Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
30
108
As far as I could gather, this offer was quite generous on the part of Haruki, perhaps exceedingly so.
30
109
It was hard to tell, however, for, as I have suggested, most exchange was done in terms of commodities.
30
110
For example, a daimyo's taxation levied on his subject villages, as noted earlier, was usually done in terms of rice, or, if the village was a fishing village, in terms of dried fish, or such.
30
111
"I am not a high, noble person," said Haruki, "who may be fooled, deluded, and tricked by the first grasping, greedy peasant met on the road.
30
112
I am of the peasantry myself.
30
113
Do you not think I know our tricks?" "Let me see the slave," he said.
30
114
"Why?" said Haruki.
As far as I could gather, this offer was quite generous on the part of Haruki, perhaps exceedingly so.
It was hard to tell, however, for, as I have suggested, most exchange was done in terms of commodities.
For example, a daimyo's taxation levied on his subject villages, as noted earlier, was usually done in terms of rice, or, if the village was a fishing village, in terms of dried fish, or such.
"I am not a high, noble person," said Haruki, "who may be fooled, deluded, and tricked by the first grasping, greedy peasant met on the road.
I am of the peasantry myself.
Do you not think I know our tricks?" "Let me see the slave," he said.
"Why?" said Haruki.
- (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )