Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

When Daveus led the mercenaries to recapture the city of Amendola, Galadmos, who had died at the age of 15 because his parents died, did not choose to be adopted by others and lost the opportunity to have a backer.However, there are not many Amendolara males who survived the invasion of the Lukanians, and the next generation of Amendolara original citizens who hold public office and perform well in adulthood are fewer, out of fear of future Amen. Dorara’s fear of losing influence in the kingdom, like Amendolara veterans like Stromboli, Scombrus, Cornelius, have been deliberately caring and loving the next generation, like Alcinis (Unfortunately, he died early in the year), Melisanda, Galadmos, etc. are all the objects they focus on.

It’s just that the city’s governors today are much more powerful than the original alliance, but there are two half-system officials in each city that they can’t control: tax officials, whether they are junior or intermediate, are all Directly affiliated to the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Finance and directly responsible to the King; the other is a judge, appointed by the Supreme Court of the Kingdom to various cities, whether it is a trial or a judgment, it will not be interfered by other people and departments; One is a military training officer. He is appointed by the training stations of various legions and is ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Affairs. The local chief executive may not intervene in military affairs. However, every time a city or region organizes large-scale military training, it involves countless citizens who want to put down the farmland and throw away The complicated official duties will inevitably cause some disturbances in local government affairs, and the two sides must coordinate to solve them. Therefore, the training officer and the local chief executive are in a cooperative relationship, which can only be counted as half.

Although Stromboli was unable to intervene in taxation, he dispatched an inspection team to arrest the most troublesome people, and severely warned the village heads of Prosmo: They must immediately quell the troubles of the people in the village, otherwise he would act as " The charge of "weakness" forced the removal of the position of village chief of inaction.

At the same time, he also wrote directly to Turri's royal palace, reporting the details of this matter to King Daphes in detail.

After reading Davies, he did not make much emotional response, but just called the finance minister, Melses, and forwarded the letter to him.

Isn't Mercis, who has been guarding the treasury for Daffes for more than ten years, so annoying, he immediately sent his heart to Naxos to thoroughly investigate the truth, collect evidence, and prepare to confront Rao at the meeting of the Senate Di Xian filed an accusation.

As soon as Mercy's men got on the boat at the port, Laodisian got the news. He hurried to the palace and asked Daphes to sincerely say that he had been in Turri for a long time and did not know Naxos. The situation at home is also not very clear about the details of taxation. Since the tax officer pointed out this problem, he is willing to abide by the "Tax Law" and make double compensation.

Due to Lao Di Xi’an’s timely service, the disturbance quickly subsided: Melsis asked Daphes for instructions and withdrew the post of Naxos intermediate tax officer on the charge of “dereliction of duty”, and praised it vigorously. In addition to the "adherence to principle and loyalty to the duty" of the Galard model, he was given a generous reward.

This incident spread in Naxos, making many people think that Galadmos was favored by King Daphes, and no one has ever troubled his work ever since.

At this moment, Galadmos took the two tax collectors on a gentle slope and entered the field of Laodicean's house.

It is now the end of August, and the wheat has basically matured, dyeing half of the hillside to a golden color. The scorching sun and heavy ears of wheat did not bend the stalks. The flowing water in the field gave them standing power.

Seeing this and this scene, Galadmos couldn't help but feel happy: "This year looks like another good harvest year!"

"Since the reconstruction of Naxos, most of this decade has been a year of harvest. Demeter and Persephone are really blessing us!" Cabanax said with exclamation.

"This is all the great credit of His Majesty Dapheus! But he is the descendant of Hades, so that these two gods will always bless our kingdom!" Gabrinus emphasized, as a young man of Naxos , He has a stronger sense of identification with the Kingdom of Dionysia.

Since the merger of the Eastern Central Coast of Sicily with the Kingdom of Dionia, the Hades faith has spread.Since the Sicilian Greeks admired Demeter and Persephone, the priests of Hades went to the village to follow the custom and included these two goddesses into Hades's lineage (Persephone was the afterlife, Demeter is both Hades's sister and his mother-in-law).Therefore, beside the Temple of Hades built in the Dionysian Sicily, the Temple of Demeter must be built, and Persephone was already in the Temple of Hades.

After the Hades celebration in September, the harvest festival celebrations followed. The people offered sacrifices to the two goddesses and thanked them for their blessings. Later, the festival was spread to Great Greece.

