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"The futures transaction has already been completed. I think the contract should be fulfilled."
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Hearing my concern, Ai replies.
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Yeah, well, here's what the Eye would say.
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I keep my promises.
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It's a given for Ai.
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But I'm not sure how others would feel about that.
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If someone makes a promise to you when you are in a difficult situation, you will feel bad, no matter how much you agreed to it beforehand.
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I feel that they might resent me.
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There is no problem with that either. Christina reported to us that they have an agreement in case of nonpayment at the time of transaction."
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"Oh, really? I mean, that's right. Kristina, a genuine merchant, would never make a deal based on a mere verbal agreement, would she?"
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The dangers of pre-purchase deals.
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It seems that Christina was dealing with the question of whether it would really work or not, as a merchant.
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The parties with whom she had already exchanged the rice purchase had already purchased magical tools and so on.
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If such a partner were to fail to deliver the rice when the harvest time comes, it would be a big problem, so it seems that the response to such a situation was also decided upon.
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Let us review the contract that Kristina made.
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I asked Ai to bring me the proof of the futures contract with the counterparty, and I looked it over.
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It seems that she negotiated with each of the counterparties individually, and that the terms and conditions differ from person to person.
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It may take some time to read through all of them, since the text of each deed is different.
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"Conditions for not handing over rice: ....... There are a lot of things. But the most common one is to have a guarantor.
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"It seems so. It seems that the guarantor who would collect on behalf of the borrower in the event of nonpayment was designated as a person with relatively large assets. The collection may come from that person."
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Looking at the details of the deal that Kristina had struck, there were many items.
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Failure to pay would result in forfeiture of property.
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Some of the items included household goods and land.
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However, if one wanted to avoid such a situation, he or she could have someone who would guarantee the payment in case of non-payment, and the claim could be transferred to that person.
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That is a guarantor.
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Of course, the guarantor must have some money.
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I wonder if there is such a person.
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I thought so, but it seems that there was.
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It is a special entity in the village.
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The Orient collects rice as a tax from the villages in its territory.
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The amount of rice is determined in advance based on the size of the land, and there is a person who connects the village and the country.
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The person in charge of organizing the village.
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They are called village headmen.
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The rice produced in the village was not delivered to the state individually by each farmer, but was collected by the village headman and then delivered to the state.
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Naturally, at that time, the village headman would try to increase his own wealth by any means possible.
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He would hide a part of the rice paid by the villagers and negotiate with the government that he could not pay more because of the poor harvest this year, or that he could reduce the tax rate.
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If they succeeded in doing so, they could make much more money than if they produced the rice themselves.
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Since such things were done in every village, the village headman naturally had more money than any other villagers.
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It seems that many people had such a village headman as a guarantor in case of emergency.
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The village headman could not become such a guarantor for free.
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So, it is said that the village headman also made the peasants purchase some magical tools and give one of them to him.
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This would not have been a problem if the rice harvest had remained good.
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If the rice harvest had been good without any problems, they would have been able to get some high quality magical tools just by being a guarantor.
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It is said that even the village headman, who was the wealthiest person in the village, saw the magical tools as an attractive commodity and became a guarantor with a risk.
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But how was it in the case of this year?
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There is danger in everything.
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I wonder how seriously he thought about the fact that he would have to be in charge of the payment in case of a poor harvest, instead of getting the magical tools for free in case of a good harvest.
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Nevertheless, I think he would have been more sensitive to these things than the farmers.
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Nevertheless, the fact that the headman of each village was the guarantor in various villages suggests that they were very confident about the forecast of this year's harvest.
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"I see. So that means we can collect from this village headman. Most village headmen are greedy and hoard money. So the villagers will think it's a good thing if we collect from them.
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If you aggressively collect from the farmers the amount of the claim as per the deal, they may resent you.
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However, it seems that many of the village headmen were rather disliked by the peasants.
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They would even line their pockets by cheating the government about the amount of harvest.
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They did not give it back to the villagers, but rather, on the contrary, collected rice from the villagers, and many of them tend to be unimpressive to begin with.
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Such a village headman would not make the villagers' impression of the Barka mercenaries worse even if he collected the rice from them.
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Then, let's go and collect the money.
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Thinking of the disaster-stricken village, they decide to take action to get the contracted amount of money as Ai said.
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