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    The priests who came to Thessaly on behalf of the main gods stayed in Larissa for two days before leaving one after another and returned to the temple.

    And Achilles, who had just taken over the kingdom and became the new master of Thessaly, also started a busy life. On the one hand, he had to scheming with the nobles, and on the other hand, he had all kinds of complicated affairs.

    The first is the seven warships presented by Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Amurphrite, the queen of the sea. Because of the special methods used by the priests to bring them to Thessaly, they are now placed in the city of Larissa.  Next to the small pier.

    These seven warships, five of which are twenty-meter warships, and the other two are thirty-meter warships, are each made of fine wood, and the shipbuilding technology used is also very advanced, even  Even better than the Mycenaean warships.

    Achilles was bent on building an invincible maritime fleet. Now with these five advanced wooden warships, he can create the prototype of a fleet.

    Now that the warship is available, the next problem is to recruit crew members. For warships like these, a 20-meter-long warship requires more than thirty crew members, while a thirty-meter warship requires forty crew members.

    Unlike the ordinary soldiers recruited before, because these advanced warships need to be operated, the recruited crew members must have certain sailing experience, and they cannot be too old.

    Although Thessaly is a landlocked country, fortunately it is close to the Pinio River. In these years, some warships were also built. Although these warships were smaller in size, they also trained some good crews.

    The news that the two goddesses gave Achilles seven huge warships spread throughout Thessaly as early as that day, and many people ran to the river to see these behemoths.

    The crews on the old warships in the country became excited when they saw these huge warships. When the new king Achilles issued a recruitment notice, crew members came quickly.

    In just three days, two hundred and fifty crew members were enough. However, the nobles suffered a lot. All the crew members on their warships ran away, and the old warships were shelved.  .

    Although they were angry, they did not dare to say anything more. After all, the crew members were free persons, and their departure and stay were not forced by the nobles.

    On a small hill near the city of Larissa, Achilles, Sophiaenas, the Centaur King Roron, and a large group of people looked up at the wide Pinho River.

    On the wide and gentle river, seven huge warships sailed from west to east. On the decks of the warships, the naked crewmen were busy.

    The white sails are shadowy on all sides, and the breeze on the water blows on them, instigating the entire sail. Because it is going down the river, the speed of the warship is very fast. On the water, it is like a sharp arrow that is unstringed.

    "Young king of Thessaly, congratulations. These huge warships given to you by the goddess are probably incomparable even to the invincible warships of Mycenae." Looking at the man sailing eastward in the river  Fleet, Gerong stroked his beard and admired.

    Achilles' eyes have been fixed on these warships that belong to him, with a look of uncontrollable joy on his face. Although these warships cannot be compared with his own armored warships, they are also the most advanced in this era.  Warship.

    With the current shipbuilding technology of Thessaly, even if they have money, they will not be able to build such a large and advanced warship in a short time.

    He does have a lot of shipbuilding knowledge in his head, but the craftsmen needed to build warships are in short supply in Thessaly and need to be cultivated by him personally.

    Now with these seven huge warships, not only will the entire Pinho River belong to him, but the key is that he can go out of the inland and enter the Aegean Sea to conduct overseas trade with other city-states.

    "With these seven warships, whether it is the upper reaches of the Pinho River or the downstream city-states on the river, our army can attack them through waterways, and we can even transport the army to places out to sea, where  Get the wealth we need." As the leader of the militant faction in Thessaly, Zomochus' first thought was how to use these warships to launch wars abroad, thereby bringing wealth to Thessaly.

    For a long time, due to the influence of transportation, Thessaly had no ability to launch long-distance campaigns. Now with these warships, Thessaly's army can appear in the Pinho River Basin in a very short time.  Various places.

    As the largest river in northern Greece, many city-states were born in the Pinho River Basin. Except for the city of Larissa, the others are all small and medium-sized city-states, which are the ideal targets for plunder.

    In this era, whether it was Crete or Mycenae now, Tro??, Athens, the rise of every famous city-state is full of blood and violence.

    The extremely low productivity and poor harvest of the land determine that no city-state can become strong by relying on its own development.

