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After the population problem is solved, the only thing that Bai Feng still needs to solve is the problem of the capital income of the city of Rome; last month, the monthly income of the city of Rome was 20,000 gold, and now it is not easy to increase it by 50 percent at one time.

The port of Essini is still under construction, and according to the progress of the existing work, there is almost no chance that it will be completed within this month, and even if Bai Feng can send more troops to build it, it will be completed by the end of the month at most.

This means that the population of more than 100,000 people in the town of Esine can hardly contribute effectively to the monthly income of the city of Rome this month, and as for the kingdom of Esine of Queen Boudicca, the distance makes them meaningless to the city of Rome for the time being.

Queen Boudicca's Essini Kingdom was nearly a month's journey from the Iceni town of Rome, and the connection between Rome and the Essini Kingdom was severely weakened by such a long distance.

In Baifeng's planning, the construction of the port of Aceni was only the first step in strengthening the connection between Rome and the east bank of the Cangluo River, and then the city of Rome would join forces with the Aceni Kingdom to build a road to connect the Aceni Kingdom with the Roman city.

As long as this road could be built, the people of the kingdom of Esceni would be able to travel from the hinterland of the kingdom of Esceni in ten days to the port of Estheni in Rome in ten days, using horse-drawn carts or ox carts.

In the same way, the caravans of Rome and the merchants of other towns were free to travel between the east and west banks of the Cangluo River, and at that time the whole of Rome would enter a new stage of contact and development within the power.

Bai Feng, who has already had a steady development plan, only needs to develop the city of Rome according to his own plan, and he can step by step to make the city of Rome move towards a stronger future, but at the moment, the most important thing for him is how to quickly increase the monthly income of the city of Rome.

The town of Aceni on the east bank of the Cangluo River and the kingdom of Essini of Queen Boudicca are unlikely to contribute much to the monthly income of the city of Rome in the short term, especially the kingdom of Esine of Queen Boudicca, for whom Bai Feng has no hope for three months.

Since the east bank of the Cangluo River could not increase the monthly income of Rome City, the only five towns on the west bank of the Cangluo River that Bai Feng could hope for were left, and the residents of these five towns gave Bai Feng a great surprise in the first few days of the New Year.

When the city of Rome held various grand New Year's celebrations, residents from five small towns flocked to the city, which not only added to the excitement of the city's New Year's celebrations, but also led to the city's economic prosperity.

Countless shops in Rome were bought by these barbarians who had never seen much of the world as rare things, and even if each townsman only spent one silver coin, the total cost of 10,000 townspeople would be as high as a thousand gold coins!

In fact, many small town situations cost much more than a silver coin, and the families of the leaders of the various tribes of the past, as well as the families of the warriors who served in the army of Rome, had enough money to spend in the city.

Even the most modest townsfolk can turn the grain from their fields into gold and silver coins for a rare New Year's luxury, and all the town-dwellers' surplus food has been bought by the city of Rome at a high price.

According to the data report provided to Bai Feng by Yue'er, in the ten days of the New Year, at least 150,000 townspeople came to Rome with the gold coins in their pockets, and the total amount of their consumption was more than 100,000 gold coins!

Although this huge amount of money did not fall into Bai Feng's pocket, it flowed into the city of Rome, and almost all the shops and merchants in the city of Rome made a lot of money in this New Year, which can be seen from Bai Feng's data that he does not need to be in the month.

In the past, the residents of Rome City rejected the barbarian soldiers stationed outside Rome, and there were even some residents of Rome City who maliciously made some provocative actions outside the military camp outside the city; if Bai Feng hadn't stopped it in time, no one knew what would have happened.

The inhabitants of Rome were so hostile to the barbarian warriors who protected them, not to mention the rest of the barbarians, that the barbarians who flocked to Rome were warmly welcomed until the New Year's celebrations began.

The inhabitants of Rome, who were able to easily earn large amounts of gold from the pockets of the barbarians, completely changed their previous attitude towards the barbarians, so that anyone in Rome who dared to exclude the barbarians would be immediately attacked by the merchants of Rome.

Such a situation was what Bai Feng wanted to see, and he naturally would not interfere with the alliance of the merchants of Rome, but there was one thing that Bai Feng had to intervene, that is, the merchants' setting of commodity prices.

No matter how ignorant the barbarian population was of the actual value of the goods of Rome, it was impossible to change the actual value of those goods, and the actual value of these goods would soon be known to the barbarian populace as the city became more and more connected with the towns in the future.

Bai Feng would never allow the merchants of Rome to deceive the barbarian people with deliberately raised prices that were too false, because in doing so, it was not the barbarian people who would really be damaged, but the credibility of the city of Rome itself and the prestige of Bai Feng, the governor.

Therefore, in response to the price of commodities in the city of Rome, Bai Feng deliberately implemented a new decree in time on the third day after the beginning of the new year: stipulating that the price of all commodities in the city of Rome should not increase by more than one-third of the previous price in the New Year, otherwise it will be confiscated!

This edict was also implemented by Bai Feng after careful consideration, with the aim of stabilizing the price of commodities in the city of Rome, and the increase in the price of commodities by one-third was enough for the merchants of Rome to make a lot of profits, and it was also enough for the barbarian people not to feel cheated.

It was not until Bai Feng's personal guard battalion confiscated twelve shops in a row that this trend of price increases in defiance of the law was completely stopped.

At this time, the merchants of Rome, who realized the majesty of the decree, reluctantly gave up the idea of raising the price privately, and the attitude of the townspeople was completely different from the attitude of the townspeople, who applauded and praised Bai Feng's decree.

A temporary decree made Bai Feng's prestige in the eyes of the barbarian people skyrocket, which was an unexpected gain for Bai Feng, so Bai Feng, who felt that the people could use it, took advantage of the situation to turn this temporary decree into a permanent decree of the city of Rome.

The prosperity of Rome City in the first ten days of the New Year is only a temporary bustle after all, and after the New Year's activities are over, those barbarian people who came to Rome City will gradually leave;