This system, known as the " corvee, " resulted in a network of roads connecting major towns, including a 170-mile unpaved highway between Port-au-Prince and the northern city of Cap Haitien.
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Other policies included a rural credit program for peasants, the replacement of corvee labour with a tax, lending peasants military horses for use in peacetime, compulsory military training for civilians, and a " market exchange bureau " to set prices.
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The concept of 0spen�e, theoretically a payment in lieu of corvee labour, was derived from the Byzantine " zeugaratikion ", a land tax based on the zeugarion-the area of farmland which could be ploughed by a pair of oxen.
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The high point of the Mongol partner-merchants'operations came under Yes�n Tem�r, whose administration exempted Christians and Muslims from any corvee payments and guaranteed huge payments promised by the Mongolian nobility in return for luxury goods ( B0 = A03 ).
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Due to several setbacks ( including some temporary local resistance to corvee labor service ) it was not fully completed until a century later, during the time of Wen's grandson, King Xiang ( D��s ) ( r . 319 296 BC ).
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Though regarded as " tozama daimyM " ( " outside " lords ), and assigned particularly heavy " corvee " duties, the Nabeshima were allowed to keep their territory in Saga, and in fact had their " kokudaka " increased.
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The estate of the Jebtsundamba Khutugtu, the Great " Shabi " ( from Mongolian " shabi " = disciple ) would from 1723 on be independent from the four aimags, in the sense that its subjects would be exempt from most taxes and corvees.
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Vassal kings were given a high degree of autonomy, provided that they made an annual tribute of gold and silver ( traditionally modeled into trees ), provided tax and tax in-kind, raised support armies in time of war, and provided corvee labor for state projects.
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Every able-bodied man, defined as a man in good health above 20, was eligible for two years of military service or one month of military service and one year of corvee labour ( later those above 56 were exempt from any military or corvee labour service ).
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Every able-bodied man, defined as a man in good health above 20, was eligible for two years of military service or one month of military service and one year of corvee labour ( later those above 56 were exempt from any military or corvee labour service ).
