The road surface of the block was filled in and tamped, sewers were dug on both sides, and the road was widened enough for two horse-drawn carriages to drive side by side, and walking on the road had a sense of steadiness that was not there before. The houses in the neighborhood are being demolished gradually (the reason for the large-scale demolition of the houses here is that the civilians living in Raventin are basically allocated houses close to the city center, except for the Temple of Diana, which is basically empty, so it is easy to renovate), and after these rubble tiles are cleared, the houses here will be planned and built, and there will be no more crowded and mixed scenes before.

Stolo's gaze swept over this unrecognizable neighborhood, looked at the new road, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: the slum west of the city that had tormented the Romans for 10 years, every year the Senate had many debates about transforming it, but it still did not change in the slightest after 10 years, but under the rule of the Dionians, it was completely changed in a month, although they took advantage of some wars, but it has to be said that the Dionians were indeed very decisive and executed, and they really wanted to improve the lives of the Romans......

Thinking of what Maiinas had said, Stolo's heart seemed to be no longer so entangled, and as he walked through the slums, he saw a number of people gathered in front of the arena in front of him, mostly Ionian citizens who had migrated, and a few Romans, who were busy under the command of two priests dressed in white robes.

Stolo knew what they were up to, and it was said that Hades, the Greek god of law and the underworld, the patron saint of the kingdom of Dionia, was about to be born, and Delnia held a grand celebration for him every year.

Ten days ago, the Roman governor Arcistes announced that Rome would also hold a Hades celebration, and Stolo did not feel much about this, Rome used to be a polytheistic city-state, and there were many foreign gods, Etruscan, Sabine, and Wolsi ...... There are even quite a few new ones. But this incident not only made the newly moved citizens of Dionya rejoice, but also received a positive response from the Temple of Diana and many Roman civilians, which is a bit strange.

However, after careful analysis, Stolo felt that this was also reasonable: as far as he knew, after the priest Hades came to Rome, he treated the Roman commoners gently and kindly, often treated them free of charge, and actively helped the people in need...... Therefore, although the temple of Hades has not yet been built in the city of Rome, there is only a simple altar of Hades, but more and more people are coming to worship him, so when they hear that the Hades celebration is about to be held, these Roman people are also very active.

According to the announcement issued by the town hall, on the day of the celebration, not only the believers will solemnly sacrifice Hades, but according to tradition, some of the kingdom slaves who have performed well in peacetime will be given freedom, and more importantly, the Roman soldiers who died on the side of Dionya in this war will have their names engraved on stone tablets and enshrined in the temple of Hades, and their souls will be blessed by Hades after their deaths...... Naturally, these practices were of great concern to the Roman population and slaves at large.

Not to mention the fact that after the celebrations there was a rugby match: according to the announcement, Rome had to send a team to the tournament, in addition to Via, Gabi, Phidinae...... Towns under the direct control of Dioonia would send a team to participate, and it was conceivable that it would be a big game. Although most of the participants were Dionian citizens who had migrated to the Latin region, there were also some Roman civilians who liked the excitement of the novelty, so the Piazza Mars was bustling these days, with rugby teams from various Roman Demo districts actively training there.

To be honest, even Stolo himself was a little excited, and wanted to come to the arena to watch the game, and want to see what the popular rugby sport in the Dionian Kingdom would be like in the official game?

Standing in the distance, Storo watched as the group worked together to erect a tall statue in front of the entrance to the arena before starting to secure the pedestal.

The statue was an extremely muscular man with thick black hair, holding a rugby ball in his hand and making a throwing motion, the gold leaf attached to his body glittering in the sunlight.

This is the Hades that the Dioonians believed in?! Stolo, though a little curious, didn't look closer, he squinted for a moment, then turned to leave.

Further on, the streets become a bit crowded, as most of the traffic is by pack carts, with bags of flour coming east and bags of freshly harvested wheat and almost husked to the south.

