Vol 5 Chapter 29: Post-war Senate Conference (2)

Hilos expressed his gratitude for the compliment of Cornelus. ? WwW.suimeng.lā
Davers said: "I will ask Amendola to recommend a suitable patrol captain."
Cornelus immediately cheered up: "The ruling official, please say."
"Epitunis, he will be a good patrol captain." Davers pointed at the back row, affirmatively said.
"Ah?!" Epiphanes, who was whispering to Ziper, didn't expect to be named, and he said in amazement: "Why me?!"
"Well, let you put more energy into the administrative affairs of the Alliance and set an example for your soldiers, instead of going to the young people who are suffering from Dionia all day!" Daves said half-jokingly and half-heartedly. .
Everyone laughed. Epiphanes likes beautiful teenagers, everyone knows, in fact, many veterans also have this hobby, but Epiphanis is more obvious. The Greeks like teenagers and young people are not only a fashion but also a tradition. Although Daves personally feels uncomfortable, he still shows respect and does not want to force change. In addition to this, Epicis appreciates him most: on the battlefield, he can think calmly and respond flexibly to complex situations. The task assigned to him, he can always finish, and exceeded expectations.
Under the pressure of Davers and the repeated requests of Cornelus, Epiphanis finally had to agree.
Epiphanes’s helpless expression once again led Amintas to laugh at them.
At this time, the meeting was over, and Cornelus announced that he would suspend the meeting for half an hour. The slaves who had already waited outside the Senate immediately came in and gave their owners water to fill their stomachs.
Even if he rested for half an hour, Davers would not have spare time. He chewed the bread and discussed with Scamblas and Hilos what problems they needed to solve after they took office and how the two cities cooperated. And strengthen contacts to cope with the situation that may occur at any time in the south.
Then, Knogorata found him and discussed how to arrange the five new veterans of the Senate. As a veteran of the Senate, naturally the family should be placed in Turiyi to facilitate the performance of duties. Even if he is the chief executive of other cities, he will not move away from the residence of Turui. After all, the term of the city chief is only two years. The veteran is a lifetime.
There are still a lot of unused public land in the city of Turui, which is managed by the Senate and will not be easily granted. It is certainly not free to make a small piece for the new elders to build a house. The "Dyonia Land Law" clearly stipulates that even if Daves buys land, it must pay the market price. Due to the influx of people over the past year, the price of residential land in Turui has risen again and again, and after Deonia defeated Crotone, the rise should rise sharply.
Kunogolata hopes that the land given to the new veteran by the Senate will still be sold at the original price in order to show the sincerity of the Dionysian Senate and appease these newcomers.
Davers agreed, and he also considered: In case of five new members of the new Crimea, they could not get the money, but they can be paid by the state treasury and later repaid.
The half-hour break ended and the Senate meeting continued.
Daves stood up and said his first proposal: "This time with the war in Crotone, although Dionia won, but exposed some problems, the most important and most urgent need to solve is the navy. !"
The Daves voice just fell, immediately aroused the strong resonance of the veterans.
"The governor is right! The biggest loss that Crotones have caused us in this war is that their fleets have been looting and looting, burning many villages in Turui and killing us a lot." People, the public officials in Turui are still suffering from resettling the people and rebuilding their homes!
Kunogolata complained.
"If we also have a navy in Dionia, and we are as strong as our army, then Crotone should have surrendered in the victory of the battle, and there is no need to surround the Crimea!" Aminta Si stressed.

The trade of the Union of Dionya is growing and the territory of Dionia is expanding rapidly. We need a strong fleet to protect our maritime trade and prevent our long coastline from being attacked by enemy fleets. Our port was blocked by enemy ships!
Mariji loudly reminded.
"That's right! We need a strong navy to protect the security of the Dionysian Union!" The crowd agreed.
"Since we all reached a consensus, then my proposal is -" Daphus looked at everyone and said: "In addition to the accelerated completion of the three three-layer paddles under construction, we will build seven more three floors this year. Paddle warship, I asked En Anilus, the shipyard in Turui did not have enough docks to complete such a large order, and Crimea also has a larger shipyard with a three-layer slurry ship. The ability to complete a small number of orders for them to complete. In the future, to build ten three-layer paddles every year, until three years after the three-layer paddles, and we also need to be equipped with medium-sized warships Ships and ten small warships (ships), so that they have a more powerful Dane Navy with a warship."
