Chapter 282

Solomon saluted at the entrance of the post road, and watched Aesop's carriage go away. He did not recognize the cloaked driver as Amon, or the only God he believed in. In fact, Solomon saw Amun and felt that he was very familiar, but he didn't even think about it because Amun came out of Yunmeng temple and had just sacrificed to the swamp goddess with a group of drivers.

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The caravan passing through the Black Fire Swamp has been very lucky in the past two days. The weather is not cold or hot, and it is always very comfortable. Even the mud pools in the marsh no longer smell of corruption. The occasional wild animals in the jungle have disappeared, and the annoying mosquitoes have disappeared.

Two days later, Amun drove out of the black fire swamp to the place where he captured King Lucille alive. This is the other end of the post road, and now it has developed into a large town. There is a newly built Temple of great brightness, which worships the flame of light believed by the Boz people, and a temple of the goddess of swamp.

After the fall of enril, there were still enril temples in all parts of hathi. When hathi was annexed by Boz, Cyrus and Darius did not force the local people to demolish the temple. However, the provincial authorities built the great brightness flame temple, and the official sacrifice object became Mazda.

With the passage of time, enril was gradually forgotten, the kingdom of hathi was no longer in existence, a new generation of people under the governance of several new provinces divided into POZ grew up, and the temples of enril were gradually abandoned. Since enril Temple lost its official status, some people quietly removed the stone and took it back to repair their houses and courtyard walls.

Today, there are few well preserved enril temples in hathi and Assyria, where people often sacrifice. There are three main types of people who sacrifice to enril. One is the old people who have been faithful to enril since childhood, and the other is young people who have inherited this belief because of family and other reasons. As for the third group of people, in fact, they do not believe in enril and anuna at all, but express nostalgic thoughts or certain wishes in this way.

On the contrary, they are the two temples of Yunmeng, the goddess of the marsh. Nowadays, there are still a large number of worshippers. She has become the local god in the legend.

Amun did not drive to the northwest. Instead, he drove all the way south to the sea. On the left was the endless yellow sand, and on the right was the gradually flourishing grassland. This was the battlefield where he led the Anla army to fight with the South NAR army of Hati. Now, the Golden Horse and iron horse are silent, and the yellow sand on the grassland is still the same.

Amun and medanzo don't need to rest, but Aesop is just a mortal, and he is old. He needs to pay attention to food and clothing all the way. Although Aesop claimed that he was strong and did not need special care from the gods, Amun was like a servant on earth. He arranged everything well on the way, so that Aesop could not feel the fatigue of his journey.

Aesop left his residence and his land in Salem to his friends, but he didn't go back to his hometown empty handed. He took his savings with him, which was a huge sum of money. His career over the past few decades also made Aesop very rich. As for the water and food needed on the road, Amun carried them in a space magic instrument, and there was no need for other supplies along the way.

When this seemingly ordinary carriage came to the blue sea, it finally revealed its extraordinary. The two horses that pulled the cart subconsciously wanted to stop before the surge on the coast, but the driver hit a whip, and the horse seemed to be driven by some force, and then ran forward.

Aesop picked the curtain of the car and looked out. It was Amun who drove the car. No matter what miracle appeared, he was prepared for it, but he was still deeply shocked at the moment. The carriage is running on the top of the big waves. The fresh sea breeze is blowing, with a trace of salty smell, which makes people feel very comfortable.

How many mortals in the world have had such enjoyment in their life? Aesop looked out over the sea for a long time, and then looked back at Amun's back. His eyes were filled with indescribable gratitude. There are even more magical experiences in the back, after the carriage wind on the sea, the speed is more than ten times faster than on the land, like being wrapped in an invisible wind to fly.

I don't know how long later, a few dots appeared on the distant sea level, and then there was another area. That was the battle ships in array. Medanzo had faintly heard the roar of killing. With so many ships gathered together, an unprecedented sea battle broke out in front of us. Before the warships noticed that there was a carriage on the sea, Amun shook the reins, and the carriage had already risen into the sky. The horse that pulls the cart gallops, the hoof grows the cloud step by step.

Aesop's carriage passed the sky of the battlefield, and what broke out at sea was a big sea battle that decided the final victory or defeat. Looking down from the clouds, the number of Boz warships was significantly more than that of the hitton allied forces, but the Boz Navy came from various provinces of the great empire. The soldiers' language was mixed, the ships were too many, and the command was not smooth. The soldiers of the hitton allied forces were mainly from sailors who had been sailing for a long time. They had a good command and control and broke the ranks of the Boz warships.

The battle was called the salami sea battle. The hitton coalition army won the battle, and the main force of the Boz Navy lost a lot, and then it was unable to launch an attack from the sea. Shortly after the outbreak of the naval battle, the hitton army with kibata soldiers as the main force also launched a fierce battle with the potz army in pradaya, and also won a great victory.

