"It's definitely good then, it's almost good now, don't believe it!" Adores stood up and took a few steps to prove that he was right.

Crotokataks held back a smile and said, "Big brother, it's useless for you to tell me, the key is to get your father and mother to agree." ”

Adoris felt a little frustrated, he knew that his bad performance in the last battle had worried Davers and Christoia, so he had to ask his brother for help: "Klotto, your parents love you the most, you have to help me, plead with your parents, so that I can participate in this expedition......"

Although Klotocatax is four years younger than Adoris, and has only just reached adulthood, he has been taken by Davers from time to time in the past two years and taught in person, and his political sense is much stronger than that of Adoris, and he knows very well in his heart: unless Adoris is seriously injured, it is impossible for his father not to take him on the expedition, otherwise it will give some people a wrong impression that Adoris relies on his father's relationship and deliberately does not participate in such an important war "on the grounds of injury", which will have a great impact on Adores's future development.

But Crotokataks was embarrassed and said, "Big brother, you also know your father's temper ......"

"Klotto, you must help me! As long as I can convince my father to let me go to Radin with the army, if you ask me to help me in the future, I will definitely help with all my might! Adorys pleaded.

"That'...... Well, I'll give it a try. Seeing that Adoris, who usually likes to teach himself as a big brother, rarely pleaded with himself like this, Crotokataks felt a very comfortable feeling in his heart.

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In the city of Turiyne, in the mansion inherited by Sostatus from his father, Kunogorata, there were more than twenty people, all of whom were well-known merchants in the Turiyi region.

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

Someone couldn't wait to shout: "Sostatus, everyone has basically arrived, what are you waiting for!" Tell us what is it that you want to discuss with us?! ”

"Yes, let's do it! Is Your Majesty going to reward us for donating food for free?! Another person also shouted.

The merchants responded one after another.

Sostatus heard this and looked at Theos on his left-hand side.

Theos was one of the great merchants in the Kingdom of Dionia. He has three iron-making workshops in Lucania, one copper-smelting workshop in Turii, two weapons workshops in Turii and Amendolara, and weapons and ironware shops in various cities throughout the kingdom, and most of the excellent weapons and armor he manufactures are covered by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the vast number of citizen soldiers, and he is also a specialized supplier of surgical instruments for the hospitals of the kingdom, and the daily ironware he produces is also widely welcomed by the people, in addition to the iron casting of large public works, his family's works are also indispensable. As a result, he was received and rewarded by King Davers many times, and he also had close contacts with officials of the Ministry of War and Construction, and he also frequently donated money to the public buildings to be built by the kingdom.

Not only did he have great prestige among the merchants of the kingdom, but he was also respected among the populace, so he was elected president of the local council of Turii several times. In reality, however, Theos himself was not too keen on politics, he was more interested in his own business, how to increase the temperature of furnaces, improve the iron-making process, improve the quality of iron, design sharper and more practical weapons, and create better defensive armor...... He knew that in the kingdom of Dionia, which valued military and technology, he would always be valued by the king and his ministers as long as he maintained advanced technology. To this end, he not only hired good smelters and foundries with high salaries, but also donated to the Dionian Academy many times, cooperated with scholars, provided experimental funds, and shared technology patents.

So, in the face of Sostatus' consultative gaze, Theos shook his head and reached out to make a gesture of please.

Sostatus had no choice but to turn his head to look at Dickpolis on his right-hand side.

Speaking of which, Dickpolis was the first merchant to come to Dionya to do business, and the first merchant to decide to stay and become a citizen. Dickpolis was a warm and sociable man, and many foreign merchants were persuaded by him to come to Turriy and eventually become Dionian citizens, including Theos, of course.

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

Pottery is a daily item widely used by the people of the Mediterranean, and it is the most common handicraft in the Greek city-states, this is because most of the Greek city-states do not have fertile land and cannot produce rich food, and wine and olive oil have become their specialties, and these goods are sold in exchange for food, and the containers containing these two liquid commodities must become another focus of the development of the city-states, so many Greek city-states have merchants who make pottery, but the most famous pottery is produced in Athens, using the high-quality terracotta of Attica, After a long period of exploration, the Athenians have become the leader in this industry by producing black clay vases with red decorative paintings, which are not only of high quality, but also have exquisite and creative bottle paintings.

