v8 Chapter 3： The drought hit and the news of Rome

"Oh, yes." Burkes reminded another sentence: "Our Ministry of Agriculture has specifically investigated the food storage in the homes of the people of Tuli, Crotone, Grumendum, Cosenza, and Rocky. In fact, their food can last up to November!"

"How is the situation in Sicily?" Anta Ollis asked.

"Sicily has plenty of rain this year. There should be no problem with the harvest of the cities of Kataney and Naxos," Burgos replied.

"What about Campania?"

“The farmland in that area is not bad.” reminded by Anta Orris, Burkes continued: “There is no drought in Carthage in Afrika, only the Central Greece and the Peloponnese area are the same as us. The situation, but their situation is a little lighter."

Daves listened to his report, and his fingers couldn't help but tap the table, his face was also not good-looking. But soon, he stretched his brow again and said slowly: "The sky is overcast, people have a good fortune, and the gods cannot take care of us forever. This drought is coming to us. The test of the kingdom. But what are we afraid of! We are prepared, aren't we? In the previous meeting of the Senate, it was not always said, 'The granaries we built were mostly spent in addition to the occasional supply of the corps. It’s completely wasteful to be there in vain. 'And this time, these seemingly wasted granaries will save the lives of millions of our people!”

The words of Daphus made Lucias, Melsis and others feel ashamed.

A little knock, Daves continued to ask: "Burkes, have you ever done statistics, how much grain in the granaries of our kingdom can sustain the consumption of people in the southern Italian region?"

Burkes was prepared for this, he said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now our kingdom has a total of nine granaries in Grummentum, Turui, Cosenza, Crotone, Trina , Lockley, Kataney, Udaye, Sylvium (they correspond to the station of the 10 major legions), about 100,000 tons of food, about 1.5 million in the southern Italian region, if you follow each person for two meals a day If you only maintain food and clothing, you can guarantee about six months of food supply."

"It’s only six months! These foods can’t be supplied to the public for the autumn harvest next year!” Wesbach sighed.

Several other rotating chairmen gave him a look.

In order to prevent him, Mariji immediately explained: "In the past few years, citizens have made a lot of money for selling food because of the bumper harvests in the past few years. There are very few poor citizens. The grain in our granary is not supplied to them freely, but by A lower price is sold in the market so that they can afford it to survive this difficult time, so as to prevent the grain traders from taking the opportunity to raise the price of food madly, causing panic among the people..."

Daves said: "The 100,000 tons of grain is still not enough. The candidates must have sufficient food reserves to cope with the upcoming drought. And we have to keep enough wheat for the next year's sowing, so Melsius, before you spread the news, use the treasury and send people to Carthage, Cyrenaica, and even Egypt to buy a lot of grain."

"Okay, sire, I will do it right away!" Melsis answered very simply, without hesitation and shouting at all, because he knew that this was the king's top priority.

"Mariji, your Ministry of Commerce must strictly control the markets of the cities, let the grain merchants who sell the grain sell the grain at the right price, do not want to disrupt the market, blindly raise the price... for the food that ignores the warning and insists on chaos Merchants, the Ministry of Commerce is allowed to impose severe penalties on the courts!

At the same time, you should work together with the chief executives of the cities. When selling the grain of the granary, you must check the identity of the purchaser. Each person is only allowed to purchase a certain amount of grain per day, which cannot be exceeded. To prevent people from selling the grain of the granary in large quantities, Take the opportunity to make a fortune, such a despicable person finds one and punishes one! ”

"I understand, Your Majesty!" Marigi also looked serious.

"Burkes!" Daves turned to the Minister of Agriculture: "Now the drought is coming, the river is shallow, the role of the waterwheel is greatly weakened, and to solve the problem of people's draught, digging is a good solution. You and The Ministry of Construction must work together to excavate deep wells in various cities to solve the problem of people's water shortage."

"Okay, squat, I will rush to the Ministry of Construction!" Burkes looked a little darker.

Daves’s gaze finally fell on the five rotating presidencies: “The adults, the Senate need to hold an emergency meeting and discuss a proposal to deal with the drought as soon as possible to remind the people to save food and save water in the next period of time. And also need to reserve more water at home... At the same time, we must also comfort them without panic, keep calm, have the blessing of Hades, and the kingdom's full help, they will certainly overcome this difficulty!"

