If you stop comparing yourself to others, you will find that your needs drop sharply, and you will live a more natural and emotional life, which is very critical to saving and maintaining our planet, otherwise we may destroy the planet on which we depend.

- Sadhguru (Enlightened Being, Enlightened Yogi, Mystic, Visionary Humanitarian, Outstanding Spiritual Teacher)

It took three full days to board the ship from the main stream in the middle of the north bank of the Cangluo River to the Roman port in the middle of the south bank of the Cangluo River, which was already the limit speed of the waterway, and I am afraid that it would not be possible to reach it in thirteen days if we had taken the land route.

After the convoy arrived at the port of Rome under the escort of the Roman fleet, Maxi, who had arrived in the port of Rome the day before on three warships, took the warrant given to him by Bai Feng and transferred the Governor's Guard stationed in the city of Rome to the port of Rome.

The Governor's Guard, composed of five combat wings, each combat wing is a large formation wing, with two thousand well-equipped and specially trained barbarian warriors, and Wendell, the commander of the Governor's Guard, is a confidant general who has been personally raised by Bai Feng, so he has no worries about loyalty at all.

The port of Rome was only one step away from the city of Rome, where the core of Roman power was located, and in order to prevent the large number of Lucy prisoners of war from causing any trouble, Bai Feng specially sent Maxi to transfer the Doge's Guard to control the Lucy prisoners of war who were about to land in the Roman port.

Facts have proved that Bai Feng, who had taken precautions for a rainy day, had thought a little too much this time; almost none of the captured Luxi warriors had ever left the Luxi tribe, let alone seen the prosperity and liveliness of the civilized world that did not exist in the eastern region.

The merchant ships coming and going from outside the Roman harbor, the workers busy unloading and loading their goods on the moorings, and the traders selling all kinds of goods in the harbor all made the "dirt buns" like Lucy prisoners of war stunned!

The Lucy prisoners of war, who had never seen such a bustling scene, could not even believe that there was such a thriving and lively place in their eastern region, and in their traditional conception that this prosperity belonged to the civilized world should only be found in the civilized world.

As everyone knows, even the Celestial Dragon Empire, one of the most powerful empires in the civilized world, does not have a few ports as prosperous and busy as the Roman port; after all, there are few cities with a population of nearly one million, and there are few in the entire Celestial Dragon Continent, so where is there a port like the Roman port?

Due to the limited number of moorings in the Roman harbor, Shiramine's transport fleet only occupied two-thirds of the moorings, and the rest were still used by merchant ships, and coincidentally, one of the merchant ships being unloaded came from the Yamato Empire.

Rome's policy of encouraging commerce made some of the great merchants who had amassed a lot of wealth through business no longer satisfied with earning wealth on land and turned their attention to the sea, and for these big merchants with a long-term vision, the city of Rome was a key supporter.

The reason why the Yamato Empire, which was isolated overseas, was not discovered by the forces on the Tianlong Continent was because they were cut off from the continent by the ocean, but since Bai Feng established the Yanhuang family, the close connection between the Yamato Empire and the city of Rome could not be blocked.

To a certain extent, the Yanhuang family, which was also created by Bai Feng himself, cannot be regarded as a vassal force of the city of Rome, but should be an inseparable part of the power of the city of Rome, which means that the city of Rome must gradually deepen its ties with the Yanhuang family.

The Yanhuang family, which was based on the Yamato Empire Mutsu Kingdom, did not have the ability to build ocean-going ships, which was also a common problem of all Yamato Imperial forces; the Yamato Imperial forces, who were accustomed to self-centeredness, could only build offshore ships, but did not understand the construction of ocean-going ships.

In this way, the task of strengthening ties between them became the sole responsibility of the city of Rome, but the limited official trading fleet of the city could not be used entirely to travel to and from the Yan and Huang families, who were far from the mainland, and they had other responsibilities to bear.

For example, the trade between the city of Rome and the kingdom of Estheni required the official trading fleet of the city of Rome to take on the heavy responsibility, and the trade between the city of Rome and the kingdom of Lucie, and the support of the towns directly under the north bank of the Cangluo River, also required the official trade fleet to take on the heavy responsibility.

Therefore, encouraging private capital to participate in maritime trade, in this way to deepen the ties between the city of Rome and the Yan Huang family, has become an effective way, and for this reason, the city of Rome has also developed a series of maritime trade management plans by Vipsani.

There were only two types of ocean-going ships that could be built in Roman ports, one costing 1,000 gold and the other costing 1,500 gold.

In view of the fact that the great merchants, who had grown up under the mercantile policy of the city of Rome, could not build their own ocean-going ships, and in order to open the way for them to participate in the maritime trade, at the suggestion of Vipsani, White Feng used the funds of the treasury to build twenty ships of two types each.

Twenty standard transport ships and twenty standard merchant ships consumed Bai Feng's entire 50,000 gold treasury funds, but with the construction of these forty ocean-going ships, those great merchants of Rome who were interested in maritime trade could lease ocean-going ships from the Doge's Palace.

In order to raise the barrier to entry for maritime trade, the charter deposit was set at 5,000 gold coins for each standard transport ship, and 10,000 gold coins for the more comfortable standard merchant ships.

The monthly rent for a standard carrier that can carry a large amount of cargo is 100 gold coins, and the monthly rent for a standard merchant ship that can make a cameo appearance on a cruise ship is 300 gold coins.

At this moment, the merchant ship that appeared in front of Bai Feng's eyes was flying three flags on the mast in turn, and the highest flag was naturally the black lion flag representing the Doge's Palace in Rome, followed by the Yanhuang Tangling flag of the Yanhuang family, and finally the caravan flag.

Unlike the Romans, who admired the eagle, the barbarians in the eastern region generally preferred lions and tigers, so the caravans formed by the Romans always had various eagle symbols painted on their flags, and the caravans in various towns always had lion and tiger patterns painted on their flags.

The caravan flag on this merchant ship depicts a golden lion standing tall, and it is clear that this is a merchant ship leased by a barbarian caravan from the Doge's palace in the city of Rome, and the goods that would be carried by merchant ships are generally more valuable and valuable.

In fact, half of the goods carried on this merchant ship were all kinds of special items of the Yamato Empire supplied by the private merchants of the Yanhuang family, and the other half were various fruits purchased by the barbarian merchants from the fruit farmers of the Yanhuang family.

The relatively barren land in the eastern region made it difficult for fruit trees to survive, and there were no fruit trees, and there was no doubt about the rarity of fruit in the city of Rome.

After a while, Bai Feng found that the soldiers of the Governor's Guard guarding the port would always glance at the fruits that the port workers were carrying from time to time, and in this regard, Bai Feng, who was in a good mood, directly sent Darnell to bid for all the fruits on this ship!