"Chapter 18: The Governor's Residence"

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When Bai Feng left the Governor's Mansion this morning, the Governor's Palace was still the same three-story building, and when he returned, the former three-story Governor's Palace had been replaced by the majestic buildings in front of him, which together constituted Bai Feng's Governor's Residence.

The first thing that catches Bai Feng's eye is a four-story main building with white walls and red tiles, with a five-meter-high gate giving a sense of grandeur, and on either side of the main building, two lion statues symbolizing the Augustan family.

As the city officially entered the city phase, the wooden walls that had been guarding the city had been replaced by new stone walls, which were tall and majestic, completely cutting off the people who lived inside the city from everything outside the city.

From this moment on, any enemy who wanted to attack the city of Rome had to pay enough to get close to the city under the walls of Rome, and the city of Rome, which had stone walls as walls, also had a stronger defense.

After struggling for more than a year, Bai Feng finally truly established the city of Rome, and with a lot of emotion in his heart, he stopped for a long time in the square in front of the governor's mansion before striding towards the governor's mansion with the high priest Binglan and his entourage.

Frankly speaking, the current governor's mansion is still more than a star and a half worse than the palace where Bai Feng lives in the Roman world, but compared to the Bai family's mansion, the governor's residence in Rome is much more splendid and magnificent.

Bai Feng, who returned to the governor's mansion with trepidation, did not see the hostility on Yue'er's face as he had imagined, and she did not even show the slightest hint of surprise at the fact that she had brought back the high priest of Binglan.

Bai Feng, who was surprised, would not take the initiative to do something at this juncture, since Yue'er didn't have much, he naturally wouldn't mention this matter more, and the Binglan High Priest who was brought by Bai Feng took the initiative to step forward and hold Yue'er's arm with a smile on his face.

Watching the expressionless Yue'er and the smiling Binglan High Priest go upstairs, Bai Feng's heart was also full of doubts;

Since the establishment of the city of Rome, Yue'er, who has always been by Bai Feng's side, has never stepped into the temple, and the high priest of Binglan, who can't leave the temple, can't even come out to find Yue'er, so how did these two people meet?

With Bai Feng's wisdom, it was not difficult for him to see that there must be something else hidden in this, however, Bai Feng didn't intend to waste time speculating about the relationship between Yue'er and the High Priest of Binglan, because he believed that Yue'er would tell him these things sooner or later.

Compared to the relationship between Yue'er and High Priest Binglan, Bai Feng was more concerned about the layout of the governor's residence, and in the new four-story main building, the first floor of the building was mainly composed of a large banquet hall and kitchen, and several maid rooms.

By this time, the number of maids and servants in the governor's residence had risen to twenty-four, and if four people lived in one room, it would take six rooms to accommodate them, and in the larger backyard, there were separate maids and servants to wait.

The maids and servants in the main building are for the governor and the masters who live in it, and the forty-eight maids and servants in the backyard are for the generals and special forces who live in the backyard.

After the expansion, the backyard of the Doge's residence had not only a garden full of exotic flowers and a pond with many fish, but also more independent courtyards, large and small, for the generals recognized by the Roman city system.

The residences of Licinius, Antio, Vepsani, Peris, Leonidas, and other generals were in the backyard of the governor's residence, while the residence of the barbarian generals such as Eggers, Bazel, and Brono was the mansion that Bai Feng had built for them in Rome.

The newly built mansions of the barbarian generals are certainly comfortable to live in, but compared to the generals who live in the backyard of the governor's mansion, who has a closer relationship with Bai Feng between them is naturally immediate!

In addition to these generals recognized by the Roman City system, the spellcasters and battlefield ghosts recruited by Bai Feng also lived in the backyard of the governor's residence;

Recently, both Licinius and Antio have been busy training soldiers in their respective legions' barracks, and they have also stayed in the barracks at night to eat and live with the soldiers, and those battlefield ghosts have also been sent out by Bai Feng, and there are only ten spellcasters left.

Webster, who is the leader of the spellcasters, also deliberately looked for Baifeng two days ago, in order to solve the problem of the number of spellcasters; at the beginning, the number of spellcasters was more than the ghosts of the battlefield, and then the number of the two sides slowly leveled off.

After returning from the expedition against Frances, Bai Feng, who was eager to know about the situation of the forces around Rome City, recruited ten battlefield ghosts again, which directly led to the number of battlefield ghosts reaching twice the number of spellcasters!

It's not that Bai Feng himself prefers battlefield ghosts with strong melee strength, but that the barbarian forces with almost no powerful long-range strike force determine the direction of Bai Feng's recruitment;

Recruiting a sufficient number of spellcasters again was a precautionary decision in Bai Feng's opinion, because when Rome expanded into the civilized world in the future, it would inevitably encounter the long-range strike force unique to the civilized world-the magician.

If he really waited until he faced the threat of magicians, it would be too late to recruit spellcasters temporarily, so on the premise of having sufficient funds, Bai Feng felt that it was not a bad thing to recruit some spellcasters in advance as a reserve for long-range strike power.

The range of the longbowmen in Rome was indeed impressive, but once the warring parties were engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand fight, the longbowmen had to withdraw from the battle, otherwise the rain of arrows would be too dense and their own troops would be injured by mistake on a large scale.

Webster's casters are the best long-range strikers to replenish after they withdraw from the battle, and casters with a limited attack range can use their individual strengths to carry out targeted long-range strikes against the enemy.

Of course, it is one thing to promise Webster to recruit another batch of spellcasters, and it is another thing to compare the number of battlefield ghosts and spellcasters; battlefield ghosts, which are superior to spellcasters in terms of combat effectiveness and combat value, will inevitably be Bai Feng's next key recruitment targets.

The formation of a large number of battlefield ghost troops is not only a powerful elite force for the city of Rome, but also means that the city of Rome can reach a new level of control over the surrounding forces and its own internal affairs.

Regarding the comparison of the future number of battlefield ghosts and spellcasters, Bai Feng also did some good thinking work on Webster, and Webster, who only wanted to recruit more spellcasters, had to show Bai Feng his obedience.