(second, more. It''s a bit slow today. Third, it''s more likely to be early in the morning.)
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October 13.
Everything in the territory is going on in an orderly way. The construction of three small towns has begun to take shape. The refugees running back from the southern plain have been disrupted by Murphy and rearranged into three towns. The total population of refugees has been counted out, a total of 13246 people. The refugees who are family members are resettled one by one, while the refugees who are not family members are left in Athens and monitored by Greek heavy infantry.
That''s the surest way Murphy could come up with.
Refugees with families are bound and tend to be easier to manage.
However, those refugees who have no relatives and relatives as individuals are often in trouble. In order to prevent them from disturbing the law and order in the territory, Murphy has to centralize their management for a period of time. After confirming that they have settled down, we will consider splitting them up and allocating them. In order to strengthen the quality of these refugees, Murphy also selected the strong from them and gave them to the instructors for a month''s military training.
The army is the best place to learn to obey orders.
There were no fortifications in the three new towns, but they all built spacious roads.
Murphy has begun to arrange for general Marcus Kane to set up a fortress at the exit of the territory. At present, the threats within the territory are basically cleared. Now we just need to consider external defense. The geographical environment of Athens territory is quite special. As long as the fortress can be established to guard the entrance position, then the interior is relatively safe. If the enemy really attacks, and there is a fortification, there is time to gather the population of the three towns to Athens and rely on the city wall for defense.
On the back of Athens is the nidoria river. Although the river is gentle, it is also a natural defense line.
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The beautification of Athens is continuing.
Greeks are obviously more interested in art. Since Murphy announced that he would beautify the urban environment, the enthusiasm of citizens has risen.
Many women and children consciously take advantage of their spare time to collect beautiful flowers and trees in the field, and then transplant them to the planned flower beds in the city. In such an environment of relative equality, hard work and little oppression, Athenian citizens maintained a high enthusiasm for beautifying their living environment. Because not many people want to live in a messy environment.
A small country with few people is the easiest thing to master.
When a country is made up of innumerable families, the concept of country will be blurred, because the boundaries are too far away and there are inequalities.
But if the country is only made up of thousands of families, then the concept of the country is very clear. Because the country is by your side, everything can be seen and touched. The citizen system of Greek city states is such a system. Citizens rely on the city and live together. Everything about the city is closely related to their own life and interests.
Naturally, the cohesion of the city will be enhanced.
The mobilization power under the city-state system is quite terrible, compared with other times.
A city may have a population of 100000, including many small and medium-sized villages built on the basis of the city. But in such a city, there are only 20000 or 30000 citizens. Women, children and the elderly account for half of the 20000 or 30000 citizens, leaving behind men of less than 20000. Under the city-state system, it is very easy for a city with a population of 230000 citizens to mobilize an army of 120000 at one time.
That is to say, almost 80% of adult male citizens go to battle in armour, except for the army recruited from the lower poor!
It''s like Athens now.
Although the total number of people with goblins is close to 60000, the real battle depends on the citizen class composed of Greeks. If Murphy issues a mobilization order for a full-scale war, all male citizens in Athens who have reached the age of 14 and not more than 50 will automatically take up arms and become soldiers!
This is the honor and cohesion of citizens!
There is no doubt that under the city-state system, citizens are the cornerstone of everything.
So far, Murphy has only used a mobilization order for a full-scale war, that is, the battle of the old town, facing a number of jackals twice as many as his own. Murphy enlisted all the adult men in the territory to take up arms and fight. At that time, even some women chose to stay.
Of course, this mobilization only works on citizens.
With the development of the territory, Athens still needs to cultivate a number of professional troops.
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At noon.
Murphy had just had lunch and was going to the temple.
Outside the door came the voice of the herald.
"Monsieur governor, Monsieur pliffe is here." The herald carefully put his head inside and said.
I don''t know why, this seemingly very powerful soldier was afraid of bell. Not only he, but many bodyguards in the territory were a little afraid of that young girl, which made Murphy feel incredible.
"Well?" Murphy smell speech, sink a way: "let him come in."
