"Chapter 187: Business Prosperity"

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- Queciadini (Italian Renaissance icon)

Headquartered in the depths of the Alps, the Tragic Dead has ten functional departments, each with its own functions, including coordination, combat, intelligence, supervision, security, equipment, medical care, commerce, engineering, and animal husbandry, and is able to provide intelligence to the Augustan family independently.

In addition to Hades, the leader of the Tragic Dead, Athena, the head of the Coordination Department, and Ares, the head of the War Department, can be regarded as the commanders of the Tragic Dead who have dealt with Bai Feng the most, and Bai Feng has witnessed their abilities with his own eyes.

When it comes to the tragic dead in the Roman world, we have to mention the intelligence organization of the Augustan Empire and the tragic dead -- the Jinyiwei! The Jinyiwei of the Augustan Empire was an intelligence organization created by Bai Feng himself, and it was also the intelligence organization he trusted the most.

The reason why Jinyiwei was able to be formed in just a few years and became an existence on a par with the Tragic Song Dead Soldier was due to the support of the Tragic Song Dead Soldier and Bai Feng's brainwashing strategy on the one hand, and on the other hand, the credit of Tahiti, the actual controller of the Jinyi Guard.

Tahiti of the Jin Yiwei and Dulles of the Government Council are the leaders of the Augustan Family College, known as the "twin heroes" among the first batch of graduates of the Family College, and their later achievements have indeed lived up to this joking title.

Tahiti, Hades, Athena, and Ares, the elites of the intelligence organization of the Augustan Empire, are the most suitable organizers of the tragic dead in Bai Feng's heart;

The number of existing gods in Rome City and the cost of each summoning ceremony only cost 1,000 gold, so that Bai Feng can summon without any scruples, and even make a designated summon;

The activation of the shogunate hall system has brought a lot of new fun to Bai Feng's ordinary life at sea, and Bai Feng, who was originally bored enough to only cultivate spiritual power and blow the sea breeze, now does the most every day is to study the shogunate arms.

At noon on the 9th of December, the fleet finally returned to the Roman harbor along the course of the Cangluo River, and the triames of which Bai Feng was the first to dock at the harbor.

The feeling of stepping on the land again made Bai Feng, who didn't like to drift on the sea, very satisfied, and before Bai Feng, who was in a lot of poetry, sighed a few words, the smiling Alan and Ike greeted him and began their usual whiskers and horses.

Bai Feng, who has always been not very interested in deliberate flattery, rarely did not refute Allen and Ike this time, but when he was waiting for the soldiers of the guard battalion to leave the ship and land, he smiled and chatted with Alan and Ike who took the initiative to come up about the size of the nearest port.

The bustling Roman port was not only densely packed with merchants from Rome, but also many caravans from various other towns directly under the city, which were generally formed into caravans to trade compared to the wealthy merchants of Rome.

This was also one of the established policies that Vipsani was implementing, encouraging barbarian traders in the towns directly under their jurisdiction to form caravanserans, and the Doge's Palace would invest money to help them expand the scale and scope of the caravansera's trade, and then return the Doge's investment to the Doge's Palace when they made a profit.

There is no sure way to do business, and even with the policy support of the Governor's Palace, there are still many caravans in towns directly under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Palace, and Vipsani will send people to identify the failed caravans for these failed caravans.

If it turns out that an accident or other force majeure caused the caravan to fail, Vipsani will reinvest in the caravan to help it restart trading and give them a chance to make a comeback.

If, on the other hand, the result of the identification is that the caravan itself failed due to its mismanagement, the Doge's Office will withdraw its assistance to the caravan, and although the original investment will be forgiven, the caravan will be revoked with it.

In order to promote the development of each town, the Doge's Office would support a caravan in each town, and once the caravan in a town was abolished, Vipsani would select some good merchants in the town and form a new caravan.

This policy of supporting caravans required the Governor's Office to invest a large amount of working capital to help the towns form caravans, but when these caravans were successfully formed, the cost of the Governor's Office would soon be recovered.

Thanks to the efforts of eighteen caravans of towns supported by the Doge's palace and countless caravans organized by the people, commerce in the area ruled by the city of Rome was so prosperous that within two months the cost of the Doge's palace was fully recovered.

The failure of these investments was a loss of money to the Doge's Palace, but it was quickly compensated for by the increase in taxes, and the growth of the town's caravans directly stimulated the citizens and merchants of Rome to form caravans spontaneously.

As a result, there is the scene that Bai Feng saw in the port: the traders under the banner of various caravans were engaged in the trading of all kinds of goods and commodities in the port, and as long as the goods that were available in the city of Rome, Bai Feng could basically find them here, and the prices were fair.

Of course, the prosperity of the port was only the tip of the iceberg of the rapid growth of commerce in the city of Rome, and the caravans that remained in the port were undoubtedly more than a fraction of the size of the caravans that traveled between towns and on their way to the kingdom of Aesines.

According to Alan and Ike, only one-fifth of all the merchants in the entire Roman port actually belonged to the eighteen town caravans and the six large Roman caravans, and the rest were from other small caravans or independent merchants.

The port of Aceni, across the river from the Roman port, is said to be more prosperous than the Roman port, because the caravans could make more profits when they transported their goods to the Aceni kingdom, and the merchants naturally flocked to the Aceni kingdom.

After all, Eren and Ike are not part of the core of the city of Rome, and they don't know much about many things, for example, when Bai Feng left the port of Rome, the kingdom of Aceni still needed food aid from the city of Rome, but now they don't need it at all.

The reason for this phenomenon was not that the Iceni Kingdom was no longer short of food, but that the merchants of Rome had transported too much grain to the Iceni Kingdom, which completely solved the problem of food shortage in the Iceni Kingdom and promoted the relationship between the Roman City and the Iceni Kingdom.

For this reason, the city of Rome paid only a paltry 100,000 gold coins, and for the city of Rome at this time, the mere 100,000 gold coins were not more than the commercial tax paid by the merchants in a month. This shows how prosperous the commerce of Rome really is!

Behind the prosperity there are often too many shady things, and the presence of the system's tribunes, tax collectors, patrol guards, and town guards scattered in various towns restricts the development of these things to the greatest extent.