ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 1237 The Guest
"Because the Dionysian Games will be held soon. It is said that its scale is very large. Not only all regions in the country, but also all allies of the kingdom are invited to participate, so during this period not only all the people of Thurii Restaurants, hotels, officials and people are all buying pottery in large quantities to prepare to receive a large number of guests during the sports games." The shop owner said excitedly: "I originally planned to send someone by boat to Athens to tell you to hurry up and make more pottery. A lot of pottery was brought to Turii for sale..."

"Don't worry, I've got the news from Lord Sostatus, and I've made arrangements, and more pottery will be shipped from Athens soon." Hesklaus put on a confident look. and encouraged: "If sales surge in the next two months, I will double your salary."

Although Heskraus is the boss and the shopkeeper is just his employee, he is not condescending and arrogant at all when talking to him, and he is even a bit flattering. There is no way to call the shopkeeper a real native of Thurii, while Peleus is a few years old. He had spent a lot of money to hire the Holy Kingdom of Dionia, which he had just joined recently, but it played a very important role in helping his pottery shop gain a foothold in the Turiyi market.

The shop owner immediately expressed his gratitude and reminded: "Sir Sostatus has sent people over several times to ask if the batch of goods they requested has arrived. Do you think we should send people to notify them immediately?"

Hesklaus slapped his forehead: "I was just so happy that I almost forgot about it!"

It is precisely because of the support of Sostatus that Hesklaus is today. He still wants to continue to rely on Sostatus' help to become a high-level businessman in Dionia in the future. How dare he slack off, hurry up Said: "Yes! Yes! You send someone there immediately!"

After speaking, regardless of fatigue, he personally took out the batch of pottery products that were to be handed over to Sostatus from the wooden boxes and placed them in the backyard of the pottery shop for the other party to send people to inspect.

Unexpectedly, after noon, Saustatus had not sent anyone yet, and Heskraus did not dare to leave. As a result, the original plan to take his son to the nearby Christoya restaurant for a delicious meal had to be scrapped. He had no choice but to let the clerk buy some bread to deal with it. For this, Lilrias cried and made a fuss while hugging the duck, and was even scolded by him.

In the afternoon, Sostatus' men came over and brought him good news: he was invited to the banquet held by Sostatus in the evening.

Hesklaus danced with joy, and any resentment he had before immediately disappeared without a trace.

Of course, before that, both of them have to complete the formal procedures of this sale. The seller lists the price of the goods, the buyer pays, and then the seller takes out the payment slip received from the pottery market management office (it is said to be received, but it is actually What needs to be paid is that the price is not high, after all, it is made of paper, and now the entire Mediterranean can only be manufactured by the Christoia Chamber of Commerce in the Holy Kingdom of Dionia), fill in the type, quantity and price of the goods sold , signed by both parties in duplicate, the buyer takes one of them and submits it to the management office of the market to get a certain amount of tax refund, while the payment slip in his hand remains at the management office as a proof of tax collection at the end of the month.

The Ministry of Commerce of Dionia adopts this approach so that people in Dionia will actively ask for payment slips from merchants when purchasing goods and submit them to the market management office to obtain additional money, but in fact they receive this part of the tax refund It had already been added to the price of the goods, and was returned to the Kingdom's treasury when taxes were finally paid.

And the Ministry of Commerce also stipulates that the public can report merchants who refuse to give payment slips, and the management office will impose heavy fines on them, and part of the money from the fines will be rewarded to the public who reported; Instead of going through formalities, the public can report the transaction behind closed doors. Once proven to be true, the reporting public will also be rewarded.

Due to these stringent measures of the Ministry of Commerce, the vast majority of people doing business in Dionia will abide by the regulations. After all, for a small profit, if you violate the law, you will face a fine of confiscating your property, or in the worst case, you will be permanently deprived of your business in Dionia. If Niya's business qualifications were to be compromised, or even expelled from the kingdom, it would be too much of a loss.

Therefore, even if Sostatus had shares in Heskraus's Athenian pottery farm, he would follow formal buying and selling procedures to avoid being reported by uninformed people and making him disgraced.

However, compared with the traditional Greek tax collection method led by Athens, the tax collection method implemented by the Holy Kingdom of Dionia is obviously more beneficial to merchants and can promote the good development of commerce. Therefore, when Dionia and mainland Greece After the trade was fully developed, many Greek merchants preferred to settle and do business in Dionia. Of course, there were also Greek city-states that tried to use this better tax collection method, but due to limited national power, they eventually failed.

