Reversing Greek Mythology

The origin of the rise of Black Sea trade was the transformation of nomadic peoples along the Black Sea coast into agricultural peoples.

The city-states along the eastern Mediterranean coast, especially the Greeks, seemed to have discovered a new continent and began to flock to the Black Sea trade to buy the food they needed most.

In the immigration era hundreds of years later, the Greeks established a large number of Greek colonial city-states along the Black Sea coast.

The main reason why the Greeks attached great importance to Black Sea trade was that before the rise of Greek maritime activities, the trade routes in the Mediterranean world had been monopolized by more advanced maritime powers, and only the Black Sea world was still an unexplored treasure land.

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Now for Luo Yin, relying on the powerful national power of the Kingdom of Colchis to monopolize the Black Sea trade routes, and then competing with the maritime powers of the Mediterranean for maritime hegemony, is indeed a new way to gain hegemony.

However, when Luo Yin came to this era, he really no longer had the ambition to fight for hegemony.

Luo Yin wanted to form a huge combined fleet, just to protect the trade routes.

After all, in this era, whether a foreigner coming by boat is a sea robber or a merchant at sea all depends on whether the locals have the ability to protect themselves.

If the locals are not strong enough, the foreigners who come by boat will plunder everything by force and become businessmen without capital.

If the locals are strong, foreigners arriving by boat will conduct normal trade.

The port outside Kitea.

On the day when the Argonauts left on the Argonaut ship, Luo Yin took Circe and Medea to the port to say goodbye to their companions.

The heroes shouted slogans and shook the oars. After the Argonaut sailed along the Faris River towards the Black Sea, Luo Yin quickly withdrew his gaze and looked at the local ships in the port.

In the myth of the Journey to the Golden Fleece, the Argonauts fled with Medea and the Golden Fleece, and the angry King Aeetes of Colchis ordered his soldiers to bring back Medea, a flock of birds. The dense fleet immediately chased the Argonauts at sea.

It can be seen from the myth that the Kingdom of Colchis, as a coastal country, is also a powerful maritime power.

Luo Yin frowned dissatisfiedly when he saw hundreds of ships, large and small, moored at the bay of the Faris River.

"Such backward wooden ships may be able to dominate the Black Sea, but to enter the Mediterranean and protect trade routes, larger and stronger warships must be built."

Medea asked, holding Luo Yin's arm.

"What kind of ship does my brother want to build?"

"The warships of this era are most afraid of fire attacks or collisions with enemy warships, so I want to build an iron boat that is wrapped in iron sheets and is not afraid of fire attacks or collisions with enemy warships."

"As expected of my brother, he has such a wonderful idea that is a thousand years ahead of this era."

Medea looked at Luo Yin with eyes full of admiration and said.

"But there are no iron mines in the western part of the South Caucasus region where the Kingdom of Colchis is located. If my brother wants to build an iron ship, he must first conquer the eastern part of the South Caucasus region, and then look for iron mines and blacksmiths."

This is 3,300 years ago, an era when humans used bronze weapons.

Only the powerful Xitai Empire became the first country in West Asia to invent iron smelting and use iron tools in order to meet the needs of the war.

In other words, if Luo Yin wanted to make iron boats, he had to obtain a blacksmith from the Xitai Empire.

Circe said with a worried expression.

"My brother wants to make a large number of iron boats, and I'm afraid he will need hundreds of blacksmiths. It is not an easy task to get so many blacksmiths from the Xitai Empire."

"I'm not in any hurry about making tin boats."

Luo Yin said with a smile.

"We can get a few blacksmiths from the Xitai Empire and let them teach the blacksmith skills to the Colchis. While the Colchis are learning the blacksmith skills, we can first conquer the eastern part of the South Caucasus and mine the iron there. Mine. And the current wooden warships can also meet the needs of dominating the Black Sea. As long as the Dardanelles Strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea is blocked, the Black Sea can become an inland sea for my combined fleet to sail freely. To control the Dardanelles, we must first reach cooperation with Troyin City on the east coast of the Dardanelles."

"Then I'll go with my brother."

After hearing Medea's words, Luo Yin asked with a hesitant expression.

"As one of the patron saints of the Kingdom of Colchis, can you leave here at will?"

"If I am the only patron saint of the Kingdom of Colchis, of course I cannot leave at will. But my sister and I are both the patron saints of the Kingdom of Colchis. As long as my sister is here, I can leave for a while."

After listening to Diadia's words, Luo Yin immediately understood.

If the only patron saint of the Kingdom of Colchis is Medea, after Medea leaves, the Kingdom of Colchis will be in a dangerous state without a patron saint.

But Circe and Medea are both the patron saints of the Kingdom of Colchis. Even if Medea leaves with Luo Yin, there will still be Circe to protect the Kingdom of Colchis, and the Kingdom of Colchis will not be left without protection. God’s condition.

Seeing that Circe had no objection to Medea leaving with him, Luo Yin nodded and said.

"Then you come with me to Troyin and see the exotic customs there."

Three days later.

Luo Yin and Medea took a hundred ships and sailed from the Faris River into the Black Sea.

The hundred ships had fifty warships and two thousand soldiers, and the remaining fifty ships were grain ships filled with grain.

If the Trojan king Laomedon was willing to cooperate, Luoyin would help the city of Troy develop into a trading center.

If Laomedon is unwilling to cooperate, Luo Yin will personally take over the city of Troy and control the Dardanelles in his own hands.

One hundred ships sailed in the Black Sea like a dense flock of birds. Occasionally, some pirates appeared in front of Luo Yin's fleet. When they saw the size of Luo Yin's fleet, they were frightened and ran away.

Luoyin's fleet did not encounter any fighting and finally arrived at the coast of Troyin safely.

Upon learning of the arrival of this large fleet, King Laomedon of Troy brought a thousand soldiers to the Trojan plain to test the intentions of the foreigners.

Scamandros River.

Laomedon stopped with his soldiers on the east bank, and then sent a messenger to contact the strangers.

Luo Yin and Medea came to the shore to see the envoy. While ordering the soldiers to disembark fully armed, they asked the envoy to tell Laomedon their intention.

The messenger returned to Laomedon and conveyed Luo Yin's words exactly as they were said.

If Laomedon is willing to cooperate with Luo Yin and help Luo Yin control the Dardanelles Strait, Luo Yin will develop Troy City into a center of grain trade, and Troy City can easily accumulate a lot of wealth.

If Laomedon was unwilling to cooperate, Luoyin would lead his soldiers to attack Troy and personally control Troy and the Dardanelles.

Faced with Luo Yin's threat, Laomedon would naturally not give in.

After all, Luoyin only has 2,000 soldiers. Troyin City carries out extreme mobilization and there are at least tens of thousands of soldiers.

The gap in strength between the two sides was so huge that Laomedon had no reason to surrender directly to Luo Yin.

So Laomedon sent an envoy to tell Luo Yin that he would never surrender to the robber-like foreigners.