This Aboriginal businessman is now the right-hand man in helping Murphy manage his territory. Although he is a little lacking in talent, he has a stable personality. It is estimated that he will not be able to innovate and develop. However, there should be no problem in maintaining his current status. At present, he and Murphy''s newly promoted tax official are responsible for the taxation of the port. After observing for a period of time, Murphy found that pulifer was honest in taxation, but he did not live up to his important task.
"Your Excellency. Look at this. " As soon as he came in, pliffe excitedly handed a plate like thing to Murphy.
What''s that?
Murphy took it suspiciously and looked at it carefully.
This is a plate.
After looking at it for a long time, he found that there was nothing special about the plate in his hand, except for the rough workmanship, which was almost the same as the plate used in the countryside in the previous life.
wait!
A plate from a previous life!
Murphy almost dropped his plate on the ground with a shake of his hand. He picked up the white plate and knocked it, "dangdangdang" made a clear sound.
He was stunned, and two words came out of his head.
——China!
you ''re right!
It''s porcelain!
Here we may need to explain the history of ceramic technology.
In the Neolithic age, people began to use a lot of pottery. The so-called pottery is a kind of utensil made of clay at low temperature. In BC, that is, before the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Western Roman Empire, the main human utensils were pottery. However, the style of pottery was rough, and the workmanship was not exquisite enough, so it was easy to be damaged, so the weight of bronze ware in that era was heavy.
In the west, the Greek city states and the ancient Rome period, there are relatively large-scale pottery craft, at that time there were glazed pottery. Moreover, there have been large-scale production of pottery workshops. The Romans inherited the tradition of making pottery in Greek culture. They mainly made a kind of laterite pottery.
In the same period, the Middle Earth began from the middle and late Han Dynasty.
Maybe it''s because China is not rich in mineral resources, and China, which is also dominated by pottery, suddenly experienced a kind of sublimation!
With the sublimation of this pottery technology.
So porcelain was born.
The earliest appearance of porcelain can not be traced back, and the appearance of porcelain at that time was mostly accidental. It was in the middle and late Han Dynasty that the Chinese ceramic craft really began to appear and gradually grew. It was precisely because of the sublimation of ceramic craft that the bronze ware was completely replaced by ceramics in the middle and late Han Dynasty, thus withdrawing from the stage of history. From the middle of the Han Dynasty, the original porcelain craft began to appear on a large scale.
There is not much difference between pottery and porcelain.
The main difference is still in clay and temperature, or more simply, pottery is not yet burnt through porcelain.
Murphy looked carefully at the blue and white plate in her hand, hitting it with her hand from time to time.
Murphy doesn''t know much about ceramic technology.
However, as a product of the information explosion era, Murphy knows a little about the difference between pottery and porcelain. From the point of view alone, porcelain is much more beautiful than pottery.
The dishes in his hands are much better looking and feel more delicate.
This should be a more primitive porcelain.
In Athens, pottery is still used on a large scale. At present, there is a small Pottery Workshop in the territory.
It was Mr. pliffe who was in charge.
"Who made this?" Murphy put down the plate and looked at pliffe in front of him.
The key to firing porcelain is qualified clay and enough high temperature. Since someone can burn the original porcelain, does it mean that some citizens in the territory have found suitable clay and mastered the secret of raising the temperature?
If that''s true, that''s great!
"The potteries accidentally burned this out of the soil on the other side of the nidoria River, near the barren rock heights." As a slave merchant, he had a very good sense of business. When he found these unexpected original porcelains, he immediately realized the business opportunities. Compared with the rough pottery, these unexpected original porcelain are obviously better.
"Take back the soil and cook it again. Let them pay attention to the fire and raise the temperature!" Realizing that this might be an opportunity for Athens to develop from pottery to porcelain, Murphy immediately said, "as long as they can successfully develop how to make porcelain."
"I have a lot of rewards!"
As a modern man, Murphy is not used to using pottery all the time.
Now there are primitive porcelain in the territory. It''s hard for him not to develop it. And if the porcelain craft can really develop, then the foreign trade of the territory will undoubtedly have an important commodity in the future!
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(* *: * *) there are not many writers like me who are racking their brains for rationality, right? Give me some encouragement