When September came, the farmland was harvested, and the Roman people who had joined the Kingdom of Dionia, according to the previous agreement with the town hall, harvested the wheat in their newly allocated land, handed over 2/3 of the harvest, and kept the rest for their own use (since the Dionian army had occupied Rome before, these farmlands were logically the spoils of the army, but Arcistes considered to win the hearts and minds of the Romans and stabilize the order, and at the same time, in order to alleviate the fact that the town hall continued to provide food and material assistance to the Roman people who had already belonged to the kingdom, The decision was made after careful consideration, so as to ensure that the Roman people would not only be able to achieve self-sufficiency in food before the next harvest, but also save a sum of money for the purchase of wheat seeds, a suggestion approved by Davers), and the Roman commoners would not only receive all the harvest of their original fields (if they had had them), but also the extra income for nothing, which naturally overjoyed them, and they longed for the fertile land to be their own, and only to pay a very small annual land tax. So these days Rome and its nearby towns occupied by Ionia are shrouded in the joy of a good harvest.

A few days later, the town hall once again surprised the Roman civilians, posting a notice clearly telling them that several water mills, which had been financed by the town hall and specially designed and built by Dionian engineers day and night, had been completed, and could grind flour for the citizens of Dioonia for free.

In fact, making a water mill was far less time-consuming and laborious than the announcement suggested: the materials were ready-made, and so many siege engines were discarded after the siege of Rome; Engineers and carpenters were also readily available, and Davers brought with him a corps of more than 500 engineers, not counting the engineering battalions of the various regiments; The technology is ready-made, and the water mill was developed more than 10 years ago by Matticris, the vice president of the School of Mathematics in the Dionian Academy, and has become a common public large-scale facility in various cities in the kingdom; All that was needed was whether the administrators could take these things into account for the people in a timely manner, and Assisques not only took them into account, but immediately began to implement them, and finally completed the construction of the water mill just after the harvest was over.

Having served as governor of the kingdom's cities, Assistes knew the people's feelings, and knew that while a good harvest was a joy, it was a laborious and laborious task to remove the husks and grind flour for the wheat.

Before the advent of water mills, the Greeks used stone mills to grind flour, and the thick stone rollers had to be pulled by horses or donkeys, and in order to prevent wind and rain or birds from pecking, they had to be carried out in relatively closed huts, and special people had to be sent to take care of them. The "crunching" sound of the continuous friction between the stone roller and the stone mill is not only unbearable for people to listen to for a long time, but also unbearable for livestock, they will refuse to work, and sometimes go berserk, causing injuries, so for the slaves of large families, guarding the mill is the greatest punishment. Therefore, Arsistes thought that the introduction of the water mill would make the Roman people more deeply identify with the Dionian kingdom.

What is a water mill? When the people of Rome first saw this announcement, they were surprised, after all, Rome was an inland city-state, mainly agricultural, not developed in commerce, and had little contact with the Dioonian kingdom in the south, and the common people knew less about the outside world, and it was normal for them not to know that this new invention, which had been widely welcomed by the people of southern Italy.

However, since the Dioonians came to Rome, they gradually won the trust of the Roman civilians through a series of practical actions, so many Romans drove pack carts full of wheat grain to the river in Mars Square (the Dionian engineers inspected the river near the city of Rome and found that the Tiber River on the island of Tiberina was more rapid due to the diversion of the island in the middle of the river, and could better push the water mills, so they built several water mills here), and they were pleasantly surprised to find that this magical device could rotate again and againNot only can the flour be milled, but also the efficiency is very high, and the quality of the flour is good, and there is no need for people to stay there all the time to take care of it, and there is no need to worry about the cattle being tired, so soon it spread ten, ten, ten, hundreds, and the Roman people of the whole city either carried burdens or drove pack carts, and lined up in a long line by the river in Piazza Mars every day, just like now.

The people who had just returned from the river in Mars Square were loudly boasting about the magic of the water mill to the people who were about to rush there, and some even opened the noodle bags to show the other party the fruits of his labor, which made them even more eager to rush to the river.

Hearing these civilians exclaim from time to time: "No wonder Dionya is so powerful, even the tools for grinding noodles can be designed so magically!" ......" all looked like they were honored, and Stolo's heart was sour: I'm afraid that it won't be long before the Rome that raised them will be completely forgotten by them!

Stolo quickened his way home and came to the hills of Sirio, where his mood was better again, because he was greeted in a friendly manner: "Stolo, I'm back so early today!" ”