Years later, the flame of passion has been extinguished, and so has the flame that was once regarded as the light of truth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Who among us can say who is right when Hector and Achilles, Agamemnon and Priam are fighting over a beautiful woman who has been burned to ashes?

- Umberto Eco (the world's most renowned authority on sign linguistics)

From the night after the edict was issued, the busyness of the warehouse area of Rome never stopped, and the people transporting grain day and night made Bai Feng have to send his own personal guard battalion to the warehouse area.

Of course, the soldiers of Bai Feng's personal guard battalion did not go to the warehouse area to maintain order, it was the responsibility of the patrol guards in the city; it was just that a large number of people who crowded to sell grain made the management of the warehouse area too busy at all, and the soldiers of the personal guard battalion went to help.

Even with the assistance of the pro-guard battalion, the busyness of the warehouse area has not been effectively alleviated, because more and more people are selling grain, and some people who do not have surplus food at home even use their own food to sell.

How could Bai Feng, who was also an ordinary person at the beginning, not understand the psychology of these people? It was nothing more than wanting to take advantage of the high price of the Governor's Mansion to buy and sell grain, and wait until the price dropped, and then spend one-third of the selling price to buy grain.

In the middle, you can also make a lot of profit difference, and if you have more grain, you can also earn one or two gold coins; fortunately, such people are only a small part, and the grain sold is not very much, so Bai Feng didn't say anything about this matter.

If it weren't for this high-priced grain purchase, Bai Feng, who was the governor of Rome City, would not have thought that the five towns under his rule would have so much grain in stock; looking at the four granaries that were newly filled in front of him, Bai Feng had to admit that he underestimated these people.

In just ten days, the inhabitants of the five small towns contributed enough food for one million people to eat for three months in the city of Rome, which is simply an astronomical amount, and Bai Feng paid less than 200,000 gold coins for this.

Thinking about the price at which Bai Feng spent the precious treasury funds of the city of Rome to buy grain, and then looking at the current cost of buying so much grain at three times the market price, anyone can understand the impact of the harvest on the price of grain in the forces of the city of Rome.

In any case, all Bai Feng wanted was to feed the army and the people of Rome, and as for the specific effects of grain price changes and the like, Bai Feng, who was not an economics professor, didn't bother to care!

At the end of the five or six days of this month, there were hardly any grain sellers coming to Rome, and all the grain that could be sold in the five towns directly under the city of Rome had already been sold to Rome, and all that remained was to wait for the arrival of the patriotic activities.

In fact, after more than ten days of New Year's activities and more than ten days of large-scale grain purchases, Bai Feng felt that the trade income of the city of Rome would definitely increase explosively this month, and even if there was no last activity to love the people, it might not be impossible to reach the goal of 30,000 yuan.

Those who sell their food to the city of Rome will buy some of the city's special goods or daily necessities before returning home, and the purchase of low prices and large quantities will stimulate the economic development of the city more than the previous New Year's events.

The merchants of Rome, who had once again made a lot of money, now changed their attitude towards the barbarians from welcome to respect, and in fact, this was the nature of merchants, and customers with money in their pockets would always become their guests.

When the tide caused by the sale of grain had completely passed, the long-awaited campaign to love the people had finally arrived, and the city of Rome, with a total population of less than 50,000, had moved into thousands of well-to-do townspeople the day before the campaign.

Overnight, all the hotels in the city of Rome were overcrowded, and even many of the residents of Rome temporarily converted their houses into small family hotels in order to earn money, in order to accommodate the townspeople who came to the city to visit.

Although Bai Feng issued a price limit decree to strictly limit the price of hotels, countless temporary hotels still sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Bai Feng just smiled and acquiesced to the money-making behavior of the citizens of Rome.

Soon a number of people from small towns will come to Rome with more than several times the total population of Rome City, and the number of hotels in Rome City is simply not enough to accommodate so many people;

At this time, the emergence of a large number of private temporary hotels with lower prices is not necessarily an effective solution to the problem; even Bai Feng himself strongly encourages the opening of private temporary hotels, and has invested a certain amount of financial support for this.

The so-called financial support means that the newly opened private temporary hotels will have to maintain the price of accommodation at less than one third of the price of the regular hotels, and as compensation, the Governor's Office will pay them an additional third of the accommodation fee after the end of the Patriotic Operation.

Bai Feng, who originally planned to use 500,000 gold coins to do these two things, has only spent less than 400,000 gold coins now, of which 170,000 gold coins were used to buy food, 200,000 gold coins were used to prepare red envelopes, and the remaining 130,000 gold coins could be used to reduce accommodation costs.

Bai Feng, who focused all his attention on the trade income of the city of Rome, didn't care about the gold and silver coins he spent at all, who made the gold and silver coins produced by the city of Rome every month quite considerable, so that Bai Feng no longer had to worry about gold and silver currency.

Before the city of Rome entered the city stage, the natural output of each month was 10,000 gold coins and 100,000 silver coins, which were just inconsequential small coins, and what really made Bai Feng worry about gold and silver coins was a gold mine and a silver mine being mined in the deep cave mine.

The monthly output of 150,000 gold and 800,000 silver coins brought the monthly output of Rome to a staggering 250,000 gold coins.

On the first day of the campaign, an unprecedented number of 230,000 people came to Rome, and countless townspeople came to Rome with their families, and the red envelopes of the Doge's Palace were haired by men, women, and children.

The city of Rome, which lived with less than 50,000 people, suddenly welcomed 230,000 immigrants, and the overcrowded city of Rome was almost bombed that night, and even if all the citizens of Rome had used their homes as hotels, it would not have been possible to accommodate so many people.

Bai Feng, who really had no choice, had no choice but to let the soldiers of the various legions in Rome City take out all their military tents for these people who had no place to stay at night; looking at the Roman City like a refugee camp, Bai Feng's heart was happy.

With such a large foreign population, the trade income of the city of Rome this month is absolutely shocking, after all, this is the result of nearly 500,000 gold coins, how can it push the total income of the city of Rome to more than 30,000!