The victory of these two battles marked that the United Kingdom of hitton completely repelled the invasion of Boz Empire, and all the city states were free from the rule of Boz. When Aesop arrived in the city of Yalun, the people there were crying out and celebrating their victory.Aesop's carriage passed over the battlefield and landed directly on the outskirts of Yalun city. Medanzo also joked with Aesop: "you are really an auspicious sign, with your arrival, the Boz army finally completely retreated."

Yalun is a beautiful city-state. The guardian god they believe in is yalena, the God of wisdom in the Olympian God system. On a hill adjacent to the residential area, there is a beautiful yalena temple. The city-state also carries the remains of war. Some buildings have traces of smoke on the white marble pillars, but they are very prosperous and lively.

Medanzo said curiously: "I thought I would see a city-state surrounded by ruins, which has been devastated by war, but it is such a scene."

Aesop said with a smile: "I heard that the Boz army set fire to the city of Yalun. Now I know that the rumor may not be true. All the people in the city withdrew at that time. It is estimated that they set fire to some things that they could not take away. But the loss here is not small. Don't you see that the walls and many buildings are newly built? "

Medanzo nodded: "of course I noticed that the small city of Yalun has a lot of human, material and financial resources. In a short period of time, the main city will be rebuilt like this."

Amun, who did not speak for a long time, explained: "the profits of the city-state of Yalun are not small. It is the organizer and leader of the coalition forces. Its navy plays the most important role. The nearby city states are also attached to it, and Yalun has made a lot of money in the war. More city-state alliances are being discussed in the Council hall, and Jaron has become the leader of the alliance. "

When Aesop entered the city of Yalun for interrogation, he was frank about his identity and did not cover up anything. He directly introduced that he was born in the city-state of miduli in the United Kingdom of hitton. His father was a businessman. When he was very young, he went to sea with a merchant ship and met pirates. He was kidnapped and sold into slaves by pirates. He traveled to many places in Tianshu. Later, he was free and became the city Lord of Salem in the DUK plain. Now he is old and has taken out the documents that can prove his identity.

People are very surprised. Some people have heard of the legend of Salem and the name of Aesop, which was brought back by the sages who traveled far away from the mainland. They did not expect to see the real people in the legend today. Aesop's arrival even caused a big stir. The garrison checked his identity documents and his belongings carefully and found nothing wrong.

When Aesop's carriage entered the city, people around him cast a look of surprise, envy, suspicion and suspicion, and they talked about it in private. With Aesop's age and experience, he did not care about these comments. He faced all kinds of eyes and talked about the past and present of this city of Yalun with medanzo.

Why does medanzo say this is "the little city of Yalun"? Although this city-state is not small in the United Kingdom of hitton, compared with the famous city-state in Tianshu, it is not grand and prosperous. Medanzo grew up in the city of Baron, and later went to Memphis. According to the scale of the city-state, the city of Yalun is less than one tenth of that of Baron, and it is far less powerful than mengfeisi.

The history of the countries on the Tianshu continent has been more than a thousand years, and the civilization has a long history. The United Kingdom of hitton, like the Olympian God system, is just a rising star on the edge of the continent. But this city-state is full of vigor and vitality. It has absorbed the seeds and nutrition of the civilizations of the countries in Tianshu continent, and has developed very fast.

People here are more free of thought, showing a hundred flowers competing for beauty, and many great scholars and sages were born. Aristotle, whom Amun had seen, was one of them.

However, many ordinary people in this city-state have complex attitudes towards the countries in Tianshu continent. They were once weak and learners. They had a subconscious worship and even inferiority complex psychology in the face of powerful and rich countries such as eju, balun and hathi. When they gradually become powerful and rich, and gradually become arrogant and conceited, the subconscious sense of historical inferiority turns into a kind of inexplicable sense of superiority and hostility to different civilizations.

This complex gradually began to appear after the hittons defeated the army of Boz, so when people saw Aesop's return, there would be various comments with complex emotions that were hard to describe. This is also the source of civilization. The precipitated bone marrow may have a subtle influence on many people for thousands of years. Amun came just when the civilization of Yalun city-state was just rising.

Amun arrived in the United Kingdom of hitton, which had just defeated the powerful Boz empire. It was an era when all kinds of thoughts were overflowing, all kinds of thoughts collided and sparkled from time to time. It was also a new country different from the other countries on the Tianshu continent. As soon as Amun entered the city, he narrowed his eyes and listened to the voices of the city-state. Not only did the people around him point to Aesop, but also the important matters being discussed in the city council Hall -

during the Hebrew war, the nearby city states attached themselves to Yalun and formed the alliance of Yalun. The earliest alliance was composed of 35 city states Let's jointly organize the hitton Navy, pay the alliance money, and build the warship by the city of Yalun. However, after the victory of the war, as many as 200 city states, large and small, who joined the alliance, paid a kind of political tribute, with the nature of alliance tax, or more directly, protection fee.As far as the imperial city is concerned, it is a huge amount of money to pay for the city of Bolen. After the end of the war, the city states paid more union money instead of less. They were dominated by the city-state of Yalun, which was used to strengthen their political and military forces and built a more magnificent city of Yalun.

