Fishery!
The Fishing Guild, established at the grassroots level, often set up fisheries in villages and towns.
They dispatched martial artists to guard the area, watching over the Mianshui River in front of them.
Their main job was to hire fishermen to fish and to collect taxes from individual fishermen.
Yes, there was no such thing as a free lunch in those days.
Wherever profits could be made, the major guilds and the government had divided them up among themselves, and the common people were like cattle and horses kept within their enclosure.
You paid fish tax for fishing, wood tax for chopping wood, and land tax for farming.
What, you do nothing at all? Well, that's good, because the court still has a poll tax for you to pay.
Various exorbitant taxes, designed by the upper class, were set just within the maximum limit that the common folk could bear, causing them to toil like donkeys all day, only to barely make ends meet.
