Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 6: Quarrying

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At this time, another group of slaves quickly tied the stones with wheat straw and ropes. This was done not only to prevent the stones from being damaged during the next transportation, but also to prevent the stones from scratching the slaves.

The rope is divided into two groups. After binding the waist of the stone, one end is pulled out by more than a dozen slaves on the ground, and the other is ten slaves standing on the rock, dragging the stone, and a few more The slave continued to pry the stone with a wooden crowbar, allowing it to roll at a relatively safe speed onto the row of logs that had been placed in front of it.

Finally, the slaves cheered. Their team had already mined the first stone in a relatively short period of time without any accidents.

This large rectangular piece of stone finally landed steadily on the six or seven round logs arranged at intervals, and then several slaves began to tie the stone with ropes, and then 12 slaves jointly pulled the ropes. The four slaves kept placing the logs that had fallen behind and placed them in front of the stones.

The huge and heavy stones rolled on the logs, and the more labor-saving ones were dragged to the stone dump on the side of the entrance of the quarry.

After the foreman was notified and inspected the stone, he confirmed that it was qualified and made a record on the wooden board he carried with him.

The group of slaves that Maximus belonged to cheered again, which aroused the envy of other teams, because they had already mined the first stone in a relatively short period of time without any accidents. It is very likely that today will over complete the task, and thus get rewards.

Maximus remained calm. While arranging for the remaining slaves who had not worked hard before, they began to knock the wooden wedges into the second rock that had been grooved, while urging the returning slaves to hurry up. Physical recovery.

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The stones piled up at the entrance of the mine must be roughly shaped here before being sent away.

It is not the kingdom slaves who shape the stone here, but the private slaves of Aristagras. They all have considerable experience in processing stone, and Aristagras is engaged in this line. After more than 10 years of accumulation.

After all, selling stone is different from selling other metal ores. Few mine owners sell the newly mined stone directly to the buyer, but according to the buyer’s request, provide relatively shaped stone, such as being responsible at this time The craftsmen who rebuilt the main temple of Hades were dispatched to the quarry’s assistants. He arrived here after early morning as usual, and according to the construction progress of the temple, asked the quarry to provide the temple today. Kind of stone? How many quantities are required for each style? ...

There are three main types of shaped stones needed to build the temple: one is square stones, which will become the stone bricks for building the temple; the other is round stones, which will become The pillars supporting the temple; there is also a thinner stone slab, which is used to lay the floor of the temple.

Hundreds of slave artisans here carefully shaped the mined stones with iron tongs, iron chisels, iron drills, metal wires and other tools. Not only were they all wearing linen clothes, but also Wearing masks and headscarves, this is because they use metal tools to chisel the stones, and the debris will fly, which can easily cause injuries. This is a kind of protection for the slaves. In addition to protecting their lower body, the slaves of the kingdom are basically naked, because they basically do not use metal tools, have no worries in this regard, and are not dragged by clothes. They are more convenient to move and use force. They need to worry about it. The main danger is that the rock suddenly falls.

Among the several styles of shaping stone, it seems that it is the most difficult to cut stones into slabs, because marble is different from limestone, and its texture is harder, which seems to be difficult for tools of this era. at this point.

But the Greeks who have been immersed in marble for hundreds of years have long developed a good way to deal with it, that is, first draw a cutting line on the stone, and then use a tool to chisel a shallow light along the cutting line. Fill the trenches with dry sea sand, and then press metal wires. The slave craftsman pulls the two ends of the wire and pulls the wire along the front and back of the groove. The wire squeezes the sand down, and the sand is the substance used to cut the stone, which wears the stone through constant friction. quality. As the groove gets deeper and deeper, more sand needs to be added to it, until the stones are finally divided into slabs.

Finally shaped square and round stones will be slightly larger than the stones used to build the temple, and the slave craftsmen specially leave bulges around the stones as handles to facilitate the craftsmen who build the temple. They move.

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The finished stone will be transported away immediately, and the slaves of the kingdom will have to take over again.

