Money is necessary, but how much do we really need? If we change our mindset from success to joy, we will find that our need for money will be greatly reduced.

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

"It doesn't matter if it's a meeting or if it's hard work. Bai Feng, who still had a faint smile on his face, said in a serious tone: "As long as your Green Chamber of Commerce keeps up with the pace of development of our Roman City, you will always become bigger and stronger." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, rest assured. In the face of Bai Feng's goodwill, the knowledgeable Powell immediately said: "Our Green Chamber of Commerce must keep up with the development rhythm of the city of Rome, and under the guidance of the Doge's Palace, contribute to the development of the city of Rome!"

Dealing with smart people is always easier and more pleasant, especially Powell, a smart businessman who knows how to advance and retreat, and has a grateful heart, which makes people feel good; so, Bai Feng encouraged him and said: "Okay! I look forward to your Powell's performance!"

After seeing Powell, who was full of excitement, bow down and leave, Bai Feng asked Darnell to lead people to distribute a steady stream of fruits to the soldiers who were already salivating, among them, 200 boxes of high-quality fruits were distributed to the soldiers of the Governor's Guard.

The 5,000 soldiers of Maxi's and Darnell's divisions were distributed with the finest fruits of no inferior quality to the governor's guard, while the other 1,200 boxes of ordinary fruit were distributed by Bai Feng's orders to the Lucy prisoners of war, who were also salivating.

This was not only an unbelievable order for the Roman soldiers, but also an order that Lucie's prisoners of war felt incredible, and even if Maxi and Darnell asked, Bai Feng didn't explain much, he just smiled confidently.

After a brief period of shock and amazement, the Lucy prisoners of war, who had never seen fruit before, ate the fruit in their hands under the enticing aroma of the fruit.

People who often eat fruit must not be able to understand the mood of Lucy's prisoners of war at this moment, it is like a person who eats an ordinary home-cooked meal every day, and suddenly eats a delicious meal at the level of a state banquet, and the resulting sense of happiness and surprise cannot be described in words.

After devouring half a pound of fruit in their hands, the Lucy prisoners of war began to think about the origin of these delicious fruits, knowing that this was an unprecedented delicious enjoyment given to them by their enemies.

And this is exactly the result that Bai Feng wants! Relying on force to conquer others, what you get is victory, but what you get is hatred; only by assimilating and merging the conquered and letting the conquered become a part of your own side can we truly succeed in conquering, not simply conquering by force.

The slow landing lasted until late at night, and a delicious meal of fruit kept all the Lucie POWs at a rare calm, a change that made Maxey and Darnell, who had had enough of the hateful eyes of the Lucy POWs along the way, stunned and stunned.

With a mere 24,000 gold coins, Bai Feng, who was holding tens of thousands of Lucy prisoners of war, appeased Bai Feng, and after nightfall, he handed over the responsibility of guarding the prisoners of war tonight and escorting them to Rome early tomorrow morning to Wendell, the commander of the Doge's Guard, with Maxi and Darnell assisting.

Bai Feng, who returned to Rome City with his generals and personal guards in advance, did not delay in the port, because there were too many things waiting for Bai Feng to deal with in Rome, and many things were related to whether Rome City could quickly stabilize the newly conquered area.

Bai Feng hurried all the way back to Rome, but before he could catch his breath, he was overwhelmed by the government affairs sent by Vipsani that required his approval, and he had no way to escape, so he could only pick out the more important things and deal with them first.

The twenty-seven directly subordinate towns on the north bank of the Cangluo River were to be newly established, and each of the directly subordinate towns required special procurators, tax collectors, civil guards, and patrol guards; this was an efficient means for the Roman system to assist the Roman city in rapidly assimilating and conquering the conquered areas, and Bai Feng naturally would not fail to implement them.

The recruitment price and monthly maintenance fee for each procurator, tax collector, and tribune were fixed at 100 gold, but the patrol guard, which consisted of 100 Roman patrol guards, had a monthly maintenance cost of 100 gold, but the recruitment price was as high as 500 gold.

The newly established twenty-seven directly subordinate towns, each of which required Bai Feng to spend 800 gold to recruit exclusive governance officials, and this alone cost Bai Feng 21,600 gold in treasury funds, and this was just the beginning!

The 2,400,000 people on the north bank of the Cangluo River who were directly under the rule of the city of Rome, the nearly a million people of the Kingdom of Lucy, and the new 3,400,000 people of the Kingdom of Aceni, all 3,700,000 people, had fallen into the dilemma of having no food to survive.

Because it will take a long time for the establishment of the Tuntian Military Region and the reclamation of wasteland, the city of Rome must provide a large amount of food to feed these 3.7 million people by itself in the next six months.

Even after the most difficult six months, it would take at least two to three years for the towns on the north bank of the Cangluo River and the kingdom of Luci to become self-sufficient, during which time the city of Rome would need to be supplied with food to feed at least a third of its people.

When Vipsani was about to go north, the first thing Bai Feng needed to do was to use the treasury funds to buy grain in the market of the city of Rome that could feed four million people for half a year and hand it to Vipsani, so that he could take this batch of grain to the north.

Without this vital grain, Vipsani, who had an army of more than 100,000 to rely on, would not have been able to establish twenty-seven towns in the newly conquered north by the Roman army, and hunger would have been the source of everything in the north.

As soon as these two most important matters were resolved, Vipsani took out another document that gave Bai Feng a great headache, this was an urgent matter from the Yanhuang family, and it was handed over to Allen by Sanada Nobuyoshi, one of the two commanders of the Yanhuang Standing Army, to bring back to Rome City.

As the head of one of the two major trading fleets in the city of Rome, Allen, who owned eight merchant ships and twenty-four transport ships, was a veritable maritime overlord of the city, and with the flag of the Doge's Palace always flying on his ships, his special status was needless to say.

Giving 100,000 urgent and urgent information to Alan to bring back to Rome City is also the information transmission channel that Bai Feng specially left for Sanada Nobufan before he left the Yanhuang family;

Now, an urgent piece of information sent back to Rome by Sanada Nobushigeru was placed in front of Hakumine, which forced Hakumine, who had just led his army to unify the eastern region, to shift his attention from the newly unified eastern region to the Yamato region far overseas.