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The successive expeditions of four legions deserted the originally hot military camp of the city of Rome, and early the next morning, Bai Feng took 3,000 Leng Huai longbowmen and escorted 500 cavalry of the Doge's Guard to the port.

The Roman port and the city of Rome were connected by a paved stone road, and the march speed of the 3,000-foot Leng Huai longbowmen was quite slow, and Bai Feng only walked for more than an hour, and then he was impatient to rush to the Roman port with the cavalry.

After more than two hours, Bai Feng finally came to the Roman port and found that the appearance of this Roman port was no different from the ports he had seen in the Roman world, which was composed of port warehouse areas, docks, and mooring platforms.

The only difference was that this Roman port had four moorings that could accommodate four ships at a time, and on these four moorings were four small transports quietly moored like soldiers waiting to be reviewed.

If nothing else, these four transports must be the trading caravan attached to the Roman port, but what can these four transports bring to the city of Rome? Their limited cargo volume will not expand the scale of Rome's trade at all!

"Governor, should we ask the person in charge of this fleet to come down and ask?" As if sensing the unconcealable disappointment on Bai Feng's face, Antio, who was following behind Bai Feng, gave Bai Feng a small suggestion.

"Well, you can go to the front and ask the person in charge of this fleet who is, and let him come to me. The undeniable Bai Feng nodded and agreed to Antio's suggestion, and asked him to call the head of the fleet.

Leaving his reinstated and fully staffed general guard behind Bai Feng, Antio walked alone to the dock where the four transport ships were moored, and one of the characteristics of the generals summoned by the city of Rome was that their general guards would automatically recover after the loss.

Of course, this automatic recovery is not available anywhere, it has to be in the temple of Apollo in the city of Rome, and after the last war, Antio rested for a week before recovering from it, and then he went to the temple of Apollo for a night to restore the general's guard.

The General's Guard, which can be automatically restored for free, has saved Bai Feng a sum of money, otherwise Bai Feng doesn't know where he will save a sum of money for Antio to restore the General's Guard, after all, the General's Guard is the safest talisman for a general.

If it weren't for the desperate protection of the heavy cavalry of the General's Guard, it would have been almost impossible for him to survive the last brutal battle, which also sounded a wake-up call for Bai Feng, that is, he must not send these powerful generals to the enemy army in the future.

No matter how strong these generals are in their own strength, as long as the number of enemies reaches a certain level, they can still grind the strong generals to death; Bai Feng still understands the truth that thousands of troops are easy to get and one general is hard to find, and he will not be so careless next time.

After a while, Antio walked over from the dock with a middle-aged man in Toga's robe, looking at this familiar and unfamiliar dress, it was not difficult for Bai Feng to guess that the middle-aged man in front of him was the person in charge of this trading fleet.

"Alan, the captain of the trade fleet in Rome City, I have seen His Excellency the Doge!" After following Antio to Bai Feng's side, without Antio's introduction, the middle-aged man who called himself Alan bowed down respectfully to greet Bai Feng.

"Captain Allen, isn't it, is your trading fleet just the four small transport ships in front of you? these few transport ships alone shouldn't be able to transport much goods, right?" Compared to Allen's respect, Bai Feng cared more about the value of the trade fleet.

"The Governor, you may be mistaken, but these four ships are not the small consorts you might imagine, but merchant ships of our trading fleet dedicated to trading with other ports, and our trading fleet has far more than these four merchant ships.

Yesterday evening, twelve of the transports of our trading fleet spotted the small wooden boats of the Essini tribe on the east bank transporting grain to and from the banks of the Cangluo River, so I sent the ships of our trading fleet to help them transport the grain.

By the afternoon, they should be able to return to port, and our entire trading fleet has a total of four merchant ships dedicated to trade and transport, and twelve transport ships dedicated to cargo transport, which is the strength of our trading fleet!"

When Alan explained his trading fleet to Bai Feng, his face involuntarily showed a look of pride that flew with his eyebrows, it seemed that this Alan was still very proud of his fleet, this gesture was Bai Feng's very appreciative attitude.

In Bai Feng's cognition, if a person wants to achieve a career in his own field, the first thing is to love his field, and there is no doubt that this Captain Allen is very proud of his fleet, which Bai Feng appreciates very much.

"Yes, I'm glad that your fleet can have such strength, but I also have a question, under the premise that the Essini tribe on the east coast has no port at all, how do the transport ships of your fleet go to the shore to unload grain?"

"Your Excellency the Governor, our transports are much larger in hull than merchant ships, and each transport is equipped with four small boats for landing, which is why we have sent our convoys to help, and not merchant ships.

Although our transport ships need to rely on small boats to transport grain slowly when unloading at the shore, our transport ships will still greatly increase their speed of grain transportation compared to the transportation methods of the Aesini tribe. ”

Hearing Allen's explanation, Bai Feng just smiled and didn't speak again, Allen's all aspects made Bai Feng more satisfied, with such a thoughtful, shrewd and capable person to manage the trade fleet in Rome City, Bai Feng felt that there was no need to worry.

After talking to Alan about some other things one after another, the time finally came to noon, and the first of the three double-lined battleships recruited by Bai Feng yesterday slowly sailed out of the dock on the other side of the dock, and it was indeed the same double-column battleship as in the Roman world!

Forty sailors rowed half of the oars of the twin ship, and the other forty sailors, each with a dagger at their waists, stood on the deck of the bow and stern.

Just one battleship is still not enough to meet the needs of Rome City, and there will be two more double warships sailing out in the next two days, and when all three double battleships are recruited, Bai Feng will let them sail and patrol with longbowmen.

With the economic situation of Roman City, it is almost impossible to support the food consumption of hundreds of thousands of people and fight a large-scale war, so Bai Feng can only blockade the Cangluo River as much as possible to avoid this war that may break out at any time.