Upon realizing that the 12,000 people here also had to pay taxes, Horn felt something was amiss.
In fact, when calculated carefully, among the 12,000 people, there were 10,693 adults aged 15 or older, approximately 21,386 Dinars, equivalent to 178 gold pounds and 26 Dinars.
Horn could afford this, as he still had over two thousand gold pounds from the Blue Blood Orphanage.
But this money was Horn's emergency fund, and he didn't want to use it unless absolutely necessary.
Most importantly, for other laborers or citizens, whatever, they could manage to stay until now because they had at least saved a few coins.
But the people in this new camp had no jobs and relied solely on the City Hall's relief grain and work-for-relief schemes.
If it weren't for Horn, their situation would be almost like beggars, and it's not right to tax beggars.
They hadn't even received their first week's wages yet — only grain advances — and had no money to pay this.
