"Chapter VIII, Two Decrees"
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At present, among the five towns directly under the city of Rome on the west bank of the Cangluo River, only the towns of Tasia, Grenor and Rai are really close to the city of Rome, and the other towns of Vasco and Hobulo are far away from the city of Rome.
Without counting the small town of Aesines, the population distribution of the five directly subordinate towns of Rome is relatively even, and the population of the general town is about 80,000 or 90,000, at least nearly 80,000, and at most it does not exceed 100,000.
The three towns that are closer to Rome can be reached by car along the paved roads in less than a day, and even the two farther towns can be reached in about three days by car.
The paved roads of Rome connected the city to the five towns, and if Bai Feng could find a way to attract the inhabitants of these towns, they could quickly become the driving force behind the city's income.
At this time, the city of Rome was not the Roman city of the past, and the city of Rome, which still needed Bai Feng to use the treasury funds to buy gold coins during the most embarrassing period, had become a Roman city with its own monthly output of gold and silver after the discovery of two gold and silver mines.
The gold and silver coins piled high in the warehouses were an excellent asset for Bai Feng to attract the townspeople to Rome, and if only to promote the prosperity of the city, Bai Feng only needed to attract wealthy townspeople and small town merchants.
But what he wanted was a sharp increase in the monthly income of the city of Rome, so he needed to attract not only the wealthy residents and small-town merchants of his own financial strength, but also the ordinary townspeople who did not have many gold and silver coins in their pockets.
The gold and silver coins that were meaningless to Rome's total war system were nothing more than a pile of dead things in Bai Feng's eyes, and as long as he could quickly enter the city stage of Rome, he was willing to spend even the gold and silver coins in the warehouse of Rome City.
In order to attract a large number of residents from the five small towns to Rome, the meditative Bai Feng once again issued two decrees: first, until the end of the first month of the new year, the Doge's Palace would purchase unlimited quantities of food from the homes of civilians at three times the market price.
At the same time as this decree was issued, Bai Feng asked the patrol guards who posted the decree to make a special note below the decree that the purchase price was only for this month in the warehouse district of the city of Rome, and once the month passed, all grain prices would return to normal.
Second, before the end of the first month of the new year, the Doge's Palace will hold a three-day campaign to love the people, and all those in the city of Rome will receive a free red envelope from the Governor of White Peak himself, with a minimum of one silver coin and a maximum of unknown.
This decree is not so much a decree as a strategy adopted by Bai Feng to stimulate consumption in imitation of Taobao Double 11 on the earth;
What's more, the event lasts for three days, and those who want to get red envelopes will have to stay for at least two nights when they come to Rome, and their spending during these three days and two nights will greatly stimulate the economic growth of the city.
In order to allow more townspeople to participate in this activity, and to make it a decisive factor in the growth of the city's income, Bai Feng deliberately set the specific time for its implementation in the last three days of January, and specifically indicated it in the posted decree.
Determined to pile up the monthly income of the city of Rome with gold and silver coins, Bai Feng prepared a full 500,000 gold and silver coins worth of gold and silver coins for the fact of these two decrees, of which 200,000 gold coins were used to make red envelopes alone!
Although each red envelope could contain at least one silver coin, the total population of the five towns directly under the city of Rome was as high as 450,000, and even if each person only took one silver coin at a time, it would cost 45,000 gold coins.
In fact, anyone who came to Rome for the red envelope could not have only one silver coin, and it was impossible for all the silver coins in the red envelope to be one, but there were also a considerable number of three silver coins, five silver coins, and even the highest gold coin!
Taken together, it is quite necessary to make one million red envelopes with 200,000 gold coins, and 200,000 gold coins are equivalent to two million silver coins, and on average, there are only two silver coins in each red envelope, which is a number that is neither too much nor too little.
If you're unlucky, you can get three silver coins in three days, and if you're unlucky, you can get a staggering three gold coins in three days!
Whether it was three silver coins or three gold coins, it was all money they had picked up for nothing, and a small town dweller would have more than enough silver coins to save a day in Rome, and in general it was a sure deal.
When Bai Feng's first edict was pasted into the five small towns, it caused a sensation far beyond Bai Feng's original imagination, and countless small town residents who still had food in their homes immediately began to unite several families to rent an ox cart and transport their grain to the city of Rome.
The purchase price, three times the market price, was a temptation that all the townspeople could not refuse, and the inhabitants of Rome who had sold all their food to Rome early in the morning had red eyes of remorse.
If the first decree was to drive the residents who had surplus food to go crazy, then the posting of the second decree made all the townspeople fall into a frenzy, and giving money for free is the most incredible thing in the world!
Had it not been for the fact that this edict had been issued by the Dogechamber of Rome, the townspeople would not have believed the authenticity of the edict even if they had been killed, and it was precisely because of the unquestionable prestige of the Doge of Rome that everyone fell into ecstatic madness.
The day after these two edicts were issued, countless horse-drawn carts and ox carts loaded with grain from five small towns staggered in the direction of the city of Rome, while more residents who wanted to receive red envelopes were anxiously waiting for the days to pass.
Those who want to get their hands on the red envelopes are eager to go to Rome right away, but the city's high level of consumption has to discourage them, but there are also some well-off townspeople who don't care about the few silver coins at all, they just want to have a good time.
After seeing this jaw-dropping decree, these people were impressed by the wealth of the Doge's Palace, and on the other hand, they hurried to book a hotel in the city of Rome, ready to enjoy the coming bustle and prosperity of the city.
In the evening of the second day after the promulgation of these two edicts, which were made by Bai Feng himself, there was an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts loaded with grain, and the inhabitants who exchanged their grain for gold and silver coins would always buy some goods from the city with a smile on their faces before returning home.