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Now that the Noxians have been taken care of, as long as we open up the road to the Shuriman people and expand the royal family's treasury through Shuriman trade, the resistance to reform within Demacia will be reduced to a minimum - from my father.
Through his experience, Jarvan IV has deeply realized that the more he wants, the more compromises he needs to make, and compromise is an important reason for the inability to centralize power.
When the internal suppression of the nobles is approaching its limit, if he wants to take the next step, he must look for forces that can be used from the outside. Shurima seems to have great potential.
In this way, when the water grid in the north was connected to the grid, Tariq came to Kalamanda.
Determined to find out the "source of Shurima's power", Tariq specially prepared a notebook, intending to record in detail what he saw and heard in Shurima in the form of a diary, and organize it to find the key points.
——In fact, he had already started writing his diary as early as when he took the boat to Kalamanda.
Life at sea is dull and boring, but this does not prevent Tariq from discovering things worth recording from this boring and boring experience. For example, he left two useful records on the issue of pirates.
:Either Demacia forms a navy to maintain waterways, or Demacia establishes a good relationship with Bilgewater. This once notorious pirate city seems to be seeking transformation recently.
As the first stop on the Shurima journey, Kalamanda is the focus of Tariq's records. It is very likely to be the first stop for Shurima trade, so whether it is the customs, specialty resources, price levels, or
The background of the lords, the division of power, and the military forces all need to be recorded and summarized by Tarik for subsequent analysis.
In order to understand this, Tariq simply took a day's rest and walked into the market in Kalamanda with his notebook, talking to people and recording his findings.
Then, on the first day of the inspection, Tariq clearly noticed that something was wrong.
Taric himself - or rather the Demacians - was not very popular with the Kalamanda people.
Although the businessmen here were always polite and enthusiastic when facing him, Tariq was still keenly aware of the indescribable gap between the two parties.
This gap that ordinary people can't notice, but Tarik can't ignore, seems to remind him all the time that he and these Kalamanda people are not the same kind of people.
There is no doubt that this is a very strange thing.
This feeling was especially clear when Tariq saw a vendor who had been polite to him turn around and talk happily with another Wazuan.
What is going on?
Obviously that Wazuan man's Shurima language is not as good as mine!
Why do I feel like I can't talk to those Shuriman people to go together, but they can have such a happy chat?
Such a subtle situation made Tarik slowly realize that something was wrong. After a few more days of experiments and confirming that this was not an illusion, Tarik finally determined that even if he had learned Shurima, he still
Much different than a Shuriman.
After having this idea, Tariq gradually began to talk less and listen more, hoping to find the key.
Then, just when Tarik seemed to vaguely discover something, but could not sum it up yet, the butler, as the "economic expert" accompanying the team, came to a conclusion after figuring out Kalamanda's trading model.
Tariq finally understood.
The way of thinking of the Kalamanda people is completely different from that of the Demacia people!
In Demacia, merchants are merchants. As long as merchants pay taxes on their transactions, no matter what they buy or sell, it is the merchant's own business. Only a few special products (such as forbidden magic stones) need to be controlled by the official. Others are almost unlimited.
In Kalamanda, however, the market arbiter is very visible here.
Every transaction contract needs to be stamped by the arbitrator and a stamp tax must be paid. Unlike Demacia's transaction tax, the Kalamanda market arbitrator will not only stamp the contract, but also review the contract itself.
——From the transaction items to the amount, to the breach of contract clauses, they all have to review it.
Once the contract is signed, the defaulter will be punished directly by the arbitrator. In addition to compensation according to the contract, individual defaulters will also be required to pay fines. If they do not pay, they will be banned from entering Kalamanda. Large-scale transactions must be carried out in advance.
A deposit must be paid. Those who do not pay a deposit are not allowed to trade bulk commodities in Kalamanda.
This also directly resulted in the Kalamanda market having a large number of arbitrators. According to the professional butler, the number of arbitrators in the Kalamanda market was simply more than the tax collectors in a small Demacia city!
After hearing this, Tarik thought for a while and tried to put himself into the perspective of a civilian or a small businessman, and soon realized the biggest difference between Kalamanda and Demacia.
So, in his diary that day, he wrote these few paragraphs.
"Kalamanda is a strange city. The number of official personnel here is simply beyond imagination."
"The lord of Kalamanda seems to have to take care of everything - not only the collection of taxes and recruitment of soldiers, which are the normal things that a lord should take care of, but also some trivial matters. Even the size of boots must be according to his requirements.
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"I don't know whether this kind of micromanaging is due to an amazing desire for control or simply voluntary. What I just don't understand is why the Kalamanda people tolerate their such annoying behavior.
The lord, even spoke of her with obvious reverence in his tone."
"Yes, it's [her]. The Lord of Kalamanda (according to the local name, it should be Korazane, a direct translation is... the Harbor Governor?) is a woman, and it seems that Shurima has no regard for women in the world.
There is a special kind of trust in the political field, and many people even regard her as [the mother of the entire city]."
"On this issue, the Kalamanda people always take it for granted, as if the lord should be like a mother, or control the entire city in more detail than a mother. I really can't imagine these Kalamanda people.
What exactly do the masters think - but at least I have a clear understanding of the fact that we can’t talk to them and go together.”
"Kalamanda is different from Demacia. The lords here have a lot of influence on everyone. It's hard for me to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but what is certain is that if every Shurima city was like this
, if you want to trade in Shurima, it is more important than ever to establish a relationship with the local lord..."
Perhaps because of his experience as a protoss, Taric's observation skills are surprisingly good.
After spending less than half a month in Kalamanda, he was keenly aware of the astonishing color difference between Shurima and Demacia in terms of the background of their civilization.
Unlike Demacia, an alliance-style kingdom composed of refugees, Shurima, which grew up little by little from a small tribe, has amazing control over the grassroots - even if Shurima is divided, even if Shurima is destroyed
, this power has not dissipated, but has been firmly grasped by the lords everywhere.
In Demacia, lords who want to manage their fiefs often can only rely on side relatives or a few close stewards. New nobles without such connections often have to find tax-farmers to manage their fiefs.
But in Shurima, although the university that Kalya worked hard to build has been submerged in the yellow sand, the examination he first proposed and standardized has been passed down from generation to generation as an important talent selection channel.