Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Feng Yu said happily: "Great, the money came in a timely manner. The efficiency of your finance bureau is quite high."

Unexpectedly, the other party smiled lightly and said: "Your Excellency Feng Yu, this is not dispatched by the financial official's office. It was shipped directly from the consul's official office."

Feng Yu suddenly realized: "It turns out that the financial officer still withheld the money, and it was His Majesty Alexander who helped us out of this siege."

Chapter 1020 Legion Financial Officer

When the golden gold coins and white silver coins were distributed to the recruits of the Milan Legion, the commotion in the crowd and the resentment shown on their faces disappeared without a trace.It was replaced by a happy smile.

Feng Yu was talking with Julius on the sidelines. He wanted to know why Alexander decided to have the money paid by the consul and the details of what happened before and after.Julius said unexpectedly to Feng Yu: "Your Excellency General Feng Hu, this decision was not actually made by His Majesty Alexander. It was made by His Royal Highness Princess Amias, who only allocated the money in the name of His Majesty." payment."

Feng Yu thought to himself, it was exactly what I thought.It turned out that he suspected that he was immature in dealing with people. Alexander, who only liked to lead troops to fight, was unlikely to make this decision. It could only be that someone came up with ideas for him or made the decision on his behalf.And that person is most likely to be Alexander's mother, Princess Amias.

Julius continued to speak eloquently.It was only then that Feng Yu realized that his two letters had been sent back to the financial officer's office and Alexander.However, the Financial Officer's Office delayed it on the grounds that such a military payment allocation required the approval of the Senate, and Alexander did not take it seriously.Fortunately, Amias found out about this in the end, and she immediately decided to allocate a large sum of money from the budget of the Consul's Office to the Milan Legion.

Feng Yu bowed to Julius after listening, and said, "After your Excellency returns, please express my gratitude to Her Royal Highness the Princess. She can be said to be a helping hand to our Milan Legion."

Unexpectedly, Julius shook his head like a rattle and said, "Go back? Your Excellency, this time I will not return the money after sending it back. Because..." He took out a piece of paper from his pocket as he spoke. The sheepskin scroll came and handed it to Feng Yu.

Feng Yu opened it and was surprised.It turned out that Julius had been appointed treasurer of the Legion of Milan by the Consul Office.According to the establishment of the Roman legion, this treasurer is second only to the head of the legion and the deputy head of the legion.In the absence of these two, the Treasurer will inherit the command of the Legion in line.Feng Yu thought to himself: "It seems that this money is not given for nothing, the price is another nail in my side."

In the blink of an eye, summer turns to autumn, and Feng Yu has been in the Milan barracks for more than two months.In the past two months, the Milan Legion has begun to take shape.Julius found that Feng Yu paid great attention to the construction of cavalry, which was different from other Roman legions.

Feng Yu had planned for this when he asked Douglas, the deputy head of the army, to recruit more soldiers, and asked him to recruit more Scythians who were good at riding and shooting.It's a pity that on the Apennine Peninsula, Scythians are rarely seen, let alone Scythians who are good at riding and shooting.To recruit these Scythian cavalry, you need to wait for Rome's annual unified conscription.At that time, the Romans would specifically recruit Scythians on the grasslands on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, and then distribute them to various legions.Obviously, Feng Yu was impatient to wait until that time.

Feng Yu had no choice but to mobilize manpower to form cavalry on his own.In the end, there were three brigades of cavalry recruited, accounting for [-]% of the total force, with a total of [-] cavalry.All of them were trained as cavalry by Simmons.Training cavalry is not an easy task, especially training those who have never ridden a horse into qualified cavalry.Feng Yu, who is far away from Zhongtu now, also has no system function blessing.We can only honestly spend manpower and time to create these cavalry.

Fortunately, there are no light cavalry specializing in cavalry and archery among these cavalry.A Qingqi like Liang Jun Qingqi Feiyu might not be able to train for several years.Even a considerable number of people do not have the qualifications to complete this training at all, and will be eliminated halfway through.

The current cavalry of the Milan Legion are all heavily armored cavalry with chain mail on both men and horses.This kind of cavalry is much easier to train than Qingqi, which requires both proficiency in horsemanship and accurate bow.As long as they can gallop on horseback and point their spears at the enemy, they can barely enter the battlefield.If they can cooperate tacitly with each other to form a cavalry formation, it is considered qualified to sweep and attack the enemy with rows of cavalry spears.

