I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 199 Future Planning of Trading Ports

Port of Piraeus.

When Roy returned here on a Corinthian warship, he saw hundreds of cargo ships, large and small, moored in the port, queuing up at the pier waiting for transactions.

After the warship was moored at the pier, Roy came to the shore and saw that not far from the port, dozens of merchants who looked like the owner of the ship surrounded a man who was protected by Athens soldiers.

Roy walked towards the crowd curiously, and saw that the person surrounded by dozens of merchants and a group of Athenian soldiers turned out to be the heroic Chione wearing leather armor and a bronze sword on his waist.

Seemingly aware of Roy's gaze, Kaone in the crowd turned her head and looked at Roy, then pushed away the crowd and ran to Roy and said as if seeing a savior.

"Honey, you're finally back, let's leave this group of merchants to you!"

"I don't even know what's going on!"

Roy said with a smile.

"I don't think there was any trouble when you negotiated with them. Let you manage the port here! When you have a suitable person to replace you, you can leave it alone."

Now the city of Athens is facing a serious food problem, so negotiating with merchants at the port—especially grain merchants, is one of the most important things in Athens at present, and Procne will let Chione come to the port to manage trade.

After listening to Roy's words, Kaone said with a helpless expression.

"Those merchants who came to the city of Athens did not all come to buy our salt. Some of them wanted to buy pottery, olive oil, wine, and some even wanted to buy bronze weapons. In order to tell them what they can buy and what they can't, I simply They're almost going to annoy them to death."

"Kione, as long as there are commodities in the city of Athens, you can tell them that they can buy them all, so that you can save a lot of trouble."

"All of them can be bought—"

Kaone stared at Roy with wide eyes in surprise and said.

"Some merchants want to buy our war spears with grain, shall we sell them too?"

"Sell! As long as they accept the price of a thousand catties of grain in exchange for a bronze war spear, our war spear can be sold to them."

Roy taught the Taurus how to make charcoal, and asked them to use charcoal as fuel to smelt iron ore, and soon a steady stream of iron tools would be manufactured.

In the next few months, Athenian soldiers will replace bronze weapons with iron weapons, and naturally there is no need to keep thousands of bronze war spears.

Seeing the serious expression on Roy's face, Kaone nodded and said.

"Since you said you can sell it, then I will sell the bronze war spears as commodities. We have thousands of bronze war spears, even if we sell some, it will not affect the safety of Athens. Those grain merchants transport the grain to our The port, we Athens city can also buy it directly. Some merchants regard our port as a trading place, but they can’t find a suitable buyer for a while, so they want our Athens city to buy goods that are not grain. Do you think we should buy it? ?”

"As long as it is a commodity with real value, we can buy it even if it is not grain, and then sell it to other merchants as our commodity."

Roy said, looking at the empty land around the port.

"Kione, I think some warehouses should be built with cement at the port to store the goods of buyers and sellers. Some houses should even be built as hotels for merchants to rest here overnight. Our purpose is not to buy food to solve the city of Athens The food problem in the city of Athens, but to make the port of Athens a trading hub. Therefore, we must not only fully meet the requirements of merchants, but also actively provide services to merchants, so that we can defeat Knossos in the competition, Let the merchants abandon the city of Knossos and regard the city of Athens as a fixed trading location. Moreover, we can earn a very considerable service fee by providing services to the merchants, and provide a large number of jobs for the Athenians.”

Seeing that Kayone half-understood, Roy continued.

"For the time being, let's build a hotel with [-] rooms at the port! This hotel can provide guests with accommodation, food, and arrange some young and beautiful girls to perform singing and dancing to attract guests. If ordinary girls are not willing to do this If it's a publicity job, then we'll buy some pretty young slave girls."

"I understand!"

Kaone turned back to the merchants and said loudly.

"Everyone, let me tell you a piece of good news. From now on, as long as it is the commodity of our city of Athens, we can sell you all. As long as you accept the price, you can also sell bronze spears to you. All kinds of commodities you bring , as long as it is really valuable, if you can’t find a suitable buyer, you can sell it directly to the city of Athens.”

After listening to Kaone's words, the merchants cheered immediately.

"Long live Princess Kayone!"

"My goods can finally be sold."

"Come here is indeed the right choice."

The Royal Palace of Athens.

After returning to the palace, Roy entered the hall, and saw Procne kneeling behind a wooden table in the center of the hall, writing something on paper with a brush.

Philomela lay beside Procne like a lazy pig, and seemed to be asleep.

"Procne!"

Hearing Roy's voice, Procne raised his head in surprise and said.

"Brother Roy—"

Philomela, who seemed to have fallen asleep, immediately got up from the ground, opened her sleepy eyes and rushed towards Roy.

"Brother Roy, I miss you so much."

Roy hugged Philomela who had thrown herself into his arms, and led her to Procne.

Seeing that Procne was recording the daily food quantity in Athens, Roy suggested to her.

"Procne, you should find some clever maids to teach them how to write, and then let them share your work."

"Can such an important job really be handed over to a maid?"

"You can check the accounts every day after the maids have made the records, and you can also have two or three maids perform the same job, and then compare the data they recorded."

"Brother Roy, you are so smart."

Procne widened his eyes and said suddenly.

"Why didn't I think that as long as several maids record the data, they can compare the data recorded by them to find problems. If I knew that I could do this, I should have taught them to write earlier."

Roy sat down beside Procne holding Philomela and said.

"Actually, I asked you to teach the maid to write, mainly to prepare for our marriage."

Philomela in Roy's arms said doubtfully.

"Brother Roy, does our marriage to you have anything to do with the maid learning to write?"

"It has a lot to do with it."

Roy said with a smile.

"It is said that in the kingdoms with writing around the Eastern Mediterranean, every time the king has intercourse with a woman, he will ask his attendants or maids to record it. If the date of the woman's childbirth does not match the date of intercourse, the king will kill the unfaithful woman and A child of unknown origin. After I marry you, of course I have to follow the example of these kings."

Philomela pursed her lips with displeasure and said.

"How come the kings of the Eastern Mediterranean have to record the date of the intercourse, so they don't believe in women's loyalty?"

"Probably because they have a lot of women!"

Lowe explained.

"Those kings can rule hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, and they naturally have a lot of women. Our kings here have at most a dozen women, and the kings of big countries in the Eastern Mediterranean can have dozens or even hundreds of women."

　Don't think that the 72 concubines and three thousand beauties in Sangong and Liuyuan are unique to the east, and the same is true for the rulers in the west.

　　Therefore, the king of the big country I wrote had dozens or hundreds of women, and recorded the date of each intercourse, which is a real situation, not fabricated by me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)