Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 45: Ballista

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"What are you two studying lately?" Davers asked with a smile.

"In addition to helping the Minting Committee of the Senate to design silver coin molds and tools, we have been mainly studying pulleys recently." Mentor Tik Els said truthfully.

"Pulley?!" Daves heard the words and moved in his heart.

"Last year, when you defeated Crotone and annexed Turie, didn't Achita come to Amendorara." Matikoris said with a grin.

Davers didn't care, he nodded.

"He saw our newly built waterwheel and was very interested, so he discussed with us the principle of its application. At the same time, he also mentioned that he recently became interested in mathematical mechanics and began to study the application of pulleys..." Matikeris said embarrassedly: "So... I..." He glanced at Mentor Tick Els: "We'll start...studying pulleys..."

Davers understands. Regardless of whether Achita is an important figure of the Pythagorean school and a mathematical genius, the two in front of them are just ordinary disciples, but they are academically competitive, especially Matico. Reese, he has vigorous energy, strong curiosity, and desire for knowledge. Now, under the conditions of a good life, he devotes all his energy to research, and he has to compete academically with Aceta.

"How is the research progress?" Daves softly interrupted Matticulis' stammering words. Although he returned a lot of science knowledge learned in school in his previous life to the teacher, he still didn't even know what a pulley is. I don't know, this is just the basic knowledge of physics in junior high school.

"We have created a mathematical formula for the reason why the pulley can save effort, and have verified its correctness many times. Of course, using the digital symbols you invented has saved us a lot of time and energy. Now we The combination of multiple pulleys is being further tested in order to perfect its theory...By then, this discovery will definitely change the entire Mediterranean world! You can imagine that a person can use a pulley to pull up a boulder alone, more than ten meters high Can you imagine that a person can pull a small boat alone with a pulley!..." When Mattikoris talked about mathematics, his eyes lighted up and his hands danced.

Daves was not as surprised as they expected, but smiled and said: "I believe this research and invention of yours will bring great convenience to the lives of the people of the alliance!"

The two glanced at each other, a little frustrated. As Hades's favorite, Daves seems to have seen the future development prospects of a mathematical research. Every time they stand in front of him, they always do not have the superiority of scholars.

Maticoris had to complain: "If you didn't let us help them mint coins, our research would have progressed faster!"

"Isn't coining just to prove your ability to the Pythagorean School?!" Daves laughed. When he handed the coining to Tritod Moss, he didn't actually think about it. These two disciples of the Pythagorean school, but his high demands made Terry De Moss very difficult, and finally Terry De Mos took the initiative to find Daves and asked Matticius to provide them. Help, because after Pythagoras was expelled by the Crotones decades ago, he stayed in Metapontoum and designed an ingenious coinage mold for Metapontoum, which made this unparalleled in Great Greece. The coins of the unknown Greek city-states were so popular that he thought of letting Matikoris from the Pythagorean school of thought help them.

"Compared with the time when Pythagoras teacher was, the design and research of coin molds in the school has been more perfect, so--" Mentotik Elsgang said modestly, Ma Tickles snorted: "But the hydraulic press is something they don't have, so the silver coins we mint are indeed stronger than them!"

After getting along for so long, Daves basically understands the two young people in front of him. At the beginning, most of the Pythagoras school did not want to come to the remote city of Amendorara, so they forcibly appointed these two little-known Gentile disciples, which gave two sensitive Leotti The Nepalese were a big blow. Under Davers's long-term intentional or unintentional guidance, the two lowly positions in the school had gradually deviated from and disagreed with some of the school's ideas, and had the intention to compete with their original teachers and classmates.

Daves smiled slightly, took out a piece of papyrus, and said: "I have a drawing here with a device drawn on it, which involves the use of pulleys. I wonder if you can make it?"

"Let's take a look! Let me take a look!" As soon as Davers's voice fell, Matticius couldn't wait to **** it from Davers.

Mentotik Els leaned over, looked at the drawing, and asked: "What is this device called?"

