Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 91: Turiyi Chamber of Commerce (1)

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"It's definitely going to be good by then, and it's almost good now, don't believe me!" Adoris stood up and walked a few steps to prove that what he said was true.

Clotokatax held back a smile and said, "Brother, you told me it's useless. The key is to get father and mother to agree."

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

Although Cloto Catacs is four years younger than Adoris, and not long after he has just grown up, he has been brought by Daves from time to time and taught himself in the past two years. His political sense is much stronger than Adoris. He knew very well in his heart: Unless Adoris was seriously injured, his father would not be able to go out without taking him. Otherwise, it would give some people the wrong impression that Adoris was deliberately "injured" by virtue of his father’s relationship. Excuse me not to participate in such an important war, this will have a great impact on Adoris' future development.

But Croto Kataks said with difficulty: "Big brother, you also know the temper of your father..."

"Crotto, you must help me! As long as you can persuade my father to let me follow the army to Latham, if you have anything to help me in the future, I will definitely help!" Adoris asked.

"Then... well, let me try." Seeing Adoris who always loves to teach himself as a big brother, it is rare to beg himself like this, Cloto Kataks felt a very comfortable feeling in his heart. .

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In the inner city of Turíy, in the mansion that Sostatus inherited from his father Kunogolata, there are more than twenty people gathered in the hall, all of whom are well-known merchants in the Turíy region.

At this moment, everyone's faces are excited, and their eyes are eagerly looking at Sostatus who is sitting in the middle.

Someone eagerly shouted: "Sostatus, everyone is almost there, so what are you waiting for! Tell us quickly, what is the good thing to discuss with us?!"

"Yes, speak now! Is your Majesty going to reward us for donating food for free?!" Another person also shouted.

The businessmen responded one after another.

Sostatus heard the words and looked at Tios on his left.

Theos is one of the best merchants in the kingdom of Dionia. It has three iron smelting workshops in the Lucania region, a copper smelting workshop in Turri, two weapons workshops in Turri and Amendorara, as well as weapons and iron shops in cities throughout the kingdom. Most of the excellent weapons and armors he manufactured were taken over by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the majority of civilian soldiers, and he was also a specialized supplier of surgical instruments for hospitals in the Kingdom, and the daily ironware he produced was also widely welcomed by the public. His family's works are also indispensable in the iron casting of large-scale public projects. Therefore, he has been received and commended by King Daves many times. Donations for public buildings.

He is not only highly prestigious among the merchants of the kingdom, but also respected among the people, so he has been repeatedly elected as the Speaker of the Local Council of Turiyi. But in fact, Tios himself is not too keen on politics, he is more enamored of his career, keen on how to increase the furnace temperature, improve the ironmaking process, improve the quality of ironware, design sharper and practical weapons, and build better defenses. Armor... He knew that in the Kingdom of Dionia, which admired military and technology, as long as he maintained advanced technology, he would always be valued by kings and ministers. To this end, he not only hired good smelters and foundries with high salaries, but also donated many times to the Dionian Academy, cooperated with scholars, provided experimental funds, and shared technology patents.

So, facing the gaze of Sostatus consulting, Tios shook his head and reached out his hand in a please gesture.

Sostatus had to turn his head again to look at Dick Boris on the right hand side.

Speaking of which, Dickpolis was the first businessman who came to Dionian to do business, and was also the first businessman who decided to stay and become a citizen. Dickpolis was enthusiastic and sociable. Many Gentile merchants came to Turei under his persuasion, and eventually became Dionian citizens, including Tios of course.

But in fact, Dick Boris was not a very powerful merchant at first. He was an ordinary merchant who made and sold pottery.

Pottery is a daily necessities widely used by the Mediterranean people. It is the most common handicraft in the Greek city-states. This is because most Greek city-states do not have fertile land and cannot produce abundant food. Wine and olive oil have become Their specialty products are sold in exchange for food, and the containers containing these two liquid products will inevitably become another focus of city-state development. Therefore, many Greek city-states have pottery merchants, but the most famous pottery is produced in Athens. Using Attica's high-quality clay, the Athenians, after long-term exploration, produced black vases with red decorative paintings not only of high quality, but also with exquisite and creative patterns, making them a leader in this industry.

