Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Later, in order to avoid being jealous of the soldiers’ committee, Turius’s astute weapons merchant Raos took the initiative to unite with the Legion’s weapon shop and handed over the excellent weapons produced by the Legion’s weapon shop to make it already in the Kingdom’s weapon market. The declining legion's weapon shop regained its vigor and soon opened branches in the kingdom's towns within a few years. Half of its employees were disabled soldiers, and their salaries were not low.

But Aristarchlas made a difficult choice-entrepreneurship.He chose the industry he once worked in-stone mines. He sought funds from his comrades and obtained strong support from the Soldiers Committee. He took several disabled soldiers who were willing to work with him to the Ministry of Commerce, hoping to contract A stone mine.

After the establishment of Dionia, a resolution was passed: the minerals in the territory cannot be sold to merchants, only allowing them to contract. Important mines must not only be auctioned, but also after the mine is obtained, within the prescribed period of time The Ministry of Commerce will also send people to supervise, neither allowing its output to be too low, nor allowing it to over-exploit, so as to ensure that its share of the Kingdom paid to the Kingdom is constant every year.

The Ministry of Commerce finally agreed to let Aristarchlas contract a quarry in Lucania, not because he was a disabled soldier and should be taken care of, but because the quarry was located in a mountainous area and was inconvenient to transport and the output was not abundant. It is also a limestone mine, and no merchant is willing to take over, so the Ministry of Commerce has contracted it at a lower price, and only gave a one-year contract, just holding a try mentality.

Unexpectedly, after taking over, Aristalgras overcame many difficulties, not only increased the output of quarries, but also sold a good price (at that time, the Lucania region had belonged to Dionia for several years. After vigorous cultural spread, the local People have gradually accepted the lifestyle of the Dernia. Living in Greek houses and building Hades temples require a lot of limestone).

Aristograss has thus gained a lot of wealth and won the trust of the Ministry of Commerce. Based on this, he also used disabled soldiers as the backbone, and became very famous in the stone market of the Kingdom, becoming very famous. Stone merchant.

Four years ago, he did not participate in the Turiyi Chamber of Commerce organized by Laos and went to the Latinum Theater because he had just contracted the Turiyi Mine, which is of great significance to him and to the kingdom. Xu’s affairs required him to solve them one by one, unable to spare his free time to go to Latium, not to mention that there were no quarries in the Latham area.

Today, he is a famous stone merchant of the Kingdom, and he has a group of smart and capable men. He no longer needs him to go to the mine to supervise and command himself, but this time the project of rebuilding the main temple of Hades is very important. The Kingdom Administration Office The marble mines required for the temple were mainly ordered by the Turiyi stone mine (because the stone mine is close to the ground, the cost is small, and it is not easy to damage), and all the slaves of the Turiyi kingdom were provided to the mine to use Ensure that enough stone is provided for the construction of the temple in a short time.Because of this, Ali Stargrass feels a heavy responsibility. Wherever he dares to ignore it, he comes to the scene every day, for fear of making a mistake.

Aristarchlas first marched to the soldiers who escorted the slaves and said seriously: "It's hard, brothers!"

Then I asked the foremen: "Which team do you belong to? How many slaves did you take?"

The foremen reported the number and number of their formations. Aristalgrass's men picked up the board, and after checking, they said, "Come with me."

The foremen brought the slaves into the mine, and Ali Stargrass stood at the entrance chatting with the team officials while waiting for the subsequent slaves to enter the field. It was not until he confirmed that all the kingdom slaves had arrived and the number was the same. The opponent said, "Go and bring in our slaves and pack cars."

There was a response from his staff, and he did not leave immediately, but reminded: "Boss, according to the judgment of several old sailors, there will likely be heavy rain tomorrow in Turui, just in case, we have to put all the mines in the mine today. The stones are all transported away, otherwise if it is really raining, the ground of the mine becomes wet and muddy, and transporting the stones will become very difficult and dangerous."

The mining of ore is more difficult and the transportation is more difficult. Aristarchlas knows it well. He immediately made a decision: "I will discuss with Bloss (the team leader responsible for the escort of slaves today) and try to extend the working time of the slaves. To ensure that all stones can be removed today."

