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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 388927" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>"...but in my campaign world, serfs and peasantry pay the taxes because well-armed people threaten them."</p><p></p><p>That is probably the best answer that can be given to this question. It is slightly more complicated than that, but basically that is what it comes down to.</p><p></p><p>The next degree of complication up from that is that the peasants would rather give to <em> these </em> particular well armed people, because the alternative is to be conquered by <em> those </em> well armed people -who appear to be, or are at least rumored to be, worse.</p><p></p><p>The next degree of complication up from that is, there are a few countries that do have a degree of what we would call 'nationalism', and the peasants of these countries give out of pride in thier leaders or nation as well as fear.</p><p></p><p>There are a few ancillery benifits of having a wealthy lord. He is likely to build roads about the country (and charge you a toll for using them), but roads are usually worth it despite the cost. He is likely to not want anyone but himself robbing you, and this can be convienent so that you know ahead of time who is going to rob you, and when, and by how much. He is likely to pay troops to protect him from other lords, so that you are generally less likely to have to pick up a pitchfork and go fight the other lords armored knights. He is likely to hold spectacles, festivities, and so forth, some of which you may be even allowed to attend so that you can witness just how magnificent all your work has made your leige. He is likely to endow churchs, which can be handy, and perhaps if he is the better sort, he will make some show of endowing orphanages, libraries, public baths, and half a dozen other things just so that you and the lesser nobles will know just how noblely he is able to spend other peoples money. He is likely to have Dragons and other undesirable things driven from your front yard, on the grounds that he thinks your front yard is his property and thus needs protecting. In more enlightened places, you might see canals, locks, sewers, aqueducts, irrigation projects, courier services, and so forth constructed chiefly to keep the Lord comfortable and increase his wealth, but incidently tending to keep food on your own table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 388927, member: 4937"] "...but in my campaign world, serfs and peasantry pay the taxes because well-armed people threaten them." That is probably the best answer that can be given to this question. It is slightly more complicated than that, but basically that is what it comes down to. The next degree of complication up from that is that the peasants would rather give to [i] these [/i] particular well armed people, because the alternative is to be conquered by [i] those [/i] well armed people -who appear to be, or are at least rumored to be, worse. The next degree of complication up from that is, there are a few countries that do have a degree of what we would call 'nationalism', and the peasants of these countries give out of pride in thier leaders or nation as well as fear. There are a few ancillery benifits of having a wealthy lord. He is likely to build roads about the country (and charge you a toll for using them), but roads are usually worth it despite the cost. He is likely to not want anyone but himself robbing you, and this can be convienent so that you know ahead of time who is going to rob you, and when, and by how much. He is likely to pay troops to protect him from other lords, so that you are generally less likely to have to pick up a pitchfork and go fight the other lords armored knights. He is likely to hold spectacles, festivities, and so forth, some of which you may be even allowed to attend so that you can witness just how magnificent all your work has made your leige. He is likely to endow churchs, which can be handy, and perhaps if he is the better sort, he will make some show of endowing orphanages, libraries, public baths, and half a dozen other things just so that you and the lesser nobles will know just how noblely he is able to spend other peoples money. He is likely to have Dragons and other undesirable things driven from your front yard, on the grounds that he thinks your front yard is his property and thus needs protecting. In more enlightened places, you might see canals, locks, sewers, aqueducts, irrigation projects, courier services, and so forth constructed chiefly to keep the Lord comfortable and increase his wealth, but incidently tending to keep food on your own table. [/QUOTE]
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