At this time, another group of slaves quickly tied the stone with wheat straw and ropes. This was done not only to avoid damage to the stone during the next transportation, but also to prevent the stone from scratching the slave.

The rope was divided into two groups. After binding the waist of the stone, one end was pulled out by more than a dozen slaves on the ground, and the other end was ten slaves standing on the rock, dragging the stone. Several slaves continued to pry the stone with wooden crowbars, allowing it to roll onto a row of logs that had been placed in front of it at a relatively stable speed.

Finally, the slaves cheered, and their team had already mined the first stone in a short time, and there were no accidents.

This large piece of rectangular stone finally fell smoothly on six and seven logs arranged between them. Then several slaves began to tie the stone with ropes again, and then 12 slaves pulled the rope together. The four slaves kept placing the logs that fell behind in front of the stone.

The huge and heavy stone rolled on the log, and the more labor-saving one was dragged to the stone pile yard located on the side of the entrance of the stone mine.

The foreman was notified that after checking the stone, he confirmed that it was qualified and recorded it on the wooden board he carried with him.

The slaves in Masims were cheering again, arousing the envy of other teams, because they had already mined the first stone in a short time and had no accidents. It is very likely that they would exceed the task today and receive a reward.

Masims remained calm. While arranging the remaining slaves who had not done much before, he began to knock into the wooden wedge on the second rock that had already been drew the groove, he urged the returning slaves to hurry up and recover their strength.

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The stone piled at the entrance of the mine must be roughly shaped here before being sent away.

The one who shaped the stone here was not the Kingdom slaves, but the private slaves of Aristaglas. They all had considerable experience and the skills of dealing with stone were accumulated over the past 10 years after Aristaglas was engaged in this industry.

After all, selling stones is different from selling other metal ores. Few mine owners sell the newly mined stones directly to buyers. Instead, they need to provide relatively molded stones according to the buyers' requirements. For example, the craftsmen responsible for the reconstruction of the main temple of Hades sent assistants to the stone mine. He arrived here in the early morning as usual. According to the construction progress of the temple, what types of stone mines are required to provide to the temple today? How many types of stones are required for various styles?...

There are three main types of shaped stones required for building a temple: one is square stone, which will become the stone bricks for building the temple; the other is round stone, which will become the columns supporting the temple; and the other is thinner stone slabs, which are used to lay the floor of the temple.

Hundreds of slave craftsmen here carefully shaping the mined stones with iron pliers, chisels, iron drills, metal wire and other tools. They not only wore linen clothes, but also masks and headscarves. This is because they used metal tools to chisel the stones, and the stone chips flew, which could easily lead to injuries. This is a kind of protection for slaves. In addition to protecting the cloth on their lower bodies, the slaves in the kingdom of quarry were basically naked, because they basically did not use metal tools, and had no worries about this, and there was no drag on the clothes. It was easier to use force. The main danger they needed to worry about was the sudden drop of the rocks.

Among the styles of shaping stone, it seems that cutting stones into slates is the most difficult, because marble is different from limestone, with its hard texture, which seems difficult for tools of this era to do.

However, the Greeks who had been immersed in marble for hundreds of years had long developed a good way to deal with it, which was to first draw a cutting line on the stone, then use tools to dig a shallow groove along the cutting line, fill it with dry sea sand, and then press the wire on the wire. The slave craftsman pulled the two ends of the wire, pulled the wire forward and backward along the groove, and the wire squeezed the sand downward. The sand is the substance used to cut the stone, and wears the stone through constant friction. As the groove gets deeper, more sand needs to be added to it until the stone is finally divided and turned into a stone slab.

The square and round stones that were finally shaped will be slightly larger than the stones that were built in the final temple. In addition, when the slave craftsmen were dealing with them, they specially left bulges around the stones as handles to facilitate the movement of the craftsmen who built the temple.

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The stone that has been shaped will be transported away immediately, and the Kingdom slaves will take over again.

