I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 33 Ten catties of olives and fifty catties of grain

Eteo, a great grain merchant in Knossos, was obviously a royal family or nobleman with great wealth.

His stone house is huge and luxurious. The walls are made of smooth rocks, and there are two three-meter-high stone pillars supporting the eaves at the door.

And this stone house has two floors, it looks like a villa.

In addition to the stone house that serves as the main house, there are many wooden houses that serve as warehouses in the surrounding area.

The guide Caron brought Roy and Aries to Eteo's stone house. After introducing Roy's identity to the four soldiers guarding the gate, a soldier immediately entered the stone house to report the situation.

After a while, the soldier just now came out and said.

"Lord Eteo has agreed to receive foreigners!"

Hearing what the soldiers said, the guide Karon looked at Roy and said.

"Lord Eteo has agreed to see you, and now you can go in. Outlanders! I must remind you, even if the deal with Lord Eteo fails, you should not act rudely."

Roy nodded to the guide Caron, and then led Aries into the stone house.

Inside Eteo's stone house, there is a heavily armed soldier every five meters.

Roy and Aries walked through the corridor and entered the hall behind the corridor, where they saw a middle-aged man in colorful robes and gold and silver jewelry sitting on a stone seat.

Seeing Roy and Aries walking into the hall, Eteo fixed his eyes on Roy and said.

"Outlander! What goods have you brought? If your goods do not interest me, then there is no need for us to continue talking."

"Dear Lord Eteo, my goods are one hundred cans of olive oil. But I handed over five cans of olive oil as a commercial tax, and two cans of olive oil as a reward for the guide Caron, and now I only have 93 jar of olive oil."

"olive oil--"

Eteo said with a serious expression.

"Since your goods are olive oil, then I can trade with you. According to the price of ten catties of olive oil in exchange for forty catties of grain, your olive oil can be exchanged for three thousand,720 catties of grain from me."

Ten catties of olive oil can only be exchanged for forty catties of grain——

Hearing the deal proposed by Ete'o, Roy immediately frowned and said.

"Lord Eteo! As far as I know, in the city of Knossos, ten catties of olive oil can be exchanged for fifty catties of grain."

"My fleet took huge risks to transport the food to the port of Knossos. What's wrong with me raising the price of food?"

"The city of Knossos has a strong navy to protect the waterways. What risk do you have in transporting food from Egypt to Knossos? We sailed for three days and nights to transport olive oil from our distant homeland to Knossos. South City is the real risk of life."

Hearing what Roy said, Eteo asked curiously.

"Outlander, where is your hometown?"

"We are Athenians from the peninsula of Attica."

"I heard from some Phoenicians that the Athenian tribe is the most powerful tribe in the Attica Peninsula, but they are also a group of indigenous people with a backward civilization. I didn't expect you, a group of backward indigenous people, to be able to trade far away. You said That's right, you are indeed taking a lot of risks to bring olive oil here. I agree to trade with you at the price of ten catties of olive oil for fifty catties of grain. Now you can bring olive oil, and then from me The warehouse moved 650 catties of grain."

After reaching a deal with Eteo for ten catties of olive oil for fifty catties of grain, Roy said with a joyful smile.

"My lord Eteo, you are a good trader of fair trade. We in Athens want to have a long-term cooperation with you. We will ship more olive oil to the city of Knossos in the future. I hope you can use the same The price trades with us."

"You've got more olive oil—"

Eteo was surprised at first, then said with a faint smile.

"It seems that I underestimated your olive oil production. I can buy as much olive oil as your Athenian tribe has."

"Then let's sign a trade contract!"

Luo Yi took out the pen, paper and ink that he carried with him, and was about to start writing when he suddenly realized that Ete'o couldn't understand Chinese characters, and he couldn't understand the hieroglyphs used by the Knossos.

Since neither party can understand the other's writing, there is naturally no need to sign a trade contract.

Roy was about to put away the paper, pen and ink when Eteo suddenly yelled.

"Wait!"

Then, under Roy's surprised eyes, Eteo got up and walked to Roy, looked at the pen and ink curiously and asked.

"What is this?"

Seeing that Ete'o was very interested in paper, pen and ink, Roy hesitated, put the paper, pen and ink on the ground, then dipped the brush in the ink, and said while drawing and writing on the paper.

"Lord Eteo, this is paper, brush, and ink. With these three things, you can use a brush to write and draw on paper. I heard that you Knossos wrote hieroglyphs on clay tablets and recorded a lot. However, it is not easy to make and preserve clay tablets, but writing hieroglyphs on paper can be preserved for a long time, and the paper will not be easily damaged.”

Looking at the picture drawn by the words written by Roy on the paper, Eteo said with wide-eyed surprise.

"I can see that the brush is made of horsetail hair, and the ink is a kind of dyed water, but how is the paper made? Outlander! Can you sell me the brush, ink, and all the paper? I will pay a high price Download these things!"

"If Lord Eteo is willing to spend five hundred—"

Roy was about to exchange five hundred catties of food with Eteo with paper, pen and ink, when his eyes were suddenly attracted by the two bronze belts hanging on the wall.

These are two belts carved out of animal leather. One belt is carved into two snakes devouring each other's tails, and the other belt is carved into two cows colliding. The center point where the horns of the two cows collide is Belt buckle for this belt.

Eteo looked at the two bronze belts following Roy's gaze, and said with a playful smile on his face.

"Outlander! If you want to please your wife at home, I have better gifts here. Although the bronzes are also gold, they are not real gold after all. I have a real gold belt here that I can sell to you. The price of the gold belt is A thousand catties of grain."

A thousand catties of grain for a gold belt——

I am afraid that only the buckle of this so-called golden belt is made of gold.

Although Roy wanted the gold belt very much, but Roy's personal wealth was not enough to buy the gold belt.

So Roy hesitated for a while, and said to Etteo.

"Lord Eteo! If you really want my paper, pen and ink, exchange these two bronze belts with me."

"it is good!"

After Ete'o readily agreed, Roy immediately went to the wall and stretched out his hands to take off the two bronze belts.

After Roy led Aries out of Etteo's stone house, Aries asked cautiously.

"Master Priest! When you bought these two bronze belts, do you want to use them yourself, or do you want to give them to Princess Procne and Princess Philomela?"

Roy was not surprised that Aries could see his little thoughts.

After all, among normal people, only blind people can't see that the relationship between Roy, Procne and Philomela has surpassed the relationship between ordinary men and women.

"Aries, you idiot, will I be so extravagant that I can buy myself a belt with something worth five hundred catties of grain?"

(End of this chapter)