Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"It must be fine by then, and it's almost okay now, don't believe it!" Adoris stood up and walked a few steps to prove that he was right.

Kloto Kataks smiled and said, "Brother, you told me it's useless, the key is to get the father and mother to agree."

Adoris felt a little frustrated. He knew that his last bad performance in the battle made Davos and Christoya worried, so he had to ask his brother for help: "Clotto, parents are The thing that hurts you the most is that you can help me, plead with my parents so that I can participate in this expedition..."

Although Croto Kataks was four years younger than Adoris and had not grown up for a long time, he was brought around and taught personally by Daveus from time to time in the past two years. His political acuity is much stronger than Adoris. It is clear: unless Adolis is seriously injured, it is impossible for his father not to take him on the expedition, otherwise it will give some people a wrong impression that Adolis relied on his father’s relationship and deliberately "based on injury" Not participating in such an important war will have a great impact on the future development of Adoris.

But Crotocatax said in a difficult way: "Brother, you also know the father's temper..."

"Kloto, you must help me! As long as you can persuade my father to let me follow the army to Latinum, if you have anything to help me in the future, I will do my best to help!" Adorice asked.

"Then... well, I'll give it a try." Seeing Adoris who always loves to teach himself as his elder brother is so rare to beg himself, Klotoka Taksi has a very comfortable feeling in his heart.

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In the inner city of Turij, in the residence of Sostatus inherited from his father Kunogola, more than twenty people gathered in the hall. They are all famous businessmen in the Turij area.

At the moment, everyone's face showed excitement, eyes staring eagerly at Sostatus sitting in the center.

Someone already can’t wait to shout: “Sostatus, everyone is basically here, what are you waiting for! Hurry and tell us, what is the good thing to discuss with us?”

"Yes, hurry up! Does your majesty want to reward us for donating food for free?" another person shouted.

The merchants responded one after another.

Sostatus heard the words and looked at Tios on the left hand side.

Theos is one of the best merchants in the Kingdom of Dionia.It has three iron-making workshops in the Lucania region, one copper-making workshop in Turiri, two weapon workshops in Turiri and Amendolara, as well as weapon shops and iron shops in cities throughout the Kingdom Most of the excellent weapons and armor produced by him are taken over by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the majority of civilian soldiers. He is also a specialized supplier of surgical instruments in various hospitals in the Kingdom, and the daily irons he produces are also popular among the public. His iron works are also indispensable in the casting of large public works. Therefore, he was repeatedly received and commended by King Daveus. He also has close contacts with officials of the Military Department and the Construction Department. He also frequently asked the Kingdom for construction. Of public building donations.

Not only did he have high prestige among the merchants of the Kingdom, but he was also respected among the people, so he was repeatedly elected as the speaker of the local council of Turiri.But in fact, Tios himself is not too keen on politics. He is more obsessed with his career, how to increase furnace temperature, improve iron making process, improve iron quality, design more sharp and practical weapons, and build better defense. Armor... He knew that in the Kingdom of Dionysia, which admires military and technology, as long as he always maintains advanced technology, he will always be valued by the kings and ministers.To this end, he not only hired good smelters and founders with high salary, but also donated many times to the Dionysian Academy to cooperate with scholars, provide experimental funds, and share technology patents.

Therefore, in the face of the consultation of Sostatus, Tios shook his head and reached out to make a please gesture.

Sostatus had to turn his head to look at Dickpolis on the right.

Speaking of it, Dick Polis was the first businessman to come to Dionysia to do business, and the first businessman to decide to stay as a citizen.Dick Polis was enthusiastic and sociable. Many foreign businessmen came to Turui after his persuasion, and eventually became a Dionysian citizen, which of course included Tios.

But in fact, Dick Polis was not a very powerful businessman at first. He was an ordinary businessman who made pottery and sold pottery.

Pottery is a daily item widely used by the people of the Mediterranean, and is the most common handicraft of Greek city-states. This is because most Greek city-states have no fertile land and cannot produce rich food, and wine and olive oil have become their specialties. , By selling these commodities in exchange for food, and the containers for these two liquid commodities will inevitably become another development focus of the city-state. Therefore, many Greek city-states have pottery merchants, but the most famous pottery is produced in Athens. With high-quality clay, the Athenians have made long-term explorations. The black pottery bottles with red decorative paintings are not only of high quality, but also have exquisite and creative bottle painting patterns, which has become a leader in this industry.

