Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Everyone thought about it and shook their heads. {щww{suimеng][lā}Athens may be the richest, but it cannot provide so many benefits to its citizens. As a city-state with a long history, too many vested interests, deep-rooted legal systems, and traditional ideas make it impossible. Do what the emerging city-state alliance Dionia did. Although, it has been considered to take care of the civilians in the Greek city-states.

Can Persia, a powerful country in the Mediterranean, do this? Plessinas asked again loudly.

Everyone shook their heads directly: Persia, it was a dictatorial country where nobles squeezed civilians and Persians squeezed other races.

Then Dionia is the Elysee paradise in the Greek city-state! I believe that after the Greeks know the rights enjoyed by our citizens, they will surely pour into Dionia more actively! Plesinas affirmed said.

Plessinas' guess should be correct. Before the war with Crotone, the number of free people in the port of Turii had been growing... and after the war, we kept our promise and even allocated reserve citizens If we get the land, there will be more immigrants coming to Dionia. We have to prepare to resettle them. Kunogolata took over the conversation and warned everyone in advance.

When everyone heard it, they were both happy and a little worried.

Now, please let me add one more right to Dionian citizenship, Davos continued. I noticed just now that people are hearing Kunogorata say 'more immigrants will come to Dave'. Olia', they all seemed a little worried. What were they worried about? I think it was more about the difficulty of maintaining a good city order by the Dionysian Alliance! Worrying about the influx of so many immigrants, and most of them were civilians, uneducated, When they all become Dionian citizens, the overall quality of our citizens will drop! It will drop dramatically!—

Lord Davos is right! Tuli's elder Mathisakus immediately got up and loudly rebuked: Now Tuli has such signs, especially in the port, those newcomers with various accents Immigrants are rude and uneducated, swearing, fighting, fighting, and I heard that the port patrol handles dozens of clashes a day. Is that so, Kunogolata?

Kunogolata shook his head and corrected himself seriously: It's not that serious. If the freedmen want to become Union citizens smoothly, they don't dare to violate the law. According to statistics, there are no more than five cases a day. It all worked out on its own.”

Mathisakus made fun of himself and muttered: There are three or four conflicts a day, and there are quite a few...

Polyxis looked at Mathisakus, his eyes twinkling.

Davers laughed: Because of these problems, my next proposal is to establish a school in Turii, and all Dionian citizens, after paying a small fee,

They can let their children go to school to learn literacy, numeracy, painting, music, sports competition...

School? ! Everyone pondered this new word. At this time, the Athens Academy had not yet been established, and the way of education for the Greeks mainly depended on the wealthy aristocrats and the rich to hire private teachers, buy learned slaves to educate their children, or famous scholars to open private schools and charge a fee It is unheard of for the Philippines to pay tuition fees and recruit disciples, while the city-state funded the construction of a school to collectively educate the children of citizens! But the elders were very interested, and most felt that this would indeed help solve the problem of the low cultural quality of Dionysian citizens, so they rose up to ask questions.

Davos was all too familiar with the school. Combining his past life experience with the actual situation in this life, he answered their questions with ease.

For example, Amintas asked: What if citizens also want to go to school?

Davers' answer is: A special class for adults is set up in the school, and its curriculum and education methods are different from those of young children, which is convenient and quick to eliminate illiteracy.

Take Kunogorata's question: How can children benefit and improve in school at different ages and with different levels of education?

Davos's answer was: Establish three levels of education: elementary, intermediate and advanced. Children who have never learned anything enter the elementary class and begin to learn to read, count, and read articles... For those who have literate and have a certain foundation in numeracy Children who enter the intermediate class will learn how to use words to form sentences, write articles, and be able to perform complex calculations... The advanced class is mainly to master the rhetoric of words, speeches, arguments, and calculate a lot of complicated data... This is to train lawyers, accountants, Prepare for the high-level talents of the alliance such as mid-level officials...

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The elders were satisfied with Davos' detailed answer, and even Kunogolata, who rarely praised others in public, couldn't help but marvel: Master Consul, I really think you have been favored by the gods, otherwise it would be impossible. So many great ideas with a full implementation plan!

