Chapter 199 Future Planning of the Trade Port

Port of Piraeus.

Roy returned here on a Corinthian warship and saw hundreds of cargo ships of various sizes moored in the port, queuing up at the dock waiting for transactions.

After the warship anchored at the dock, Roy came to the shore and saw dozens of businessmen who looked like ship owners surrounding a man protected by Athenian soldiers not far from the port.

Roy curiously walked towards the crowd and saw that the person surrounded by dozens of businessmen and a group of Athenian soldiers turned out to be Chione, who looked heroic in leather armor and a bronze sword on his waist.

As if aware of Roy's gaze, Chione in the crowd turned to look at Roy. Then, as if seeing a savior, she pushed away the crowd and ran to Roy and said.

"My dear, you are finally back. I'll leave it to you to deal with these businessmen!"

"I don't even know what's going on!"

Roy said with a smile.

"I see that there was no trouble when you negotiated with them. Let me leave the management of the port to you! Once you have a suitable person to replace you, you can stop taking care of this place."

Now the city of Athens is facing a serious food problem, so negotiating with the merchants at the port, especially the grain merchants, is one of the most important things in the city of Athens at the moment. Only then did Procne let Chione come to the port to manage trade.

After listening to Roy's words, Chione said with a helpless expression.

"When those merchants came to Athens, they didn't all come to buy our salt. Some of them wanted to buy pottery, olive oil, wine, and some even wanted to buy bronze weapons. In order to tell them what they can and cannot buy, I simply I’m almost bored to death with them.”

"Chione, as long as there are products currently available in the city of Athens, you can tell them that they can buy them all, so that you can save a lot of trouble."

"I can buy them all——"

Chione looked at Roy with wide eyes in surprise and said.

"Some merchants want to use grain to buy our war spears, should we sell to them too?"

"Sell! As long as they accept the price of one thousand kilograms of grain in exchange for a bronze war spear, our war spear can be sold to them."

Roy taught the Taurus how to make charcoal, and asked them to use charcoal as fuel to smelt iron ore, and soon a steady stream of iron tools would be produced.

In the next few months, Athenian soldiers will replace bronze weapons with iron weapons, so there is no need to retain thousands of bronze war spears.

Seeing the serious expression on Roy's face, Chione nodded and said.

"Since you said it can be sold, then I will sell the bronze war spears as commodities. We have thousands of bronze war spears. Even if we sell some, it will not affect the security of the city of Athens. Those grain merchants transport the grain to us The city of Athens can also purchase the port directly. Some merchants use our port as a trading place, but they can't find a suitable buyer for a while, so they want the city of Athens to purchase goods that are not grains. Do you think we should purchase them? ?”

"As long as it is a commodity of real value, even if it is not food, we can purchase it and sell it to other merchants as our commodities."

Roy said looking at the empty land around the port.

"Chione, I think some warehouses should be built with cement here in the port to store goods for buyers and sellers. We should even build some houses as hotels for merchants to rest here overnight. Our purpose is not to buy food to solve the problem of Athens. food problem, but to make the port of Athens a trade hub, so we must not only fully meet the requirements of merchants, but also proactively provide services to merchants, so that we can defeat the city of Knossos in the competition. Let the merchants abandon the city of Knossos and use the city of Athens as a fixed trading location. Moreover, we can earn very considerable service fees by providing services to the merchants and provide a large number of jobs for the Athenians.”

Seeing that Chione seemed to understand but not understand, Roy continued.

"For the time being, build a hotel with two hundred rooms in the port! This hotel can provide accommodation and food to guests, and can also arrange for some beautiful young girls to perform singing and dancing to attract guests. If ordinary girls are not willing to do this If there is no publicity job, then we will buy some young and beautiful slave girls.”

"I see!"

Chione turned back to the merchants and spoke loudly.

"Everyone, let me tell you good news. From now on, all goods from our city of Athens can be sold to you. As long as you accept the price, bronze war spears can also be sold to you. The various goods you have brought , as long as it is really valuable and you can’t find a suitable buyer, you can sell it directly to us in the city of Athens.”

After hearing Chione's words, the merchants immediately cheered.

"Long live Princess Chione!"

"My goods can finally be sold."

“Coming here was indeed the right choice.”

Royal Palace of Athens.

Roy, who returned to the palace, entered the hall and saw Procne kneeling behind a wooden table in the center of the hall, writing something on the paper with a brush.

Philomela lay next to Procne like a lazy pig, seemingly asleep.

"Procne!"

Hearing Roy's voice, Procne raised his head in surprise and said.

"Brother Roy——"

Philomela, who looked like she had fallen asleep, immediately got up from the ground, opened her sleepy eyes and rushed towards Roy.

"Brother Roy, I miss you so much."

Roy hugged Philomela who fell into his arms and brought her to Procne.

Seeing Procne recording the daily amount of grain in Athens, Roy suggested to her.

"Procne, you should find some smart maids to teach them how to write, and then let them share your work."

"Such an important job, can it really be handed over to the maids?"

"You can check the accounts every day after the maids have done the records, and you can also let two or three maids do the same work, and then compare the data they recorded."

"Brother Roy, you are so smart."

Procne said with wide eyes.

"Why didn't I think that as long as several maids record the data, you can compare the data they recorded to find problems. If I had known that I could do this, I should have taught them to write earlier."

Roy hugged Philomela and sat down next to Procne and said.

"In fact, I asked you to teach the maids to write mainly to prepare for our marriage."

Philomela in Roy's arms said puzzledly.

"Brother Roy, does our marriage to you have anything to do with the maid learning to write?"

"It has a lot to do with it."

Roy said with a smile.

"It is said that in the kingdoms around the Eastern Mediterranean that have writing, the king will ask the servants or maids to record every time he has sex with a woman. If the date of a woman's birth does not match the date of sex, the king will kill the unfaithful woman and the child of unknown origin. After I marry you, of course I will follow the practice of these kings."

Philomela said with a displeased expression and pouted her cherry lips.

"Why do the kings of the Eastern Mediterranean have to record the date of sex? Do they just not believe in the loyalty of women?"

"Probably because they have a lot of women!"

Roy explained.

"Those kings can rule hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, so they naturally have a lot of women. The kings here have at most a dozen women, while the kings of the big countries in the Eastern Mediterranean can have dozens or even hundreds of women."

Don't think that the three palaces, six courtyards, seventy-two concubines and three thousand beauties are unique to the East. The rulers of the West are the same.

So the king of the great country that I wrote about had dozens or even hundreds of women, and the dates of each sexual intercourse were recorded. These are all real situations and not something I made up.