Between the Steppes and Deserts
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
[X] Claim the title of Shahanshah of the Mountains
We don't want to be Pope Leo III to Attila.
We don't want to be Pope Leo III to Attila.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
Nothing wrong with the pilgrimage route, but we should return to the superior nomad lifestyle and therefore:
[X] Claim the title of Khagan of the Steppes
[X] Claim the title of Khagan of the Steppes
Astra Myst
Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
- Pronouns
- Femhon/Boymoder
[X] Secure peace and prosperity for your people (High Admin)
[X] Secure a safe pilgrimage route for your people (Religious background)
- Location
- Australia
[X] Secure peace and prosperity for your people (High Admin)
Rolen von Keng
Sleeping Green Bear
- Location
- The Wilderness
[X] Secure a safe pilgrimage route for your people (Religious background)
Nothing wrong with a possible crusade???
Nothing wrong with a possible crusade???
Chapter 1-1: Funding a Foundation
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Secure a safe pilgrimage route for your people (Religious background)
Mulling over his wife's question, Danyal asked, "Have you ever been to the Great Teacher's Oasis?"
Oshedi shook her head and replied, "Not yet, too much trouble."
Danyal nodded at that and said, "Yes. I was just on my way home when plague began to sweep through, and since then the paths have been beset by bandits, warring armies, despoiled villages unable to provide supplies, and all manner of obstacles. But the pilgrimage, oh, the Oasis is so beautiful. A stark and desolate place to be sure, but you can absolutely feel the nearness of the Almighty in that place, and to know that you are most definitely standing where the Great Teacher stood, praying where he prayed… oh, it is sublime. Everyone should have that opportunity, and I want to make it so."
"You do?" Oshedi asked, now definitely intrigued.
"Yes, and I have already begun. I have sent out messengers to other provinces of the old empire, seeking their input into arranging some sort of secured route. It would require a level of trust that I do not believe we actually have right now, but if that trust can be built…" Danyal explained, his eyes going a bit unfocused as he dreamed of opening a stable and secure route that all could walk in peace.
Smiling, Oshedi moved to straddle her husband while he was distracted and said, "Well now, if you can bring that passion to your other royal duties we should have an heir before the year is out."
Danyal's eyes went a little cross-eyed at that, and he discovered that maybe he wasn't quite so run down from the day after all.
Over the next season the first runners out to neighbouring shahdoms to the south and west came back, the messengers returning with about what Danyal had expected. While everyone agreed that the protection of pilgrims on the route to the Oasis and other major religious sites was of vital importance, pretty much everyone pointed their fingers at their neighbours as being the intransient or lazy ones. No one was at fault for bandits or important passes being closed during war, and while every shah and beg and sultan proclaimed that they would never send spies under the guise of holy pilgrims, they could all cite serious incidents caused by rivals that mandated extra security.
Disappointing, but also to some degree expected. It wasn't all bad news however, as there were some messages that seemed actually sincere in a desire to improve travel for pilgrims, and a number of the immediate neighbours of the Zahra Highlands seemed pleased that Danyal's first act as shah was to bring up the issue. Their closest neighbour by measure of travel times, the Sandhills Shahdom, seemed interested in sorting something out and possibly working together to deal with a number of bandits that were causing trouble along their routes.
Looking at the maps, Danyal could only frown as while the offer was probably sincere, his army would not like the suggestion. They all hunted bandits, but outside of their own territory getting them to do anything was akin to pulling a lion's teeth. Going into another shahdom to help them? Danyal could see the group benefit, but as shah the thought caused him pause to expand men and treasure for a non-ally's benefit. Of course the act of piety would eventually in some way be repaid by God, and extending the aid would go a long way towards earning a new ally, but the concerns of a shah were not those of a baghatur. If Danyal gave such an order it would result in his subordinates staying home and everyone losing respect for him.
Looking into the records of the bag from before the fall of the shahanshah, pilgrims had been protected by a combination of inter-bag coordination that could be secured by the guarantees of the shahanshah and the deployment of armed guards paid directly by the royal treasury. Both of those things were now sadly gone, although some form of royally funded soldiers would not be out of the question, but paying for it was another question entirely.
