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    "Ralasi, I give you an important task." After all the officials and nobles left, Achilles left behind his personal official Ralasi.

    "Your Majesty, please give me your instructions" Lalasi hurriedly bowed, half-hunched over, and quietly waited for Achilles' instructions.

    ¡°The Lord God from above has issued a decree, ordering me to find a thousand devout believers in Thessaly to serve in the beautiful Kingdom of God.¡±[com]

    "You are the closest official to me. After much thought, I can rest assured that I can leave this matter to you." Achilles sat high on the throne, leaning up and said to Ralasi.

    "Thank you for your trust, Your Highness, Lalasi will not let you down." Lalasi squatted on the ground and shouted loudly, his face full of excitement.

    "Remember, this matter is of great importance. Don't let anyone know that the believers' choices are 500 adult women and 500 adult men." After Achilles warned again, he asked Lalasi to retreat.  .

    Originally, Achilles¡¯ plan was to directly find a settlement far away from the city of Larissa and bring all the residents there into the cave.

    Anyway, in this era, all mortals have an instinctive reverence and fear for the gods. As long as they use their own clones and borrow the power of the cave to pretend to be gods, these mortals who are absorbed into the cave will be honest.  .

    But in this case, the people who are taken into the cave are mixed, including old people and babies. It would be good to have half of them who can be used as labor force.

    After much thought, Achilles decided to let Lalasi choose some strong adult men and women for him. In order not to arouse other people's suspicions, he simply used the guise of selecting believers for the Lord God.

    Anyway, everyone knows that he has a good relationship with several main gods. There is nothing wrong with the main gods asking him to choose believers in Thessaly.

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    The north bank of the Pinho River

    Like the south bank of the river, the land here is more fertile than other places because of the fertilizer brought by the Pinho River.

    Since the founding of Thessaly, due to the intrusion of barbaric Macedonian and other steppe tribes, the Thessalians have always wanted to reclaim this land, but they have reluctantly chosen to give up.

    There is no way around this. Although the land here is no worse than the land on the south bank, and the area is wider, without the obstruction of the Pinho River, when the grassland tribes invade, this place cannot be saved at all.

    Since it spent a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate land here, it ended up like an enclave, benefiting the grassland tribes in vain, so it was better to just give up.

    It is precisely for this reason that the rich and vast land on the north bank of the Pinho River has been abandoned for so many years.

    At that time, with the destruction of the barbaric Macedonian tribes and the completion of the formation of the kingdom's army, the threat from the northern grasslands had been resolved, and the conditions for reclaiming this land were already in place.

    Out of overall considerations, Achilles did not claim all of this land for himself. Except for leaving a large area of ??the most fertile land, he divided the rest.

    And the division of this land was something that Achilles had considered over and over again. First of all, Theseus, the three ministers of the kingdom, each got a piece of land second only to Achilles.

    Furthermore, those officials and demigods with higher status also received larger areas and better soil quality.

    Since we are determined to quickly move Thessaly into a slave society, we must support some of the great nobles to drive the entire kingdom forward.

    The great nobles occupy a large area of ??land, and it is impossible to cultivate all the land just by relying on the few free people in their hands.

    If they want to reclaim all the land and turn it into wealth, they must use a large number of slaves and advanced tools.

    The number of slaves in Thessaly is limited. If you want to get more slaves, you must launch a war.

    In order to gain the support of the people, Achilles still left a large part of the land and distributed it to the people of Larissa.

    Although these lands are a short distance away from the Pinho River, the soil quality is pretty good. As long as ditches can be dug, the irrigation problem will be solved.

    Nowadays, on the north bank of the Pinho River, there are busy figures everywhere. The followers of the nobles are urging the slaves to cultivate the newly obtained land.

    Those ordinary people who also received land are also busy on their own land.Everyone has a big smile on their face.

    "Your Highness, now the land on the north bank of the Pinho River has been divided. Both the nobles and ordinary people are busy reclaiming the land. It won't be long before this desolate area will become farmland. By then, we will  Sally is about to become the largest agricultural kingdom in Greece." Neelaos, the official in charge of agriculture, said to Achilles excitedly with a smile on his face, pointing his finger at the vast land.