Of course, Feng Yu only set up heavy cavalry not only because the training is relatively simple, but also because he considers that future operations will basically be carried out in narrow plains, lush forests, and uneven mountains.Such a battlefield is good at long-distance attack, and the role of mobile and kite-flying light cavalry is really limited.On the contrary, heavy cavalry has certain advantages over infantry in these terrains, especially on narrow plains, which can be described as crushing.

It's just that these heavy cavalry made the treasurer Julius feel distressed, because they cost too much money.Even just equipping these heavy cavalry with the worst rough horses cost less than half of the money that Julius had brought.Moreover, this was an early investment. Julius settled the score, and feeding the [-] war cavalry was enough to feed [-] regular infantry of the legion.Julius was only muttering in his heart---is Feng Hu sure that Amias will support him to the end?

Even so, when watching these heavy cavalry training, Feng Yu always muttered to the side, "The horses are too bad, the horses are too bad, I have to change them later." Money is not brought by strong winds, how can it be ruined casually.But he could only murmur these words in his heart, but he never dared to say them in front of Feng Yu.

During the more than two months of contact with Feng Yu, Julius discovered two strange things about the Milan Legion.

One is that the infantry of the Milan Legion has never been trained with javelins, and the ballista players have not been trained with ballistas.They didn't even have enough javelins and catapults, and Feng Yu refused him to buy javelins and catapults from the imperial arsenal.Julius, like Douglas before him, only muttered in his heart, without a javelin, the combat effectiveness of the infantry would be greatly reduced.

The second is that just like forming a special cavalry unit, Feng Yu specially formed a team of archers instead of hiring those Syrian archer mercenaries to act.But he was not seen distributing bows and crossbows to these archers, and he was not seen training every day.

When Julius raised these questions to Feng Yu, Feng Yu always said indifferently: "Your Excellency, the treasurer, manage the funds of the legion well, so you don't have to worry about such things. There is an old saying in China that calls the ship to the bridge." Naturally." Seeing what he said, Julius had no choice but to give up.

After a few days, there were suddenly two thousand fewer soldiers in the barracks, and they disappeared.Even Feng Yu and Douglas, the deputy head of the army, were gone.Julius inquired everywhere, but found nothing. He only knew from Simmons what Feng Yu was taking these 2000 people to pick up.

Chapter 1021 The Mystery of Gold Coins

On this day, the sky was falling with misty autumn rain, and the soldiers finished their training earlier than usual and were about to be disbanded.A long procession came from a distance outside the camp.The sharp-eyed soldiers realized that they were their own people who left the barracks earlier, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Back! Back! The army commander is back."

Julius hurriedly boarded the watchtower of the barracks and looked into the distance. Sure enough, it was Feng Yu leading a group of troops to the barracks. He was accompanied by his maid Bonnie and deputy army commander Douglas.It's just that this team is also mixed with a team that looks like a caravan and carries hundreds of baggage trucks.

Julius hurried out of the camp to welcome the group into the camp.He asked straight to the point: "Legion Commander, where have you been for so many days?"

Feng Yu replied disapprovingly: "Of course it is to go to the port to receive these goods. Do you think I can rest assured that there are so many supplies without soldiers to pick them up?"

When Julius heard this, his heart skipped a beat and he said inwardly: "Don't be a prodigal, if these items cost a lot of money, my account will be bottomed out. Maybe I won't be able to pay this month's military salary. "

Soon, the big boxes on the truck were removed, revealing the guys inside.Those are all brand-new individual ballistas wrapped in linen, and of course there are miniature crossbows equipped with them.

Although Julius had never seen these things before, he also knew that they were valuable.He cautiously asked Feng Yu: "Legion Commander, how much does this thing cost?"

Feng Yu still said indifferently: "If you ask about the market price, it is priceless, because no merchant has this source of goods. I bought this through my original relationship in Liang Guo. If you ask about the cost price, this one About two gold coins."

As soon as he finished speaking, Julius yelled in fright, and said eagerly: "General, we can't afford to pay so much money. After shaking off all the balance in the account, we probably can't pay." What's more, the finances of the Roman Legion are all managed in monetization, and the top only pays the money, and the rest is ignored. Our money is used to buy food except for the salary. If the salary is not paid, the soldiers will riot. If there is no food, That would be direct rebellion."

Feng Yu laughed, patted Julius on the shoulder and said, "Dude, don't worry. These things don't need to be debited from your account book. Not only that, I also brought 5000 taels of gold to make up for the army's treasury. The worry of insufficiency."

