I am reborn as a lord in Rome

Tina wasn't entirely right, Woolley had gone out of the city to the Old River Valley, but he wasn't out to play, but to attend a field gathering of the Tongji Alliance.

Of course, it seems a bit too formal to say that the outdoor gathering, to be more precise, Wu Lai organized and presided over the first outdoor barbecue activity of the Tongji Alliance, but it is not purely a barbecue for the sake of barbecue.

The Tongji Alliance, composed of eighteen middle-class nobles, wanted to be impregnable, and wanted to seek more interests and discourse, so they had to be wrapped together to charge and harass the old pattern of interests of the Seneca city-state, and attack the city and seize the land, until the opponent was defeated and raised his hands and surrendered.

This is the consensus of Woolley and all the members, and it is also their common ideal, and the members of the Tongji Alliance, like their president Woolley, are ambitious and dare to gamble.

Naturally, the butler and the slaves were busy with the barbecue and bartending, and Woolley and the members sat together on a grassy beach in the old river valley sheltered from the wind and the rising sun, and they were talking.

"Seneca city-state is not as good as other big city-states, it is located in the middle of nowhere, there are not many resources, for so many years, everyone's basic income depends on the output of the manor, no matter how big the manor, no matter how many crops, it is nothing more than to raise a few more people, in order to prepare for the famine, the grain has to be saved, and the manor makes money, especially to make a lot of money, that is undoubtedly a luxury, and the bulk of commercial trade is in those few families." The old players are in their hands, and they control the source and the sales channel, so that many of you, in order to make a small profit, have to cling to them, or even at their mercy. Woolley shook his fist, "Now, it's time for a change." "

Yes, it's time!" the members chimed in.

"The land of the manor cannot be abandoned, it is the foundation of survival, so we have to focus on trade, in the next three months to six months, the alliance's information collection and liaison stations in other city-states will achieve full Assyrian coverage, as long as it is functioning normally, we can grasp the price changes of the whole Assyrian city-states in the fastest time, and achieve low buying and selling high, instead of having to try luck when buying and selling goods as before. Woolley said.

The members nodded their heads.

"For this kind of cross-city-state buy low and sell high, my suggestion is that the alliance establish an exclusive caravan, with full participation and benefit sharing, although on the surface, the interests seem to be thin, but in fact this is not the case, everyone can understand the truth when they think about it, I will not waste my words here. Woolley smiled and took the glass from Nepton, took a sip, and moistened his somewhat dry throat.

"President, let's set up a caravan now, what do you want us to do?" one of the members said loudly.

"This matter is not something that can be done just by saying it, it is easy to arrange the hand, the car and the horse, and the concrete realization has to wait for the information liaison station to be almost built. Woolley smiled and said, "But we have one thing that we can start working on."

"What's the matter?" Woolly

cleared his throat, and then said: "There are quite a few citizens of the Seneca city-state, and there are also many families with rich backgrounds, and the people here and I combined, in terms of strength, I am afraid that it is less than two and a half, but in terms of influence, it has also reached half, why is this happening? Because everyone is energetic and daring to dare to do things, in this case, then we might as well expand the influence of the Tongji Alliance in the Seneca city-state a little more, to the point where it can be checked and balanced. The degree of restriction on the old families has been expanded to the point that we can now have an absolute say in Seneca, and at that time, those who do not join or depend on us in the trade activities of the Seneca city-state will have to depend on our mood to make a living.

Although Woolley's words were an understatement, what fell into the ears of the members was undoubtedly an impassioned declaration of war speech, and these originally ambitious guys were so aroused by Woolley, and the desire for hegemony was suddenly ......revealed

"President, you've said so, let's do it!"

"Listen to the president, I haven't been angry with those old bosses all these years, and now it's time to raise my eyebrows and puff up."

"President, you just arrange it, and everyone listens to you.

Wu Lai nodded with a smile: "Thanks to everyone's love, then let's do what we say, while they are still confused, suspicious and defenseless, let them try what it tastes like, I have a plan here, the first ......"

When the cheers and applause wrapped around Woolly like a tide, Woolley smiled, his eyes swept over everyone one by one, and his left palm was gently clenched into a fist ......

"You want benefits, I want them, in addition to interests, I want Seneca city-state, I have the final say!" Woolley said in his heart.

Wine, barbecue, picnic, coupled with Wu Lai's impassionedness, firmly held the hearts of the members of the Tongji Alliance together, although there were inevitably small calculations, but everyone had the same goal, action, and naturally the same ......

The next day, the members of the alliance moved at the same time, according to the list drawn up yesterday, to lobby those idle little nobles to become their vassals, these idle little nobles are either small families that have recently appeared in the past hundred years, or they are collateral families separated from middle families, and their current situation can basically be summed up in one sentence - few people, less land, less money, and few doors.

Such petty nobles accounted for thirty and a half of the citizens of the Seneca city-state, and all the combined strength was less than five percent of the financial resources of the Seneca city-state nobles, but half of them had the right to vote in the Seneca city-state nobles' council, so Woolley first chose to win over this seemingly weak but actually not to be underestimated.

In order to highlight the posture of Baishilou and the members of the alliance advancing and retreating together, the three major stewards under Woolley, Siban Oak, Gauguin, and Nepton all went out, pinching the money bags and vassal contracts of condolences to their respective goals.

