274 Voloutary rental tax

15th August 1574

"Calm down, everyone. While I have to agree on one point, that foreseeing the future is the domain of God alone, there is no denying that within our limited means, we can try to read the situation in order to predict our next move. That's what strategy in war is just as much as a strategy in governing the state during the times of peace."

Seeing that the disagreement was slowly turning into a fully-fledged argument, Primate himself stood up from his chair and stepped in. In the end, if there were four more topics they wanted to question me about, allowing the ruckus to break the talks down before even moving on from the first topic would be rather counterproductive!