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    Chapter 207 Development

    In two days, Achilles used his knowledge and experience in his previous life to come up with three designs of wooden warships.

    Considering the backwardness of this era, he did not come up with any overly advanced warship designs. He just combined the advantages of ancient Chinese and ancient European warships to create a warship suitable for this era.

    Although he deliberately weakened the technical level contained in this warship, it is still much more advanced than those warships in this era.

    And because of the advanced catapults and heavy weapons from the cold weapon age such as ballistae, the attack power of the warship will be doubled.

    Through simple observation of Cretan warships, Achilles also had a general understanding of the warships of this era. He knew that the warships of superpowers like Crete, Mycenae, and Troy had already  With a deck and equipped with a far superior strike weapon similar to a sling.

    The birth of the catapult has unimaginable significance for this backward era, because it completely changed the form of maritime warfare.

    Make naval battles more diverse and more devastating.  In the beginning, warships docked with each other and fought hand-to-hand. Now, the use of slings is far more important than striking.

    ???????????????? If the initial fight on boarding the ship was the killing of the crew, then after the catapult appeared, it was the destruction of each other's warships.

    Especially these countries have learned how to use kerosene. After burning stones soaked in kerosene, the damage to wooden warships will be even greater, and the warships can even sink completely. This has never happened in the past.  Things that happened.

    It¡¯s just that whether Crete, Troy, or Mycenae, the catapults they have are only the simplest prototypes of catapults, and they are still somewhat lacking in power and accuracy.

    And Achilles ordered his craftsmen to build slings that were much better than the slings on hand in other countries, both in terms of range and accuracy.

    After handing all the design drawings he produced to the officials in charge of the docks, the three docks began to operate efficiently.

    Because enough high-quality wood has been prepared in advance, and the shipbuilding craftsmen and slaves are also in place, as soon as the design drawings are obtained, the shipyard quickly begins to build the warship.

    The start of the shipyard and the start of the warship construction project are more important than anything else for the entire Thessaly, but all the materials needed for the shipyard will be prepared as soon as possible.

    Regarding the news of starting to build warships, Achilles did not deliberately conceal it. After all, in this era, news spread very slowly.

    Especially for a landlocked country like Thessaly, which is located in the northernmost part of Greece, land transportation is inconvenient and it is far away from the ocean. It takes at least half a year for news from the outside world to reach here.

    As a backward country, few people care about things here. What happened in Larissa has probably been unknown to the outside world for a year.

    After all, Thessaly is too far away and is a landlocked country. It poses no threat to superpowers like Mycenae and Troy.

    So for these Mycenae and Troy, they don't bother to pay attention to Thessaly. Even if big things happen here, they don't know.

    It is precisely for this reason that Achilles is too lazy to keep secrets. Anyway, even if the news of Thessaly building warships reaches the ears of various countries, they will not care.

    On the northern grassland, because there are no barbaric Macedonians, Thessaly can now fully develop its own agriculture and commerce.

    Before being recognized by the Goddess of Agriculture and having your own patron saint, waging war with foreign countries is already unrealistic.

    So during this period, Thessaly went into hibernation. On the one hand, it went all out to develop agriculture and commerce, carry out various projects, and on the other hand, it went all out to train soldiers and improve combat effectiveness.

    On the north bank of the Pinio River, in that vast and fertile land, thousands of Thessalians are busy working on the land.

    Pieces of land that have been abandoned for hundreds of years have been reclaimed by these hard-working people. Although the sowing season has passed, their enthusiasm cannot be stopped.

    For a long time, due to the threat of barbaric Macedonians in the north, this land has been abandoned, and the land on the south bank of the river is very limited.

    There is not so much land near Larissa, which has a population of nearly 300,000, for people to cultivate. Therefore, many people have almost no land of their own.

      Now, having received a huge reward from the king and owning their own land, the enthusiasm of these people has increased.

    The reason why Achilles distributed part of the land to ordinary people was, on the one hand, to allow some people to become rich along with the great nobles and to contribute to the stability of the slave system; on the other hand, it was necessary to  to fulfill the request of the Goddess of Agriculture.

