"The other city-states considered the land to be their greatest wealth, so they were reluctant to accept Gentiles and freemen, and were unwilling to share with them the benefits and wealth of the city-state. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and I, on the contrary, I think that "people" are the greatest wealth of the city-state! With people, we can grow food, make art, and create wealth! With people, you can build weapons, form armies, and defend city-states! With enough people, you can get enough land! Davers said firmly.

His words had an unprecedented shock to Kunogorata, as clever as he certainly would not have been ignorant of how to get enough land, and apparently Davers was vaguely telling him the source of the "land" he had given to the new citizens, so he was silent......

Sostatus, the eldest son of Kunograta, saw the near-completion of some of the warehouses and inns on the site, and asked: "I have heard that you are going to attract the merchants of Turiy and the Gentile merchants to come to you to store their goods and lodgings, and this is the storehouse and inn under construction?" ”

"Yes."

"I see that there are a lot of warehouses and hotels to be built here, and the city-state is going to manage these themselves?" Sostatus asked again.

Mersis heard what he meant, and immediately said, "Of course not! There aren't that many public officials in the city-states, everyone has their own business, and we're going to bid for them openly and rent them out. ”

"Auction" was a new word, and Sostatus quickly figured out what was going on with the good merchant genes of the Greeks, and he asked, "Can we participate?" ”

"Very welcome!" Mersis replied happily.

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Although the whole family was tired after a busy day of moving and decorating the house, Kunogorata woke up early the next morning, and it was his habit to get up early for many years, and the slaves served him to get dressed and get up, and he decided to go out for a walk with the help of the slaves, and then come back for breakfast.

The house of Kunogora Tower is at the foot of the hill of Amendolara, and after the allocation of housing for the new citizens, there are still many empty houses here, which shows how much damage the previous war has done to Amendolara, and only when Kunogora Tower is deep in it can we understand why the original people of Amendolara were so angry with Turiyi.

Most of these empty houses were rented to the freedmen at low prices, so as soon as Kunogorata went out, you could see the freedmen hurrying to work, their faces full of energy and passion that the freedmen of the city-state of Turiy did not have, and even when they saw the stranger Kunogorata, they would also speak strange Greek and greet them in a friendly manner.

Kunogorata knew that they were so passionate about life, that they had gone from slaves to freemen, and that their employers had paid them the so-called "reserve citizen tax" to the city-state, and that they would become reserve citizens of the city-state in two years if they obeyed the law and worked hard.

It's already June and the weather is starting to get hot. The city of Amendolara is still relatively cool because it is built on a hill, and the sea breeze and mountain breeze blow the small city in turn.

As they walked up the road, they could meet the citizens who came down the hill from time to time, they all went to work in the fields, whether they were old citizens or new citizens, they all greeted each other and laughed, and they seemed very harmonious, and the slaves who followed them also seemed very spiritual, and it must have been the deeds of those mercenary slaves who could become citizens that gave them hope.

What really surprised Kunogorata was that he was accompanied by women, who were still citizens who listened to the conversation, not freemen women (in order to make a living, freedmen's wives often went out to work to earn money to support their families, such as stalls, restaurant employees, etc.), and were ready to accompany their husbands to work in the fields. I remembered that yesterday afternoon my son mentioned that he seemed to have mentioned some strange things in the city, and then looked at the woman's appearance, sure enough, it was a Lucanian woman, if it was a traditional conservative Gentile would have made a fuss, but Kunogorata, who had been in the political arena for many years, first thought of the meaning of the city-state represented by this phenomenon, obviously Davers was not just talking, he was trying to assimilate the Lucanians in various ways.

This young man has extraordinary ambitions! The small city of Amendola, under his leadership, is so quirky and different, yet it has regained its vitality and vitality in such a short period of time! Kunogorata became even more interested, and he found that there were many people descending the mountain, but there were also many people going up the mountain, and many of them were children, and when he asked, he learned that there were disciples of the Pythagorean school in the square who taught mathematics for free.

There is a Pythagorean school here! Kunograta was surprised, and suddenly remembered the scene of the first meeting, and instantly understood: this must be the thread pulled by Acheta! The Pythagoreans were against democracy and supported aristocracy, and Davers could tolerate it?!

But Kunogorata thought about it: Davers is a consul for life, and Amendolara is not a democracy!

When we came to the square, there were already some people surrounding the platform in front of us, on which a young man was teaching basic mathematics.

