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    At this time, Thessaly, in Achilles's eyes, was just a broken house waiting for him to repair.

    If you want to repair this house, you must organize an orderly charter, and then complete the repairs one by one according to the charter.

    For today's Thessaly, land reclamation is the most basic and important. If you have surplus food in your hand, there is no need to panic.  []

    At first, these things were all confusing, which made Achilles nervous for a while, but when he thought back to the game Age of Empires he played in his previous life, his eyes became clear.

    Now that I want to reform Thessaly, I can completely regard it as the small town that has just started in the game, and then develop it according to the progress of the game.

    The current city of Larissa is the town center given at the beginning of the system, and the first thing he has to do is to recruit farmers from Larissa and then cultivate fields next to the Pinho River.

    Food can be obtained from many aspects, including hunting, picking fruits, fishing, and then cultivating land and sowing food.

    The city of Larissa is adjacent to the Pinho River. It has unique natural advantages and is extremely suitable for fishing operations. The people of Larissa began fishing many years ago, but unfortunately the fishing tools are somewhat crude and simple.

    As for hunting and picking fruits, to the west of the city of Larissa is a dense jungle. There are a large number of wild creatures and various wild fruit trees living in the jungle. Before the founding of Thessaly, people used hunting and picking fruits.  Picking fruits for a living.

    It¡¯s just that as the population of Larissa continues to increase, relying solely on hunting and picking fruits as a source of food can no longer satisfy Larissa¡¯s large population, so land reclamation and fishing operations were born.

    While Achilles was busy inspecting the land on both sides of the Pinho River, looking for an area suitable for establishing a fishing ground and conducting large-scale fishing, the meeting of nobles was also in progress.

    The content of the meeting was nothing more than Achilles' succession to the throne, which was related to the future of the entire Thessaly.

    In these days, a group of heroes of Zomokos have been gathered together, and a group of neutral nobles of Thessaly have been met, and their support has been obtained. The succession to the throne is already a certainty. For this meeting of nobles, Aki  Lucius didn't take it too seriously.

    To everyone's surprise, Crosze, the largest nobleman in Thessaly, who had always supported the eldest prince and opposed Achilles, uncharacteristically expressed his support for Achilles at this meeting of nobles.  .

    Crosze changed the direction of the wind, leaving this noble meeting without any suspense. Except for a few nobles who chose to remain silent, all other nobles supported Achilles to inherit the throne.

    Since the meeting of nobles has decided Achilles¡¯ succession to the throne, the old king Peleus is also happy to see this result and announces that he will abdicate in half a month.

    Regarding Croszer¡¯s uncharacteristic support for him at the noble meeting, Achilles also learned about it afterwards and was somewhat surprised.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I felt relieved and I couldn¡¯t help but have a deeper understanding of this Thessaly uncle.

    Since the meeting of nobles has determined Achilles's inheritance rights, and the old king will abdicate in the near future, the old king divided all the property in his hands into four parts in advance and gave them to the four Achilles brothers.

    After all, Thessaly was still in the period of clan communes. Although there was a king, it still followed many habits of the tribal era. Even the king's property must be divided equally among his heirs.

    Because the family property was divided among the four brothers, all Achilles could get was two bags of gold and more than 200 feet of land.

    Fortunately, as the next generation king, he has some privileges, and the noble meeting will not let the king of his kingdom only have more than two hundred feet of land.

    After deliberation among the nobles and heroes, a piece of fertile land with an area of ??1,000 feet and 400 slaves was set aside near the Pinho River as the new king's private property.

    In the days before he ascended the throne, the old King Peleus gradually decentralized his power, and Achilles became increasingly busy.

    Fortunately, the old king has trained a group of talented people over the years. With the transfer of royal power, they have also been assigned to Achilles's staff, so that he does not have to worry about lack of manpower.

    For the next change of throne and matters of worshiping the gods, the relevant personnel will naturally be responsible, and Achilles does not need to worry about it.

    Taking advantage of this time, he began to recruit craftsmen from Larissa.  The reason why he recruited craftsmen was to build agricultural tools.

