When I despair, I am reminded that in history, only truth and love can prevail, and there are many tyrants and murderers in history who may be invincible in the short term, but always fail in the end. Think about it, it's always going to be like this.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

In the last days of June, Bai Feng, who remained in the city of Besançon and waited for the order of the Imperial Military Headquarters, went to the barracks every day to inspect the barracks in the morning and evening, and discussed with the Marquis of Besançon about the future development of Besançon Province.

If nothing else, the Duke of Rundsteadt, who has a close relationship with Bai Feng, will lead six standing armies into Besançon Province after the establishment of the Four Metropolitan Governors, and at that time, the development of Besançon Province will be completely controlled by Bai Feng.

Administratively, he has the support of the Marquis of Besançon, the governor of the province, and militarily, the Duke of Rundstead, the commander of the garrison, so that even if Bai Feng is far away in the east of the empire, he can still control everything in Besançon Province by remote control.

Of course, conditional control does not mean that Bai Feng will really control everything in Besançon Province in secret, after all, the Marquis of Besançon is the governor in charge of the military and political power of Besançon Province, and no matter what Bai Feng decides, he will first listen to his opinions and ideas.

Even if there is a situation where he and the Marquis of Besançon have a disagreement to the left, Bai Feng will try his best to convince the Marquis of Besançon, and if he can't convince him, Bai Feng often makes some appropriate concessions and respects the idea of the Marquis of Besançon, the governor of the province.

On the last day of June, Bai Feng, who was going back to Rome at midnight, rarely stayed overnight in the city, and returned to the military camp outside the city, and deliberately stayed in the military camp of the personal guard camp to ensure that his actions tonight were not affected by any external factors.

June Financial Report (June 918 AH)

Agriculture: income 3,600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: income 350 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: income 264,000 gold, expenditure 0

Taxes: 63,800 gold in income and 35,200 gold in expenses (100 gold each per month for prosecutors, tax collectors, civil protection officers, and patrol guards)

Fortune: 2,200 gold (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: Spend 0 gold

Recruitment: Spend 14,700 gold (temple summoning generals is also included in the recruitment and special training costs)

Construction: Spend 0

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: 0 income, 2350 gold

Last month's total: income 331,750 gold, expenditure 54,450 gold

Last month's surplus: income 277,300 gold

Total amount of the treasury at the beginning of the month: 2,787,500 gold

As soon as midnight came, Bai Feng, who was not in a hurry to immediately use the teleportation array to return to Rome City, opened the financial report of Rome City for the previous month according to the usual practice, and in the previous two months, Bai Feng, who had been busy with the war, had not carefully checked the development of Rome City for a long time.

After three months of rapid development, the monthly treasury income of the city of Rome finally exceeded the 300,000 gold mark, which symbolized the increasing prosperity of the city of Rome, and also meant that the city of Rome was one step closer to the stage of a big city.

Rome City (City)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 331,750 gold/month

Population: 700,360 (the temple adds 2,000 people per month)

Social security: +215%

Population growth: +7%/month

Tax Rate: Low tax rate

Treasury: 3,064,800 gold

Barbarian region: 18 towns directly under the jurisdiction of 2302485

Yamato area: Nine castles (3453879)

Existing buildings: Governor's Residence, Stone Wall, Temple of Apollo, Urban Barracks, Market, Crop Rotation, Deep Cave Mine, Cavalry Stables, Armor Shop, Square Avenue, Shooting Range, Sewer, Public Bath, Shipbuilding Workshop, Arena, University, Shogunate Hall

Under Construction: None

Buildable: None

The city of Rome, whose citizen population has grown to 700,000, has added nearly 50,000 new citizens every month, and if you add the additional attributes of the Great Temple of Apollo, the number of new citizens in Rome will exceed 50,000 in a single month next month, reaching an astonishing 51,000!

This means that, without taking into account the fact that the number of new citizens in the city of Rome increases every month, as the population base increases, it will only take thirty-two months for the number of citizens in Rome to exceed the total population of the towns to which the city belongs!

The explosive growth of the citizen population is of great significance for the future development of the city of Rome, on the one hand, a larger citizen population can bring more tax revenue to the city of Rome, and on the other hand, it can also bring more systematic recruitment places to the city of Rome.

With the current population of 700,000 citizens alone, the number of systematic recruits in the city of Rome is as high as 105,000, and what a magnificent and fascinating sight it would be to think of 100,000 Roman hoplites on the same battlefield at the same time.

Compared with the development of the city itself, the kingdom of Estheni, as the only vassal power of the city of Rome, has also developed recently, especially under the guidance of the naval fleet of the city of Rome, too many displaced barbarian people on the north bank of the Cangluo River have crossed the river to the south bank.

The Eastern Alliance, one of the hegemonic forces on the north bank of the Cangluo River, in its usual simple and crude way, has continuously annexed those small and medium-sized tribes who are unwilling to submit to them, but the barbarians with stubborn blood in their bones are not so easy to succumb.

Whether it is the Celestial Dragon Empire of different races, or other tribes of the same race, the unruly barbarians will always use their inherent tenacity to fight to the end, you know, not everyone will be like Bai Feng, take out a large amount of grain as a means of buying.

Countless small and medium-sized tribes that have been annexed by the Eastern Alliance, but they are not reconciled, they will try their best to escape from the clutches of the Eastern Alliance; fleeing south may not be a good choice for many barbarian people who do not know the situation south of the Cangluo River.

In the eyes of these barbarian people who crossed the south to survive, the turbulent Cangluo River was not as terrible as the Eastern Alliance, which ruthlessly oppressed them, not to mention, after crossing the Cangluo River, they could re-establish their homeland, which was the belief that supported them to desperately cross to the south.

The Roman patrol fleet, which patrolled the Cangluo River, did not immediately attack the barbarian people who had crossed south, but instead helped them to cross south, after all, population was one of the important strategic resources that the city had always been short of.

However, for his own safety, Vipsani did not allow these barbarians to settle in the Roman city's sphere of influence, so the kingdom of Esine of Queen Boudicca became the most suitable place to settle these southward barbarians.

The resettlement of tens of thousands of Nandu barbarians into the Aceni Kingdom was actually a win-win for both the city of Rome and the Aceni Kingdom, because the lack of population has always been the shortcoming of the development of the Aceni Kingdom, and the development of the Aceni Kingdom is equivalent to the strength of the Roman City.

If the strong support of the city of Rome for Queen Boudicca made Queen Boudicca and her followers grateful to the city of Rome, then the large-scale transfer of population from the city of Rome made the entire Aceni kingdom grateful to the city of Rome.

Vassal: Essini Kingdom (Normal)

Region: Eastern Region of the Savage Lands

Faction Leader: Queen Boudicca (Upper Intermediate Swordsman)

Population: 628497 people

Forces: 110734 warriors (including apprentice swordsmen and above)

Forces: 65,000 soldiers (Joshuaer, Nardoba, Assam)

Force Loyalty: 100 (up to 100)