What was even more interesting to Publius was that the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained in detail how the revenue of the treasury was spent during the year, how much money was spent on the salaries of Kingdom officials, how much money was spent on public buildings, how much money was spent on school education in the Kingdom, how much money was spent on the purchase of military rations, and how much money was spent on the manufacture of armaments......

While Mersis was surprised by these figures on stage, Publius was amazed offstage, and he realized from what the other party had told that the Dionian kingdom had very carefully managed and used its treasury.

Moreover, the next scene surprised him even more.

After Merses' recount, some of the senators and deputies of the parliament questioned the use of a particular expense. Despite his impatience, Mersis gave detailed explanations until no more questions were asked, and he returned to his seat.

Publius sighed, even if he was just a bystander, he felt a little nervous, he initially realized: it may not be easy to hold power in the Kingdom of Dionia, although such supervision and questioning are also in the Roman Senate, but they will never be so detailed and specific, which requires the person in charge must have good management skills, but also avoid the common behind-the-scenes transactions in the city-state as much as possible, Mersis this time ended the summary smoothly, but in case one of his answers makes everyone dissatisfied, I'm afraid it's not so easy to get through......

Publius remembered the Ionian tribune assembly that Tybrus had mentioned about tomorrow, and began to wake up in his heart: this is Dionia, not Rome, and you must be cautious in public office!

Next up to the center of the room was the Minister of Agriculture, Burkos, whose speech was quite inspiring.

First of all, after a drought, in September last year, the whole kingdom had a bumper agricultural harvest, which greatly alleviated the dilemma of insufficient military rations and freed the people from the shadow of drought. Burcos then mentions that the eastern plains of Campania and most of Latin were incorporated into the kingdom, xxx acres of fertile flat land were added, a total of xxx acres were allocated to the people who had migrated there, and xxx acres of land remained, and what measures had been taken by the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture to help the newly relocated people make better use of these land......

In addition, he referred to the three regions of Siracusa, Sardinia and Western Sicily, where the Ministry of Agriculture has begun to plan the land, although it has not yet been fully pacified......

Burkos's speech was met with applause, but there were also enthusiastic questions, mainly about whether young citizens in their towns who had barely reached adulthood could get a share of the newly occupied land.

The Ministry of Agriculture had already considered this, so Burkos replied with ease.

While Publius's mention of the "allotment of land in Latim" was a source of sourness for Publius, he lamented that the leadership of the Kingdom of Dioonia was indeed taking the initiative to consider allocating land to every citizen.

Next up was the Minister of Commerce, Marigi, a Persian with a different appearance, who made Publius look at him curiously.

As expected, the war had had a great impact on the kingdom's commerce, and that in the past year there had been a marked decrease in the number of merchant ships coming and going from the seaport cities, and that the markets had become depressed...... Everyone was not surprised by the decline in business.

Marigi then mentions that the acquisition of the Latium region, the whole of Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia has greatly expanded the trade circle of the Kingdom of Dionya in the Western Mediterranean, and entered the field of precious metal trade, which will inevitably make the kingdom's trade after the war to be more developed, and the alliance between the kingdom and Egypt will make the trade between the two countries closer and deeper, and the trade in the Eastern Mediterranean will also be further ......

Of course, Mariji only talked about it here in general terms, and he will talk about it in more detail before the end of this conference, when the various departments of the kingdom have a look forward to the work of the new year.

But even so, some businessman-turned-local councillors actively raised their concerns, and Mariji gave a satisfactory answer.

The next to the scene was the Minister of Registry, Rafias, who was also a busy department during the war, and citizens and even freemen were drawn to fight as soldiers or as laborers to carry out transportation, whether to make meritorious contributions or be punished in the war...... These have to record the answers one by one, because of the large number of people who participated in the war, this is an extremely large and complicated work, so the number of public officials in the household registration department is the largest among all departments, with a large number of scribes, recorders and archivists, with these detailed citizen files, it also allows other departments to have a basis for reference, in order to barely achieve the requirements of Davers to do "meritorious service must be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished".