Julius couldn't believe his ears, and stood there with his mouth wide open.It wasn't until he saw a whole cart full of yellow gold bars that he believed that Feng Yu didn't make fun of him.

For this matter, Dian Qing had already taken out an individual ballista and fiddled with it in front of the soldiers of the legion, and saw him put five rounds of the ballista into the arrow box.Pulled the lever, then pointed at a big tree five battles away and pulled the hanging knife.Those Roman soldiers discovered that this pocket ballista without a "torque spring" could shoot the one-meter-long ballista into the tree trunk only by the tension of the bowstring made of unknown material, and it sank into the tree trunk. Half a foot deep.This means that the crossbow spear can also shoot through the large shields in their hands.

Just when these soldiers thought that this kind of artifact could only be held by important units, someone shouted: "The infantry are all standing in line, and now distribute the equipment, one for each!"

Only then did they know that the individual ballista was issued as a standard weapon.Hurriedly and excitedly, under the command of Feng Yu's personal soldiers, they lined up in long queues.Some barbarian soldiers stood in front in order to get this thing first, and almost had a conflict and started a fight.When they received the individual ballista, they curiously fiddled with it like Dian Qing.When they pulled the lever, they were very surprised when they found that the rubber band, which was as thick as a finger and only half a foot long, was stretched into a thin rope that was thinner than the front of the chopsticks but more than three feet long.

A barbarian soldier put his face close to the bowstringed individual ballista, and inadvertently pulled the hanging knife with his fingers. The rubber band slapped his face, and he screamed in pain, his skin was thick and fleshy. Suddenly there was a bloody gash on his face.The soldiers next to him gloated and laughed.Fortunately, they have not been issued crossbow guns at this time, otherwise some accidents will definitely occur.

Dian Qing hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, don't move around before you learn how to operate it." It's a pity that others couldn't understand what he said, and only after the translator and Simmons also loudly warned these legionnaires that it was dangerous to mess around, they had some convergence.

Then, in the opened box, there were new ballistas and longbows of different models from Liang Guo.Especially the longbow, after Dian Qing showed it off, everyone was dumbfounded.The arrow like a short spear suddenly turned into a small black spot in the distant sky.Experienced people estimated that the shot was at least three or four hundred steps away.

The commander of the thousand and the centurion, who had a good thing to do, begged for a few longbows to watch. They tried to pull them, but a few of them didn't pull them because they were relatively weak and their skills were not right.You must know that these people are all from martial arts background, even if they have never practiced archery, they should at least be able to draw the bow.It can be seen that the strength and physical condition required by this longbowman.Only then did everyone suddenly realize why the hundreds of longbowmen in the previously selected team had long arms, big arms and round waists.

Julius didn't seem to be interested in these weapons, but came near the cart of gold.In fact, it wasn't that he was not interested in these new things, but that the cart of gold bars attracted his attention more than these new weapons.

He took out a yellow gold bar from the cart, weighed it in his hand, and muttered, "This one weighs at least one kilogram, enough to exchange for five or six hundred gold coins."

Feng Yu also came to him quietly, and when he heard what he said, he responded: "Isn't it right? I weighed the gold coins of Rome in the early years. A gold coin is converted into a unit of Roman grams, and it weighs about 4 to 5 grams. This A gold bar is 20 taels, and one kilogram is only equivalent to two hundred Roman gold coins."

Julius laughed loudly and said, "Where did you see that the gold coins weighed four to five grams. Our Roman gold coins only weighed three grams, and they contained at least [-]% lead. The real gold composition is at most two grams." .”

Feng Yu let out a cry of surprise, took out a gold coin from his personal purse and waved it in front of Julius, and said, "No, I was very interested in Rome when I was in Liang Kingdom, so I paid attention to it. All aspects of Roman affairs. When I first got this Roman gold coin, I ordered someone to weigh it, and measured its volume and density with the drainage method. Each gold coin does weigh four to five grams, and it is very pure gold. "

Chapter 1022 Mint Chief

Julius snatched the gold coin from Feng Yu's hand unceremoniously, weighed it in his hand, and suddenly showed a surprised expression in his eyes.Then, he bit the gold coin fiercely with his teeth, his expression even more confused.Finally, he said like an epiphany: "You must have obtained this gold coin a long time ago."

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "I actually got this gold coin when I passed Ceylon, a vassal state of Liang State, last year. It should have been brought from Rome by the merchants there."