In the wake of plague there had been a number of noble houses that had crumbled, and his father Emil had managed to get much of that put into trust instead of every house squabbling over the scraps. Upon his elevation to shah those properties had been divided up and redistributed to the various houses, who had contributed a consolidated block of land outside the capital for the Zahrahum family to draw resources directly from. Beyond that there were a complex series of taxes paid to the throne, but those were an eternal jurisdictional nightmare where Danyal basically received taxes based off of how people thought he was running things. If they thought he was running the shahdom poorly then obviously no one had anything to spare, and if he was running it well then surely it was a sign from the Almighty that an individual farmer should be blessed, and you couldn't just take that, now could you? The cities were a bit easier to tax, but the merchants and artisans were also a bit craftier at hiding just how much wealth they had.
Honestly, if he weren't certain that it would trigger a civil war, Danyal was tempted to just hurl the tax codes into the nearest fire and start from scratch. Sadly no one would accept that, so he was just going to have to come up with a workaround if he wanted to raise more funds so he could maintain a significant number of troops. There were all sorts of little things that could be cleaned up that would add up to more money in his coffers, but those things required skilled and trustworthy men to attend to, and men of that sort did not come cheap.
Ensuring road maintenance got done properly, coordination on shahdom wide bandit patrols, more judges on the ground to resolve disputes quickly and fairly, non-corrupt tax collection… the list of things that well educated administrators improve was significant, but the cost would be considerable to pay not just for the men in the field but also for the men managing them and keeping their corruption to a minimum would also not come cheap. Running the numbers in his head, Danyal quickly figured out unless he was managing one it would be a net drain on the treasury.
At first. How long it would take to get away from 'at first' was not something Danyal could really predict.
The pilgrimage project needs funds to get going
[][FUND] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
[][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[][FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
-[][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[][FUND] Keep looking for options
And then, because of course, Danyal had barely finished getting in these initial surveys when a rider came in from the north. While the missive was a bit vague on specifics – Danyal had the distinct feeling that his new father-in-law had been bragging or had insulted a rival and thus wasn't entirely innocent – but the short of it was that Obeggu was currently in a state of war with a significantly larger clan of steppe nomads.
Called into Defensive War by Ally! +1d5 Prestige -> +3 Prestige
While the actual call to arms was optimistic about their chances, the scouting details suggested that without support Obeggu was going to get completely run over by superior numbers. Since it was a defensive war and opinion was riding high, Danyal was going to have no problem getting the levies drawn up, but going by the reports he had he would need to draw up everyone to be able to ensure that the situation was more in their favour than against. That would leave many of their defenses stripped, and while on the northern border that wasn't a problem, the southern border was going to be a definite issue. Even if their neighbours didn't take advantage, which was not a sure thing, it would leave a dangerous space for bandits to move in.
Danyal needed more than everything. If there were mercenaries he would hire them, but everyone who could swing a sword was probably already employed as a retainer after the plagues and dissolution of the empire. The only place to scrape together extra bodies would be the bandits themselves, and that would cause trouble…
Or…
Turning an idea over in his mind, Danyal then went over to his personal copy of the Sacred Texts. Flipping through the pages, he read and reread the exact wording on a key passage. The Great Teacher had said 'I would not allow a man who would not pray with me hold a sword, and I would not allow a man who could not read scripture command', and this was the key reason why those not fully on the Path of Truth were forbidden from serving as warriors and generals. However, in combination with additional discussion on the Anhyar and Anointed and general theological knowledge…
Yes, the Anointed monasteries were not supposed to have arms and warriors, but they practiced crafts and thus they often had arms and armour lying about their smithies 'waiting for their owners to collect their commissions', and the monks trained themselves in suspiciously martial seeming callisthenics. There weren't many, but a corp of a few hundred heavy infantry he could sprinkle about the southern fortifications would let him draw all of his own people into the north and remain mostly secure. He just needed to meet with a monastery leader or two and ask them to read select anodyne passages from the Holy Texts that proved they could in fact read them, and then have them all pray with some extremely select passages that would offend none of their religious sensibilities.
A less theologically skilled man would get himself seriously in trouble with the priests trying to run this, but Danyal knew the key stories and lessons front to back, and the Great Teacher as a conduit to the Almighty was always exact in his wording. This was not even a technical argument that let him skate by the Will of God, he could actually present this as a valid conversion attempt – Danyal would be pleased if it worked after all! The Anointed were not wicked people, and while some communities had fought with the Great Teacher in his time, others had been allies, and not all of them had converted after parting ways. If they wished to return to struggling in the brambles alongside the Path of Truth, that was their choice and their problem.
Of course, while Danyal could skirt around the issue with careful theological reasoning, this ran him right into the fact that the additional taxes non-believers paid were directly tied to the fact that they couldn't participate in the army. If he wanted to recruit them he would have to cancel those extra taxes, which were of course collected by noble houses, who got those taxes paid by the merchants paying in silver for the finished goods of the monasteries. Cancelling those taxes would irritate both groups, which if Danyal wanted to avoid would have to come from the royal coffers.
More bodies would be extremely helpful
[][MERC] Hire on bandits (Crown loses 1 Wealth and 2 Prestige, gains Bandit-grade Mercs)
[][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[][MERC] Just cancel Anointed taxes (Merchants and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade)
-[][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[][MERC] Both options
[][MERC] Neither option
Defensive war, raise emergency taxes?
[][TAX] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
[][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
Mulling over his wife's question, Danyal asked, "Have you ever been to the Great Teacher's Oasis?"
Oshedi shook her head and replied, "Not yet, too much trouble."
Danyal nodded at that and said, "Yes. I was just on my way home when plague began to sweep through, and since then the paths have been beset by bandits, warring armies, despoiled villages unable to provide supplies, and all manner of obstacles. But the pilgrimage, oh, the Oasis is so beautiful. A stark and desolate place to be sure, but you can absolutely feel the nearness of the Almighty in that place, and to know that you are most definitely standing where the Great Teacher stood, praying where he prayed… oh, it is sublime. Everyone should have that opportunity, and I want to make it so."
"You do?" Oshedi asked, now definitely intrigued.
"Yes, and I have already begun. I have sent out messengers to other provinces of the old empire, seeking their input into arranging some sort of secured route. It would require a level of trust that I do not believe we actually have right now, but if that trust can be built…" Danyal explained, his eyes going a bit unfocused as he dreamed of opening a stable and secure route that all could walk in peace.
Smiling, Oshedi moved to straddle her husband while he was distracted and said, "Well now, if you can bring that passion to your other royal duties we should have an heir before the year is out."
Danyal's eyes went a little cross-eyed at that, and he discovered that maybe he wasn't quite so run down from the day after all.
Over the next season the first runners out to neighbouring shahdoms to the south and west came back, the messengers returning with about what Danyal had expected. While everyone agreed that the protection of pilgrims on the route to the Oasis and other major religious sites was of vital importance, pretty much everyone pointed their fingers at their neighbours as being the intransient or lazy ones. No one was at fault for bandits or important passes being closed during war, and while every shah and beg and sultan proclaimed that they would never send spies under the guise of holy pilgrims, they could all cite serious incidents caused by rivals that mandated extra security.
Disappointing, but also to some degree expected. It wasn't all bad news however, as there were some messages that seemed actually sincere in a desire to improve travel for pilgrims, and a number of the immediate neighbours of the Zahra Highlands seemed pleased that Danyal's first act as shah was to bring up the issue. Their closest neighbour by measure of travel times, the Sandhills Shahdom, seemed interested in sorting something out and possibly working together to deal with a number of bandits that were causing trouble along their routes.
