Marco Polo reverently described Khubilai Khan and his palaces, along with paper money, coal, postal service, eyeglasses and other innovations that had not yet appeared in Europe. He also told partially erroneous self-aggrandizing tales about warfare, commerce, geography, court intrigues and the sexual practices of the people who lived under Mongol rule.
Wasn't a lot of annual purchases. This lead to a lot of Tabacco farmers ending up with really bad debt that mounted over the years they owned the farm.
