Kunogolata sighed with a sad expression, and said: "Amendolara built these warehouses and hotels, Davos originally hoped to increase revenue for the national treasury and benefit the people. You are alone. After all these warehouses and hotels, and we are still outsiders, what do you ask the Amendolara people to think! I want to do business and manage the city-state, the reason is the same, not only to make money, but also to win people’s hearts!” Kunogolata warned his son earnestly that he actually wanted to say that Davos was a role model for Sostatus to learn from. After this period of observation, he found that the young leader was not only a military genius, but also a political genius. As far as every proposal he put forward, he always considered issues from the perspective of the city-state and the people, and rarely took care of his private interests, so people seemed to forget that he was actually the only life-long consul. As long as Davos can always be like this, Kunogorata is willing to drive for him.
"Father... I understand." After thinking, Sostatus replied slightly unwillingly.
"It's good to understand." Kunogorata smiled comfortably. He remembered something, and then asked, "Sostatus, it seems that you are planning to do business and are not planning to take up public office?"
"Can't it be possible to hold public office and do business at the same time in the Tua Union?" Sostatus asked suspiciously.
"Certainly. Since you like to be in the market, you might as well be a tax collector under Marigi, but you have to pass the test."
"test?"
"You can't count, how can you be a tax collector!"
"It's too easy for me."
"In a few days, the Tua Union Public Service Law proposed by the consul Davos will be promulgated. At that time, all Tua Union citizens will have the right to hold public office and receive compensation." Kunogolata decided Give your son a clue.
"Isn't that the same as Athens!" Sostatus exclaimed.
"It's not quite the same as Athens, you'll know when the time comes." Kunogorata said calmly, but he sighed in his heart: the promulgation of this law will make the people who originally support Davos very much, I am afraid Will love him even more! What an amazing young man who dares to think and act!
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Three months after the signing of the peace agreement between the Tua Union and Crotone, the road from the crossing of the Sini River to Turii was completed. Last half year labor period.
Since then, the Lucanians have only had one and a half years of service left (participate in the battle with Crotone, which has been reduced by two and a half years. And because they have captured high-ranking officers such as Melantheus, they have been reduced by half a year. ). Of course they and the Crotone captives had to continue to work on the road to Castellon.
After the road between Heraclea and Turii is repaired, the wide, flat, solid avenues speed up the travel of pedestrians, pack vehicles, and the time required for their journeys by at least two-fifths, especially for vehicles is a great convenience.
In fact, after the slaves and captives had straightened out the process of building the road and became proficient, its progress was very fast. The main difficulty was on the bridge. This section of the road had to pass through four rivers. The border of Heraclea was originally built with a pontoon bridge, and it was impossible to enter Heraclea to build the bridge, and three more bridges had to be built. Moreover, Davos demanded that a flat bridge must be built, instead of a pontoon bridge and an arch bridge, so as to facilitate the transportation of goods.
Little Heracled spent most of his time thinking about how to build a bridge. He not only asked his father for advice, but also an experienced carpenter, and even two apprentices of the Pythagorean school: what kind of geometric support to make the bridge more stable. After he thought about it, he submitted his bridge-building plan to Davos, which was approved by Davos, but the consul made a request: not to let the prisoners build the bridge, but to let the civic soldiers participate in the construction.
At the same time, Davos also issued an order: On the army training day, the soldiers must participate in road construction in the morning. Davos hopes to let the soldiers master the skills of building roads and bridges, and prepare for future marches and wars.
Little Heracled instructed the soldiers to first tie the felled logs in groups of two, sharpen one end and drive them into the riverbed obliquely. Then, at a place where the stumps were ten meters parallel, they struck another group of logs symmetrically and obliquely. Enter the river bed, and then set up a thick log between the two groups of logs, it is just stuck in the gap at the upper end of the log (because two logs are fixed in a group), and then tie and tie them tightly, so that the rows are arranged in rows. The bridge pier is ready. Then lay wooden boards on the piers to make the bridge deck, and the main body of the bridge is completed. Subsequent work is much easier, making guardrails, and adding support for bridge piers to prevent long-term water impact... Wait, it took seven days, and the first flat bridge with a length of 15 meters and a width of 9 meters spanned the cloth on the Rano River.
With the experience of the first bridge, the subsequent bridge construction work was faster... When it came time to build the third bridge, it took only two days to complete.