Nearly 20 slaves laboriously lifted the stones onto the raft, underneath the raft was a round wood. Some slaves used ropes to pull the rafts, while the others kept placing round logs in front of them. As before, the stones were slowly pulled towards the exit of the mine.

The exit is on the side of the entrance. The road is paved with large stones, firm and level, and at the end of the road a platform over two meters high is formed. A four-wheeled vehicle is parked in front of the platform. , Its height is exactly flush with the platform, so that heavy stones can be pushed onto the car with less effort.

This four-wheeler is very strong, and its wheels are made of several pieces of complete circular wood spliced ​​together, which is very tall and thick.

There is also a dedicated carpenter stationed at the exit, because when the stone is just transported to the car, it is most likely to be damaged at this time, and he can repair it nearby.

Wooden wheeled carts are pulled by 4 bulls. Although they move slowly, they are reliable. They can carry a weight of about 10 tons each time, which is about 2-3 stones.

Usually, they usually transport the stones to the simple wharf beside the Koseni River, and use cargo ships to transport the stones to the place designated by the buyer, which is relatively labor-saving and safe.

However, the main temple of Hades was provided with stone materials. The Turiyi City Hall refused to use the inner city pier to transport the stone materials by Aristagras, because in this way, the stone material needs to be transported from the pier to the temple. Wearing most of the inner city, this will not only damage the delicate roads of the inner city, affect traffic, and interfere with the rest of the inner city people (more than half of the inner city people are high-ranking officials), and the most important thing is unsafe (because there will be many strangers Slaves enter and exit the inner city hinterland). And if by land, the main temple of Hades is not far from the west gate of the inner city, which is easy to manage and control.

But for Aristagras, this will undoubtedly be a very 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 appear during transportation Accidents, damaged wheels, falling stones, and moving them away will undoubtedly consume more manpower and material resources, and even worse is to injure passers-by, so the compensation money will not be a small number. After losing a lot of money, Aristagras decided to improve the transportation problem and pinned his hopes on the railroad tracks that scholars call.

The entire quarry is filled with sounds of work from morning to night: the foremen’s commands, the slaves’ chants, the yelling of the driver driving the ox cart, the wood under the weight of the stone The squeaks of the people, and the screams of the slaves due to various accidents... one after another, endless.

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In the evening, the kingdom slaves dragged their tired bodies and returned to the slave camp. Although it only worked for more than an hour, the digging of stones in the dim environment caused a slave to fail to escape from the top. The falling gravel was hit in the head and lost his life.

Of course, except for the slaves in the same team who were sad and uneasy about this, the other slaves appeared indifferent, and some even knew nothing about it. In the huge quarry, thousands of slaves have been working in it during this period of time. There are always people injured or even dead. They are already numb. At this moment, what they want most is to eat a sumptuous dinner and then sleep beautifully. Last sleep.

Of course, their wish was fulfilled. Dinner was even richer than breakfast. The slaves ate and drank enough, all shyly walked back to their dormitory, and after a simple wash, they lay down. Get on the bed and fall asleep soundly.

At this moment, the door of a dormitory was pushed open, and someone stood in front of the door and shouted, "Is Fabius Rabio Gaius here?"

Someone yelled angrily because he was woken up suddenly: "Damn, who?!"

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

The room suddenly became quiet. After a while, Gaius reminded him softly: "You seem to have called the wrong name. It should be Gaius Fabius Rabio."

"Are you sure you want to call that!" The soldier at the door said harshly.

Gaius dared not answer.

Last year, on the proposal of King Davos, the Senate passed the "Last Names of the Kingdom of Dionian Act", which stipulates: whether it is a Dionian citizen or a free citizen who wants to join Dionian , It must have a name and a surname to facilitate the registration and search of its information by the household registration department, and the surname must be first and last name. Anyone who does not comply will be punished, and the serious ones will even be deprived of their citizenship.

In the eyes of ordinary Dionian people, since King Daves used his own name as a surname for his child, he has gradually been imitated by his ministers and people. It has been almost 20 years since most of the citizens have had names. There is a surname, and the surname is first and the first name is last. The promulgation of this decree is just to officially transform this habit into legal provisions.