I was a priest in the city-state era

Before negotiating with Radamandis, of course Roy had to get to know this cheap uncle.

So the next day, Roy went to the Port of Piraeus and asked the maritime merchants who knew about the situation about Radamandis.

Port of Piraeus.

Hundreds of craftsmen are working hard here to build the hotel and restaurant designed by Roy.

When Roy came to the port, he saw that the walls of hundreds of rooms in the hotel had been built, and only the ceiling work was left.

In order to provide working meals and hot water for hundreds of craftsmen, Chione arranged a dozen chefs here to prepare three meals and boil hot water here.

Although the restaurant was not open yet, shipowners and sailors at the port saw more than a dozen chefs preparing food and boiling hot water. They would come to buy it, but were rejected by the chefs.

Because the job of these chefs is to provide food and hot water only to the craftsmen.

Seeing this situation, Roy came to the chefs and ordered.

"You make more food and boil more hot water and sell it to the shipowners and sailors at the port. If you don't have enough manpower, apply to Chione for more manpower."

Loy set a cheap and affordable price for food and hot water, and began searching the harbor for shipowners who knew Radamandis.

Even if the ship owner whom Roy spoke to didn't know about Rhadamandis' situation, Roy would talk to him enthusiastically and ask what kind of services the city of Athens could provide to make the ship owners more satisfied.

As for the opinions of the sailors——

It was not up to the sailors to decide whether merchant ships should come to the port of Athens for trade.

After Roy's patient search, he finally found a Phoenician shipowner who knew Radamandis, and learned about Radamandis's situation from the other party's mouth.

Rhadamandis recently fought a close war with Minos [Deucalion]. The result of this war was that both sides were victorious and undefeated. It can be seen that Rhadamandis has the ability not to lose to Minos [Deucalion]. Carlion]'s strength.

What worried Roy was that Rhadamandis loved his sister Pandora deeply and opposed the marriage between Pandora and Deucalion from the beginning.

If the engagement between Pandora and Deucalion had not been made by Rhadamandis's father, Rhadamandis would have definitely canceled the engagement between Pandora and Deucalion as his brother.

Although he hasn't met Radamandis yet, Roy's intuition is that Radamandis is probably an abnormal brother.

Because Minos [Deucalion] became his sister's fiancé, a normal brother would have no reason to object.

"Honey--"

As soon as the conversation between Roy and the Phoenician captain ended, Chione ran up to Roy and said.

"A slave merchant has brought hundreds of slaves. Do you think we should buy them?"

Now the city of Athens is facing a serious food shortage. Every extra person has to buy more food.

Roy thought for a moment and said.

"You take me to see the slave merchant, and I will see if his slaves are worth buying. If the slaves he brings are of high quality, it won't matter if there are a few more people eating food in the city of Athens."

Roy followed Chione to the dock where the slave merchant was, and saw that the slave merchant had let his slaves come to the shore from the ship.

This slave trader is a Phoenician about thirty years old. Most of his slaves are men, and there are less than twenty slave women.

The skin color of these slaves ranges from white, yellow, brown, and black, with yellow and brown slaves being the most common.

Seeing Roy looking at his slave seriously, the slave merchant came to Roy and smiled flatteringly.

"Great King of Athens, let me introduce to you the origin of these slaves. These slave men are basically unlucky ghosts who were captured in the war. Their ability to survive on the cruel battlefield is a manifestation of their ability. You can buy these slave men to fight for you, or you can use them as livestock slaves. These slave women are also my carefully selected products. Not only are some of them unmarried girls, but all of them are not pregnant if you want to be careful. Check, I can make them take off their clothes."

Roy looked at the eighteen slave women and confirmed that they were indeed not sick or pregnant. Roy looked at Chione and said.

"Chione, I want to buy all these slave women. The beautiful ones can perform songs and dances to attract guests in our Royal Hotel in Athens, and the less beautiful ones can be responsible for cleaning the hotel rooms."

"The Royal Hotel in Athens?"

Seeing Chione's confused expression, Roy explained with a smile.

"After the hotel and restaurant we build in the port is completed, I want to name it Royal Hotel Athens. If Royal Hotel Athens can be a big success, this will be the Royal Hotel Athens No. 1 in the future, and we will build Royal Hotel Athens elsewhere. Hotel No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 10,000 hotels may be the only ones in the future that can provide us with the wealth of the Athenian royal family.”

Chione nodded suddenly and said.

"The name of the Royal Hotel in Athens is indeed very good! Since my dear has already thought of a job for these slave women, we will buy these slave women."

After hearing Roy and Chione talking about buying their own slave women, the slave merchant said happily.

"Great King of Athens, because these slave women are high-quality slaves, their prices are not cheap at all. Since you want to buy them all, let's make the deal at a price of one hundred catties of salt for each slave woman! "

Although Roy's salt is made from seawater, he doesn't want to be a sucker.

"You want me to exchange one hundred kilograms of salt for the price of a slave woman and buy all your slave women?"

Roy looked at the slave trader with an unhappy expression and said.

"Although I know that you merchants like to pursue profits, you should also know that the king should not be fooled as a fool. Since you told me such a high price, the price of these slave women will be decided by me now. The price of a beautiful slave woman is 80 kilograms of salt. The price of an ugly slave woman is 50 kilograms of salt."

Hearing the price proposed by Roy, the slave trader laughed even happier.

He just opened his mouth to bargain with Roy.

Although Roy now unilaterally decides the price of slave women, the price Roy gave is much higher than the bottom line in the slave trader's heart.

"Great King of Athens! Now all these slave women belong to you. Do you want to buy all these slave men?"

"Leave the white and yellow ones, and don't take the rest."

Roy said expressionlessly.

"I'll charge these slave men 50 kilograms of salt."

Although Roy's tone was firm, the slave trader still said unwillingly.

"If I take the remaining slave men back, it will not only waste food, but also waste time to deal with them. If you are willing to buy the remaining slave men, I will only charge you half the price."

"I don't want it even if you give it to me for free."

Roy said coldly.

"If you don't want to repeat the same mistake, don't bring anything other than white and yellow in the future, otherwise you will still waste food and time."