"Other city-states believe that land is the greatest wealth, so they are unwilling to accept Gentiles and free people, and are unwilling to share the interests and wealth of the city-state with them. On the contrary, I think "people" are the greatest wealth of the city-state! Only with people can we plant food, make artworks, and create wealth! Only with people can we build weapons, form armies, and defend against the city-state! Only with enough people can we get much more land!" Davers said firmly.

His words gave Kunogolata an unprecedented impact, as smart as he certainly would not know how to get much more land, and it was obvious that Davers was vaguely telling him the source of the "place" to give the new citizen the "place" of his gain, so he was silent...

But Sostatus, the eldest son of Kunogorata, saw some of the warehouses and hotels that were almost completed on the construction site and asked: "I heard that you are going to attract the merchants and Gentile merchants of Turiyi to come to you to store goods and accommodation. This is the warehouses and hotels under construction, right?"

"Yes."

"I see that there are many warehouses and hotels here. Is the city-state going to manage these things personally?" Sostatus asked again.

Melsis heard his meaning and immediately said, "Of course not! There are not so many public officials in the city-state, everyone has their own affairs. We are going to bid publicly and rent them out."

"Auction" is a new word. The Greeks' excellent merchant genes made Sostatus quickly figure out what was going on. He asked, "Can we participate?"

"Very welcome!" Melsis replied happily.

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Although he had been busy moving and setting up the house for most of the day and the whole family was tired, Kunogorata woke up early the next morning. Getting up early was a habit he had developed for many years. The slaves served him to dress and get up. He decided to be supported by the slaves for a walk and then come back for breakfast.

The house in Kunogorata is at the foot of the mountain of Amendolara. After the new citizen housing is allocated, there are still many empty houses here. It can be seen that the previous war has caused great harm to Amendolara. Only when the Kunogorata is deep in it can we understand why the original people of Amendolara are so angry at Turiyi.

Most of these empty houses were rented to the free people at low prices, so as soon as Kunogorata went out, they could see groups of free people rushing to work. Their faces were filled with the vitality and passion that the free people in the Turiyi city-state did not have. Even when they saw Kunogorata, a strange Greek, they would say hello in a friendly manner.

Kunogorata knew the reason why they were passionate about life, and they changed from slaves to free people. Their employers also paid the so-called "preparatory citizen tax" to the city government. As long as they abide by the law and work hard, they could become preparatory citizens of the city government in two years.

It was already June and the weather began to get hot. The city of Amendorala is relatively cool because it is built on the mountain, and the sea breeze and mountain breeze blow on the small town in turn.

Kunogorata walked up the road and could meet citizens who went down the mountain from time to time. They all went to work in the fields. Whether old citizens or new citizens, they greeted each other, talked and joked, and seemed very harmonious. The slaves who followed them seemed very energetic. It must be the deeds of those mercenary slaves who could become citizens that made them see hope.

What really surprised Kunogorata was that there were women accompanying him, and the wives of citizens were still heard of the conversation, not the women of the free people (for the sake of making a living, the wives of the free people often came out to work and earn money to subsidize their family income, such as stalls, restaurant employees, etc.), and were also preparing to accompany her husband to work. I remembered that yesterday afternoon, my son mentioned some strange experiences in the city that he seemed to have mentioned. Looking at the appearance of the woman, he was indeed a Lucanian woman. If he were traditional and conservative Gentiles, he would have been fussed, but Kunogorata, who had been living in politics for many years, first thought of the city-state significance of this phenomenon. Obviously, Davers was not just talking verbally. He was trying to assimilate the Lucanians in various ways.

This young man has extraordinary ambitions! Under his leadership, the small town of Amendorara is so strange and unique, but it resurfaces and is full of vitality in such a short time! Kunogorata's interest became stronger. He found that there were many people going down the mountain, but there were also many people going up the mountain, including many children. After asking, he found out that there were disciples of the Pythagoras School in the square to teach mathematics for free.

There is actually a Pythagoras school here! Kunogorata was surprised and suddenly remembered the scene of the first meeting. He immediately understood: This must be the line of Achita! The Pythagoras school is opposed to democracy and supports aristocratic politics, and Davers can tolerate it?!

But Kunogorata thought again: As a lifelong consul, Amendorala is not a democratic regime!

When I came to the square, there were already some people surrounding the platform ahead, and a young man was teaching basic mathematics.