Woolley stayed in the White Rock Building, not because he was holding the president's shelf, but because he really couldn't get out - yesterday afternoon, after returning from the camp, the members of the alliance publicized that Woolley was a special attendee of the Assyrian Supreme Noble Council, and from the evening until late at night, at least nearly twenty small and middle-sized families posted in the White Rock Building asking for a meeting.

Naturally, Wu Lai would not refuse these people to be the icing on the cake, of course, he had no intention of absorbing them as members of the Tongji Alliance, and proper courtesy and differential treatment could not only show his status, but also give these guys a warning ...... to the wind and rudder

As a result, the representatives of these small and medium-sized families who walked into the White Stone Building with great expectations that day were more or less regretful when they walked out of the gate of the White Stone Building, of course, hope will continue to hold, because Wu Lai said a very important sentence - "My habit is to only cooperate with people who have the same position as me." "

Of course, this meaning is very obvious, if you want to cooperate and want to be attached, you can stand up first, let me observe for a while.

As a result, there are many families who regret that they did not take refuge in the past when Wu Lai issued the first summons, although the benefits are not yet visible, but the high-spirited posture of the members of the Tongji Alliance is how enviable it is.

After another two days, Wu Lai's promotion plan was successfully concluded, and with the full cooperation of the members of the alliance, the thirty and a half small nobles fell into the bag without exception, and in the part other than the three and a half, Baishilou gained the attachment of seven more small nobles.

In addition, an old nobleman handed an olive branch to Woolley, and the four middle-class nobles chose to get closer to Woolley,

so everyone who learned the news was shocked without exception. Wealth and the number of vassals, it didn't take long for Wu Lai's wealth to be considered, the status of the special attendance of the Supreme Noble Council and the eleven minor noble vassals under his command were enough to make him among the top five nobles of the Seneca city-state, and this was still without counting the impression of the Tongji Alliance.

In other words, Wu Lai is now not only the master of Baishi Mansion and the master of the Tongji Alliance, but also the parents of the eleven little nobles, and he doesn't care what the eleven little nobles eat and drink, but whether these eleven little nobles can eat and drink spicy food or not, it really depends on Wu Lai.

Woolly is so fanfare, and the Tongji Alliance is so unscrupulous, which naturally arouses the dissatisfaction of some people, of course, Dayi and Ivan do not say, and the consul Anthony, who wears a pair of pants with them, is even more annoyed, but there are no rules that prevent Woolley from doing this.

"Dorjee, this kid Woolley is too inauthentic to do this, what does he want to do? replace me?" Anthony said to Dorjee with a frown.

Dorjee laughed with him, but he didn't say a word, Woo Lai entered the Assyrian Civic College that he strongly recommended, although he had his own careful thoughts at the time, but as soon as Woo Lai turned around, he made such a big achievement in Assyria, Dorjee didn't think he was qualified to be wet, but Anthony didn't know that on the night of the establishment of the Tongji Alliance, Dorjee, who received the news, had already come to Baishilou and congratulated Woolly, and then, Mei Zizi became a partner under Woolai's table.

"This can't be done, I can't let him do this anymore, hmph, the Supreme Council of Nobles is just a special attendee, I'm still a member of the Council of Supreme Nobles, he's the oldest!" Anthony slapped the table hard.

Dorjee quietly pursed his lips, and said in his heart that you are a good member, and all the city-state consuls are all there, but how old are the other Wu Lai, how old are you? The other Wu Lai is now staying next to the Supreme Noble Council and the Senate, maybe there will be a few waves of surprises one day, what about you? Seneca, who stays in this poor and remote country, does not seek to improve, and after so many years of mediocre political performance, the benefits you get are not as good as Wu Lai leaking through his fingers.

"Dorjee, I have a plan...... Anthony put his arm around Dorjee's shoulder, Dorjee listened attentively, nodded from time to time, and his heart was full of joy.

After nightfall, a tightly covered carriage drove into the White Stone Building, and in the car, sat a smug Dorjee.

Early the next morning, the butler of the consul Antony set out with a large number of men, copying the bridge section of Woolley, sending invitations all over the streets, and the nobles of the city-state of Seneca counted one by one, and all of them were sent.

When he watched his subordinates go out of the door, a hint of smugness appeared on Anthony's face: "Woolley, Woolley, Woodrey Greendo, I want you to see who is the one who counts Seneca." In

the afternoon, several large interconnected pergolas were erected in the front and back yards of Anthony's residence, and more than a dozen slaves came and went to move tables and chairs, and in the kitchen, more slaves were busy, and Anthony chatted with several nobles with personal ties in the living room.

"I estimate that there are more than three hundred guests tonight, and the last time there were so many people gathered was when I first arrived at Seneca. Anthony smiled, pun intended, "Seneca has been a little restless lately, I thought about getting everyone together and chatting a few words, but fortunately, as soon as I received the invitation, they all said they wanted to come."

"Of course, the Archon has been in Seneca for so many years, and everyone naturally looks to you, hahahaha. A nobleman said with a flattering smile.

"yes, yes, Archon Anthony is in Seneca, but that's it. Another nobleman gave a thumbs up.