"Chapter 15: The Gold Coin Crisis"
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The deal in the council hall finally came to an end with Bai Feng's compromise, and Eggers, who had achieved his goal, went directly to the backyard of the Doge's Palace to return to their military camp with Queen Boudicca, leaving behind a devastated Bai Feng.
When Yue'er asked Bai Feng what he and Eggers had discussed, Bai Feng, who was embarrassed, had to prevaricate and say that he would talk about it tonight, and then Bai Feng took his three entourage to the warehouse, where there was still something waiting for Bai Feng.
Before, Bai Feng had promised to give a heavy bounty to the soldiers under Li Cini's command, which was a big deal, and Bai Feng was still counting on these measures to enhance the loyalty of those barbarian warriors, so he naturally wouldn't be careless.
The soldiers of the First Legion under the command of Licinius and the pikemen of the Cheetah Legion, their total number is now nearly 8,000, and the reward of five gold coins per person, plus the reward of ten gold coins for each of the more than 2,000 soldiers who died in battle, that is more than 60,000 gold coins.
In addition, the pikemen of Licinius's First Legion and the Cheetah Legion were rewarded, and the other soldiers of the Tiger Legion and the Cheetah Legion of Bazel could not be rewarded?
Bai Feng's initial plan was to reward each of these soldiers with three gold coins, and as for the 1,000 soldiers who died in battle, it must have been ten gold coins per person, so that this part of the soldiers would need more than 40,000 gold coins as a reward.
In order to complete the heavy rewards and rewards of all the armies, the city of Rome needs to take out not a little gold coins, but a huge sum of at least 110,000 or so! There is no doubt that there are not so many gold coins in the warehouses of the city of Rome!
When Rome was still in the town stage, the monthly gold and silver coin production was only 50,000 silver and 5,000 gold coins, but after advancing to the big town stage, the gold and silver coin production of Rome increased to 100,000 silver and 10,000 gold coins.
Unfortunately, the city of Rome spent a lot of gold and silver coins, and at the beginning, it cost silver coins to cast silver statues for the Tassia tribe, and then spent gold coins to recruit those barbarian tribes, which cost the city of Rome a few months of savings.
Then Bai Feng paid the barbarian warriors who were employed in Rome City, and also raised the monthly salary of each soldier from three silver coins to five silver coins, and the 20,000 barbarian warriors in Rome City needed a full 100,000 silver coins a month!
With these bottomless barbarian warriors to consume silver coins, there is not a single silver coin left in the warehouses of Rome City, but fortunately, the gold coins in the warehouses of Rome City are not consumed much, so there are still some reserves.
It's a pity that the reserves of Rome City are still a drop in the bucket compared to the rewards that Bai Feng needs to pay, and now there are only 38,000 gold coins in the warehouse of Rome City, but what Bai Feng needs is at least 110,000 gold coins, which is too far away, right?!
Generally speaking, when encountering this kind of problem, Bai Feng will look for Yue'er to help him solve it, but today Bai Feng didn't dare to run to find Yue'er;
But this gold coin problem is a problem that Bai Feng has to solve, otherwise he will not be able to come up with enough gold coins to give rewards to the long-awaited soldiers in the military camp, so will anyone believe Bai Feng's words in the future? Will the soldiers still be willing to serve Bai Feng and the city of Rome to the death?
Bai Feng, who had a sad face, sat in the warehouse for about ten minutes, then suddenly jumped up and ordered the three attendants on the side:
"Maxi, you go to General Antio immediately, and ask him to immediately bring his general guards to the warehouse to box all the gold coins in it, and then transport it to the barracks, and temporarily stack it on the point platform in the barracks!
Darnell, go to General Licinius at once, and ask him to immediately bring his general guard and three groups of town militia to the camp of the Tassia tribal alliance, and invite their families to the barracks of Rome in a carriage according to the list of fallen soldiers!"
"Yes!" After hearing Bai Feng's order, the sword-wielding squire Maxi and the shield-wielding squire Darnell also hurriedly rushed away in response to the order, while Bai Feng hurried to the market with the remaining Bai Sheng.
Since the market can use the treasury funds to buy grain, then why can't the treasury funds be used to buy gold coins? Bai Feng, who was forced to be helpless, had no choice but to put all his hopes on the market, and if the market could not do it again, then he could only go to Yue'er.
It turns out that all the materials produced in the city of Rome could be bought from the market with the funds of the treasury, but the price was relatively expensive, and it was not conducive to the development of the city of Rome.
The purchase price of gold coins is about the same as the purchase price of grain, and the lowest is also based on 100 gold treasury funds, and 100 gold treasury funds can buy 10,000 gold coins; no matter how distressed Bai Feng was in his heart, he still did not hesitate to buy a full 100,000 gold coins!
With this timely 100,000 gold coins, Bai Feng's crisis this time was over, but when he saw that there was only 2,115 gold treasury funds left, his heart was also dripping blood!
After finishing the gold coins in the market, Bai Feng, who didn't know whether he should be sad or happy, returned to the warehouse, and at this time Maxi was busy packing the gold coins in the warehouse with Antio.
The wooden boxes in the city of Rome could only hold about 5,000 gold coins at most, and if you wanted to hold 110,000 gold coins, you would need 22 wooden boxes.
After seeing Antio leave the warehouse with the twenty-two boxes of gold coins, Bai Feng sat back and waited for Licinius to pick up the families of those fallen soldiers from the Tasya Tribal Alliance, and those talents were the key to Bai Feng's personal award.
If Bai Feng's award to the soldiers can make those soldiers more loyal to Bai Feng, then Bai Feng's award to the families of the fallen soldiers in front of all the soldiers will completely turn those warriors from the barbarian tribe into soldiers of the city of Rome.
And this is Bai Feng's ultimate goal all along, the first batch of foreign warriors is always the most difficult to integrate into Roman City, as long as Roman City can fully integrate these warriors into itself, the barbarian warriors who join Roman City in the future will be assimilated by them, this is what Bai Feng wants.