Royal Palace of Thrace

In the halls of the royal palace, representatives of the soldiers and citizens, as well as the priests of the temple and the recruited mercenaries, were enjoying a sumptuous dinner.

"Although the soldiers have embraced you as king, you are not the legitimate monarch of Thrace, you are only a tyrant, and the legitimate king is only my son."

Princess Eginia is still obsessed with the Thracian throne, and although there are many powerful people in the history of the Greek city-states who have ascended to the throne through illegal and unconventional means, it still takes legitimacy, strength, and merit to sit on the throne.

Hercules shoved a piece of meat into his mouth and looked at the Thracian queen who was negotiating in front of him, the former princess, and the mood was not good, and ascending to the throne of a country was not the end for him, but only the beginning.

He did not have the experience of being a king, but he had the experience of being a military commander, whether in Athens or in other city-states, as long as he could get the support of the soldiers, he could successfully win the support of the citizens, because the citizens were the main backbone of the army.

In the case of Athens, there were only three types of inhabitants in the city-state: citizens, freemen, and slaves.

Citizens have political power, and the citizens' assembly formed by the citizens can determine the specific direction of Athens' military, diplomatic, legal and other related policies, for example, the honorable title of Hercules "Great Guardian of Athens" was given by the citizens' assembly, even if the Athenian king Eurystheus can exile Hercules, but he cannot deprive him of his title and the glory bestowed on him by the citizens.

The Citizens' Assembly settles all the major events of the city-state, and any citizen has the right to vote in the Citizens' Assembly and the right to be elected, and they may be elected to the council, enter the executive branch, and be required to take turns in jury court, these are both rights and obligations, the most important of which is to be a member of the army.

The obligation to be a soldier was not obvious in Athens, but in Sparta, Thrace, a city-state known throughout Greece for its martial virtues, the energy of the military citizens was of great importance.

He was supported by the army, and he was also supported by the citizens.

"Our son, to be exact." Hercules said mercilessly, and Princess Eginia's face was a little gloomy.

Their sons refer to both William and Arius.

"The civil war in Thrace has already torn the country apart and shed blood, and the current army is made up of makeshift peasants and merchants, and if you can't defeat Ressos, then you won't be able to keep your throne, and Ressos is loyal to the previous king, my husband, and likewise to my son Alius, let my son inherit your throne, then there is no need for this senseless war to continue, and the whole country will be reconciled accordingly."

Princess Eginia looked at her son, who was eating at the side, and just before that, his young and ignorant son Alius was pestering Hercules, begging him to tell him about his twelve adventures, and he also told them all about them, as if he were Hercules' number one fan.

She did not have the luxury of asking Hercules to give the throne to Alius, but she also made her own conditions, marrying Hercules to become his throne, and her son Alius to become Thrace's future heir.

Hercules took a sip of wine and was thinking deeply, but his eyes were fixed on William, as if he wanted to say something, and he heard William speak first, "If you want to unify all 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, and he also had bad memories.

"You really think that I can unify all of Greece."

Hercules had a confused look on his face, even if Hera personally appeared to let him complete the twelve impossible great trials, he would not be so confused, but the small goal that William said was to unify all of Greece.

Greece was only a small and insignificant country in Europe in later generations, and it was never the protagonist of Europe, let alone a place in European military and politics, but before the rise of the Roman Empire, the whole of Greece was indeed once wide

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As the saying goes, there are five of the four heavenly kings, and there are also five of the four major civilizations, of which the fifth is the Aegean civilization and the Greek civilization.

For the Greeks of this era, Greece is their world, the whole world, if Zeus really exists, then Zeus will never allow any king to unify the whole of Greece, the king of kings has always belonged to Zeus.

No one in history has ever been able to unify the whole of Greece, there has never been such a person, and it can even be said that this is an unprecedented feat, which no one has done before, has not done now, and will not be done in the future.

In Homer's time, King Agamemnon led all the Greek city-states to fight Troy as a commander-in-chief, and as the commander of the Greek coalition, he had the power to dominate the kings, princes, generals, and soldiers of other city-states, and once had the title of King of Kings, which was also hated by Zeus and laid the groundwork for his tragic fate. Z.br>

Agamemnon was the closest monarch to the title of king of all Greece, but neither Agamemnon nor Achilles had yet to be born, and Teylo had just been founded.

The closest time to the unification of Greece in the Homeric era was during the Peloponnesian War, when the Persian king Xerxes I commanded an army of 500,000 to attack Greece, which led to the unity of all the Greek city-states, and fought a thirty-year war under the leadership of Athens and Sparta, and finally repelled Persia.

If you don't count, the Roman Empire helped unify all of Greece, then the most recent unification was the unification of the whole of Greece by Alexander the Great of the Kingdom of Macedonia, but even Alexander the Great, the son of Zeus, did not completely unify the whole of Greece.

Qin Shi Huang eliminated the Six Kingdoms and unified the world, but he only left Wei Guo, which does not affect later generations to say that he unified China, the reason is that Wei Guo is insignificant.

Alexander the Emperor unified all of Greece but did not deal with Sparta, one of the two Greek heroes, so Alexander's unification is seriously flawed, just like later generations will regard the Han and Tang dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties as a unified dynasty, but will not regard the Song Dynasty, which lost the sixteen states of Yanyun as a unified dynasty, is the same reason.

Greece was never truly unified, so if Hercules had been unified for the first time, he would have achieved no less glory than Alexander and himself, who had accomplished twelve feats.

In fairy tales and mythology, whether it is the destruction of Troy by the Greek army on the side of Achilles, or the Norman conquest by Duke William, its unity is as great a glory and merit as the conquest.

"Of course." William affirmed that the territory of the Hellenic Republic had long since been lost, and that nothing would be remembered by history more than his first unification.

Everyone knows that it was Qin Shi Huang who unified China, but Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Sima Yan, the founder of the Great Unification Dynasty of later generations, did not unify the world.

The unification of later emperors is certainly meaningful, but it has never been as valuable as the unification of Qin Shi Huang.

Hercules, as the only person in history to unify all of Greece, will surely become a symbol of the Greek state in history.