Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"I really admire the leader of Davos, he not only directs operations, but also has ideas for doing business! He made a lot of valuable suggestions, such as at the entrance of the market, I was planning to use two heavily armed soldiers to come The guard, the leader said, "This is not good, it will scare the customers who come to buy and sell, we have to consider the customer's feelings," so it becomes what you see, and now it seems that the customers are responding well... haha... By the way, including these weighing devices is also his suggestion. There are still many such suggestions. The reason why this market can become so lively in just 20 days is mainly due to his credit! I think even if he is inappropriate The mercenary, with his talents, is sure to become a big businessman!" These words from Mariji came from the heart.

"Yeah, it's really unexpected." Burcos said copingly, thinking about something in his heart.

He turned and walked to the market, and Mariji hurried to keep up, acting as a guide.

As the crowd of people moves forward, the first stall is of course the mercenary’s own, so the area is very large, and there are many strange objects and exquisite gold and silver objects placed in different categories... Stop here, watch, There are many people asking prices.

"Mersis!" Marigi called out.

The fat man who commanded the slaves to move things behind the stall looked back and immediately said with pride: "Marigi, are you here to congratulate me?! I can sell a lot of goods today!"

Before waiting for Mariji to answer, he saw Burcos, and a smile appeared on his face immediately: "Brcos, you are also here to buy things. Exactly, I have a good thing here, guess what?" said, He lifted the thing in his hand, the golden light was shining, and the eyes of the flower were: it was a thin silver rope, which was filled with thin gold pieces like cicada wings, forming an inverted triangle, and a silver rope was pulled out at the top. ...

When Marigi's eyes narrowed, he heard Mercy shouting, "Marigi, don't talk!"

"What is this?" Moras asked curiously.

Seeing everyone curiously surround me, Mercis put on a wretched smile and said mysteriously: "This is the gift from Little Cyrus to his most beautiful princess, and the best goldsmith in Persia. The little thing created by Little Cyrus that can provide fun in that respect! Guess, where will the little concubine's princess wear it?"

"Is it...below..." someone shouted uncertainly.

"That's right, it seems that you are very experienced!" Mercis finished, and there was an ambiguous laugh around him.

"It is said that the little princess Aphrodite wore it every night, together with the little prussian... well... when the little princess died in battle, his princess was captured by the Persian king. We were picked up by our soldiers in the barracks." Mercis lifted the gold chain and flew in front of everyone: "You sniff... there may be the body fragrance of the little Princess of Ruth!" If you want to stay by yourself, it’s a pity that I don’t have a wife yet. Think about it, you can buy it and you can feel the joy of life in the Persian royal family with your wife or lover!”

After Burkos listened, he was also a little emotional.

A person next to him has shouted, "How much? I bought it!"

At first glance, Burcos knew that he was a businessman in the city of Sirith.

"It's not expensive. You see, how delicate this thing is! And, these are made of pure gold, and the weight is not light!" Mercis hand twisted the gold chain and issued a low "Wow!" The sound of "Wow": "The lowest price is... um... fifty Dalik coins."

"I have fifty-five gold coins. This thing belongs to me!" the Siliting merchant shouted.

"I have sixty gold coins!" one shouted.

"Hey, I bought it first!"

"But my price is higher than yours!"

"Sixty-five Dalik coins!"

...

Mariji did not expect that Mercis had made such a wealth of life tools that the Persian nobles used as royal objects.But he didn't want to remind Mersish that if Christoia had heard about it, I'm afraid he would not have a good impression on him.

Seeing Burcos crowd out of the crowd, he hurriedly followed.

"I think you have businessmen from other city-states coming here to buy and sell," Burkes said.

"There are many. There are city-states such as Tarantum, Silitian, Kaurenia, Crotone."

Burkos's eyelids jumped when he heard Crotone.

At this time, Moras pointed to the dozen strong men in front and said, "These people are soldiers in your barracks."

Mariji looked at it and replied: "It may be a soldier from the mercenary camp next to it."

"I think there are a lot of soldiers buying goods in this market. It seems that your soldiers are very rich." Burcos said jokingly.

Mariji smiled perfunctoryly: "Mercenaries, after today, I don't even know if there will be tomorrow. Of course, if you have money, you should enjoy it."

Burcos heard this, his expression dimmed, and sighed, "Yes, no one is easy to live in this troubled world."

Mariji did not speak.In fact, the soldiers in the Davis Barracks are not in such a state of mind at all.Davis inherited and promoted Menon's practice, and he strengthened the role of the camp.During the war, the soldiers handed over most of the property to the custody camp, and even had to write clearly on the registration form of the cinch camp who will inherit the property in case of misfortune.So that after his death, he can hand over his relics to the heir... and so on.And when the soldier urgently needs money and the money is not enough, he can borrow money from the mercenary leader Daveus. As long as the request is reasonable, Merseys of the battalion will deduct the arrears after the loan from the monthly salary. And there is no interest... These practices of the military camp not only enable the soldiers to reduce their concerns and fight with all their strength, but also reduce gambling, usury, and wasteful spending in the military.

Mariji was sure that most of the soldiers who squandered money in the market were never from the Davis Barracks, and the number of soldiers that the military barracks per day was limited. There is only two quotas for a squad. Dispute with military law.

Mariji witnessed with his own eyes: How many times did Davies face the blame for changing this army, and even almost disbanded the army, but he did not give up, and finally survived.Nowadays these soldiers can act according to military regulations, most of the time they are either on the training ground, what kind of camp facilities are being built, or go to the camp to see how much their money has increased.From their burning eyes with calm eyes, they can feel that this is no longer an ordinary mercenary.

Mariji had seen the Spartan army led by Crisopus, a group of disciplined killing machines, but in addition to fighting, lack of passion for life.He has also seen the Persian army, despite the large number, but the discipline is loose, lack of conviction, especially the servant army.And this army of Daphes not only has the bravery and discipline of the Spartans, but also has the faith to fight desperately for better survival, not to mention that they also have a magical commander.What if Davis did not have 2,000 people but 20,000 or 30,000?This beautiful idea is one of the reasons that attracted Marigi to stay...

"I found that you have everything in this market!" Burkos' voice interrupted Mariji's thoughts.

"There is a blacksmith shop!"

"It's just a small shop that takes orders. Turiyi won't let us into the city, but our weapons will always need to be repaired and purchased." Marigi explained.

"Then buy clay pots?"

"We can't use water to boil soup."

"Cloth shop?"

"The soldiers' clothing has not been changed for half a year. You can't let them wear armor even when they are not fighting."

"Then the stone shop?"

"Our camp can't just use trees, the key position is still firm with stones."

"What about this rig shop?! Don't tell me, you mercenaries will also build a fleet!" Burcos gathered angrily on his face and scolded loudly: "You are a robbery! You have robbed the market of Turui, Stealing Turri's wealth!"

Mariji lowered his head and argued in a low voice: "The amount of goods bought and sold is not much--"

Note: Scylletium, a city-state in Greater Greece, is south of Crotone.