I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 142 Development
With the large-scale immigration of Macedonian immigrants, most of the Ogrell Peninsula fell into the midst of construction. The immigrants who moved into the city reinforced and repaired the original city walls, and demolished and rebuilt the buildings in the city. They used more advanced cement to ensure the firmness and reliability of the building. Some aborigines watched the immigrants demolish the houses they lived in, and couldn't help laughing at the stupidity of the immigrants, thinking that they wanted to make themselves homeless. Sleeping on the street.

But the immigrants quickly silenced the tribal people. With the help of cement and cranes, stone apartment houses with several floors rose from the ruins, and they only lived in tents for less than half a month. Immigrants moved in with big bags and small bags. There was a big gap between the buildings in the Greek area and the barbarian houses outside. Those barbarian tribesmen could only live in their own dirty and low houses, envious The tall clean white-painted apartment next door.

In the wild, the immigrants who were incorporated into the pioneering group took all kinds of weapons to find a place suitable for them to live in. When they found it, they put it down on the spot to salute, and raised their axes to cut down the surrounding trees. People then processed the felled logs to make a wooden fence around the camp to prevent the invasion of wild animals.When the hard work of the day is over, the immigrants gather around the bonfire in the camp, looking at the wooden fence that surrounds them and giving them a sense of security, while enjoying Greek food and looking forward to a better life in the future.

Until September of that year, in addition to the original settlements, there were more than 50 village settlements of different sizes on the Oglell Peninsula. These settlements were built in good places with fertile land and close to water sources, where immigrants lived. Within the solid wooden walls, while reclaiming the fertile land near the village, they went deep into the surrounding forests to hunt wild animals to ensure a daily source of food.In order to protect themselves (mainly to guard against possible ferocious beasts), they also organized a militia team of dozens of people to ensure that the village could resist with the wall when it was attacked, until the nearby kingdom army rushed to support.

I forgot to mention that the heavy infantry units of the First Army were ordered to set up camps dispersedly on the Ogre Peninsula in company units. Each camp radiated more than two immigrant settlements to ensure that the settlements could be attacked on time. Arrive.This arrangement also has lessons learned from the past. There was an immigrant settlement that had a dispute with a nearby barbarian tribe over the reclamation of farmland. Later, it was attacked by the tribe. Because the defense force was weak, it was directly slaughtered by the barbarians. If it hadn't been for a heavy armor who happened to pass there. The infantry company found corpses scattered all over the place, and it would probably be a long time before anyone discovered this tragedy.

Of course, that barbarian tribe was finally destroyed by the angry Macedonian army, and all the tribesmen were executed. Their heads were cut off and placed in Beijing to frighten passers-by and to scare others.

In addition to the development of immigration, many things have happened in the past few months. For example, the construction of the college on the outskirts of Pella was completed. As long as there are tutors, there should naturally be students. Antigonus personally stipulated that all Macedonian citizens over the age of 14 in the country can enter Pella University to study, and the tuition fees are free. Students only need to pay for three meals a day and accommodation fees. up.After the promulgation of Antigonus’s policy, the whole country was shocked. Many underage Macedonian citizens were sent to Pella University by their parents to study. By the time the enrollment stopped, more than 2000 people had signed up.

These more than 2000 people were selected quickly. In fact, after the recruitment of students stopped, many people still rushed here from outside the Hot Spring Pass. When they learned that the recruitment had stopped, they could only return disappointed.

At Pella University, in addition to the most traditional subjects such as philosophy, debate, arithmetic, history, astronomy and geography, Antigonus also added two new knowledges of physical chemistry that were unheard of in ancient Greece. If a person knows the relevant knowledge, he compiled relevant books according to his memory, and personally acted as a tutor to teach—of course, he can only teach the students the simplest basic knowledge and some of the more difficult knowledge, and the follow-up can only be done by the students. We explore on our own.

Antigonus did not require every student to master all subjects. He adopted the elective system of later generations of universities. Students can choose the subjects they want to study after entering the university. Antigonus also imitated the semester system. He stipulated that the first academic year is from February to June, and the second academic year is from September to January of the following year, and the intervening months are winter and summer vacations.

At the end of each school year, all students in the school will be organized to conduct assessments. Those who rank higher in the assessment will be rewarded by the school and the royal family, while those who rank at the bottom will accept a second make-up exam. If they fail the make-up exam, unfortunately, they can only be rejected The school authorities ordered him to be expelled from school.

By the way, in addition to electives, there is a subject that students must take part in, and that is physical exercise. Antigonus doesn't want people who graduate from college to be weak and powerless scholars. The literary skills he wants to see Writing articles with pens and swords, martial arts scholars who are in line with the martial spirit of the Macedonians, and these students are a very good source of soldiers. If there is a major defeat in the kingdom's war, these students can be directly armed when necessary Defend the country.

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After talking about the domestic affairs, some foreign affairs have to be mentioned. That is the civil strife that broke out within the Gillies Federation. With the secret support of the Kingdom's Intelligence Department, the Matthaeus religion did not fall into Antigonus' expectations. Instead of launching an uprising at the end of last year, they used a steady stream of funds to aid and relieve the people. Their so-called benevolent deeds are very different from the ruthlessness of the federal government, so they have won the support and support of a large number of people.Their existence quickly attracted the attention of the government. Seeing that this cult that appeared out of nowhere became stronger and stronger like a snowball, the government could not continue to sit idly by, so it decided to send troops to suppress it. The government's plan was placed in the internal foreign camp. The spies were obtained and leaked to the leader of the Matthaeus in advance, so a surprise suppression turned into a premeditated ambush. The angry Matthaeus killed all the Gillis soldiers, setting off a large-scale Huge rebellion.

At this time, most of the federal troops were fighting on the front line, so the rebels were not greatly encircled and suppressed. Their power grew stronger and stronger, and they successively captured two rich cities, emptied the arsenals inside, and armed own army.

Until September, the army of Matthaeus had occupied four cities along the Aegean Sea coast and several nearby towns and villages. It was faintly fighting against the Gillis Federation. In order to suppress this group of cult rebels, the parliament had to They dispatched troops from the front line, and at the same time sent people to prepare for peace talks with the Principality of Harun, and tried their best to suppress the civil strife.

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