v9 Chapter 6： Quarry

At this time, another group of slaves quickly tied the stone with wheat straw and rope. This was done to prevent the stone from being damaged during the subsequent transportation and to prevent the stone from scratching the slave.

The rope was divided into two groups. After binding the waist of the stone, one was pulled out by dozens of slaves on the ground, and the other was stood by ten slaves on the rock, holding the stone, and several slaves The wooden crowbar continued to pry the stone, allowing it to roll at a relatively stable speed onto a row of round logs that had been placed in front of it.

Finally, the slaves cheered, and their team had already completed the first stone in a short period of time without any accidents.

This large rectangular stone finally landed smoothly on six or seven spaced-apart logs, and then several slaves resumed tying the stone with ropes, and then the ropes were pulled by 12 slaves and four slaves. The logs that fell behind were constantly placed in front of the stone.

The huge and heavy stones rolled on the log, and the less labor-intensive was dragged to the stone storage yard located on the side of the entrance of the stone mine.

After the foreman was notified and checked the stone, he confirmed that it was qualified and recorded it on the wooden board he carried.

Massimus' slaves cheered again, envying other teams, because they had already completed the first stone in a short period of time, and there was no accident. It is very likely Today, you will get over rewards to complete the task.

Massims remained calm. While arranging the remaining slaves who had not worked too hard to start knocking wooden wedges into the second grooved rock, he urged the returning slaves to hurry and restore their strength.

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The stones stacked at the entrance of the mine must be roughly shaped here before being sent away.

It is not the Kingdom slaves who shape the stone here, but the private slaves of Aristagelas. They all have considerable experience in stone processing. It is more than 10 years after Aristages engaged in this industry. Coming accumulation.

After all, selling stones is different from selling other metal ores. Very few miners sell the freshly mined stones directly to buyers, but provide relatively shaped stones according to the buyer's requirements, such as responsible for rebuilding Hardy. The artisans in the temple of Sri Lanka sent assistants to the stone mine. He arrived here as usual after the early morning, and according to the construction progress on the other side of the temple, asked the stone mine to provide the temple with several styles today. Stone? How much does each style need? ...

There are mainly three types of shaped stones required for the temple: one is a square stone, which will become a stone brick for the temple; the other is a round stone, which will be a supporting temple. The other is a thin slate, which is used to lay the floor of the temple.

Hundreds of slave craftsmen here held pliers, iron chisels, iron drills, metal wires and other tools to carefully shape the mined pieces of stone. They were not only wearing linen clothes, but also wearing masks And turban, because they use metal tools to chisel the stone, the debris is flying, and it is easy to cause injuries, which is a protection for slaves. The stone miners in the Kingdom, except for protecting the lower body, are basically naked, because they basically do not use metal tools, there is no worry in this regard, and there is no drag on clothes. It is more convenient to move and force. They need to worry The main danger is that the rocks suddenly fall.

Of the several styles that shape the stone, it seems that cutting stones into slabs is the most difficult, because marble is different from limestone in that it has a harder texture, and tools of this era seem difficult to do this.

But the Greeks who have been soaked in marble for hundreds of years have already developed a good way to deal with it. That is to first draw a cutting line on the stone, and then use a tool to cut a shallow groove along the cutting line. Fill it with dry sea sand, then press on the wire. The slave craftsman dragged the two ends of the wire, pulled the wire back and forth along the groove, and the wire squeezed the sand downward, and the sand was really the material used to cut the stone, and the stone was worn by constant friction. quality. As the grooves get deeper and deeper, you need to add more sand until the stones are finally divided into slabs.

The final shaped square and round stones will be slightly larger than the stone of the final temple building, and the slave craftsmen will leave protrusions around the stone as handles during the processing to facilitate the temple craftsmen's handling.

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The finished stone will be removed immediately, which will be taken over by the kingdom's slaves again.

Nearly 20 slaves labored to carry the stones to the raft, which was rounded under the raft. Some of the slaves pulled the raft with ropes, while the rest of the slaves continued to place round logs in front of them. As before, the stones were slowly pulled and moved towards the exit of the mine.

