Tax and Ninjutsu

Back home we don't charge tax. We pay for our cathedrals, roads, gold statues etc largely out of revenue gained from emperor Ahmerogahn's harem. Basically women come to him and ask to be in his harem and if they are really really good looking and more or less totally bitching in regards to relative radness he will invite them to be a member of his harem. The fee for the women is 100 Ahmerogahns a day which if you knew what the approximate exchange rate was from AUD to Ahmerogahn you'd puke. But it's a good deal for everyone. The women get a child which is then taught the way of the blade. The child becomes a grown adult and normally the men become conquerors of foreign lands and the mother is normally queen and gets a sweet spoil from the various conquerings.

My mother was a woman with a dream of glory so she asked to be in my father's harem and I was born. Unfortunately my mother was murdered on a trade mission when I was a boy. I was raised in one of my father's orphanages as he has thousands of progeny that have suffered a similar fate. At first I didn't like the orphanage. It sucked. But it gave me a fire to learn the way of the blade as best I could being that I no longer had direct access to my father's best teachers.