Julius had carefully examined the gold coin at this time, and said with a smile, "No, no, although this gold coin came from Rome, it wasn't brought from Rome by them these years. It was because the gold coin flowed out a long time ago. Outside Rome, it circulated in the outside world. The original gold coins were of good quality, but the current gold coins are less than half the value of the original gold coins. Over the years, the minted gold coins have greatly reduced their gold content."

After Douglas next to him heard these words, he beat his feet angrily and said, "Ah, Legion Commander. It turns out that the one hundred gold coins you advanced to me a while ago are old gold coins. It's a big loss now." sent."

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "The few gold coins I brought with me were obtained in Ceylon Island. The rest of the gold coins were exchanged by Simmons for gold and silver at market prices after we approached Rome."

Simmons had already interjected from the side: "That's right, the gold coins are exchanged at the market price as they go. I thought it was weird at the time. If this exchange ratio was followed, wouldn't all the merchants in the world have exchanged all the gold coins in Rome? Only now do I know why in this way."

Feng Yu asked Julius again: "Did the Roman government instruct the mint to do this in order to increase financial revenue?"

Julius smiled wryly and said, "It would be great if that was the case. It is a pity that the value stripped from the gold coins and silver coins has gone into personal pockets and has not been included in the national treasury. Every year, the Finance Office will allocate a certain amount of gold , silver to mints to mint rations of gold and silver coins."

Feng Yu continued: "So the mint only used part of the gold and silver to complete the task, and then the remaining gold and silver went into personal pockets."

Julius continued to shake his head and said, "No! The mint is heavily guarded, and gold and silver cannot enter personal pockets. The mint is managed by the treasurer's office, and the guard is the consul's office. Gold and silver can only enter but not exit. "

Douglas asked suspiciously from the side: "So, isn't it true that the people who lead the counterfeiting are not profitable, so what are they after?"

Julius was about to answer, but Feng Yu laughed and said first: "The reason is not simple. Although gold and silver cannot be produced, the minted currency can be produced. The gold and silver used for each currency is less , Naturally, these gold coins and silver coins can be minted in excess. When they are all out of the mint, only the predetermined number will be recorded in the account of the treasurer’s official office, and the excess gold and silver coins will go into the pockets of individuals.”

Julius nodded and said: "On the one hand, the gold content in each currency and the silver content have dropped sharply. On the other hand, excess currency has flowed into the market, which has caused a sharp depreciation of the currency and skyrocketing prices."

After hearing this, Douglas scolded angrily: "His grandma, this is stealing money directly from the treasury. Don't the consul, His Majesty the Emperor, the Senate, the Ombudsman, and the officials know about it? Stealing the empire's money?"

Julius snorted coldly and said, "Finance officials are nothing, how could they be so courageous. This is naturally supported by heavyweights. But as far as I know, His Majesty's mother Amiyas has already agreed She is concerned about this. She has realized the seriousness of the problem. Before I set off from Rome, she had already started advising His Majesty Alexander to resolve the matter."

Douglas nodded and said: "That's good, I hope this matter can be resolved smoothly."

……

The night was deep.Fifty miles north of Rome, a luxuriously decorated room in the Imperial Coin Factory was still brightly lit.

A thin, shriveled old man with a bald head was curled up on a luxurious leather chair, but his feet were resting on a walnut executive desk.He held a hookah from the East in his right hand, and took a sip from time to time.But his left hand kept reaching for a bamboo basket full of yellow gold coins next to the chair, grabbed a handful of gold coins, and then let the gold coins fall back to make the sound of clanging metal, and the cycle repeated.

He is the Master of the Mint, Felici Simus.For him, smoking an expensive hookah and listening to the sound of gold coins clattering is the greatest enjoyment in the world.

Felic was also a slave in his early years. Later, his master, a highly respected senator of the Senate, saw that he was smart and asked him to study accounting and financial management, and then released him as a free man and recommended him to work in the Finance Office.Then he came to the mint with the thickest oil and water, and finally, with the help of the nobles, he made it to today step by step.

At this moment, a hasty knock on the door interrupted Felic's enjoyment.He said impatiently: "Who is it, you knock on the door in the middle of the night. Is there something you can't say tomorrow?"

Immediately, a voice came from outside the door: "My lord, it's me. There is something urgent. There is news from the city of Rome. Very urgent news."

Felic's face changed slightly when he heard this, but he still pretended to be nonchalant and said two words: "Come in!"