After finishing his speech, he remembered one more thing and said: "You take the time to go to the engineering academy of Dionysian Academy and contact the scholars there, saying that they mentioned the last time about building rails to transport ore. I have agreed to one thing, and when we have finished supplying the stone for the main temple of Hades, I invite them to come here to do it... well, it is called an experiment as they say."

"Make railroads to deliver ore?" The men were a little puzzled and obviously didn't know about it.

"I don't know exactly what the specific situation is. After you arrive at the school, you should consult those scholars in detail." Ali Stargras waved impatiently.

The Dionysian Academy of Engineering was established shortly after the end of the Western Mediterranean War. Most of the scholars came from the original mathematics college. It is a discipline that puts theoretical science into practice, mainly responsible for public buildings and various instruments. the design of.The construction of rails and minecarts came from the idea that Davis accidentally mentioned when he visited this newly-built college and talked with scholars, but scholars regarded it as one of the most important research topics for the new college to expand its influence.

Corsica and Sardinia belong to the kingdom, and the entire Etruscan alliance and Dionysia are allied, so that the kingdom has sufficient iron ore supply and solves the resource problem, and Laos is willing to produce this This kind of special, high-quality rail, but it is difficult to find a mineral merchant who is willing to cooperate, because the initial investment is large, mainly to spend a lot of money to buy enough rails (iron is not cheap in the kingdom, even if a few Some new territories with rich iron ore resources were newly acquired years ago, but the difficulty of mining and transportation is undoubtedly pushing up its cost).

The academics of the Academy of Engineering have consulted with Aristarchlas several times, and he has been hesitant, but after receiving the kingdom mission to provide stone for the main temple of Hades during this time, due to tight schedules and heavy tasks, the light It was the transportation of the ore to the main temple of Turiyine that had already lost seven or eight pack packs and a dozen private slaves. He finally made up his mind to cooperate with the Engineering Academy to improve the difficulty of transportation.

After making this important decision, he also felt a lot of pressure in his heart, and he was thinking: Is it possible to find a huge sum of money from the Bank of Christoya to ease the tightness of the funds? It is said that this is a very important research invention of the Kingdom, and King Dionia also attached great importance to it.

But before that, he had to do another thing first. He turned and said to the other man: "You will go to the port in a moment and book a passenger ship for me first. If it really rains tomorrow, I will go to one. Take a trip to Syracuse and inspect the stone mines there. After all, they are also responsible for providing limestone for the main temple, but there is nothing wrong with it! (Syracuse has the most abundant open-air limestone resources in the entire Western Mediterranean, Arista Grasse contracted the mining rights for one of the quarries).

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Massimus brought 50 slaves to the mining area they were responsible for, and did not start work immediately, but must first make a judgement, where to start mining is the most suitable, this must be by him as the captain To make a decision, if the initial location is selected well, the mining will be smoother and the casualties will be reduced, which requires the team leader to have rich mining experience and eyesight.

The reason why Maximus can be the most trusted captain of the foreman is because he is very organized and does not make judgments temporarily, but has already prepared for today’s mining at the end of yesterday. Work habits developed by several Roman city officials.

On this huge and flat rock in front of them, several vertical and horizontal grooves have been poked out to form the outline of a rectangular stone.

At this time, Massim let six slaves climb the rock on the wooden ladder. In a pair of two, a dry wooden wedge was hammered into the groove with a wooden hammer. When all the grooves were already densely embedded At the time of the sawdust, the rock cracked slightly along the trench.

Massim immediately ordered the slave who had brought the jug to water the wooden wedge. The water flowed into the trench and the wooden wedge was soaked. The wooden wedge swelled and became larger and larger, and the rock was stressed. The rift is getting bigger and bigger, and this process takes some time.

At the same time, Maximus did not waste this time. After carefully observing the rock next to him, he began to take a tape measure to measure, and then used an ink pen to draw the outline on the rock, and then there were several slaves Holding a scrub brush (with an iron saw inlaid on the wooden board), brushing back and forth along the contour line, and finally chiseling it into a deep groove.

And at this time, the rock next to it was under the continuous expansion of the water-absorbing wedge, and the cracks became wider and deeper.

Massims felt that the fire was almost over, and sent five more slaves. They took a long and slender wooden crowbar in each hand, inserted it into the crack between the wooden wedges, and began to pry the rock out with force. Block, this is an extremely laborious and difficult process.After changing several waves of slaves and breaking a few warps, the stone finally separated from the rock.