A kingdom that paid its soldiers and spared the farmer

A king once wrote to his officers about something as small as a bunch of vegetables in a farmer's field. Why did Shivaji Maharaj think that small thing mattered so much?

It begins: "Last time we climbed the forts of the Sahyadri and went down to the sea, where Shivaji Maharaj built a navy."

Narrated with an AI voice.