He imposed a peace settlement that increased tribute payments and presumably recruited among the Numidians, who had already and would continue to play a key role in Carthage's armies.
If any town should engage in rebellion or mutiny, fall into violent factions, or refuse to pay the usual tribute, the king has two methods of reducing them to obedience.
Tillers of the soil by necessity, they were forced to pay enormous tributes to absentee landlords in England whose claim to their estates rested upon the title of conquest and confiscation.