Nearly 20 slaves struggled to lift the stone onto the raft, with round wood underneath the raft. Some slaves used ropes to pull the raft, while the rest kept placing round wood in front. As before, the stone was slowly pulled and moved to the exit of the mine.

The exit is next to the entrance, and the road is paved with large pieces of stone, firm and flat, and a platform more than two meters high is formed at the end of the road. A four-wheeler is parked in front of the platform, and its height is exactly flush with the platform, so that the heavy stone can be pushed onto the car with labor saving.

This four-wheeler is made very sturdy. The wheels are made of several complete round wood splicing together, which are extremely tall and thick.

There are also special carpenters at the exit, because when the stone is just transported to the car, it is most likely to cause damage and he can repair it nearby.

The wooden wheels are pulled by four bulls. Although they move slowly, they are reliable. They can carry about 10 tons of weight each time, which is only about 2-3 pieces of stone.

Usually, they usually transport the stone to a simple dock next to the Koseni River and transport the stone to the place designated by the buyer by cargo ships, which is relatively labor-saving and safe.

However, the Turiyi City Hall refused to use the inner city's dock to transport the stone, because in this way, the stone needs to be transported from the dock to the temple, which will not only damage the exquisite roads in the inner city, affect traffic, and interfere with the rest of the inner city people (more than half of the inner city people are high-ranking officials), but the most important thing is that it is unsafe (because there will be many strange slaves entering and leaving the inner city's hinterland). If you take the land route, the Hades main temple is not far from the west gate of the inner city, which is convenient for management and control.

But for Aristaglas, this will undoubtedly be a headache, because the land route from the mine to the main temple of Hades is about 10 miles. With such a long distance, accidents are prone to accidents during transportation, wheels are damaged and stones fall off. It will undoubtedly cost more manpower and material resources to be removed again. What's worse is that it hurts passers-by, so the compensation will not be a small number. This is why Aristaglas decided to improve the transportation problem after losing a lot of money and placed his hope on what scholars call the rails.

The entire quarry is filled with the sound of work from morning to night: the foreman's commands, the sound of slaves' horns, the shouts of the coachman driving a ox cart, the creaking of wood under the weight of stone, and the screams of slaves due to various accidents... one after another, and lasting for a long time.

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In the evening, the slaves of the Kingdom dragged their tired bodies back to the slave camp. Although they only worked for more than an hour, digging stones in the dim environment caused a slave to fail to avoid the gravel falling above and be hit on the head and lose his life.

Of course, except for the same group of slaves who were sad and uneasy about it, the other slaves seemed indifferent, and some even knew nothing about it. In the huge quarry, thousands of slaves had been working in it during this period, and some were always injured or even died. They were already numb. What they longed for the most was to have a sumptuous dinner and then have a good sleep.

Of course, their wishes were met, and dinner was even more abundant than breakfast. The slaves ate and drank enough, and each of them walked back to their dormitory with their stomachs. After a simple washing, they lay on the bed and fell asleep soundly.

At this moment, the door of a dormitory was pushed open, and someone stood in front of the door and shouted loudly: "Is Febius Rabio Gaius there?"

Someone was suddenly awakened and scolded angrily: "Damn it, who is that?!"

The person standing at the door replied coldly: "Patrol!"

The room suddenly became quiet. After a moment, Gaius whispered: "You seem to have called the wrong name, it should be Gaius Febius Rabio."

"Are you sure you want to call that?" The soldier at the door said sternly.

Gaius dared not answer.

Last year, at the suggestion of King Davers, the Senate passed the "National Names Law of the Kingdom of Dionys", which stipulates that whether it is a citizen of Dionys or a free citizen who wants to join Dionys, he must have a name and a surname to facilitate the registration and search of his information in the Ministry of Household Registration. In addition, the surname must be first and the name must be later. Anyone who does not comply will be punished, and in serious cases, they may even be deprived of their citizenship.
Chapter completed!