The thing is, Italian agriculture is suffering and has been for decades now.
This could be fixed if we invested in supporting the farmers but by god the president of the cabinets goddaughter needs a new pony and nobody will notice if just a tiny bit of the top goes missing.
So, seeing that it is now impossible to throw money at the problem to make it go away the council thinks long and hard about the last time anything in this fucking country worked properly (during the roman empire) and decides that, hey, having slaves work our farms was pretty neat and nowadays the barbarians even come all on their own so it does not matter that our military is underfunded (so many goddaughters).
Anyway, 90% of the imigrants promptly goes of the grid and makes a beeline for britain, germany and sweden but we still have a near limitles suply of them.
So, the crafty councilors, having played age of empires decides that no preparations are needed and just place them adjacent to the rural areas hoping that an interest in farming will develop organicaly.
Now, we could just place one or maybe two of them into the community so that they will be forced to adapt bur did i mention that there are godsons too and we really do not have either time nor resources to spend because i spent those on getting him an appartement in rome so lets just shove the next three boatloads of them into whatever area has declined in harvests the most the last decade and both of our bigest problems should just go away.
By the way did i mention that i blew most of our spring budget getting diamond neclaces for my mistresses?
