Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Other city-states believe that land is the greatest wealth, so they are reluctant to accept the Gentiles and free people, and they are unwilling to share with them the benefits and wealth of the city-state. On the contrary, I think "people" are the city's greatest wealth! With people, you can grow food, make artworks, and create wealth! With people, you can build weapons, form armies, and defend city-states! With enough people, you can get much more land!" Daveus said Said firmly.

His words gave Kunogolata an unprecedented impact, as clever as he certainly would not know how to get much more land. Obviously, Daveus vaguely told him to obtain the "place" for new citizens. Source, so he was silent...

But the oldest son, Sostatus of Kunogolata, saw some warehouses and hotels on the construction site that were nearing completion, and asked, "I heard that you are going to attract Turiri businessmen and foreign businessmen to store here. Goods and accommodation, this is the warehouse and hotel under construction?"

"Yes."

"I think a lot of warehouses and hotels are going to be built here. Are the city-states going to manage these themselves?" Sostatus asked again.

Mercis heard what he said, and immediately said: "Of course not! There are not so many public officials in the city-state. Everyone has their own business. We are going to bid openly and rent them out."

"Auction" is a new word. The Greeks' excellent businessman genes made Sostatus quickly understand what was going on. He asked: "Can we participate?"

"Very welcome!" Mercis replied happily.

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Despite the fact that moving and decorating the house was busy for a long time, and the whole family was relatively tired, the Kunogolata woke up early the next morning, and getting up early was a habit he had developed for many years. The slave served him to get up and get up, he decided Helped by the slave to go out for a walk, and then come back for breakfast.

The homestead of Kunogolata is at the foot of the mountain of Amendolara. After the allocation of new citizens’ houses, there are still many empty houses. It can be seen that the previous war has caused great damage to Amendolara, only when Kunogo In the depths of Rata, we can understand why the original people of Amendolara were so angry at Turui.

Most of these empty houses were rented to freemen at low prices, so as soon as Kunogolata went out, he could see three and two freemen hurried to work, all of them with Turiyi on their faces. The energetic and passionless city-state freemen did not even meet the stranger Kuno Gorata, they would also speak grotesque Greek and greet them friendly.

Kunogolata knows the reason why they are passionate about life, from slaves to freemen, and their employers also pay the so-called "preparatory citizen tax" to the city-states. As long as they abide by the laws and regulations, they work hard , Two years later can become a city-state reserve citizen.

It was already June and the weather started to get hot.And in the city of Amendola, it is relatively cool, because it is built on the mountain, and the sea breeze and mountain breeze alternately blow this small city.

Kunogolata walks up the road and from time to time can meet the citizens who go down the hill. They are all working in the fields. Whether they are old citizens or new citizens, they say hello and laugh to each other, and they look very harmonious and follow. Their slaves also seemed very spirited, and it must be those deeds of mercenary slaves who became citizens that gave them hope.

What really surprised Kunogolata was that there were women along with them, listening to conversations or wives of citizens, not women of free citizens (for free livelihood, wives of free citizens tend to work out and earn money to subsidize their families, such as posing Stalls, restaurant employees, etc.), also prepared to accompany her husband to go to work.Recalling yesterday that my son mentioned some of his strange sights in the city, it seems to have been mentioned, and then look at the appearance of the woman, it is indeed a Lucania woman, if it is a traditional conservative gentile, it has been a fuss, but it has been in the political arena for many years. Kunogolata's first thought was the meaning of the city-state represented by this phenomenon. Obviously, Davis was not just talking about it. He was trying to assimilate the Lucanias in various ways.

This young man has extraordinary ambitions!Under his leadership, the small city of Amendolara is so quirky and different, but it has regained its vitality and vitality in such a short time!Kunogolata’s interest was even stronger. He found that there were many people who went down the mountain, but there were also many people who went up the mountain. Among them, there were many children. It was only after asking that there were Pythagorean disciples on the square that taught mathematics for free .

There is a Pythagorean school here!When Kunogolata was surprised, he suddenly remembered the scene of the first meeting, and instantly understood: this must be the line led by Aceta!But the Pythagorean School is against democracy and supports aristocratic politics, can Daves also tolerate it?!

But Kunogolata thought about it: Davos, as a lifelong governor, is Amendolara a democratic government!

When I came to the square, there were already some people around the platform in front of me, and a young man was teaching basic mathematics on the platform.

