What Scipio did was just wasting people and money in vain and had no other effect.

Especially Scipio did what Great Qin did.

In order to improve the physical fitness of the Romans, they not only provided nutritional support such as milk and eggs for infants, young children, and pregnant women, but also provided nutritional supplements to adolescents and children.

In this way, the Roman people would naturally laugh and be grateful for the country's giving.

But this was a huge pressure on Rome's finances.

You know, milk and eggs were very expensive in this era. Even if Rome had a small population, this was definitely a huge expense.

When it first started to be implemented, Rome had just abolished the tax exemption law for nobles. It relied on the first taxes paid by nobles of all sizes, and with this large financial revenue, it could barely support itself.

But as time goes by, the taxes Rome can collect from those nobles will inevitably become less and less.

After all, those nobles are all very smart and would not really let others slaughter them like domestic pigs.

In the past, as Roman nobles, they had tax-free rights. Therefore, those nobles naturally vigorously developed business and focused all their careers on this in order to make more huge profits.

But since Scipio promulgated a new code that abolished the tax-free rights of Roman nobles, the nobles still paid money honestly at first.

But they will soon realize that if they always focus on business and trade, they will face huge taxes.

Therefore, those Roman nobles would inevitably change their career priorities.

Although it is impossible to completely break away from commercial trade, it is absolutely impossible for them to invest all their energy and financial resources into commercial trade as before.

Although doing so reduced the total income of the Roman nobles, the net income after excluding taxes increased compared with the previous completely commercial trade model.ωωw.

Therefore, this method will soon be widely spread in Rome, and all nobles will use this method to reduce their tax burden.

But in this way, the Roman treasury could only collect income taxes from these nobles, while commercial taxes, which should have generated the most revenue, were greatly reduced.

Overall, the taxes that Rome could collect would naturally be much less.

At this time, the nutritional supplement program for infants, young children and teenagers will become the biggest burden on Rome's finances.

In fact, it's not just these. There are countless legal systems that are suitable for Qin Dynasty but not for Rome.

As Ying Yu said, the preferential policies, legal systems, etc. he came up with are all based on their application to the current Great Qin. It is not necessarily applicable to the future Great Qin. After all, the current Great Qin has developed too much.

It's so fast, it's basically the same every day, let alone Rome, where even the country is different.

If Scipio continued to blindly imitate, not only would the Roman economy not be able to recover, but it would only be disrupted into a mess.

"Your Majesty, what the Crown Prince said is extremely reasonable, and I heard that Scipio canonized Sophie as a princess and granted her a seat in the Senate, giving her the right to vote and veto in all political activities in Rome."

"Seats in the Roman Senate have always been given only to those highly respected sages. Never before has someone been able to receive such an honor at such a young age, let alone a woman. This is probably the first time in the entire history of Rome.

"

"This shows that Scipio attaches great importance to the marriage with our country, the Qin Dynasty. He did this to express his attitude and show his goodwill to our country, the Qin Dynasty."

Meng Yi said with a smile.

"Well, what you said does make sense. If that's the case, then I'm relieved."

After hearing what Ying Yu and Nei Shiteng said, Ying Zheng nodded.

"Speaking of which, what's the latest news about Hannibal of Carthage? Now that the marriage between Nascipio and Da Qin has been made public, he, as Hannibal's old rival, should have known about it for a long time.

Is this news?"

With the doubts in his mind cleared, Ying Zheng asked again about Hannibal, who was riding alongside Scipio.

"Your Majesty, according to the reports from spies in the Carthaginian army, Hannibal has been mobilizing his main force recently. The movement trajectory is away from the Carthage and Roman defense lines, and it seems that he is vaguely preparing to retreat."

"And just today, the high-ranking nobles of Carthage sent many rare gifts to our Great Qin, and passed on some messages. The specific effect is to ask our Great Qin to forgive Hannibal's rude behavior. I hope Carthage

We can continue to maintain good relations with Da Qin and prevent each other from invading each other."

"It won't be long before Hannibal leads the Carthaginian army to retreat to the rear."

"As for which area Hannibal will choose as the next stronghold of the Carthaginian army, we have not yet heard the relevant plans. However, once he has new trends, I will immediately report to His Majesty and His Highness Prince Ying Yu.

Reported."

Dunwei replied.

"Is this the time to retreat? Judging from my several observations of Hannibal's marching strategies, he doesn't seem like someone who would give up easily. What does the prince think of this?"

In confusion, Ying Zheng cast his gaze on Ying Yu.

Unconsciously, whenever he had questions or things he didn't understand, Ying Zheng would always subconsciously seek answers from Ying Yu. This had almost become a habit.

This made Ying Zheng have an idea in his mind.

In the future, he must find a way to deceive Ying Yu into taking the throne, so that he can naturally leave all political affairs to Ying Yu, and then he can be a comfortable and leisurely Supreme Emperor, and no longer have to think about these complicated matters.

national affairs.

Naturally, Ying Yu didn't know what Ying Zheng was thinking at this time, so he just analyzed it seriously:

"Father, what you said just now is actually quite right. It is absolutely impossible for a talented general like Hannibal to withdraw like this and surrender the Carthage and Roman defense lines that he has guarded for several years to the Roman army."

"But according to the reports from the Jinyiwei spies, Hannibal's army actually evacuated, and it is confirmed from all aspects that he is indeed evacuating. This is obviously very abnormal."

"As the saying goes, there must be monsters when things go wrong. Therefore, according to my opinion, Hannibal did not retreat, but deliberately made a gesture of preparation to retreat, in an attempt to paralyze the Roman army, and then lead
Chapter completed!