"Chapter 63: Where the King City Is"
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- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)
When it comes to the three trading fleets of the city of Rome, we have to mention a regular function of the Roman port -- the construction of ships! Because the warships such as the double and triple warships were recruited, there were only two kinds of ships that could be built in the Roman port: merchant ships and transport ships.
The so-called construction of the system is naturally very different from the construction in the conventional sense, and the construction in the conventional sense refers to the boatsmith building the ship little by little on the slipway, and the speed of the construction of the ship is closely related to the number of shipwrights, the level of skill and other factors.
In fact, it is not only the shipwright factor that affects the speed and quantity of ships, but also the number of slipways, the amount of high-quality timber, the cost of construction, and many other factors.
Similar to the original Essini Kingdom and the later Eastern Alliance, a large number of small wooden boats are more like small rafts that are patchwork together than ships;
For example, the construction period of merchant ships and transport ships is one month, and Bai Feng only needs to pay the construction cost first, and he can receive the ships after one month.
This means that if Bai Feng wants to build a merchant ship, it will take a month, and if he wants to build ten merchant ships at the same time, it will also take a month; under the premise that the construction period is constant, there is no limit to the number of Roman ports to be built at the same time!
This kind of unlimited, to a certain extent, should be regarded as a bug in the Roman city system, imagine that if Bai Feng really builds merchant ships and transport ships on a large scale, the amount he can build in a month will directly depend on the amount of money in the treasury of Rome City!
How many ships can be built in a month? 50 ships to 100 ships in a month, the Celestial Dragon Empire, which has the largest shipyard on the mainland, only builds less than 200 ships a year!
A mere Roman port, the number of ships built every month can easily reach 200, what does this mean, Bai Feng, who has experienced the commercial era, knows better than anyone in his heart, but the city of Rome at this stage has not yet been able to give full play to the true value of Roman ports.
The limited trade objects and trade scale determined that there was no need for Bai Feng to blindly build too many merchant ships and transport ships, but now that it was determined that the Roman city would go on an expedition to the Yamato Empire in the future, a larger number of transport ships had become an irreplaceable necessity.
The cost of building a transport ship was 1,000 gold from the treasury, and the cost of building a merchant ship was 1,500 gold from the treasury, and it was undoubtedly very cheap and cost-effective to build a ship at the recruitment price of two or three Roman heavy infantry, so the 100,000 gold was paid by Bai Feng.
A hundred transport ships can transport a staggering 200,000 troops at one time, including the food and supplies needed by the 200,000 army for a month.
After spending 100,000 gold of treasury funds in the port of Rome, Bai Feng, who had planned to return to Rome, took a ship from the port of Rome to the port of Aceni, and his next destination was the royal city of Aceni, where Queen Boudicca was located.
In the past, the Essini Kingdom did not have the concept of a capital city, let alone the practice of building a royal city, but later, as the connection between the city of Rome and the Aceni Kingdom became more and more close, the majestic stone walls of the Roman city made the envious Essini Kingdom magnates decide to imitate it.
The Aceni Kingdom, which was still essentially a barbarian tribe, wanted to build a walled royal city, which was naturally a good thing for the Roman city, because the existence of the city walls could not only provide defense for the royal city of the Aceni Kingdom, but also bind them.
Once upon a time, in the Aceni Kingdom without the concept of a royal city, where the king (the original tribal leader) was, where was their spiritual sustenance, once the royal city was built, could the king of the Aceni Kingdom go wherever he wanted?
The new royal city would replace the king himself as a symbol and a new spiritual sustenance for the kingdom of Esini, and when the time came, if only one army captured their royal city, the mighty kingdom of Essini would immediately fall apart and fall apart.
On the one hand, a royal city protected by a walled city could provide warm and comfortable living conditions for the king himself and the magnates of the kingdom, and on the other hand, a royal city that became a spiritual sustenance would inevitably stimulate the economic development of the Acenian Kingdom.
In addition, the construction of the royal city also has many benefits such as increasing the cohesion of the people of the Aceni Kingdom and enhancing the overall strength of the Aceni Kingdom.
No one knows why the brilliant Queen Boudicca chose to agree to build the royal city, and when Vipsani, who was in charge of all the affairs of the city of Rome, received a request for help from Queen Boudicca, he decisively sent a large number of craftsmen to go there with the construction materials.
According to incomplete statistics, the Esini Kingdom, with a total population of about 600,000, has more than 60,000 people settled in the royal city, accounting for about one-tenth of its total population!
A city of 60,000 people, whether it is in the civilized world on earth, or in the original Roman world, or in the current Tianlong Continent, it is not a big city, and even the Roman city in Baifeng has a population more than ten times that of the royal city of Aceni.
The crux of the matter is that the barbarians in the eastern part of the barbarian land have never had a real city in the history of the barbarians, let alone a city with a settled population of 60,000 people, can the people of the Acenian Kingdom not have a strong sense of pride in the kingdom?
Heading straight to the east, Bai Feng encountered more than one caravan from the Kingdom of Aesini along the way, and through talking with these caravan members, Bai Feng found that the construction of the Royal City of Esine in Queen Boudicca was much more than a city.
The people of the Aceni Kingdom, who are proud of the kingdom, not only regard the newly built Aceni Kingdom as their proud capital, but also honor Queen Boudicca, who ordered the construction of the city, as the greatest and greatest king in the history of the Aceni Kingdom!
Although the history of the Essini kingdom is not very long, and there are only three kings who have been crowned kings, the history of the Essini tribe is very long, and there is no shortage of legendary figures who have served as the leaders of the Essini tribe and will be remembered by future generations.
The young Queen Boudicca, in the minds of the people of the Aceni Kingdom, can be compared with these legendary figures that have been passed down through the ages, and even surpasses, relying on her achievements in building the first Sini Royal City.
The explanations of the caravan members, the stories of the people on the way, and the respectful demeanor they involuntarily showed when they mentioned Queen Boudicca, Bai Feng's face also showed a slight smile, the better his own woman, the more he can prove his ability, isn't it?