I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 63 Material Issues
Hearing Hephaestion give such a high evaluation, Cronus was a little dazed, the first queen and Zeus' heir?How is it possible, this is clearly whimsical!

However, even though he thought so in his heart, he still didn't utter any rebuttal words. Instead, he coughed lightly and said with some difficulty: "Hephaestion, it's better not to talk nonsense, if this spreads Go out and you'll be in big trouble."

Kronos' words reminded Hephaestion, and he also realized that he had lost his composure, so he smiled softly, covered it up, and changed the subject: "By the way, how is Your Majesty the King these days? ?”

"Apart from going around the camp a few times from time to time and talking to the soldiers, he basically stays in the command post, writing and drawing with a notebook in his hand. No one knows what he is writing about."

"Writing and drawing?" Hephaistion was stunned for a moment, he quickly recovered, and said, "Maybe he was thinking about some new invention again, after all, the stirrups and saddles of the popular cavalry were invented by His Majesty, maybe It won't be long before he can bring us any new surprises."

"I hope so." Cronus was noncommittal. Stirrups are not something that can be taken out casually. Even if he trusts His Majesty the King, he can't believe that he will take out something that can be used with him so quickly. It is comparable to new gadgets.

While talking, they walked to the gate of the barracks. When the Macedonian heavy infantry guarding the gate saw that Kronos had led the team back, they tapped their shields with their spears as a salute. Kronos nodded to them. , said: "You go and call some more soldiers to take over the slaves who followed the immigration team here."

"Of order, Mr. Cronus." One of the heavy infantrymen promised, then handed over his shield and spear to his comrades, turned around and ran all the way into the camp to call for someone, and after waiting for about 10 minutes, hundreds of Two soldiers trotted out after him and stopped in front of Kronos.

"Lord Cronus." The leading centurions saluted.

"Yes." Kronos nodded, pointed to the more than 1000 slaves behind him, and said: "Take those slaves to the prisoner of war camp. After settling down, let them work tomorrow."

"Understood." The centurions agreed, and then called on their men to come forward and take over the slaves.

Seeing this, Cronus felt relieved, and continued to enter the barracks with Hephaestion and the immigrants.In order to distinguish the soldiers' barracks from the living quarters of the immigrants, Antigonus asked the prisoners of war to build a low wall between the two when expanding the barracks, and improved the drainage system of the entire camp.If it wasn't for the lack of professional craftsmen, Antigonus even wanted to pave the roads in the barracks with gravel to prevent the roads from becoming very muddy and difficult to walk after the rain.

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After arranging all the immigrants to move in, Hephaestion followed Cronos to the command post in the center of the barracks to meet Antigonus.

When they saw Antigonus, the latter was composing a picture on white paper with a pencil (also one of King Philip's inventions, after which many people changed their way of writing to pencil), Seeing the two people come in, Antigonus put down the things in his hands, looked at Hephaestion, and asked, "Hephaestion, why are you here?"

"Following your order, I came here with the first batch of immigrants." Hephaestion said, and he took out a card with Arabic numerals written on it from his arms (no doubt, this must also be the credit of the senior time traveler) and Greek paper, handed it to Antigonus, and said: "Your Majesty, this is the number of the first immigrants who came here and the accompanying slaves."

Antigonus took the paper he handed over, read it casually, nodded, put it aside, and said: "I just asked you to bring a small number of immigrants here, but I didn't expect you to directly bring the first batch of immigrants." All the immigrants who left the customs have been brought here. But it’s okay, Hephaestion, let’s talk about the future of these immigrants.”

"Please speak."

"Yeah." Antigonus nodded, first raised his hand to let them find a place to sit down, and then said: "My idea is to transform the Tantonon stronghold into a new town, just before you come, I let the prisoners of war The barracks have been expanded, the walls have been strengthened, and the farmland outside has been reclaimed. Except that there is no source of daily necessities, there are no other flaws for the time being."

"But if it is going to be transformed into a town, this stronghold still lacks too many things." Hephaestion is not as optimistic as Antigonus. To transform this place into a real town, we need to build temples, governor's mansions, blacksmith shops, military camps, stadiums, opera houses, markets, etc. The current stronghold is still too small, and I'm afraid it will take a long time to build , the manpower and materials we need to use during this period are very scarce.”

"This is not a problem." Antigonus waved his hand. Although he was a little surprised, he didn't show it: "Before escorting the slave merchant's army back to join, these soldiers who stay behind will do their best to assist you in the construction, and There are dense forests nearby, and wood is not scarce—however, the source of stone and lime is a problem, and there are vast forests and plains to the west of Thermopylae, and there are few mines except for the territory of the Britts.”

Speaking of this, he also has some headaches. The most indispensable in Greek architecture is stone and lime. Needless to say, the importance of the former is almost every building is made of stone, while the latter is the earliest concrete used by humans. glue material.Although Antigonus intends to introduce the cement of later generations into the construction technology here, he is neither a student of the Department of Construction Engineering nor a person who is very interested in this major. The introduction of cement is just a dream.

"Well, I will find a way to get the stone out of the pass. Before that, you used wood for construction."

Hearing what Antigonus said, Hephaestion and Cronus watched face to face, so he had no choice but to accept it. He knew Antigonus’ difficulties, as Antigonus said, the west of Thermopylae is vast In the forests and plains, except for the mining mines in the territory of the Brits, there are few stone mountains. Therefore, the barbarian tribes cut down the trees in the nearby forests to build houses, and few stone buildings can be seen.

However, what they didn't know was that at this moment, the voice of the system suddenly sounded in Antik's mind again. Hearing what the system said, Antik was slightly stunned, and his eyes flashed with surprise!
(End of this chapter)