    Achilles looked at the vast land and the busy people, and asked Nylaos: "Has the land here been measured?"

    Nylaos bowed slightly and responded: "Your Highness, we have already measured it, and the total is 60,000 feet. It's just because 30,000 feet of it are concentrated in the hands of officials and nobles, and the number of slaves is insufficient, the pace of reclamation is a bit slow.  , and the remaining 30,000 square feet of land should be able to be cultivated within two months, but we are afraid that we will no longer be able to sow crops."

    Of the 60,000 square feet of land, more than 40,000 square feet can be cultivated within two months. In other words, in just two months, the conditions for the goddess of agriculture will be fulfilled.

    When he thought of a main god becoming the patron saint of his kingdom, Achilles couldn't help but feel hot in his heart.

    After experiencing the two previous wars, Achilles has a better understanding of this society. In this era, if a city-state does not have a backstage, that is, a patron saint, it will always be passively beaten.

    Whether it was when he was attacking the Macedonian tribes or when he was attacking the city of Zolazos, if it were not for the appearance of Ares and Hercules, his army would eventually be destroyed.

    In this era where the gods are in power, the power of mortals is too weak. Even if it is a war between mortals, what is often more important is the contest between the guardian gods between the two defenses.

    If the strength of the patron saints between the two sides is equal, then at this time, what needs to be considered is the strength of the demigods and soldiers between the two sides.

    But if the strength of the patron saints between the two sides is very different, and there are no large connections, then the side with the stronger patron saint will inevitably win, even if the other side's demigods and soldiers are extremely powerful, it will not help.

    Thessaly is a relatively embarrassing city-state. As the most populous country in Greece, it is said that it can be favored by some noble gods.

    But from beginning to end, there was no main god. On the one hand, it was because of the poverty here, and on the other hand, there seemed to be some historical reasons.

    The population of Thessaly is large, but the cultivated land is limited. The key is that it is inland and has no ability to sail across the ocean. All of this has resulted in Thessaly having a population of nearly 300,000, but it is pitifully poor.

    In this huge inland kingdom, the vast majority of the people are starving, and only the few nobles can eat and drink well.

    The world of Greece is different from the world of gods in Eastern Europe. Even the gods need the faith of mortal city-states, but they will never choose cities at will.

    Only those civilized cities, those prosperous city-states with endless futures, can be favored by the noble gods, such as Mycenae, Troy, Athens, Sparta and other prosperous city-states.

    As for Thessaly, it is impoverished and has a population of 200,000 to 300,000 people waiting to eat and drink. Whichever god takes over this mess will most likely be ridiculed by the other gods. Naturally, no god is willing to protect this city.  A ruined city-state.

    As for those superior gods and half-step gods, they are willing to become patron saints like Thessaly, but for a city-state with a large population like this, even half-step gods are not qualified to become its patron saint.

    ¡°As a result, the main god looks down on the city of Larissa, and the half-step main gods and superior gods are not qualified to be the patron saints here. In the end, the city of Larissa becomes a pitiful baby whose father does not love her mother.

    Precisely because there is no patron saint, Thessaly has been bullied by other city-states and tribes for hundreds of years, but it can only passively fight back. After expelling the enemy, it can no longer do anything.

    As long as Thessaly does not have a patron saint, it will not be able to wage war, unless a powerful god comes to help like the previous two times.

    The problem is that even if some gods have a good relationship with Achilles and are willing to lend a helping hand, it can only be done once or twice. If the number of times is too many, then the gods will definitely interfere.

    But if Thessaly has its own patron saint, then when it launches a war with other countries, its own patron saint can openly contain the enemy's patron saint, and even grant divine power to its own troops.??'s blessing.

    The goddess of agriculture, Demeter, may be considered the weakest among the twelve main gods, but no matter how weak she is, she is still a main god, and the main god of the older generation.

    Even a half-step god like Hercules cannot compete with her. Although the half-step god and the main god are only one step away, they are as far apart as heaven and earth, a thousand miles apart.
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