The second was the black pottery made by the Corinthians, and they also pioneered the painting of beautiful bottles on pottery, and at the same time made the whole pottery industry highly organized, and they once produced pottery that accounted for almost half of the sales of pottery in the Mediterranean, until it was defeated by the Athenian pottery industry a hundred years later.

Born Cretan, Dikpolis did not have a technical advantage in pottery, but with his vision and determination, he moved all his possessions to the handicraft area of Amendolara when the Dionian League was just established and Turii was in ruins, and began to sell the low-cost pottery he produced to the common Dionian people who were rebuilding their homes, and gradually gained some fame.

Later, with the establishment of the kingdom, the expansion of the territory, the increase of the population, and the expansion of the market, his pottery sales also exploded, and at the same time, the low-interest loan of the Kristonia Bank also gave him the confidence to expand and upgrade the pottery workshop. Not only did he establish pottery workshops in several parts of the kingdom where there were high-quality clays, but he also used high salaries to dig up excellent potters in Greece, where the turbulent situation and frequent wars provided him with good opportunities to dig walls, and since then the pottery he sold has become a high-end product.

More importantly, Dick Polis improved his management and organization of the pottery industry and the entire process, which of course was not his invention.

Let's start with the management and organization of the handicraft industry. Before the establishment of Dionia, the various city-states of Greece were cities, and most of the industries of the merchants of the city-states were concentrated in one city, because of the small land and the limited resources, even if the merchant had financial resources, his industry could not be of great scale, of course, it was relatively easy to manage, even in the economically prosperous Athens, there were no large factories.

But Dionia, a vast and populous kingdom for the Greek world, with a large number of freedmen willing to settle there, provided fertile ground for the establishment of large factories. The chain management model of Christoya Bank and Christoya Restaurant, which is located in various cities of the kingdom, has given great inspiration to the merchants of the kingdom, so that they can break the conservative business thinking that the industry is only fixed in one city in the past, so as to dare to carry out industrial layout in the vast area and carry out effective management through the pyramid 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 the Greek handicrafts, but it is still inseparable from the tradition of family workshops, from digging clay, transporting clay, shaping, lighting fires, firing pottery, painting screens, and lettering...... A potter is involved in most of the process, which undoubtedly makes the output of the pottery inefficient. In order to make Dionia's weapons and armor meet the needs of the army as soon as possible, Davers taught the weapon merchants of Theos and other kingdoms the method of fine division of labor in the production process, which greatly increased the output of weapons, and this method was quickly absorbed by merchants of other kingdoms.

Of course, Dickpolis also carried out a precise division of labor in his own pottery workshop, and each process was responsible for a special person, so that the quality and output of the pottery were greatly improved, and the price was reduced accordingly, so that Dickpolis's pottery was more popular with the people of the kingdom, accounting for more than half of the domestic pottery sales, and the pottery of other city-states was completely unable to compete with Dickpolis in the kingdom except for a small number of high-end pottery in Athens, and he had become a veritable Dionian pottery merchant.

Of course, Dickpolis, like other merchants in the Turriy industry, is busy completing industrial upgrades, but also busy occupying the market of the expanding kingdom, and foreign sales rely more on marketers led by Sostatus, which is also one of the reasons why Dickpolis, who has strong financial resources and extensive contacts, is willing to let Sostatus serve as the president of the Turriyi Chamber of Commerce and himself is secondary, of course, the more important reason is that Sostatus's father, Kunoggorata, is a confidant of King Davos, even though he has died, Sostatus can still rely on his father's shadow, from time to time in and out of the palace and the Ministry of Commerce, to get some business information first, and to win some preferential treatment for the Chamber of Commerce, such as this time.

So, Dickpolis smiled and said, "Sostatus, you're welcome. You are the president, and besides, this good thing is also obtained by your joint efforts, of course, it is up to you to announce it! ”()

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