"Chapter 29: The Food Crisis"
We will be together, neither heaven nor hell, neither damned nor saved, I am not dead and I am not alive....
- Alighelli Dante (Italian poet, one of the pioneers of the European Renaissance)
The matter of military uniforms was perfectly solved with the strong support of Bazel and Eggers, but there was another matter that could not be solved by the people of Rome, and that was the food problem of the Tassia tribal alliance and the Aceni tribe. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The population of the Tassia Tribal Confederation and the Estheni tribe was roughly equal, with the former having a population of more than 110,000 and the latter having a population of nearly 150,000, which together is a full twenty-five people, nearly twenty-five times the total population of the city of Rome!
In terms of the current food production of the city of Rome, it is only the consumption of a part of the army on the basis of maintaining the consumption of the city of Rome itself, and it is simply impossible to deliver food to these two tribes on a large scale.
Helplessly, these two tribes need a lot of food support from the city of Rome like a bottomless pit, and before leading the army to war with the army of the Acenian tribe, Bai Feng has spent 1,000 gold of treasury funds to buy food and provide it to the Tasya tribal alliance that is short of food.
Two days ago, Bai Feng spent another 1,000 gold treasury funds to buy grain for the Acenian tribe who lacked food and clothing, and spent 2,000 gold on the purchase of grain this month.
At the beginning of the month, the city of Rome just had 7,445 gold treasury funds, and in just a few days, there was only a miserable 1,075 gold left, even if the 1,000 gold that Bai Feng used to get 100,000 gold coins was an additional expenditure, then the funds for food consumption were too much.
If there is no other way to completely solve the food problem of the Tasya tribal alliance and the Esini tribe, then a large amount of the treasury funds of the city of Rome will be wasted on the purchase of food, which will not only seriously slow down the development of the city of Rome, but also bury the hidden danger of instability for the apparently stable life of the two tribes.
If something unexpected happens one day, and the income of the city of Rome drops suddenly, and the city loses the funds to buy food for these two dependent tribes, does that mean that the two tribes will be in a predicament of food to eat?
If we take 10,000 steps back, there will be no accidents in the development of the city of Rome, and the income has been in a state of growth, so can the city of Rome definitely support these two tribes that sit up and eat empty mountains? Don't forget, the current Essini tribe is one-seventh of the complete period!
In the future, when the army of the city of Rome helps Queen Boudicca complete the unification of the Acenian tribe, will the Acenian tribe still have a total population of at least seven or eight hundred thousand or more than the existence that the city of Rome can support?
Even if only 500,000 of the 800,000 people need to be supported by the city of Rome, that is the expenditure of 5,000 gold treasury funds every month, and what level of total income must the city of Rome have to reach to provide so much money for the Acenian tribe!
Since the issue of changing the army's outfits was negotiated that night, the food problem of the city of Rome and the two affiliated tribes has become a major problem for Bai Feng, and he sighs in the governor's palace with a sad face all day long, and his dejected appearance makes Yue'er annoy him.
"Alas......" When she was having lunch that day, she hadn't walked to the dining table yet, and Bai Feng, who was frowning, sighed again; Yue'er, who was still smiling and waiting for Bai Feng to eat, heard Bai Feng's sigh so indiscriminately, she couldn't help but say angrily:
"I said Bai Feng, can you not wander around all day long like your soul has been lost! These days, you have either sighed with a bitter face or stared at in a daze every day, and you yourself say how many days you have been like this.
You started to sigh all day long before Eggers brought the grain back to their tribe, and now Eggers is training outside Rome every day with his eagle army, and you are still sighing all day long, you are still finished!"
"Yue'er, do you think I want to sigh, if the problem wasn't too tricky, would I be able to keep a miserable face in a daze all day long?" Yue'er's annoyance Bai Feng is understandable, but if the problem can't be solved, it's a reality, what can Bai Feng, who is anxious and helpless, do?
"Okay, okay, okay, tell me what the hell is going on in your head, if you can't solve it, I'll help you solve it! ”
"You may not be able to solve this problem of mine, if I think you can solve it, I will definitely ask you a long time ago, as for I to delay until today for you to take the initiative to ask me?
"I'll ask you, to say or not to say!"
"Well, I say, here's the thing, you also know that after the Tasya Tribal Alliance has provided us with most of its warriors, there are only about 14,000 of their own young men, including 12,000 soldiers from the three newly formed legions.
The Essini tribes, who had recently submitted to us, had been given more than 6,000 cavalry and 17,000 warriors, and their own number of young men had dropped to about 33,000, including the 20,000-strong Essini Legion.
These two vassal tribes have lost a large number of young men in battle and non-combat, and they cannot solve their own food needs with the number of young men they still have, but it is impossible for our city of Rome to support them forever.
This month alone, we have already spent 2,000 gold of treasury funds to buy food for them, will we have to spend so much treasury funds to buy grain for them every month in the future? What will we do when the Essini tribe is unified?"
"You've been worrying about this little thing for so many days, and you're always sighing with a stinking dead face all day long?"
"Little thing?!Yue'er, you mean you have a way to solve this problem?" Bai Feng, whose skin thickness was comparable to the corner of the city wall, didn't care about Yue'er's ridicule, what he cared about was another layer of deep meaning conveyed in Yue'er's disdainful tone.
"Hurry up and take away your big stinky face, didn't you wash up in the morning, otherwise why would you talk so much!" Bai Feng, who was impatient, rushed directly to Yue'er's side, but was pushed and beaten by Yue'er with one hand covering his nose and disgusting.
"Hehe, I've been patronizing the food problem for the past two days, and it seems that I really forgot to wash up this morning, but these are small things, and the food problem is the real big thing, so you better tell me what your solution is!"
After being pushed to the other side of the table in disgust by Yue'er, Bai Feng scratched his head with a little embarrassment, admitting the fact that he did not wash this morning;
"Vomit...... Bai Feng, you big bastard! Are you doing this to toss and stink the Governor's Mansion that I have carefully arranged? If you don't wash me up quickly, you don't want me to tell you the solution to the food crisis!"