Everyone thought about it and shook their heads. Athens may be the richest, but it can't afford so many benefits to its citizens, and as a historic city-state, it can't do all of this with too many vested interests, entrenched legal systems, and traditional ideologies. Although, it was already very good for the common people in the Greek city-states.

"Can Persia, the great power of the Mediterranean, do this?" Plesinas asked aloud again.

Everyone shook their heads directly: Persia, it is a dictatorship where the aristocracy oppresses the commoners and the Persians oppress other races.

"Then Dioonia is the Elysée Paradise of the Greek city-states! I am sure that the Greeks, knowing the rights enjoyed by our citizens, will be more active in flocking to Dionia! Plecinas affirmed.

"Plecinas's guess should be correct. Even before the war with Crotone, the number of freedmen in the port of Turiy had been growing...... And after the war, we have fulfilled our promises, and even allocated land to the reserve citizens, and there will definitely be more immigrants pouring into Dionia. We need to be ready to house them. Kunograta took over the conversation and gave everyone a warning in advance.

When they heard this, they were both happy and a little worried.

"Now, please let me add one more right to the citizens of Dionia." Davers continued: "I noticed just now that there was some concern when they heard Kunogorata say 'more immigrants are coming to Daiolia'. What to worry about? I think it's more about the difficulty of the Ionian Union in maintaining good order in the city! Fear that so many immigrants will enter, and most of them are civilians and uneducated, and when they all become Ionian citizens, the overall quality of our citizens will decline! will drop dramatically! ——”

"Master Davers is right!" Turi's patriarch, Massisacus, immediately rose up and shouted in a loud rebuke: "Now there are signs of this in Turii, especially in the port, where the new immigrants with all kinds of accents speak rudely, are uneducated, and are swearing, fighting, and brawling at every turn, and I have heard that the port patrol has to deal with dozens of conflicts a day. Isn't that so, Kunogorata? ”

Kunograta shook his head and corrected seriously: "It's not that serious, if the freedmen want to become citizens of the alliance smoothly, they don't dare to break the law and discipline, according to statistics, there are no more than five cases a day, and most of them are solved by themselves before the patrol arrives." ”

Masisacus was bored with himself, muttering: "Three or four conflicts a day, and there are no less......"

Polyxis looked at Masisacus, his eyes flickering.

"Because of these problems, my next proposal is to set up a school in Turiyi, where all Ionian citizens can send their children to school to learn literacy, arithmetic, drawing, music, athletic competitions, ......etc., for a small fee," said Davers with a smile.

School?! Everyone pondered this new word. At this time, the Athens Academy had not yet been established, and the way the Greeks were educated was mainly to rely on the rich and wealthy to hire private teachers and buy learned slaves to educate their children, or famous scholars to open private schools, charge a lot of tuition, and recruit disciples, and the city-state financed the construction of a school to collectively educate the children of citizens, which was still unheard of! But the senators were very interested, and most felt that it did help to solve the problem of the low cultural quality of the Dionian citizens, so they rose up to ask questions.

Davers was very familiar with the school, and the experience of his past life combined with the actual situation of the present life, he answered their questions with ease.

For example, Amintas asked: "What if citizens also want to go to school? ”

Davers's answer: "Establish a special class in the school to educate adults, with a different curriculum and method of education than for young children, so as to facilitate the rapid eradication of illiteracy." ”

For example, Kunogorata's question: "How can children benefit and improve in school with different ages and different levels of education?" ”

Davers's answer was: "There are three levels of education: elementary, intermediate, and advanced, and children who have not learned anything enter the elementary class and begin to learn to read, count, and read articles...... For children who are already literate and have a certain foundation in arithmetic, they will enter the intermediate class and learn how to use words to form sentences, write articles, and know complex operations...... The advanced class is mainly to master the rhetoric of words, speeches, arguments, and calculate a large number of complicated data...... This is to prepare for the training of senior talents of the alliance such as lawyers, accountants, and mid-level officials......"

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The senators were satisfied with Davers's detailed answers, and even Kunogorata, who rarely praised others in public, couldn't help but exclaim: "Lord Archon, I really think that you have been favored by the gods, otherwise it would be impossible to come up with so many brilliant ideas, and at the same time have a complete implementation plan!" ”

Kunogorata's words were echoed by the senators.