A mint official flashed into the room, and then concealed the door with his backhand.Felic sneered: "What can scare you like a mouse, tell me quickly."

"My lord, someone in Rome wants to impeach you..."

Before the little official finished speaking, he was interrupted by Felic with a sarcastic smile: "Impeach me? Is it that easy? How many people will come to impeach me next year, but this fool doesn't know what's behind me. Who is it, they thought I was the one who took so many gold and silver coins every year. Can I eat so much by myself?"

The reason why Felic is fearless is not only because of the backer behind him, but also a more important reason is that the financial officer's office is different from the tribune's office, and the latter must directly obey the consul, that is, the Roman emperor.However, the former is independent from the consul's office and is not subject to the management of the Roman emperor's power system.This means that the appointment and dismissal of him and his immediate boss is not up to Alexander alone.In order to remove his guilt from the officials, he must be approved by the Senate.That is called impeachment.

The little official said again: "Sir, but the person who proposed the impeachment this time is His Majesty the Consul Alexander!"

As soon as the words fell, the hookah in Felic's hand fell to the ground with a thud, and his feet retracted as if they were electrocuted, and fell to the ground.

Chapter 1023 Conspiracy

"What! Alexander wants to impeach me?" Felic yelled as he stood up from the luxurious leather chair, but he still had an unchanging and steady expression.

Then he shook his head again and again: "Impossible, it is absolutely impossible. I have met Alexander several times, and this kid is still a brat. How could he think of impeaching me. And... I don't seem to have offended him Right. I remember that on his birthday last time, I gave him a large sum of gold. It’s not a low-quality product mixed with lead, but a high-purity gold brick.”

The little official quickly responded: "Chairman, according to the eyeliner in Rome, although the impeachment was issued in the name of Alexander, it was actually the decision made by his mother Amias."

With a muffled bang, Felic slapped his palm heavily on the table, and said in his mouth, "So it's this stinky bitch, and she's not from the government office. What she's doing is meddling in government affairs!"

Felic stood still in silence for a while, and said to the little official: "You, go to Rome quickly, and send a letter to the nobles behind us, so that they can intervene as usual, and also test it out. Talk to Alexander and Amias to see if they have an excuse to ask us for money. This matter should pass quickly."

The little official said with a bitter face: "Let's not hide from the chief executive, those people have known about this for a long time. Even the news was leaked to the subordinates by two of them, and it was not revealed by our eyeliner in the consul's office. It can be seen that, How secret is the Consul’s office keeping this matter..."

But Felic said with a sullen expression: "So they all know, so why didn't they take action to solve this matter? Don't they know that if this matter is investigated, they will eventually be dragged out?"

The little official continued: "They said that this matter cannot be resolved as in the past. In addition to the reason for impeachment proposed by Alexander himself, the more important thing is that they have tangible evidence. Including witness and physical evidence."

Felic, who had always been calm, at least pretended to be nonchalant, showed obvious panic at this time: "What witnesses, physical evidence? It is impossible for people from the Consul's office to get it. The accounts here, the entry and exit are all clear. If They took some gold coins as evidence, saying that it happened to be an accidental batch of defective products, and they could not be used as evidence. Although the soldiers standing guard at the gate of our mint are under the jurisdiction of the consul's office, they can mint coins, and the incoming and outgoing goods are inspected. The whole line of goods entering the account is ours. What evidence is there for him? Of course, it is an open secret that the coins are now mixed with a lot of impurities. But isn’t our Rome a place where laws and regulations are respected. He can’t exonerate me without evidence Duty, condemn me!"

Felic paused when he said this, stared at the little official who hesitated to speak, and said: "Didn't they really come up with any good solution to this matter?...I see, do they want to throw Give me this chess piece." Before the words finished, there was a muffled sound.This time he didn't slap the table with his palm, but punched the table with his fist.

Felitch shouted in a pitched voice: "If something happens to me, none of them will run away. If I'm going to the scaffold, they'll go with me. If I'm going to jail, they'll go with me." Squat together!"

Seeing that Felic was in a state of rage, the little official quickly comforted him: "Chief, you are overthinking. They didn't want to throw out your intentions, but wanted...to..."

Felic said: "Speak quickly if you have something to say, and fart quickly if you have something to say, why are you hesitating."