Although Heskraus had opened a shop in Thurii for more than two years with the support of Sostatus, this was the first time he was invited to his home. For the sake of caution, he decided to prepare in advance and arrive early to show off. respect.

After being dressed up, put on brand new clothes, bought good gifts, took Lillias and of course the duck in the shop, they were ready to go.

Since the pottery market is a bit far away from Sostatus and there are crowds of people along the way, and it is early June and the weather is hot, I am afraid that by the time we get to the house, we will be sweaty and gray, so Hesklaus adopted the shopkeeper's suggestion. A sedan was hired.

Saustatus's mansion is in the eastern outer city, very close to the inner city of Turii. He took the initiative to return the inner city mansion left by his father Kunogorata to the kingdom so that the kingdom could settle down well. The Haka brothers came to Turiyi, so Davers was very grateful for this, and specifically instructed the Turiyi City Hall "not to let Kunogolata's son suffer". According to the difference in land prices in the inner and outer cities at that time, the final settlement was Status moved to a large piece of land in the outer city.

He built houses on the entire land and divided it into two mansions, one for himself and one for his brother. Each mansion was twice the size of the senator's house.

"Welcome! Welcome!" Sostatus heard the servant's report and came to the door to greet him.

"Lord Saustatus, this is my first time at your residence for a banquet. I was afraid that I would be late because I didn't know the way, so I came a little early. Please forgive me!" Hesklaus said respectfully.

In fact, Sostatus is only the president of the Turui Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Turui City Council. The people of Dionia gradually used this official title to some highly respected celebrities, making the term secular.

"It's okay, there are several guests who came earlier than you." Saustatus waved his hand, then saw Lyrias behind Hesklaus, immediately bent down and asked with a smile: " Kid, what’s your name?”

Lyrias shyly hid behind Heskraus.

Heskraus quickly explained: "My lord, this is my son Lyrias. This time he insists on coming to Thurii with me, and I dare not leave him alone -"

"It's okay. I told you that you can bring your family members." Saustatus said disapprovingly, and then lowered his head to tease Lilias: "Hey, little guy, if you call me uncle, I will give you a nice one."

After hearing this, Lilias bravely shouted: "...Hello, uncle!"

"Well, not bad!" Saustatus nodded with satisfaction and quickly took out something from his arms. He had heard from the slave that Hesklaus came to the door with a child, so he was prepared in advance: "Look, What's this?"

Lirias stared wide-eyed and looked at the object in Sostatus' hand: a palm-sized gilded statue of a man with handsome features and a resolute expression. He held a football in one hand and swung his arm with the other, making a gesture of sprinting forward. The posture and the entire statue are delicately carved and lifelike, giving people a sense of tension as they watch the game.

Not only Lirias fell in love with him at first sight, but Hesklaus was also attracted.

"It's a football star statue," Lirias blurted out.

After Thessaly was incorporated into the Sacred Kingdom of Dionia, the sport of rugby was also brought to the land of Thessaly by Dionysian soldiers and immigrants, and it soon became popular and became popular in Thessaly. With the strong support of the regional administrator Hilos, rugby matches have been organized throughout the Thessaly region.

"This is no ordinary football star statue!" Saustatus turned the statue in his hand and showed off like a child: "This is the most famous rugby star in the entire kingdom, setting a record for five consecutive kingdom rugby finals. With a record of touchdowns, His Highness Anteblis, the third son of the great King Davos, is also the most popular star among children! Moreover, this statue was made by the most outstanding sculptor in the kingdom, Alex The mold was carved by himself, who was also the son-in-law of King Davos. This statue was difficult to buy on the market because the production process was too complicated and the output was very small."

After Sostatus said these words, he thrust the statue into Lyrias's little hand: "Now it belongs to you."

"Thank you, uncle!" Lillias's "thank you" came from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't wait to start playing with it.

"This... this is too expensive." Heskraus subconsciously wanted to refuse.

"It's just a gadget." Saustatus looked quite indifferent at the moment. He turned around and said to the servant: "Go and call Sosikles."

Then he led the father and son into the yard and said: "The quality of the pottery you brought this time is very high, and it will be very popular among the nobles in the inner city! Thanks to you, I have several pottery stores in the inner city. The pottery shop is very famous now, and many businessmen are asking about the origin of my pottery..."

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