Chapter 348 Minos Voluntarily Gives up the Throne

The city of Iolkas.

When Roy arrived here on horseback with 1,500 iron spearmen and more than 5,000 girls from the Pelos tribe, it was already June.

Before entering the city of Iolkas, Roy saw Harmonia and Chione standing outside the city to greet him from a distance. Roy immediately rushed towards the city of Iolkas.

"Mnemosyne! Chione!"

Arriving in front of Harmonia and Chione, Roy jumped off the horse, then held the two of them in his arms and said.

"Thank you for coming to welcome me. I will give each of you a thousand kilograms of gold as a gift. You can use this gold to make jewelry, or you can cast a golden throne of your own."

Looking at the more than five thousand girls behind Roy who were obviously trophies, Harmonia said with a smile.

"My dear, it seems you have won another battle."

"Not one, I won three consecutive battles in Thrace."

Roy said proudly.

"I first defeated the Pelos tribe who worshiped Dionysus, the god of wine, then defeated the Amazon tribe guarded by the moon goddess Bendis, and finally defeated the Sun tribe guarded by the sun god Helios together with the Amazon tribe. Now the Kingdom of Athens There won’t be another war in the north for at least a year, so I have time to marry you.”

Chione said with some lack of confidence.

"My dear, do you really want to hand over the Thessaly region to me?"

"Not only the Thessaly region, but also the Corinth region will be handed over to you in the future. Like Harmonia, you will become the queen who rules the five major city-states."

After answering Chione, Roy looked at Iolkas City and asked.

“How many Cretan immigrants are there in Iolkas now?”

“The first immigrants to Crete were over five thousand people.”

It was neither Harmonia nor Chione who answered Roy.

Roy looked at the person who answered him in surprise.

"Minos, how come you are here in person?"

Minos [Deucalion] said with a smile.

"My people immigrated here. As the king who rules over them, of course I have to see if this place is suitable for their survival."

Roy said with a fake expression of displeasure.

"I must correct you. The immigrants in Crete were your subjects before, but they are my subjects when they come here and have nothing to do with you. If they continue to regard you as their king, I will show no mercy." drive them away."

"What a stingy guy."

Minos shook his head and said.

"You don't have to worry about this small problem with the immigrants of Crete, because there will be no King Minos in the future. Since you are willing to save my people and settle them in this fertile plain, I will give you the throne as promised, and you will be the only king of Crete from now on."

"Minos...are you really willing to give up your throne?"

"Why am I unwilling to give up the throne?"

Minos said with a relaxed expression.

"After I gave up the throne, the responsibility of taking care of all the people of Knossos and providing them with food fell on you. But you must also abide by your promise to me and not shake the goddess Europa's Knossos. The identity of the city’s patron saint.”

Roy nodded and said.

"I very much welcome the goddess Europa as one of the many goddesses in the Kingdom of Athens. Minos! What are your plans after giving up your identity as King of Knossos? Do you want to take a group of soldiers to the backward areas of the Western Mediterranean and occupy a Establish a new city-state in the region?”

In this era, princes who did not have the right to inherit the throne or royal families whose country was ruined usually took a group of followers to establish their rule in areas with backward civilization.

Cadmus, the Phoenician prince, came to Greece with three hundred soldiers and wanted to establish a royal family that ruled here.

In the history of another world, Carthage, which competed with ancient Greece and Rome for hegemony in the Mediterranean, was founded by immigrants from the Phoenician region.

The ruler of these Phoenician immigrants, legend has it, was a Phoenician princess named Dido.

"I have no interest in returning to the throne."

Minos said with a complicated expression.

"Wearing the crown - it's too heavy for me."

"Minos! Since you have no ambition to regain the throne, then take your followers to the island of Kassos to fight against pirates and protect the safety of the East Aegean Sea. Crete is now easily a place for pirates to plunder target, Crete and the Cretans need your protection."

"you--"

Minos glanced at Roy dissatisfied, then sighed helplessly and said.

"Because you saved my people, I will guard the shipping lanes of the Eastern Aegean Sea on Kasos Island for the next five years."

After saying that, Minos turned around and left.

He seemed to be worried that if he didn't leave, Roy would assign more tasks to him.

Roy took Harmonia and Chione back to the palace hall of Iolkas City, hugged them and sat on the throne and said.

"Chione, there are about 50,000 immigrants in Crete. You have to place them in the city of Iolkas and the settlements of the tribes of Atamas, Pheres and Phthia. Harmonia, you and Chione are sisters who share the same husband. In the future, let Theban soldiers guard the security of Thessaly and train them into cavalry in order to make them real! For the cavalry, we need to build a blacksmith workshop in the city of Iolkas, use the iron ore in the Otis area to cast stirrups, horseshoes, saddles and other horse equipment, and also use iron sheets to make iron armor. With these iron equipment, we. The cavalry can defeat the nomads in the north with one against ten. "

"Honey! You got tens of thousands of girls as trophies and you want to marry them all to our soldiers?"

Harmonia said worriedly.

"Civilians are all monogamous. These tens of thousands of girls entering the Kingdom of Athens will probably make it impossible for many girls in the Kingdom of Athens to get married."

"There is nothing wrong with having more women than men in the Kingdom of Athens. It can avoid the difficulty of finding a wife."

Roy said with a smile.

"In order to reduce the competitive pressure on the girls in the Kingdom of Athens, I will select a hundred of the most beautiful girls from the tens of thousands of trophy girls and let them become the palace maids of the Palace of Athens. In addition, the Palace of Athens will once again recruit a Hundreds of black-haired Pilaski girls became palace maids."

"Your palace in Athens is going to have two hundred palace maids at once—"

Seeing the displeased expressions of Harmonia and Chione, Roy immediately explained.

"Don't get me wrong, I will ask the Royal Palace of Athens to add two hundred palace maids selected from a hundred, not just to enjoy them. After I return to the city of Athens, I plan to send out the palace maids who have learned Chinese characters so that they can serve in the military system of the Kingdom of Athens. And the civil service system teaches Chinese characters. The palace of Athens lacks hundreds of palace maids who have learned Chinese characters. If new palace maids are not added, who will serve Procne and Philomela? "

After hearing Roy's explanation, Harmonia rolled her eyes and said.

"Even if your reasons are reasonable, why do you have to choose the most beautiful girl?"