Chapter 400 I Want You to Be an Agricultural Nation
It is true that Jupiter did not flee without a fight; he fled after being defeated.
Jupiter did not fight to the end because as long as Jupiter was alive, he had hope to rise again.
Just as Jupiter fled the battlefield, Roy also killed the soldiers in front of him and came to Aurora.
Seeing half of the soldiers protecting her killed by Roy, Aurora stared at Roy with eyes full of hatred and anger.
"You are really a devil. I finally understand why brother Amulius lost to you, because you are indeed stronger and more cruel than brother Amulius."
Hearing Aurora's accusation, Roy immediately shook his head and said.
"It was not me who was cruel, but you who provoked this war. If you had not resisted and led all the Etruscans to surrender to me, no one would have died today."
After saying that, Roy came to Aurora's horse.
Just when Roy reached out to grab Aurora, Aurora swung her bronze war spear and stabbed Roy.
Roy turned around to avoid the blade of the war spear, and then grabbed the body of the war spear with his left hand.
When Roy wanted to take away Aurora's war spear, Aurora not only did not let go, but instead held the spear body tightly with both hands.
Roy pulled hard with his left hand, and Aurora immediately fell off the horse involuntarily and fell to the ground.
Then before Aurora stood up, Roy put the sharp iron gun blade against Aurora's beautiful neck and threatened.
"If you don't want to die, quickly order the Etruscans to surrender."
Facing the threat of death, Aurora stood up without fear, looked at Roy with contempt and sneered.
"Kill if you want. Do you think I'm afraid of death?"
When Roy's soldiers who killed Aurora approached her, Aurora was not scared to turn around and run away - Aurora had proven that she was not afraid of death.
"I have always felt that death is not terrible!"
Roy withdrew the blade of the iron gun from Aurora's neck and said with a joking smile on his face.
"Because in this world, there are many things more terrifying than death."
While speaking, Roy grabbed Aurora's collar with his left hand.
"Aurora! If you don't surrender, I will tear your clothes to pieces and let all the soldiers on the battlefield admire the beautiful figure of the Etruscan princess. I believe that your beautiful figure will definitely make the Athenian soldiers and The Charm of Etruscan Soldiers Stopping Fighting."
Seeing that Aurora was so frightened that her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking, Roy walked up behind Aurora and held her in his arms, and then shouted in a voice that all the soldiers could hear.
"Etruscans, I command you to surrender! If you refuse to surrender, I will kill your princess Aurora."
The various ethnic groups of the Etruscans were like a piece of scattered sand.
Now they can unite to fight against the Athenians entirely because Aurora, the royal princess, calls them.
If Aurora died, the Etruscans would surely become a mess again.
So after hearing Roy's words, the Etruscan leaders told their soldiers to stop fighting.
Seeing this scene, Aurora couldn't help shouting.
"Don't worry about me——"
"You really think I won't tear your clothes?"
Roy said coldly.
"If this war continues, I will count the deaths of soldiers on both sides on you. If you dare to talk nonsense, I will let you taste the humiliation and torture that is worse than death."
Aurora was once again trembling with fear.
She is not afraid of death.
But as an unmarried girl, Aurora didn't want to suffer unimaginable humiliation and torture.
After the Athenian soldiers and the Etruscan soldiers stopped fighting, the Etruscan leaders saw Aurora being captured by Roy, and they all ran over with their soldiers to surround Roy.
"Let the princess go quickly!"
"As long as you let go of Princess Aurora, we will let you leave alive."
"If you let the princess get hurt, we will definitely kill you."
"Shut up, everyone!"
Roy shouted angrily, held Aurora's neck with his left hand and said.
"If any of you keep yelling and screaming, I will make him the one who kills Aurora."
The Etruscan leaders fell silent instantly, and Roy continued.
"Etruscans, why do you have to fight this stupid war with me? We Athenians have been in the Apennine Peninsula for so long, you should have heard about the policies of the Athenian Empire. We will not deprive you of your lives and Property only wants you to become a farming nation so that you can grow your own food to feed yourself.”
Seeing that all the leaders were speechless, Aurora said immediately.
"Why should we become a farming people? Although the food we get from grazing cattle and sheep cannot feed ourselves, we can conquer the ethnic groups in the southern part of the Po River plain and let them pay tribute to us. We don't need to farm at all."
The Etruscans have been conquering the southern groups, and their biggest purpose is food.
After hearing Aurora's rebuttal, Roy teased jokingly.
"The Po River Plain you occupy is the most fertile land in the Apennine Peninsula! If you grow food in the Po River Plain, do you still need to conquer the southern tribes and ask them to pay tribute? As long as the Po River Plain becomes a grain-producing area, you will have enough food to sell to other tribes. Now the tribes in the southern part of the Po River Plain have become the territory of the Athenian Empire, and the southern tribes will no longer pay tribute to you. If you don't grow food yourself, do you want to starve yourself to death?"
Roy's words immediately made Aurora realize the real crisis.
If the Etruscans cannot drive away the Athenians and reconquer the tribes in the southern part of the Po River Plain-
Even if the Athenians and the Etruscans end the war, the Etruscans will suffer unimaginable famine due to food problems.
Looking at Aurora frowning and thinking, Roy continued.
"As long as the Etruscans are willing to become an agricultural nation, I will guarantee to provide you with food. If you insist on being a nomadic people, then I can only drive you out of the Apennine Peninsula."
An Etruscan leader said.
"We can become an agricultural nation, but there is no reason for us to be ruled by outsiders like you."
"You said I am an outsider--"
Roy put his left hand on Aurora's waist, held Aurora in his arms and said.
"Now that the Etruscan King Amulius is dead, I will marry Princess Aurora and inherit the throne. Then I am not an outsider, but the new Etruscan King. Who of you still opposes my order?"
Another Etruscan leader said.
"Although Amulius is young, he has given birth to a son and a daughter. Princess Aurora is not the first heir to the throne. We let Princess Aurora lead us only because she is both Amulius's sister and an older member of the royal family."
"I killed Amulius's son, daughter and wife, and Aurora is the first heir to the throne. Will you still oppose me marrying Aurora and inheriting the throne?"
After all the leaders were silent, Aurora said angrily with gritted teeth.
"How could I marry you, the enemy who killed my brother and made us Etruscans lose our hegemony? If you Athenians had not appeared, we Etruscans would have always been the hegemons of the Apennine Peninsula."
In the history of another world, the hegemony of the Etruscans could last at least for a thousand years.
It was not until the rise of the Latin city of Rome that the hegemony of the Etruscans was ended.