A coastal city with a good port can be used for maritime trade.

This means that the city has a new way of creating wealth. Sea freight has always been the most cost-effective means of transportation, characterized by large volumes, fast and cheap, and sometimes it may be the only way to get goods to customers. The larger the port and the more comprehensive the facilities, the greater the cargo throughput of the port, and the more goods will enter and leave the city. People will be able to buy more.

At the forefront of this are Athens and Sparta, whose large deep-water ports are able to effectively manage many merchant ships at the same time. This deep-water port is highly configured, and it can provide high-quality equipment and craftsmen, so that shipyards are set up next to the port instead of simple shipbuilding workshops.

The ships that sailed from here were all large ships, and the merchants of the city relied on these fleets to easily ship to any port in the world, and the goods from all over the world would enter the city through the port. Such maritime transport will create a lot of wealth for the city.

The Greeks had always retained a high level of seamanship, and Oonos was optimistic about this.

King Gueras was pleased with the expansion and upgrading of the port, in which he saw a high civil value. It's just a matter of input and output. And from a military point of view, the development of shipbuilding technology will allow Macedonia to build the most advanced giant warships.

The legendary five-column warship, which combines sailing ability and combat effectiveness, is no longer an empty blueprint concept, it will become a reality. The Macedonian Navy will be even more fearsome at that time.

This is the best example of the development of Macedonian military and civilian construction, and for Oonos's military construction proposal, Gueras always said:

"A long war is a costly affair."

From the beginning of construction to the completion of the operation, those military buildings are basically organizations that only invest and have no economic benefits.

The king's efforts to build are all economic and livelihood units, and once these institutions are completed and put into operation, there will be a steady stream of economic benefits in the later stage, which will benefit both the country and the people.

Sometimes Oonos also admires the big brother's thinking and strategy. Since the implementation of the New Deal, Gueras has healed the wounds of Macedonia's economic power caused by years of war; gradually consolidate the conquered territories into a monolith; The Macedonian defensive line essentially expanded outward, advancing to the edge of the border, and the offensive and defensive endpoints of the army moved forward; The armed forces have been upgraded and their combat effectiveness has been greatly enhanced.

Maybe Garras was just a peace-lover, maybe he could really see that long-term. Of course, there are many substantial benefits that are slowly revealed after the armistice, and they are not necessarily artificially calculated in advance.

The people live on food. Only when the people's food supply is guaranteed will the population of the city grow rapidly and the scale of the city will continue to expand.

In the past, ordinary arable land was subsistence agriculture, and the people only barely made ends meet. After the New Deal was enacted, communal farms appeared in all towns. In this way, the means of production are concentrated in a team division of labor, which minimizes individual losses and increases the production of land.

In developed areas, grain production is carried out mainly by slave owners' farms. These slave-owning estates had advanced land management techniques that increased crop yields by leaving the land fallow to restore productivity through crop rotation.

The manor farms were vast and had a large number of cheap slave laborers. All that can be harvested more grain.

The blacksmith shop can make useful farming tools for farmers, which also greatly improves production efficiency.

A very small number of large estate owners and nobles received funding from the king to build dams and construct irrigation systems. Crops crop twice or more in a year, which doubles agricultural yields and provides sufficient food for nearby cities. It will promote the growth of the urban population, thus providing the conditions for the expansion of the city.

Improving the people's living standards is not only about having enough food and clothing, but also about ensuring people's health and hygiene.

"In fact, one of the markers of civilization is the distance between the inhabitants and the excrement."

For the health of residents, sewage canals are being built in cities and towns of all sizes. In those developed cities, sewers are commonplace, and their health standards are hygienic and luxurious public baths. Good baths have elaborate heating systems, and they are also one of the most important places for social life in the city.

The design drawings for the elevated aqueduct have been completed, and it is a high-class building in the metropolis. When this canal is erected, it can continuously supply the city with clean and fresh water. Citizens are guaranteed access to healthy drinking water. The elevated aqueduct is not only beautiful, but also can drive the development of other beautification construction in the city.

With an abundant water source, the problem of water for public fountains and gardens is solved. Gueras is already preparing to erect elevated aqueducts in several cities. It can greatly improve the level of public health and give people in the city a comfortable living environment.

There are many ways to increase tax revenues from the national treasury, but the most important and important of them is the commercial tax. Macedonia and Greece have always placed a high priority on business development.

Commerce, from small cities to large countries, trade will benefit both sides of the trade and promote common prosperity.

Shops are common in Macedonia, and larger towns have their own markets. It's a place where people do business, talk and exchange information.

Developed cities will form large trade centers, markets. When the volume of trade in the city reaches a certain level, the government will take the initiative to build a local market to prosper the local economy. In the bustling and busy market, there is a wide variety of goods for sale. In the Western market, as long as the price is right, you can see merchants selling intelligence, secrets, and even human lives.

The benefit of developing business is that it can both improve people's living standards and promote population growth.

The Grand Market is a commercial center that is only available in a few advanced big cities, and there are good things from all over the world.

The business district is only the benchmark of Thessaloniki, Rome and Athens. It is the commercial hub of large city-states, megacities. It is said that as long as there is money, people can buy anything they want here. And the people of the city-state will also improve social security because of happiness. Gelas wanted to get more cities to upgrade to big markets or business districts, helping them to set up large business centers.

Of course, building a commercial district is a very expensive task, and the kingdom does not help all city-states to build commercial hubs of this size.

In some areas, there is also a side hustle, relying on natural resources to make a fortune. As long as you build a mine, you can develop the mining industry. Mining slaves mined shallow ore along the rich veins. Ordinary mines only operate in shallow pits or in the belly of mountains, and even then the lives of slaves are still worrisome.

In order to increase the rate of resource exploitation, the mine owners will build deep mines in the rich mining area. Such deep vertical mines can even reach below the underground riverbed to exploit resources, which naturally leads to more mines. The premise of working in deep mines was that a large number of slaves had to pump water out of the mine with treadmills in order for the miners to enter the mines. There was a saying on the construction site: "To be sent to work in the mine is tantamount to a death sentence!" "But there's a lot of profit in running a deep mine.

For mine owners, a small portion of the Tarun earned could buy a large number of new slaves to replace the lost labor.

The only building plan that Guerras and Oonos could quickly agree on was to pave the way.

The wide and flat stone road allowed the army to assemble and march quickly, and its military value was unquestionable.

The most important thing in trade is the convenience of transportation.

Swift roads are also a guarantee for the smooth and timely arrival of intelligence information.

In short, the more developed the transportation, the closer the internal ties of Macedonia and the easier it was for the king to rule.

Stone-paved roads are a complex project, and before the road is built, it is necessary to go through careful surveys, set up a large number of road cuts and various auxiliary roads. But its military, economic, and civilian value is greater than any other reason, and the Macedonians will resolutely do it.

In fact, the Kingdom of Macedonia had the best road traffic system in the world at that time.