Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 29: Senate meeting after the war (2)

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Silos thanked Cornelus for his disguised compliment.

Daves said: "Let me ask Amendorara to recommend a suitable patrol captain."

Cornerus immediately lifted his spirits: "Your Honor, Archon, please speak."

"Epiteans, he will become an excellent patrol captain." Daves pointed to the back row and said affirmatively.

"Ah?!" Epithenis, who was whispering to Zpitt, did not expect that he would be named, and replied in surprise: "Why me?!"

"So that you can focus more on the administrative affairs of the alliance and set an example for your soldiers, instead of scoring the young people of Dionia all day long!" Daves was half joking. Said seriously.

Everyone laughed. Epithenes likes beautiful young people, everyone knows, in fact, many veterans also have this hobby, but the performance of Epithenis is more obvious. Greeks like teenagers and support them. This is not only a fashion, but also a tradition. Although Davers felt uncomfortable personally, he still showed respect and didn't want to force a change. In addition to this, Epithenis, what Daves admired most is that he can think calmly on the battlefield, and be able to respond flexibly in the face of complex situations. He can always complete the tasks entrusted to him, and it exceeds expectations.

Under the strong pressure of Daves and Cornelus' repeated requests, Epithenis finally had to agree.

The helpless expression of Epithenis once again caused Amintas and the others to laugh.

At this point in the meeting, after noon, Cornelus announced that it would adjourn for half an hour. The slaves who had been waiting outside the Senate came in immediately and brought water to their master to fill their stomachs.

Even if he takes a half-hour break, Daves will not have free time. While chewing on the bread, he discusses the problems they need to solve after taking office and the relationship between the two cities while chewing on the bread. How to cooperate with each other and strengthen ties to deal with situations that may arise in the south at any time.

Next, Kunogolata approached him and discussed how to arrange the five new senators in the Senate. As a senior member of the Senate, naturally his family should be placed in Turri to facilitate the performance of their duties. Even if they serve as the chief executive of another city, they will not move out of Turri’s mansion. After all, the term of office of the city chief is only two years. The veteran is for life.

There are still many unused public land in Turiyi City, which is controlled by the Senate and will not be easily granted. It is of course impossible to allocate a small area to build a house for the new veteran. Of course, it cannot be free. The "Dionia Land Act" clearly stipulates this. Even if Daves buys land, he still has to pay at the market price. Due to the influx of large numbers of people this year, the price of residential land in Turíy has risen again and again, and after Dionia defeated Crotone, this kind of rise should rise sharply.

Kunogolata hopes that the land given to the new senators by the Senate will still be sold at the original price in order to show the sincerity of the Dionian Senate and appease these newcomers.

Davers agreed, and he also considered: If one of the five newly appointed Crimean elders really can't get the money, they can advance the money from the national treasury and repay it later.

The half-hour break is over, and the Senate meeting continues.

Daves stood up and said his first proposal: "In this war with Crotone, although Dionia won, it exposed some problems, the most important and urgent need to be resolved. It’s the Navy!"

As soon as Daves's voice fell, it immediately resonated with the elders.

"Your consul is right! In this war, the biggest loss the Crotone people caused to us was their fleet's continuous looting, burning down many villages in Turiyi, and killing Many of our people, the public officials in Turiyi are still having a headache for resettling the people and rebuilding their homes!" Kunogolata complained.

"If we Dionia also had a navy, and it was as powerful as our army, then Crotone should have surrendered long ago when the battle was won, and there was no need to encircle Crimea!" Amintas emphasized.

"The trade of the Dionian Alliance is becoming more and more prosperous, and the territory of Dionian is also expanding rapidly. We need a strong fleet to protect our maritime trade and prevent our long coastline from being attacked by enemy fleets. The attack, our port was blocked by enemy warships!" Mariji reminded loudly.

"That's right! We need a powerful navy to protect the safety of the Dionian Alliance!" Everyone agreed.

"Since we have reached a consensus, then my proposal is—" Daves looked at everyone and said, "In addition to the accelerated completion of the three three-layer paddle warships under construction, we will build another seven this year. For a three-layer paddle warship, I asked Enanilus, Turri’s shipyard does not have enough docks to complete such a large order, and Crimea also has a larger shipyard with the ability to manufacture three tiers. The ability of the paddle warship can be completed by handing a small number of orders to them. In the future, ten three-layer paddle warships will be built every year until five years later. There are 20 ships (i.e. hundred-man warships) and ten small warships (50-man warships), thus having a relatively powerful Dionian Navy with 80 warships."

Everyone thinks this plan is feasible, only Melsis disagrees: "No! No! In this way, the league will spend more than one hundred tarients every year, which is too much!"

