At this time, another group of slaves quickly tied the stone with wheat straw and rope, both to prevent the stone from being damaged on the way to the next mile and to prevent the stone from scratching the slaves.

The ropes were divided into two groups, and after tying the waist of the stone, a dozen slaves on the ground struggled to pull it outward, and at the other end, ten slaves stood on the rock, dragging the stone, and several slaves continued to pry the stone with a wooden crowbar, so that it could roll at a relatively steady speed onto a row of logs that had been placed in front of it.

Finally, the slaves cheered, and their team had mined the first stone in a relatively short time without incident.

The large rectangular stone finally landed smoothly on top of six or seven logs arranged at intervals, and then several slaves began to tie the stone with ropes again, and then 12 slaves pulled the ropes together, and the four slaves continued to place the logs that had fallen behind in front of the stones.

Huge and heavy stones rolled on the logs, and the less laborious ones were dragged to the stone dump on the side of the entrance to the quarry.

The foreman was notified, inspected the stone, confirmed that it was qualified, and recorded it on the board he was carrying.

Massimus's group of slaves cheered again, causing the envy of the other teams, as they had already mined the first stone in a relatively short period of time without any incident, and were likely to overdo their task again today, thus earning a reward.

Maximus remained calm, and while arranging for the remaining slaves, who had not done much before, to start hammering into the wooden wedge of the second trenched rock, he urged the returning slaves to hurry up and regain their strength.

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The stone stacked at the entrance to the mine is roughly shaped here before being sent away.

It was not the kingdom slaves who shaped the stone here, but the private slaves of Aristagras, all of whom had considerable experience in handling the stone, which was accumulated by Aristagras for more than 10 years after he engaged in this business.

After all, selling stone is different from selling other metal ores, and few mine owners sell the newly mined stone directly to the buyer, but according to the buyer's requirements, provide relatively molded stone, such as the assistant sent to the stone mine by the craftsmen who were responsible for rebuilding the main temple of Hades at this time, he arrived here after the early morning as usual, and according to the progress of the construction on the temple's side, what styles of stone are required to be provided to the temple today? What quantity do you need for each style? ……

There are three main types of shaped stones needed to build temples: one is a square stone, which will become the stone bricks for the construction of the temple; One is a round stone block, which will become the pillars that support the temple; There is also a thinner slate of stone, which was used to lay the floor of the temple.

Hundreds of slave craftsmen here carefully shape the quarried stones with iron tongs, iron chisels, iron drills, metal wires and other tools, and they are not only dressed in linen clothes, but also wear masks and turbans, because they use metal tools to chisel the stones, and the stone chips are scattered, which can easily lead to injuries, which is a kind of protection for the slaves. In addition to the cloth that protects the lower body, the slaves of the kingdom who mine stone are basically naked, because they basically do not use metal tools, there is no worry about this, and there is no drag of clothes, it is more convenient to move and exert force, and the main danger they need to worry about is the sudden fall of rocks.

Of all the styles used to shape stone, it seems that cutting the stone into slabs was the most difficult, because marble, unlike limestone, had a harder texture, which seemed difficult to achieve with the tools of the era.

But the Greeks, who had been immersed in marble for hundreds of years, had long since figured out a good way to deal with it, which was to draw a cutting line on the stone, then use a tool to cut a shallow groove along the cutting line, fill it with dry sea sand, and press the wire. The slave craftsman dragged the ends of the wire and pulled the wire back and forth along the groove, and the wire squeezed down the sand, which was the material that was actually used to cut the stone, and wore it down by constant friction. As the groove gets deeper, more sand needs to be added to it until the stone is finally split up and turned into a slate.

The final square and round stones were slightly larger than the final stone used to build the temple, and the slave craftsmen specially left bumps around the stone as handles to make it easier for the temple builders to carry them.

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The stone that has been shaped is immediately transported, and it is up to the kingdom's slaves to take over.

Nearly 20 slaves laboriously carried the stone onto the raft, which was padded with round logs. Some of the slaves pulled the raft with ropes, while the rest of the slaves kept placing round logs in front of them, and as before, the stones were slowly pulled towards the exit of the mine.

