"Chapter 5: Preparing for the Barbarians: Part I"
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- Pericles (an outstanding representative of ancient Greek democracy, one of the most famous statesmen in the ancient world)
After personally sending Gatus and Licinius out of Rome, Bai Feng returned to the brand-new Doge's Palace with his retinue, and as soon as he entered this magnificent Doge's Palace, Bai Feng was shocked by the luxurious decoration of the Doge's Palace!
The semi-circular main entrance is not luxurious, but after entering the main entrance, it is a passage more than ten meters long with twelve giant Roman columns as pillars, and after walking through this passage, what appears in front of Bai Feng is a huge hall that can accommodate a hundred people!
In addition to the main seat at the top, there are twenty-four thin Roman columns all around this hall, and even the walls are carefully carved with reliefs of Roman gods, and what shocked Bai Feng the most was the various decorations in the hall, almost all of which were made of gold.
Just when Bai Feng was in disbelief for these things, Yue'er in a white light gauze walked in from the back of the hall, looking at Bai Feng like a small peasant in the countryside walking into the palace, Yue'er covered her mouth and chuckled:
"Yo, our Governor Bai Feng, who has always been calm and calm, will still be shocked by the decoration of the Governor's Mansion in this district? If even this hall is so shocking to our Governor's Excellency, wouldn't the dozen or so rooms behind it be impossible for you to see the more luxuriously decorated, otherwise, our Governor's Excellency will be too frightened!"
"Hehe, I'm not shocked by the decoration of this hall, I'm just shocked by the change that the city of Rome has changed from a town to a big town. Bai Feng, who wants to save face, will not admit his true thoughts in his heart, he naturally wants to try his best to save face.
"Really?" Yue'er glanced at Bai Feng with a smile, and it wasn't until Bai Feng's face showed embarrassment that she diverted the topic and said, "Bai Feng, the population of Rome City has suddenly increased by six thousand, it should be that you used the power of sacrificial faith to increase, right?"
Hearing that Yue'er began to get back to business, Bai Feng didn't say anything more on this matter, after all, the next preparations for war were the most important matters of life and death in Roman City, but before that, Bai Feng still needed to tell Yue'er about himself and the Essini tribe.
"Yue'er, our city of Rome will soon face a real life-and-death crisis. After summarizing the current situation in Rome with a solemn face, Bai Feng began to explain in detail:
"On my way to the Tasya tribe with Licinius to escort the idol, I was attacked by more than a thousand cavalry from the Ethini tribe, and without knowing the identity of the enemy, I had Licinius lead his army and kill hundreds of the enemy's cavalry.
In hindsight, we learned that the Aceni tribe was one of the three most powerful tribes in the eastern part of the Savage Lands, and although Gamilios said that the Aceni tribe was also divided internally, we still had to face the revenge of a powerful force.
According to Gamilios' best estimate, our city of Rome will also be attacked by a force with at least 30,000 warriors in the next two months, and with the current strength of our city of Rome, it is impossible to stop the attack of this force!"
"Then why are you still sending Gatus and Licinius to lead the army out of Rome in such a thing, they have taken away the most central fighting force of Rome, without these soldiers, what can we do against the coming enemy?"
The wise Yue'er is always able to find out the key to the problem at a glance, which also makes Bai Feng always subconsciously regard Yue'er as his military advisor;
"Personally, I don't think it will be possible for us to deal with the onslaught of this hostile force on our own, and even if we can barely win this battle, the price we will have to pay for the city of Rome will be heavy.
And with the outbreak of war, the development of our city of Rome will definitely fall into a stagnation, and we will have no choice but to invest more money in the recruitment of troops, and the population of Rome will also drop dramatically due to the occurrence of casualties.
These are the costs that we in Rome will have to pay once the war breaks out, and Gamilios has given us a better choice, which is to use barbarian warriors on a large scale to reduce the cost of our own casualties in Rome!"
"Large-scale use of barbarian warriors?" After thinking about this sentence for a while, Yue'er asked Bai Feng sharply, "With the strength of the Tassia tribe, they simply have no ability to provide us with large-scale barbarian warriors, how can we obtain large-scale barbarian warriors?
Bai Feng has been with Yue'er for so long, and he knows Yue'er's personality and temper well, and her sharp words are not to deliberately mock anyone, but it is completely a direct reaction to this matter from her high IQ.
"And it came to pass that Gamilios said that there are six barbarian tribes within a five-day radius of our Roman city and the tribe of Tasia, and if all of these tribes can be surrendered to us, we will naturally be able to obtain a large number of barbarian warriors.
I sent Gatus and Licinius out of Rome with an army so that they could hurry up and conquer these six tribes, and in order to gain as full strength as possible of these tribes, I also asked Gatus to carry enough gold coins to buy these six tribes. ā
"I think that with the degree of rejection of the civilized world by these barbarian tribes, it is almost impossible for them to surrender to our Roman city on their own initiative, as exemplified by the fact that when the Tassia tribe took the initiative to attack us, their warriors fought to the death on the battlefield. ā
"Of course I understand this, so this expedition is led by Gatus, and Licinius is only assisting Gatus in commanding the army of Rome, and besides, it is not our city of Rome that these tribes need to surrender, but the tribe of Tasya of Gamilios.
Whether the people of these six tribes choose to surrender voluntarily under the temptation of gold coins, or are finally forced to surrender under the sword of Gatus, they will all be incorporated into the tribe of Tasia in the end, and the barbarian warriors hired by our Roman city are only allies!"
Looking at Bai Feng's high-spirited explanation, Yue'er didn't say anything more about this matter, after all, Bai Feng had already decided on this matter, and sent Gatus and Licinius to lead the army, Yue'er didn't have any point in saying anything else now, and Yue'er herself didn't think there was anything bad about this decision, the lives of the people of Rome City were much more precious in her eyes than the lives of the barbarian warriors!