Patrick had his detachment followed for surveillance and follow-up by the eight armies as it were, only Patrick's detachment, off the streets.
To visit villages and towns along the streets.
This time he's disguised himself as an adventurer and traveling on horses.
I'm going to look at some villages.
And when I arrived in a town, they took a piece of silver coin to enter it.
It's called an entry tax.
I leave my forehead to the territory, but one silver coin is too expensive.
Cheap place, 3 copper coins, even high 10 copper coins at best.
"Is this the only place?
"Yes, it must have been Major General New Garden's territory"
"Major General Pork."
There's no vibrancy in town either.
The number of carriages is also low.
Because there weren't many carriages going into town in the first place, but is the only cause of this or is there anything else?
In the meantime, I'll decide to stay tonight and listen in the dining room at the inn.
My voice sounds good because I have a small number of guests.
This inn is an intermediate inn, so if it's normal, it should be busy with the merchants.
"If you're a merchant like us, you can handle paying silver, but if you pay silver, you won't make any money."
"Sure, so less stuff, higher prices, we make a lot of money, but overall, we won't have any stuff. The price of four pieces of copper coins has risen since the last time I arrived."
"This is going to get more and more expensive"
Listening to the merchants' conversations, see the meals carried.
2 black breads and vegetable soup. Sautéed sheep meat.
The saltiness is thin when eaten.
Patrick felt it was necessary to investigate whether it was just this town or other towns as well.