Forcing a Truce

While Camius was busy recruiting soldiers from the mercenaries, Alexander also remembered to make recruitment drives in Adhan itself, offering large cash prizes to anyone willing to join him.

He particularly targeted the Adhanian army that fought with him, and the army officers.

Hence, out of the four to five hundred thousand men in the city, about fifty thousand agreed to move to Alexander.

But such a huge exodus managed to alarm Ptolomy and so Alexander had to settle for just seven thousand, even then he had to pay Ptolomy a pretty commission.

But Alexander dished it out, for he feared the population in his territory might be non-existent.

Done with all, Alexander had one final job to do, where he tasked the artisans to make some new things for him.

The first and most important thing he ordered was the making of a heavy plow.

Ptolomy had told him Zanzan was infertile because of its heavy clay soil, which was true when using the light, wooden plows the world used today.