"It's possible that they ...... They cut down trees...... Or secretly cultivating the fields in the mountains, or hunting against the rules......" Gabrinus guessed.

According to the Dionian Law, citizens must obtain permission from the local agricultural officer to cut down trees. Secretly cultivating land within the kingdom's territory is not allowed and must be approved by the Ministry of Agriculture. Even hunting is not allowed to overkill, especially young animals, otherwise they will be fined hefty by the Ministry of Agriculture. Of course, the Ministry of Agriculture could not have so many people to supervise these violations, and it was more dependent on the public to report them, especially the tribunes, who were most keen to punish the people who violated the law.

Karanax did not speak, believing that it was completely unnecessary for his colleagues to curry favor with their superiors and speculate wildly that they would offend the powerful Laordisian family in Naxos.

Galademos looked thoughtfully over the mountainside, just in time to see the servants of the House of Laodisian, standing at the edge of the fields, supervising the work of the hired hands. The foreman's gaze, who was quietly looking this way, made contact with Galademus's, and then hurriedly avoided it.

Galademoth's heart moved, and he walked straight over.

The man immediately nodded his head and greeted Galademoth, and also took the initiative to promise that he would pay his taxes at the tax office in time after the harvest.

Since last year's turmoil, the people of the Laodisian family have obviously been admonished, and every time they see Galademoth, they are very respectful.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling man, Galademoth had no choice but to ask euphemistically: "Are the two slaves who came down from the top of the mountain just now your family?" ”

"Of course not, I was just about to gather the hired men to arrest the two slaves who came out of nowhere and tried to break into my field, but I didn't expect to be driven away by you, my lord, and I thank you for your help!" The foreman said gratefully: "The weather is so hot today, you have been busy for most of the day, you must be tired and hungry, on behalf of my little master Paphgres, I invite you and your men to have dinner together in the family house, to show my family's gratitude!" The little host, Pavlegres, will be very happy to know that you are going! ”

Galademoth hastened to thank him, and politely declined, and then he looked at the Sikers in the field, and at a few Greeks whom he did not know, and he did not think that the temporary hired would know the two slaves. Although he had doubts in his heart, after all, he was only a tax collector, not an inspector, and it was not his responsibility to investigate the violation of law and discipline, and when he returned to the Prosdemmore government office, he would talk to the agricultural officer about the matter, whether it was illegal tree cutting, hunting, or clearing wasteland, it was their job.

Galademoth descended the mountain, and when he reached the foot of the mountain, he looked back at the golden wheat field, and he vaguely felt that the foreman who had just spoken seemed to be still looking at him.

"That man must be Antellus." Gabrinus said uncertainly.

"That's right, he is Antellus, the most trusted slave steward of the Laordisian senators, and I heard that even Paphragres has to listen to him." Cabanax affirmed.

"No wonder Laodisien put him in charge of his home in Naxos, Paphogres is not a good thing, I heard that he dared to molest the daughter of an old minister when he was in Turiy, so he was driven back to Naxos, is this true, my lord?" Gabrinus asked curiously.

"Rumors, of course!" Galademoth immediately denied it, he had no interest in spreading other people's gossip, but the conversation between his men made him secretly pay attention, he did not expect that the smiling slave just now was the Antellus that Stromboli had mentioned, who had secretly worked hard in the turmoil of last year and made it difficult for him for a while.

What a human being is unseemly! Galademoth was secretly vigilant, and decided that when he returned to the Demomore Chamber, he must remind the agricultural officer to check it out.

It was already about 6 p.m. on the way back, but it was dark on a summer night, and the sun was still slanting in the sky, and the three of them walked east along the north bank of the Alcantara River.

On the right side is the rushing river water, the green grass swaying to greet each other, and on the left is the continuous wheat field, the golden sunset shining on the golden wheat seedlings, on the farmers returning from the fields, and on the lively town ahead...... Let all people and things be shrouded in the joy of harvest.

Speaking of small towns, the town of Meiaro is even much larger than the city of Sikuli, and has a larger population. Ten years ago, the Naxos exiles rebuilt the old city near the Gulf of Naxos, but some of the people living in Mearro were reluctant to move because their fields were on the banks of the Alcantara River, and if they moved back to the new city of Naxos, they would have to spend a lot of time on the road every day to work back and forth, resulting in almost half of the people living in Naxos and Meyaro feeling empty.