Davers smiled and continued, "I propose that Ansitanos be the head of this school. ”

"Agreed!" The patriarchs agreed. The most learned in the Senate was undoubtedly Ansitanos, who had been a disciple of Herodotus, and of course it was also believed that Davers, who was rumored to be illiterate, but had been inspired by Hades and had always behaved mysteriously, was incalculable.

"Huh? I ......" Ansitanos, who was sitting in the back row and wandering in the world, was awakened and hurriedly shook his head and refused: "I can't, I don't have time!" Thucydides the Athenian has been completed, and it is said that it is very popular with the Athenians, but mine has not yet been written?! ”

At the repeated requests of the patriarchs, even Davers made a promise to everyone: all the patriarchs would do their best to contribute to his creation, and if he wanted to interview someone, he would do his best to cooperate......

Ansitanos reluctantly accepted this, but he immediately began to complain: "Ladies and gentlemen, it's not that I didn't want to manage the school just now, you must know that the Dionian Alliance is only counting the city of Turiyi, and there are thousands of children of Dionian citizens!" And how many teachers do you just say to teach them Greek characters, arithmetic, drawing, music, etc.?! The Dionian League simply can't find so many teachers to teach the children! ”

When he said this, everyone immediately realized that this was indeed a problem. But Davers had obviously thought about it a long time ago, and he said unhurriedly: "There are not enough teachers in the Dionian Alliance, but there are other city-states." We are in dire need of the leafy rosin vanilla, and we can drastically reduce the tariff on it specifically to incentivize Cyrenaica merchants to bring it into the port of Turiyi in large quantities to sell. If we are short of teachers, then of course we can make a preferential law for them, so that good Gentile scholars will come to Dionya...... Are you right? ”

The senators were thoughtful, and Ansitanos asked urgently: "What kind of bill?" ”

"My proposal is...... Any Gentile who came to Dionya to become a teacher, even a slave, would immediately receive Dionian citizenship! But the premise is that they must first pass the examination of our special agency in the Senate to determine that they have the ability to serve as teachers...... Well...... This assessment can be led by Ansitanus you. But they have citizenship rights, they become teachers in Union schools, they have to dedicate their lives to teaching children, and if they change careers, their citizenship will be immediately revoked and they will be deported! In addition, Union citizenship applies only to teachers themselves, and their children may not inherit unless they are also engaged in the profession of teaching......"

The crowd was impressed by Davers's proposal.

Ansitanos, who didn't care about being a school administrator at first, said with some excitement at the moment: "Since before, Plesinas and Master Kunograta thought that the Greeks were envious of Dionian citizens and wanted to become Dionian citizens, then I think the lack of teachers in Dionya will soon change!" …… I remember that there was a coalition bill for doctors, and now there is a proposal for teachers in their favor. Ladies and gentlemen, doctors and teachers are the two sacred professions besides the priesthood of the gods, one to heal the human body and the other to raise the human mind, and I thank the Archon for his foresight! We hope to have your support too! The Ionian Senate fully showed respect for knowledge! It will make our alliance not only prosperous in trade, strong militarily, but also culturally glorious! The Dionian League will be a great union of city-states!! ”

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The meeting went on until dusk, and two others said they had proposals to say, and the senators had to have the guards light candles and go on.

The first speaker was Scombras, who apologized and said, "I'm sorry to delay everyone coming home for dinner." I have just consulted with Master Davers, Kapuse, and Hieronymus, and I have learned that there is a large swamp north of the city of Crimesa, especially in the spring, when the rain is overflowing, and the swamp expands outward, affecting road traffic and encroaching on farmland...... I wondered if we could put in a lot of labor to fill in the swamp and build a dam for the Racoeli River, which would keep the territory safe and prevent the outbreak of disease, and add a lot more fertile land! ……”

"Your old man has just been elected as the chief executive of Crimesa, and before he took office, he has begun to implement your management of Crimesa!" Prot Silaus quipped with a laugh.

"What? You kid have an opinion?! Scambras glared at Amendolala, the junior he had watched grow up, blowing his beard.