Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Hilos thanked Cornelius in disguise.

Dave said: "I'll ask Amendolara to recommend a suitable patrol leader."

Cornelius immediately invigorated his spirit: "Admiral, please say that."

"Epitean, he will be an excellent patrol captain." Davers pointed to the back row and said affirmatively.

"Ah?!" Epithenis, who was whispering to Zpit, did not expect that he would be named, and replied in surprise: "Why me?!"

"So that you can put more energy on the administrative affairs of the alliance, set an example for your soldiers, rather than scourge young people in Dionysia all day long!" Davers said half-jokingly and half-seriously .

Everyone laughed.Epidnis likes beautiful teenagers, and everyone knows that many elders also have this hobby, but Epidnis is more obvious.The Greeks love teenagers and promote them, not only a fashion but also a tradition.Although Davers personally felt uncomfortable, he still showed respect and did not want to force change.In addition to this, Epidnis most, Davis appreciates him most: on the battlefield, he can think calmly and can respond flexibly in the face of complex situations.He was always able to complete the tasks assigned to him, and exceeded expectations.

Under the pressure of Davos and Cornelius' repeated requests, Epithenis finally had to agree.

Epitanis's helpless expression once again made Amintas laugh.

At this time, after noon, Cornelius announced that he would adjourn the meeting for half an hour. The slaves who had been waiting outside the senate immediately came in and fed their masters with water to fill their stomachs.

Even if he rests for half an hour, Davers will not have free time. He chews bread while discussing with Scombrus and Hilos the problems they need to solve after taking office and how the two cities cooperate with each other. 1. Strengthen contacts to cope with the situation that may occur at any time in the south.

Then Kunogolata approached him and discussed how to arrange five new elders.As a veteran of the veteran’s home, naturally his family should be placed in Turui to facilitate the performance of his duties. Even if he serves as the chief executive of other cities, he will not move out of Turri’s residence. After all, the term of office of the city chief is only two years. Elders are for life.

There are a lot of unused public land in the city of Turiri, which is controlled by the Senate and will not be granted easily.It is of course impossible to allocate a small piece to the new elders to build a house. The Dionysian Land Law clearly stipulates that even if Davos buys land, he will have to pay at the market price.Due to the influx of large numbers of people this year, the price of residential land in Turiri has risen repeatedly, and after Dionia defeated Crotone, this increase should continue to rise sharply.

Kunogolata hopes that the land given by the elders to the new elders will still be sold at the original price in order to show the sincerity of the Dionysian elders and appease these newcomers.

Davers agreed, and he also considered that in the event that some of the five new Crimean veterans could not get the money, it could be advanced by the treasury and repaid later.

The half-hour rest period ends and the meeting of the Senate continues.

Daveus stood up and came up with his first proposal: "This time the war with Crotone, although Dionia won, but exposed some problems, the most important and most urgent need to be resolved is the Navy !"

The words of Davers just fell, and immediately aroused a strong resonance of the elders.

"Admiral Lord is right! In this war, the biggest loss the Crotonenes caused us was the constant looting of their fleets, which burned down many villages in Turui and killed us a lot. People, the public officials in Turriy are still having headaches to resettle the people and rebuild their homes!" Kunogolata complained.

"If we have a navy in Dionysia and are as strong as our army, then Crotone should have surrendered in the victory of the battle, and there is no need to encircle Crimea at all!" Aminta Si emphasized.

"The trade of the Dionysian Union is becoming more and more prosperous, and the territory of Dionysian is also expanding rapidly. We need a strong fleet to protect our maritime trade and prevent our long coastline from being attacked by enemy fleets. Our port is blocked by enemy warships!" Mariji reminded loudly.

"That's right! We need a strong navy to protect the security of the Dionysian Alliance!" Everyone agreed.

"Now that we have all reached a consensus, my proposal is -" Daveus looked at everyone and said: "In addition to the accelerated completion of the three three-tier paddle warships under construction, we will build seven more three-tier ships this year. Paddle warship, I asked En Anilus that the shipyard in Turriy does not have enough docks to complete such a large order, and Crimea also has a larger shipyard with the ability to manufacture three-layer slurry warships The ability to make a small part of the order can be completed for them. In the future, ten three-tier paddle warships will be built every year until five years later, with 50 three-tier paddle warships. 100 warships) and 10 small warships (50 warships), and thus a more powerful Dionysian navy with 80 warships."

Everyone thinks this plan is feasible, and only Mercis disagreed: "No! No! This way, the Alliance has to spend more than one hundred Talent every year, which is too much!"

