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Many of the affairs of the city of Rome were handled cleanly by Bai Feng, and the incomparably many things of July were finally over, and it was a miracle that the city of Rome had fought two major battles in just one month, and had increased the size of its army several times.

What made Bai Feng even more emotional was not the various things that happened in this month, but the various predicaments that he was forced out of by not having the funds from the treasury; if it weren't for the fact that the money for recruiting tax officers, civil guards, and patrol guards could be deducted from the next month, Bai Feng wouldn't even be able to recruit them.

After staying up until the arrival of the new month, Bai Feng hurriedly clicked on the July financial report of the city of Rome, which had been flashing in the attribute table of the city of Rome since he woke up early in the morning, but he didn't expect that the data in the report was not what he imagined at all.

July Financial Report (July 916 AH)

Agriculture: Income 2,400 gold, expenditure 2,000 gold (purchase of grain)

Mining: Income 200 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: Earn 3,025 gold, spend 1,000 gold (buy gold)

Taxes: 3,650 gold in income, 1,200 gold in expenses (100 gold each for the tax officer, civil protection officer, and patrol guard)

Fortune: 200 gold (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: 1040 Gold Expenditure (Integration)

Recruitment: Spend 2180 gold (temple summoning generals are also part of recruitment)

Construction: Spend 1200 gold

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: 0 income, 400 gold

Last month's total: income 9,275 gold, expenditure 9,220 gold

Last month's surplus: income 55 gold

Total amount of the treasury at the beginning of the month: 7445 gold

Current Treasury: 7,500 gold

Judging from the data in this financial report, Rome's trade revenue and tax revenue have increased significantly in the past month, but in Bai Feng's opinion, such an increase is still too small for the development of Rome City!

In the last month, the city of Rome has increased its population from more than 100,000 to nearly 500,000, and except for the three newly established towns, the 100,000 people of Queen Boudicca's people on the east bank of the Cangluo River are all vassal populations of the city of Rome.

Leaving aside the other aspects, the number of people who trade with the city of Rome has increased almost fivefold, shouldn't such a huge number bring at least four times the trade income of the city of Rome? This is what puzzles Bai Feng the most.

The increase in the population and tax revenue of the city of Rome itself is still very reasonable, after all, the population of the city of Rome that should naturally increase this month, plus the three additional summoning populations of the high priest of Binglan last time, the resulting increase in tax revenue is in line with the actual situation.

Only Bai Feng, who couldn't understand the income from trade, found Yue'er again, and in the face of Bai Feng, who was full of unhealed color, the smiling Yue'er gave Bai Feng an irrefutable reason;

First of all, the Aceni tribe located on the east bank of the Cangluo River, whose population of more than 100,000 people could hardly start any large-scale trade with the city of Rome without effective means of crossing the river, and naturally it was impossible to bring trade income to the city of Rome.

The second was the population of the three new towns, half of whom had been taken over by Rome in the middle of the month, and then moved to the newly built towns, and who had been struggling to survive at all.

Finally, the other half of the population of the three new towns, that is, the population of the original Tasya tribe, they were in a state of blockade before the middle of the month, and they were busy moving new towns after the middle of the month, and it was already rare to be able to contribute three thousand trade income to Rome City, could Bai Feng still be demanding that these people contribute five or six thousand trade income to Rome City?

The speechless Bai Feng had to leave Yue'er's room dejectedly, it turned out that these naked data were not the system errors, but Bai Feng himself thought too much, and the helpless Bai Feng had to silently watch the situation in Rome City.

Rome City (Large Town)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 9275 gold/month

Population: 17,816 (the temple adds 1,000 people per month)

Social Security: +170%

Population growth: +5%/month

Tax rate: Medium tax rate

Treasury: 7500 gold

Current army: three town militias (level 1), three thousand longbowmen

Special Army: 1 team of Cretan Archers (1st class), 1 team of Parthian Cavalry (1st class), 1 team of Germanic berserkers (1st class), 1 team of Spartan heavy infantry (4th class), 500 Temple Warriors (Cold Gundam, Cold High Flying)

Special Personnel: Spellcaster (1 person, leader Webster), Battlefield Ghost (4 people, leader Adrian)

Active Legions: 1st Legion (12 Roman Youth Corps, 8,000 Soldiers, Captain of the Licinian Legion), Cheetah Legion (9,000 Soldiers, Captain of the Gatus Legion), Tiger Legion (15,000 Soldiers, Captain of the Bazel Legion), Eagle Legion (15,000 Soldiers, Captain of the Eggers), Dragons (15,000 Soldiers, Commander of the Bronno Legion), Roman Spear Legion (6,000 Cavalry, Captain of the Nelson Legion), Tassia Legion (10,000 Soldiers, Captain of the Gamilios Legion), Doge's Guard (1,000 soldiers, 500 cavalry, Commander of the Antio Legion)

Special Legions: 1st Tuntian Legion (10,000 Soldiers, Commander of Palmer), 2nd Tuntian Legion (10,000 Soldiers, Commander of Isidor Legion), 3rd Tuntian Legion (10,000 Soldiers, Commander of Auston)

Allies: Aceni Legion (20,000 warriors, Captain Joshuel)

Towns: Tasia (94,321 people, normal), Greno (84,654 people, poor), Rai town (94,636 people, poor)

Existing buildings: Doge's Palace, Wooden Wall, Temple of Apollo, Town Barracks, Road, Bazaar, Public Farm, Mine, Stables, Blacksmith Shop, Stone Paving Road

Under Construction: None

Buildable buildings: drill grounds, ports, sewage canals, deep cave mines

The recent development of Roman City has also brought about earth-shaking changes in the attribute table of Roman City, and the number of active legions has also increased to eight, among which the existence of the Tasya Legion has made Bai Feng suddenly understand a lot of things.

In Bai Feng's mind, the three Tuntian legions that were classified as the reserve army of the field legion of the Roman city were all classified in the new 'special legions' column, and the legions of the Essini tribe also appeared in the newly appeared 'ally legions'.

As for the three newly formed towns, they appeared in a newly emerged 'direct town', and with the existence of this directly subordinate town, coupled with the classification of the Tasia Legion, Bai Feng already had a new development model of Roman City in his mind.

Once upon a time, Bai Feng also planned to expand the sphere of influence of the city of Rome by increasing the vassal power a lot, but now it seems that it is completely unnecessary;