The exit is on the side of the entrance. The road is paved with large stones, which is firm and smooth. At the end of the road, a platform more than two meters high is formed. A four-wheeler parked in front of the platform and its height It is exactly flush with the platform, so that heavy stones can be pushed onto the car with less effort.

This four-wheeler is very strong, and its wheels are made of several complete round pieces of wood, which are unusually tall and thick.

There is also a special carpenter stationed at the exit, because when the stone is just delivered to the car, the damage is most likely to occur, and he can repair it nearby.

The wooden wheel cart is pulled by 4 bulls. Although they are slow in movement, they are reliable. They can handle a weight of about 10 tons each time, which is about 2-3 stones.

Usually, they usually transport the stones to the simple dock near the Cossene River, and use a cargo ship to transport the stones to the place specified by the buyer, which is relatively labor-saving and safe.

However, to provide the stone to the main temple of Hades, Turui City Hall refused Aristagelas to use the pier in the inner city to transport the stone, because in this way, the stone needs to cross more than half of the stone from the pier to the temple. Inner city, this will not only damage the delicate roads in the inner city, affect the traffic, and interfere with the rest of the people in the inner city (more than half of the people in the inner city are noble officials). The most important thing is not safe (because there will be many strange slaves in and out City hinterland). If you take the road, the main temple of Hades is not far from the west gate of the inner city, which is convenient for management and control.

But for Arista Grasse, this will undoubtedly be a headache, because the land from the mine to the main temple of Hades is about 10 miles away. Such a long distance is prone to accidents during transportation. Wheels Damage, stone fall, it will undoubtedly take more manpower and material resources to move it away again, and the worse is to hurt passers-by, then the compensation money will not be a small number, this is Aris After losing a lot of money, Tagores decided to improve the transportation problem and pinned his hopes on what the scholars called the railroad tracks.

The whole quarry is full of working sounds from morning to night: the orders of the foremen, the horns of the slaves, the yelling of the driver driving the ox cart, and the creaking sound of the wood under the weight of the stone And the screams of slaves due to various accidents ... one after another, endless.

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In the evening, the slaves of the kingdom dragged their tired bodies and returned to the slave camp. Although it only took them an hour to work, mining in the dark environment led to a slave failing to avoid the debris falling above. Stone, was hit in the head and lost his life.

Of course, apart from the slaves of the same team being sad and upset, the other slaves seemed indifferent, and there was even no knowledge of them at all. In the large quarry, thousands of slaves have been working during this time. Some people have been injured or even died. They are already numb. At this moment, what they desire most is to have a hearty dinner and then sleep beautifully. Last sleep.

Of course, their wishes were fulfilled. The dinner was even more plentiful than breakfast. The slaves were full and satiated, and all walked slowly back to their dormitory. After a brief wash, they lay on the bed. , Suddenly fell asleep.

Just then, the door of a dormitory was pushed open, and someone stood in front of the door and shouted, "Is Fabius Rabio Gaius in?"

Someone was suddenly awakened and scolded angrily: "Damn, who ?!"

The man standing at the door echoed coldly: "The patrol!"

The room was quiet for a while ~ www.novelhall.com ~ A moment later, Gauss softly reminded: "You seem to have the wrong name, it should be Gauss Fibius Rabio."

"Are you sure you want to call it that way!" The soldier at the door sternly.

Gaius was afraid to answer.

Last year, at the proposal of King Daphs, the Senate passed the "Dionia Kingdom Surname Act", which stipulates that whether it is a Dionian citizen or a free citizen who wants to join Dionia, they must Names and surnames are provided to facilitate the registration and search of the Ministry of Household Registration, and the first and last names must be given. Those who fail to comply will be punished, and even severely deprived of their citizenship.

From the perspective of ordinary Dionian citizens, since King Daphs used his first name as a surname for his children, it has gradually been followed by his ministers and the public. It has been almost 20 years since most citizens have given their names. And with the first name and last name, the promulgation of this decree is nothing more than a formal transformation of this custom into legal provisions.

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