    Just like in later European countries, when the seeds of capitalism emerged, the primitive accumulation of capital was based on the blood and tears of other nations.

    Through colonization and war, we plunder the land and wealth of other nations, use the people of other nations as labor force, and use the lands of other nations to sow seeds to gain wealth.

    The law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest, is vividly explained in this era and under this sky.

    If Thessaly, which has a huge population, wants to rise rapidly, it can only take this path full of blood and bitter tears, and use the blood and tears of other city-states to make its country strong.

    "Ralasi, is the construction still starting at the dock?" Achilles looked back from the warship on the river, looked at Ralasi behind him, and asked.

    Lalasi nodded and responded: "Your Highness, the shipbuilding craftsmen have been recruited. According to your instructions, a total of fifty have been recruited. There are enough slaves needed. As soon as the wood arrives, construction can begin.  It¡¯s docked.¡±

    At this point, he paused, and then mentioned another matter: "There is also the matter of transforming the twenty old warships into fishing boats. The craftsmen have begun to transform those warships according to your requirements.  "

    Achilles pondered for a moment and asked: "How long will it take before all the warships can be transformed into fishing boats and enter the designated fishing grounds to fish?"

    Lalasi replied: "According to the craftsmen, it takes three days to transform each warship into a fishing boat. It will take at least more than two months to transform all twenty warships into fishing boats."

    After more than two months, Achilles rubbed his forehead. What he lacked most now was time. Every morning when the fishing boat was launched, it would reduce the burden on him.

    Although the lambs and grain given to him by the goddess of agriculture this time were enough to feed two thousand people for two months, as the number of slaves continued to increase, the food consumed was also increasing at a crazy speed.

    He originally had close to a thousand slaves on hand. When he ascended the throne, the nobles in the country gave him more than 600 slaves. With nearly 2,000 slaves, he consumed a huge amount of food every day.  .

    In the manor he enclosed, more than a thousand slaves are now busy cultivating land, planting crops, digging ditches, and cutting down trees.

    With the start of the shipyard project, the amount of wood needed increased crazily, and the number of slaves in the lumberyard increased accordingly, reaching 400, accounting for one-third of the total number of slaves.

    "Mr. Rong, those who know how to make potions need you to put more thought into giving them some proper guidance." He took his mind away from the tedious matters of food and looked at the Centaur King aside.

    Because an intensive war was coming, more anti-hemorrhage potions needed to be prepared. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, sent several large carts of herbs, so Achilles summoned all the people in the city who knew how to make potions and set out to  Make hemostatic agents.

    The Centaur King Geron is the top potion-making master in the mortal world today. Many demigods¡¯ potion knowledge was learned from him.

    Now that he was going to stay in Thessaly for a while, Achilles would naturally not miss these good opportunities and hoped to ask him to help teach the pharmacists he had summoned.

    In this era of extremely harsh living environment, due to the backwardness of medical standards, the life span of ordinary people is generally low. However, if we can have a group of qualified pharmacists, we can appropriately improve the health of the people of Thessaly.  Quality.

    Centaur King Girong smiled slightly, nodded, and said slowly: "Of course there is no problem. I have caused you a lot of trouble in Thessaly these days. I can do whatever I can to help you.  Stay a little longer with peace of mind."

    On the river, the seven huge warships have gone away. Looking far to the east, on the river in the distance, you can still vaguely see the white sails.

    After staying on the hill for a long time, Achilles led everyone back to the city of Larissa. Zomokos returned to the military camp with several demigods, and Achilles and Sophiainas returned to their own home.  palace.

    Since the old king Peleus abdicated and he ascended the throne, the palace that originally belonged to Peleus has become his palace, and the garrison tasks in the palace have also been transferred to Funix.

    Those who pursueExcept for the few teenagers he planned to train as civil officials, all the teenagers who followed him were sent to the cave to receive training as clones.

    The guards in the palace were all replaced by soldiers under Zomokos. Every two days, these guard soldiers would take a shift and be replaced by another group of soldiers. The security of the palace was much improved than in the past.
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