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Chapter 6 Chess Players

After a while in the tent, Orivers heard Orefus say, "It's a pity that Little Cyrus died in battle! Although he is a Persian prince, he is very polite to people and likes to help people. He is also very handsome and likes to be loved by women. Even the queen of Silesia became his mistress. If he doesn't die, he will definitely become a good king!"

If you are good-looking and can pick up girls, you are a good king? What's this bullshit logic! Davers secretly complained.

"Yes! Little Cyrus doesn't look down on us like other Persians. He is really kind to us Greeks! If he becomes king, our Greeks and Persians will definitely get better!" said Giorgris.

"And he is a warrior, not as weak as other Persians!" Martonis echoed.

"The most important thing is that he is very generous! He gave us a lot of gold coins!" Olivers emphasized again, which led to everyone's claim that it was.

Is this a memorial service for Little Cyrus? Davers was amused. Based on the remaining memories of this body, he couldn't help but say, "Is Little Cyrus generous? I don't think so! You see, first of all, he owes us more than three months of salary, and he never gave it until the Queen of Silesia later reviewed the troops and gave it four months of money."

"When we suspect that Cyrus was preparing to fight the Persian king and refused to move forward, he agreed to increase our salary from one and a half to one to one and a half months in order to convince us. Did he give the money for the next two months? Don't forget that he had ordered us to threaten the King of Silesia, and the timid king gave him a large sum of money. When we knew Cyrus' plan and made a big fuss at the rally, Cyrus promised to give us five silver coins for each of us after capturing Babylon. But did he give it?"

After a while, Olivers replied bitterly: "He is dead!"

"Look, Little Cyrus took us to this place about three thousand miles from Greece without spending a silver coin of his own - on a land full of dangerous enemy countries. If he had told us at the beginning that he was going to war with the Persian king, would we agree?"

Three people shook their heads like puppets.

"He concealed the truth. He gave a little benefit at one time, just like using grass to lure the flock forward. In the end, he couldn't agree." Davers sighed and said, "Little Cyrus is a clever liar! He didn't pay any price, so he let more than 10,000 Greeks fight to the death for his conspiracy. It's amazing!"

The tent was silent again, and soon Olivers began to curse: "Damn Little Cyrus! Damn Persian! And that idiot Menon! Every time I actively let us be pioneers, saying that Little Cyrus would be grateful to us and could give us more rewards. This idiot Menon not only has his mouth rotten, but his head rotten too. Sooner and later we will be killed by him!...Oh...my belly...I'm almost starving!"

Davers was amused when he saw Olivers making a fuss there. Not to mention that he had seen intrigues in the government before, Emperor Kangxi and the Qianlong Dynasty on TV emerged one after another. Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs running!

Little Cyrus was born in the palace, the palace, and it was not that simple to be able to be the military commander of western Persia. Just by looking at his tricks on the Greeks, you can see his powerful wrists. As for Menon, I'm afraid he was not stupid. As the leader of the mercenary, he might have known Little Cyrus' plan to push his compatriots into the fire pit, but it was just a greedy man.

"Davs, you couldn't say such words before. You are really... really..." Martonis asked carefully.

Davers knew that Matonis had a good relationship with "him" because of his similar personalities. So he said, "Matonis, no matter what happened, I am still me, I have always been your good brother! I have always been thankful for your care for me! I hope you can continue to help me!" Davers is now thinking about the "goddess" repeatedly mentioned by others. In the past thirty years of social experience, if he wants to play a 19-year-old simple-minded Greek, he doesn't want to disguise or disguise. It's better to let others think so. This should be... good. Therefore, he neither denies nor admits the vague reply.

Unexpectedly, Matonis was so energetic: "Don't worry! With me here, no one dares to bully you!"

"Davers, can we go home?" Giogris's voice was filled with worry.

Obviously, Davers' revelation of Cyrus of Little made them begin to doubt their abilities.

Davers smiled bitterly. Although he did not know the development process of this historical event, Chinese history told him that the emperor of a feudal dynasty hated the most was rebellion. I think the same should be true in the West. Moreover, they were also Gentiles and invaders. Unless the Persian king had a brain disease, he would definitely completely destroy them to shock all those with dissatisfaction!

As for attacking the Persian army and taking Babylon, Davers was not optimistic, otherwise the name of this incident should be "Greece's 10,000 Great Arrival" rather than "Great Retreat". However, he said: "Don't worry! We can go home smoothly."

He turned his head, looked at the other people's expressions that were obviously much more relaxed, and sighed in his heart: These simple-minded guys are good. They don't even think about how dangerous the current situation is. It is also a kind of happiness to place life on my "oracle".

Davers was thinking, and suddenly remembered a movie "2012" I saw in his previous life: When the disaster of destruction came, those powerful and wealthy people could easily sit on the seven Noah's ark, while ordinary civilians depended on luck... Yes, being a chess piece can only be at the mercy of others; being a chess player can take their destiny into your own hands! But how can you become a chess player?

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In the afternoon, Hilos's team received half a bag of wheat flour and more than a dozen dates.

Everyone struggled and started making bread. Davers actively helped and asked while doing it, because he had only gained theories from his memory.

The method of making ancient Greek bread was actually similar to that of Chinese pasta, and the most important thing was fermentation. Bread was the staple food of the Greeks. When marching and fighting, the yeast was also carried with you and it was well preserved.

After kneading the flour, I put it on the iron plate and bake it with the firewood I picked up. In the evening, everyone ate the simple bread, filled the stomach, and fell asleep hurriedly.

In the early morning of the next day, Hilos woke everyone up and told them: "The messenger of Ariros came, and he said, 'He was going to take his troops back to his hometown Asia'. The leaders were unwilling to go back empty-handedly and promised him, 'If Ariros would continue to attack Babylon with them. They were willing to regard him as King of Persia, and sent Kerithops and Menon to persuade Ariros with the messenger."

"Why send Menon?" Martonis asked in confusion.

"Don't you know that Menon and Aliros have a good relationship?" Olivers smiled ambiguously.

"Can they convince Aliros?" said Giogris worriedly.

Everyone turned their eyes to Davers. After a night, he had become their spiritual backbone. Davers felt a lot of pressure, but he did not escape, pondered for a while, and then shook his head: Aliros was a Persian nobleman. In the past, he was forced to participate in the rebellion as an adjutant of Cyrus. Now if he rebelled with the Greeks again, if he failed, he would not only be finished by himself, but his family would also be implicated. If he was really ambitious, he should immediately take over everything about Cyrus and join forces with the Greek mercenaries in time. It was not until today that he would go home. Obviously, after repeated consideration, he made a decision.

After receiving a negative answer, everyone showed disappointed expressions on their faces.

"Brothers, these should be the things the leaders worry about. Let's do what we should do." Hilos hurriedly said: "Menon asked us to slaughter all the excess livestock in the baggage team and prepare more food."

Finally I can eat enough! This news temporarily dispels the haze in everyone's heart.
Chapter completed!
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