Those distant pasts are still vivid, but the recent ones are as vague as the past. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

- Leonardo da Vinci (typical artist of the Renaissance)

"Eggers, before I explain to you the meaning of Tuntian, let me ask you a very practical question: if the food support of the Roman city is now lost, the alliance of the Acenian tribe and the Tasia tribe and the new 150,000 people, will they survive?"

The smiling Bai Feng asked Eggers this sharp and unusual question, this question not only made Eggers's face show a solemn look, but even Gamilios on the side also turned his gaze to Bai Feng; after a long silence, Eggers replied with great difficulty:

"If they lose the food support from the city of Rome now, then they will face a real existential crisis, whether it is the Acenian tribe on the east bank of the Cangluo River, or the nearly 300,000 people on the west bank, more than half of them will survive!"

"General Eggers' estimate is too optimistic, I don't know the situation of other tribes, but the situation of our Tasia is far worse than you think, once we lose the food support of the city of Rome, we will not be able to survive more than one-fifth of the people on the Tasia side!"

As soon as Eggers's words were finished, Gamilios added an even more speechless explanation with a heavy face, and no one in the chamber felt that he was alarmist in the face of Gamilios' description.

"This question is very realistic and cruel, but what is even more frustrating is that with the continuous expansion of the area ruled by our Roman city, do you think that with the size and population of our Roman city, we can really feed more than 400,000 people on both sides of the Cangluo River all the time?

All of you here are the core generals of our city of Rome, and they are all people I can trust, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms that with the strength of our city of Rome, it is simply not enough to feed a population of more than 200,000, including the number of troops.

After this expansion, the army of our Roman city will be composed of six main legions and three tuntian legions, plus 10,000 soldiers of the Tasia army and 20,000 soldiers of the Acenian army, which is a total of 130,000 soldiers who need to be supported by the city of Rome.

My generals, how much more can the food of the city of Rome feed these 130,000 warriors and at the same time? 70,000, a paltry 70,000 people! And we now need to feed more than 400,000, which is beyond the capacity of the city of Rome.

It is undeniable that we still have some food reserves in Rome, but at most they will be enough for the current population for two months, and that includes the food we have just captured from the enemy camp, and what will we be going to feed this population in two months?"

With Bai Feng's questioning, the generals in the council hall were all confused, after they became the generals of Rome City, they put all their energy into leading troops to fight, and never thought about other logistics that Bai Feng would arrange properly.

It wasn't until Bai Feng put all the problems on the surface at this moment that they knew what kind of situation the food crisis in Rome City had reached, why was the scale of the barbarian tribes always small, wasn't it because the barren land couldn't support the population at all?

This almost unsolvable problem has plagued the barbarians for thousands of years, and they have never found a solution, even for the super-tribes that dominate one side, and their internal rule mode is to spread the population over a certain area in order to avoid the food pressure caused by the over-concentration of the population.

Seeing that the faces of the generals in the council hall showed a look of decadence, Bai Feng changed his previous solemnity and solemnity, and instead changed a more relaxed tone and continued to the generals present:

"Well, after telling you all about the predicament we are in, we can tell you the solution to the food problem; just now Eggers asked me what I mean by tuntian, which is actually to use young and strong people to farm and harvest grain.

As long as we reclaim the fertile land on the east and west banks of the main stream of the Cangluo River on a large scale and are moistened by the river, we will be able to grow crops and harvest grain on this fertile soil, and in this way, we will be able to completely solve our food problem!"

"Governor, your idea is too simplistic, for the land along the Cangluo River is fertile, but it is difficult for us to make real use of it. In the past, the most important factor affecting our land reclamation on the West Bank was the threat from the enemy on the East Bank.

Now the Essini tribe on the east bank has become our allies, but this is only one of the many factors that have been eliminated, and there are many more that cannot be solved, such as the fact that we don't know how to cultivate the crops, the wrath of the Cangluo River every autumn, and so on. ”

"General Gamelios, what you are worried about is not a problem, you do not know how to cultivate, our city of Rome will send someone to teach you carefully, you do not have crop seeds, our city of Rome will provide you with a large amount.

As for the wrath of the Cangluo River every autumn, you don't have to worry about it, since the year of the appearance of our Roman city, there will be no more wrath in the Cangluo River, and the fertile land along the Cangluo River will become a fertile field for you to harvest countless grains!"

Gamilios had just raised new questions about Bai Feng's plan, and to Bai Feng's surprise, Yue'er actually stood up and gave a more impeccable answer;

"Don't worry, Gamilios, that's what I mean, whatever worries you had, you don't need to think about them now, as long as you keep walking behind us in Rome. ”

Hearing Bai Feng say this, Gamilios thought about it and didn't say anything more, Eggers didn't say anything since Bai Feng specifically explained Tuntian's strategy, but fell into his own contemplation.

It wasn't until the conversation between Gamelios and Yue'er was over that he also looked up at Bai Feng with a determined expression, and it happened that Bai Feng also looked at Eggers, and the two looked at each other, and Eggers just nodded slightly and stopped talking.

After the matter about Tuntian was approved by Gamilios and Eggers, Queen Boudicca naturally did not have any objections; I don't know if Bai Feng felt wrong, anyway, Bai Feng always felt that Queen Boudicca's eyes were a little strange recently, maybe this was the role played by Eggers.

When the city of Rome needed the Esine tribe to do something, Bai Feng would first discuss with Eggers, and then send someone to discuss with Queen Boudicca, and every time Queen Boudicca agreed without hesitation, Bai Feng attributed it to Eggers.

Here Bai Feng seems to have intentionally or unintentionally omitted a detail, that is, Eggers has been in Rome City, Bai Feng and Eggers have finished discussing and sent someone to find Queen Boudicca, and it seems that Eggers can't use his will to influence Queen Boudicca!