior soldier, your monthly salary will be one hundred pounds of food. As your soldier level increases, your salary will also increase."
Roy finished talking about these benefits in one breath, and more than 5,000 prisoners shouted to Roy to sign up as soldiers.
After all, Roy gave too much.
After some screening, Roy selected 3,000 soldiers from more than 5,000 prisoners to serve as the defenders of Butuo City.
After arranging the task of taking over Buto City for 3,000 Buto soldiers, Roy summoned 500 Athenian soldiers to his side and arranged for Athenian soldiers to manage Egyptian soldiers.
Roy himself drove a carriage out of Buto City and headed for the bend of the river where his fleet was anchored.
While passing through the battlefield on the way, Roy told the good news of the capture of Buto City to the one hundred Egyptian soldiers who stayed here, and asked them to go to Buto City after the work of burning the corpses was completed.
Arriving at the bend of the river where his fleet was anchored, Loy told the good news about the capture of Buto City to the five hundred Athenian soldiers guarding the warship and Andromeda, and then used a carriage to carry Andromeda and her The three maids went to Bhutto City.
While the carriage was driving towards Buto City, Andromeda asked Roy curiously.
"Loy! It's really impressive that you can conquer the city of Butuo with such a small force. How do you plan to rule the city of Buto next? I think you can learn from the methods of our Hyksos to rule the Egyptians. Under the rule of the Hyksos, there was no resistance from the northern Egyptians. Only the southern Egyptians who were not ruled by us always wanted to drive us away."
Andromeda actually recommended the Hyksos' ruling method to herself, and Roy couldn't help laughing.
"Andromeda, your Hyksos rule did not cause resistance from the Northern Egyptians because your rule did not touch the interests of the priests and nobles. But this also allows you to rule the Northern Egyptians only in name. You cannot Really control the human and material resources of Northern Egypt. If Northern Egypt were truly controlled by you, you would crush the Southern Egyptians, who are very backward in civilization and technology, just like crushing an ant."
"You say that we Hyksos are using the wrong method to rule the Egyptians. How do you plan to rule the Egyptians?"
"I have now driven away the priests and nobles from Buto City. Next, I will send soldiers to sweep the villages under the rule of Buto City and eliminate all the priests and nobles in the villages."
"You - you wiped out all those priests and nobles, then how do you rule the Egyptians?"
"Do you think I can't rule the Egyptians without the help of the priests and nobles?"
Roy explained with a smile.
"Andromeda! I know that this is the era of aristocratic slavery, and you all think that ruling the common people is inseparable from the nobility. But I can prove to you right away that the official system I established can not only rule the common people normally, but also It allows the king to have supreme authority.”
"Officials?"
"In my Kingdom of Athens, except for the royal family centered on me, everyone else is a commoner. I will select capable people from among the common people and let them manage villages, towns and even cities. These are given management rights by me. The civilians are officials. Their power comes from me, so they must be absolutely loyal to me. If they disappoint me, I can take away everything from them at any time.”
"In other words, your Kingdom of Athens does not need nobles..."
"Because those who have the strength to fight against the king, or even replace the king, are almost all nobles rather than commoners."
The pharaohs who ruled Egypt built pyramids and temples generation after generation instead of using precious manpower and material resources to expand their territory.
Are all these pharaohs fools?
No!
It is because these pharaohs are so smart that they are obsessed with deifying themselves, regardless of the floods after death.
They all know clearly that the royal power in their hands may be taken away by others at any time.
The Egyptian pharaoh family engaged in intermarriage within the family because there were too many cases in history where nobles married pharaoh princesses and then used peaceful means to take away the royal power.
Even in the medieval era two thousand years later, royal power was still fragile in front of noble lords, and there was even a famous saying "My vassal's vassal is not my vassal".
Before 1,600 BC, the so-called king was just the leader of the nobles.
If you dare to deprive all the nobles of the benefits, what awaits the king is death and the destruction of the country.
In the history of another world, the Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt died young at the age of twenty because of his betrayal of Amun, the protector of the country.
In a world where gods do not exist, what caused the pharaoh to die young at the age of twenty was, of course, not the non-existent god Amun, but the fact that he served the god Amun and gained power and wealth in the name of the god Amun. of priests and nobles.
Historical facts have proven that even the Pharaoh of Egypt could not afford to offend the priests and nobles.
"Andromeda! I know that if I want to eliminate these priests and nobles, it will also cause their resistance. If I propose the policy of eliminating the priests and nobles after conquering the entire Egypt, the resistance caused will definitely subvert my rule. But if I conquer a city and eliminate the priests and nobles in the city and all surrounding villages, the resistance will be very small. "
Andromeda said with a complicated expression.
"But your actions will make the priests and nobles in other cities resolutely resist your invasion. Those priests and nobles may even push various cities to eliminate you together."
Looking at the worried expression on Andromeda's face, Roy said with a smile.
"Andromeda, your worries are unnecessary. Before the war between the Hyksos and the Southern Egyptians ends, if I destroy the priests and nobles in one or two cities - or even three or four cities, it will not cause any harm at all. The attention of all the priests and nobles in the Egyptian region."