Chapter 402 Amulius’s Wife

Like other nomadic peoples of this era, the Etruscans of the Po plain lived in tents.

Therefore, Milan, the royal court of the Etruscans, was not a city, but a huge tribe composed of thousands of tents.

The royal tent of Amlius.

Roy and Aurora walked into the tent and saw that the interior of the royal tent was not only huge but also luxuriously decorated like a palace.

A young and beautiful woman was holding a three-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl sitting on the leopard skin throne. When she saw Roy and Aurora walking in, the woman immediately asked Aurora.

"Sister, how is the situation now?"

Aurora didn't answer the woman, looked up at Roy and said.

"You must do what you promised me."

Roy said with a smile.

"I will not treat children as threats or enemies."

Seeing that Roy didn't seem to be lying, Aurora turned to the woman holding the child and said.

"Sister-in-law, we have completely lost to the Athenians. In order for the Etruscans to continue to survive, I will marry this man——"

After Aurora explained the detailed situation, Amlius's wife breathed a sigh of relief at first, thankful that her child could survive.

But after calming down, Amlius's wife felt unwilling.

His own child is the heir to the throne of Amlius, so why is the next King of Etruria the child of Aurora?

"Sister Aurora, how could you do such a thing to disrespect your brother Amlius?"

cried the wife of Amlius, weeping.

"I gave you so much trust and asked you to act as the king of Amulius. But you actually took away the throne that belonged to your nephew for the sake of your own child."

The sister-in-law's accusation was obviously what Aurora had expected.

Aurora explained helplessly.

"Sister-in-law! You will let me act as king, not because you trust me, but because I am not married yet. You don't have to worry about my husband taking the throne. Now my child will become the next King of Etruria, no? I want to take away the throne from my nephew. This is the result of the discussion between the leaders and the emperor of Athens."

Amulius's wife also knew that Aurora had no ambition.

In order to keep her husband's throne, she wiped away her tears and came to Roy with her daughter and son in her arms. She looked at Roy with charming eyes and said.

"Your Majesty, the great emperor, look at my children. They are still children who don't understand anything. Seeing that I am so good at giving birth to children, let me become your woman and let my children become your children! Children, Call your father quickly."

The daughter and son of Amlius shouted to Roy obediently.

"Father!"

"Father...Father!"

The beautiful Etruscan queen offered herself as a pillow, and the prince and princess became cheap children - of course Roy was not blessed with such a good thing.

Seeing that Amlius' wife wanted to put her daughter into his arms, Roy hurriedly hid behind Aurora.

"Sister-in-law, please don't mess around! Since I'm going to marry Aurora, we should keep our distance. Now that your son can survive, it's good, so don't think about the throne that originally belonged to him."

"Why did you reject me?"

Amlius's wife said unwillingly.

"After the war, it is customary for the leader of the victorious side to take the beautiful wife of the defeated leader as his own! Although I am no longer young, I am very confident in my beauty. Just let me be your woman, let me Let my child be your child!”

"Sister-in-law, please stop this!"

Looking at her sister-in-law who wanted to fall in love with Roy, Aurora accused her angrily.

"As my brother's wife, how can you be so shameless? If you dare to shame my brother again, I will definitely kill you."

"Your brother is dead, do you want me to remain a widow for him for the rest of my life?"

Amlius's wife said without showing any signs of weakness.

"Aurora! You are stopping me now because you are afraid that my child will take away your child's throne!"

"Shut up, both of you!"

Seeing Aurora and Amlius' wife getting more and more quarrelsome, Roy said loudly.

"If I don't get angry, do you all think I'm a piece of clay? Sister-in-law - the wife of Amlius! I will let you and your children live because I want to use you to threaten Aurora to obey. Since You are so annoying, I will arrange for someone to send you and your children to Athens right now."

Under the disbelieving gaze of Amulius's wife, a group of Athenian soldiers rushed into the king's tent and took Amulius' wife and her two children out.

When only Roy, Aurora and a group of maids were left in the royal tent, Roy walked to the depths of the royal tent, sat on the leopard skin throne that originally belonged to Amlius and said.

"Aurora! When I bring you to the city of Athens, you will know how powerful the Athenian Empire is. I am willing to make compromises in order to conquer the Po River plain before wheat is sown in October. If I don't I am anxious to turn the Po River plain into a grain-producing area this year. I can gather more soldiers, kill all your Etruscan leaders, and conquer you by force. In that case, your identity will not. She is my wife, just a slave whom I conquered. If you are grateful for my kindness, do your best to help me rule the Po River plain."

After hearing what Roy said, Aurora said with a sneer.

"I don't know if the power you boast about is true, but I can tell you that I don't want to be your wife at all. I will agree to your request in order to protect my family and all Etruscans. As long as you can treat my family and all Etruscans well, I will definitely help you become the real Etruscan king."

"You——"

Looking at Aurora, who was cold to him, Roy couldn't help but want to conquer her.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

With Roy personally in charge of the Po Plain, the Po Plain in the north of the Apennine Peninsula was successfully incorporated into the territory of the Athenian Empire.

After completing the distribution of fields and recruiting soldiers in the Po Plain, Roy made Caesar the governor of the Po River and restrained each other with the Etruscan leaders.

After leaving 5,000 soldiers for Caesar, Roy took Aurora and 20,000 newly recruited soldiers to Catanzaro, preparing to return to Athens.

Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica——

These large islands near the Apennine Peninsula, Roy does not plan to conquer them for the time being.

Roy did not want to attack Sardinia and Corsica because the indigenous people of these two islands were backward in civilization and sparsely populated, and the benefits of conquering them now were far less than the investment.

Roy did not want to attack Sicily because there were Phoenician colonies in Sicily.

Conquering Sicily now might damage the relationship between the Athenian Empire and the Phoenicians.

When the Athenian Empire cultivated its own maritime merchants and no longer relied on Phoenician merchants to transport various materials including food, Roy could incorporate Sicily into the territory of the Athenian Empire without any scruples.

The rapid rise of the Athenian Empire made the Athenian Empire very vulnerable.

If Roy became an enemy of the Phoenicians now, as long as the Phoenicians stopped selling food to the Athenian Empire, it would bring Roy great trouble.