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- Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian political thinker and historian)

With the recovery of the establishment of various legions and the reduction of the size of the Tuntian Legion, Bai Feng, who was busy, had to face another practical problem, that is, the serious consequences of the sudden decline in the number of the Tuntian Legion.

When the Tuntian Army was first set up, the external environment of the city of Rome was extremely relaxed, and the eastern alliance on the north bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River was annihilated by the army of Rome in a battle, and the tribes on the east bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River were also destroyed one after another.

The entire west bank of the Cangluo River and the south and east banks of its left tributaries have become the sphere of influence of the city of Rome, and the establishment of five small towns with a population of about 100,000 has consolidated the rule of the city of Rome, and everything is developing in the direction that Bai Feng expected.

Later, the city of Rome established its own powerful longbow troops and powerful fleets, and the tacit combination of the two made the entire Cangluo River a natural barrier for the city of Rome, and even the powerful eastern alliance could not cross the river to invade the south.

The overly comfortable external environment not only made Bai Feng relax his due vigilance, but also further expanded his ambitions in Tuntian, and the five Tuntian legions and their corresponding five towns, each of these five regions has cultivated a large amount of farmland.

The crops in these fields will bring an innumerable supply of food to the city of Rome during the harvest season in November, and it is no exaggeration to say that the harvest in this season will be enough to sustain the city for an entire year.

Because all the farmland cultivated by the soldiers of the Tuntian Legion belonged to the Roman city, and in addition to the farmland belonging to the Tuntian Legion, Bai Feng also ordered the soldiers of the Tuntian Legion to reclaim a large amount of farmland for the townspeople in their area.

The farmlands that belonged to the townspeople were harvested enough to sustain their towns for the next year, so that the city of Rome was completely freed from its own food burden, and received enough food from the farmland cultivated by the Tuntian legions to use the Roman army.

According to Bai Feng's idea, this superior tuntian system only needs to be implemented for one or two years in a row, and the five small towns to which the city of Rome belongs can fully realize their own self-sufficiency, even if they encounter natural disasters, they do not need relief from the city of Rome.

As for the city of Rome itself, the five cantonment legions could cultivate and harvest grain twice a year, and each harvest was enough to feed 500,000 men for about a year, and the total harvest in a year was to feed a million people for a year.

Such a huge grain production is due to the fact that the city of Rome itself is leading in agricultural science and technology on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is thanks to the fertile fields brought to the city by the Cangluo River.

In fact, if Apollo had not completely solved the problem of flooding of the Cangluo River with his means, I am afraid that the Cangluo River would not have brought a fertile field to the city of Rome for development, but a monstrous flood that destroyed everything.

In any case, the fact now is that the land along the Cangluo River has indeed become fertile ground for the city of Rome, and the presence of the Tuntian army will soon allow the city to say goodbye to the era of grain purchases, but unfortunately, Francis's invasion has ruined all this.

With the strength of Queen Boudicca's Esine tribe, it was impossible to reach Francis's imposing army of 150,000, and in desperation, Bai Feng had to take his army of Rome to the east bank of the Cangluo River to help Queen Boudicca fight Francis.

After a big battle, the Roman army that won the battle also paid the price of 20,000 soldiers, and in order to seize the time to eliminate the big threat of Francis in one fell swoop, Bai Feng had to grit his teeth and carry on the war.

The five Tuntian Corps, which were originally only in charge of Tuntian, were ordered by Bai Feng to transfer half of the soldiers to supplement the five main field corps with heavy losses; as a result, those cultivated farmland lost half of its cultivated labor force at once, and the problem became serious in an instant.

Without the five Tuntian Legions, which were working with all their might, so much of the farmland that had been reclaimed was simply beyond the management of the remaining Tuntian Legion soldiers, and even if everyone did their best, they would not have been able to do 10,000 with 5,000 men.

Therefore, after these two groups of 25,000 soldiers of the Tuntian Legion were sent to the military camp on the east bank, Bai Feng received letters of help from the five Tuntian Legions, and the content of the letters was simple, they asked for additional troops, otherwise the cultivated farmland would be wasted.

Once half of the farmland that has been cultivated is abandoned, then all Bai Feng's previous efforts will be in vain; when the time comes, don't say anything about completely getting rid of the era of buying grain, I'm afraid that the grain produced by the cultivated farmland will not be enough for the consumption of Rome City and its five subordinate towns!

Don't think that the soldiers of the Tuntian Legion are only responsible for cultivating the farmland that belongs to the Roman city, and many of the farmland that Bai Feng ordered them to help the townspeople cultivate, many of them are the soldiers of the Tuntian Legion helping those residents to cultivate.

Otherwise, how could those five small towns, which were mainly composed of the elderly, the weak, women and children, cultivate and feed their entire farmland, and the population of each town is about 100,000, and how much farmland would be needed to produce the food that so many people need in a year?

The problem that Bai Feng faced was not only the risk of half of the farmland belonging to the city of Rome being abandoned, but also the risk of half of the farmland belonging to the five small towns being abandoned, which was the key to Bai Feng's real trouble.

For two days, Bai Feng, who had no clue, still hadn't come up with a solution, and seeing that the grain that could be harvested in less than two months was being wasted in the farmland, Bai Feng's anxiety was indescribable.

Helpless, Bai Feng finally focused his attention on the old and weak women and children in those five small towns, no matter how old these people were for working in the fields, Bai Feng decided to use his own methods to make these people work willingly!

Thankfully, a gold and silver mine was discovered in the mines of Rome last month, and a few days ago the original mines were replaced by cavern mines, which further increased the production of gold, silver and iron.

Bai Feng didn't care much about the increase in the output of iron ore, but the increase in gold and silver ore could not help Bai Feng not care, the mine could produce 100,000 gold coins and 500,000 silver coins every month, but now it has been increased to 150,000 gold coins and 800,000 silver coins.

Although this increased production will not be used by Bai Feng until the next month, the output of the previous month is still in the warehouse of Rome City, and the salary of the Roman City army this month and the pension of 20,000 soldiers who died in battle are only half used, and the remaining half is useless.

Using the wealth of about 70,000 gold coins as a reward, he hired those old and weak women and children of the townspeople to help the Tuntian army with farming, this is Bai Feng's solution to the problem, and under the doubts of the gold coins, a large number of old and weak women and children began their scramble farming life.