ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 745 Turui Chamber of Commerce ([-])

"It will definitely be fine by then. It's almost fine now. If you don't believe it, just look at it!" Adoris stood up and took a few steps to prove that what he said was true.

Clotokatax suppressed his laughter and said, "Brother, it's useless for you to tell me. The key is to make father and mother agree."

Adoris felt a little frustrated. He knew that his poor performance in the last battle had worried Davos and Crystal, so he had to ask his younger brother for help: "Kloto, my parents are I love you the most, so you have to help me and plead with my parents so that I can participate in this expedition..."

Although Clotokatax is four years younger than Adoris and has just reached adulthood, he has been taken by Davos from time to time in the past two years and taught personally. His political acumen is much stronger than Adoris. In his heart, It is very clear: Unless Adoris is seriously injured, it is impossible for his father not to take him on the expedition. Otherwise, it will give some people the wrong impression that Adoris relies on his father's relationship to deliberately "use the injury as an excuse" Not participating in such an important war will have a great impact on Adoris' future development.

But Crotokatax pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Brother, you also know my father's temper..."

"Clato, you must help me! As long as you can convince my father to let me follow the army to Latium, if you ask me to help with anything in the future, I will definitely help you with all my strength!" Adoris requested.

"Then... well, I'll give it a try." Seeing that Adoris, who usually likes to teach him a lesson as a big brother, begged himself so rarely, Clotokatax felt a very comfortable feeling in his heart.

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In the city of Turiyi, in the mansion that Sostatus inherited from his father Kunogorata, there were more than 20 people gathered in the hall. They were all well-known businessmen in the Turiyi area.

At this moment, everyone's face showed excitement, and their eyes were eagerly looking at Sostatus sitting in the middle.

Someone has already shouted impatiently: "Sostatus, everyone is almost here, what are you waiting for! Tell us quickly, what good thing are you going to discuss with us?!"

"Yes, tell me quickly! Does His Majesty want to reward us for donating food for free?!" Another person also shouted.

All the businessmen responded one after another.

Hearing this, Sostatus looked at Theos on his left.

Theos is one of the top businessmen in the Kingdom of Dionia.It has three iron-smelting workshops in the Lucania region, a copper-smelting workshop in Turii, two weapon workshops each in Turii and Amendolara, as well as weapon shops and iron shops in cities throughout the kingdom. , most of the excellent weapons and armors it manufactures are owned by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the majority of citizen soldiers. Moreover, he is also a specialized supplier of surgical instruments for various hospitals in the kingdom, and the daily ironware he produces is also widely welcomed by the people. In addition, His works are also indispensable in the iron casting of large-scale public projects. Therefore, he has been interviewed and commended by King Davos many times. He also has close contacts with officials from the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Construction. He also frequently asks for construction projects from the kingdom. donations for public buildings.

Not only did he have high prestige among the kingdom's businessmen, he was also highly respected among the people. Therefore, he was elected as the speaker of the Thurii local council many times.But in fact, Theos himself is not too keen on politics. He is more obsessed with his career and is keen on how to increase the furnace temperature, improve the iron-making process, improve the quality of iron tools, design sharper and more practical weapons, and build better defenses. Armor... He knew that in the Kingdom of Dionia, which respected military and technology, as long as he always maintained advanced technology, he would always be valued by the king and ministers.For this reason, he not only hired good smelters and casters with high salaries, but also made many donations to Dionia Academy, cooperated with scholars, provided experimental funds, and shared technology patents.

Therefore, facing Sostatus' consulting gaze, Theos shook his head and stretched out his hand in a gesture of invitation.

Saustatus had no choice but to turn his head and look at Dickpolis on his right.

Speaking of which, Dickpolis was the first businessman to come to Dionia to do business, and the first businessman to decide to stay and become a citizen.Dickpolis was enthusiastic and sociable, and many foreign businessmen came to Thurii under his persuasion and eventually became citizens of Dionia, including of course Theos.

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

Pottery is a daily necessities widely used by people in the Mediterranean. It is the most common handicraft in Greek city-states. This is because most Greek city-states do not have fertile land and cannot produce abundant food, and wine and olive oil have become their specialties. , by selling these commodities in exchange for food, and the containers containing these two liquid commodities will inevitably become another focus of the development of city-states. Therefore, many Greek city-states have merchants who make pottery, but the most famous pottery is produced in Athens, using Atti Using high-quality clay, the Athenians, after long-term exploration, produced black pottery bottles with red decorative paintings that were not only of high quality, but also had exquisite and creative bottle paintings, making them leaders in this industry.

