Chapter 378: Senator Brutus and Caesar

The governance model of human civilization has always been closely related to the development of military technology.

Before the Bronze Age, human rule was dominated by tribes or villages.

The emergence of bronze weapons brought human civilization into the city-state era.

The emergence of iron weapons brought human civilization into the Kingdom Age.

The governance model of human civilization is related to the development of weapons. This is because the mastery of more advanced weapons enables the use of force to suppress distant areas.

If there is no advantage in weapons, if a group that uses wooden weapons or stone weapons wants to use force to conquer another group that uses wooden or stone weapons, even if it succeeds, it will have to pay huge casualties.

The Apennine Peninsula has not yet entered the Bronze Age, so the locals in the Apennine Peninsula live on a tribe or village scale.

When the population of a tribe or village becomes too large and the territory of the tribe or village can no longer support the excessive population, the young people of the tribe or village will migrate to other areas to establish new tribes or villages.

In this era, the Apennine Peninsula only had chief nobles who ruled tribes or villages, and there were no kings who ruled city-states.

These ancient Romans didn't even have the concept of a king, so of course they didn't understand what [emperor] meant.

Hearing Roy, a foreigner, claim to be the emperor who rules this land, the Sikuer, who looked like a leader and aristocrat, said in a cold voice with an unhappy expression.

"Stranger! Although I don't understand what [Emperor] means, I can tell that you want to claim that you are our ruler. You barbaric foreigner, you are more hateful than those Phoenician bandits. Although the Phoenician robbers will rob us of our wealth and people, they will also trade with us for their goods when we are armed."

At this time, Roy's soldiers had landed thousands of people, and there were only about 200 Sikuer people in front.

After hearing the accusations made by the leader of the Sikuer people, Roy pointed at the soldiers behind him and said.

"The Phoenicians did not rule you, not because they did not want to, but because they did not have an army large enough to rule you. Behind me are the most powerful soldiers in the world. If you refuse to accept my rule, then I can only attack you. Suppressed by force."

Seeing the iron spear blades of the Athenian soldiers shining coldly in the sun, the leader of the Sikurian nobles looked at the bronze war spear in his hand.

This bronze war spear was purchased from the Phoenicians with five thousand kilograms of grain.

Just by observing the spear blade of the bronze war spear and the gun blade of the iron spear, one can also judge that the iron spear of the Athenian soldiers is a more powerful weapon.

"I want to duel with you!"

Seeing that Roy's soldiers were still landing continuously, and the number had exceeded 2,000, the noble leader of the Sikuer people suddenly said to Roy.

"If you can defeat me, we will move to other places and give up our territory to you - or accept your rule."

duel?

Roy couldn't help laughing after hearing the request of the noble leader of the Sikuer people.

"You are not qualified to duel with me! The total number of men in your village who are over ten and under sixty years old is only 200. A village chief like you is not qualified to duel with the Emperor of Athens. I can let you be my subordinate If you can beat my soldiers in a duel, I will lower myself and fight with you."

After speaking, Roy waved to a 500-man commander who was in charge of 500 soldiers.

The soldiers of the Kingdom of Athens all decided their positions based on their strength.

Almost all soldiers who can become five hundred men have strength close to the heroic level [Hundred Enemies].

The 500-man leader designated by Roy immediately came to the leader of the Sikuer nobles with iron spears and shields and said.

"Are you alone, or are you going together?"

"Of course I'm alone!"

The leader noble angrily rushed in front of the 500-man leader with a bronze war spear and a stone spear, and attacked with the bronze war spear and stone spear at the same time.

The 500-man captain used his shield to block the attack of the bronze war spear, and at the same time used the blade of his iron spear to sweep at the body of the leading noble.

There was a muffled bang!

The stone spear of the leader noble pierced the heart of the 500-man leader. The stone spear was blocked by the paper armor and did not cause any real damage to the body of the 500-man leader.

The five-hundred-man-long iron spear blade cut through the leader's nobleman's linen clothes and left a wound on the leader's nobleman's arm.

In just the first round of confrontation, the leader of the nobles screamed in pain, turned around and fled to his tribe.

Seeing that the 500-man leader did not pursue him, the leader of the nobles threw away the stone spear, covered the wound on his right arm with his left hand and said to Roy.

"Why are the weapons you use so sharp?"

Roy did not answer the question, but looked at the leader and nobleman with a smile and teased.

"Do you want to continue the duel?"

The leader noble glanced at the iron spear blade in the hand of the 500-man leader with fearful eyes.

The leading noble will never run away from a duel if both sides use the same weapon.

But the weapons gap between the two sides is too big.

"I lost!"

The leader noble said helplessly.

"We can move to other places or accept your rule."

"I will not drive you away, for you will be my people from now on."

Roy said with a bright smile.

"Under my rule, you will soon have a better life than before. You are the first local chief noble to be ruled by me. Tell me your name!"

"Brutus."

The chief noble looked at Roy with awe.

"My name is Brutus. I am the chief of Catanzaro Village and a member of the chief council of the Sicules."

"The chief council is the prototype of the Senate, right?"

Roy doesn't like the Senate of the ancient Romans.

Because in the history of another world, the Senate is an institution where the chief nobles check and balance the king.

According to legend, the seventh king of ancient Rome was exiled abroad by the elders of the Senate because he ignored the authority of the Senate.

Caesar, the great-uncle and adoptive father of Octavian, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, was assassinated by Marcus Brutus, a senator of the Senate, and other senators because he wanted to serve as a lifelong dictator.

Thinking of this history, Roy looked at his five hundred captains and said.

"Five hundred captains! I'll give you a name. From now on, your name will be Caesar!"

"I will obey your majesty's orders!"

The five hundred captains-Caesar said excitedly immediately.

"Now Caesar is my name."

"Caesar! Brutus!"

Roy looked at Caesar, then at Brutus.

"It seems that the biggest problem for me to conquer the Apennine Peninsula is how to destroy the Senate. Brutus! I hope you can help me contact the Senate of your Siku people and let the leaders and nobles of the Siku people come to surrender to me. You have personally experienced the power of black iron weapons, and every one of my soldiers uses this powerful weapon. If you Siku people choose to fight me with force and I have to suppress you with force, you will only sacrifice the precious lives of your people in vain, and in the end you will still not escape the fate of failed resistance."

Brutus nodded and said.

"I will contact other leaders immediately."