Early Expansion and use of Mages

[The_Tauren13]

Graeme Dice said:
Setting the taxes to 80% is just about enough by itself to get rid of 20 points of unrest in one turn, so there's no real need for the patrolling.

Not even close. 80% taxes clears 6-9 unrest per turn.
As for the patrolling, the starting troops for most nations can clear the unrest caused by a battle in one turn, so theres no need to set the taxes below 100 at all.