"Although it is a bit more, I think our treasury can afford it. Last year, the treasury collected more than 200 tarients from the collection of land tax, land lease tax and trade tax. This year, Mariji gave My lowest estimate is to at least double the revenue of the treasury." When Daves said this, many veterans were taken aback. Unknowingly, the revenue of Dionian’s treasury was almost equal to that of Tarantum and Krishnamurti. Rotone was flat, and it should be more than enough to spend a small amount of money to build the fleet.

"Everyone, Lord Merses, in fact, it doesn't cost more than a hundred tarients to build ten three-layered warships every year." Mariji stood up and reminded everyone: "The cost of building warships is mainly two parts. One is wood, and the other is manufacturing costs. In the mountains of our alliance territory, especially in the mountains of Lucania, there are countless, high-quality cedars that are most suitable for the construction of three-layer slurry warships. I heard that Athens back then There was a special agreement with Turri, and Turri would provide Athens with a certain amount of wood for shipbuilding every year."

"There is indeed an agreement that Turii will provide Athens with at least one thousand pieces of wood for ships each year, which will be doubled if necessary." Enanilus said. At the beginning, in order to complete this agreement, the Turiyi people cut down a large number of trees for decades. Although they have earned some timber money, there are fewer and fewer older cedar trees in the mountains around Turiyi, and there are ten large shipyards in Athens. Several companies do not need to build ships in Turei, and En'anilus's family has always complained about this. Later, due to excessive logging, many barren hills appeared around Turiyi. The people discovered this shortcoming and began to buy wood from other city-states in Great Greece and resell it to Athens to make a difference.

"In the latter part of the war between Athens and Sparta, we were forced to cancel this agreement after the Spartan navy gained the upper hand." Kunogorata added.

Daves nodded, and after serving as the Archon of the Alliance, he knew about this agreement. He even thinks that: Athenian General Pericles agreed to build Turye and called for the establishment of a great pan-Hellenic city-state only for high-sounding reasons. One of the true strategic purposes is to lumber. You must know that Athens is born with two major flaws. First, it does not produce much local food and needs to rely on imports to maintain the city-state's huge population. Therefore, it has built many colonies along the coast of Greece to the Black Sea or controlled the key. The location of the city-states, such as Byzantium, to ensure the smooth passage of food from the Black Sea, it needs a strong navy, and the Athenians ambitiously want to build a strong Mediterranean Greek city-state alliance, and need a strong navy. But the second biggest flaw in Athens is that it does not have many forests in its native land, and there are no trees that can make high-quality warships. Moreover, with the scale of Athens’ navy and merchant ships, the wood needed must be a huge amount. Therefore, it is only necessary to look for wood for ships. It became a strategic issue concerning whether Athens could maintain its strength. Egypt does not have forests, Persia has wood, but it will not be sold to the enemy Athens, North Greece and Thrace have forests, but they are located inland, logging and transportation are problems, and the cost is also high, so the Apennines run through the entire territory Great Greece has become an important timber purchase place in Athens, and Turei, established by the Athenians, is naturally the main timber supplier.

"So, I request the Senate to discuss a plan to approve a certain number of cedar trees to be cut down by Union slaves every year as warship wood. This does not need to spend an opal. As for the manufacturing cost--" Mariji looked at En Anilus, seemingly jokingly said: "I think Lord Enanilus will definitely not charge the alliance too high fees."

En'anilus smiled helplessly.

Everyone felt that Maliji was right, and the worries about expenses disappeared a lot.

"But have you considered the maintenance and upkeep of these warships after they are built, it is also a lot of money!" Melses said unconvinced.

"En'anilus discussed this with me." Daves said, En'anilus nodded, indicating that something happened.

"When there is no war, of course, we will not leave warships idle at the docks. Except for a small part of the ships to be patrolled on the coast of the Alliance, some of them are repaired in the docks, and the rest can be used as escorts for merchant ships, especially in Asia. There are frequent incidents of pirate hijackings on the route from the port of the Delia Sea to the mainland of Greece. It can also temporarily serve as a large cargo ship to transport goods for friendly city-states... You see, it not only earns maintenance costs for our navy, but also exercises Isn’t it good for the crew’s sailing skills?” After Daves said his thoughts, Melses stopped talking.

"In addition, we also need to find a qualified commander for this upcoming Dionian navy. His current task is to assist the military officer Felicius and supervise the construction of the warship; cooperate with the financial officer Mel Sith, review the money; in the future, when the warship is built, he will also recruit sailors, staff crews, conduct regular military training, arrange coastal patrols, and--" Daves said in a heavy tone: "We won the naval battle. Everyone has qualified candidates. Recommend?"