"Do you want to know why the Gratitude Market is called the crown of the Holy Alliance's commerce and industry?"
Seeing Alexei's interest, the old man with a limp also became intrigued.
He glanced at Alexei, "My mouth is dry, I'm not very keen to talk."
Alexei quickly called a guard to buy a cup of home-brewed beer from the shop for the old man to rinse his mouth, only then did he begin to speak.
"To understand this, you need to first know how the Priestly Order's fiscal revenue is generated, and to know that, you must understand how the Hundred Households District's fiscal revenue comes about."
"Why all the unnecessary talk?" The guard couldn't hold back and muttered.
But the old man with a limp glared, "Others want to know, I won't tell them."
He continued rinsing his mouth with beer and then started speaking again, "From 1450 to 1452, during these three years, the villages did not submit grain, to recover from the decline caused by the war.