The little official then lowered his voice, and listened to Felic's side, and they wanted the chief executive to do so and so.After hearing this, Felic frowned and said, "It's too risky. It's no different from throwing me out. If you are convicted of adulteration in coins, you may still lose your life. Doing this It's 100% decapitated."

"Chairman, once you do this, you are not alone. Those people in Rome will definitely cooperate. As long as you force Alexander to compromise, it will not be difficult to come up with a pardon for everyone." The little official He answered again.

"Then what if Alexander or Amias doesn't compromise?"

"Those nobles have said that they will stop at nothing and abolish this emperor and install another one. Anyway, we have changed many emperors in Rome over the years."

After the little official said this, he said another meaningful sentence: "Now there is only one way to get out of the body. Of course, what to do is entirely up to the chief executive to decide." After saying this, the little official stopped. He opened his mouth and stood silently aside with his hands down, waiting for Felic's reply.

What an old fritter Felic is, he can naturally understand the meaning of the little official.If he doesn't follow the intention of others, then he really can only be abandoned as a pawn.What he said earlier was just nonsense. As long as the nobles behind him reached a tacit compromise with the Consul's Office, he would not be able to drag anyone into the water, and he would be responsible for all the scapegoats.

The idea of ​​running away suddenly appeared in Felic's mind, but he quickly denied his ridiculous idea.If others can run away, can the rich family wealth be taken away?Even if he could escape with this wealth, this huge amount of property would become a burden that dragged him down and cost him his life.At that time, all the forces in the great Roman Empire would desperately intercept and kill him like a shark smelling blood.There was no way he could have escaped outside Rome.

In the end, Felic slapped his palm on the table again and said, "That's the decision, life and death, wealth and honor are at stake here."

……

At dawn the next day, amid the sound of clappers telling the time, the mint workers emerged from their dormitories one after another, busy washing, eating breakfast, and preparing to start the day's work.Unexpectedly, at this time, some foremen informed one by one: "You don't need to go to the mint after breakfast today, everyone gathers in the open space. The chief manager has something to say."

Someone pinched their fingers and muttered, "No, it's not the end of the month today, so why was the regular money paid out in advance? It's not the first day of the month, and it can't be wages."

The rest of the people also chattered and discussed, and someone laughed and said: "Maybe the chief executive has a lot of money this month. If you are happy, give us an extra set of money."

"You still want to be beautiful. It would be nice if you could send the extra money in advance."

"Stop guessing, don't you know later? Everyone who has finished eating should hurry up."

The extra money in their mouths is a kind of "dividend" paid by Felic in addition to the normal salary, and it is more accurate to say it is called the spoils.

Chapter 1024 Strike

Felic was able to rise from a slave to today's position as chief executive because he understood a truth very early on and practiced it all the time.This principle is --- you have to cooperate with others to succeed in everything you do, and if you can get others to help you, you will benefit from everyone.Of course, the amount of this job depends on how important the cooperating people are to making it happen.

Every coin has to go through the hands of mint craftsmen, and they have to operate it when it is mixed with impurities such as lead and copper.More importantly, they are not slaves, but free people, and many of them are citizens.Felici could not force them to do this, nor could the dignitaries in Rome use their power to shut their mouths.Therefore, the craftsmen are also Felic's "collaborators" now, and Felic will distribute a bonus to each of them at the end of each month.Of course, this money is nothing compared to the income of him and those powerful people in Rome.But compared with the original salary of the craftsmen, it is a huge income.

Not long after, the large open space surrounded by dozens of workshops in the mint was crowded with a black crowd, with a scale of 6000 to [-] people.The reason why there are so many people in the Mint is that most of the silver coins in the country can only be minted here, and small factories in other places can only mint a small number of silver and copper coins.

When Felic climbed onto the high platform surrounded by several followers, the bustling crowd suddenly fell silent.Only then did Felic clear his throat, and said the pre-thought-out words: "Dear workers, are you satisfied with your income? Have I, Felic, ever treated you badly?"

The people in the audience looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing why Felic made such remarks.But soon they broke the silence and said in unison: "The chief executive treats us well. It can be said that his kindness is as heavy as a mountain. Without the chief executive, how could we have such a rich income every month."

Felic nodded in satisfaction, and then said with a bitter face and crying: "But there are a few scabs who are not familiar with it, they were bought by others, and they got some evidence of the so-called fraud and corruption in our foundry. , and handed over these evidences to the Consul’s office. Today, Alexander, who only knows how to have fun every day and ignores political affairs, is bewitched by his mother Amias, and wants to impeach me..."