Chapter 1794 Bringing Back The Old Ways
Today was cold and very chilly.
The temperatures were low, and everyone"s carriage now had the latest portable heaters in them.
The best part about them was that they were battery operated, so even if they didn"t have enough sun for solar energy, they could buy the ma.s.sive special type battery and place it in them.
The regular A+++ batteries aren"t what they were talking about.
The batteries for these were called Super Sonic As, a special type that could last them months before the juice ran out.
It was amazing how a portable heating device that looked slightly similar to a radio, could produce enough heat to warm them up in their carriages.
So hot…
Many secretly took down their blankets, feeling very patches for water in the heat.
Their thick Baymardian jackets and clothes trapped even more body and surrounding heat for them.
Still, their lips wore slight smiles on them, feeling it was always better to feel the heat in Winter than chill and freeze over.
Inside the carriages, many were quick to flip the wooden protective window, latching it to a hook on the ceiling.
Now, it was like a flipped book placed vertically.
After getting the wooden window out of the way, they rolled their see-through windows up with pride on their faces.
Yes.
The new carriages imitated some Baymardian vehicle fixtures, allowing see-through windows to be rolled up by pulley lever method.
To them, it was the same as rowing down a drawbridge.
Again, these see-through windows from Baymard weren"t the sort used years ago.
No.
There has been great improvement in window technology, with the windows now several times st.u.r.dier in holding off multiple arrow attacks.
Well, to be fair, the see-through windows before were still far superior to the wooden windows before arrows could force cracks in wooden windows.
And with enough cracks, those windows could shatter, leaving the traveler vulnerable to all sorts of attacks.
But the Baymardian see-through windows at that time could take a lot more arrow power before getting damaged.
Understand that an arrow isn"t a bullet.
Sure, it was powerful in its own way, but when you take in wind disturbances and even its normal plunging power, it still wasn"t that challenging to counterattack in Baymard"s eye.
Imagine that those were the Baymardian windows used years back by the outside world.
Now, window technology has improved tremendously, with many merchants and carriage manufacturing workshops attending the exposition at the beginning of last year.
They attended and wasted no time placing orders for wholesale buying.
Baymard, of course, can s.h.i.+p these wholesale items to certain checkpoints for established merchants.
All these are the perks of being a member of the merchant a.s.sociation.
They can even make expedited s.h.i.+pping possible too, if you truly need it urgently.
Amazing, wasn"t it?
The see-through windows were truly thicker and aided in giving travelers a new experience when traveling in the dead of winter.
Typically, the wooden windows would be put down, sealing the outside world from them.
And if any troubles arose, it was only the coachman, guards, and scouts, who could have any real eye on the matter.
But now people can also look out for themselves while traveling in winter.
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Tsk.
Rudolf lightly touched the red curtains tied up at the window"s sides, peeking at the scenery behind him.
"It"s been months since we"ve been here, and I"m already addicted to these products." He then paused in worry, "Bas, don"t you think our Vienetta is too backward?"
He used to think Veinitta was 10-... No, 30 times stronger than Pyno in terms of technology.
But after spending months and months in Arcadina, he had several doubts about his earlier thoughts.
It seemed wherever you looked, one could find essential products that would have made his life a whole lot easier growing up.
Sebastien grimly nodded, feeling his growing desire to conquer Arcadina.
It should be his. It belonged to him.
So everything in here also belonged to him.
Sebastien was looking at everything and everyone as though he already paid for them.
They were his subjects and whatever they had, was also his.
When he takes over, he will need to use his own money for his own personal emergencies.
So that"s where the people come in.
The ridiculous systematic low tax situation will have to stop.
As it stands now, Arcadina has already been divided into 98 states.
Some states had 360 cities, towns and villages, while other states had 150.
When people say Arcadina was large, it wasn"t an understatement.
Arcadina alone was the size of some continents in this world.
Even with so many settlement areas, it still had a vast amount of unused land and forests in it.
Understand that every city, village and town is separated from each other by a lot, and a lot of forestry, usually taking peasants 16 hours and above to travel on foot between places.
Some places are 5 days apart.
This means you can travel on that road and won"t see the nearest settlement for another 5 days on foot.
Arcadina could have indeed been a powerful force to be reckoned with if not for it being in Pyno, and for the Morgs sabotaging its success.
Please, they have people in power that stipes Arcadina"s growth for generations and generations.
Yes, everything"s as well controlled by them in the shadows.
They ensured hunger and starvation engulfed a vast majority of the land., which in turn diminished the need for an extremely large army.
Despite the n.o.bles being tyrannical, they also understood that if they left the peasants with no way out, a true uprising would commence.
They ensured the peasants did get some food, but not enough to make them very strong.
And how did they do this?
But taxing so numerous times in a season.
They can tax farmers 3 times in just one season, and some even exaggerate by taxing them 5 times instead.
They take half of their produce each time they come. Well, half is being generous.
80% always goes to them.
It feeds their armies and their families while their wealth stays in place, growing abundantly.
Yes… Sebastien wanted to reign, as Alec Barn once did.
The b.a.s.t.a.r.d may be his enemy, but his monarch methods were indeed impressive!