To be king [Greek mythology]

The reason why Minos said that Hydra was subdued by Surpus was to make Surpus' status in the city-state less humble and embarrassing.

As soon as Minos came back, he led Thurpus straight to the king and asked him to be exempted from slavery, but he was rejected. Everyone in the city-state should have known about it.

They knew that among the three brothers, the king valued Minos the most. When Minos disappeared, the king was very angry. Knowing that Minos came back a few months later, the king did not focus on Lara. On Damandes and Sarpedon.

In the end Minos was able to return safely, hardly to the surprise of those who followed the matter.

But the fact that Minos directly turned against Radamandes and Sarpedon today was beyond their expectations. Of course, what followed was even more shocking when they opened the city gate overnight The act of sending the slave out of the city.

Also included are four outstanding city-state warriors.

Only Minos and Sarpedon, and the few warriors guarding the gate, knew roughly what was going on, but they were silent to each other.

For the current lord of the city-state, it is really not a good thing for such a thing to shake his future heir.

After Minos silently watched Surpus with the mongoose on his head and led the four warriors to leave the city-state quickly without looking back, he was just about to go back to his residence when he was told that the king was looking for him.

The king's summons was irresistible, and Minos knew what it was after thinking about it with his toes.

He took a deep breath, lowered his head and rubbed his face, adjusted his mood slightly, turned and left the city gate.

The king sat on his throne, looking down at Minos, whom he had placed high hopes on, but who had changed a lot recently.

He used to think that Minos was too kind and gentle, especially when he was dealing with Sarpedon, he was too gentle.

But today, when he heard Minos' final punishment of Radamandes and Sarpedon, he felt that it was not good for Minos to be so resolute to his brothers.

After all, letting two children into the forest is almost the same as a death sentence, but maybe the son of Zeus will be more lucky.

Just like Minos himself, and Sarpedon who also stayed in the forest for a while back then.

The luck of the son of Zeus is too good to be envied.

Even so, it still inevitably makes the king a little worried. The three sons of Zeus are in Crete, and they can bring glory and prosperity to Crete, or they may be a disaster-although Zeus doesn't seem to care much about these three sons now. As a child, he has even completely forgotten about it, but it is uncertain what will happen in the future.

The king was a little worried that even if one of the three brothers died in a fight among themselves, Zeus would think about it one day, and the whole of Crete would be disturbed.

He originally thought that Minos would let Radamandis and Sarpedon go, but the punishment Minos said caught him off guard.

In the final analysis, Minos' changes were too abrupt and rapid, so that everyone who knew him could not react.

There may even be thoughts like "Is this man really Minos?"

The king thought about it too, and asked the priest directly to verify it, and the final answer was of course yes.

He also harvested several supercilious eyes from the priest.

"Minos." The king withdrew his thoughts and finally spoke.

Minos lowered his head and lowered his eyes, pretending to be listening attentively.

Minos could probably guess what the king was looking for him for, nothing more than Sarpedon and Radamandes, and then his actions just now.

The entire city-state is the king's eyes and ears, and it is impossible to hide such a big movement from him.

"That slave..."

"It is Thurpus, his name," said Minos, interrupting the king.

The king was interrupted by Minos, who was rarely rude, and raised his eyebrows in surprise. He noticed that Minos' condition seemed to be not good, so he paused slightly, and said, "You let him go?"

"No, he will come back." Minos shook his head, just about to say something, and finally passed it in his throat, but just said: "I let him practice."

Sure enough, he is still a child who can't lie.

The king thought, no one would believe this excuse, it couldn't be more funny.

"If he escapes and comes back again..."

Minos narrowed his eyes at the king's unfinished words.

"I said, he will come back." Minos said with such certainty, "It is true that you have taught me so, and Thurps has also taught me so. He taught me a lot more than you taught me. get more."

The king was a little surprised.