A year later, the Sikuli sent emissaries to Turii asking for annexation to the Dionian kingdom.

Why did Sikuli, who had only joined the Dionian League, so eagerly demand to become a Dionian territory? The reason is very simple: Sikuli has Naxos in the north and Cataneh in the south, which are all Dionian cities, Sikuli is sandwiched between the two cities in this seaside corridor (there is Mount Etna in the west), the territory is narrow, and the town of Meiaro, which was originally occupied, has also been recovered by Naxos, so more than half of the citizens of Sikuli have no land, and they see that the people of the two cities in the north and south have their share of the land, and their lives are prosperous, can you not be greedy! As a result, the Sikuli held a citizens' assembly and unanimously demanded to become Ionian citizens.

Many of the Sikuli who became citizens of Dionya went to Cataneh and got their share of the land, and some came to the Mejaro they were familiar with, so that the population of the town of Meyaro far exceeded not only Sikuli, but also the new city of Naxos.

As a result, some senators proposed that Meiaro be simply upgraded to a city and that an administrator be sent to manage it.

This proposal was strongly opposed by the Naxos senators, who objected for the simple reason that Meiaro was in Naxos's territory.

Antonios, who was the administrator of Naxos at the time, also objected, after all, if Meiaro was separated, the annual tax revenue directly received by Naxos would be greatly reduced (the kingdom of Dioonia had a tax-sharing system, with the central government splitting accounts between the cities and the cities).

It wasn't until the influx of new Dionian citizens that the population of Naxos City caught up, making these controversies much less, but the Dionian people still jokingly called Naxos the "Twin Cities of Naxos".

Indeed, in order to better manage Meiaro, each governor of Naxos had to send an administrative adjutant to sit in Meiaro, who would be responsible for the management of a small town that was not a city, but more like a city.

City Adjutant is a new official position in the Kingdom of Dionia, depending on the size of the city, a city administrator is equipped with 1-3 administrative adjutants, who assist the chief executive in managing the city's government affairs, and each has a division of labor, when the chief executive is out of business or seriously ill and unable to take charge of the government, this is a senior official position. Meiaro also became the place where the Dionian Senate cultivated the administrative skills of the senator with little administrative experience, that is, the senator was designated directly as the administrative adjutant of Naxos and the administrator of Meiaro. There is also a city in the territory of the Kingdom of Dionya known as the "Twin Cities", which is Crimesa, but the town built on the swampy plains is smaller than Meyaro.

The population of the new city of Naxos eventually grew, but Sikuli was never able to increase, and some elders suggested that the city of Sikuli was too small and too shabby, so it was better to cancel the name of the city and downgrade it to a small town, just like Tauromegnan, which could also save a lot of administrative costs (Tauromegnan was designated as a military fortress in Sicily by Davers because of the city's fortitude and the land was too barren, and it was also one of the military camps trained by the Eighth Legion).

Such a proposal was of course met with strong opposition from the elders of Sikuli, and no one wanted to see their home state demoted, so the matter was not settled.

Thinking about these anecdotes about Meyaro, Galademos walked into the town, where his office was in the government hall in the center of the town, and the five Demo officials covering the entire middle and lower Alcantara region were located, not in his own Demo area, which was another administrative feature of Naxos in the Kingdom of Dionia.

Ten years earlier, the First Army had taken up the square around the Mayaro Chamber, and after a bitter battle, they had finally defeated the Syracuse coalition forces, laying the groundwork for Dionia's eventual possession of the Catanian Plain. To commemorate this great achievement, a memorial column was erected in the center of the small square next to the government hall, and at the top of it was a statue of a legionnaire holding the flag of the First Legion.

Not far from the government hall are two small temples, one is the Temple of Hades and the other is the Temple of Demeter. You must know that there were already temples of these two gods in the city of Naxos, and the people living in Meiyaro proposed to build two more in Meiyaro on the grounds that "the temples are too far away and it is inconvenient to worship", which was rejected by the chief executive and the parliament. As a result, the people of Meyaro collectively financed the construction of two small temples, which is another feature of Naxos.

Although it was dusk, there were still many people entering and leaving the temples, most of them farmers who had just returned from their fields, praying for the coming harvest.

Galademoth entered the council chamber, and most of the public officials had left the building at the end of their day's work. Galademoth turned around, but could not find the farmer, so he had to say goodbye to his two men and prepare to return to the house.