[Dragaera] Vassals

[Howard Brazee]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Peter Granzeau wrote:

> I would have assumed that the title belonged to the Empire, and the  
> tax collectors would have been appointed by the Imperial crown and  
> render taxes to it.  Now that Vlad is Count Szurke, he collects the  
> taxes etc.  I assume he also collects and keeps the rents (rather  
> than having it be forwarded to the crown, too).


It depends on how taxes are collected.   Traditionally the central  
government tells the smaller government how much money it wanted.  How  
they got the money didn't matter.