Only those who have been wounded by the sword of love know the power of love.

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

The three provinces of Montain, Lyon, and Toulon now have a total population of more than 1,600,000, and the future development target is no less than 22 million.

In these crucial two years, the two billion gold coins provided by the Holy See to Bai Feng will be used by Bai Feng for the development of the three provinces of Mengdan, and the remaining billion gold coins shortfall, the Sophia Chamber of Commerce can solve half of them, that is, take out 500 million gold coins.

As a super chamber of commerce that monopolizes the commerce of the six eastern provinces, it is not difficult for the Sophia Chamber of Commerce to take out grain, daily necessities, and farming tools worth 500 million gold coins; moreover, the actual value of various materials with a market value of 500 million gold coins is not 500 million gold coins.

At the beginning, Sophia would send someone to send a profit and loss statement of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce to Bai Feng every month, and later, as the scale of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce became larger and larger, the difficulty of profit and loss statistics became higher and higher, and it was almost impossible to count them on a monthly basis.

As a result, the profit and loss statement of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce is reported to the province once a month on a county basis, and the financial staff of the Chamber of Commerce, who is responsible for the statistics of the profit and loss of the province, sorts out a detailed profit and loss report every quarter and submits it to Sophia.

According to the profit and loss statement of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce in the second quarter of this year, in just three months, the total turnover of all the shops of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce in the 26 counties of the six eastern provinces reached an astonishing 3,735 million silver coins, equivalent to 373.5 million yuan.

Among them, the cost of goods is about 230 million gold coins, the cost of personnel is about 67 million gold coins, and the net income is about 76.5 million gold coins.

The investment of about 10 million gold coins per month is the financial supply of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce for the development of Luowang, which is becoming more and more powerful, and must have strong financial support to ensure that its own development speed will not slow down.

At that time, Bai Feng, who was far away from the east of the empire, wanted to take out a large number of gold coins and hand them to Hades, and then Hades distributed them to the intelligence officers at all levels below, which was too troublesome;

The Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which has been linked to Luowang since its inception, is almost equivalent to the peripheral business organizations of Luowang; too many core members of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce are ostensibly shopkeepers and clerks who run shops, but in fact they are intelligence officers of Luowang.

After taking into account the more than 31 million gold coins that the Sophia Chamber of Commerce put into the net, the average monthly net income of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce in the second quarter was about 15 million gold coins, and in this way, it is the net income of 360 million gold coins in two years.

Considering that in the past two years, the gradual development of the six eastern provinces will bring more benefits to the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, and the real total income of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce in two years will definitely not be less than 500 million gold coins, which is exactly in line with the task assigned to them by Bai Feng.

In the end, the remaining 500 million gold coins, Bai Feng planned to obtain them through a large-scale auction of Fusang treasures, and in the name of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, to auction off Fusang treasures on a large scale, it would be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, not only to obtain a large number of gold coins, but also to increase the popularity of the Chamber of Commerce.

Forever confined to the corner of the six eastern provinces is not the development goal of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, and becoming a super chamber of commerce with power all over the continent like the Westminster Chamber of Commerce is the development direction and long-term goal set by Bai Feng for the Sophia Chamber of Commerce.

After determining the source of funds for the development of the three provinces of Mengdan, he found that the time was already the first day of August, so he focused his attention on the system of the city of Rome; for Bai Feng, who was about to return to the city of Rome, the affairs of the system were far more important than the development of the three provinces of Mengdan.

July Financial Report (July 918 AH)

Agriculture: income 3,600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: income 350 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: income 269,000 gold, expenditure 0

Taxes: 65,800 gold in income and 37,200 gold in expenses (100 gold each per month for prosecutors, tax collectors, civil protection officers, and patrol guards)

Fortune: 2,300 gold spent (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: Spend 0 gold

Recruitment: Spend 14,700 gold (temple summoning generals is also included in the recruitment and special training costs)

Construction: Spend 0

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: 0 income, 2100 gold

Last month's total: income 338,750 gold, expenditure 56,300 gold

Last month's surplus: income 282,450 gold

Total amount of the treasury at the beginning of the month: 3,064,800 gold

At this stage, the city of Rome has entered a bottleneck period of development due to its limited sphere of influence, so the financial situation in July has not changed much compared with June, but the continuous decline in corruption spending has made Bai Feng, who hates corruption, very satisfied.

Rome City (City)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 338,750 gold/month

Population: 751526 (the temple adds 2000 per month)

Social security: +215%

Population growth: +7%/month

Tax Rate: Low tax rate

Treasury: 3347250 gold

Barbarian region: 18 towns directly under the jurisdiction of 2304527

Yamato area: Nine castles (3459742)

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

The city's increasingly terrifying population growth every month has brought higher tax revenues to the city, but it has also made it more and more difficult to manage, and the number of procurators, tax collectors, tribunes, and patrol guards in the city has also increased rapidly.

As soon as he thought of the procurator and other important officials who maintained the normal development order of the city of Rome, Bai Feng thought of the three provinces of Mengdan, which under his rule seriously lacked officials at all levels; using the newly promoted military nobles as local officials was not a long-term solution for sustainable development after all.

Would it be more beneficial to the development of all the towns in the thirteen counties of the three provinces of Montaine if each town was given a magistrate, a tax collector, and a civil tributary as a local official, supplemented by patrol guards and security forces to maintain order in the towns?

After some very careful consideration, Bai Feng decided that after arriving in the county town of Montaine, he would use the four counties, thirteen cities and fifty-nine towns of the province of Montaine as a pilot to recruit system officials from the city of Rome to serve as local officials, and if the effect was significant, he would promote it to the provinces of Lyon and Toulon.

Shogunate Hall Attribute Table

Shogunate area: Mutsu Province (1,730,000 stone)

Shogunate assets: 161,100 stones

Shogunate income: 17,300 koku (1% of the ruling stone high)

Shogunate Figures (941): Priest (1st level, 500), Spy (1st level, 175), Secret Envoy (1st level, 75), Ninja (2nd level, 65), Geisha (4th level, 30), Battlefield Ninja (4th level, 4th team)

Shogunate Army (42240): Notai Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 100 Teams), Monk Soldiers (4th Rank, 20th Team), Infant Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 10th Team), Spear Samurai (2nd Rank, 60th Team), Spear Ashigaru (1st Rank, 80th Team), Iron Gun Spearmen (3rd Rank, 82 Team)

Shogunate General: Keiji Goto (top special samurai)

Bai Feng, who intends to recruit two or three more shogunate generals, decided not to recruit for the time being, anyway, there is no restriction on the recruitment of the shogunate hall system, and Bai Feng is ready to officially return to Rome City to recruit a large number of shogunate generals and shogunate troops.