Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

In 393 BC, on June 1, after the Great Greek War completely subsided, countless Dionysian people flocked to the center of its alliance, Turriy, to witness the formal appearance of Daphes in front of the Temple of Hades Ascended the throne.

At that moment, the city fell into revelry.

At this point, the Dionysian city-state alliance was renamed the Kingdom of Dionysian, and King Daphes declared: change the chronological way of Greece’s disorder, and the year of reigning king will be the first year of the Dionysian kingdom. Years of order.

Time flies, and Dionysia is ten years away (ie 383 BC).

The climate in August is very hot, but Galad Moss, the tax officer of Prosdemoo in Naxos, is still running in the fields. In order to reconfirm the growth of the land and crops owned by each family, we can roughly estimate How much land tax should each household pay within the jurisdiction after the autumn harvest.

Taxes paid by citizens of Dionysia can be in kind, such as wheat, olive oil, grapes..., or gold and silver coins, which requires tax officials not only to have strong computing power, but also to be familiar with the prices of market commodities .In addition, when the tax is collected, the manpower must be sufficient to avoid mistakes, so in those days, not only will the chiefs of Demo not only take public officials to assist the tax collector to collect taxes, but also call for registered accountants in the jurisdiction. , Writer, under the command of the tax officer.

Galard Moss was able to serve as a tax officer, but he successfully completed the three levels of junior, middle and high school in the most famous Turri School, and graduated with excellent mathematics results from the College of Mathematics of Dionysian Academy The scholar who is a school teacher hopes that he can enter the school and continue his studies, but he insists on living independently as an adult earlier, so he easily passes one of the two most difficult public examinations called the Kingdom of Dionysia-tax Official selection test (Another test is the judge selection test, which is famous for requiring memorizing a large number of legal provisions and careful logical thinking).

After two years of busy work as an intern tax officer and assistant, he was once again officially appointed as the junior tax officer of Dionysia with excellent performance and was appointed to Naxos in Sicily by the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom.This is already his second year working here, and he is only 24 years old at this time, which can be said to be very promising.

The Prosdemo region has five villages. Although it is located in the middle of the Alcantara River and near the foot of Mount Etna, the terrain is not very flat, but the land is more fertile (because of volcanic ash), so the population is not There are few, there are 452 households, 1,822 people, 2,680 acres of cultivated land.

After taking office as Prosdemor’s tax officer, Galard Moss spent six months in the village to find out the situation of the fields within the jurisdiction.Of course, Prosdem’s agricultural officer also has detailed records in this regard. The tax officer only needs to refer to his records to successfully complete the collection of land tax.But Galad Moss is a real person, and he always has to confirm it with his own eyes before counting. Therefore, his relationship with the Democrat Agricultural Officer is not very good.

"Adult, drink some sip water. It's too hot." A tax collector who followed him picked up a water-filled skin sac and said while wiping sweat.

In recent years, the Dionysian school has been established in most cities in the kingdom. Many citizens who want to take up public office have greatly improved their literacy, writing, and arithmetic skills after studying in the school, and then participate in various departments. Public examination.Citizens who cannot pass the formal exam can also take part in the secondary assessment and serve as a small official. According to their years of service and performance in the kingdom, they still have the opportunity to be promoted to formal public office.

The two tax collectors who followed Galad Moss were both local citizens. They worked as tax collectors to receive a certain salary during the free season. When the farmers were busy, they had to go home to cultivate the farmland. In fact, they were doing part-time work. These part-time officials supported the grassroots management of the entire kingdom.Therefore, every official who officially took office in the Kingdom was warned by the senior officials during the probation: respect the young officials, otherwise the work will not be supported, and it is difficult to complete the tasks assigned by the superiors!

"Thank you, Gabrinus!" Galadmos thanked him, took the sac, took a sip of water, and suddenly felt his dry throat nourished.

"I'm thankful for that. I have to thank you for helping me solve some math problems during this time!" Gabrinus wholeheartedly wanted to take the next year's tax officer exam and was studying hard during this time.

Galadmos smiled and handed back the skin to him.

