Chapter 388 The Etruscans of the North

The Latins were conquered by the Athenian Empire, and Mars, the patron saint of the Latins, lost to the patron saint of the Athenian Empire - this was a fact that the Latins were unwilling to accept but had to admit.

Seeing that the Latin people around him were not crazy enough to stand up against Persephone replacing Mars, Roy looked at Turenus' family.

Under Loy's gaze, the two daughters of Turenus and their brother walked to the altar, knelt down, and then swore an oath in the name of the goddess Persephone.

"Please bear witness from the great goddess Persephone that Lavinia is willing to join the Athenian Empire and be loyal to His Majesty the great Emperor forever."

"Please bear witness from the great goddess Persephone that Silvia is willing to join the Athenian Empire and be loyal to His Majesty the great Emperor forever."

"Please bear witness from the great goddess Persephone that Numitore is willing to join the Athenian Empire and be loyal to His Majesty the great Emperor forever."

The two daughters of Turenus, Lavinia and Silvia, and their youngest son Numitore, witnessed by everyone in the tribe of Turenus, swore to join the Athenian Empire and be loyal to the emperor of the Athenian Empire. Loy showed satisfaction. said with a smile.

"The laws of the Athenian Empire will protect all the people of the Athenian Empire, and I am the legal defender of the Athenian Empire. In other words, from the moment you join the Athenian Empire, you will be protected by the emperor of the Athenian Empire - that is My protection. As a reward for leading the Latins into the Athenian Empire, Lavinia will serve as a priestess in the Temple of Persephone in Rome, and Silvia will serve as a priestess in the Temple of Persephone in Catanzaro. The temple served as a priestess. Numitore could live with her mother in the Temple of Persephone in Rome, under the protection of the goddess Persephone.”

Hearing Roy's words, Lavinia and Sylvia couldn't help but look up at Roy.

Roy allowed them to be protected by the goddess Persephone, and it seemed that he really didn't intend to harm them.

But Roy made them priests to serve the goddess, obviously not wanting them to get married.

Because priests who serve the goddess usually never marry.

Although there are not many examples of priestesses who serve the goddess getting married, these priestesses basically marry kings.

In other words, Roy made Lavinia and Sylvia priestesses, which was equivalent to restricting them to marry Roy.

Without Roy's permission, Lavinia and Sylvia would not be able to have a husband and son, let alone rely on the power of their husband and son to avenge Roy.

It is impossible for Lavinia and Sylvia to get married and have children secretly.

In the history of another world, in 471 BC, a priestess of the Temple of Vesta, Ebinia, was investigated and tried simply because a slave accused her of being unmarried.

According to records, men accused of having an affair with a priestess were beaten and then executed.

After the priestess was found guilty, she was first punished with a rod, then pushed through the streets of Rome and pushed into a wilderness by the gate of Corinth, where she was imprisoned in a tomb, leaving her with only thirty days of food and left to her own devices. Sit back and wait for death.

Even the secret that the priestess was not unmarried was difficult to conceal, and if Lavinia and Sylvia secretly married and had children, their pregnancy would be even more difficult to conceal.

What awaits them will be the crime and punishment of blaspheming the goddess.

Roy made Lavinia and Sylvia priestesses, of course not to limit them to marrying Roy himself, but simply because he didn't want them to get married.

After all, no one can guarantee that after Lavinia and Silvia get married, their husbands and sons will want to use their identities to call on the Latins to resist the rule of the Athenian Empire.

With the children of the leader Thurenus taking the lead in joining the Athenian Empire, the work of Athenian soldiers in registering the Latins of the Thurenus tribe has indeed become simple.

In addition to the die-hards with less than a thousand people, more than 8,000 people from the Thurenus tribe were registered and became new subjects of the Athenian Empire.

the next day.

The Athenian soldiers began to allocate fields among the Thurenian tribe, and at the same time recruited soldiers from the Thurenian tribe and three thousand captives.

The Latins, like the Sikuers, are also semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural.

Because of the limitations of backward agricultural technology and agricultural tools, even if the Latins were given more land, they would not be able to cultivate it.

So in the Tulenus tribe, scenes like this were staged everywhere——

Athenian soldiers found a Latin family and said they would allocate twenty acres of land to them. The male owner of the Latin family immediately explained with an embarrassed expression that they simply could not cultivate so much land.

The Athenian soldiers also explained to the male host that according to Roy's request of "grazing less sheep and more land", every Latin family must cultivate twenty acres of land.

For thousands of years, the Latins had never seen such foreign conquerors.

Not only did the Athenians not take away their land, cattle and sheep, but they also provided advanced iron farm tools and forced them to cultivate more fields.

Moreover, the Athenians also swore an oath in the name of the goddess Persephone that the food harvested by the Latins from cultivating twenty acres of land would not meet the minimum standards for taxation by the Athenian Empire.

The Latins themselves were leaders and had to collect some property to maintain their rule.

The rule exercised by these foreign Athenians turned out to be better than that of the Latin leaders.

Amid the confusion of the Latins, Athenian soldiers completed the forced distribution of fields among the Thurenian tribe, and at the same time recruited three thousand soldiers.

After mixing the Athenian soldiers with the Latin soldiers, Roy immediately sent 7,000 soldiers to occupy all the Latin tribes in the Lazio region.

While Roy promoted the rule of the Athenian Empire in the Lazio region and effectively controlled the Lazio region, Tullenus also brought 1,000 soldiers to the Po Plain in the north of the Apennine Peninsula.

The Po Plain, also known as the Milan Plain, is not only the largest plain in the Apennine Peninsula, but also the largest plain in southern Europe, with an area of ​​460 million square kilometers.

The Po Plain is sandwiched between the Alps and the Apennines, connected to the southern slope of the Alps in the north and the northern foothills of the Apennines in the south.

Three thousand six hundred years later, the Po Plain was the most developed agricultural area in the Apennine Peninsula, and also the most developed economic area. Major cities such as Milan, Turin, Bologna, and Venice are all located in the Po Plain.

The current Po Plain is where the Etruscan royal court is located.

The grass here is lush and green. You can only see cattle, sheep and horses moving forward driven by herders. You can't see farmers working in the fields at all.

Although the Etruscans are also a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural people, the royal family that rules the Etruscans is no different from the real nomads, turning the most fertile plains into prairie.

The Etruscans are also southern European white people with black hair and black eyes.

As Tullenus got closer and closer to the royal court, Tullenus began to see more and more blondes and mixed-race people.

When Tullenus arrived at the royal court, he saw that this was a tribe of blondes and blue-eyed people.

Although the Etruscans were locals with black hair and black eyes, they were ruled by a group of blonde and blue-eyed foreign nomads.