Chapter 332 The Golden Queen Sitting on the Gold Mine

Author: Sifang Qianjun

Chapter 332 The Golden Queen Sitting on the Gold Mine

Roy wants to live in peace with Hippolyta, but of course it's not because of Hippolyta's beauty.

Even if Hippolyta were a man, Roy would take the initiative to propose a peaceful relationship between the two parties after defeating her.

Because Roy knew that even if he killed Hippolyta, the Amazon tribe would elect a new leader to become an enemy of the Kingdom of Athens.

Even if Loy wiped out the Amazon tribes, other Thracian tribes would enter the Macedonian plains and become enemies that the Kingdom of Athens must face.

If the Kingdom of Athens wants to have peace, the best choice is to let Hippolyta live.

Hippolyta refused to live in peace with the Kingdom of Athens, so Roy would kill Hippolyta mercilessly.

Pelos tribe.

After Hippolyta's three thousand soldiers began to capture the men of the Pelos tribe, Roy stood next to Hippolyta, admiring her beautiful profile.

Perhaps because she couldn't stand Roy's gaze, Hippolyta quickly blushed and put on her mask and helmet again.

After hiding her face again, Hippolyta said in a low voice.

"Don't you think you're being rude?"

"Don't get me wrong!"

Roy explained immediately.

"I keep staring at you, Queen Hippolyta, just out of curiosity. I want to know why you have three thousand soldiers but only five hundred bronze war spears."

"The gold we mine can only buy five hundred bronze war spears. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Hearing Hippolyta's answer, Roy's eyes immediately lit up.

The bronze war spears of the Amazon tribe were bought with gold, which shows that the Amazon tribe did not master the bronze smelting technology, or did not discover the copper mines in Macedonia.

But Amazon tribes are mining gold, which shows that Amazon tribes have discovered gold mines in Macedonia.

Although Loy does not yet have enough population to control the Macedonia region, Loy has regarded the gold mines in Macedonia as his own property.

Amazonian tribes are mining gold in their territory, leaving Roy feeling like his wealth is being stolen.

"I have answered your question, you should answer mine too!"

Hippolyta turned to look at Roy and asked.

"The black weapons you use are more powerful than bronze weapons. Where did you buy this weapon?"

"Black weapons—our weapons are black iron weapons."

Roy said confidently.

"This is a weapon unique to our Kingdom of Athens. You cannot buy black iron weapons anywhere else."

"Then can I buy black iron weapons from you?"

Hippolyta said in a wistful tone.

"I will use the same weight of gold to trade you for the same weight of gun heads."

The same weight of gold is exchanged for the same weight of a black iron spearhead——

After hearing Hippolyta's words, Roy couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

In this age of barter, gold can neither be eaten nor made into weapons or farm tools.

Anyone with a right mind will understand that black iron is worth more than gold.

Seeing Roy's reaction, Hippolyta continued.

"If you are not satisfied with the price, I can buy your black iron weapons with twice the weight of gold. The maritime merchants who trade with us told me that our gold is a very valuable metal. Is gold in your

The value of the Kingdom of Athens is very low? Then I use five times - I use ten times the weight of gold to buy your black iron weapons, and you won't accept it?"

Ten times the weight of gold——

The weight of the black iron gun head is one kilogram.

In other words, Hippolyta had to spend ten pounds of gold to buy a pound of black iron weapon.

Is this the pride of the golden queen who owns a huge gold mine?

Only now did Roy understand why in the myth of another world, the Mycenaean hero Hercules wanted to snatch Hippolyta's golden belt.

In Greek mythology, treasures such as golden swords, golden belts, and golden wool are just symbols of the great wealth of their owners.

So what the Mycenaean hero Hercules really wanted to rob was not Hippolyta's golden belt, but Hippolyta's gold mines.

In the setting of Greek mythology, the Amazons lived on both sides of the Telmodon River on the southern coast of the Black Sea.

But in another world's history, the first Greeks arrived on the southern shore of the Black Sea around 1,000 BC.

This was two hundred years after the end of the Trojan War and one hundred years after the Dorians conquered the Mycenaeans.

The Mycenaeans had been conquered for a hundred years before the Greeks came to the southern shore of the Black Sea.

Apparently the Mycenaean hero Hercules came to the Telmodon River on the southern shore of the Black Sea to snatch Hippolyta's golden belt - this myth has no realistic prototype at all.

This myth would be very reasonable if the mythical daughter of the Amazons lived on the banks of the Strymon River in the Macedonian region.

The pronunciation of "Telmo" from the river Telmodon and "Tremont" from the river Strymon happen to be somewhat similar.

The Dorians have a culture of training girls to receive military training. The Thracians, like the Dorians, are also Caucasian nomads. The Thracian tribe in Macedonia cultivates female warriors, and a queen happens to appear in this tribe.

Then this queen who is sitting on a large gold mine will perfectly fit the image of Amazon Queen Hippolyta who has a golden belt that is a symbol of wealth.

In Greek mythology, the Amazon tribes that were originally supposed to live in the Thracian region moved to the south coast of the Black Sea, which is actually related to the migration of the Thracians in history.

Amazonian tribes did inhabit the Thracian region before the Mycenaean kingdom was destroyed by the Dorians.

But at the same time that the Dorians used black iron weapons to invade the Peloponnese Peninsula, the Thracian tribes, who also used black iron weapons, also invaded the Asia Minor Peninsula after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, and established the Forbidden City in the Asia Minor Peninsula.

Kingdom of Lygia.

When people made up myths after 1100 BC, the Amazon tribe had already moved to the Asia Minor Peninsula, so the people who made up the myths set the Amazon tribe on the south coast of the Black Sea, completely ignoring that there was no connection between the Kingdom of Mycenae and the south coast of the Black Sea.

Contact historical facts.

"I have already decided to use ten times the weight of gold to buy your black iron weapons. Do you still want me to use twenty times the weight of gold to buy your black iron weapons?"

Hearing Hippolyta's dissatisfied tone, Roy came back to his senses and shook his head.

"Queen Hippolyta, even if you give me the price of a hundred pounds of gold to buy a pound of black iron spearheads, I will not trade with you."

When Roy has enough people to migrate to Macedonia, Roy will launch a war against the Amazon tribes and take the super-large gold mines in Macedonia as his own.

Now Roy is trading weapons with Hippolyta, and in the future the soldiers of the Kingdom of Athens will be killed by the black iron weapons made by the Kingdom of Athens.

"You guy - why won't you sell me your weapons?"

Hippolyta said through gritted teeth.

"If you are worried about me using your weapons against you, then I can assure you that as long as you do not launch a war against me, I will never use your weapons against you."

"Queen Hippolyta, do you know what monopoly is?"

Roy explained with a smile.

"I can't sell you black iron weapons because the Kingdom of Athens must ensure that its military technology leads all other regions in the world."
Chapter completed!