The exit is next to the entrance, and the road is paved with large stones, firm and smooth, and at the end of the road a platform more than two meters high, in front of which a four-wheeled vehicle is parked, and its height is just flush with the platform, so that the heavy stones can be pushed onto the car with little effort.

This four-wheeled bicycle is very sturdy, and its wheels are made of several complete pieces of round wood spliced together, which is unusually tall and thick.

There is also a special carpenter stationed at the exit, because when the stone is first delivered to the cart, it is the most prone to damage, and he can repair it nearby.

The cart is pulled by four bulls, which move slowly but reliably, and can carry about 10 tons at a time, which is about 2-3 stones.

Usually, they usually transport the stone to a simple wharf next to the Koseni River, and use a cargo ship to transport the stone to the place designated by the buyer, which is relatively labor-saving and safe.

However, to provide stone for the main temple of Hades, the Turrij City Hall refused to allow Aristagas to use the docks in the inner city to transport stones, because in this way, the transportation of stones from the pier to the temple would have to cross most of the inner city, which would not only damage the exquisite roads of the inner city, affect traffic, interfere with the rest of the people of the inner city (more than half of the people in the inner city were dignitaries), and most importantly, it was unsafe (because there would be many strange slaves in and out of the inner city). And if you go by land, the main temple of Hades is not far from the west gate of the inner city, which is convenient for management and control.

But for Arista Grass, this will undoubtedly be a great headache, because the land route from the mine to the main temple of Hades is about 10 miles, such a long distance, it is easy to have accidents during transportation, the wheels are damaged, the stones fall, to move it again, it will undoubtedly consume more manpower and material resources, and even worse is to smash and injure passers-by, then the compensation money will not be a small number, which is why Aristagrass decided to improve the transportation problem after losing a lot of money, Hope is pinned on what scholars call railroad tracks.

The whole quarry was filled with the sound of work from morning to night: the orders of the foremen, the trumpets of the slaves, the shouts of the coachmen driving the ox carts forward, the creaking of the wood under the weight of the stones, and the screams of the slaves due to various accidents...... One after another, endlessly.

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In the evening, the kingdom slaves dragged their tired bodies back to the slave camp, although they only worked for more than an hour, but in the dim environment, digging for stones, one slave was unable to avoid the falling rubble above, and was hit in the head and died.

Of course, except for the same group of slaves who were sad and uneasy about this, the other slaves seemed indifferent, and some even knew nothing about it. In the huge quarries, where thousands of slaves had been toiling all this time, and some were always wounded and even dead, they were already numb, and what they longed for most at the moment was a good dinner and a good night's sleep.

Of course, their wishes were satisfied, and dinner was even more sumptuous than breakfast, and the slaves walked slowly back to their quarters, and after a brief wash, they lay down in their beds and fell asleep.

At this moment, the door of a dormitory was pushed open, and someone stood in front of the door and shouted, "Febius. Rabiot. Is Gaius there? ”

Someone was suddenly woken up and scolded angrily: "Damn, who?!" ”

The person standing at the door replied coldly: "Patrol! ”

There was a moment of silence in the room, and after a few moments, Gaius reminded softly, "You seem to have called the wrong name, it should be Gaius. Fibius. Rabiot. ”

"Are you sure you want to call it that!" The soldier's voice at the door was stern.

Gaius didn't dare answer.

Last year, at the suggestion of King Davers, the Senate passed the Law on the Surnames of the Kingdom of Dionia, which stipulates that both Dionian citizens and freedmen who want to join Dionya must have a name and a surname in order to facilitate registration and search for their information by the Registrar, and must have a surname first and a last name, and anyone who does not comply will be punished, and in serious cases, they will be deprived of their citizenship.

In the eyes of the ordinary people of Dionia, it has been almost 20 years since King Davers gave his children a surname in his own name, and gradually imitated by his ministers and people, and most of the citizens have already had a first and last name, and the promulgation of this decree only formalized this custom into law.