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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2 |
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in the other eight divisions of this country ; so that I
believe the whole of the rest of the world together does
not produce such a quantity, at least, if that be true
which many people have told me ; and the sugar alone
again produces an enormous revenue. However, I will
not repeat the duties on every article separately, but
tell you how they go in the lump. Well, all spicery pays
three and a third per cent. on the value ; and all
merchandize likewise pays three and a third per cent.
[But sea-borne goods from India and other distant
countries pay ten per cent.] The rice-wine also makes
a great return, and coals, of which there is a great
quantity ; and so do the twelve guilds of craftsmen that
I told you of, with their 12,000 stations apiece, for every
article they make pays duty. And the silk which is
produced in such abundance makes an immense return.
But why should I make a long story of it ? The silk,
you must know, pays ten per cent., and many other
articles also pay ten per cent.
And you must know that Messer Marco Polo, who
relates all this, was several times sent by the Great Kaan
to inspect the amount of his customs and revenue from
this ninth part of Manzi,' and he found it to be, exclusive
of the salt revenue which we have mentioned already,
2 IO /mans of gold, equivalent to 14, 700,000 sa gi of
gold ; one of the most enormous revenues that ever was
heard of. And if the sovereign has such a revenue from
one-ninth part of the country, you may judge what he
must have from the whole of it ! However, to speak
the truth, this part is the greatest and most productive ;
and because of the great revenue that the Great Kaan
derives from it, it is his favourite province, and he takes
all the more care to watch it well, and to keep the
people contented.2
Now we will quit this city and speak of others.
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