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Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 6800
- +1 rank(s) for shirabyoshi recruited in this province
- Spreads influence to neighbouring provinces (+1 influence)
- +20% bonus to tax rate in this province
- Improves the spread of Taira influence within the province (+5 influence)
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 shirabyoshi
Clan Effects
- Each clan chain building enables you to sustain one additional shirabyoshi (to a maximum of 5)
- 20% reduction to administration costs
Description
The courtier is nothing without a court.
This palace increases Taira family influence immensely. It also improves tax collection, and gradually converts the people of neighbouring provinces into supporters of the Taira, if only because of its overwhelming grandeur. Additionally, shirabyoshi trained in this province are more experienced, simply because they have such a demanding Taira audience to satisfy at the palace. Historically, the Gempei War ended disastrously for the Taira family. Arrogance, understandable perhaps, and excessive ambition eventually brought a reaction from the other great families. The Taira were usually outmatched in battle, even with the person of the Emperor to inspire their warriors. Eventually, most of the Taira drowned at the Battle of Dan-no-ura; those who were aboard ships not sunk by enemy action threw themselves into the sea, along with the six-year-old Emperor Antoku. The Taira also attempted to throw the Imperial regalia into the deeps, and may even have done so with the sword and the mirror, although these may have been ceremonial copies rather than the originals given that the regalia is still in use today. The remaining Taira were executed.