Chapter 236 The Combined Fleet Protecting the Shipping Route

The day after Yin Asong, Telamon, and Augeas returned to the Argo ship with the news that Luo Yin had become the king of Colchis.

Twenty Argonauts, led by Yin Asong, came to Kitea on behalf of their respective city-states.

Luo Yin, accompanied by Circe and Medea, received these companions.

The palace hall.

Luo Yin sat on the king's throne, and Circe and Medea sat on Luo Yin's left and right, squeezing their petite bodies into Luo Yin's arms.

[To be honest, I have been using Reading to catch up recently, switching sources, and reading aloud with many voices, both Android and Apple. ]

Yin Asong and the heroes who entered the hall looked at this scene, and none of them could understand how Luo Yin got the love of two foreign princesses.

"Meleager, are you really the king of Colchis now?"

After the Spartan prince Castor asked with concern.

Luo Yin explained to the heroes.

"The Colchis Kingdom worships the goddess, so the princesses also have the right to inherit the throne. Now that the two princesses of the Colchis Kingdom have fallen in love with me, I am naturally the undisputed King of Colchis."

The inheritance system in Greece is that the daughter's inheritance right is second only to the son, so the heroes did not doubt Luo Yin's words.

Augeas said impatiently.

"Meleager! We are trading grain with the Colchis Kingdom. How do you plan to set the price?"

"As the heir of the Calydonian Kingdom and the King of Colchis, I don't want the Calydonians to suffer, nor do I want the Colchis people to suffer, because they are all my subjects. So I decided to use a sheep to exchange for 200 kilograms of grain to achieve a grain trade between the Calydonian Kingdom and the Colchis Kingdom. If you can accept this price, the Colchis Kingdom will also sell grain to you."

One sheep for 200 kilograms of grain -

According to the level of this era, this is definitely a conscience price.

The heroes looked at Luo Yin excitedly and said.

"Dear Meleager, please let my city-state trade grain with the Kingdom of Colchis at the same price."

"As long as you help us solve the grain problem, my city-state is willing to form an alliance with the Kingdom of Calydon and let the King of Calydon become the leader of the alliance."

"My city-state is willing to become a vassal of the Kingdom of Calydon."

Looking at the heroes who are the kings of the city-states or the royal families of the city-states scrambling to flatter Luo Yin, Yin Asong was extremely depressed.

If the goddess of love Aphrodite helped him get the love of Medea, he should be sitting on the throne of the king now and become the target that the heroes want to please.

With the support of the city-states represented by the heroes, he can force Pelias to return the throne of Iolcas to him with an irresistible momentum, or stay in the Kingdom of Colchis and rule the Kingdom of Colchis, whose territory and population are a hundred times that of the Kingdom of Iolcas.

In Yin Asong's view, Luo Yin can eat soft rice from women, so he is certainly more qualified.

Luo Yin didn't care about Yin Asong's reaction, and nodded to the heroes.

"As long as everyone can accept my price, I am happy to help your city-state solve the food problem. Now the trade routes of the Mediterranean world and the Black Sea world may face various threats. In order to protect our trade routes, I plan to form a Greek joint fleet to fight our maritime hostile forces. If you don't want to join the joint fleet, you can also use protection fees in exchange for the protection of the joint fleet."

Joint Fleet-

After listening to Luo Yin's words, the heroes couldn't help but imagine.

If the city-states really formed a joint fleet, then Luo Yin became the leader of the joint fleet, which was equivalent to becoming the king of kings above the city-states.

Although the emergence of the joint fleet was a huge threat to the independence of the city-states, the heroes could not raise any objections.

Because Luo Yin controlled the food they wanted, those who opposed the joint fleet proposed by Luo Yin would face sanctions from Luo Yin for not selling food to them.

The heroes representing the weak city-states hesitated for a moment and expressed their support for Luo Yin's joint fleet.

Because their city-states are used to being vassals of powerful city-states, becoming vassals of Luo Yin will not cause them much loss.

Only heroes representing powerful city-states would not want to see Luo Yin use the joint fleet to seize hegemony.

If the heroes representing various city-states can unite to oppose the joint fleet, Luo Yin must make concessions and give up the formation of a joint fleet.

Unfortunately, the various city-states are scattered, with various contradictions and even hatred between each other, and it is impossible to unite together.

Seeing that no one opposes the formation of a joint fleet, Luo Yin continued.

"Since everyone does not object, first I will use the manpower and material resources of the Kingdom of Calydon and the King of Colchis to provide a hundred warships and five thousand sailors for the joint fleet. Next, I will also invite the maritime powers including Troy City to join our joint fleet."

Luo Yin's cheap father-in-law, Eurytus, the king of Okalia City on Eubia Island, said immediately.

"Our Okalia City can provide ten warships and five hundred sailors for the joint fleet, and can also lend the port to the joint fleet."

Other heroes said one after another.

"My city-state can provide eight warships and four hundred sailors."

"My city-state can provide twenty warships--"

In the blink of an eye, the combined fleet had hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of sailors.

In this era, even if an empire with a population of one million launches a war, it can usually only invest 30,000 to 50,000 troops, and they are still infantry.

During the Trojan War, the Greek coalition and the city of Troy invested 100,000 troops on the battlefield, but this was only the result of exaggerating the data tenfold.

After all, according to the setting of Greek mythology, one hundred thousand Greek coalition troops fought on the coast of Troy for ten years, and the Greek mainland could not provide them with the food they consumed.

After the formation of a combined fleet with hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of sailors, let alone conquering those coastal areas with backward civilization, it would be no problem to even challenge the West Taiwan Empire and the Egyptian Empire head-on.

Because at this time, the Xitai Empire and the Egyptian Empire were both land powers with a population of one million, and they did not develop powerful navies.

This is also the reason why the island of Cyprus nominally submitted to the Xitai Empire and was not conquered by the Xitai Empire.

"Establishing a combined fleet is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Before the combined fleet protects trade routes, I will not only protect the trade routes personally, but also communicate with coastal city-states near the trade routes to ask them to provide protection for the trade routes. Continue When you come down, you can return to your respective city-states and form a fleet to bring your goods to the Kingdom of Colchis to exchange for food!"

After speaking, Luo Yin ordered the palace maid to bring the food, wine and fruits needed for the banquet.

"My dear friends! When you return to your hometown, please transfer my affairs to my family. Because the Kingdom of Calydon is as weak as the Kingdom of Arcadia, I also hope that you can deal with Calydon. The Kingdom of Winter provides some help and allows the Kingdom of Calydon to borrow your port.”

The port of the Kingdom of Calydon was located in the Gulf of Corinth.

If you want to trade with the Kingdom of Colchis without borrowing ports from other city-states, you will have to go around the Peloponnese Peninsula, which will increase the cost and time of trade.

Eurytus said immediately.

"Meleager, the Kingdom of Calydon can use the port of Eubia."

Acastus, who represents the city of Iolkas, also said.

"The Kingdom of Calydon also has access to the ports in Thessaly."