Everyone thinks that this plan is feasible. Only Melsis expressed dissent: "No! No! This way, the Alliance will spend more than 100 Tarant every year. This is too much!"
"Although it is a little more, I think our treasury can be fully affordable. Last year, the land tax, land tax and trade tax were collected, and the treasury earned Dota Lente, and this year Marji gave me the lowest estimate. , at least double the treasury income." Davers said here, many veterans were taken aback, unconsciously, Dionya’s national treasury income is about to be equal to Tarantum and Crotone. It’s more than enough to come up with a small amount of money to build the fleet.
"You, Master Melsis, in fact, the construction of ten three-layer slurry warships per year can't cost more than one hundred Tarant." Marigi stood up and reminded everyone: "The cost of building a warship is mainly two parts. One is Wood, the second is the manufacturing cost. In the mountains of our Union territory, especially in the mountains of Lucania, there are countless, high-quality cedars that are most suitable for the construction of three-layer battleships. I heard that Athens used to There is an agreement in Turui, and each year Turi will provide Athens with a certain amount of shipbuilding timber."
"There is indeed such an agreement that every year Turui will provide at least one thousand marine timber to Athens, and if necessary, it will double again," Enaniluth said. At the beginning, in order to complete this agreement, the Turais had cut down trees in large numbers for decades. Although they earned some wood money, they had fewer cedars in the mountains around Turai, and there were ten large shipyards in Athens. Several families do not need to build ships in Turui, and the family of En Anilus has always complained about this. Later, because of excessive deforestation, there were many barren hills around Turui, and the people discovered this drawback. They began to buy wood from other Greek city-states and sold them to Athens to earn a difference.
"After the end of the war between Athens and Sparta, the Spartans' navy took the lead and we were forced to cancel the agreement." Kunogorata added.
After Daves nodded and served as the consul of the league, he understood the agreement. He even believes that the general of Athens, Bethri Krish, agreed to build Turui, calling for the establishment of a great pan-Greek city state is only a high-sounding reason, one of the real strategic goals is for wood. It is necessary to know that Athens has two major defects. First, it does not have much local grain production. It depends on imports to maintain the huge population of the city. Therefore, it has built many colonies along the coast of Greece to the Black Sea or controlled the key. The city-states of the location, such as Byzantium, to ensure the smooth flow of food from the Black Sea, it requires a strong navy, and the Athenians ambitiously want to build a strong Mediterranean city-state alliance, more powerful navy. However, the second biggest flaw in Athens is that there are not many forests in the country, and there are no trees that can produce high-quality warships. In terms of the size of the navy and the size of merchant ships in Athens, the required timber is bound to be a huge number, so it is necessary to find marine timber. It became a strategic issue that related to whether Athens can maintain its strength. There is no forest in Egypt, Persian has wood, but it will not be sold to the enemy. Athens, Greece and Thrace have forests, but inland, cutting and transportation are problems, and the cost is high, so the Apennines run through the whole territory. Great Greece became an important timber purchase site in Athens, and Turière, established by the Athenians, was naturally the main source of timber.
"So, I asked the Senate to discuss a plan to approve the annual slaves to cut down a certain amount of cedar as a warship timber, which does not require an Opel. As for the manufacturing costs -" Mariji looks to Enanilu Si, seemingly jokingly said: "I think the adults of Enaniluth will not charge too much for the league."
En Anilus smiled helplessly.
Everyone felt that Mariji was right, and the worry about the cost dissipated a lot.
"But have you considered the maintenance and maintenance of these warships after the completion of the ~EbookFREE.me~ is also a small expense!" Melsis said with conviction.
"En Anilus had discussed this with me." Davers said, Enanilus nodded and said that it was true.
"When there is no war, we certainly will not leave the warships at the docks, except for a small part of the patrols on the coast of the Union, some of which are repaired at the docks, and the rest can be used as escorts for merchant ships, especially the Adriatic. From Haikou to the Greek mainland, there are frequent pirate ship hijackings. You can also temporarily serve as a large cargo ship to transport goods for friendly city-states... You see, we have earned maintenance costs for our navy, and at the same time exercised the crew. The sailing skills are not very good?" Davers said his thoughts, Melsis did not speak.
"In addition, we also need to find a qualified commander for this upcoming Diavian Navy. His current task is to assist the military officer Felicius, to supervise the construction of the ship; with the financial officer Melsis, In the future, if the warship is built, he will recruit sailors, equip the crew, conduct regular military training, arrange coastal patrols, and
Daves said with aggravated tone:
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