"Your Majesty, we will have a meeting in the afternoon." Cornelus responded immediately.

Daves nodded and looked at everyone in the room. Their dignified expression revealed tension, so he asked aloud: "Lucias, when you were suffering from drought in Greece 25 years ago, how are you? What to deal with?"

"Your Majesty." Lucias recalled the situation at the time, and his face showed some painful color: "At that time, the people of Crotone were raising gold and silver, and they went to Carthage to buy food. People knew that we had a drought and immediately turned the price of grain several times. So we couldn’t buy more food. The council had no choice but to send some people to Iberia for colonization through lottery. Later, these went out. The people are all killed by the Iberian indigenous attacks..."

"Yes! The country is weak, and when it comes to such a natural disaster, it can only endure the pain of family and friends, and the family is broken. But the Kingdom of Dionia has the ability to let every citizen of the kingdom not suffer such suffering. We want to see This drought is a bad thing, but it is also a good thing! It will make the few people who are still fascinated by the long history of the city-state and think about the independence of the city to see clearly and understand that only by staying in such a country with strong national strength can we guarantee peace. Through every natural disaster and man-made disaster, their homes will have a long-lasting peace!"

The words of Davers have inspired the spirit of the elders, and they have resonated with them. They have worked hard for more than a decade in this unique kingdom of the polity. Even the lateest Lucias has become more and more sympathetic. powerful country.

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After Daves sent them to Cornelus, before he could catch his breath, Aristilas came in. "His Majesty, the intelligence department sent a message about Rome from the north."

As soon as he heard about Rome, Davers immediately raised his spirit and asked: "What is the situation?"

"Wolsci in the south of Rome joins the Aéqui in the east of Rome and the Hernic? in the southeast. It is invited by the rebellious Roman Latin priest Praeneste. Invaded the territory of Rome, it is reported that its strength is about 20,000."

Prinister? Davers thought about it and had no impression in his mind. He immediately turned around and said to the clerk, Henipolis, "Herne, take the map of Central Italy."

The map was on the desk, and Davers looked down and finally found the location of the Latin city-state: Prinister is a larger Latin city-state located 60 miles southeast of Rome and close to the mountains. It is at the entrance to the lowlands between the mountains, guarding the passage into the Equi and the Helsinki. The converse is that its renegade will allow Ekque and the Helsinkis to easily invade the Latin ally of Rome and threaten the city itself...

"Is Rome's troops going to the north and attacking Etruscans all transferred back?" Davers asked again.

"There has not been a message yet," Aristilas replied.

Davers touched his chin and fell into meditation.

In the three years of Dionia (ie 390 BC), the Celtic king of Brnonus, which was entrenched in the upper reaches of the Po River in northern Italy, united most of the Celtic tribes and invaded the southern part of Eit. Lunia.

They ruined all the way, defeated the power of many Etruscans and captured many towns. Just as they began to besiege the city of Clusium, Rome, an ally, sent troops to rescue. As a result, the Celts and the Roman army fought in the vicinity of the Arya River, and eventually Rome was defeated~www.novelhall. What com Daves doesn't know is that because there is no temptation by the messenger sent by Dionysius in this world (Dionysius died in the hands of Pybidas two years ago), the Celtics did not Aside from the Etruscan towns along the way, they did not attack, quickly rushed to the city of Rome, but continued to kill all the way, looting all the way, until more than two months before crossing the Tiber River.

At this time, the Roman city wall was worn out, and even the entire Roman city was not completely covered. In addition, half of the city’s young and middle-aged people were killed or wounded, and most of the civilians were in conflict with nobles and civilians in previous years. The conflict eventually turned away from the city of Rome and settled in the city of Victoria. Therefore, this is because there are not enough troops in the city of Rome to defend. Except for a few old people who are weak and unwilling to leave their homeland, and a few people who are willing to stick to the Acropolis of Capitoli, most people have to evacuate from Rome. .

Some of them went to Wei Ai, and a few people went to a Latin city in the south of Rome called Ardea. Camerus, the Roman star who had conquered Vai, but was expelled for being framed, retired here.

The Celts easily occupied the city of Rome and slaughtered the old people in the city. However, they had not been able to attack the hard-moving Capitoli Acropolis. They had to surround them and sent other troops to the surrounding areas to collect grain. So the Latin region The towns and villages have suffered.