Don't be greedy, because greed takes you to the future, don't possess, because possession makes you cling to the past, and a person who wants to live in the present must get rid of greed, get rid of possession, get rid of ambition, get rid of desire.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

After the leaders of the four strongest tribes of the Eastern Alliance made a decision, theoretically speaking, the leaders of the other fourteen tribes only had the share of obedience and had no standing to raise objections at all, because the reason why they were able to ascend to the throne was because of the support of the four strongest tribes.

In other words, the eighteen tribes on the surface of the Eastern Alliance are just decorations made up by the four strongest tribes in order to better accumulate strength, and the tribal leaders who really hold the actual power of the Eastern Alliance have never been eighteen, but four!

Except for the four truly powerful tribes, the other fourteen overlord tribes are all vassals with no name, attached to the four strongest tribes, which means that the result of the deliberation of the four leaders is the result of the decision of the entire Eastern Alliance leader.

However, when the decision to send troops was carried out this time, it was far from going as smoothly as the four leaders imagined; first, the three tribes that had lost their original leaders did not disobey the orders of the four leaders, but decided to have a new leader before obeying the orders.

This kind of important affairs involving the position of the leader within the tribe cannot be intervened in even the four major tribes as the overlord tribe, otherwise, the rule of the barbarian tribe to respect the strong will be broken, thus affecting the status of the four major leaders.

The four chiefs, who could not shoot themselves in the foot, had no choice but to allow the three tribes to continue to make a fuss about deciding a new leader; in order to seize the time to launch an attack on the Luxi tribe, the warriors and special warriors of the three tribes turned into a large army left behind.

The other tribes that had not lost their leaders were naturally meticulous in carrying out the orders of the four chiefs, but the food problem before the troops were sent was not so easy to solve, at least they could not solve this problem themselves.

The limited aid food from the Orc Empire can only be supplied to the 450,000 troops who are about to go on the expedition, and the 150,000 troops left behind can also get a part, but it is only enough for a month's needs, which is a quantity that is not reassuring at all.

Among the more than 500,000 people in the west bank of the Eastern Alliance, only the people of the four strongest tribes have some food, and the people of the other tribes do not even have three days of food.

The bitter pleading of the eight tribal leaders was finally exchanged for a cold order from the four chiefs: each tribe without food would gather 20,000 to 30,000 special warriors, and the rest of the people would be given a month's worth of food, otherwise they would have to rely on their own destiny!

What is the Mandate of Heaven? The so-called Mandate of Heaven is the official saying that each of them is waiting for his own death. In the face of the ruthless four leaders, the eight tribal leaders who were forced to helpless had to endure the pain and began to assemble special warriors in exchange for the remaining people for a chance to survive.

At this moment, the three tribes of the Eastern Alliance on the east bank of the Cangluo River had been abandoned by the four major leaders, either intentionally or unintentionally, and the leaders of the other tribes who could not protect themselves when the mud bodhisattva crossed the river did not mention the three tribes on the other side of the Cangluo River at all.

The food crisis that burned his eyebrows actually gave the Eastern Alliance, which had a conscription of up to 450,000 troops, adding 250,000 to a special army, which was a result that Bai Feng had never expected; of course, the army of 250,000 old and weak women and children would not be put in Bai Feng's eyes.

What's more, the 700,000 army composed of 250,000 barbarian warriors and 450,000 old and weak women and children is to fight with the 300,000 army of the Luxi tribe, not with Bai Feng's army of Rome, what does it have to do with Bai Feng?

Bai Feng, who sat back and watched all this, only slightly advanced the date of the expedition of the army that he personally led to attack the southwest of Luxi, and the departure of the other four armies would still be carried out according to the original plan, and Lu Quis would be responsible for the unified command.

The dates of the 1st, 2nd, and 7th Roman legions and the Spartan legions were redesignated by White Peak as October 1st, the first day of October after the end of September, when he would personally lead the three legions from the Roman port to land in southwestern Lu.

On the night of the last day of September, just after midnight, Bai Feng couldn't wait to rush to the Apollo Temple, and this month, Bai Feng could randomly recruit two teams of special troops in the Apollo Temple, and could summon a system general with a thousand gold treasury funds.

The recruitment of the two teams of special troops, Bai Feng just ordered the sacrifice and stopped paying attention; what really made Bai Feng come to the Apollo Temple overnight was the call of the system general, which was the most efficient and convenient way to improve the overall strength of Rome City!

There is a long process for the summoning of the system generals, and during this period, Bai Feng, who was a little bored, clicked on the financial report of Rome City in September and the attribute table of Rome City, as well as the attribute table of the shogunate hall system, and browsed it carefully.

September Financial Report (September 918 AH)

Agriculture: income 3,600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: income 350 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: income 284,750 gold, expenditure 0

Taxes: 70,450 gold in income, 41,600 gold in expenses (100 gold each for the prosecutor, tax officer, civil protection officer, and patrol guard)

Fortune: 2,300 gold spent (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: Spend 0 gold

Recruitment: 37,100 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, 1600 gold

Last month's total: income 359,150 gold, expenditure 82,600 gold

Last month's surplus: income 276,550 gold

Total amount of state treasury at the beginning of the month: 3633950 gold

Because the 6th and 7th Roman legions were attached to the longbow troops, as well as the soldiers of the Tuntian Legion who were transferred, they all needed to undergo special training at the shooting range, so last month the city of Rome spent 20,000 gold on the special training of 20,000 soldiers.

If it weren't for the fact that the monthly special training quota for the urban barracks and shooting range was only 10,000, then this special training expenditure would have increased; even if the number of special training places was limited, the remaining 2,000 longbowmen and tens of thousands of Tuntian soldiers who had not undergone special training would still have to undergo special training in the future.

The Seventh Roman Legion of Luculus, which had set out ahead of schedule, was given priority to 6,000 specially trained longbowmen, and 5,000 of the 10,000 specially trained Tuntian soldiers were also assigned to this army, and the other soldiers would continue their special training in turn in October.

In addition, Bai Feng will also use the 30 recruitment slots in October to recruit the Roman heavy infantry and Roman youth army required by the full strength of the Roman legions, and the Roman light cavalry, Roman auxiliary cavalry, and Roman light infantry, which are less valuable in battle, will be postponed from recruitment.

Rome City (City)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 359,150 gold/month

Population: 864,960 (the temple adds 2,000 people per month)

Social security: +215%

Population growth: +7%/month

Tax Rate: Low tax rate

Treasury: 3,910,500 gold

Barbarian Regions: Eighteen Towns (2312157)

Yamato area: 9 directly affiliated castles (3457953)

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 Bath, Shipbuilding Workshop, Arena, University, Shogunate Hall

Under Construction: None

Buildable: None

The city of Rome, which has a population of 860,000 citizens, is only one step away from the 4 million mark in its treasury reserves; if it continues to develop at this rate, before the end of this year, the city will officially enter the stage of a large city, and begin a new round of rapid development!