Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At this time, another group of slaves quickly strapped the stone with wheat straw and rope, both to avoid damage to the stone during the subsequent transportation and to prevent the stone from scratching the slave.

The rope was divided into two groups. After tying the waist of the stone, a dozen slaves on the ground struggled to pull it out, and on the other side, ten slaves stood on the rock, dragging the stone, and several slaves used The wooden crowbar continued to pry the stone, allowing it to roll over to a row of logs that had been placed in front of it at a more stable speed.

Finally, the slaves cheered, and their team had already mined the first stone in a relatively short period of time, and there were no accidents.

The large rectangular stone finally landed smoothly on the six or seven spaced logs, and then several slaves started to tie the stone with rope again, and then the 12 slaves pulled the rope together, and the four slaves Continue to place the logs that fall behind and put them in front of the stone.

The huge heavy stone rolled on the log, and was dragged to the stone storage yard on the side of the entrance of the stone mine with less effort.

After the foreman was notified and inspected the stone, it was confirmed that it was qualified, and a record was made on the board that he carried with him.

The team of slaves where Massimus worked cheered again, causing the envy of other teams, because they had already mined the first stone in a relatively short period of time, and there was no accident. Today, the task will be exceeded and the reward will be obtained.

Massimus remained calm. He arranged that the remaining slaves, who had not worked hard before, began to knock the wooden wedges into the second grooved rock, and urged the returning slaves to seize the time to restore their strength.

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Before the stones piled at the entrance of the mine are sent away, they should be roughly shaped here.

It is not the Kingdom slaves who shaped the stone here, but the private slaves of Aristarchlas, they all have considerable experience in stone processing skills. It is more than 10 years after Aristarchlas engaged in this industry Coming accumulation.

After all, the sale of stone is different from the sale of other metal ores. Few mine owners sell the newly mined stone directly to the buyer. Instead, they should provide relatively shaped stone according to the buyer's requirements. The craftsmen of the Lord’s Temple were sent to the assistants of the stone mines. He arrived here as early as early in the morning, and according to the construction progress of the temple, he asked the stone mines to provide the temples with several styles. Stone?How many quantities are needed for each style?...

There are three main types of shaped stone needed for the construction of the temple: one is the square stone, which will become the stone brick for building the temple; the other is the round stone, which will become the supporting temple Corridor column; there is a thin slate, which is used to lay the temple floor.

Hundreds of slave craftsmen here held iron tongs, iron chisels, iron drills, metal wires and other tools to carefully shape the pieces of mined stone. They not only wore linen clothes but also masks And headscarves, this is because they use metal tools to chisel the stone, the stone chips are flying, and it is easy to cause injuries. This is a kind of protection for slaves.In addition to protecting the lower body, the slaves of the Kingdom who are mining stone are basically naked, because they basically don’t use metal tools, they don’t have any worries in this regard, and there is no burden of clothes. It is more convenient to move and force. They need to worry. The main danger is the sudden fall of rocks.

Among the several styles of shaping stone, it seems that cutting stones into slabs is the most difficult, because marble is different from limestone, and its texture is relatively hard. It seems difficult for tools of this era to do this.

But the Greeks who have been immersing marble for hundreds of years have already developed a good way to deal with it, that is, first draw a cutting line on the stone, and then use the tool to cut a shallow groove along the cutting line , Fill it with dry sea sand, and then press the wire.Slave craftsmen pulled the ends of the wire and pulled the wire along the front and back of the groove. The wire squeezed the sand down, and the sand was the material that was actually used to cut the stone, and the stone was worn by constant friction. quality.As the groove becomes deeper and deeper, more sand needs to be added to it until the stone is finally divided into slate.

The square and round stones that are finally shaped will be slightly larger than the stones used to build the temple, and the slave craftsmen will leave protrusions around the stones as handles to facilitate the handling of the temple builders.

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The finished stone will be transported away immediately, which will be taken over by the slaves of the kingdom again.

Nearly 20 slaves struggled to lift the stone onto the raft, which was covered with round wood.Some of the slaves used ropes to pull the raft, while the rest kept placing round logs in front of them. As before, the stone was slowly pulled and moved to the mine exit.

