"Chapter 148: Test of Ability"

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In addition to Wendell's governor's guard, Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi's Yanhuang Standing Army, as well as Maxey and Darnell's personal guard battalions, there was also an army with the name of Yanhuang Standing Army.

This newly organized army was naturally a large army led by Kunohe Yasuma, which was originally 4,000 soldiers under the command of Kunohe Yasuma, plus 2,000 soldiers captured by the guard battalion, and combined to form the army that Kunohe Yasuma now commands.

Since the Yanhuang Standing Army is the name of the Yanhuang Family's Standing Army, it is destined that the size of this army cannot be only 10,000, let alone barbarian warriors from the barbaric land;

The 6,000 soldiers from the Spo family is already the number after excluding the old, weak, and disabled, and as for how many soldiers can be left under the command of Kunohe Yasuma in the end, it depends on the performance of his army in the war between the Yanhuang family and the Tsugaru family.

A worthless army is not worthy of existence, before Kudo Yasuma withstood the test of Bai Feng's character to him, and now it is his turn to withstand the test of Bai Feng;

On the second day after leaving Gaoshui Temple City, the army of the Yanhuang family led by Bai Feng was still two days away from Hachinohe City, including the day when he was marching, and this day was the first day of the new month, the first day of November!

The arrival of November not only means that Bai Feng is getting closer and closer to the day of leaving the Mutsu Kingdom, but also means that Bai Feng is getting closer and closer to the day of returning to the Heavenly Dragon Empire;

Bai Feng, who was riding on a war horse, shook his head slightly, temporarily suppressed the thoughts of the Bai family in his mind, and turned his attention to the financial report of the last month in the attribute table of the city of Rome, which was also something he had to do on the first day of every month.

October Financial Report (October 917 AH)

Agriculture: income 3,600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: income 350 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: income 65,800 gold, expenditure 0

Taxes: 14,200 gold in income, 9,300 gold in expenses (100 gold each for the tax officer, civil protection officer, and patrol guard)

Money: 600 gold (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: Expenditure 0

Recruitment: 162,570 gold (temple summoning generals is also included in the recruitment and special training costs)

Construction: Spend 0

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: 0 income, 2080 gold

Last month's total: income 83,950 gold, expenditure 174,550 gold

Last month's surplus: 90,600 gold was disbursed

Total amount of the treasury at the beginning of the month: 180,650 gold

Even Bai Feng, the governor who gradually did not care about the treasury funds, was shocked by this freshly released financial report, because last month's financial income of Rome was actually in deficit of more than 90,000 gold!

The cost of the reorganization of the system soldiers, the special training of the barbarian soldiers, and the cost of recruiting new troops did not cost much money in the treasury, but the weapons and equipment needed to train the cavalry and build the heavy cavalry cost a staggering 110,000 gold!

That's a full 110,000 treasury funds, not 110,000 ordinary gold coins, and the cost of forming a heavy cavalry is so expensive that Bai Feng's heart twitched several times when he read the financial report!

This is still the price of forming 4,000 heavy cavalry, if it is changed to a scale of 10,000 or 20,000, I am afraid that even if the city of Rome is completely bankrupt, it will not be enough for these gold-devouring beasts to devour! The cruel reality directly shattered Bai Feng's dream of forming a large number of heavy cavalry.

In addition to soaring military spending, the city's tax spending has nearly doubled compared to the previous month, and the system-dispatched officials required by the 12 new towns, combined with the officials needed for the city's own population increase, have led to a skyrocketing cost of officials in the city.

As the city of Rome gradually expanded, this expenditure was unavoidable, and in order for the towns that belonged to Rome to be properly governed, Bai Feng had to ensure that every town directly under the city of Rome was managed by a system official.

Although the financial expenditure of the city of Rome last month was staggering, the increase in income was not small, and it was also an increase of 10,000 gold compared to the previous month, and this is also the investment period for the construction of 12 new towns in the city of Rome, and these 12 towns will definitely bring rich returns to the city in the future.

At that time, the trade income of the city of Rome will inevitably rise to a new level, and it is not impossible to reach 100,000 gold a month, after all, the population of the twelve new towns is there, and the commercial potential is extremely terrifying.

Rome City (City)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 83,950 gold/month

Population: 132145 (2000 per month for the temple)

Social security: +215%

Population growth: +7%/month

Tax Rate: Low tax rate

Treasury: 90,050 gold

Barbarian region: 18 towns directly under the jurisdiction of 2215839

Yamato area: 6 castles (1059847)

Existing buildings: Governor's Residence, Stone Wall, Temple of Apollo, Urban Barracks, Market, Crop Rotation, Deep Cave Mine, Cavalry Stables, Armor Shop, Square Avenue, Shooting Range, Sewer, Public Baths, Shipbuilding Workshop, Arena, University

Under Construction: None

Buildable: None

After browsing last month's financial report, Bai Feng would go through the Rome City attribute table, and this time was no exception; the changes in the barbarian region in the Rome City attribute table were within Bai Feng's expectations, but the population growth in the Yamato region was beyond Bai Feng's expectations.

According to Bai Feng's original prediction, after taking the Sibo family's Gaoshui Temple City and Bian Shi Imperial Palace, the population under the rule of the Yan and Huang family should be about 700,000, but the system data in front of Bai Feng showed that the total population under the Yan and Huang family had reached 1.05 million!

After a little thought, Bai Feng quickly figured out his thinking mistakes, all along, when Bai Feng calculated the population under the rule of the Yanhuang family, he calculated it based on the population of each city of the Yanhuang family, in fact, this algorithm was wrong.

Because the people under the rule of the Yanhuang family not only included the people in the cities, but also a large number of people living in rural towns, and the small families conquered by Sanada Masayuki and Quanshan Kokang contributed tens of thousands of ordinary people to the Yanhuang family.

Other more families nominally took refuge in the Spo family and the Tsugaru family, until this time the Yanhuang family wiped out the Spo family, so that the people who belonged to the Sipo family and some small families all belonged to the Yanhuang family.

If you only count the population of the city, the total population of the six cities under the rule of the Yanhuang family is less than 700,000, and after adding those rural people, this is the number displayed by the system, that is, the population of 1.05 million that shocked Bai Feng!