In the true journey of life, your own intuition is your only guru.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

From the second meeting in the afternoon to the dinner between the two, for more than three hours, Bai Feng and Queen Boudicca did not talk about business, but only talked about each other's thoughts in the flowery garden of the palace, and chatted about the wind and snow between the pavilions.

After a not-so-sumptuous candlelit dinner, Bai Feng and Queen Boudicca, who walked hand in hand into the study of the palace, began to talk about the kingdom of Esine, and as night fell, the atmosphere between the two became ambiguous, even if it was in the study.

Vipsani's knowledge of the Esceni Kingdom was limited, after all, his main focus was on the city of Rome, and many aspects of the Estheni Kingdom were unknown to the nobles of the Essini Kingdom except Queen Boudicca, let alone Vepsani.

Bai Feng, who has the Roman city system, can only check some of the general situation of the Aceni Kingdom through the Roman City system, and if you want to really grasp all aspects of the Aceni Kingdom, you still need to know it from the mouth of Queen Boudicca.

Vassal: Essini Kingdom (Rich)

Region: Eastern Region of the Savage Lands

Leader: Queen Boudicca (High Swordsman)

Population: 646328

Force Strength: 118434 warriors (including apprentice swordsman and above)

Forces: 65,000 soldiers (Joshuaer, Nardoba, Assam)

Force Loyalty: 100 (up to 100)

If you only look at the data of the Roman city system, the situation of the Aceni Kingdom is undoubtedly very good, with a total population of nearly 650,000 and 120,000 warriors, which is enough to prove that the Aceni Kingdom has recovered very quickly.

What was especially satisfying to Bai Feng was that the loyalty of the Essini Kingdom to him and Rome City had reached the highest value, which meant that no matter what happened in the future, the Essini Kingdom would be the most trusted ally and vassal of Rome City.

In fact, if it weren't for the Estheni Kingdom's loyalty to the city of Rome to the point where Bai Feng could rest assured, how could Bai Feng let Vipsani fully support the development of the Essini Kingdom? You must know that the new population of the Essini Kingdom came from the city of Rome.

The barbarian refugees who had crossed south to the south bank of the Cangluo River to escape the tyrannical rule of the Eastern Alliance were taken over by the Roman army and sent to the severely underpopulated kingdom of Aceni after successfully crossing south under the protection of the Roman city's fleet.

There is no doubt that population is definitely an important factor in judging the overall strength of a country; especially in the era of cold weapons with a large number of people and great strength, the number of people directly determines whether a country is strong or not, and the more populous a country is, the stronger it will be.

The Aceni Kingdom, with a total population of only half of the Eastern Alliance, has only one-tenth of the number of troops in the Eastern Alliance, but this does not mean that the Aceni Kingdom is weak, and compared with the Eastern Alliance, the rapidly recovering Essini Kingdom actually has more development potential.

From the mouth of Queen Boudicca, Bai Feng learned that the current Aceni Kingdom is no longer the Aceni Kingdom before he left;

After nearly two years of rapid development, the paving stone road built by the Kingdom of Esine and the city of Rome has long been spread throughout the territory of the Kingdom of Esini, connecting the Kingdom of Esine with the city of Rome, and also connecting the settlements of the Kingdom of Esini.

With the completion of the construction of roads, all kinds of practical living tools and advanced farming tools in the city of Rome flowed into the hands of the people of various settlements of the Acenian Kingdom through the caravan trade between the two sides.

The skins and ornaments of wild beasts, which were of little value in the kingdom of Esine, were also in high demand in the city of Rome, which had 700,000 citizens, and of course, when this trade first began, it was inevitably secretly supported by the Doge's Palace.

Otherwise, would the city of Rome, which had 2.3 million barbarian people in 18 towns directly under its rule, really go crazy to rob the animal skin carvings transported by the caravans of the Essini Kingdom? Fools know that the animal skin carvings of the Essini Kingdom, which is farther away, are a little more expensive in terms of price.

None of the citizens of Rome, who had a limited income to live an ordinary life, were willing to buy the more expensive Esthenian Kingdom animal skin carvings on the premise of similar quality, but with the financial assistance of the Doge's Palace, it was only natural that there would be a scene of crazy purchases.

On average, the hides of the Acenian kingdom were about 20 percent more expensive than those of the towns directly under the city of Rome, which was an unavoidable transportation cost, and the Doge's palace was so that those who bought the hides of the Aceni kingdom could receive a thirty percent subsidy!

In this way, the Essini Kingdom animal skin carvings, which were actually cheaper, were naturally robbed by the citizens of Rome, and the caravans of the Essini Kingdom, which successfully sold their goods and made a lot of money, directly exchanged the gold coins they earned for various utensils when they left Rome.

This kind of supportive trade, which was obviously beneficial to the Aceni Kingdom, made the people of the settlements under the Essini Kingdom quickly rich, and the economy of the entire Essini Kingdom also improved significantly, especially the grain trade, which made the pressure on Queen Boudicca drop sharply.

Of course, it is impossible to change the status quo of the Essini Kingdom in a short period of time by relying on this level of private trade alone, and what really made the Essini Kingdom develop rapidly was the capital support provided by Vipsani to the Essini Kingdom on behalf of the Governor's Palace of Rome.

The nobles of the Essini Kingdom who were forcibly relocated to the royal city by Queen Boudicca, after losing their original privileges, were naturally unwilling, even if they were not abnormal on the surface, their deep resentment could be imagined.

Therefore, in order to support the Esthenic Kingdom and assimilate these disadvantaged nobles, Vipsani lent a sum of money from the Governor's Palace of Rome to these disadvantaged nobles, so that they became the first capitalists of the Esthenic Kingdom.

With these lonely and ambitious nobles as the vanguard, the plan of Rome to support the development of the Aesinic Kingdom went very smoothly, and countless production workshops and large caravans of the Aesinic Kingdom sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The economic base determines the superstructure, the rapid development and vigorous growth of the civil caravan and the large caravan of the nobility, as well as the royal caravan of Queen Boudicca, so that the economy of the Acenian Kingdom has entered a period of rapid development, and the development of all aspects of the kingdom will naturally follow.

In order to avoid a situation in which the aristocratic caravan alone threatens the rule of Queen Boudicca, Vipsani later deliberately formulated a secret plan to limit the size of the noble caravan of the Aceni Kingdom, aiming to increase the strength of the private caravan and the royal caravan of the Essini Kingdom.

As a result of the implementation of this secret plan, the royal caravanserai directly belonging to Queen Boudicca accounted for about half of the overall caravan strength of the Acenian Kingdom, while the remaining civilian caravans and noble caravans accounted for about one-sixth and one-third respectively.

If it weren't for the secret support of the Governor's Palace, the civilian caravans would not even have accounted for one-tenth of the share, this is the difference in strength between the barbarian nobles and the barbarians, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse!