Low class(ignoring Patricians and Priests, who count their lifestyle as inherently corvee)Corvee labor means different things in different places.
Urban:
-Manual haulers carrying government goods
-Demolition of old structures and facilities
-Construction of new facilities
-Roadworks(transporting gravel from the smelters to the mills and out)
Rural:
-Harvest time
-Barnraising
-Irrigation upkeep
-Roadworks(laying gravel)
As such, Urban corvee labor is represented by Wealth, because it's money not spent hiring the urban poor to do things. Rural corvee labor is largely represented by Econ, because all that comes out of the manpower used to improve harvest output.
No, you're missing the problem. The HUGE problem:
-Rural half exiles were a convenient dumping ground for political undesirables.
-Rural half exiles were becoming hereditary in the absence of new undesirables. This is partly because everyone but the half exiles' children had SOMEBODY who'd object to the sentence
-Urban half exiles were economical, leading to a far greater number of half exiles being misused than before, because the industries had plenty of dirty work. We ruled the furnaces to be skilled labors, but that still leaves the vast amount of industrial waste disposal that you could spend money to put an apprentice to deal with, or you could get a half exile to do for free.
-By being required to pay half exiles a minimum wage for their work during their sentence, it prevented recidivism countrywide, because they aren't forced into crime because they leave the sentence with no money and no connections.
By removing economical incentives, and increasing wealth circulation, the foundational abuse is undermined.
Modern prisons(well, state prisons rather than the commmercial system the USA uses) do pay the prisoner for labor done as a prisoner, of which the money is held until their release.
This has been noted to have a significant impact on their being able to rent a place to live, buy a minimal but respectable wardrobe, and thus get employed rather than going to crime because they look like a hobo.
This is Word of AN.
He said that the trace runoff from our Black Soil had caused the lowlands along the river to become abnormally rich over the thousands of years.
Erosion happens period. We minimize it, but there is literally no way to stop fine particles from washing downriver. Also keep in mind that while the particulates themselves might not wash that far down the water, we're adding enriched nutrients to water, which causes increase in fish and other riverine life, which in turn enriches everything downriver.
China did it though. You absolutely can fortify fields. You just need to think bigger in terms of walls.
European city walls were really quite small.
Factoring in the Word of AN.
Orthrodox: "As you can see, there is no spiritual basis for the isolation and exile of those who come from other beliefs and places. But there lies a great injustice in the violence committed upon these people, which causes spiritual contamination"
Puritan: "However, observe the half-exile. Are they not tainted?"
Orthrodox: "Yes, but they have been formally judged to be tainted and through labor they expiate their taint. Your treatment of foreigners as tainted without proper judgment is itself a corruption."
Puritan: "Well look at how many half exiles come from foreign famili-"
Orthrodox Zealot: "By the spirits, you're right, we should have seen this. Outsiders truly are corrupt, and must purge their corruption through labor to become pure! It would be virtuous to purchase foreigners and purify them!" (this statement was brought to you by the Green Fish Dyers Association)
Puritan: "What, no you nitwit your blind pursuit of profit has twisted your very soul. Everyone knows your uncle pays off the clerks to put him at the top of the rotation for half exiles to take away the large amounts of snail guts he makes every day in the pursuit of corrupt lucre!"
Audience: *Falls silent*
Orthrodox: "Well, let us put that aside and resume-"
Audience: "No. Explain. In Detail."
