Why Athenian pottery is loved by the wealthy people of Dionia is not only because of the unique and high-quality pottery painted on black background and red, but also because of the exquisite paintings on the pottery. Athens brings together many outstanding painters in the Greek world, almost all of whom are engaged in bottle painting. Onehimos is one of the best. He once won two victories in the Pan-Athenaser bottle painting competition, and Heschlaus spent a lot of money to hire him.

Faced with Heschlaus' compliments, Onehimos' performance was not much different from that of other Athenians: "I hope the Dionians can fully appreciate the beauty of my work! Ah... there are too many potterys in this batch, and I am a little tired and need a break."

Looking at Onehemoth who was pretending, stretching and yawning, Heschlaus complained in his heart, but he echoed: "Yes, yes, you should really take a good rest... It seems that my order can only be temporarily postponed."

"Why are there still orders?!" Oneheimus said impatiently: "Let me talk about it when I have a rest!"

"Then I can only turn off this order with the buyer because they are in a hurry." Heschlaus said seemingly unintentionally: "It is said that it was ordered by the Dionian royal family. They want to place this batch of pottery in the palace and use it to entertain guests from all over the country during the sports meeting."

"What did you say? The goods that the Dionian royal family wanted?!" Onehemoth suddenly asked seriously.

"Yes, I can swear to Athena that it was the order placed by the Royal Family of Dionia!"

"Uh... I think I can wait until this batch of pottery is finished before resting." Onehimos immediately changed his words. Although he looked down on the Dionys, he knew very well that the Holy Kingdom of Dionys was the overlord of the entire Western Mediterranean and the Greek world, and how noble its royal family was. If his works could be loved by the King of Dionys, who had supreme power, and were also used to receive distinguished guests from other city-states, he would definitely become famous throughout the Mediterranean (Athene pottery has a characteristic, and the pottery contained the signatures of potters and bottle painters).

A teasing smile appeared on the corner of Heschlaus's mouth and said, "Okay, I'll make arrangements now."

"Wait a minute, what are the requirements for the content of the bottle painting?"

"It must be related to the "Hades's Divine Code", after all, the Dionian royal family is a descendant of Hades."

"I understand, buy me a copy of Hades's Divine Book as soon as possible." Onehemoth said without hesitation.

Another reason why the Dionians like Athenian pottery is that the Athenian pottery bottle paintings are not like other city-state pottery bottle paintings are mostly still lifes. Their bottle paintings are narrative, war, heroic legends, gods, etc., and often have a tragic epic feeling, which may be related to the Athenians' love of drama.

The demands made by buyers of Dionys to Athenian potters are mostly related to the wars in the rise of the Kingdom of Dionys, the miracle of Hades, and the great deeds of King Davers. Parents of food and clothing had their requirements, and bottle painters could only obey. Later, a smart man actually opened a bookstore in the town of Selesia, which specialized in selling books about the Holy Kingdom of Dionys: "The Long March" by Xenophon, "The Great Greek History" by Ansitanos,

"The Battle of the West Mediterranean" by Henipolis, "Chronicles of Northern Italy" (adapted from Ansitanos's intelligence clerk Masims, the secretary of the Kingdom Intelligence Department, in the restricted area of ​​the Turiyi Library, and was adapted from the information written by Masims, the secretary of the Kingdom Intelligence Department, in the Etruscan border corps). Of course, there is also (Hades's Divine Document). This also makes Selesia the only place in Greece where the public sale of "Hades' Divine Document" is in addition to Mesenia, Nova Sparta, and Thessali.

"Be careful! Be careful! If one is broken, your three-month salary will be gone!..." The foreman kept shouting to remind the slaves who were carrying pottery that exquisite pottery was placed in wooden boxes covered with straw and thick wool.

Before leaving, Heschlaus repeatedly reminded the foreman to start the next batch of pottery production as soon as possible, but he must strive for excellence and no mistakes must be made.

There is a port not far from Selesia, which specializes in the transportation and export of pottery, but Heschlaus transported the pottery back to his house on the outskirts of Athens. It was said that it was his house, but in fact it was just a long-term rental, because Heschlaus was a Gentile and had no right to buy Athenian real estate.

If it were four years ago, Hessclaus had no courage to settle down and do business in Athens, because he was a small merchant from Thessali, who was once regarded as a barbaric land by the Athenians. However, Thessali became a region of the sacred kingdom of Dionia. The Thessali became a citizen of Dionia. Hessali was fortunate to meet a great merchant of Turiyi, and received his support and support, so he moved his family to Athens to engage in the pottery industry.

