"The soldiers who step on their own land are the bravest and most reliable." - Cicero's "On the Republic"

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Li Bida can be said to have invested a lot of money for these things.

The garrisons, whether they gathered in Lilibi or had arrived at the front line of Utica, had to eat wheat every mouth. The Sicily envoy where Leo was located, and the Executive Yuan presided over Ebro, raised a large number of supplies every day and arranged a large number of mules and horses. The shipping was cheap and cheap, but the overall cost was still huge. Supporting the fifteen legions to go out, the supply in the rear was far from enough. Rabinus used war to support the war, and then the two kingdoms of Mauritania and Getulia were given food behind the scenes. Compared with Libida, he mainly relied on the province of Afiliga, and the supplies sent by Cleopatra and Adianna from the ocean.

After Pompei arrived, all towns and villages were exploited and supplied many legions. After Caesar won the victory, he provided supplies and garrison for the Pompei Party and was given a huge fine to ask Caesar to reward veterans and enrich the vault. So it is really difficult to scrape out the province now.

But no matter what, you have to continue scraping until you reach the bottom.

In the city of Utika, Li Bida gathered the elder representatives of many surrounding cities in advance and told everyone a heart-warming good news: "In the name of the consul and the high priest, I proposed a new bill, that is, the city that had been punished before. All the status and treatment stipulated by Julius Law were restored. Once again, it became a free city with rights and interests protected by the Republic. And all the huge fines you still owe."

However, after his voice fell heavily in the city hall, the originally expected joyful scene did not appear. Most of the representatives still lowered their eyebrows and cried with their faces, and bowed their waists. It seems that after so many ups and downs, they have no great hope for the true kindness and tolerance of the power-holding people of the Republic, in case of the following words of Li Bida, a dramatic reversal.

This reaction made the high priest very embarrassed. He moved his butt twice in his seat, then took the mint tea sent by his servant Mathia, took a few sips, and it turned out to reverse. "Of course, the state is difficult now. In order to pacify the Spanish rebel party, I brought more than a dozen legions to this place from Italy. It is hard to sustain the supply of the local people. Therefore, we must beg for the support of all the strong and active immigrants and nobles."

Then he looked around, or sat or stood in the seat, and bowed his back lower.

With a "bang", everyone shook, and Li Bida slammed the gilded baton in his hand on the floor under his feet. "You must have heard of what happened in Rome three months ago. Four hundred veterans and nearly three thousand knights died. All their property was confiscated. That is to say, no matter what era the genealogy of the lintel they proudly traverses can be traced back to, no matter how many wax figures of their ancestors can be placed in the atrium of these people's houses. Now the heads have fallen to the ground and piled up in the big square, paying the price of their lives for their stupidity and shortsightedness - what is money? If anyone reaches the situation I have come to the point where I say, just give it to the underworld.

Dijon is enough for the river ferry! Afilica has always been an important province for food supply in Italy. There are planting estates here and a large number of commercial port cities. Therefore, in addition to Italy, this place is the province with the largest number of knights, with 1,800 knights. Your resume, family and assets are clearly located on my list. I don’t want the drama of Rome to repeat this place. If you don’t believe it, you can ask the insiders. How kind and tolerant I show in the Great Slash of the Seven Hills, but this does not mean that I have no means of dealing with the stubborn elements."

After Li Bida finished speaking, he quickly threw the roster on the floor, and slapped it hard with his baton, indicating that everyone must look at him. When his fearful eyes came from all directions, he pointed at the entourage standing by his baton, "See, do you think you have noticed that it is an axe on my baton at any time."

"Please allow me, an old man who has been through so many years, to say a few words. You should not underestimate the wise speech of the old man." After Li Bida finished singing the black face, Galba, the chief of the Utika Chamber of Commerce with silver silk next to him, immediately sang red face, "In fact, as long as the stability and order of the Republic is restored and the rebel party is eliminated, it will have longer-term benefits for merchants. The high priest also fully considered the difficulties of our respective cities, so his plan is like this. All the supplies of the fifteen legions, the Executive Yuan inherited the

The burden is half, while the burden is half, and in our half, it is divided into three parts - one provided by the treasury of each city; one shared by all the knights in collectively, but the high priest will give you the corresponding right to hold the national debt; the last part is served by the emergency temporary taxes of the entire province, and some new taxes can be added in many aspects such as planting, winemaking, oil pressing, urban construction, luxury goods trade, maritime affairs, etc., but remember that this is temporary, and there is no need to collect it after the war is over next year."

After all, it seems that the city is still within the affordable range. After all, Li Bida is not Pompei and Scipio. Those who are fishing out of the waters. In the end, even the stove, door panels and window lattices have to be taxed. Then all the city representatives finally stood up collectively and made a gesture of approval to express their approval of the high priest's taxation plan.

"Don't be depressed, you guys! The chief honorary knight Galba said just now, merchants should look longer, and I will not forget the strong help from you - I decided to grant you extra rights as soon as the war ends - now 60% of the tax holders in Italy have been killed, and I will immediately distribute the quotas in Numidia and Mauritania. For others, the threshold will always exist. But for you, there are 'flat rivers' everywhere like the terrain here." After Li Bida said, he proudly made a gesture of galloping.

Then, the burden of building the "trapezoidal warehouse group" and "three-way road" from Utica City to the Tumu River was built, and soon hit the heads of all the knights of Afiriga.

The three-way road was a new way of building roads used by Libida in the city of Leptis, which diverted the pack horse baggage, cavalry and infantry, greatly shortening the time and burden of marching.
Chapter completed!