He was not familiar with Thurpus, because Minos took this slave very seriously, and the king could somewhat understand how much Minos valued this slave who had rescued him and cared for him in the forest for a long time, so he also Never paid attention to the two of them.

The reason why slaves have always been slaves is because they cannot get a good education. Years of enslavement for generations have made them lose their will to resist and their nature as "human beings".

Obtuse, blind obedience, and slavery, this is what a slave looks like after being domesticated.

All in all, it was absolutely impossible for a slave, a normal slave, to say what he believed in and make Minos express such an attitude.

The king of Crete always thought that the batch of slaves sent over had been domesticated and trained. In fact, the slaves have not shown anything wrong over the years.

"He taught you a lot?" the king snorted a few times, "taught you how to be a slave?"

Minos suddenly raised his head, met the king's eyes, paused every word, and said loudly: "He taught me how to be a person, a man, and a king."

The King of Crete squinted his eyes and looked at Minos with a half-smile.

Minos knew instantly that he had been tricked.

He pursed his lips, and finally compromised under the king's gaze.

"He was originally... the heir to one of the powerful Attica tribes."

Chapter 26

Attica is a very large land on a peninsula some distance from Crete.

The southeast side of Attica is bordered by the Aegean Sea, with wide and peaceful fjords, a gentle coastline, fertile coastal and inland plains, leaning against a towering mountain, rich in minerals, almost the entire Aegean Sea region's minerals The supply places, including the minerals of Crete, were also transported from Attica.

Rich commercial activities and maritime trade have brought Attica countless wealth and an extremely open atmosphere, and it can also witness some things that people who live inland and islands may have never heard of in their entire lives.

Four powerful city-states ruled the entire Attica region—Archae, Syreis, Pampyroy, and Dumanatay.

Although they are always more willing to call themselves the four tribes, in the eyes of everyone, it is not just the size of the tribe.

The Atticans have always been brave and good at fighting, but they don't believe in Ares, the god of war, or Athena, the goddess of war. They believe in Apollo, the sun god.

The hymn always bears the name of the sun god.

"Attica destroyed a city-state three years ago, that is, Syreis, and it has been turbulent in the past three years." Minos said, "You showed me that it was transported from Attica recently. There are far fewer slaves and silver mines coming."

It was only two days after Minos learned that the city-state destroyed in the winter three years ago that Surpus had revealed before was Attica.

In addition to accompanying Thurpus every day, he also had to learn from the king how to get along with the priests of the temple, how to deal with some troublesome troubles from commoners and nobles, and there was not much time to consult the classics.

Attica has always been in business with Crete, and Crete can receive some news from there, although it is not very timely.

Minos hasn't decided whether to tell Surpus about Attica now, because Attica is very chaotic now, and it hasn't been peaceful since three years ago.

No matter how good Thurpus is, he is just a half-grown kid now, and he can't even hold an ax and a spear when he goes to the battlefield.

What's more, the city-state of Thurps has been shattered, and the other three city-states are now in a state of complete danger, and no city-state will be willing to take in the orphans of the defeated city-state.

In particular, he was once the successor of Syreis.

The king nodded. The four tribes of Attica did lose a powerful tribe three years ago. Of course he knew about such a major event.

The reason for the unforeseen demise of Syreis is not very clear to outsiders, but they can more or less guess how much of it is tricky.

The four tribes of Attica have been like an iron bucket for so many years, but one fell down so suddenly three years ago, which caught everyone by surprise.

You know, it's not that no one coveted this fertile and rich land in the past, but in the end they were all beaten back by the four major tribes.

These four tribes are almost like a family. Once one of them is attacked, within one night, the other three tribes will rush to help overnight.

For thousands of years, it has always been like this, and it has been tried and tested.

It is precisely because of their strong combat effectiveness and extraordinary unity that Attica is so powerful that no one dares to violate it.

The king of Crete has not yet figured out why Syreis suddenly collapsed, and the actions of the other three tribes in recent years have already been seen.