Summoning Total War

Chapter 21: Grow stronger! (superior)

(Second update. Writing is a bit slow today. The third update may not be until early morning.)

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October 13th.

Everything in the territory is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the construction of three small towns has begun to take shape. The refugees who ran back from the southern plains have been disrupted by Murphy and rearranged into the three towns. The total population of refugees has been counted, and there are 13,246 people in total. The refugees who are family units are resettled one by one, while the refugees who are not families are left in the city of Athens and are monitored by Greek heavy infantry.

This is the safest way Murphy came up with.

Refugees with families have bonds and are often easier to manage.

Those refugees who had no relatives as individuals were often more troublesome. In order to prevent them from disrupting the security in the territory, Murphy had to centrally manage them for a period of time. After making sure that they have settled down, consider dividing them up and assigning them. In order to strengthen the quality of these refugees, Murphy also selected the strong ones among them and gave them to instructors for a month of military training.

The military is the best place to learn to obey orders.

The three newly established towns did not have fortifications, but they all built spacious roads.

Murphy has already begun arranging for General Marcus Kane to build a fortress at the exit of the territory. At present, the threats within the territory have been basically eliminated. Now he only needs to consider external defense. The geographical environment of the Athens territory is quite special. As long as a fortress can be built to guard the entrance, the interior will be relatively safe. If there was really an enemy attack, with the fortress as a defensive fortification, there would be enough time to gather the population of the three towns into the city of Athens to rely on the city walls for defense.

Behind the city of Athens is the Nidoria River. Although the river is slow, it is also a natural line of defense.

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Beautification projects in Athens are continuing.

Greeks are obviously more enthusiastic about artistic things. Since Murphy announced that he will beautify the urban environment, the enthusiasm of citizens has suddenly increased.

Many women and children consciously take advantage of their free time to go to the wild to collect beautiful flowers and trees and then transplant them into planned flower gardens in the city. In such an environment of relative equality, where hard work pays off and there is little oppression, Athenian citizens maintain a high level of enthusiasm for beautifying their living environment. Because not many people want to live in a dirty and messy environment.

In a small country with few people, it is easiest to grasp the people's hearts.

When a country is composed of countless families, the concept of the country will be blurred because the boundaries are too far and there are injustices.

But if the country is only composed of thousands of families, then the concept of country is very clear. Because the country is by your side, everything can be seen and touched. The civic system of Greek city-states is such a system. Citizens rely on the city and live together. Everything about the city is closely related to their own lives and interests.

Naturally, the cohesion of the city will be enhanced accordingly.

The mobilization power under the city-state system is quite terrifying, compared to other eras.

A city may have a population of 100,000 people, including many small and medium-sized towns built on the city. But the citizen class in such a city is often only 20,000 to 30,000. Among the 20,000 to 30,000 citizens, women, children and the elderly can account for half, and the rest are men with a population of less than 20,000. Under the city-state system, it is very easy for a city with a total population of 20,000 to 30,000 citizens to mobilize an army of 10,000 to 20,000 at one time.

In other words, in addition to the army recruited from the lower classes, almost 80% of adult male citizens wear armor and go into battle!

Just like Athens now.

Although the total number of goblins brought with them is close to 60,000, if the real battle is to be fought, it will all depend on the citizen class composed of Greeks. If Murphy issues a mobilization order for all-out war, then all male citizens in Athens who are over 14 years old and not over 50 years old will automatically take up arms and become warriors!

This is the honor and cohesion of citizens!

There is no doubt that in the city-state system, citizens are the cornerstone of everything.

So far, Murphy has only used a total war mobilization order once, and that was in the battle of Old Town, when he faced a number of jackals twice as many as his own. Murphy conscripted all adult males in the territory to take up arms and fight. At that time, even some women chose to stay.

Of course, this mobilization force only affects citizens.

As the territory develops, Athens will eventually need to cultivate a group of professional troops.

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At noon.

Murphy had just had lunch and was going to the temple.

The powerful voice of the herald came from outside the door.

"Your Majesty the Governor, Lord Plifa is here." The herald cautiously poked his head inside and said.

For some reason, this seemingly mighty warrior was actually afraid of bells. Not only him, but also many guards in the territory were a little afraid of that little girl with a tender pussy, which made Murphy feel incredible.

"Huh?" Murphy heard this and said in a deep voice: "Let him come in."