    Today, Thessaly has 5,000 fully armed soldiers and 2,000 brave and capable cavalry. However, because there is no patron saint, it is unable to wage war.

    With the initial implementation of the slavery system in Thessaly, especially as large areas of land were reclaimed, the demand for slaves increased.

    But because the number of slaves it owns is too small to meet the needs of the kingdom, it is extremely urgent to launch a war with other countries.

    The condition that the goddess of agriculture put forward to Achilles, if he wanted to cultivate that amount of land purely by himself, he would need at least tens of thousands of slaves.

    "After giving part of the land to ordinary people who are in urgent need of land for free, their enthusiasm will be high, and it will only take a short time to cultivate it.

    Anyway, the request made by the goddess of agriculture everywhere is that Thessaly should cultivate 30,000 feet of land. As for how it was cultivated and whether crops were sown, there are no requirements.

    When distributing these lands, Achilles specifically requested that the people who received the land must cultivate all the land they received within two months, otherwise it would be taken back.

    Of course, even if there is no such requirement, ordinary people will cultivate their own land before winter comes in order to reduce the burden for sowing in the coming year.

    Seeing that more and more abandoned land is being reclaimed, and the requirements of the goddess of agriculture are about to be fulfilled, Achilles will inevitably feel a little happy in his heart.

    The officials in charge of agricultural matters reported that in half a month, the amount of land reclaimed on the north bank of the Pinho River will exceed 30,000 square feet.

    Now that the land reclamation has come to an end, Achilles has turned his attention from the land to the expansion and construction of the new market.

    Achilles¡¯ plan was to build Thessaly into a commercial kingdom, but the original dilapidated and chaotic market could not satisfy the development of Thessaly¡¯s commerce.

    Nowadays, all aspects of the city of Larissa are on track. Under the supervision of relevant officials, they are operating at a high speed, and the construction of the market has been put on the agenda.

    Based on the current situation in Thessaly, with an extreme shortage of slaves, it would have been quite difficult to build the market, but time was running out, and Achilles had to race against time.

    Since there were not enough slaves, he simply transferred a small number of soldiers from the military camp and asked them to work in the market in rotation and temporarily serve as laborers.

    There is no other way. Anyway, there is no war around Thessaly now, and it is impossible to launch a war with other countries. The soldiers can be deployed in turns to build the bazaar, which will not delay the training of the soldiers.

    So in the city of Larissa, next to the original old dock, hundreds of strong soldiers are busy under the command of relevant personnel.

    A large amount of stone and wood were transported here from outside the city. Because there are enough cattle, transporting materials is much more convenient than in the past.

    The dilapidated buildings near the dock were all knocked down, and some people were moved to other places in the city, and the kingdom provided them with new residences.

    With all the buildings being torn down, this area became empty, and what the soldiers had to do was to pave neat roads here and build pavements along the streets.

    And the original old wharf was all turned over, and the nearby river bank was rebuilt with stones, and several long embankments framed by wood were extended out.

    On the dock, some slaves are busy building corresponding buildings, including the center of the dock, warehouses, and dojos for temporary storage of goods.

    In the past, because it was inland, Thessaly did not have much commercial trade on the water. This pier actually did not have much significance, so the causeway and berths were very few.

    But Achilles was determined to vigorously develop maritime trade and began to build warships, so the small dock before could not meet the needs.

    In the days to come, there will be countless Thessaly merchant ships, from here%%, transporting Thessalian goods to all corners of the world, and bringing back wealth and goods from other places.

    At the same time, there will also be countless merchant ships from other kingdoms,Follow the Pinho River to Thessaly, and through this dock, goods will be dumped into the city of Larissa to promote the commercial development of Thessaly.

    When looking at the poverty and wealth of a kingdom or a city-state, first look at its docks, because in the Greek world, the size of the docks represented the development of the commercial trade of the king or city-state.

    Next to the long embankment that was built not long ago, two fishing boats were docked there. The crews of dozens of fishing boats were busy. A large number of water fish were unloaded from the boats and then transported to the city.

    Because there were some things in the past few days, everything was delayed. Starting today, the update will resume. As I said, everyone can rest assured that there will be no eunuchs and the book will be completed.

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