Chapter 328 Lishia — Close to Kaina Village (1/2)
May 15th — the day Jin reached Shouro empire’s capital, Rozaito, Lishia and Pascaud had reached Sharuru city.
“Just a little longer till Kaina village. If we stay the night at Toka village and depart at dawn and hurry, we will be able to reach the Kaina village before nightfall.”
“Lishia-san, you have been there once, haven’t you?”
“Yes, in the autumn of last year, as a tax-collecting officer.”
The taxation system of Kurain kingdom is somewhat special.
Generally, the citizens pay taxes to the country. It can be wheat, minerals or money.
And the country pays the nobles’ wages with that tax.
This is because there are new nobles, knights and even nobles who do not have any land.
And the nobles who do have land get paid according to the size of their land. And as such, having lost Kaina village, count Walter’s wages have decreased.
However, looking at it from another perspective, it also means that the tax collected from the land by the country doesn’t really leave the land either.
In other words, most of the income gained from mineral or harvest from a newly cultivated land goes to the land owner.
The country buys these minerals. Because of this, count Walter’s own financial standing was quite high. At least until the salt incident.
The mining in the Inado cave was also one of his sources and that was why the incident about the forced labor of the criminals getting out was not known by the public.
“It was quite a disaster back then, getting attacked by the Unifier’s golem.”
Lishia said, patting the sword on her waist.
“Right. But you were the one who drove them away, right?”
As she had decided to say that after being requested by Jin, that is what Pascaud Rush thought of the incident.
“No, actually, Mr. Jin drove them away.”
However, there was no need to hide it anymore. The people above have known it long ago.
“I-is that true?! A magi craftsman did that? How?”
But it was hard for Pascaud to believe such contents.
“He cut through the golem with water magic that time, if I am not mistaken.”
“And how exactly would he go about doing that……”
He couldn’t understand even more now. Pascaud could also use magic. Pascaud specialized in wind magic and he was especially good with ‘wind cutter’ among them as well.
He didn’t even hear of that wind magic cutting such a metal golem.
Translations by AsianHobbyist Website
“If I remember right, Mr. Jin called it ‘water jet’.”
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