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- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

The grain and gold coins that Bai Feng left to the Marquis of Besançon were not quietly transported by Bai Feng himself from the city of Rome, but the first batch of materials secretly delivered to Bai Feng by the Holy See.

The food needed by five million people for a year sounds like a lot, but in fact it is not a lot, and when converted into gold coins, it is worth about 500,000 at best; this is still calculated based on the soaring food price of the Celestial Dragon Empire, and if it is calculated normally, it will only be less.

Because Bai Feng's main purpose in using food as a condition was to use it for his own army, not to help the millions of refugees in Besansong Province, Bai Feng did not ask for it with his mouth open, but only asked for a quantity that was more convenient to transport.

It's not that Bai Feng doesn't want to use the Bai Ling Ring with a large storage space to hold these grains, but the sophisticated weapons and equipment that are enough to arm the 200,000 army have been filled with the Bai Ling Ring, and compared to the expensive and hard-won weapons and equipment, the value of the grain is undoubtedly much lower.

Of course, the value of food is not comparable to that of weapons and equipment is based on the comparison under the premise of sufficient food, if it is in the current situation of the Celestial Dragon Empire, which is seriously short of food, the value of food is simply tantamount to hard currency such as gold and silver coins, or even surpassing!

The reason why Bai Feng happily left this batch of grain to the Marquis of Besançon was indeed because the Marquis of Besançon had secretly sworn allegiance to him, and on the other hand, because he did not want something similar to a refugee riot to happen in Besançon Province.

With the formation of the four prefectures and the issuance of the military headquarters, the Duke of Rundstedd has already led six legions under his command and is on his way to the province of Besançon, which in the future will be the headquarters of the Duke of Rundstedd and his six legions.

Among the six legions under the command of Duke Rundsteadt, the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd legions were adapted from the southern city defense army (under the name of the regular army at that time), the 55th legion was newly formed later, and the 51st and 54th legions were newly transferred.

The low quality of the assembled soldiers and the lack of actual combat experience of the corps determined that none of these six legions could have any combat effectiveness, so the main task of Duke Rundstead after leading his army into the province of Besançon was to train his army well.

Previously, when Duke Rundstead led his army to garrison in Mengdan Province, the mortal threat that the orc army could attack again at any time made him have no time to train the soldiers of the new army, and the 50,000 elites of the five major families were the main force of the army under Duke Rundstead.

Now, the war in the eastern and northern parts of the empire has ended, and the 50,000 elite private troops of the five major families have been transferred back to their respective fiefdoms, so that improving the combat effectiveness of the six legions under his command as soon as possible has become the only thing that Duke Rundstead needs to do.

If the Duke of Rundstedt wants to train the army wholeheartedly, the situation in the province of Besançon is naturally as stable as possible, and if the garrison of the army becomes turbulent and full of smoke, then can the Duke of Rundstead and his army still train well?

In fact, with the 120,000 troops under the command of the Duke of Rundstead sitting in Besançon, even if the millions of refugees in Besançon Province tried to make trouble, they would not succeed;

However, pointing the sword of the imperial army at the people of the empire, Bai Feng knew that it was impossible for Duke Rundstead to do it, even if those people were already like rebels at the moment of rebellion, Duke Rundstead would still not send troops to suppress them.

Compared with the generals of the high aristocracy in the empire, the Duke of Rundstead, who was born as a commoner, was more likely to consider the problem from the perspective of the common people;

If such a thing happened, the 7,000 city defense troops under the command of the Marquis of Besançon alone could still put down the rebellion launched by the refugees for survival, but could the Duke of Rundsteadt, as the commander of the garrison, still be able to keep his position as commander after the war?

Even if Rundstead is a powerful saint-level powerhouse and an iron-blooded duke of the empire personally appointed by Charlemagne, in the face of such a principled mistake, both Charlemagne and the Imperial Military Department will severely punish Duke Rundstead!

As a saint-level powerhouse and the iron-blooded duke of the empire, it is impossible for Longdstead to worry about his life no matter what, but losing the position of commander of the garrison is a sure thing, which is definitely an unacceptable result for Bai Feng.

If the Duke of Rundstead is transferred out of Besançon Province, under the premise that Duke Kleist leads the army to sit in Pollini Province, then there are only a few Imperial Dukes who are qualified to succeed as the commander of the garrison in Besançon Province, and none of them have any close relationship with Bai Feng.

In this way, Bai Feng's personal planning of the Brojancson Province - Nice Province - Pollini Province - Besançon Province - Langxiang Province - Mulhouse Province - Tianlong Eight Banners Station, the route through the northern and eastern frontiers of the empire, will be cut off.

In order to avoid this worst-case scenario, Bai Feng must ensure that the situation in Besançon Province does not get out of control, and the only way to ensure that the situation in Besançon Province does not get out of control is to help the Marquis of Besançon solve the problem of the millions of refugees in Besançon Province once and for all.

Given the size of the arable land and the distribution of towns in Besançon, it is not difficult to 'eat' the millions of refugees, but the crux of the matter is that the millions of refugees in Besançon need enough food to be able to harvest until the end of the year after being allocated land.

In Besançon, where crops are harvested twice a year, it is the sowing season in the middle of the year, and there is still half a year before the year-end harvest season, which means that the Marquis of Besançon must raise the millions of refugees for at least half a year in order to completely solve the problem of the refugees' survival.

Considering the various changes that may occur during this period, Bai Feng left another 10 million gold coins for the Marquis of Besançon in addition to the grain, and the 10 million gold coins were used for the development of Besançon Province and the small ones were used for the relief of refugees.

After all, in order for the refugees to settle down in Besançon, in addition to cultivating farmland, they also need to build houses, buy furniture, buy and sell agricultural tools, and a series of expenses that can only be solved by the support of the Governor's Palace.

Outsiders don't know how poor the Governor's Mansion of Besançon Province is, can Bai Feng not know it? Bai Feng saw with his own eyes that the granaries and vaults of the Governor's Mansion of Besançon Province were empty, and there were not even a single mouse!

If it weren't for the fear that he would leave too much money and it would be counterproductive to attract the attention of those who care, Bai Feng would have the idea of leaving 50 million gold coins to the Marquis of Besançon to develop Besançon Province;

It is no exaggeration to say that even if all the funds needed for the reconstruction of the six eastern provinces are combined, it will not cost 500 million gold coins, because the reconstruction of each province is not just as simple as gold investment, and the support of government policies for all walks of life is the top priority.

A maximum of 50,000,000 gold coins would put a province devastated by war on the path to re-prosperity, and as long as there were no problems with the policies of the empire and the satrapy, it was only a matter of time before the subsequent re-emergence of all industries.