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The more than ten newly made crossbows in the workshop were all taken away by Bai Feng, and before he was ready to go to the west bank of the Cangluo River, he had to arrange with Peris to form a crossbow brigade of the Governor's Guard.

With Perris's knowledge and familiarity with bows and arrows, when Bai Feng put the crossbow in front of him, he only tried to shoot it three times before discovering the great combat value of the crossbow, and the ecstatic Peris even wanted to directly upgrade the crossbow team to the crossbow team.

Looking at Peris who was full of excitement, Bai Feng, who was in a good mood, also poured a basin of cold water on him with a smile;

As for the idea of a crossbow wing, it is possible to expand the crossbow brigade into a crossbow wing unless the number of crossbows produced can be increased by at least three times, or two or three years from the current production rate.

With Peris, the head of the Doge's Guard, who was extremely interested in crossbows, in charge of forming a new crossbow brigade, Bai Feng didn't need to spend much effort on this new army that was about to be formed, and his main task was still to build the road that was about to begin.

The original roads of Rome and the three towns on the west bank of the main stream of the Cangluo River, as well as the two towns on the east bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River, were only temporary paths, which were very different from the paved roads built by the city itself.

Now, the city of Rome will soon be able to build the most spacious and magnificent quadripartan avenues, and the three towns on the east bank of the main stream of the Cangluo River will also be incorporated into the system of quadripartos by the expanded city of Rome, which will greatly promote the connection between the city and these three towns.

On the contrary, with the imminent construction of the Via Quartet, the road between the city of Rome and the two towns on the east bank of the left tributary of the Canlo River had to be further expanded to keep up with the pace of the city's development.

For the construction of roads in this area, Bai Feng plans to hand over the Tuntian Legion, which does not need to work in agriculture for the time being, to complete it, with at least three soldiers of the Tuntian Legion as the main force, and then recruit about 50,000 migrant workers in the name of the Governor's Palace, this is the road construction army in Bai Feng's mind.

Since the city of Rome officially entered the city phase, the total amount of gold and silver coins that can be obtained by the governor's palace every month has reached 200,000 gold and 1,300,000 silver coins, and in addition to the necessary military and livelihood expenses every month, there are even more gold and silver coins left.

These rich gold and silver coins could fully support a large-scale road construction operation, and Vipsani, who was in charge of all the government affairs of the city of Rome, had already planned all the expenses needed for Bai Feng to build the road, and made a detailed road construction plan.

According to Vipsani's road construction plan, the Doge's palace of Rome only needed to pay about two million silver coins to build all the roads in the entire area of the city of Rome in three months, and reach the scale of the quadrangular road.

In addition to connecting the city of Rome with all five direct towns, Vipsani advocated the construction of two other very important roads, the first of which led directly from the city of Rome to the south bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River.

The second, the road leading directly from the city of Rome along the east bank of the main stream of the Cangluo River to the southern Vitus tribes, was built with the express purpose of preparing for a very high probability of future war.

As long as these two roads can be built, the troops stationed in Rome can rush to the front line of any war with great speed, and even the Tuntian legions stationed in various towns can quickly reinforce the front-line legions fighting ahead.

In order to prepare the city of Rome for war, Bai Feng also added two permanent military camps to the construction of the road built by Vipsani.

The two permanent barracks at Baifeng were to be built on the south bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River and on the border between the Roman forces and the Vitus tribes, in other words, the terminus of the two roads proposed by Vipsani.

According to Bai Feng's idea, once all the field legions temporarily stationed near the city of Rome have completed supplementary training and undergone large-scale rearmament, these legions will need to be sent to the border area, which is the front line for them to defend their homeland.

Rather than waiting until that time to slowly build some temporary barracks, it is better to build two permanent barracks for these field corps during the road construction period;

Compared to those temporary military camps, permanent military camps have more powerful defenses, can also station more military soldiers, and can even store a large amount of food, grass and weapons and equipment, otherwise permanent military camps would not be called fortresses.

The road construction plan, which originally only required two million silver coins as a budget, increased the budget cost of the entire project to three million silver coins after adding Bai Feng's two permanent military camps, and this figure was acceptable to both Bai Feng and Vipsani.

After the affairs here were finalized, Bai Feng was completely handed over to Vipsani to be specifically responsible for the implementation, and what he himself needed to worry about was the construction of the road between the town of Esini and the kingdom of Esini, which was a major matter involving diplomatic relations.

Although the Aceni Kingdom is nominally a subsidiary kingdom of the Roman City, the strength of the Aceni Kingdom itself should not be underestimated, and even Bai Feng, who once conquered the Essini Kingdom, has to consider the attitude of the Essini Kingdom.

In fact, Queen Boudicca's control over the Essini Kingdom is far less solid than Bai Feng imagined, and the strength and prestige of the Nabazani and Assam families in the Essini Kingdom can still pose a serious threat to Queen Boudicca.

In order to help Queen Boudicca completely control the Esthenic Kingdom, and to strengthen the control of the Roman City over the Essini Kingdom, the construction of a road between the town of Estheni and the Essene Kingdom is far from being as simple as building an ordinary road.

The construction of roads in the entire Roman city area and the construction of two permanent military camps made the total budget of Bai Feng and Vipsani only three million silver coins, and in order to open the road between the city of Rome and the kingdom of Aceni, Bai Feng brought a full 400,000 gold coins on the road.

These four million silver coins were not all used to build a road between the port of Esine and the kingdom of Esine, but their real value was how to help Queen Boudicca and the city of Rome completely control the entire kingdom of Esine!

Because there is no well-connected road between the small town of Esini on the west bank of the Cangluo River and the Kingdom of Esini, Bai Feng, who is in a hurry, has to take all the cavalry units in the guard battalion to the Kingdom of Esini.