Looking at the maps, Danyal could only frown as while the offer was probably sincere, his army would not like the suggestion. They all hunted bandits, but outside of their own territory getting them to do anything was akin to pulling a lion's teeth. Going into another shahdom to help them? Danyal could see the group benefit, but as shah the thought caused him pause to expand men and treasure for a non-ally's benefit. Of course the act of piety would eventually in some way be repaid by God, and extending the aid would go a long way towards earning a new ally, but the concerns of a shah were not those of a baghatur. If Danyal gave such an order it would result in his subordinates staying home and everyone losing respect for him.
Looking into the records of the bag from before the fall of the shahanshah, pilgrims had been protected by a combination of inter-bag coordination that could be secured by the guarantees of the shahanshah and the deployment of armed guards paid directly by the royal treasury. Both of those things were now sadly gone, although some form of royally funded soldiers would not be out of the question, but paying for it was another question entirely.
In the wake of plague there had been a number of noble houses that had crumbled, and his father Emil had managed to get much of that put into trust instead of every house squabbling over the scraps. Upon his elevation to shah those properties had been divided up and redistributed to the various houses, who had contributed a consolidated block of land outside the capital for the Zahrahum family to draw resources directly from. Beyond that there were a complex series of taxes paid to the throne, but those were an eternal jurisdictional nightmare where Danyal basically received taxes based off of how people thought he was running things. If they thought he was running the shahdom poorly then obviously no one had anything to spare, and if he was running it well then surely it was a sign from the Almighty that an individual farmer should be blessed, and you couldn't just take that, now could you? The cities were a bit easier to tax, but the merchants and artisans were also a bit craftier at hiding just how much wealth they had.
Honestly, if he weren't certain that it would trigger a civil war, Danyal was tempted to just hurl the tax codes into the nearest fire and start from scratch. Sadly no one would accept that, so he was just going to have to come up with a workaround if he wanted to raise more funds so he could maintain a significant number of troops. There were all sorts of little things that could be cleaned up that would add up to more money in his coffers, but those things required skilled and trustworthy men to attend to, and men of that sort did not come cheap.
Ensuring road maintenance got done properly, coordination on shahdom wide bandit patrols, more judges on the ground to resolve disputes quickly and fairly, non-corrupt tax collection… the list of things that well educated administrators improve was significant, but the cost would be considerable to pay not just for the men in the field but also for the men managing them and keeping their corruption to a minimum would also not come cheap. Running the numbers in his head, Danyal quickly figured out unless he was managing one it would be a net drain on the treasury.
At first. How long it would take to get away from 'at first' was not something Danyal could really predict.
The pilgrimage project needs funds to get going
[][FUND] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
[][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[][FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
-[][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[][FUND] Keep looking for options
And then, because of course, Danyal had barely finished getting in these initial surveys when a rider came in from the north. While the missive was a bit vague on specifics – Danyal had the distinct feeling that his new father-in-law had been bragging or had insulted a rival and thus wasn't entirely innocent – but the short of it was that Obeggu was currently in a state of war with a significantly larger clan of steppe nomads.
Called into Defensive War by Ally! +1d5 Prestige -> +3 Prestige
While the actual call to arms was optimistic about their chances, the scouting details suggested that without support Obeggu was going to get completely run over by superior numbers. Since it was a defensive war and opinion was riding high, Danyal was going to have no problem getting the levies drawn up, but going by the reports he had he would need to draw up everyone to be able to ensure that the situation was more in their favour than against. That would leave many of their defenses stripped, and while on the northern border that wasn't a problem, the southern border was going to be a definite issue. Even if their neighbours didn't take advantage, which was not a sure thing, it would leave a dangerous space for bandits to move in.