Athens is an open city-state, with a large number of Gentiles in various industries, but most of them have low identities. Although Athenian citizens hate Heschlaus's identity, the identity of Dionia's citizen ensures that the judge does not dare to be too biased towards locals when he is in trouble. Of course, he must also abide by Athenian laws. In addition to paying certain taxes regularly and paying occasional charity donations, as a Gentile merchant, he also needs to pay a small market tax exempted by Athenian citizens.

Of course, these expenses are just a drop in the bucket for the profits he earned. What made him most relieved was that because of his identity, he would not be randomly recruited by the Athenian government and fought as a heavy infantry. Of course, since the establishment of the New Greek Alliance, there has never been any war in the Greek mainland, and the days when the people were frightened and fearful were over.

Now Heschlaus no longer has the desire to return to Thessali, and is more willing to stay in this commercially-filled Athens life.

In the evening, Heschlaus held a banquet at home and invited several Thessali merchants who were doing business in Athens like him.

Everyone sat at the banquet, ate delicious food, drank wine, and talked about the huge changes that Dionia brought to Thessali in recent years.

Not to mention other things, their banquets have changed a lot. They are no longer like traditional Greek banquets. Each guest has a couch, half-lying to eat, drink, and talk, but they all sit on wooden chairs and set their own dining table in front of their bodies. This is due to the increasing frequent contacts between the local Dionys and Thessali, and the impact of some local Dionys citizens immigrating to the Plain of Thessali. The Thessali originally had a sense of inferiority compared to the local Greeks in the south, but now they have become citizens of the Dionys. Although this sense of inferiority is gradually disappearing, another sense of inferiority is quietly growing. That is, when facing citizens from the local Dionys, the Thessali people who have close contact with the local Dionys have been trying their best to learn. For example, merchants have been trying to imitate their customs and habits in order to narrow the distance with each other.

The atmosphere of the banquet was very warm and everyone drank a little too much. Heschlaus also called his eldest son, Lyrias, and told him drunk: Tomorrow, I will take him to Turie with me on a boat.

The 9-year-old boy was so excited that he couldn't sleep well all night.

As a result, early on the second morning, after sobering up, Heschlaus had no idea what happened. Lyrias cried and made a fuss. Finally, under the persuasion of his wife, Heschlaus had to nod and agree.

After breakfast, he brought his son and a team to Piraeus Port.

Piraeus is the largest commercial port in the Eastern Mediterranean, with thousands of cargo ships entering and leaving the port every day, and it is extremely prosperous.

Hessaklaus came to a remote pier. Although it was still early, there were cargo ships and the ground was filled with all kinds of goods. Countless piers and slaves were busy transporting goods on the boat. Fortunately, at the banquet last night, several Thessali merchants made an appointment to set off together today for Turiyi. They had already booked the cargo ship and found the ladies (Piraius Port stipulates that the carrier teams not belonging to the port are not allowed to enter the pier to avoid disrupting the order of the pier and causing losses). Hessaklaus hurriedly asked Ladies to carefully move their own wooden boxes of pottery to the warehouse of the pier one by one, and then the foreman of the ladies took him into the warehouse.

In the center of this huge room, which is also full of goods, is the office of the Athenian port officials at this terminal. After confirming the types and quantity of goods that Heschlaus wants to ship out of Athens, they ask Heschlaus to register and sign, and then calculate the value of the entire batch of goods based on the market price, they require him to immediately pay 1/10 tax on the exported goods (Athen stipulates that both exports and imported goods must be paid 1/10 tax, which is simple and crude and easy to deal with, but the tax is too high, which naturally leads to the high price of goods sold. Once the goods are unsalable, the cargo owner will face losses).

Heschlaus carried a large amount of Hades silver coins with him (Dionia coins, which have been popular in Greece since the establishment of the New Greek Union because of its high silver content and exquisite production. The owl silver coins in Athens were exhausted due to the depletion of the Laurien silver mine and the large consumption of the war on the treasury over the years, and their silver content has been reduced again and again, and are no longer as popular as before. Even many Athenians are more willing to use Hades silver coins) and immediately delivered as required.

There is also a complete set of official measurement tools in the office. The clerk carefully inspected the coins and confirmed that they were correct before he approved the Heschlaus's cargo ship to leave the port.

When the goods were all taken on the ship, the cargo ship left the dock and it was almost noon.

Heschlaus and his friends were riding on the largest cargo ship. After the entire fleet left Saron Bay, the wind turned south, and the fleet with sails raised sails was sailing as if they had wings. Heschlaus and several other merchants all showed joy, because the help of the sea breeze meant that the fleet could arrive in Turiyi earlier.

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