If you can't be absolutely straightforward with yourself, you may spend a lifetime dealing with the trivial things that interfere with you, until you realize that all your worries are not doing you any good. You may be entangled in it and waste your life's time. That's a waste of life.

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

In the war to unify the eastern region of Rome, the only person who was promoted by a Roman centurion to a system general was Aldington, the lieutenant general of the Fifth Roman legion.

Because of the independence of the Roman system, all soldiers recruited by the system, each centurion has the default status of a class centurion before they are promoted to the system general, even if they have been promoted to the corps lieutenant general, this default of the system will not change.

Therefore, before Aldington was promoted to the general of the system, whether his identity was the most basic centurion, or he was later promoted to captain, wing commander, and lieutenant general of the legion, his identity in the system has always been the centurion of the Roman heavy infantry and has never changed.

In Bai Feng's view, as long as the leader of the Roman legion is a system general, it does not necessarily have to be a stronger summoning system general.

Ensuring the loyalty of the Roman legions to him is indeed the top priority in Bai Feng's eyes, so he will not hand over the position of the captain of any Roman legion to a non-system general, this is the basic principle of Bai Feng's appointment of the Roman legion leader.

As for the system generals who served as the captains of the Roman legions, whether they were summoning system generals or system generals who grew up on their own, Bai Feng didn't care, because the ability and potential of system generals who grew up by themselves were not necessarily worse than those who summoned system generals.

For example, Leonidas, the commander of the Spartan Legion, is a self-grown system general, and his strategic vision and tactical command ability are only stronger than ordinary summoning system generals, and even Luquis is only slightly better than him!

According to Bai Feng's own observations, Leonidas's tactical command ability should be on a par with Victoria's Secret, and they all belong to the super-first-class kind; in terms of strategic vision, Leonidas is only slightly inferior to Luquis, although he does not reach the super-first-class level, he is also among the first-class.

Up to now, the Roman system has summoned as many as thirteen system generals, among whom only Luquis and Vimy's two can reach or surpass Leonidas's level, and the rest are all inferior to Leonidas.

In view of this, Bai Feng's reuse of self-growing system generals is also obvious to all, from Peris and Leonidas, to Hans and Aetius, to Aggis and Aldington, who of these generals is not a general at the level of a legion commander?

Even the commander of the Roman battalion to which the White Peak Guards belonged, Aggis, was only the commander of a battalion-level unit in name, but in fact the army under his command was as many as a hundred teams of Roman heavy infantry, which was equivalent to the number of Roman soldiers of two Roman legions!

As soon as he thought of the Roman camp in the grasslands of the northern frontier of the Tianlong Empire, Bai Feng remembered the Roman system that had not been paid attention to by him for a long time; when Bai Feng led the army to the expedition, it was the beginning of October, and now it is the end of November, but he has not read the financial report for October.

October Financial Report (October 918 AH)

Agriculture: income 3,600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: income 350 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: income 298,000 gold, expenditure 0

Taxes: 77,400 gold in income and 44,000 gold in expenses (100 gold each per month for the prosecutor, tax officer, civil protection officer, and patrol guard)

Yulu: 2,400 gold spent (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: Spend 0 gold

Recruitment: Spend 38,500 gold (temple summoning generals are also included in the recruitment and special training costs)

Construction: Spend 0

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: 0 income, 1450 gold

Last month's total: income 379,350 gold, expenditure 86,350 gold

Last month's surplus: income 293,000 gold

Total amount of the treasury at the beginning of the month: 3,910,500 gold

In October, Aldington had not yet been promoted to the rank of system general, and the battle for unification had not ended, and the income and expenditure in the financial reports of the city of Rome remained stable, without much fluctuation, not even additional expenditures.

But Bai Feng knew in his heart that there would definitely be large fluctuations in income and expenditure in the upcoming November financial report, because he had to recruit prosecutors, tax collectors, civil guards, and patrol guards for the newly established towns directly under his control, and he also had to spend a large amount of money from the state treasury to buy grain.

In addition, the newly formed auxiliary legions and tuntian legions need systematic special training, and the Roman soldiers with varying degrees of battle losses need to be systematically reorganized, etc., all of which need to consume the treasury funds of the city of Rome and affect the balance of Rome's income and expenditure in the current month.

Of course, these expenditures are nothing to Bai Feng, who is sitting on the treasury of four million, the only thing he needs is for Rome City to meet the conditions for advancing to the stage of a big city as soon as possible, and he will not hesitate to pay any price to achieve this goal!

Rome City (City)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 379,350 gold/month

Population: 927647 (the temple adds 2000 people per month)

Social security: +215%

Population growth: +7%/month

Tax Rate: Low tax rate

Treasury: 4,203,500 gold

Barbarian region: 18 towns (4725856)

Yamato area: Nine castles (3461437)

Vassals: Aceni (1012649) Lucy (987527)

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

It seems that the atmosphere of Rome is about to advance to the stage of the big city, and the attribute table of Rome has undergone a new change, and the vassal population that was not included in the attribute table of Rome City has now been included in the attribute table of Rome City.

This means that the total population under the rule of the forces of Rome City will be more intuitively presented in front of Bai Feng, plus the attribute table of Rome City presents the current status of Rome City, when Bai Feng checked the attribute table of Rome City, what he saw was naturally the latest state of Rome City.

Although the twenty-seven towns directly under the city of Rome on the north bank of the Cangluo River had not yet been established at this time, the population that originally belonged to the Eastern League and the Luxi tribe was indeed included in the rule of the Roman city, so the ruling population of the Roman city more than doubled.

Even the Eastern Alliance prisoners of war that Bai Feng intended to be assigned to the Aceni Kingdom, as well as their families, were counted as the population of the Essini Kingdom with great wisdom in the system, so Bai Feng in the province had to bother to distinguish and calculate.

The population of the city of Rome was 4,720,000, plus the population of the Kingdom of Aesini (1,010,000), the population of the Kingdom of Luci (980,000), and the population of the city of Rome in the eastern part of the Wasteland alone amounted to more than 6,726,000!

Because the population of the Yanhuang family's sphere of influence in the Yamato area is also counted by the Roman system as the population of Rome City, the total population of Rome City after the end of the Unification War has exceeded 10 million, and the last condition for Rome City to be promoted to a big city has been reached!