"The Syracuses call it a ballista. It is said that it can shoot a dozen kilograms of stones hundreds of meters away. Ten days ago, the Syracuses used it to repel Carthage’s Reinforcement." Daves said calmly, but his heart was not peaceful.

When Aristilas reported the situation of the Battle of Motia to Daves, he was very surprised. Dionian’s catapults are still in the trial production stage, while Syracuse’s ballistas and belly bows have appeared in large numbers in Motia, and they have successfully sunk many Carthaginian warships, their strength and The accuracy is not comparable to Dionian's crude sling, which shows the gap in military engineering technology between Syracuse and Dionian. This made Daves feel the pressure, and he immediately ordered Aristiras: at all costs, get the blueprint of the Syracuse Ballista!

For Aristilas, who hates Syracuse, he certainly couldn't ask for it. After paying a lot of money, he got this rough image of the Syracuse ballista.

Hearing the name "Syracuse", the two scholars who also lost their motherland took it more seriously, wishing to get into the blueprint.

"Mentotik Els." At this time, Daves asked: "What I told you last time is about attracting and recruiting more of your classmates to Dionia in order to expand The scale of the institute and the further promotion of research on mathematical theories and applications, I don’t know how it is progressing?"

Mentotek Els looked away from the drawing a little bit reluctantly, and said helplessly: "My Excellency, since the school condemned us for violating the regulations and teaching publicly, many students have already cut off. In correspondence with me, only a handful of foreign classmates who have good relations with me have heard me introduce the good environment in Dionia, and they are willing to come to Dionia."

"As long as they are willing to come, the promise given by Dionia will be fulfilled! In addition, if they have any needs, you can tell me directly, and I will try my best to satisfy them! Dionia will create for you The best environment and conditions for study, discussion, and research. Even though you have few people, I believe that you can make fruitful results no less than that of Tarantum!"

Daves unreservedly showed his full support to the Institute of Mathematics, which made Mentotik Els grateful, and at the same time aroused his ambition, he said solemnly: "We will not Let you down!"

"How did you discuss about sending teachers to the newly built school?" Davers asked again.

"Originally, we were a little hesitant because of the lack of manpower. Now that some new students are coming, I discussed with Matikoris and thought you were right. Lectures at school can help us sort out the maths we have mastered. Theory, consolidate basic knowledge, and at the same time expand the influence of the institute. Maybe in the exchange with students, you can get new inspiration... We are very willing to send people, but there is a requirement."

"What is required?"

"If we find a student who is talented in mathematics in the school, we hope to train him in a special way and join the graduate school in the future." Mentotik Els said cautiously, because this is him and Matikoris’ selfishness, since they have fallen out with Tarantum’s Pythagorean school, they also want to develop their own academic community to contend with the Pythagorean school.

"Of course it's okay, but you have to ask for the consent of the students." Daves agreed without hesitation. In fact, he was very happy to see this. Their ability to consider issues from their own interests shows that they have become farther and farther away from Tarantum's Pythagorean school in terms of feelings and actions.

"In addition, in peacetime, I also plan to let those engineering technicians from various corps come to the Institute of Mathematics to serve as your assistants, so that you can solve your shortage of manpower and integrate theory with practical applications. Together."

"Surely the institute welcomes them to help!" Mentotique Elsco can handle things better than Matticoris, he said euphemistically: "But we don't have enough money to pay for their salaries."

"You will have them soon." Daves smiled and said: "The water mill you designed has been tested and has increased the efficiency of milling flour several times. It can save people a lot of time and animal power. I have He ordered people to build water mills in Amendorara, Turriy, and Crimea. The price of grinding a catty of flour is very low, less than one-third of the opal. I believe people will be willing to use it after trying it. Watermill. According to my agreement with you, the institute will receive 20% of the income from the application of the devices you invented. I think that will be a lot of money and will be completely at your disposal. I hope you will use this money well. , Especially the major inventors should be given high rewards to encourage their enthusiasm. Only in this way will more people be encouraged to invent better devices, and your benefits will also increase."