In Rafias's account, everyone realized that the casualties of the Dionian people in this war were not only soldiers on the battlefield, but also ordinary people, such as the Daoni region invaded by the Samoneans, the Catanian plain destroyed by the Carthaginians, and the Apulian region attacked by the landing of the remnants.

Therefore, the casualty figure given by Rafias is much higher than that given by the Ministry of War, but the total population of the kingdom according to the new statistics is still a little higher than the previous year, what is the reason? That's because of the increase in the population of these newly incorporated kingdoms, Rome alone brought more than 50,000 people to Dionia, and many people from Syracuse, in addition to the surrendered city-states of Via, Kesrera, Alenia, and Santa Ibinia, and the new population has exceeded 100,000.

In addition, the number of public servants in the slave administration under the Ministry of Registry also increased several times during the year, Romans, Latins, Syracuseans, Carthaginians, Phoenicians...... He became a slave of the Kingdom of Dionya with his family, which greatly alleviated the problem of labor shortage in the kingdom that year.

But at the same time, it also put great pressure on the management of slaves in the Ministry of Household Registration, and Rafias did not shy away from telling the story of several unrest caused by slaves and the casualties of officials in the Ministry of Household Registration, in fact, in order to prepare an ambush in advance for the approval of the agenda of "increasing the number of officials of the Ministry of Household Registration and increasing the number of slave guards" that he would propose at the Kingdom Assembly in the following days.

Publius listened very carefully to what Raphias had to say, because it involved his fellow Romans who had become slaves, and he asked questions for the first time after his story, asking about the current situation of Roman slaves and whether they could be freed from citizenship in the future.

Considering that Publius had just joined the kingdom, Raphiast explained to him in detail the rules of the kingdom's administration of the public **: slaves had simple but clean accommodation, food for two meals a day was guaranteed, heavy labor or even three meals, and occasionally meat, and a special doctor was responsible for the treatment of illness, and those with families would not be separated, as long as they completed their tasks conscientiously and were not hostile to the managers, they could not be beaten and scolded at will. Nor is it forbidden to marry male and female slaves...... Slaves who behave well in the first year receive a small monthly salary starting in the second year, and if they continue to behave well, they may be put on the watchlist in the third year until they are finally freed at the Hades celebration......

Rafias also specially emphasized that out of reverence for Hades, and at the same time, many of the officials of the slave management office were born slaves, and in addition to the random inspection by the Ministry of Supervision, the management of public efforts has always been strictly carried out in accordance with the law, and the slaves are living well; On the contrary, the kingdom could only conduct regular monthly inspections of private slaves, and their living conditions were worse......

When Publius heard this, the guilt in his heart lightened slightly. In fact, he knew that these Roman slaves lived in slave camps north of Rome, on the banks of the Tino River, but he never had the idea of visiting, because that would only be scolded, not appreciated.

Next up was the Minister of Construction, Heraclid the Younger, who had stopped building and repairing public buildings due to the kingdom's efforts to invest all its revenues in the war, but that didn't mean that Heraclid the Younger had nothing to say.

The renovation of the old city of Rome was a key point, and although Publius had already experienced the process of rebuilding Rome himself, it was a different experience for him to consider the whole city from the planner's point of view, so he listened carefully.

In addition, Heraclid the Younger also mentioned that after these new territories were incorporated into the kingdom, the construction of roads was already being planned, and when the spring sowing was over, the Ministry of Construction would organize labor and prepare funds to extend the kingdom's roads to these territories as soon as possible, so as to make it more convenient to communicate with the old territories of the kingdom and more conducive to the kingdom's governance of them.

The next minister to come on the bench is not only feared by the local councillors, but also often by the senators: Sesta, the Inspector of Nations.

This important minister of the kingdom, who had punished many officials and was called "Radamandas in the sun" by the people, went to the center of the venue, and the whole venue became much quieter. Perhaps because he has been engaged in supervision work all year round, he has developed a cold-faced and murderous temperament.

However, in his summary of last year's supervision work, in fact, compared with previous years, there were very few Kingdom officials punished by the Ministry of Supervision, and one of the important reasons was because of the war, because of this large-scale war, the entire kingdom was in a state of emergency mobilization, and if they made mistakes at this time, they would be punished twice, so few people dared to hit the muzzle of the gun at this critical juncture.