
Zheng Yi Sao
You're Dead to Me
What Are We Passporting?
Passport system meant that salt merchants purchased a certificate of safe passage from the pirates before setting out on their journey. Merchant ships could buy an annual subscription or they also have another form of the passport, which is like pay as you go, or pay as you say, bring aa for specific voyages. It's all settled by jaisa. She set up financial offices at harbors along the coast and at major centers like canton,. And shes installed these tax offices mean to act as collection poins for fees. A chack the passport,which as all orchestrated by a network of financial agents.
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