Davos praised it greatly after hearing it, and asked little Heracled to incorporate the method and steps of building a wooden flat bridge into the "Tua Union Military Law" to guide the marching and fighting.
Little Heracled was encouraged, but then he should have another headache, because it was even more difficult to build a bridge over the Klaty River, although it was built on the original pontoon west of the city of Turii, and there was a delta in the middle as a buffer. , but the Kosenyi River is still more than 20 meters wide, and the water is too deep to walk. Little Heracled had to figure out a way first: how to drive the bridge piles into the river bed more easily and stably
Just as he was thinking hard, in order to encourage and stimulate him, Davos also said: "Now the Tua Alliance is only building a wooden flat bridge. In the future, we will also build a stone bridge, and we will also allow three-layer slurry warships to pass under the bridge. , if you can do it, then you will become a master bridge-builder and will be remembered by future generations!"
Davos's words made little Heracled feel the pressure, and at the same time gave him a fighting spirit...
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A few days later, the reconstruction of the city of Turii temporarily came to an end. Countless free people flocked to the household registration office. The household registration officer Rafias received tens of thousands of applications to become a citizen of Turii in one day. He was so busy. Confused, he had to ask the Senate to send more staff.
And the Senate is also holding a meeting to discuss: on the construction of a large square to accommodate tens of thousands of citizens to hold a meeting and to gather troops when the alliance goes on an expedition.
"I have no objection to the construction of the Great Square. From Rafias' letter for help, we can see that our official citizens can easily break through 10,000 people in a few years." The hard work in the prefect position, especially the work of rebuilding Turii in the past three months, has given Cornerus more experience and confidence, and he can talk and laugh in the face of dozens of elders, and even arouse the laughter of the elders.
Then, Cornelus questioned again: "But I doubt whether the Senate chamber needs to build a meeting hall for 600 people. Now, the number of the Senate is less than 50 people, so to build such a large meeting hall, Not only is it a waste of manpower and materials for the reconstruction of Turiyi City, but it is not good for us to sit in such a large venue to discuss issues."
Cornerus' words were approved by some of the elders.
At this time, Davos stood up from the grass (the elders of the Tua Union were meeting in the open space of the camp, because the synagogue had not yet been built), and immediately attracted everyone's attention, not only because the proposal was His proposal, and for the elders of Turiyi who had just survived the disaster, Davos, who had rescued Turiyi twice and was the supreme power of the new alliance, was awe-inspiring to them who were not yet familiar with him.
"The rebuilding of Turii is not only about rebuilding homes for our people, but also considering and planning for the future development of the alliance, so we have built better roads, built better bridges, and built a better location for us. to build a bigger square, to build more orderly blocks, to build an elevated water bridge that has never been seen before... In the future, the new city of Turii will be one of the most beautiful city-states in Greater Greece and even the entire Greek world Then, the Senate, as the power center of the alliance, the elites of the alliance have to discuss and decide the life and death of the alliance, the place where the alliance develops and prosper, the place that the people always pay attention to, and the place that the neighbors often visit has not changed as before, we can be simple and economical, But the people won't agree, they'll say, 'Look, that little senate doesn't match our beautiful city at all, it's making our beautiful Turii ugly!'"
While the elders chuckled lightly, many people nodded to show that Davos was right.
At this time, someone said: "Lord Consul, we... can build the council hall to be more beautiful, but it doesn't need to be so big."
Davos felt that the voice was a bit unfamiliar, so he fixed his eyes on it, but it was Polyxis who he had met before. He nodded and said, "I propose to build a venue for 600 people, I am considering it for the future. Amendolara The elders know that half a year ago, there were only more than 20 people in the Senate, and now it has nearly 50 people. Maybe we will let other city-states or tribes join our alliance in the future. Should we combine the elites and Tribal leaders are included in our Senate, just like what we are doing now, so that the new city-state and the alliance can be smoothly integrated to stabilize the hearts of the new people and ensure their interests?! For example, a year later, the Vespa tribe asked to join We become citizens of the Alliance. And Castron, for example, may one day ask to join the Alliance…”
The elders of Amendolara knew that Davos had planned to attack Lucania for a long time. This time, they successfully repelled Crotone and merged Turii, which made them more convinced of Davos' ability, so there was no objection.
Thanks to the book friends Mi Yu Qingfeng and Sonaive for the reward!