Danyal needed more than everything. If there were mercenaries he would hire them, but everyone who could swing a sword was probably already employed as a retainer after the plagues and dissolution of the empire. The only place to scrape together extra bodies would be the bandits themselves, and that would cause trouble…
Or…
Turning an idea over in his mind, Danyal then went over to his personal copy of the Sacred Texts. Flipping through the pages, he read and reread the exact wording on a key passage. The Great Teacher had said 'I would not allow a man who would not pray with me hold a sword, and I would not allow a man who could not read scripture command', and this was the key reason why those not fully on the Path of Truth were forbidden from serving as warriors and generals. However, in combination with additional discussion on the Anhyar and Anointed and general theological knowledge…
Yes, the Anointed monasteries were not supposed to have arms and warriors, but they practiced crafts and thus they often had arms and armour lying about their smithies 'waiting for their owners to collect their commissions', and the monks trained themselves in suspiciously martial seeming callisthenics. There weren't many, but a corp of a few hundred heavy infantry he could sprinkle about the southern fortifications would let him draw all of his own people into the north and remain mostly secure. He just needed to meet with a monastery leader or two and ask them to read select anodyne passages from the Holy Texts that proved they could in fact read them, and then have them all pray with some extremely select passages that would offend none of their religious sensibilities.
A less theologically skilled man would get himself seriously in trouble with the priests trying to run this, but Danyal knew the key stories and lessons front to back, and the Great Teacher as a conduit to the Almighty was always exact in his wording. This was not even a technical argument that let him skate by the Will of God, he could actually present this as a valid conversion attempt – Danyal would be pleased if it worked after all! The Anointed were not wicked people, and while some communities had fought with the Great Teacher in his time, others had been allies, and not all of them had converted after parting ways. If they wished to return to struggling in the brambles alongside the Path of Truth, that was their choice and their problem.
Of course, while Danyal could skirt around the issue with careful theological reasoning, this ran him right into the fact that the additional taxes non-believers paid were directly tied to the fact that they couldn't participate in the army. If he wanted to recruit them he would have to cancel those extra taxes, which were of course collected by noble houses, who got those taxes paid by the merchants paying in silver for the finished goods of the monasteries. Cancelling those taxes would irritate both groups, which if Danyal wanted to avoid would have to come from the royal coffers.
More bodies would be extremely helpful
[][MERC] Hire on bandits (Crown loses 1 Wealth and 2 Prestige, gains Bandit-grade Mercs)
[][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[][MERC] Just cancel Anointed taxes (Merchants and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade)
-[][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[][MERC] Both options
[][MERC] Neither option
Defensive war, raise emergency taxes?
[][TAX] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
[][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
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[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)
-[X][MERC] Just cancel Anointed taxes (Merchants and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X][FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)
-[X][MERC] Just cancel Anointed taxes (Merchants and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
HanEmpire
Delicious
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
Wiadi
Uncompromising Radical Leftist
- Location
- Something Clever
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] [FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X] [FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X] [MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X] [MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X] [FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X] [MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[X] [MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
- Location
- Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)
-[X][MERC] Just cancel Anointed taxes (Merchants and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X][FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)
-[X][MERC] Just cancel Anointed taxes (Merchants and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth and have their opinion degrade)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
[X] [FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X] [FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X] [MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X] [MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
-[X] [FUND] Pay for them traditionally (Crown loses 2 Wealth until ???)
[X] [MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X] [MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] No additional taxes at this time
- Location
- Hell
People!
Umm...
The crown has all of two Wealth.
We cannot pay everything out of pocket. Even if we get an additional one, we have no idea how the order goes and I remember that being a problem in PoC.
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
Umm...
The crown has all of two Wealth.
We cannot pay everything out of pocket. Even if we get an additional one, we have no idea how the order goes and I remember that being a problem in PoC.
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
[X][FUND] Bring in more skilled judges and assayers (Crown gains 1 Wealth and Clerical Assayers Institution) (High Admin score)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(Priests have opinion degrade)
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth; Crown gains 1 Wealth)
-[X][FUND] Danyal runs things he really should delegate (Danyal loses 1 Admin and Crown loses 1 Wealth until ???) (High Admin score)
[X][MERC] Enlist Anointed warrior monks (Crown gains Anointed Warriors)(
-[X][MERC] Cover lost taxes from royal budget (Crown loses 1 Wealth)
[X][TAX] Raise taxes (Peasants, merchants, and aristocracy lose 1 Wealth; Crown gains 1 Wealth)