Emberlin

The Milestone Fee is fed on Emberlin rice and buckwheat carried up the badlands road in the cart months and stored in the weigh-house, since Vantrose has no ground to grow anything on. The chapel's pilgrim season falls in the mule months, when the price runs a third higher and the vault pays it.

The three watch-towers and the slide crews eat 2,600 hundredweight of rice and millet a year, worked up the Yatsuhoshi coast from Emberlin's terraces in eight-ton coasters, landed at the coast yards and carted along the ridge track. Kurohane pays the freight in pine and the grain in coin, and has still not persuaded the Reach to sell the towers a cistern share.

Emberlin sends five hundred koku a year down the cart track to feed the slipway hands and the model loft. Half of it is settled in free places at the drawing office for Emberlin's officers' sons, which the yard's accounts show as a fee received and still outstanding.

Nine hundred koku a year go from Emberlin's terraces to the customs yard and the toll pier. Serathorne pays in seating order rather than coin, seating the Emberlin envoy ahead of two older houses at the Yatsuhoshi audience, and three of those houses have written to the court about it.

Sixty spears off Emberlin's muster field stand on the toll pier through the spring run, victualled by Serathorne at four bars the month. Emberlin's price for a second sixty is a sight of the pier's tonnage book, which Serathorne has refused for six years running.

Four hundred koku a year go up the gated causeway into the compound, off the same terraces whose owner is suing Lysathiel, at a price the coast court fixed and neither side will reopen. The carts are counted at the gate by both houses' clerks standing a yard apart.

Emberlin is suing to void Lysathiel's sixty-year cutting lease on the ground that the junior who sealed it sealed ahead of his senior, which on this coast makes an instrument worthless whatever its terms say. Lysathiel's answer is that no Amaseki court has jurisdiction over a charter granted to a house older than the coast rolls.

Six hundred koku a year go up the fen causeway to the lecture yards and the archive kitchens. A third is remitted against places for Emberlin's officers, and Ordwaine keeps that part off the published fee schedule.

Rice for the agency hall comes to the reed landings by boat, two hundred koku a year, since nothing on a shell ridge behind a mangrove will grow it. The last two seasons arrived short with a note about the sandbar, and Ashcrole paid in full both times without asking for the note to be explained.

Yatagaru's drill ground and loan house feed on rice landed at the stone ramp, three hundred and fifty koku a year. Yatagaru sets the price against the discount it charges Emberlin on the same crop, so the two houses settle once a year and move very little silver.

Yatagaru's loan house discounts Emberlin's rice bills at a tenth and holds the next two harvests as security. A short flood on the lower Emberrun is Yatagaru's exposure as much as Emberlin's, which is why the loan house pays for the terrace bank repairs out of its own account.

Vaethril holds the company charter under which Emberlin's two field companies serve north of the spine at six per cent of the contract, so that no Amasekan court roll shows a house sending men onto Kazdrunn ground. Vaethril has twice held charters for companies hired against each other in the same season and billed both.