Requires
- Buildings:
Enables
- Buildings:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 1800
- +500 to wealth from commerce in this province
- +5 per turn to town growth from commerce within this province
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 junsatsushi
Clan Effects
- Each economy chain building enables you to sustain one additional junsatsushi (to a maximum of 5)
Description
When two men meet in honesty, both may profit from the day.
A market adds substantially to a province's taxable wealth. A market has cash in circulation: there are prices, often controlled by the lord, expressed in monetary terms, not in the number of chickens that must be swapped for so many rice sacks. Once people can sell their surplus, they will always seek out goods to buy, and that can add substantially to the economic activity in a province. Despite the need for trade, the activity was considered rather improper in medieval Japan. Merchants, like many townsmen, had a lower status than hardworking peasants. Whatever the merchants were doing to earn a living, it was obviously not quite as honest or straightforward. And, despite the fact that the nobles enjoyed spending the taxes they gathered, they certainly considered trade to be utterly beneath any proper gentleman. Merchants and cash have their uses, though: it is easier to transport wealth around in the form of coin and treasure than as rice sacks!