On the banks of the Luo River, the moment the young Pharaoh put on the crown, he understood——
In the city of Thebes, he is not necessarily the one who really holds the handle of the sword.
The Queen Mother Hequese sits in the palace, the old nobles and priests occupy the court, and the military power of Aswan in the south and the tax power of trade in the north stretch out their invisible hands. The young pharaoh learned to bow his head under the stone statues of the gods, and quietly figured out everyone's bottom line between ceremony and etiquette.
Until one day, an urgent message from Tyre broke the superficial calm.
The tribes around Kadesh were vacillating, the Hittites and Mitanni were wrestling in secret, and the shadow of Assyria loomed far behind the caravan. Once the trade route to Tyre was choked, the gold, grain, and copper and stone in the Nile Delta would be dragged down by this river valley and sink together.
In the meeting hall of Thebes, everyone had their own motives: some were advising to defend, some were advising to make peace, and some were just focusing on the tariffs and titles in front of them.
However, amidst the opposition, the young Pharaoh chose the most dangerous path——
With the port of Tyre as the backing and Kadesh as the outpost, he wanted to play his first open-card bet with the Hittites on this buffer land.
Meanwhile, east of Aleppo, Mitanni's allies suddenly appeared
Between rumors and fear, the young pharaoh used this corpse to quietly lay out his own "scapegoat."
The emissary was ordered to travel far away, delivering the plot against Mitanni with one hand, and the credentials to Assyria with the other;
Gods be damned, everyone said he was too young and too adventurous.
But he knew that if the bet on Kadesh failed, he, the pharaoh, would be nothing more than a puppet under the crown.
On the day of the upcoming solar eclipse, the sun will be obscured by dark shadows.
And the light belonging to the Sons of Horus was just about to shine out of the darkness.
This is not destiny, this is a bet.
He staked his crown, his friends, his army, and the future of the entire valley.
Concept: Adapting a fantasy novel about ancient Egypt