Yalun city is not a monarchy Kingdom, but a city-state Republic. In the city-state, the adult men with citizenship set up the citizens' assembly, which is a consultative body for discussing various affairs, quarreling, chatting and gossiping. In addition to the general assembly, there is also a meeting of nobles, which is an important political organization. On the basis of the citizens' assembly, the city-state of Yalun organized a meeting of 500 people, which is a daily political organ.

It was the first time that Amun came to such a city-state Republic. When he entered the city, it was the day when the 500 people meeting of Yalun city was held. The main topic discussed in the Council Hall of the city was about the new joining of the alliance of the neighboring cities.

The 500 member conference passed a resolution by an absolute majority, which decided to increase the membership fees of the affiliated city states, open trade and trade among the city states, set up an Alliance Army under the unified command of the Yalun people, punish and suppress those city states that repent after joining the alliance and refuse to pay the alliance money or want to withdraw from the alliance.

The more he heard about it, the more interesting he felt. The system implemented by the Yalun people should be more popular with the people than the monarchies of other countries in the mainland. However, the people's mentality here is worth pondering. At the same time, he also heard the conversation between medanzo and Aesop, and then opened his mouth to explain the recent wealth of war in the city of Yalun.

The discussion in the Council Hall of the city-state continued. The first topic was about income, and the second one was about debt.

During the Hebrew Persian war, it took a lot of money to build a navy for Yalun. Recently, it was also a huge expense to rebuild the city-state. Therefore, it will increase the alliance fees of the city states. During the war, the debt owed by Yalun was mainly from the income of Yalun.

But the city-state of Yalun didn't want to pay it back, because they had to build a stronger army, build more merchant ships, build stronger fortifications and more magnificent temples. So they came up with a solution, that is, the citizens' assembly will vote on whether to repay the debt? If the General Assembly decides not to repay, then the city-state of Yalun will not pay it back. Generally speaking, that is to say, it will vote against the debt.

The reason why the Yalun city-state did not want to repay its debts was clear. They borrowed the money for war. Now they need more funds to enrich their strength. The concept and behavior of the Yalun people is a kind of protection and care for the neighboring states. The proposal was passed at the meeting of 500 people, and it is waiting to be submitted to the general assembly for a vote.

The third topic of the meeting is still related to finance. Some people think that many of the wealthy merchants in the city-state of Yalun who used various means to evade taxes need to be strictly investigated and supplemented. However, this proposal has been previously rejected by the aristocratic Council, and this time it has been rejected at the 500 member meeting. It will not be submitted to the national assembly for discussion and vote.

The last topic of this meeting is about military arrangement. Why should Yalun city-state increase so much expenditure when the war between Greece and Poland is clearly over? Apart from the construction of merchant ships and shrines, the rest of the main expenditure is spent on the military, because there is a good excuse at present, that is, the struggle between Yalun and kibata.

The city-state of Yalun established the alliance of Yalun, and kibada, which has a very strong military force, also took the opportunity to conquer many small states around it and established the alliance of kibada, which was against the alliance in all aspects. The city hoped that all the cities of the alliance of kibata would be attached to it, thus forming a stronger alliance of Yalun.

Amun listened to the discussions in the city council hall, while relaying these issues and the results to Aesop, and finally said, "these people are really complicated. They negotiate and vote within the city-state. Although the decision is inefficient, it is easier to get support than the emperor's order. However, they were discussing how to blackmail other cities so that the Yalun people could get more wealth. At the same time, they decided not to pay their debts in this way. However, they refused to order a strict investigation on the tax evasion of the rich merchants in the cities. You're a hitton. What do you think of that? "

Aesop said with a wry smile: "when I was a boy, Yalun was now such a city-state Republic. In terms of military affairs, it was no better than kibata, if it was rich, it was not as good as my hometown, miduli, but it became strong in this war and became the leader of the Yalun alliance. I don't know if you have heard what the passers-by said unintentionally: "Yalun is the Republic of the yalens and the Empire of the hittons."

Amun just laughed and didn't say anything more. He asked Yisuo, "you are the guide. Where should I drive this car?"

Aesop replied, "go ahead, I'll show you the way. We'll find an inn for a while."

"Isn't your hometown in miduli?" medanzo asked? The city of Jaron is just passing by. Why stay here and not rush back? "

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