Chapter 747
"I'll be fine by then. I'm almost fine now. If you don't believe me, look!" Adoris stood up and took a few steps to prove that he was telling the truth.
Cloto Catax held back his laughter and said, "Brother, it's useless to tell me. The key is to get Father and Mother to agree."
Adoris was a little depressed. He knew that his poor performance in the last battle had worried the Devers and Cristoya, so he had no choice but to ask his brother for help. "Clotho, Father and Mother love you the most. You have to help me. Ask them to let me join this expedition …"
Although Cloto Catax was four years younger than Adoris and had just reached adulthood, he had been taught by the Devers from time to time for the past two years. His political sense was much better than Adoris's. He knew very well that unless Adoris was seriously injured, it was impossible for his father not to bring him to the expedition. Otherwise, it would give some people the wrong impression that Adoris was using his father's influence to deliberately avoid participating in such an important war. This would greatly affect Adoris's future development.
But Cloto Catax pretended to be in a difficult position and said, "Brother, you know Father's temper …"
"Clotho, you have to help me! As long as you can convince Father to let me follow the army to Latin, I will do my best to help you in the future! "Adoris pleaded.
"Then … Alright, I'll try." Seeing Adoris, who usually liked to lecture him as his big brother, begging him for help, Cloto Catax felt very comfortable.
… …
In the inner city of Turín, in the mansion that Sostatus had inherited from his father, Cunogorata, there were more than 20 people gathered in the hall. They were all well-known merchants in the Turín region.
At the moment, everyone was excited. Their eyes were eagerly looking at Sostatus, who was sitting in the middle.
Someone shouted impatiently, "Sostatus, almost everyone is here. What are you waiting for? Hurry up and tell us, what is it that you want to discuss with us?! "
"Yes, hurry up and tell us! Is His Majesty going to reward us for donating food for free?! "another person shouted.
The merchants all agreed.
Sostatus heard this and looked at Dios on his left.
Dios was one of the largest merchants in the Kingdom of Diónia. He owned three iron workshops in Lucania Municipality, one copper workshop in Turín, and two weapon workshops in Turín and Amendola. He also had weapon shops and ironware shops in cities throughout the kingdom. Most of the high-quality weapons and armors he produced were monopolized by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Citizen Army. He was also a specialized supplier of surgical instruments to various hospitals in the kingdom, and the daily ironware he produced was widely popular among the people. In addition, his family also produced ironware for large-scale public works. Because of this, he was received and praised by the King of Devers many times. He was also close to the officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Construction. He also frequently donated money to the public buildings in the kingdom.
Not only did he have a high prestige among the merchants of the kingdom, but he was also respected by the people. Therefore, he was elected as the chairman of the local council in Turín many times. But in fact, Dios was not very interested in politics. He was more obsessed with his own business. He was passionate about how to raise the temperature of the furnace, improve the ironware process, improve the quality of ironware, design sharper and more practical weapons, and build better armors. He knew that in the Kingdom of Diónia, which valued military and technology, as long as he maintained advanced technology, he would always be valued by the king and ministers. For this reason, not only did he hire good blacksmiths and blacksmiths with high salaries, but he also donated to the Diónia Academy many times. He cooperated with scholars, provided experimental funds, and shared technical patents.
Therefore, under Sostatus's questioning gaze, Dios shook his head and gestured for him to continue.
Sostatus had no choice but to turn to look at Dicboris on his right.
Speaking of which, Dicboris was the first merchant to come to Diónia to do business. He was also the first merchant to decide to stay and become a citizen. Dicboris was enthusiastic and sociable. Many foreign merchants came to Turín under his persuasion and eventually became citizens of Diónia. Of course, Dios was among them.
But in fact, Dicboris was not a very powerful merchant at first. He was an ordinary merchant who made and sold pottery.
Pottery was a daily necessity widely used by the people of the Mediterranean, and it was the most common handicraft in the Greek city-states. This was because most Greek city-states did not have fertile land and could not produce abundant food. Wine and olive oil became their specialties, and they sold these goods in exchange for food. Containers to hold these two liquid commodities inevitably became another focus of the city-state's development. Therefore, many Greek city-states had merchants who made pottery, but the most famous pottery was produced in Athens. Using high-quality clay from Attica, the people of Athens, after a long period of exploration, created black pottery with red decorative paintings. Not only was it of high quality, but the patterns on the bottles were exquisite and creative, making it the leader of the industry.
