Chapter 379 The Elders' Meeting of the Xikuer People

After Brutus left with his villagers, Loy's soldiers began to cut down trees, dig foundations, and improve the port in preparation for building a port city in Catanzaro.

While the soldiers were busy in full swing, Roy walked outside Brutus' village, observing the ancient Roman village and thinking about how to conquer these ancient Romans.

Roy was able to conquer all the areas where the Pilaskis lived in Greece because the Pilaskis were the main ethnic group in the Kingdom of Athens.

Roy was able to conquer the Nile Delta region because the northern Egyptians had long been accustomed to being ruled by foreign conquerors, and the foreign rulers were more benevolent than the local rulers.

The situation in the Apennine Peninsula is different from that in Greece and Egypt.

Roy wanted to turn the Apennine Peninsula into a Roman province, and the locals would definitely regard Roy as a foreign conqueror and be hostile to him.

If the local ruling class exploits the civilians very seriously, Roy can also conquer the locals just like he conquered the northern Egyptians.

However, because the ancient Romans were in a backward tribal civilization, their leading nobles did not exploit and rule the civilians seriously.

Roy forcibly conquered the local people by force. It was impossible to establish effective rule over the millions of people in the Apennine Peninsula with 6,000 soldiers.

Therefore, if Roy wants to rule the Apennine Peninsula, he must make the local people willing to join the Kingdom of Athens.

Only in this way can Roy recruit soldiers from the locals and control the entire Apennine Peninsula.

"Since it is unrealistic to conquer by force, we can only take advantage of the contradictions between the four major ethnic groups of the ancient Romans."

Although Loy was a foreign conqueror, the four major groups of the ancient Romans also had greater enemies, which were their neighbors who had competed with them for living space for thousands of years.

Now the Sicurs, Sabines, Latins, and Etruscans - it is not an exaggeration to say that there is a blood feud between these four major ethnic groups. As long as Roy makes good use of the contradictions between them, he can take advantage of them. Roman rule Roman goals.

Just as Roy was thinking about his plan to conquer the Romans——

Brutus left his village on a fast horse and rushed to the Senate, the assembly of chiefs of the Sicurs.

The Senate of the Sicurs is located in the center of Calabria.

When Brutus arrived, he immediately sounded the alarm to summon all the senators.

As a place where leaders hold meetings, the Sikuer Senate is a house built of wood and stone, but the interior decoration is luxurious.

The Sikuer people are in a backward tribal civilization. They will build the Senate so luxuriously because the leaders or representatives of the leaders of each tribe of the Sikuer people will live in the Senate for a long time.

Upon hearing the alarm bell ringing to summon the senators, the leaders or representatives of leaders who lived in the Senate all rushed to the conference room.

Senate meeting room.

After all fifty leaders or leaders' representatives arrived, the consul, the head of the senators, immediately asked the senators.

“Who sounded the alarm and called us together?”

"it's me!"

Brutus walked up to the consul and explained with a serious face.

"Chiefs! Representatives of the leaders! I have called you all because a group of powerful strangers appeared at the port of our village of Catanzaro. These strangers were riding on huge ships as numerous as a flock of birds, and their soldiers seemed to be densely packed. There are as many ants as there are, and their soldiers all use black weapons that are very sharp and more powerful than the bronze weapons that the Phoenicians sold us.”

After speaking, Brutus raised his right arm to show everyone his wound.

Although Brutus's wound was scarred at this time, it could still be seen that it was a half-foot-long wound.

Seeing Brutus's wound, a leader who was close to Brutus said immediately.

"Dear Brutus, do you want us fifty thousand Sicurs to unite and help you drive away the foreigners?"

Brutus said, shaking his head.

"Although there are 50,000 Sikuers in the Calabria region, I dare say that even if all our men take up arms to fight, it is impossible to defeat the powerful foreigners. Those foreigners who use black weapons will attack us. A one-sided massacre. I have called you together because the ruler of the strangers, the self-proclaimed emperor, demands submission from all of us."

"Brutus, are you scared of strangers?"

After hearing what Brutus said, one of the leaders said unhappily.

"You actually acted as a mouthpiece for the outsiders, and said that we Sikuers combined couldn't defeat the outsiders. It's not like we haven't fought wars with the Phoenicians. Although hundreds of Phoenicians used powerful bronze weapons Killing thousands of us, we finally defeated the Phoenicians with wooden and stone spears and forced the Phoenicians to agree to normal trade with us."

"We paid ten times the casualties to defeat the Phoenicians. Do you think it is a glorious thing?"

Brutus said angrily.

"And don't forget, our enemies are not only foreigners, but also the Sabines and Latins who want to drive us into the sea. Now I don't really surrender to the foreigners, I just think that maybe we can use The strangers fight against the Sabines and Latins to regain our lost homeland."

All the elders’ eyes lit up.

Brutus' friend said in agreement.

"Brutus is absolutely right! We can use these foreigners to deal with the Sabines and Latins. In the end, whether the foreigners fail or defeat the Sabines and Latins, it will only benefit us. And the number of foreigners is at most a few thousand. They drive away the Sabines and Latins, and the land they take back belongs to us, the Siculians."

Even the consul said.

"Under the pressure of the Sabines and Latins, we had to migrate to Sicily. But our shipbuilding technology is very backward. In recent years, 100,000 of our people took the small boats we made to Sicily, but many of them died in the sea. Now there are only 150,000 Sicurs in Calabria and Sicily. If we don't find a way to solve the threat of the Sabines and Latins, even Calabria will be taken away, and we will eventually be conquered and assimilated by the Sabines and Latins, or driven to Sicily by them."

"Since even the consuls don't object to using foreigners, let's get in touch with them!"

"Compared with the barbaric Sabines and Latins, even foreigners can be considered civilized people."

Seeing that the elders reached a consensus, Brutus said with a smile.

"Since no one objects, I will invite the emperor of the foreigners tomorrow. I have a feeling that these foreigners can help us regain our lost homeland."

At this time, Roy did not know that while Roy wanted to use the Romans to rule the Romans, the Sicurs also wanted to use Roy to deal with the Sabines and Latins.

Even if he knew, Roy would not care.

Because Roy was confident that he could conquer the Romans from a spiritual level and turn the Romans into Romans of the Roman province of the Athenian Empire.