Just as the two exclaimed, Garad Moss was carefully looking at the boundary markers of Tanabe, and using the naked eye to estimate the area of ​​the field.

"Laodixian, 78 acres of good land, harvest..." Galadmos finally confirmed.

Gablinus drew a brush on the pamphlet nailed with papyrus.

Galadmos once again looked at the fields of Laodixian's family, and was a little surprised: most of the labor in the field was Sikel!

The wheat harvest is about to be harvested, and it also needs someone to guard it: First, it is necessary to drive away the birds that steal the food; Second, to prevent the destruction of wild animals and man-made; Third, in the event of persistent cold winds or other natural disasters, you must urgently harvest.

There is still a lot of labor needed to guard the large farmland of the Laodicean family, and the differences in the costumes of the Sikels and the Greeks can be recognized at a glance.

"Adults, many Naxos citizens who have a lot of land employ Hikers as laborers during the harvest season, and even the city's handiworkers like to hire them, and port workers... who calls their salaries It’s cheaper, and it’s not subject to the laws of the Kingdom.” Cabanax saw Galadmos’s doubts and quickly explained that his family lived in another De Mo, northwest of Naxos, and west. The Kyle people are bordered, so they know more about this situation: "And the Sikel people are not like us. Their land is concentrated in the hands of nobles and leaders. Ordinary people become their hired farmers. It is more difficult to feed a family. It is better to come to Naxos as a hiring worker. I heard that some Sikels also want to register in the City Hall Registration Office and want to be a citizen of our kingdom, but unfortunately the towns and kingdoms of Sikel The signed friendship agreement stipulates,'The Sikels shall not be accepted as citizens of Dionysia..."

"Not all towns of Siquel are like this. I can hear that the city of Kefaluo Ition, far in the middle of Sicily, like our Dionysia, allocates land to the people, even other cities. Many of the Sikels rushed to surrender to Kefaluoitian." Gabrinus said.

Cabanax countered: "I heard that Kefaluo Yitian is a small town. How much land can there be?! It is good to solve the problem of his own people. More Sikels are still in us Naxos, Sicully, Kataney, and Leotini serve as laborers and hired workers. You must know that several security officers in the city have repeatedly protested with Lord Stromboli, thinking that these Sikels Took away the livelihoods of Naxos’ registered freemen and demanded their deportation..."

"The civil servants protested every year about the problems of the Sikels, and even heard that they also made recommendations to His Majesty Daveus at the conference of the civil servants in Turriy, but there has not been much change--" "Gabrinus's words were interrupted by Galad Moss: "We do the things within our responsibilities, don't discuss these irrelevant things!"

"Yes, sir." The two were awakened, not because they discussed King Davos above, but because they were afraid of being heard by the Naxos defenders who tried their best to reflect their value. Safeguarding the rights and interests of civilians, reserve citizens, and even free citizens, and arguing with local councils and city halls from time to time, they do not want to get into this group of "crazy dogs."

"Let's go, go back." Galadmos turned back down the hill.

At this moment, Gabrinus suddenly pointed to the front and said: "Master, two slaves came out of the mountain."

Galadmos turned his head and saw that there were two almost naked, dark-skinned men on the top of the mountain who were hurried down, but when they reached the mountainside, they saw the man standing in the field, wearing Bolton The three of Galad Moss (the Kingdom official's Bolton has special colors and stripes, which can be distinguished at a glance), suddenly stopped, his face showed a panic color, and finally turned and ran to the top of the mountain.

"Stop!" Garad Moss shouted in disbelief.

Unexpectedly, the two ran faster, how could the three officials wearing Bolton catch up, and in a blink of an eye the two slaves ran across the top of the mountain, disappearing without a trace.

"Damn!" Gabrinus looked at the lush, continuous mountains behind the mountain, scolded, pulled up the corners of his clothes, wiped off the sweat on his face, and handed the water sac from his waist to Gala Demos.

Galadmos unscrewed the stopper, but instead of drinking it immediately, he asked, "Whose slave is this?"

"It must be the Laodicean family!" Cabanax analyzed: "Adult, you see, this mountainside to the foot of the mountain is all the field of the Laodicean family, completely blocking the road to the mountain, if it is another family Slaves, they will not go here at all, but these two slaves walked directly to the field before they saw us, and they did not worry about being blocked by the slaves of the Laodicean family."

Galadmos nodded and asked in a deep voice, "Why did they see us running?"