"Chapter Twenty-Eight: Building the Temple"
"When the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it loses", this world has never been more beautiful, but not the most beautiful. And the moment that is closest to perfection is the moment when it is easiest to go to the opposite.
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)
The 1st Military Police Squadron of Nanbu Rizhi was stationed in the 7th Roman Legion, the 2nd Military Police Squadron of Izumiyama Masayoshi was stationed in the 2nd Lucy Army, and the 3rd Military Police Squadron of Heiji Hattori was stationed in the 3rd Lucy Army.
Feeling Bai Feng's determination to strictly manage military discipline, Willed and Valker successively issued death orders to the wing commanders under their command that they must strictly urge the officers and men of each wing to abide by military discipline;
The compulsory order of one level at the same time made the overall military discipline of the two Lucy regiments improve all of a sudden, and even the most unruly Lucy soldiers in the past have now become more and more peaceful, and the newly formed gendarmerie brigade can do less and less day by day.
It turns out that coercive orders from above, supplemented by the supervision of the gendarmes with unquestionable authority, can put the discipline in order of any army, no matter how free and loose it is, and even the Lucy legion, which is composed of barbarian warriors, and which legion is not.
Seeing the value of the gendarmerie, Bai Feng did not disband the gendarmerie brigade, which was almost run out of business, but planned to further expand the gendarmerie brigade after returning to Sanhe Castle, and expand the current three squadrons of 600 gendarmerie to five squadrons of 1,000 gendarmes.
In view of the special nature of the gendarmerie brigade, the newly added 400 gendarmerie will be composed of 200 officers and men from each of the Yanhuang family's standing army and the southern standing army; after that, the scope of supervision of the gendarmerie brigade will be expanded to the standing armies of the Yanhuang family.
In order to ensure the absolute fairness and impartiality of the gendarmerie brigade, no matter how many squadrons are added, the new gendarmerie will be broken up and mixed with the original gendarme; the purpose of this is to ensure that each gendarmerie squadron has gendarmes from different armies.
Bai Feng, who has never believed in the existence of truly selfless people, insists that everyone is selfish; however, some people's selfishness is heavier, reaching the point of ignoring the interests of others, and some people's selfishness is relatively light, although they are self-interested, they do not harm others.
As long as there is a slight or serious selfishness, sooner or later the military police brigade that was dedicated to public service at the beginning of its establishment will be degenerated; therefore, it is impossible for Bai Feng to hand over the supervision of the military police to any one person, and while the military police brigade supervises the various armies, it also needs to supervise each other internally.
On the first day of mid-January, the Archon's residence, which symbolizes the city of Rome's entry into the big city stage, was finally completed, and among the eleven buildings that could be built, three military buildings, the legion barracks, the hippodrome, and the catapult range, were necessary to start the recruitment of the legion.
Needless to say, the importance of legion recruitment is the key to completely solving the shortage of troops in the Roman city system, once the three buildings of the legion barracks, the hippodrome, and the catapult range are completed, and the treasury is fully funded, Bai Feng can recruit the Roman system army on a large scale.
After the Roman legions were recruited one after another, the composition of the army and the overall military strength of the Roman city would inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes, and at that time, Bai Feng, who had incomparably strong capital in his hands, would be able to do what he wanted to do openly.
However, Bai Feng, who is now mainly focused on the Yanhuang family, is not ready to give priority to the construction of military buildings such as legion barracks for the time being;
The city of Rome in the city stage, built into the Temple of Apollo, contributed more to the development and growth of the city than any other system building, and even the vital urban barracks and ports could not be compared with the Temple of Apollo in terms of practical function.
The five attributes of the Great Temple of Apollo are as follows: first, it increases social security by 15% because of happiness, second, it increases social security by 15% because of the law, third, it increases the population of Rome by 2,000 every month, fourth, it randomly summons two special troops (non-Roman and does not account for the number of troops) every three months, and fifth, it can hold a summoning ceremony every three months, and you can recruit a general with 1,000 gold.
Leaving aside the two attributes of happiness and the improvement of social order due to the law, the role played in the development of the city of Rome by increasing the population of Rome by 2,000 per month cannot be overstated!
It is no exaggeration to say that this attribute alone would have shortened the population growth time of the city of Rome by at least a quarter, and without this attribute of the Temple of Apollo, it would have taken at least a year more for the city of Rome to reach a million in terms of population systematization!
The two attributes of randomly summoning two teams of special troops and summoning system generals are simply a tiger with wings in terms of the already good development of Roman City, and the top troops of each faction with super combat power and the system generals who are in charge are all important factors promoting the development of Rome's military strength.
The only thing that made Bai Feng feel dissatisfied was that the cooldown time of these two attributes of the Apollo Grand Temple was too long, and the three-month attribute cooldown time meant that Bai Feng could only summon eight special troops and four system generals every year, which was really a drop in the bucket for the increasingly demanding Roman City.
As the size of the army in Rome grows, the combat value of a limited number of special units is rapidly decreasing, and a large number of self-grown system generals may not be able to replace the position of summon system generals, but they can divide more troops.
This is because only four generals can be summoned each year, and not every general can become the general who commands the army, for example, Hades and Namus, who were summoned last year, one of them became the master of the net, and the other became the commander of the First Fleet of Rome.
Aldington, who was originally just an ordinary Roman heavy infantry centurion, was promoted to the rank of system general by virtue of his outstanding performance on the battlefield, and then replaced Luquis as the commander of the Fifth Roman legion, as if he was already one of the upstarts in the city of Rome.
Even so, Bai Feng was still not disappointed with the Apollo Grand Temple, where the actual value of the five attributes was declining, because Bai Feng always firmly believed that after the five attributes of the Apollo Grand Temple stage reached the Apollo Giant Temple stage, they would definitely get new development!
In view of this, the Temple of Apollo, which had the most potential and was of great significance to the city of Rome, became the first large city stage building built by Bai Feng after the consul's residence, and the cost of fifty days and three thousand two hundred gold was no longer considered by Bai Feng.
If it weren't for Bai Feng himself to deal with the affairs of the Yanhuang family in the Yamato Empire first, he wouldn't have much time and energy to pay attention to the development of Roman City, and with the number of idols with the power of faith that Bai Feng currently has, he could have built all the system buildings in one day!
Before the affairs of the Yanhuang family were dealt with, Bai Feng, who was not in a hurry to build the system buildings of the big city stage of Rome City, let the various system buildings be built slowly and step by step, and when he returned to Rome City, it was the time for Rome City to develop rapidly again!