People cannot accept injustice, whether it is Hitler or someone else;

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

Returning to Rome two days early, the first day was spent in a busy day, and the second day was also spent in a busy situation, and unlike the first day, the second day was the last day of August, and the night required more things to do than the day before.

Because many things had to be done after midnight, Bai Feng summoned Luquis and Vipsani, who were busier than him, to the governor's mansion after dinner, and Bai Feng still liked to listen to Luquis and the others report in person compared to the cold system.

Of course, this is only the reason why Bai Feng called Luquis and Vipsani tonight, and on the other hand, the system describes the situation in Rome too roughly, and Bai Feng still has to know from Luquis and Vipsani in terms of specific details.

"Governor!"

Hearing the voices of Luquis and Vipsani, Bai Feng, who was carefully checking the development status of the various towns under the city of Rome, raised his head and waved his hand at the respectful two, "You can find a chair and sit down, and wait until I finish reading what I have in hand." ”

After that, without waiting for Luquis and Vipsani to react, Bai Feng lowered his head and looked at the things in his hand again; Luquis and Vepsani, who had long been accustomed to all this, did not really find a chair to sit down casually, but sat under Bai Feng left and right.

This is the development status of the towns in Rome that was handed over to Bai Feng by Vipsani yesterday, Bai Feng has been too busy to look at it before, and Bai Feng didn't have time to take it out until tonight to take it out and check it carefully;

For example, the town of Tasia, named after the original tribe of Gamilios and his son, has a total population of a staggering 200,000, including 40,000 young people!

More than one-fifth of the young and able-bodied population who did not join the army was already a very high proportion for a barbarian town where almost all the people were soldiers, which is enough to show that the population composition of the small town of Tasia is becoming more and more reasonable.

Compared with the increasingly rational population composition, what really attracted Bai Feng's attention was the development of industry, agriculture and commerce in the small town of Tasya, which after a year and a half of accumulation, the farmland reclaimed by the town of Tasya could harvest enough grain to feed 150,000 people every time it matured.

This meant that the grain produced by the town of Tasia could not only feed the 200,000 barbarians in the town, but also sell one-third of the grain to the governor's palace, which of course the barbarian people who were accustomed to living a life without enough food and clothing.

The vast majority of the people in the small town of Tasia will store more food for emergencies on the premise of ensuring that their whole family has enough food to eat, and the people who can sell all the surplus food with only the rations are barbarian young people who are unwilling to save money and start business.

When it comes to these barbarian youths, one has to mention the extremely prosperous business situation of the town of Tasya, and out of the mentality of compensating for the father and son of Gamilios, Bai Feng once specially asked Vipsani to help the development of the town of Tasia to a limited extent before leaving the city of Rome.

As a result of Bai Feng's deliberate entrustment, Vepsani set aside a special amount of 100,000 gold coins to support the commercial development of the small town of Tasya, after all, attaching importance to commerce and stimulating the economic growth of the town through commerce was the instinctive and habitual means of all Roman officials and politicians.

A full 100,000 gold coins, in exchange for the fact that Tasya Town has formed a caravan scale that is unimaginable in other towns, and under the current situation that the total number of caravans in other towns is no more than twenty, the number of large caravans in Tasya Town alone has reached twenty-five!

The division of caravans in Rome was based on the number of employees and the size of the business: small caravans were caravans with fewer than 50 employees and an annual turnover of less than 500 ducats, medium caravans were caravans with more than 50 employees but less than 200 ducats and an annual turnover of more than 500 ducats but less than 5,000 ducats, and large caravans were caravans with more than 200 employees and an annual turnover of more than 5,000 ducats.

The town of Tasia now has twenty-five large caravans, forty-seven medium-sized caravans, and one hundred and four small caravans, which means that in the small town of Tasia with a population of 200,000, there are more than 20,000 people serving the caravans!

More than a tenth of the population of a town is a professional caravanserais, not counting the other small traders and peddlers, which shows how big the business is and how lively the business atmosphere really is in the town of Tasya!

Although the towns under the rule of Rome were not subject to agricultural taxes, the commercial tax on the business of caravans was still payable, and even if the commercial tax rate set by the Doge's Office was not high, all the caravans in the eighteen towns combined paid a monthly commercial tax of 50,000 gold coins.

Among them, the town of Tasia alone, the commercial tax paid reached 10,000 gold coins, accounting for one-fifth of the total commercial tax;

With the parallel development of agriculture and commerce, the industry of Tasia Town also ushered in the peak period of rapid development; the so-called industrial development here does not mean that the mechanical industry is beyond the times, but refers to the relatively simple and primitive manufacturing of household utensils.

The barbarian people, who lack science and technology, do not know how to manufacture daily necessities and living utensils, and they used to use very simple and primitive stone bone products, which will be damaged if they are not used in the process, and the manufacture is very cumbersome and complicated.

In response to the common problems of the barbarian people in the small town of Tasya, Vipsani selected thousands of craftsmen with manufacturing experience from the town of Tassia in the name of the Doge's Palace, and then asked the craftsmen who were proficient in the manufacture of various utensils and supplies in the city of Rome to teach these barbarian craftsmen how to make them.

With the strong support of Vipsani, the small town of Tasia, which was no different from other small towns, quickly developed its own small town manufacturing industry, and even the products they produced at low prices once took over a lot of business in the city of Rome.

Vipsani would not have popularized the practice of supporting Tasia had it not been for the representatives of the other towns who objected to the Governor's Palace's deliberate preference for Tasia, which had grown much faster than the others.

The rapid development of the town of Tasia was not uncommon among the eighteen towns, and the other towns that did not receive the strong support of the Governor's Palace did not develop slowly, and the industriousness and resilience of the barbarian people became a shortcut to their fortunes.

It is no exaggeration to say that the total population of the eighteen small towns under the rule of Rome is less than 2.3 million, but the actual annual production of food and wealth created is much more than double that of the Lucian tribe and the Eastern Alliance combined!

Even the Acenian kingdom of Queen Boudicca benefited greatly from the rapid development of the towns under the rule of Rome, and the smooth and spacious quadripartite avenue connected not only the diplomatic exchanges between the city of Rome and the Aceni kingdom, but also the comprehensive economic cooperation between the two sides!