Chapter 160 The Right Choice for Persephone
Sparta City.
After returning to the temporary residence with Thetis, Inoe and Artemeta, Luo Yin's mood did not calm down.
Because Luo Yin was just avoiding the problem now, and did not really solve the problem.
In the courtyard of the temporary residence.
Luo Yin sat on the stone bench and stared blankly at the olive trees planted in the courtyard, not realizing that Thetis had quietly sat beside him.
"Dear!"
After hearing Thetis' voice, Luo Yin immediately fell on her, resting his head on her legs and said.
"I'm sorry..."
Thetis gently hugged Luo Yin's head with both hands and said.
"You don't need to apologize to me! I have already said that no matter what choice you make, I will accept it willingly."
"If only they could think like you."
As soon as he finished this sentence, Luo Yin couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"I am indeed a greedy scumbag."
"No matter how greedy you are, I will forgive you."
"Then can you tell me how I can keep all of you by my side?"
"Dear, you actually know how to keep them by your side."
Thetis said with a faint smile.
"Why are In'ore and Artemeta willing to stay by your side without asking you for anything? Because In'ore and Artemeta have fallen, In'ore was once reduced to a slave, and Artemeta was robbed of the throne that originally belonged to her, so they will not forcefully demand to become your wife. Athena, Insmene, Persephone and others have the pride of being goddesses and queens. It is a huge humiliation and humiliation for them to want them to become your concubines. Then you only need to break their pride, take away their city-states, and let them fall like In'ore and Artemeta, and they will naturally accept the fate of becoming concubines."
After listening to Thetis' words, Luo Yin said with a smile.
"Thetis, I want them to stay with me as my wives, not to turn them into my enemies. Inor was made a slave by Hercules, and Artemeta was deprived of her throne by Atreus, so I am not worried that they will be dissatisfied with me. If I push them into the abyss of decline and conquer their city-states, they may hate me forever."
"You don't want to hurt them, but you want to keep them all by your side - I can't think of a better way."
After the two fell into silence, Luo Yin greedily enjoyed Thetis's lap pillow.
Just when Luo Yin was about to fall asleep, the plants in the courtyard suddenly withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Luo Yin woke up and saw Persephone suddenly appear in the courtyard in the form of the goddess of death with black hair and purple boy.
After meeting Luo Yin's eyes, Persephone said in a cold voice with an expressionless face.
"It seems that I have disturbed your world of two."
"Sister Persephone——"
Luo Yin hurriedly left Thetis, got up and walked towards Persephone with a guilty conscience.
"Just now I was just sleeping, not enjoying the world of two."
Seeing Persephone's cold face and silent, Luo Yin stretched out his hands to hug her waist, and then carried her light body back to the stone bench.
Luo Yin sat down again and let Persephone sit in his arms. Persephone then hugged Luo Yin's neck with both hands, showing a smug smile and said to Thetis.
"Thetis, I know you are not a threat to me, so I don't regard you as an enemy, and I don't mind you being with him."
Thetis said without showing any weakness.
"I just don't want to make it too difficult for him, not that I don't have the confidence to compete with you."
"No matter how much authority you have in the sea, you can't pose a threat to us on land."
After pointing out Thetis's weakness, Persephone said to Luo Yin.
"Stupid brother! Have you figured it out now? I am your right choice. The Pylos region is a plain area rich in grain. I am the goddess of agriculture who controls the harvest. As long as you get me, you will no longer have to worry about food."
In the era of barter, gold and gems are just beautiful decorations.
All kinds of food are the hard currency in trade and are also indispensable necessities for establishing hegemony.
After all, without enough food to supply the population, even large city-states cannot summon tens of thousands of troops to attack hostile city-states.
In real history hundreds of years later, the Dorians who invaded the Peloponnese Peninsula were able to establish hegemony and eventually defeat the Kingdom of Athens, the richest city-state in Greece, because although the Dorians did not match the wealth of the Kingdom of Athens, they ruled the Pylos region rich in grain.
Of course, Luo Yin knew how important the Pylos region was to him.
If he could not get the Pylos region, Luo Yin would have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to trade grain with farming tribes from the Black Sea coast or other regions.
"Sister Persephone..."
Holding Persephone's slender waist tightly, Luo Yin said hesitantly.
"I know how important the Pylos region is to me, and I don't want to lose you. But I don't want to take advantage of your feelings for another man, so I must tell you that I am not the man you know."
"You are saying strange things again."
Persephone put her smooth forehead against Luo Yin's, and then looked into Luo Yin's eyes and said.
"The person I am willing to give up my status as a virgin and want to marry is not the other man you mentioned, but you who saved me from being forced to marry Zeus and Hades!"
Luo Yin asked suspiciously.
"Are you telling the truth? I am the one you love now. Even if I am not another man, are you still willing to marry me?"
After Persephone nodded without hesitation, Thetis followed.
"My dear, I don't think of you as anyone else. You saved me on Mount Pelion, so that I wouldn't have to suffer the humiliation of the human man Peleus. Now you are the one I love, the one I am willing to devote my body and soul to." Object."
"You are all lying to me!"
Recalling that before Thetis regained her memory, even if he saved her, she was still wary of him, Luo Yin said with some dissatisfaction.
"Since you are willing to marry me even if you lie, then I don't have to worry about it anymore. Even if you finally find out that I am not him, you have no right to blame me."
Seeing Luo Yin's determined expression, Persephone said with a smile.
"Idiot brother, are you willing to marry me now?"
"Um!"
Luo Yin nodded and said.
"I need the Pylos region to solve the food problem! And with the Pylos region, I can conquer the Peloponnese Peninsula and establish my hegemony."
Persephone showed a sweet smile and was about to press her lips towards Luo Yin——
Yinsmene's voice suddenly sounded.
"Although Pylos is a rich agricultural area, it is not the only agricultural area. I originally wanted to invite you to conquer the Thessaly area north of Thebes, and let the vast and rich Thessaly plain become your granary - —Now it seems that my idea is redundant, maybe Athena will be more interested in Thessaly area.”