"Although it is more, I think our state treasury can afford it. Last year, when the land tax, land rent tax and trade tax were collected, the state treasury earned more than 200 Talent, and this year Marighi gave me the lowest It is estimated that the treasury income will be at least doubled.” Daveus said that many veterans were taken aback. Unconsciously, Diyania’s treasury income was almost the same as that of Tarantum and Crotone. It should be more than enough to spend a small amount of money to build the fleet.

"Masters, Mercys, in fact, it costs less than a hundred tarrents to build ten three-layer plasma warships every year." Mariji stood up and reminded everyone: "The cost of building a warship has two main parts. One is Wood, the second is the manufacturing cost. There are countless, high-quality cedars in the mountains of our alliance territory, especially in the mountains of Lucania, which are most suitable for the construction of three-layer pulp warships. Turiri has an agreement that Turri will provide Athens with a certain amount of timber for shipbuilding every year."

"There is indeed such an agreement that Turiri will provide Athens with at least a thousand pieces of marine wood, which will double if necessary." Enanilus said.At the beginning, in order to complete this agreement, the Turiris had cut down a lot of trees for decades. Although they made some money for wood, they made fewer and older cedar trees in the mountains around Turiri, and there were ten large shipyards in Athens. A few, there is no need to build ships in Turriy, Enanilus' family has always complained about this.Later, because of excessive logging, a lot of barren hills appeared around Turui. The public discovered this shortcoming and began to buy wood from other city-states in Greater Greece, and then sold it to Athens to earn a difference.

"We were forced to cancel this agreement after the Spartans' navy had the upper hand in the latter part of the war between Athens and Sparta," Kunogolata added.

Daveus nodded and became the coalition governor, he knew the agreement.He even believes that: General Atelier of Athens at first agreed to prepare for Turri, calling for the establishment of a great pan-Greek city-state is just a sounding reason, and one of the real strategic goals is for wood.It is important to know that Athens is born with two major flaws. First, it does not have much local grain production, and it needs imports to maintain the large population of the city-state. Therefore, it has built many colonies or controlled the key along the coast of Greece to the Black Sea. The city-states in the location, such as Byzantium, to ensure the smooth flow of food from the Black Sea, it needs a strong navy, and the Athenians ambitiously want to build a strong Mediterranean Greek city-state alliance, but also need a strong navy.But the second biggest flaw in Athens is that it does not have much forest on its own, nor does it have trees that can manufacture high-quality warships. And with the scale of the navy and merchant ships of Athens, the wood required must be a huge number, so looking for marine wood It has become a strategic question related to whether Athens can maintain its strength.There is no forest in Egypt, there is wood in Persia, but it will not be sold to the enemy Athens, there is forest in Northern Greece and Thrace, but it is located inland, cutting and transportation are problems, and the cost is also high, so it is penetrated by the Apennines Great Greece became an important place to buy wood in Athens, and Turiri, established by the Athenians, was naturally the main wood supplier.

"So, I asked the Senate to discuss a plan to approve a certain number of cedars to be harvested by the Alliance slaves every year as warship wood, which does not need to spend an Opol. As for the manufacturing cost -" Marigi looked at N'anilu Si, seemingly jokingly said: "I think Lord Anilus will not charge too high a fee for the league."

Enanilus smiled helplessly.

Everyone thought that Mariji was right, and the worries about the cost had dissipated a lot.

"But have you ever considered the maintenance and repair of these warships after they are built, which is also a big expense!" Mercis said unconvincedly.

"Enannilus once discussed this issue with me." Daveus said, Enannilus nodded, saying that it really happened.

"In the absence of war, of course, we will not idle the warships at the docks. Except for a small part of the alliance's coast patrol, part of it is repaired in the dock, the rest can serve as escorts for merchant ships, especially Adriatic From the route of Haikou to the mainland of Greece, there are frequent pirate ship-robbing incidents. You can also temporarily serve as a large cargo ship to transport goods for a friendly city-state... You see, it not only earned maintenance costs for our navy, but also trained the crew. Isn’t your nautical skill good?" Daveus finished his thoughts, and Melsis stopped talking.

"In addition, we also need to find a qualified commander for the upcoming Dionysian navy. His current task is to assist military officer Felix and supervise the construction of warships; cooperate with the financial officer Melis, Review the funds; in the future, when the warship is built, he will also recruit sailors, equip the crew, conduct regular military training, arrange coastal patrols, and—” Daveus said with a heavy tone: “Winning the naval battle. Is there anyone qualified to recommend it? "