This young man is Mento Tick Els. He and Marti Keris were promised by Davos to prepare for a big job to recruit apprentices, but they strictly followed the tradition of the Pythagorean school. Requirements: The disciples must have a certain mathematical foundation, so they must be tested.

However, when they were inquired from house to house, they were rejected.First of all, most of the new citizens have a low level of education. Now they have just been assigned to the field house and are busy with everything. There is time to test and study. There are a few who want to learn in order to prepare for public participation in the future. , The head is big immediately; and although the old citizens have a higher education level than the new citizens, they can be busy on the one hand to bury their relatives, on the other hand, the Pythagorean school’s criticism in Greater Greece is not good, what secret association, worship Evil gods (they believe in "number" as a god), opposed city-states, etc. have long spread to all city-states, and of course they are not popular.

After being busy for a few days, one of the disciples did not receive any recruits, and the two were hit hard. They hung out all day in the city-state, inadvertently allowing them to discover the Hades number that Daveus taught Melis to use to facilitate bookkeeping ( (In fact, Arabic numerals), Greek scholars who studied mathematics in this era have a headache. Because the Greek characters representing numbers are cumbersome to write, once the number exceeds 10,000, it is difficult to write. This is for scholars to carry out formula calculations. There is a lot of trouble.But Hades numbers are simple, easy to learn, and easy to remember, but it easily solves the most troublesome problem in the mathematics world. It will definitely improve the efficiency of mathematics research. The most important thing is that mathematics will be more popular among the people.(Historically, the man who solved the problem of the Greeks was Archimedes, who pioneered the method of remembering large numbers)

At the thought of the two, the two were as treasured as possible, but Mercis refused to ask them to teach the secret of how to use this symbol, and said: "This is taught by Lord Davos and is said to be a gift from the Pluto. , You must get his permission to learn!"

The two had to come back to Davers again, and they thought it would be more difficult.However, Davers immediately agreed. He said: "Mathematics comes from daily life. Of course I hope everyone can learn it so that it can be used in life to solve the problems encountered in life and provide convenience for life. , This is the real meaning of learning knowledge!"

The words of Davers struck two young people.

Therefore, Davos made a suggestion: ask them to set up free public lectures on mathematics in the square, and teach the basic introduction to mathematics to city-state citizens who are willing to come to study. The Senate is willing to endorse them and advocate active participation of the people. Long, you can train a large number of mathematicians for the Pythagoras School, and naturally the Pythagoras School will take root in Amendolara.

The two young disciples did not want to go back to Tarantum in vain, thinking twice, and finally decided to break the tradition of the Pythagorean school and teach publicly.

After getting the consent of the two, Davers was overjoyed and immediately invited the two to participate in the design and manufacture of the waterwheel.

In the past life, Davers had common waterwheels in the water villages of southern China. It seemed to be an easy-to-manufacture item. However, after making the supervision of Alexis, the superintendent, with carpenters, it was not easy: not because The support frame collapses due to uneven force, that is, the angle of the axle of the runner is different, which causes the rotation to fail...etc.The small waterwheel actually involves more sophisticated calculations and the use of mechanics in mathematics, and mathematicians in this era often have a common understanding of physics, because the connection between the two is very close, so Daves has to A young Pythagorean disciple asked for help.

When he took out the simple pattern of the waterwheel and explained its purpose, the two were immediately attracted. After careful observation, they thought it was a perfect manifestation of the "God of Mathematics" helping humans to live a better life (completely ignored This was the idea of ​​Davers), and under the leadership of Aceta, the Pythagoras School of Tarantum has been involved in the study of mathematical mechanics for several years, which can be learned and applied, and the two immediately Expressed his willingness to help develop the waterwheel.

Today, when Mento Tick Els was giving a lecture on the stage, Mattikoris had started to build a waterwheel by the Sinney River.Despite being anxious in his heart, Mentorick Els tried his best to stabilize his emotions, finished the lecture with quality and quantity, and patiently answered the questions of the people, he hurried down the mountain...

In a narrow section of the Sinney River, the rushing water pushed the huge water wheel shaft to slowly rotate. When the bucket full of river water turned to the center above the water wheel, it turned over and dumped the water into the wooden trough. Then the wooden trough introduces the river water into the canal. The large, small, and crooked canal introduces the cool and clear Sinni River water into the higher field...