I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 209 Athens Royal Hotel Store No. [-]
Before negotiating with Radamandis, of course Roy must first get to know this cheap uncle.

So the next day, Roy went to the port of Piraeus to inquire about the situation of Radamandis from the sea merchants who knew the situation.

Port of Piraeus.

Hundreds of craftsmen are sweating here, busy building the hotel and restaurant designed by Lowy.

When Roy came to the port, he saw that the walls of hundreds of rooms in the hotel had been built, and only the roof was left.

In order to provide working meals and hot water for hundreds of craftsmen, Kaone has arranged for more than a dozen chefs here to make three meals and boil hot water here.

Although the restaurant was not open yet, the ship owners and sailors at the port would come to buy food when they saw more than a dozen cooks cooking hot water, but they were rejected by the chefs.

Because the job of these chefs is to provide food and hot water only for the artisans.

Seeing this situation, Roy came to the chefs and ordered.

"You cook more food and boil more hot water, and sell it to the shipowners and sailors at the port. If you don't have enough manpower, apply to Kaone for more manpower."

Loy set a cheap and affordable price for food and hot water, and set out in the port looking for a boat owner who knew Radamandes well.

Even if the ship owner whom Roy spoke to didn't know the situation of Radamandes, Roy would talk to him enthusiastically, asking what kind of services the city of Athens could provide to make the ship owners more satisfied.

As for the opinion of the sailors—

It is not for the sailors to decide whether or not merchant ships come to the port of Athens for trade.

Under Roy's patient search, he finally found a Phoenician captain who knew about Radamandes, and learned about Radamandes from the other party.

Radamandis recently fought a close war with Minos [Deucalion]. The result of this war was unbeatable for both sides. Calion's strength.

What Roy cares about is that Radamandis loves his sister Pandora deeply, and has opposed Pandora's marriage with Deucalion from the very beginning.

If the marriage contract between Pandora and Deucalion was not made by Radamandis' father, Radamandis would definitely cancel the marriage contract between Pandora and Deucalion as his elder brother.

Although he hasn't seen Radamandis yet, Roy's intuition is that Radamandis is likely to be an abnormal brother.

Because Minos [Deucalion] became the younger sister's fiancé, the normal brother has no reason to object.

"Honey--"

As soon as the conversation between Roy and the Phoenician captain was over, Kaone ran to Roy and said.

"A slave trader brought hundreds of slaves, do you think we should buy them?"

Now the city of Athens is facing a serious food shortage, and one more person needs to buy more food.

Roy thought for a moment and said.

"You take me to the slave trader, and I will see if his slaves are worth buying. If the slaves he brings are of high quality, it doesn't matter if there are more people in Athens who eat food."

Roy followed Chione to the wharf where the slave trader was, and saw that the slave trader had let his slaves come ashore from the boat.

The slave trader was a Phoenician about 30 years old. Most of his slaves were men, and there were less than [-] slave women.

The skin color of these slaves is white, yellow, brown, and black, with yellow and brown slaves being the most.

Seeing that Roy looked at his slave seriously, the slave trader came to Roy and smiled flatteringly.

"Great King of Athens, let me introduce to you the origin of these slaves. These slave men are basically unlucky ghosts who were captured in the war. Their ability to survive the cruel battlefield is a manifestation of their ability. You can buy these slave men to fight for you, or you can enslave them as livestock. These slave women are also carefully selected commodities. Not only are a few of them unmarried girls, but none of them are pregnant. If you want to carefully Check, I can make them undress."

Roy looked at the eighteen slave women and confirmed that they were indeed not sick or pregnant. Roy looked at Kaone and said.

"Kione, I want to buy all these slave women. Among them, the beautiful ones can perform songs and dances in our Athens Royal Hotel to attract guests, and the unattractive ones can be responsible for cleaning the hotel rooms."

"The Royal Hotel in Athens?"

Seeing Kaone's puzzled expression, Roy explained with a smile.

"After the hotel and restaurant we built in the port is completed, I want to name it the Athens Royal Hotel. If the Athens Royal Hotel can be a big success, this will be the No. [-] Athens Royal Hotel in the future, and we will build the Athens Royal Hotel elsewhere. Hotel No. [-], No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-]. Perhaps in the future, only the Athens Royal Hotel will provide us the Athens royal family with incomparable wealth."

Kayone nodded suddenly and said.

"The Royal Hotel in Athens is a very good name indeed! Now that my dear has already thought about the work of these slave women, we will buy these slave women."

Hearing that Loy and Kione said they wanted to buy their slave woman, the slave merchant said happily.

"Great King of Athens, because these slave women are high-quality slaves, their prices are not cheap at all. Since you want to buy them all, let's make a deal at the price of one hundred catties of salt for each slave woman! "

Although Roy's salt is dried in sea water, Roy doesn't want to be taken advantage of.

"You want me to exchange a hundred catties of salt for the price of a slave woman, and buy all your slave women?"

Roy looked at the slave trader with an unhappy expression and said.

"Although I know that you merchants like to pursue profits, you should also know that kings should not be fooled as fools. Since you told me the price of such a lion's mouth, now the price of these slave women is up to me to decide. The price of a beautiful slave woman is [-] catties of salt, and the price of an ugly slave woman is [-] catties of salt.”

Hearing the price proposed by Roy, the slave merchant smiled even more happily.

His lion opened his mouth just now to bargain with Roy.

Although Roy now unilaterally decided the price of the slave woman, the price Roy gave was much higher than the bottom line in the mind of the slave trader.

"Great King of Athens! Now that all these slave women belong to you, do you want to buy all these slave men?"

"Keep the white and yellow ones, and don't leave the rest."

Roy said expressionlessly.

"I price these slave men at fifty catties of salt."

Although Roy's tone was firm, the slave trader still said unwillingly.

"I brought back the remaining slave men, not only wasting food, but also wasting time disposing of them. If you are willing to buy the remaining slave men, I will only charge you half the price."

"You don't even want to give it to me for free."

Roy said coldly.

"If you don't want to repeat the same mistakes, don't bring anything other than white and yellow in the future, or you will still waste food and time."

(End of this chapter)