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the marketplace of his capital, he levy a ground rent
on the shops but do not tax the goods, or enforce the
proper regulations without levying a ground-rent; —
then all the traders of the kingdom will be pleased,
and wish to store their goods in his marketplace.
If, at his frontier-passes, there be an inspection of
persons, but no taxes charged on goods or other
articles, then all the travellers of the kingdom will be
pleased, and wish to make their tours on his roads.
If he require that the husbandmen give their mutual
aid to cultivate the public field, and exact no other
taxes from them; —then all the husbandmen of the
kingdom will be pleased, and wish to plough in
his fields. If from the occupiers of the shops in his
marketplace he do not exact the fine of the individual
idler, or of the hamlet’s quota of cloth, then all the
people of the kingdom will be pleased, and wish to
come and be his people. If a ruler can truly practise
these five things, then the people in the neighbouring

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