Followed by the black pottery made in Corinth, they also pioneered the use of exquisite bottle paintings on pottery, and at the same time made the entire pottery industry highly organized. The pottery they produced once accounted for almost half of the Mediterranean pottery sales, until a hundred years later It was defeated by the Athenian pottery industry which came from behind.

Dicopolis, who was born in Crete, did not have any technical advantages in pottery making, but with his vision and determination, he moved all his belongings to the Dionian League when the Dionysian League was just established and Thurii was in need of new things. In the handicraft industry area of ​​​​Amendolara, he began to sell the low-priced pottery he produced to ordinary people in Dionia who were rebuilding their homes, and gradually gained some fame.

Later, with the establishment of the kingdom, expansion of territory, increase in population, and expansion of the market, his pottery sales also experienced explosive growth. At the same time, low-interest loans from Christoya Bank also allowed him to build a pottery workshop. The confidence to expand and upgrade.Not only did he establish pottery workshops in several places with high-quality pottery in the kingdom, but he also hired excellent potters from mainland Greece with high salaries. The turbulent situation and frequent wars in Greece at that time also provided him with good opportunities for poaching. Opportunity, since then the pottery he sells has begun to involve high-end products.

More importantly, Dickpolis improved his management and organizational model of the pottery industry as well as the entire process flow. Of course, this was not his invention.

Let’s first talk about the management and organizational model of the handicraft industry.Before the establishment of Dionysia, each city-state in Greece was a city, and the industries of city-state merchants were mostly concentrated in one city. Due to the small land, many people, and limited resources, even if the merchant had financial resources, his industry It is impossible to have a large scale, and of course it is easier to manage. Even in the economically prosperous Athens, there are no large factories.

But in Dionia, a kingdom that could be described as vast in territory and populous to the Greek world, and with a large number of free people willing to settle here, provided fertile soil for the establishment of large-scale factories.The chain management model of Kristoia Bank and Kristoia Restaurant across various cities in the kingdom has given great inspiration to the kingdom's businessmen, allowing them to break the conservative business thinking that in the past the industry was only fixed in one city. , thus daring to carry out industrial layout in a vast geographical area and carry out effective management through a pyramid-type hierarchical responsibility system.

Let’s talk about the fine division of labor in the process flow.The pottery industry is already a highly organized industry among Greek handicrafts, but it is still inseparable from the tradition of family workshops, from digging clay, transporting clay, shaping, lighting fires, burning pottery, painting screens, lettering... a Potters are involved in most of the processes, which undoubtedly makes pottery production inefficient.At the beginning, in order to make Dionia's weapons and armor meet the needs of the army as soon as possible, Davos taught the kingdom's weapons merchants such as Tios the method of finely dividing the production process, which greatly increased the output of weapons. This method was quickly adopted Absorbed by merchants from other kingdoms.

Of course, Dickpolis has also carried out a precise division of labor in its own pottery workshop, with dedicated people responsible for each process. This has greatly improved the quality and output of pottery, and its prices have also dropped accordingly. This made the pottery of Decapolis even more popular among the people of the kingdom, accounting for more than half of the domestic pottery sales. Except for a small amount of high-end pottery from Athens, the pottery of other city-states was completely unable to compete with Decapolis in the kingdom. He has become A veritable big merchant of Dionian pottery.

Of course, Dickpolis, like other businessmen in Tulii, is busy completing industrial upgrading and occupying the market of the expanding kingdom. External sales rely more on Sostatus. This is one of the reasons why Dickpolis, who has strong financial resources and wide connections, is willing to let Sostatus serve as the president of the Thurii Chamber of Commerce and he takes second place. Of course, the more important reason is that Sostatus His father Kunoggorata was a close confidant of King Davos. Even though he had passed away, Sostatus could still rely on his father's influence and visit the palace and the Ministry of Commerce from time to time to obtain some business information first and provide it to the Chamber of Commerce. Get some discounts, like this time.

Therefore, Dickpolis smiled and said: "Sostatus, don't be polite. You are the president, and besides, this good thing was achieved by your joint efforts with everyone, so of course you have to announce it!"

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