2 - Officials: This is the payroll for the people who run the fief, including clerks, servants at your manor/chateau, town officials (plus what the towns and cities collect via the "town tax" for their own officials), game wardens and the like. These are the people who collect your taxes.

If you spend less than 4 ducats per capita per season on your officials, it will have an adverse effect on fief loyalty and taxes collected. Too little spent on officials will also increase graft, which comes out of YOUR tax revenues. Officials would average about 6,000 ducats a year (or 1,500 per season). This gives you several hundred officials on the payroll for this fief. The maximum you can spend on your officials is 4 ducats per capita per season.