    Although it is said thatIn my previous life, because I had always lived in the city, I had not seen all kinds of practical farm tools in the countryside with my own eyes, but after all, I had seen some ancient Chinese farm tools on TV and online, and I relied on my vague memory.

    Generally speaking, the manufacturing process of those farm tools is very simple. As long as you know the general appearance, you can probably make them.

    Drills, plows, rakes, hoes, sickles, these are the simplest and most practical tools, and there are no technical requirements for their manufacture.

    Even the ordinary craftsmen of this era can complete it alone as long as they have the corresponding materials.

    Because no iron ore has been found yet, Achilles chose bronze ore as the material. Although weapons made of bronze are brittle and easy to break, and are far less sharp than iron weapons, they are still suitable for making these agricultural tools.

    And after thousands of years of development, mortals in the world of ancient Greece have become extremely skilled in bronze refining.

    Close to the city of Larissa, there is a larger mine rich in red copper, lead, antimony and other ores. The bronze smelted from these ores is of high quality and the overall quantity is not small.

    Whether it is a bronze drill, a bronze sickle, or a bronze hoe, very little bronze is needed. As long as the rough blank is made, it is sharpened and a wooden handle is installed, and it is ready for use.

    Even an ordinary craftsman can produce more than ten small bronze pieces a day if they are made purely by hand.

    In order to be able to manufacture farm tools on a large scale, Achilles deliberately built several large simple houses on his own land outside Larissa, and gathered the craftsmen he gathered here to build farm tools.

    Because it is close to the Pinho River, not far away is the jungle, with ample water sources and sufficient wood for fires, which is extremely convenient.

    In the first two days, Achilles stayed here every day, personally directing the craftsmen to build tools.  However, these tools are really simple, and those who can become craftsmen are inherently smarter than other people. After building the first one, they have roughly mastered it.

    Achilles is also very concerned about these craftsmen. In this extremely backward era, this group of people is equivalent to the scientists of later generations, and they are all talents.

    So after gathering them, Achilles gave them a very generous treatment, but at the same time, he also asked them to sign a contract similar to the contract for later generations.

    Any craftsman who signs this contract can receive a certain amount of money and food every month, but as a price, they must serve Achilles for ten years.

    Regarding this contract, which was equivalent to a contract of sale, the craftsmen pressed their fingerprints without even thinking too much about it.

    You must know that in this era, the status of craftsmen is very low, and their income is pitiful, and they cannot even provide food and clothing for the family.

    But the treatment given by Achilles was enough for them not to worry about starvation and freezing. Even if there was a famine or something, it would not affect them.

    For these starving craftsmen, this is a great gift, and naturally no one will refuse it. After signing this contract, it is nothing more than selling themselves for ten years. The key is to get a lot of income.

    Precisely because of this generous treatment, Achilles captured most of the craftsmen in Larissa in just two days.

    The scene of three hundred craftsmen gathering together to make tools was still very spectacular in this era. Bronze was smelted, rough blanks were made, and the bronze tools were shipped out of the "factory" one by one and stored together.

    No one knows that these simple bronze tools made in these simple tents on the banks of the Pinho River will actually push an era forward.

    While the craftsmen were busy making tools, not far from these tents, hundreds of slaves were turning over the land and cultivating fields with bronze tools.

    Because of the tools made of bronze, reclaiming land has become much easier than in the past, and the speed is at least several times faster. In just one day, four hundred slaves reclaimed forty feet of land.

    Twenty fully armed soldiers, armed with spears and shields, patrolled around to prevent slaves from taking the opportunity to escape or be lazy.

    Slavery is an extremely barbaric and bloody system in which a few people control the lives of the majority and use barbaric violence to plunder the fruits of slave labor without restriction.

    "But this barbaric and bloody system is the only way for society to develop forward, and human society has stepped from clan communes toSlave society means the arrival of the civilized period.

    The extremely low productivity and the degree of ideological enlightenment determine the irreplaceable superiority of slavery in this era.

    Perhaps Achilles didn't have any good feelings towards this barbaric slavery system. He also wanted to be a king in the feudal era. However, if the feudal system was forcibly implemented, it would inevitably go against the development of society, and in the end he would be eliminated by the times.  obliterated.

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