The second was the black pottery made by Corinth, and they also pioneered the creation of exquisite bottle paintings on pottery. At the same time, the entire pottery industry was highly organized. The pottery they produced almost accounted for most of the pottery sales in the Mediterranean. It was not until a hundred years later that the pottery industry of Athens overtook them.
Born in Crete, Dicboris did not have any technical advantages in pottery, but with his vision and decisiveness, when the Diónia Union was just established and Turín was in dire need of repair, he moved all his belongings to the artisanal area of Amendola and began to sell the cheap pottery he produced to the ordinary people of Diónia who were rebuilding their homes. Gradually, he gained some fame.
After that, with the establishment of the kingdom, the expansion of the territory, the increase of the population, and the expansion of the market, the sales of his pottery also increased explosively. At the same time, the low-interest loans from Cristoia's bank also gave him the confidence to expand and upgrade his pottery workshop. Not only did he establish pottery workshops in several places in the kingdom with high-quality clay, but he also poached excellent potters from Greece with high salaries. At that time, the turbulent situation and frequent wars in Greece also provided a good opportunity for him to poach. Since then, the pottery he sold began to dabble in high-end products.
More importantly, Dicboris improved his management and organizational model of the pottery industry, as well as the entire process flow. Of course, this was not his invention.
First, let's talk about the management and organizational model of the handicraft industry. Before the establishment of Diónia, each city-state in Greece was a city, and most of the city-state merchants' industries were concentrated in one city. Because of the large number of small people and limited resources, even if a merchant had financial resources, his industry could not be very large. Of course, it was easier to manage. Even in the economically prosperous Athens, there were no large factories.
But in Diónia, such a vast and populous kingdom in the Greek world, there were also a large number of free people who were willing to settle down there, providing fertile soil for the establishment of large factories. The chain management model of Cristoia's bank and Cristoia's restaurant, which were spread throughout the cities of the kingdom, gave the merchants of the kingdom a great inspiration, so that they could break the conservative business thinking that their industry was fixed in one city in the past. Thus, they dared to carry out the industrial layout in a vast area, and through the pyramid-style hierarchical responsibility system, they carried out effective management.
Let's talk about the fine division of labor in the process flow. The pottery industry was already a highly organized industry in the Greek handicraft industry, but it still could not be separated from the tradition of a family workshop. From digging clay, transporting clay, molding, lighting the fire, burning the pottery, painting on the screen, engraving … A potter had to participate in most of the processes, which undoubtedly made the production of pottery inefficient. In order to make Diónia's weapons and armor meet the needs of the army as soon as possible, Devers taught Dios and other kingdom arms merchants the method of fine division of labor in the production process, which greatly increased the production of weapons. This method was quickly adopted by the merchants of other kingdoms.
Of course, Diónia also carried out a fine division of labor in his pottery workshop. Every process was handled by a specialized person, which greatly improved the quality and production of pottery, and correspondingly lowered the price. This made Diónia's pottery more popular among the people of the kingdom, occupying more than half of the domestic pottery sales. The pottery of other cities, except for a small number of high-end pottery from Athens, could not compete with Diónia at all in the kingdom. He had become a veritable Diónia pottery merchant.
Of course, Diónia, like other Turkish merchants, was busy completing the upgrading of the industry and occupying the ever-expanding kingdom's market. His external sales relied more on marketing agents led by Sostatus. This was also one of the reasons why Diónia, who was rich and had a wide network of friends, was willing to let Sostatus be the president of the Turkish Chamber of Commerce. Of course, the more important reason was that Sostatus's father, Kunoghorata, was a trusted minister of the King of Devers. Even if he had passed away, Sostatus could still rely on his father's influence to enter the palace and the Ministry of Commerce from time to time, preemptively obtaining some business information and fighting for some preferential treatment for the Chamber of Commerce, such as this time.
So, Diónia smiled and said, "Sostatus, you don't have to be so polite. You're the president, and this good thing was achieved through the hard work of everyone. Of course, you should be the one to announce it! "
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