You can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

Bai Feng, who had not opened the military strength attribute table of Rome City for about three months, carefully read the changes in the military strength attribute table of Rome City and found that the mode of calculating the strength of the Roman City system had undergone a new change, and it was not conducive to Bai Feng's development of military strength!

First of all, there are special personnel who were not included in the system strength in the first place, but now they are included in the system strength; second, the initial crew members of the double and triple battleships were not included in the statistics before, but now they are included in the system strength and the army total.

The existing sixty double-lined warships and one hundred three-lined warships in Rome City actually occupied 16,800 system army quotas, and what made Bai Feng feel even more helpless was that if he continued to develop according to this model, he would sooner or later have to limit the size of the Roman City's naval fleet.

Otherwise, once the size of the naval fleet in Rome City grows to a certain size, it will occupy too many systematic army places, and even affect the normal development of Rome City; after all, the significance of the army to Rome City is more than a star and a half more important than the navy.

Fortunately, at the present stage, the main land enemy facing the city of Rome is the barbarian tribes with almost no naval army to speak of, and the islands of the Yamato Empire far overseas, and the ships are relatively backward; the number of naval warships existing in the city of Rome alone is enough to meet the needs of all aspects.

In addition to the above two changes, the last and most important change is not actually the change in the troop calculation mode of the Roman City system, but the change in the number of standing armies in the south in the attribute bar of the Yamato Legion.

When Hakumine led his army out of Mutsu Province, he was ordered to lead his army to be stationed in Nanbu Shinnao, the old leader of the southern family, and there were only 12,000 soldiers in the southern standing army under his command.

It wasn't until Bai Feng opened the list of military strength attributes of Rome City this time that he found that the size of the southern standing army had increased from 12,000 to 15,000 soldiers; why did the size of the southern standing army suddenly increase by a quarter? This question has been lingering in Bai Feng's mind.

From the perspective of geographical location, the old territory in the south has the Yanhuang Standing Army to protect the coast in the east, the Sanada Standing Army and the Iwashimizu Standing Army in the south as a barrier, and the Jiuhe Standing Army and the Izumiyama Standing Army in the northwest as the gateway, so there is basically no possibility of facing foreign enemies directly.

Since the old southern commanders have no possibility of facing foreign enemies directly, why would the southern standing army of the southern Xinzhi still expand the army privately? You must know that Bai Feng, who gave the commander-in-chief a lot of flexibility and adaptability, never gave them the right to expand the army privately!

Bai Feng, who had been thinking hard for a long time and had not come up with any reasonable explanation, made a plan in advance, and when the plan to unify the eastern region was completed, he must lead the army to return to the Yanhuang family;

Although the mountainous terrain of the Yamato Empire was not conducive to the battle of the barbarian warriors and system soldiers under the command of Hakumine, the existence of the shogunate palace system and the lack of recruitment restrictions made up for the shortcomings of the army under the command of Hakumine.

Shogunate Hall Attribute Table

Shogunate area: Mutsu Province (1,730,000 stone)

Shogunate assets: 143,800 stones

Shogunate income: 17,300 koku (1% of the ruling stone high)

Shogunate Figures (941): Priest (1st level, 500), Spy (1st level, 175), Secret Envoy (1st level, 75), Ninja (2nd level, 65), Geisha (4th level, 30), Battlefield Ninja (4th level, 4th team)

Shogunate Army (42240): Notai Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 100 Teams), Monk Soldiers (4th Rank, 20th Team), Infant Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 10th Team), Spear Samurai (2nd Rank, 60th Team), Spear Ashigaru (1st Rank, 80th Team), Iron Gun Spearmen (3rd Rank, 82 Team)

Shogunate General: Keiji Goto (top special samurai)

After a long period of accumulation, the number of shogunate troops in the shogunate palace system has reached more than 42,000 people, which is the result of Bai Feng's deliberate slowdown in recruitment, because the size of the army is too large, which will bring a very heavy burden to the city of Rome, which has limited food production.

Even if Hakumine could solve the problem of food shortage by using the purchase of treasury funds, it was obviously irrational to recruit a large number of shogunate troops in the absence of war, and the recruitment characteristics of the shogunate army determined that Hakumine would not be too eager to recruit shogunate troops.

Sitting on the assets of the 143,800 stone shogunate, Bai Feng can recruit tens of thousands of shogunate troops in a day with just one thought and one order; this is the biggest recruitment characteristic of the shogunate army, and it is also the most practical value of the shogunate hall system.

Compared with the recruitment characteristics of the shogunate army and their performance on the battlefield, it was the performance of the shogunate generals that really made Hakumine value the shogunate system more and more, in other words, it was the performance of Goto Kiji that won Hakumine's approval for the shogunate hall system.

Once upon a time, Bai Feng always believed that the existence value of the shogunate palace system was to make up for the shortcomings of some aspects of the Roman city system; specifically, the shogunate army was a supplement to the army of the Roman system, and the shogunate generals were a supplement to the generals of the Roman system.

But is that really the case? Actually, it's not. Not to mention for the time being, the elite level of the shogunate army system is not inferior to the initial army of Roman City, and even Goto Kiji's performance on the battlefield is no worse than that of Roman generals such as Luculus and Hans.

If it is only comparable to the generals of the Roman system in terms of ability, perhaps Bai Feng will not pay too much attention to the generals of the shogunate; the crux of the problem is that the generals of the shogunate are not inferior to the generals of the Roman system while also having the recruitment advantage that the generals of the Roman system do not have.

Since the Roman City system was activated, in the past four years, the number of system generals under Bai Feng's command is only twenty-three, and among these twenty-three Roman system generals, there are eleven system generals who have grown up by themselves, and their initial strength is relatively low.

The shogunate generals are different, the recruitment price of 5,000 stone can be described as inexpensive, if Bai Feng has the heart to recruit shogunate generals on a large scale, he can even recruit at a rate of three per month and seven in two months!

Such a terrifying recruitment speed meant that it would only take half a year at most, and the total number of shogunate generals could catch up with the accumulation of four years of the Roman city system, which was a big temptation for Bai Feng, who had never had enough generals under his command.

However, before officially launching a large army expedition to the Yamato Empire, Bai Feng will still restrain his inner impulse, because recruiting a large number of shogunate generals too early will only waste a valuable hole card, what if something unexpected happens in the future?

Hakufeng, who was accustomed to holding a large number of hole cards in his hand, regarded the shogunate hall system with no recruitment restrictions as a hole card that was almost comparable to the trump card, and unless he attacked the Yamato Empire, Hakuho would not use this hole card lightly.

On the one hand, because the Yamato Empire is suitable for the shogunate army to fight, and on the other hand, because the area ruled by the Yanhuang family is vast, the stronger the shogunate hall system based on the area ruled by the Yanhuang family!