The next day, when Terah went to the Temple of the Moon, he saw the attendants of the Temple of the Moon playing oracle bones.
He was extremely angry and reprimanded these people for betraying his beliefs, but the waiters said that he had not changed his beliefs and was just playing cards.
"Mr. Priest, don't you give it a try?"
"Stop talking. I heard that the dolls from Priest Terah's house can't be sold."
The two waiters put away the oracle bones and ran away quickly.
Terah could only sigh when he saw this.
Abram was right. Since he came back from Tianfang City last time, he seems to be less crazy than before. Instead, he has restrained his temper and actually thinks that making money is the right thing to do.
However, that’s not even the craziest thing.
Oracles quickly spread among the lower classes, and the bastards of the Tigris River were hunted down. This entertainment became popular even among the nobles of the Kuti people.
After all, the entertainment in the Sumerian region, apart from singing, banquets, dancing, hunting, shooting, and fishing, was drinking beer and competing in proverbs. Among them, drinking beer and competing in proverbs would not consume physical energy.
For poor people and many civilians, it is obviously not a good decision to waste precious physical energy on entertainment instead of working. Without sufficient physical strength, you cannot work, and without work, you will not get barley and silver as wages.
Therefore, most entertainment activities were for nobles and slave owners.
In the current era, the Egyptian chess game has not yet been introduced here, so as soon as the entertainment activity of playing cards appeared, it immediately became popular throughout the city.
Also coming here are Go, Xiangqi and Backgammon.
Entertainment activities gave the people at the bottom a way to pass the time, and the society became intoxicated with entertainment, and the riots temporarily stopped. For the King of Kuti, King Telika, this was a good thing.
"At least these unscrupulous people can work as my laborers and slaves in peace."
On the surface, society was stabilized, but in fact, for Sumerian workers, oracles became a good tool for them to pass news to each other.
You thought we were having fun.
In fact, we are planning a rebellion under your nose, just waiting for an opportunity.
As expected, King Telliga soon became obsessed with this kind of oracle bones. He even ordered many people to catch bastards for him. At the same time, there were also sober Kuti nobles who made suggestions to King Telliga, saying that the oracle bones in the west of the tributary of the Tigris River This city, now that culture has invaded the area ruled by the Kuti people, must be taken seriously.
But King Telika disagreed:
"It's just some small dominoes. How can we let our own traditions be erased? Have you forgotten how to worship the moon god? Obviously not."
"I don't believe that this little domino can cover up the glory of the Kuti people. You see, I just break it and the domino disappears without a trace."
He said and broke the magic card in his hand.
The noble sighed, but King Telliga at least recognized one thing, that is, the city in the west was more dangerous.
"These Dilmun merchants may pass on some information about the city of Ur to the people in that city. I don't care whether the lord of that city comes from the east or the west. I only know that it is Lag It is a provocation and an insult that no one gave us the resources to build it, and it is right on the border of my rule."
"Moreover, this Tianfang City is indeed a bit dangerous. It is on the border of our rule, and at the same time it separates many city-states and villages that I rule from my homeland in the mountains. In the past, Baghdad was just a place of chaos, so we didn't need to pay attention to it at all. Now we actually want to build a city-state.”
"If this city-state is established, it will cut off the Kuti people's land in the middle. This is not allowed."
"In that city, there are only a few hundred so-called Eastern people, and the rest are all Lagash! As for the great Gudea, I really want to meet him for a while, but unfortunately this guy will not be easy. If he starts a war with us, he is better at management. Now that he is strong, we are far away from him and we cannot attack him casually..."
"Then, let his agent have a taste of our fists!"
"You can put down your guard against Uruk! They are a group of cowards who dare not fight with us!"
"I decided to attack this city first and let the Sumerians and Akkadians take a look. Whoever dares to challenge my kingship will end his destiny!"
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"Order, arrest the merchants of Dilmon! Also confiscate their products, especially these oracle bones!"
King Telliga issued a ruthless order that even the nobleman was surprised and tried to stop:
"No! King, you can't arrest the Dilmun people. Although the gathering place of the Dilmun people is very far away from us, arresting their merchants will cause our city-state to fall into a situation where commerce and trade are not flowing, and the goods cannot be sold. If you go out and accumulate a backlog, it will hit the bottom workers in Ur City..."
The nobleman saw it relatively clearly, but King Telliga was angry at first, and then thought it made sense, so he said: "Then expel them and let them keep all the goods. He is not the only one who compares business with Dilmon." The race is doing it! Aren’t the Elamites also at war recently? Sell our goods to them! Make an alliance with the Elamites!”
As a result, the goods of the Dilmont merchants were seized the next day, and those Dilmont merchants who sold their goods ran away early. This is the case in this era. Doing business requires you to bear certain risks. When you encounter a A king without credibility may have smiled with you yesterday, but will immediately arrest you in a cell tomorrow.
"I have heard the Eastern proverb, and I am smiling with a smile on my face but feeling numb in my heart. It probably refers to people like King Telliga!"
The Dilmun merchants withdrew, leaving only a field of chicken feathers. The city of Ur wanted to form an alliance with the Elamites and was preparing to launch a double-sided attack on Lagash and Tianfang City. He quickly sent people out to inform the Elamites. It happened that the Elamite city of Susa was also at war with the Sumerian city-states.
The order was issued quickly, and the city of Susa received a proposal to form an alliance. For the Elamites, they had only seen the glorious sun god reappear half a year ago. Now their morale is high, and they are beating up some small-scale players around them. Hunter tribes, as well as some lower civilizations, such as the Kassites and Lulubeis... Of course this is not important. Small, lower civilizations have many strange names, but what is important is that the Elamites A large number of cattle, sheep and people were plundered.
Accepting the proposal at this time, their target was also set on Lagash.
"Although King Gudea is a great man, he cannot leave the city-state and personally lead his army to attack us. We only need to attack the villages and tribes under his rule."
"The villages under Lagash's rule are all very wealthy! With such wealth, of course they should share it with us!"