This aboriginal businessman is now the right-hand man who helps Murphy manage the territory. Although he is slightly lacking in talent, his character is very stable. It is unlikely that he will innovate and develop, but there should be no problem in maintaining the current situation. Now, he and Murphy's newly promoted tax officer are responsible for the port's taxation and so on. After observing for a period of time, Murphy found that Plifa was very honest in tax matters and lived up to his important responsibility.

"Mr. Governor. Take a look at this." As soon as he came in, Plife handed a plate-like thing to Murphy with excitement on his face.

what?

Murphy took it doubtfully and looked at it carefully.

This is a plate.

After looking at it for a long time, he found that there was nothing special about the plate in his hand. Except for the rough workmanship, it was almost the same as the plate used in the countryside in his previous life.

etc!

A plate from a previous life!

Murphy's hand shook and he almost dropped the plate in his hand. He picked up the white plate and knocked it, making a crisp sound.

He was startled, and two words popped into his mind.

--porcelain!

That's right!

It’s porcelain!

It may be necessary to explain a little bit about the development history of ceramic craftsmanship here.

In the Neolithic Age, humans began to use pottery on a large scale. Pottery is an appliance made of clay fired at low temperature. Before BC, that is, before the Qin and Han Dynasties in the Middle Kingdom and the Roman Empire in the West, the main utensils of mankind were pottery. However, the pottery style was rough and the workmanship was not exquisite enough, so it was easily damaged, so the bronzes of that era were also relatively heavy.

In the West, the Greek city-states and the ancient Roman period had relatively large-scale pottery craftsmanship, and glazed pottery was already available at that time. Moreover, workshops for large-scale pottery production have appeared. The Romans inherited the pottery making tradition of Greek culture. They mainly fired a kind of terracotta pottery.

In the same era, China started from the middle to late Han Dynasty.

Perhaps because China is not rich in minerals, China, which is also dominated by pottery, suddenly experienced a sublimation!

With the sublimation of this pottery craft.

Thus, porcelain was born.

The earliest porcelain that appeared can no longer be traced, and the appearance of porcelain in that era was mostly accidental. It was the middle and late Han Dynasty when Chinese ceramic craftsmanship really began to appear and gradually grow. It was precisely because of the sublimation of ceramic craftsmanship that in the middle and late Han Dynasty, bronze utensils were completely replaced by ceramics, thus withdrawing from the stage of history. Starting from the middle of the Han Dynasty, primitive porcelain craftsmanship began to appear on a large scale.

The difference between pottery and porcelain is not that big.

The main difference is still in the clay and temperature, or to put it more simply, pottery is porcelain that has not been fired through.

Murphy looked at the green and white plate in his hand carefully, tapping it with his hand from time to time.

Murphy didn't know much about ceramic craftsmanship.

However, as a product of the era of information explosion, Murphy knows a little bit about the difference between pottery and porcelain. From a purely visual perspective, porcelain is much more beautiful than pottery.

The plate in his hand now looks much better, and feels more delicate to the touch.

This should be a relatively primitive porcelain.

Pottery is still used on a large scale in the towns of Athens, and there is currently a small pottery workshop in the territory.

It is Plifa who manages it.

"Who made this?" Murphy put down the plate and looked at Pulipe in front of him and asked.

The key to firing porcelain is qualified clay and sufficient high temperature. Since someone can fire original porcelain, does it mean that a citizen in the territory has discovered suitable clay and mastered the know-how to increase the temperature?

If that’s the case, that would be awesome!

"The pottery workshop accidentally burned this with soil brought back from the other side of the Nidoria River, near the barren rocky plateau." Plife said excitedly. As a slave trader, he had a very good business sense. When he discovered these unexpected batches After the birth of primitive porcelain, he immediately realized the business opportunities in it. Compared with the crudely made pottery, these unexpected primitive porcelains are obviously superior.

"Get the soil there and re-fire it, and ask them to pay attention to the fire to increase the temperature!" Realizing that this might be an opportunity for the city of Athens to develop from pottery to porcelain, Murphy made a quick decision: "As long as they can successfully develop how to fire porcelain. "

"I'm heavily rewarded!"

As a modern person, Murphy has never been very accustomed to using pottery.

Now that primitive porcelain has appeared in the territory, he can't live without vigorously developing it. And if porcelain craftsmanship can really develop, then the territory's foreign trade will undoubtedly have another important commodity in the future!

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