It seems the little countess, new to her position and having only recently come into nobility, was unsatisfied with her usual profitable income. That said quite a lot given not a few of her neighbours would quite like to be sitting where she was. However, she was too shrewd to do something as daft as increase the taxation on the people or the excise and import duties on merchants. That would cause no end of stink and give her own overlord, some duke Handy didn’t quite catch the name of, reason to extract bigger taxation from her.