Helping with Adventurer Party Management

Episode 668: Tax and Enforcement

Sarah, who is good at employing her opinions, added, as she noticed.

"How was Kenji going to set the order?

"You mean the wooden plaque. It's gonna be a little tricky, but... briefly, I was gonna split it it up and hand it out."

"Uh, what do you mean?

A brief description of the concept of the use of fishing grounds was given, since everyone was paying attention as well as Sarah.

"Essentially, it's the same story as when you decide who buys the first pair of shoes to ship in a shoe factory. For example, suppose there were 100 days on which fishing grounds could be used. If you have 20 families you want to use, one family has five days at a time. One day at a time, you just have to decide by whale or something."

"But there's a lot of family numbers, and you can't catch them in the winter, right?

Sarah pointed out that she would actually be complaining from a farmer's point of view.

"There it is. If you want to decide exactly, you will have a score (points) system."

"What's a score system?

"A score system is a kind of way to determine necessity and discussion in numbers. In the case of fishing in this village, shall the number of fish caught be taken as the number of fish points and the number of families wishing to use the fishing grounds as the number of family points?

Fish scores are higher in seasons where it is easier to catch fish. Summer, for example, is high and winter is low. It's not strange if there's about three times the difference.

On the other hand, family scores are low for families with two members, and high for families with eight members. So a family of two is the best place to rent a fishing area for a day in the winter, and a family of eight might be able to rent a fishing area for three days in the summer "

I meant to be as brief as possible, but Sarah was obviously frightened.

"Ya, it's not easy...?

"Right. If you really want to be fair, you can let all farmers know what scores you have and exchange them on the same score day."

"I don't think I can do it at all," he assured me.

I want to introduce it when all farmers are able to calculate the numbers sooner or later, but at the moment I don't have those fantasies, so I try to give them a nod to reassure them.

"I guess so. So I'll calculate and schedule my first year here. The specific dates will be communicated directly to farmers the day before or on the same day. You may need to post it in front of the church so that you don't suspect wrongdoing or fraud."

Sarah nodded as relieved when she heard the plan, which she had decided to make only known to the farmer, and lurked her eyebrows and pointed her mouth as she noticed something.

"Kenji doesn't seem like a deputy, does he? I thought the officials were just people who rationalize to take taxes if anything. But instead of not being a single piece of copper coin, you're just talking about what farmers get. And yet, you think so much trouble."

I felt an unspoken message, "You do good things, so you can't do it any easier," but that's where I can't give in.

"Even if the motive is right, it is something that will be criticized if the way it is done is unpleasant, and because there are many houses with strict habitability, small rights are susceptible to becoming a source of discord with what every house has been tampered with. I've never done anything discreet."

"As a church, it's an earache story," Paperino agreed.

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"I wonder if you can use the fishing grounds properly after that. If they catch them on their own catch day, they won't have to poison them or throw stones at them and vandalize their fishing grounds."

"I don't really want to think about it, but that could happen. Because there are so many amateurs."

Kilik doesn't seem to fantasize about something called the peasants' morality.

If you live as an adventurer, once or twice you get a request from the peasants, and you have memories of being disturbed.

"If you do that, your score will be reduced and you won't be disadvantaged by the use the following year"

You should also decide on those penalties now.

Paperino, who had written the story of the score system on hand, pointed it out with his face up.

"Dear deputy, listening to what I'm saying right now, I think it's a little bit like how you determine taxes."

I see, there are some aspects to snort about.

Exactly. I was just looking at numbers in church.

Because he was looking at a lot of books and numbers, Paperino has a good idea of numbers.

"Right. Tax and imposition, in the sense that we aim for fair burdens and fair gains, may come in the same way to score people's nostalgia"

"You're right. Even church territory is calculated in the form of taxes according to the revenues of the land. Territorial deputies are numerically discerning, and the central church has excellent people to outline, so they should be settling into balanced numbers first.

But I don't think anyone is taking the trouble to calculate the application. I wonder if we can use this score system, for example, in a sanatorium? "

"Hmm" I never thought about it, but it sure doesn't seem like a bad eye contact.

The scoring system was also used by companies as a cafeteria plan for the selection of benefits, which could be a cut-off for distributing in numbers rather than distributing church-provided implements in a loud order of voice.

"Well, be careful with that, too"

Paperino is strong in numbers and smart, but there are aspects to running ahead of if you think about it.

Sometimes it will be young, but there are also concerns about some rights and organizational weaknesses in the allocation of the Poverty Alleviation Hospital.

Well, around there, the reported Priest Nicolo will pull the reins well.