Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 8 | Some View more quotes about villages">villages, on the other hand, are under the rule of the shogun himself, so he profits both in virtue of a direct and an indirect tax. |
| 19 | 9 | To be sure, silver, gold, and copper also function as means of exchange in the islands, either in the form of marked coinages or as plates and bars. |
| 19 | 10 | Similarly various forms of produce other than rice may be taxed, exchanged by bartering, and so on. |
| 19 | 11 | Fishing villages, of course, share portions of their catch, fresh, or dried, with their patrons and protectors, these goods gathered by low-level administrative officials. |
| 19 | 12 | A great deal of the exchange in the islands is effected by barter. |
| 19 | 13 | It was thus not all that unusual that many of the slaves of the holding of Lord Temmu had been exchanged for rice. |
| 19 | 14 | What was unusual was the desperation on the part of the besieged to obtain rice, and the ratio of exchange, often as surprising as one fukuro for a slave. |
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Some villages, on the other hand, are under the rule of the shogun himself, so he profits both in virtue of a direct and an indirect tax.
To be sure, silver, gold, and copper also function as means of exchange in the islands, either in the form of marked coinages or as plates and bars.
Similarly various forms of produce other than rice may be taxed, exchanged by bartering, and so on.
Fishing villages, of course, share portions of their catch, fresh, or dried, with their patrons and protectors, these goods gathered by low-level administrative officials.
A great deal of the exchange in the islands is effected by barter.
It was thus not all that unusual that many of the slaves of the holding of Lord Temmu had been exchanged for rice.
What was unusual was the desperation on the part of the besieged to obtain rice, and the ratio of exchange, often as surprising as one fukuro for a slave.
- (Rebels of Gor)