The young man was none other than Mentoticel Els, who and Matthicoris had been promised by Davers to take in a wide range of apprentices, but they strictly followed the Pythagorean tradition: disciples had to have some mathematical foundation, so they had to be tested.

But when they went door-to-door to ask questions, they were all rejected. First of all, most of the new citizens have a low level of education, and now they have just been assigned to the fields and houses, busy taking care of everything, how can they have time to test and study, and a few want to learn, thinking that they will prepare for participating in public office in the future, but when they hear that they have to pass the test first, their heads will immediately become big; Although the old citizens had a higher level of education than the new citizens, on the one hand, they were busy giving funerals to their relatives, and on the other hand, the Pythagoreans had a bad reputation in Greater Greece, and the secret societies, the worship of evil gods (they worshipped "number" as a god), and the opposition to the city-states had long been spread throughout the city-states, and of course they were not popular.

After several days of busyness, not a single disciple was recruited, and the two were devastated, wandering around the city-state all day, and inadvertently let them discover the Hades numerals (actually Arabic numerals) that Davers taught Mersis for convenient bookkeeping, you must know that the Greek scholars who studied mathematics in this era had a very headache, because the Greek characters representing the numbers were cumbersome to write, once the number exceeded 10,000, it was difficult to write, which brought great trouble to the scholars to carry out formula operations. The Hades numbers are simple, easy to learn, and easy to remember, but they easily solve the most troublesome problems in the mathematical community, which will surely improve the efficiency of mathematical research, and most importantly, mathematics will be easier to popularize among the people. (Historically, the person who solved this problem for the Greeks was Archimedes, who pioneered the method of remembering large numbers.)

The thought of this was a great treasure for the two men, but Mersis refused their request to teach them the secret of how to use the symbol, saying, "It was taught by Lord Davers, and it is said to be a gift from the King of Hades, and you must have his permission to learn it!" ”

The two had to come to Davers again, thinking it would be more difficult. However, Davers immediately agreed, saying: "Mathematics comes from everyday life, and I certainly hope that everyone can learn it, so that it can be applied to life, so that it can solve the problems encountered in life and provide convenience for life, which is the true meaning of learning knowledge!" ”

Davers's words touched the two young men.

Therefore, Dafoss proposed that they set up a free public lecture on mathematics in the square to teach the basic introduction to mathematics to the citizens of the city-state who were willing to come to study, and the Senate was willing to endorse them and advocate the active participation of the people, so that over time, they could cultivate a large number of mathematics lovers for the Pythagorean school, and naturally the Pythagorean school could take root in Amendora.

Unwilling to return to Tarantum without accomplishing anything, the two young disciples finally decided to break with the tradition of the Pythagoreans and give public lectures.

After getting their consent, Davers was overjoyed and immediately invited them to participate in the design and manufacture of the waterwheel.

In his previous life, Davers had seen waterwheels all over the water towns in southern China, and it seemed to be an easy thing to make, but after Davers asked the superintendent Alexis to take a carpenter to try out the production, he found that it was not easy: either the support frame collapsed due to uneven stress, or the wheel angle of the runner was different and the rotation was not working...... Wait a minute. The small watermill actually involved the more sophisticated calculus of mathematics and the use of mechanics, and the mathematicians of this era were often familiar with physics, because the connection between the two was very close, so Daves had to turn to two young Pythagorean disciples for help.

When he took out the simple pattern of the waterwheel and explained its purpose, the two were immediately fascinated, and after careful observation, they thought that it was a perfect embodiment of the "god of mathematics" to help mankind live a better life (completely ignoring that this was Davers's idea), and under the leadership of Acheta, the Pythagorean school of Tarantum had been involved in the study of mathematical mechanics for several years, and it was just right to apply what they had learned, and the two immediately expressed their willingness to help develop the waterwheel.

Today, while Mentotik Els was giving a lecture on stage, Matticoris was already building a watermill by the Sini River. Although Mentotice Els was a little anxious, he tried his best to stabilize his emotions, finished the lecture with quality and quantity, and patiently answered the enthusiastic questions of the public, and then hurried down the mountain......

In a narrow section of the Sinni River, the rushing water pushes the huge wheel axle to rotate slowly, and when the bucket full of water is turned to the middle of the water wheel, it flips down, dumping the water into a wooden trough, which then leads the river water into the canal, which brings the cool and clear water of the Sinni River to the higher fields......