Kunogolata's words were recognized by the elders.

Davers smiled and continued: I propose Ancitanos to be the head of this school.

Agree! The elders expressed their approval. The most knowledgeable person in the Senate is undoubtedly Ancitanos, who was once a disciple of Herodotus. Of course, some people believe that Davos, who was rumored to be illiterate, but who was inspired by Hades and has always been mysterious, Knowledge is hard to estimate.

Ah? I... Ancitanos, who was sitting in the back row, was awakened, shook his head and refused: I can't, I don't have time! The Athenian Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War has been completed and is said to be well received by the Athenians, but I haven't started writing my Great History of Greece yet?!

Under the repeated requests of the elders, even Davos made a promise to everyone: all the elders will try their best to contribute materials to his creation, and if he wants to interview someone, he will try his best to cooperate...

Ancitanos reluctantly accepted this, but he immediately began to complain: My lord, it's not that I didn't want to manage the school just now, you must know that the Dionysian Alliance is only the city of Turii, the citizens of Dionia. There are thousands of children! And the consul, you just said that you want them to learn Greek writing, arithmetic, painting, music, etc. How many teachers do you need?! The Dionysian League could not find such a thing. More teachers to teach the children!

After what he said, everyone immediately realized that this was indeed a problem. But Davos had obviously thought about it for a long time, and he said calmly: There are not enough teachers in the Dionysian Alliance, but other city-states have them. We urgently need pine leaves and herbs, and we can significantly reduce tariffs for it. In order to motivate the Cyrenaica merchants to transport it into the port of Turii in large quantities for sale. We lack teachers, so of course we can also formulate a favorable bill for them, so as to encourage outstanding scholars from foreign countries to actively come to Dionysian Ya...are you right?

The elders were thoughtful, and Ancitanos asked anxiously, What kind of bill?

My proposal is... all Gentiles who come to Dionysian to engage in the teaching profession, even slaves, will immediately obtain Dionysian citizenship! But the premise is that they must first pass the assessment of our special institution of the Senate to determine their Possess the ability to be a teacher...well...this assessment can be led by Ancitanos. But they have citizenship and become teachers of the Union School, they must devote their lives to teaching children knowledge, if they change careers in the middle , then citizenship will be immediately revoked and deported! In addition, union citizenship applies only to teachers themselves, and their children may not inherit unless they are also engaged in the profession of teachers...

Everyone was moved by Davers' proposal.

Ancitanos, who didn't care about being the school administrator at first, said with excitement at the moment: Since Plessinas and Lord Kunogorata thought that the Greeks envy the citizens of Dionia, they want to To become a citizen of Dionia, then I think the lack of teachers in Dionia will change soon!  … I remember there was a coalition bill for doctors, and now for teachers Their proposal. Sirs, doctors and teachers are two sacred professions besides the priests of the gods, one to heal people's bodies and the other to improve people's minds. I thank the consul for your vision! I hope to get your support too! The Dionysian Senate has fully demonstrated respect for knowledge! It will make our alliance not only prosperous in trade, strong in military, but also brilliant in culture! The Dionysian Union will become a great City-State Alliance!!

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The meeting went on until dusk, and two others expressed that they had a proposal to say, and the elders had to let the guards light candles and continue.

The first speaker to get up was Scomblas, who said apologetically: I'm sorry for delaying everyone's time to go home for dinner. I just consulted Lord Davers, Capps, and Hero in detail just now. Nimus and the others, I learned that there is a large swamp in the north of the city of Crimea. Especially in the spring, the rain floods, and the swamp expands outwards, affecting road traffic, and encroaching on farmland...I was thinking about us Can we invest a lot of labor to fill up the swamp and build a dam for the Rakoeli River, which not only ensures the security of the territory, prevents the occurrence of diseases, but also adds a large fertile land! …”

Your old man has just been elected as the chief executive of Crimea, and before he takes office, you will start to implement your management of Crimea! Protesilaus joked with a smile.

What? Do you have an opinion?! Scamblas glared at Amendolara, the junior he had grown up with.