Followed by the black pottery made by Corinth, and they also pioneered the creation of exquisite bottle paintings on pottery, and at the same time made the entire pottery industry highly organized. The pottery they produced once occupied almost half of the sales of Mediterranean pottery, and it was not until a hundred years later. He was defeated by the ceramics industry in Athens, which later became the upper class.

Dick Polis, who was born in Crete, did not have any technical advantages in pottery, but with his vision and determination, when the Dionysian League was just established and Turii was completely abandoned, he moved his entire family to The handicrafts area of ​​Amendolara began to sell the low-cost pottery he produced to the ordinary Dionysian people who were rebuilding their homes, and gradually gained some fame.

Later, with the establishment of the Kingdom, the expansion of the territory, the increase of the population, and the expansion of the market, his pottery sales have also exploded. At the same time, the low-interest loans of the Christos Bank also gave him a pottery workshop The confidence to expand and upgrade.He not only established pottery workshops in several places in the Kingdom with high-quality pottery, but also used high salaries to dig out excellent pottery makers in Greece. At that time, the turbulent situation and frequent wars in Greece also provided good digging for the wall. Opportunity, since then, the pottery he sold has been involved in high-end products.

More importantly, Dick Polis improved his management and organization of the pottery industry and the entire process flow. Of course, this is not his invention.

Let's first talk about the management and organizational model of the handicraft industry.Before the establishment of Dionia, each city-state in Greece was a city, and the industry of city-state merchants was mostly concentrated in a city or the like. Due to the large number of small people and limited resources, even if the businessman has the financial resources, his industry It is impossible to have a large scale. Of course, it is easier to manage. Even in the economically prosperous Athens, there are no large workshops.

But in Dionia, such a kingdom with a vast territory and a large population for the Greek world, and a large number of free people willing to settle here, provided fertile soil for the establishment of large factories.The chain management models of Christie’s Bank and Christie’s restaurants throughout the Kingdom’s cities have greatly inspired Kingdom’s merchants, allowing them to break the conservative business ideas of the previous industry only fixed in one city. Therefore, they dare to carry out industrial layout in a vast area, and carry out effective management through the pyramid-type hierarchical responsibility system.

Let's talk about the fine division of work flow.The pottery industry has been regarded as a highly organized industry in the Greek handicraft industry, but it still cannot break away from the tradition of family workshops, from digging clay, transporting clay, shaping, lighting fires, burning pottery, painting screens, lettering... Potters are involved in most of these processes, which undoubtedly makes pottery inefficient.In order to enable Dionysian weapons and armor to meet the needs of the army as soon as possible, Davers taught the Kingdom’s weapons merchants, such as Tios, a method of finely dividing the production process, which greatly increased the production of weapons. This method was quickly adopted. Absorbed by other kingdom merchants.

Of course, Dick Polis also carried out a precise division of labor in his own pottery workshop. Each process has a dedicated person in charge, which has greatly improved the quality and output of pottery, and the price has dropped accordingly. The pottery of Dipopolis is more popular with the people of the Kingdom, accounting for more than half of the domestic pottery sales. The pottery of other city-states, except for a small number of high-end pottery in Athens, can not compete with Dipopolis in the kingdom. He has become A veritable Dionysian pottery merchant.

Of course, Dick Polis, like other businessmen in Turriy, is busy completing the industrial upgrade and is also busy occupying the market of the expanding kingdom. The external sales rely more on Esstatus This is also one of the reasons why Dickopolis, who is rich in financial resources and has extensive contacts, is willing to let Sostatus serve as the president of the Turui Chamber of Commerce, and he is second in the ranking. Of course, the more important reason is Sostatus His father, Kunogorata, was the confidant of King Daphes. Even if he had died, Sostatus could still rely on his father's shadow and go in and out of the palace and the Ministry of Commerce from time to time to get some commercial information first and give it to the Chamber of Commerce. Get some concessions, like this one.

So, Dick Polis said with a smile: "Sostatus, you are welcome. You are the president, and this good thing is also obtained by working together with everyone. Of course, you have to announce it!"