Chapter 241: "·Tuntian problem"

All prophets with armaments triumphed, and those without armaments perished.
-Nicolo Machiavelli (Italian political thinker and historian)
With the restoration of the various legions and the reduction of the size of the Tuntian Corps, the busy Bai Feng had to face another practical problem, that is, the serious consequences of the sudden decline in the number of the Tuntian Corps.
When the Tuntian Legion was first set up, the external environment of the Roman city was extremely relaxed; the Eastern Alliance of the left bank of the Cangluo River was annihilated by the Roman city army in the Eastern Alliance, and the tribes on the east bank of the left bank of the Curao River were also successively. destruction.
The entire west bank of the Cangluo River and the south bank and east bank of its left tributary have become the sphere of influence of the Roman city; the establishment of five small towns with a population of about 100,000 has further consolidated the rule of the Roman city, and everything is facing It is developing in the direction that Bai Feng expected.
Later, the city of Rome established its own powerful longbow force and powerful combat fleet. The tacit combination of the two made the entire Cangluo River a natural barrier for the city of Rome. Even the powerful Eastern Alliance could not Crossing Henan invaded.
The overly comfortable external environment not only allowed Bai Feng to relax his due vigilance, but also further expanded his ambitions for Tuntian; the five Tuntian Corps and the five towns corresponding to them, each of these five areas was reclaimed A lot of farmland.
As long as the crops in these farmlands reach the November harvest season, they will inevitably bring countless food to the city of Rome; it is no exaggeration to say that this season's harvest of the farmland is enough to maintain the city of Rome for the whole year. Food consumption.
Because all the farmland reclaimed by the soldiers of the Tuntian Corps belongs to the Roman city; in addition to the farmland belonging to the Tuntian Corps, Bai Feng also ordered the soldiers of the Tuntian Corps to reclaim a large number of urban residents in their area. farmland.
The farmland belonging to the urban residents is harvested enough to sustain the consumption of their towns in the coming year; in this way, the city of Rome completely got rid of its own food burden, and also obtained enough food from the farmland reclaimed by the Tuntian Corps for the use of the Roman city army.
According to Bai Feng's idea, this superior Tuntian system only needs to be implemented for a year or two, and the five towns under the Roman city can fully realize their self-sufficiency, even if they are hit by natural disasters, they will not need the relief of the Roman city. .
As for the Roman city itself, the five Tuntian legions can cultivate and harvest food twice a year; the food harvested each time is enough to feed half a million people for about a year, and the total harvest in a year is to feed one million people a year. food.
Such a huge grain output, on the one hand, I want to thank the city of Rome for its own leadership in agricultural technology, on the other hand, I want to thank the Cangluo River for the fertile land of Rome; the Apollo factor is naturally involved here, but Bai Feng did not want to mention more.
In fact, if Apollo did not use his means to completely solve the flooding problem of the Cangluo River, I am afraid that the Cangluo River brought to the Roman city not a fertile field to promote development, but a torrential flood that destroyed everything.
In any case, the fact is that the land along the Cangluo River has indeed become fertile ground for the Roman city. The existence of the Tuntian Legion will soon allow the Roman city to bid farewell to the era of buying grain; unfortunately, the invasion of Francis destroyed this all.
With the strength of Queen Budeka’s Essini tribe, it was impossible to reach the fierce 150,000 army of Francis; Bai Feng, who was forced to frustrate, had to take his Roman army to the east bank of the Cura River to help the cloth Queen Deca is against Francis.
After a war, the Roman city army that won the battle also paid the price of 20,000 soldiers. In order to seize the time to eliminate the big threat of Francis, Bai Feng had to grind his teeth to carry on the war.
The five Tuntian Corps, which was originally only responsible for Tuntian, were replenished by the soldiers ordered by Bai Feng to half of them. They were added to the five main field troops that suffered heavy losses. In this way, the reclaimed farmland lost half of the farming labor at once. It was severe in an instant.
Without the five Tuntian Legions who are working hard, so much of the farmland that is reclaimed is simply not manageable by the remaining Tuntian Legionaries; even if everyone tries their best, they cannot use 5,000 people. Do 10,000 things.
Therefore, after these two batches of 25,000 soldiers from the Tuntian Corps were sent to the barracks on the east bank, Bai Feng successively received letters of assistance from the five Tuntian Corps; the content of the letter was simple, and they asked for additional troops. Otherwise, the reclaimed farmland will be deserted.
Once the hardly cultivated farmland has been abandoned by half, then Bai Feng’s previous efforts will be in vain; then don’t say anything to completely get rid of the era of buying grain. I am afraid that the cultivated farmland produces not enough food to produce Roman city and its subordinates This small town consumes it!
Don't think that the soldiers of the Tuntian Army are only responsible for farming the farmland belonging to the Roman city. Those Baifeng ordered them to help the urban residents to reclaim the farmland. Many of the soldiers of the Tuntian Army are helping the residents.
Otherwise, the five towns that are dominated by old, weak, women, children, and children can be farmed to feed their entire town. The population of each town is about 100,000, so many people need food for a year. How much farmland does it take to produce?
The problem faced by Bai Feng is not only the risk of half of the farmland belonging to the Roman city, but also the risk of half of the farmland belonging to the five small towns. This is the key to making Baifeng feel tricky. Where.
For two days in a row, Bai Feng, who was clueless, still hadn't figured out a solution; seeing that the food that could be harvested in less than two months was deserted in the farmland, the anxiety in Bai Feng's heart couldn't be described in words.
The helpless Bai Feng eventually focused his attention on the old and weak women and children in those five towns; no matter how old these people are for field work, Bai Feng decided to use his own methods to make these people willing. Go farming!
Thankfully, a gold mine and a silver mine were discovered at the mine site in Rome last month; a few days ago, the original mine site was replaced by a deep cave mine site, which further improved The production of gold, silver and iron.
For the increase in iron ore output, Bai Feng did not care much; but the increase in gold and silver mines can not help but Bai Feng does not care. Previously, the mine can produce 100,000 gold coins and 500,000 silver coins per month, but now it is being promoted It was 150,000 gold coins and 800,000 silver coins.
Although this increased output will not be used by Baifeng until the next month, the output of the previous month is still in the warehouse of the Roman city; the Roman army’s military pay and 20,000 soldiers’ death benefit for this month are only half , The remaining half is useless.
Using the wealth of about 70,000 gold coins as a reward, hiring urban residents of the old, weak women and children to help the Tuntian Army farming, this is Bai Feng's solution to the problem; under the doubt of the gold coins, a large number of old weak women and children began their intensive farming life.
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