Thracian Palace
In the hall of the palace, representatives of soldiers, citizens, temple priests and recruited mercenaries were enjoying a sumptuous dinner.
"Although the soldiers support you as king, you are not the legitimate king of Thrace. You are just a tyrant. The only legitimate king is my son."
Princess Erginia is still obsessed with the ownership of the Thracian throne. Although there are many powerful figures in the history of Greek city-states who ascended to the throne through illegal and non-traditional means, legitimacy is still needed to secure the throne. , strength, achievements.
Heracles stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and looked at the Thracian queen and former princess who was negotiating in front of him. His mood was not very good. Being on the throne of a country was not the end for him, but Just the beginning.
He has no experience as a king, but he has experience as a military commander. Whether in Athens or other city-states, as long as he can get the support of soldiers, he can successfully get the support of citizens, because citizens are the main backbone of the army. .
Taking Athens as an example, there were only three types of residents in the city-state of Athens: citizens, freedmen and slaves.
Citizens have political power, and the Citizens’ Assembly formed by citizens can determine the specific direction of Athens’ military, diplomatic, legal and other related policies. For example, Heracles’ honorable title of “Great Guardian of Athens” is the Citizens’ Assembly. Granted, even though Eurystheus, king of Athens, could exile Hercules, he could not deprive him of his title and the honor bestowed upon him by his citizens.
The Citizens' Assembly resolves all major events in the city-state. Every citizen has the right to vote in the Citizens' Assembly and the right to be elected. They may be elected as members, serve in the executive branch, and may also be required to take turns participating in jury courts. These are both powers. , are also obligations, the most critical of which is to become a member of the army.
The obligation to become a soldier was not obvious in Athens, but in city-states like Sparta and Thrace, which were famous throughout Greece for their martial virtues, the energy of military citizens was very important.
Having gained the support of the military, he also gained the support of the citizens.
"To be precise, it's our son." Hercules said without mercy, and Princess Urginia's face turned gloomy.
The two sons refer to both William and Arius.
"The civil war in Thrace has already torn the country apart and flowed into rivers of blood. The current army is made up of temporary farmers and merchants. If you can't defeat Rethos, then your throne will not be preserved, and Rethos Being loyal to the previous king, my husband, will also be loyal to my son Arius, and let my son inherit your throne. Then there will be no need to continue this meaningless war, and the entire country will be reconciled."
Princess Erginia looked at her son who was eating aside. Just before, her young and ignorant son Arius was still pestering Hercules, asking him to tell her the twelve adventures he had experienced, and what he had experienced in them. He recounted all his adventures in detail, and he seemed to be the biggest fan of Hercules.
At this time, she did not ask Hercules to hand over the throne of the king to Arius, but she also put forward her own conditions. She married Hercules to become his throne, and her son Arius became the Thracian The future heir.
Hercules took a sip of wine and was deep in thought, but his eyes were fixed on William, as if he wanted to say something, when he heard William speak first, "If you want to unify the whole of Greece, you must solve Athens and Sparta."
"Athens!" Hercules had a complicated expression on his face. After all, he had good memories in Athens, as well as bad memories.
"Do you really think that I can unify all of Greece?"
Hercules had a confused look on his face. Even if Hera appeared in person and asked him to complete twelve impossible and great trials, he would not be so confused. But the small goal William mentioned turned out to be to unify the world. Greece.
In later generations, Greece was just a small and insignificant country in Europe. It had never been a protagonist in Europe, let alone played a role in Europe's military and political affairs. However, before the rise of the Roman Empire, Greece as a whole was once a vast country.
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As the saying goes, there are five of the four heavenly kings, and there are also five of the four great civilizations. The fifth of them is the Aegean civilization and the Greek civilization.
For the Greeks of this era, Greece is their world and the entire world. If Zeus really exists, then Zeus will never allow any king to unify the entire Greece. The King of Kings has always belonged to Zeus title.
In history, no one has ever been able to unify the whole of Greece. There has never been such a person. It can even be said that this is an unprecedented feat. No one has done it before, no one has done it now, and no one will do it in the future.
In the Homeric era, King Agamemnon led all Greek city-states to fight against Troy as the commander-in-chief. As the commander-in-chief of the Greek coalition, he had the power to control the kings, princes, generals, and soldiers of other city-states. He once held the title of King of Kings. This He was also jealous of Zeus, which foreshadowed his tragic fate. Z.br>
Agamemnon is the monarch closest to the title of king in all Greece, but neither Agamemnon nor Achilles have been born yet, and Tylo has just founded the country at this time.
The era closest to the unification of all Greece in the Homeric era was during the Peloponnesian War, when King Xerxes I of Persia commanded an army of 500,000 to attack Greece, which led to the unity of all the city-states in Greece. The war lasted for thirty years under the leadership of Darius, and Persia was finally repelled. Athens and Sparta, as the two Greek heroes, jointly led the entire Greece, which was somewhat similar to the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union carving up the world.
If not counted, the Roman Empire helped to unify all of Greece, then the most recent unification was Alexander the Great of the Kingdom of Macedonia who unified the entire Greece. However, even Alexander the Great, the son of Zeus, did not completely unify the entire Greece.
Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, but he only left Wei Guo. This does not affect future generations who say that he unified China. The reason is that Wei Guo is insignificant.
Alexander unified all of Greece but failed to defeat only Sparta, one of the two great Greek heroes. Therefore, Alexander's unification was seriously flawed. This is just like later generations will regard the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties as unified dynasties, but they It is the same reason that the Song Dynasty, which lost the sixteen states of Yanyun, will not be regarded as a unified dynasty.
Greece has never been truly unified, so if Hercules were unified for the first time, the glory he would receive at this time would not be inferior to Alexander and himself who completed the twelve feats.
In the world of fairy tales and mythology, whether it is the destruction of Troy by the entire Greek army on Achilles' side, or the Norman conquest by Duke William, the unification and conquest are equally great honors and achievements.
"Of course." William said with certainty. The territory of the Greek Republic in later generations has long been lost, and nothing will be remembered by history more than his first unification.
Everyone knows that it was Qin Shihuang who unified China, but Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, the founder of the Han Dynasty, Sima Yan, the founder of the Jin Dynasty, and the founders of the unified dynasties in later generations have never unified the world.
The unification of later emperors is definitely meaningful, but the unification of Qin Shihuang has never been more historically valuable.
As the only person in history to unify all of Greece, Heracles will definitely become a symbol of the Greek nation in history.
