Taxes were permitted by the Emperor, whose vassals took a share of the annual rice harvest so that they might arm themselves for war and defend the lands they had been entrusted with. [1] The vast majority of taxes were a proportion of the real goods, including food and other resources, produced by the commoners of the rural Empire. [2] Taxes were collected twice each year. [3] Imperial tax collectors were often drafted from yoriki and dōshin, but occasionally tax collection was delegated to an Emerald Magistrate as a veiled demotion. Samurai tax collectors received gathered taxes from the village elder and escort tax caravans to their destination, but occasionally they must deal with villages that were unwilling or unable to pay. Rōnin were often hired as bodyguards. [4]
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