Chapter 380 Shocking Athens to the Romans

"You said that your Sikul Senate - the Council of Chiefs wants to contact me?"

When Brutus told Roy the news, Roy hesitated for a moment and said to Brutus.

"I agree to contact your Sikul Senate. When will we go to the Senate?"

"I can take you there at any time, but you can only take fifty soldiers with you."

Hearing Brutus' request, Roy nodded and said.

"Okay!"

Then Roy said to Caesar, the captain of the five hundred.

"Caesar! You take forty-nine soldiers with me to the Sikul Senate. Prepare food and water before departure."

After Caesar and the soldiers prepared food and water, Brutus took Roy and others to set off.

The Sikul Senate is not far from the port of Catanzaro.

When night falls.

Brutus took Roy and others to walk a hundred miles and finally arrived at the Senate.

The Senate illuminated by the light of torches

Roy met the 49 leaders and representatives of the Senate and took the initiative to speak to them.

"Dear elders! Before we start the negotiations, let my soldiers prepare dinner! After walking a hundred miles in a row, my soldiers are already very tired. We can enjoy dinner while negotiating."

Roy's request was very reasonable, so the elders did not refuse.

So under the curious and surprised eyes of the elders, some of Roy's soldiers set up iron pots, some used kitchen knives to cut vegetables and meat, and some laid out salt and various spices.

Not long after, various foods began to emit fragrances that the elders had never smelled.

The elders of the Xikuer people could not help but ask curiously.

"Dear foreigner, what is this thing you use to cook?"

"What are the tools you use to cut vegetables and meat?"

"What are these dried plants? Your cooking and barbecue exude an amazing aroma. Is it because of these dried plants?"

Seeing that the elders asked various questions like curious babies, Roy smiled brightly and introduced.

"We use iron pots for cooking. Iron pots can be used not only for cooking but also for cooking porridge and frying meat. We use kitchen knives for cutting vegetables and meat. These dried plants are spices. These spices can not only make food more delicious, but also be herbs that can cure diseases."

"Is this a herbal medicine for curing diseases?"

After listening to Roy's introduction, an elder said with wide eyes.

"You actually eat herbs for curing diseases as ordinary food? Do you know that herbs can save lives when you are sick or injured? Many people in my tribe died because they could not be cured when they were sick."

Another elder said with suppressed excitement.

"Foreigners! These things you have, whether it is iron pots, kitchen knives, salt or spices, are all things we don't have. Are you willing to sell these things to us?"

"Everyone eat first!"

At this time, Roy's soldiers had already prepared cooking, barbecue and oatmeal porridge, and Roy said to the elders.

"Let's eat and talk at the same time."

After that, Roy took the lead in eating.

The elders ate the food with salt and various spices, and were all shocked by the deliciousness of the food, and even praised it to each other.

After all the elders tasted the food, Roy said to the elders.

"Dear elders! I believe Brutus has told you that the Apennine Peninsula where you live now is already the Roman province of the Athenian Empire, and I am the emperor of the Athenian Empire. Now I give you two choices. The first choice is to leave the Apennine Peninsula and migrate to the territory outside the Athenian Empire to survive. The second choice is to become a citizen of the Athenian Empire and be loyal to me, the emperor of Athens. If you choose to join the Athenian Empire, the Athenian Empire will protect your safety, and you don't have to worry about any enemy taking away your living space in the future. You can also buy various commodities of the Athenian Empire at normal prices. For example, these iron pots, kitchen knives, and spices and herbs that can cure diseases."

After listening to Roy's words, the consul of the Senate asked Roy.

"Foreigners! We surrender to you, what kind of demands will you make of us?"

"I know you are now in a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural state. Half of your food comes from raising cattle and sheep and hunting, and the other half comes from farming, but the scale of your farming is very small. After you become citizens of the Athenian Empire, I will register your household registration and allocate 20 mu of land to each of your families, so that you can cultivate 20 mu of food."

"Twenty mu of land - this is too much!"

An elder couldn't help but say.

"We only need to plant ten acres of land, and the food produced is enough for us to eat."

"Letting you plant twenty acres of land is just the most basic requirement for you. In the future, you must give up your semi-nomadic life and become a real farming nation. In addition to planting the twenty acres of land allocated to you, your ordinary families must also work to cultivate the fields that belong to me. In addition to my requirements for you to farm, I also require you to serve as a soldier. In order to protect your safety, I will recruit soldiers from you Xiku people. I will give the soldiers the most advanced equipment in the world and the best treatment. The families of the soldiers will enjoy the treatment of citizen families and own fifty acres of arable land."

"Fifty acres of land--"

An elder couldn't help but gasp and said.

"An ordinary family can't even take care of 20 acres of land, and you actually want us to cultivate 50 acres of land."

"Don't worry, I will sell you the farming tools so that you can easily cultivate 20 acres and 50 acres of land."

Roy glanced at Caesar, and Caesar immediately brought two sets of farming tools with his soldiers.

Roy pointed to the iron plow and said.

"Let me introduce it to you. This is an iron plow. Using the power of cattle, horses, and donkeys with the iron plow, plowing the land will become very simple."

While Roy was speaking, Caesar brought a horse, put the wooden shaft on the horse's neck, and then Roy personally performed plowing with an iron plow.

When the iron plow plowed a long gully on the hard ground, the elders once again widened their eyes in shock.

Roy walked back and forth, plowed two gullies on the ground, and then put the sowing plow on the horse's neck.

"Dear elders! Our Athenian Empire not only has iron tools for plowing, but also iron tools for sowing. Now I will show you how to sow with a plow."

In order to maximize the effect of the sowing performance, Roy put a pound of grain into the seed box of the plow.

As the plow plowed the ground under the pull of the horse, the elders lay on the ground and dug up the ground where the plow passed, and actually found a few grains on the ground.

Roy pushed the plow around and returned to the elders. The elders all looked at Roy with excited eyes, as if they saw a god descending to the earth.

Seeing the reaction of the elders, Roy unloaded the plow and said.

"You used to maintain a semi-nomadic life because you could not grow food on a large scale to meet your food needs. Now you can get enough food by farming. What reason do you have to oppose becoming a real farming nation?"