Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
We're making money off the trade route, so they definitely aren't getting it for free.No they don't? They import it. They import it at no cost because Eike has tricked a bunch of villagers into giving it away for free, but they still import it, and it's still a limited scale (also that was three updates ago). It's currently a luxury good they use to make it easier for them to make better metal goods. It's also not even slightly independent from the Empire.
And I'm pretty sure Eike explicitly said that the laborers getting it upriver are paid?