This young man was Mentotic Els. He and Martycolis had the promise of Davers to do a big fight and to recruit apprentices, but they strictly followed the traditional requirements of the Pythagoras school: disciples must have a certain mathematical foundation, so they had to conduct tests.

But when they were excited to ask door to door, they were rejected. First of all, most of the new citizens had low educational level. Now they were just assigned to the fields and houses, busy taking care of everything, so they didn't have time to test and study. A few of them wanted to study and thought they would prepare for public office in the future, but when they heard that they had to pass the test first, they were immediately overwhelmed. Although the old citizens had higher education than the new citizens, they were busy attending funerals for their relatives. On the other hand, the Pythagoras School had a bad reputation in Great Greece, such as secret associations, worshiping evil gods (they regarded "numbers" as gods), opposing city-states, etc., had long been spread throughout the city-states, and of course they were not popular.

After several days of busyness, no disciple was received. The two were greatly hit and wandered around the city-state all day, accidentally letting them discover the Hades numbers (actually Arabic numbers) that Davers taught Melsis to facilitate accounting. You should know that Greek scholars who studied mathematics in this era had a very headache problem. Because the Greek characters representing numbers were cumbersome, it was difficult to write once they exceeded 10,000, which brought great trouble to scholars for formula operations. However, Hades numbers were simple, easy to learn, and easy to remember, but easily solved the most headache-inducing problem in the mathematics community, which would definitely improve the efficiency of mathematical research. The most important thing is that mathematics will be easier to popularize among the people. (In history, Archimedes, who solved the problem of the Greeks, and he pioneered the method of recording large numbers)

When they thought of this, the two felt like they had a treasure. However, Melsis refused to ask them to teach the secret of how to use this symbol, and said: "This is taught by Lord Davers. It is said to be a gift from Pluto. You must obtain his consent to learn!"

The two had to come to Davers again. They originally thought it would be more difficult. However, Davers immediately agreed and said: "Mathematics comes from daily life. Of course, I hope everyone can learn it so that they can apply it to life, so that they can solve the problems encountered in life and provide convenience for life. This is the real meaning of learning knowledge!"

Davers's words touched the two young people.

So, Dayfors made a suggestion: they were asked to hold free public lectures on mathematics in the square, and to teach the basic introduction of mathematics to city-state citizens who were willing to learn. The Senate was willing to endorse them and advocated active participation of the people. In this way, over time, a large number of mathematical enthusiasts can be cultivated for the Pythagoras school, and naturally the Pythagoras school can take root in Amendoras.

The two young and energetic disciples did not want to achieve nothing, so they returned to Tarantum in shame. After thinking about it over and over again, they finally decided to break the tradition of the Pythagoras school and conduct public lectures.

After obtaining the two of them's consent, Davers was overjoyed and immediately invited them to participate in the design and manufacturing of the waterwheel.

In his previous life, Davers often had water trucks in water towns in southern China, which seemed to be something that was easy to make. However, after Davers asked the supervisor Alexis to lead a carpenter to try it out, he found that it was not easy: either the support frame collapsed due to uneven stress, or the wheel shaft angles of the wheel were not rotating properly... etc. The small water truck actually involved relatively precise mathematical calculations and the application of mechanics. Mathematicians of this era often understood physics. Because the connection between the two was very close, Davers had to ask for help from two young disciples of the Pythagoras School.

When he took out the simple pattern of the waterwheel and explained its purpose, the two were immediately attracted. After careful observation, they believed that this was a perfect embodiment of the "God of Mathematics" helping humans live a better life (it was completely ignored that this was Davers' creativity). In addition, under the leadership of Acheta, Tarantum's Pythagoras school had begun to involve the research of mathematical mechanics for several years, and it was just enough to apply what they learned. The two immediately expressed their willingness to help develop the waterwheel.

Today, when Mentotic Els was giving a lecture on the stage, Martykoris had already started building a water truck by the Sini River. Although Mentotic Els was a little anxious, he tried his best to calm down his emotions, finish the lecture with quality and quantity, and patiently answered the enthusiastic questions from the people, and hurried down the mountain...

In a narrow section of the Sinni River, the rushing river water pushes the huge water wheel shaft slowly to rotate. When the water bucket full of the river is turned to the middle of the water wheel, it turns downwards and pours the water into the wooden trough. Then the wooden trough introduces the river water into the canal, large and small, winding canals thus bring the cool and clear Sinni River water into the higher fields...

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