The second is the black pottery produced by Corinth, and they also pioneered the creation of exquisite bottle paintings on pottery, and at the same time made the entire pottery industry highly organized. Once they produced almost half of the Mediterranean pottery sales until It was only a hundred years later that it was defeated by the Athens pottery industry, which came from behind.

Dick Boris, who was born in Crete, does not have any technical advantages in pottery, but with his vision and determination, he will be fully equipped when the Alliance of Dionia has just been established and Turri is waiting for new things. The belongings moved to the handicraft area of ​​Amendorara, and he began to sell the cheap pottery he produced to ordinary Dionian people who were rebuilding their homes, and gradually gained some fame.

Afterwards, 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 increased exponentially. At the same time, the low-interest loan from the Christoya Bank also gave him the opportunity to grow The confidence to expand and upgrade the pottery workshop. He not only established pottery workshops in several places in the kingdom with high-quality pottery clay, but also used high salaries to dig out excellent potters in Greece. The turbulent situation and frequent wars in Greece at that time also provided him with good opportunities for digging walls. Opportunity, since then, the pottery he sold has started to get involved in high-end products.

More importantly, Dickpolis improved his management and organization of the pottery industry, as well as the entire process flow. Of course, this is not his invention.

Let’s talk about the management and organization mode of the handicraft industry first. Before the establishment of Dionia, each city-state in Greece was a city, and the businesses of city-state merchants were mostly concentrated in one city. Due to the small size of the land and the limited resources, even if the merchants had financial resources, their industries It is impossible to have a large scale. Of course, it is relatively easy to manage. Even in the prosperous Athens, there is no large workshop.

But in Dionia, a kingdom with a vast territory and a large population for the Greek world, as well as a large number of free people willing to settle here, provides fertile soil for the establishment of large factories. The chain management model of Christoya Bank and Christoya Restaurant spread across all cities in the kingdom gave great inspiration to the merchants of the kingdom, enabling them to break the conservative business thinking that the industry was only fixed in one city in the past. , So as to dare to carry out industrial layout in a vast area, and carry out effective management through the pyramid-like 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 in the Greek handicraft industry, but it still cannot be separated from the traditions of family workshops, from digging pottery, transporting pottery clay, shaping, lighting the fire, burning pottery, painting screens, lettering... Potters have to participate in most of the processes, which undoubtedly makes pottery production inefficient. In order to enable Dionia’s weapon and armor to meet the needs of the army as soon as possible, Daves taught the kingdom’s weapon merchants such as Theos a method of finely dividing the production process, which greatly increased the production of weapons. This method was quickly adopted. Absorbed by merchants from other kingdoms.

Dick Boris, of course, also carried out a precise division of labor in his pottery workshop, and each process has a dedicated person responsible, so that the quality and output of the pottery are greatly improved, and the price is correspondingly reduced. As a result, the pottery of Dikpolis became more popular among the people of the kingdom, accounting for more than half of the domestic pottery sales. The pottery of other city-states could not compete with Dikpolis in the kingdom except a small amount of high-end pottery from Athens. He has become a veritable merchant of Dionian pottery.

Of course, Dickpolis, like Turriy’s businessmen in other industries, is busy completing the industrial upgrade, but is also busy occupying the expanding kingdom’s market. External sales rely more on Essos. The marketer headed by Tatus, this is also one of the reasons why the wealthy and well-connected Dickpolis is willing to let Sostatus serve as the chairman of the Turei Chamber of Commerce, and he is second. Of course, the more important reason is Soth. Tatus’s father, Kunogo Gorata, was the confidant of King Davos. Even if he had passed away, Sostatus could still rely on his father’s shadow to go in and out of the palace and the Ministry of Commerce from time to time to get some business information first. , To win some concessions for the Chamber of Commerce, such as this time.

So, Dickpolis said with a smile: "Sostatus, you are welcome. You are the president, besides, this good thing is also achieved by your joint efforts with everyone, of course you have to announce it. Up!"