Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"For those who do evil, evil is good."

——Sophocles

Isocrates never dreamed that the person who brought the wealth back to Greece would be a corrupt criminal.

The money they brought back was only 5000 talents, but the ensuing war raged for decades.

The specific gravity of silver is 10.5, and a talent of silver weighs more than 20 kilograms. Counting impurities, it is almost larger than a two-liter beverage bottle.

During the Athenian Empire, the annual tribute collected by the Atticans from the Delian League was about a few hundred talents. In peacetime, the reserve gold stored in the Parthenon often reached more than 10 times this amount.

That's about how much the Greeks needed to fight a major war.

Compared with the hundreds of thousands of talents Alexander obtained from the Persian treasury, this was just a drop in the bucket, and the center of wealth was still in the East.

At that time, Alexander's financial officer Harpalus fled to Athens with 5000 talents of stolen money to seek asylum, but Alexander could not bear to deal with this old friend.When news of his death came not long after, this huge sum of money directly led to the outbreak of the Lamian War.

Although Pyrrhus only fought on land during the War of Independence, his expenditure far exceeded this figure, reaching more than [-] talents.

This is not because Thessaly, a poor place, has more money than the Delian League, but because he mobilized the power of the entire Thessaly to the greatest extent through the Grand Council, including food, horse feed, labor and other miscellaneous materials. , only a small part of them were silver coins, which were used to support the operations of the independent army and volunteers, as well as the lives of people who were evacuated in an emergency.

These are all paid for by the Grand Council.

Military supplies had to be paid for, and compensation for the scorched-earth policy had to be paid, all with treasury bonds, which were issued as collateral against the expected profits of state-run workshops.

That is to say, in rising industries such as papermaking and printing, no one's interests will be affected. That's why a piece of colorful paper has such high credibility.

——Pyrrhus is also planning to issue goose banknotes after the national debt is almost paid off. Not only will it have seigniorage, but once it is promoted among various states, it can drive the entire Greek economy.

In addition, there are remuneration and pensions for combatants, most of which come from the land of Lamia, and a small part is compensated with citizenship and national bonds.

In fact, after the victory of the war, there was still some loot, which was the land owned by the Macedonians in Thessaly. But firstly, most of these lands were illegally occupied. Secondly, this was also part of the tacit deal between Pyrrhus and the aristocracy.

As for whether anyone takes the opportunity to invade their own land, it is up to the local council to decide. Pyrrhus does not want to get involved in local troubles yet...

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After sending little Antigonus away, Pyrrhus fell into trouble again.

We're going to run out of money!

The accounts he is currently managing are divided into three parts:

His personal, including the entire Lamia Construction Group, but now the income is from bonds. If it were not for the workshops in Athens to subsidize some cash, Pyrrhus would not be able to pay wages to the workers;

For Lamia Academy, donations from all parties are spent, and basically you can only get in and out. Although there is still a balance in the account, raising so many children is cheaper than raising an army of thousands. Pyrrhus also has to Keep investing;

Lamia Municipal Government, the money for building public facilities now is all municipal bonds issued using Lamia's land rent as collateral, and the sales of these bonds are not very good. Many of them are directly discounted to pay for the construction projects of the Construction Engineering Group. .

Because rents in the city were generally not too high in this era, bonds could not be sold. Although Pyrrhus had already made up his mind to build a magical city, he still had to wait for a long time before it would work.

——But once it is done, it will mean that the land rent income of Lamia City for many years in the future will go directly into the pocket of the big creditor Pyrrhus!

But that is the future.

Now that I don’t have any money, I can’t do many of the things I want to do.

The first thing Pyrrhus thought of was to borrow it!

But with the Greek economy in such recession, who has any cash?

Without cash, Pyrrhus couldn't even open a bank even if he wanted to!

Thinking back to the beginning, from borrowing money from Macedonian captives to borrowing money from Thessalian nobles, Pyrrhus had experienced too many sweet experiences in borrowing money.

So much so that after the war was over, Pyrrhus still had more than 200 talents of cash in his hands.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury.

He used to be very happy when my mother gave him a talent of pocket money every month.

Now he had two hundred talents in hand, and without blinking an eye, he immediately gave half of it to Pythias as a shipbuilding fund.

As a result, this great navigator’s business operations were the disgrace of Massalia!

Everything you do is paid in cash, and everything you buy is paid in real money, more than 100 talents!It’s gone in half a month!

Now I am still licking my face and asking him for funds every day!

gan oh!

There is no way to continue like this. We must make some money, otherwise the house on Akrolamia Mountain will stop working...

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Pyrrhus found his wealthy friend.

As a result, Charles Demo's answer disappointed him - most of his wealth is in real estate, and he has invested in many bonds, and now he has less cash on hand than Pyrrhus.

However, Charles Demo was a qualified journalist. He provided Pyrrhus with two ways:

One is that the people of Rhodes are repairing the Colossus of the Sun God;

One is that Ptolemy was building a large library and a large academy in Alexandria.

Pyrrhus was enlightened.

Yes!I have been eyeing the one-third-acre land in Lamia, but I can actually go abroad to contract projects!

Then I immediately thought that not only Thessaly, but also Thessaly itself was in a state of waste and waiting for development. With King Pi’s reputation, what kind of project could not be completed?

There are four temples under construction right in front of our house. It’s very difficult. Where can we hire the people?Repairs are so procrastinated!

I will issue a letter in the name of the Municipal Council asking them to rectify it!

Just do it!

Pyrrhus, who was about to embark on the road of collusion between government and businessmen, remembered to ask this native Athenian before leaving home:

"What is the Mystery of Aesilius?"

"The Mystery of Aesilius is a secret ceremony held in Aesilius, north of Athens."

"..."

Are you just having fun?

"Well, it's just a festival during the spring plowing and autumn harvest season. There are parades, sacrifices, and bonfires... Legend has it that if you are lucky, you can get some mysterious revelations. Anyway, I don't know who has encountered it."

It sounds like a temple fair!

Democharis suddenly smiled slyly: "Dmitri invited you there, right?"

"how do you know?"

"You'll know when you get to Athens." Democharis was still mysterious, "Go ahead and have a look. It's a rare opportunity. You can bring your family and children with you."