ABSTRACT
1 When The Exalted Stirrup proceeds on a journey, there may not be fodder and provisions ready at every station where he halts, and so the rations for the day will have to be procured at great trouble and inconvenience, or even seized from the peasants by shares. This is bad procedure. On all the roads by which the king is going to pass, at every village which is a stopping place, if it and its environs are held in fief, supplies should be requisitioned; but in places where there is no village and no wayside inn, [before requisitioning supplies] they must wait at the nearest village in the district while the harvest is being gathered; then if the provisions are required, they will be used; and if the king does not travel in that direction [after all], the produce should be sold and the money brought to the treasury like other revenues. In this way the peasants will suffer no distress, there will be no breakdown in the supply of fodder, and the king will not fail in the important task which he has undertaken.