The exit is next to the entrance. The road is paved with large stones. It is firm and flat. At the end of the road, a platform over two meters high is formed. A four-wheeler is parked in front of the platform. It is exactly flush with the platform, so that the heavy stone can be pushed onto the car with little effort.

This four-wheeled vehicle is very strong, and its wheels are made of several complete round pieces of wood spliced ​​together, which is extremely tall and thick.

There is also a special carpenter stationed at the exit, because when the stone is just delivered to the car, it is the most prone to damage, and he can repair it nearby.

Wooden wheels are pulled by four bulls. Although they move slowly, they are reliable. Each time they can carry a weight of about 10 tons, which is about 2-3 stones.

Usually, they usually transport the stone to the simple pier next to the Koseni River, and use the cargo ship to transport the stone to the place designated by the buyer, which is relatively labor-saving and safe.

However, the stone was provided to the main temple of Hades, and the city hall of Turriy refused to use the inner city's wharf to transport the stone, because in this way, the stone would need to cross half of the road from the wharf to the temple. In the inner city, this will not only damage the delicate roads of the inner city, affect the traffic, and interfere with the rest of the people in the inner city (more than half of the people in the inner city are expensive officials), the most important thing is not safe (because there will be many strange slaves coming and going Hinterland).If you go by land, the main temple of Hades is not far from the west gate of the inner city, which is convenient for management and control.

But for Aristalgras, this will undoubtedly be a headache, because the land road from the mine to the main temple of Hades is about 10 miles. Such a long distance is prone to accidents during transportation. Wheels Damaged and stone falling, it will undoubtedly cost more manpower and material resources to move it away, and the worse thing is to hurt passersby, then the compensation money will not be a small number, which is Aris After losing a lot of money, Taglas decided to improve the transportation problem and placed his hopes on the railroads that scholars said.

The whole quarry is filled with working sounds from morning to night: the foreman's command, the slaves' horns, the driver's shouting while driving the bullock cart, the wood creaking under the weight of the stone , And the screams of the slaves due to various accidents... one after another, endless.

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In the evening, the slaves of the kingdom dragged their tired bodies back to the slave camp. Although they only worked more than an hour, but digging stone in the dim environment, it caused a slave to fail to avoid the debris falling above. The stone was hit in the head and lost its life.

Of course, apart from the sadness and uneasiness of the slaves in the same team, the other slaves seemed indifferent, and even some didn't even know anything about it.In the huge quarry, there have been thousands of slaves working in this period of time. Some people have been injured or even died. They have felt numb. At this moment, their most eager is to eat a hearty dinner and then sleep beautifully. Last night.

Of course, their wishes were fulfilled, and the dinner was even richer than breakfast. The slaves were full and drunk, all shy, and walked slowly back to their dorms. After a simple wash, they lay on the bed , Fall asleep soundly.

At this moment, the door of a dormitory was pushed open, and someone stood in front of the door and shouted: "Is Fabius Labio Gaius here?"

Someone was angrily scolded because they were suddenly awakened: "Damn, who?"

The man standing at the door echoed coldly: "Patrol!"

The room was suddenly quiet. After a while, Gaius reminded softly: "You seem to have the wrong name, it should be Gaius Fabius Rabio."

"Are you sure you want to call that!" The soldier at the door sternly screamed.

Gaius dared not answer.

Last year, on the proposal of King Daphes, the Senate passed the Law of Surnames of the Kingdom of Dionysia. The decree states that whether a citizen of Dionysian or a free citizen who wants to join Dionysian must There is a name and a surname to facilitate the registration and search of the information by the household registration department, and the surname must be first and the last name. Anyone who fails to comply will be punished, and even severely deprived of their citizenship.

In the eyes of ordinary Dionysian people, since King Davos used his own name as the surname for his children, it has gradually been imitated by his ministers and the people. It has been almost 20 years since most citizens have a surname. And the surname is first, and the name is second. The promulgation of this decree merely turns this habit into a legal provision.