Chapter 388 The Etruscans of the North

Author: Sifang Qianjun

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 is a fact that the Latins are unwilling to accept but must 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 younger brother walked to the altar, knelt down, and 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 to join 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 serves as a priestess. Numitore can live with his mother in the Temple of Persephone in Rome, protected by 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, the man accused of having an affair with the priestess was beaten and then executed.

After the priestess was found guilty, she was first punished with a rod, and then pushed through the streets of Rome to a wilderness beside the Corinthian gate, where she was imprisoned in a tomb and left with only thirty days of food.

Sit back and wait for death.

Even the secret that the priestess was not unmarried was difficult to conceal. If Lavinia and Sylvia got married secretly 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 to the Thurenian tribe and at the same time recruited soldiers from the Thurenian tribe and three thousand captives.

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

Due to the limitations of backward agricultural technology and agricultural tools, even if the Latins were given more fields, 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 head of the Latin family immediately explained with a 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 a foreign conqueror.

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 had their own leaders, and they 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 Tulenus tribe and recruited three thousand soldiers at the same time.

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

While Roy promoted the rule of the Athenian Empire in the Lazio region and effectively controlled the Lazio region, Tullenus also brought a thousand soldiers to the Po River plain in the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula.

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

The Po River Plain is sandwiched between the Alps and the Apennines, bordering the southern slopes of the Alps to the north and the northern foothills of the Apennines to the south.

Three thousand six hundred years later, the Po River Plain is the most agriculturally developed region on the Apennine Peninsula, and it is also the most economically developed region. Big cities such as Milan, Turin, Bologna, and Venice are all located in the Po River Plain.

The present plain of the Po River is where the royal court of the Etruscans is located.

The grass here is lush and green, and you can only see the cattle, sheep and horses driving forward driven by the shepherds, but you can't see the farmers busy in the fields at all.

Although the Etruscans were also a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural people, the royal family that ruled the Etruscans was no different from the real nomads. They turned the most fertile plains into steppes.

The Etruscans were also Southern European white people with black hair and black eyes.

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

When Turenus came to the royal court, he saw that it was a tribe of blond and blue-eyed people.

Although the Etruscans were locals with black hair and black eyes, they were ruled by a group of foreign nomads with blond hair and blue eyes.
Chapter completed!