"Finally, there is one last family left, and we can return to Meyaro after checking." Another tax collector, Cabanax, politely urged him. He was ten years older than Galarinus and experienced the experience when he was young. The turbulent period of the destruction of Xos, coupled with his old age, so he did not have the same kind of progress as his colleagues. He only hopes that he can always farm and collect taxes like this now. Well, that means honor and more rewards.In this case, he only got it once last year, and he knew it was all due to Galadmos.Looking at this year's situation, the Prosmodor Tax Office they are responsible for is likely to be awarded again, so although following this young tax officer will be more tired, he is still willing to listen.

The last household!Galadmos looked at the front, feeling a bit complicated.

Because the identity of the owner of the last household is not simple, it is Laodicean, the elder of the Kingdom of the Elders.

Laodisian was originally a famous family of Naxos. During Dionysius's presidency of Syracuse, he was exiled to Lijim, and later landed in Sicily with the First Army of Dionysia as Na One of the leaders of the Xorxes exiles made a contribution to the final defeat of Dionysia in Syracuse and the plain of Catania.Later, Naxos merged into Dionysia, and Laodicean became the veteran of Dionysia due to his merits and influence in Naxos, and he also married his daughter to the then first The commander of the First Army, the powerful faction of the Dionysian House, and the confidant of King Davers, Antonios, can be described as a deep background.

Laodicean became a veteran and moved to Turui, but his home in Naxos was not sold, because there are five acres of land allocated to him by the league, and he passed through Antonios. Relations to the Naxos land purchased from Legionnaires and rewarded for their military merits.

The sale of land is not allowed, but the land that was rewarded later can be bought and sold, because the distance is so close that the owner cannot take care of it and have to sell it, such as the legionnaires who live in Turui or Amendolara The land of Sicily is almost three days away by boat alone, not to mention the care of the land there, and a dedicated domestic slave has to be dedicated to work here all year long, which is both laborious and laborious, so it can only be brought Sold to citizens who are also Dionysians.

Of course, the war of ten years ago allowed Dionia to obtain enough free land in Greater Greece. The legionary soldiers received most of the reward land in Greater Greece. For some outstanding legionnaires, only Sicily was rewarded. Two acres of land.The prices of these lands are not cheap, but Lao Di Xi’an is rich. If it’s not the agricultural ministry officials responsible for land sales and supervision of land transfers, he found that he had raised the price of the land too high and the amount of land he bought Too much and politely persuaded that the amount of land that Laodisian owned in Naxos is more than 78 acres now.

Last year, after Galadmos arrived in Naxos, he had some conflicts with the family of Laodisian. Because he was serious in his work, he found that the tax officials of Prosmode had taxed the land of the Laodisian family in the past. Levy is less.Originally, most of his family's fields were on the mountainside, and it was relatively difficult to take water to irrigate the fields. Therefore, when the tax amount was initially set, most of his family's fields were designated as middle-lower grade farmland, so the land tax was lower.

However, Galadmos discovered after investigation: Naxos built a large watermill by the Alcantara River eight years ago, and since then the river water can easily irrigate all the fields of the Laodicean family The problem of water is that the harvest of farmland on the mountainside is even better than that of flat land. The land tax on his family can be levied every year according to the previous standard. The key is that the waterwheel was not built by the Laodicean family. It was proposed by the Naxos Parliament to the city’s chief executive and was built at public expense.

Therefore, Galadmos believes that not only the tax amount must be re-established for the fields of the Laodicean family, but also the tax amount owed in the past few years must be paid.

When Galad Moss notified Laodicean's family of this decision, it immediately caused an uproar. Not only did the other party refuse to pay more taxes, but the left housekeeper also took part in various activities. toll.Even the people in the village were incited to protest that the new tax officials were too harsh and oppressed their Sicilians (in fact, they were too careful to weigh the agricultural crops such as wheat when Galadmos collected taxes. Shortages and shortages), which made Galadmos' tax collection work impossible.

Moreover, Galad Moss’ immediate superior, the intermediate tax officer of Naxos Town, because Galad Moss suddenly lifted this “lid,” worried that discovering this multi-year error would appear incompetent and affect his future. At the same time, the friends I met in Naxos Town in the past few years also said good things to Laodisian's family, which made the tax official not only severely criticize Galad Moss for many times, but also rejected him to "modify Laodis. "Xian family's tax amount, and let it make up for the arrears" proposal.

The current chief executive of Naxos is Stromboli. Will the hard-working but traditionally conservative Amendola veteran succumb to the pressure of local parliamentarians, let alone Galadmos or Amendola? people.