In 393 BCE, on June 1, after the Great Greek Wars had been completely put down, countless Dionians flocked to Turiy, the center of their alliance, to witness Davers' official ascension to the throne in front of the temple of Hades.

At that moment, the whole city was plunged into a carnival.

At this point, the union of Dioonian city-states was renamed the Kingdom of Dionia, and King Davers declared that the chronology of the Greek disorder would be changed, and the year of the enthronement and proclamation of the king would be the first year of the Dionian Kingdom, and from then on, the chronological date would be carried out.

Time flies, and in a flash it is the tenth year of Dionya (i.e., 383 BC).

It was a very hot month in August, but Galademos, the tax collector of Prosdemo in Naxos, was still running through the fields to recheck the land owned by each household and the growth of crops, and to roughly estimate the amount of land tax to be paid by each household in the jurisdiction after the autumn harvest.

Taxes paid by Dionian citizens can be in kind, such as wheat, olive oil, grapes, ......, or gold and silver coins, which requires the tax collector to not only have strong calculation skills, but also be familiar with the prices of goods in the market. Moreover, when collecting taxes, the manpower arranged should be relatively sufficient to avoid mistakes, so often on those days, not only will the chief of Demo remove public officials to assist the tax collector in collecting taxes, but also call up the accountants and scribes registered in the jurisdiction and hand them over to the command of the tax officer.

Galademoth was able to become a tax collector, that is, he successfully completed the three levels of junior high school, middle school, and high school in the most famous Turiyi school, and graduated with excellent mathematics grades, and the scholar who came out of the Dionian Lyceum Mathematics Academy as a school teacher hoped that he could enter the school and continue his studies, but he insisted on living independently as an adult as soon as possible, so he easily passed the tax officer selection examination, which is known as one of the two most difficult public office examinations in the Dionian kingdom - the tax officer selection examination (the other exam is the judge selection examination, It is known for its requirement to memorize a large number of legal texts and to think logically).

After two years of busy work as a trainee tax collector and assistant, he was once again appointed as a junior tax collector in Dionya with distinction and was assigned to Naxos in Sicily by the Ministry of Finance. This is his second year at the site, and he is only 24 years old at the time, so he can be said to have a great future.

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

After Galademoth became the tax collector of Prosdemo, it took him half a year to thoroughly understand the situation of the fields in his jurisdiction. Of course, Prosdemo's agricultural officer also had a detailed record of this, and the tax collector only had to refer to his records to successfully complete the work of collecting the land tax. However, Galademoth was a more genuine man, and always had to be confirmed with his own eyes before he counted, so he did not get along well with the farmer of the Cadamos.

"My lord, drink a sip of water, it's too hot." One of the tax collectors who followed him picked up a leather bag filled with water and said as he wiped his sweat.

Over the years, Dionian schools have been established in most cities in the kingdom, and many citizens who want to work in public service have improved their literacy, writing, and arithmetic skills in schools before taking public service exams in various departments. Citizens who are unable to pass the formal examination may also take the secondary examination as a minor official, and will still have the opportunity to be promoted to official public office based on their length of service to the kingdom and their performance.

The two tax collectors who followed Galadermos were both local citizens, and they worked as tax collectors for a certain salary during the off-season, and they had to go home to cultivate the fields during the busy season, but they actually held part-time jobs, and the Dionian Kingdom relied on these part-time officials to support the management of the entire kingdom at the lowest level. Therefore, every official who officially took up the official office of the kingdom was warned by the commanders during the probationary period: to respect the subordinate officials, otherwise the work will not be supported, and it will be difficult to complete the tasks assigned by the superiors!

"Thank you, Gabrinus!" Galadermos thanked him, took the skin, and took a large sip of water, feeling his parched throat moisturized.

"What's there to thank you for, I have to thank you for helping me solve some math problems during this time!" Gabrinus is hell-bent on taking next year's tax officer exam, and he's studying hard during this time.

Galademoth smiled and handed him back.

"Finally, there is one last household left, and we can return to Mayaro after checking." Another tax collector, Cabanax, tactfully urged, that he was ten years older than Galarinus, that he had experienced the turbulent period of the destruction of Naxos in his youth, and that he was not as motivated as his colleagues, and that he could only hope that he would always be able to farm and collect taxes as he is now, and that his life would be full and peaceful, and that it would be better to get "excellent" in the year-end assessment, which would mean honor and more rewards. He had only gotten it once in the last year, and he understood that it was all due to Galademoss. And looking at the situation this year, it is very likely that the Prosdemor tax office they are in charge of will be rewarded again, so although it will be tiring to follow the young tax collector, he is happy to listen.

The last one! Galademoth looked ahead, his mood a little complicated.

Because the identity of the owner of the last household is not simple, it is the patriarch of the Senate of the kingdom, Raodisian.

Laodecian was originally a famous family of Naxos, during the period when Dionysius was the tyrant of Syracuse, he went into exile to Ligem, and later landed in Sicily with the First Dionian Legion, served as one of the leaders of the exiles of Naxos, and made a contribution to Dionia's final defeat of Syracuse and the acquisition of the Catanian plain. Later, Naxos was incorporated into Dionia, and Raodysien became a Dionian senator because of his exploits and influence in Naxos, and he also married his daughter to Antonios, the commander of the First Legion at the time, the powerful faction of the Dionian Senate, and the confidant of King Davers.

As a senator, Laodisien moved to Turiyi, but his home in Naxos was not sold, because there were five acres of "land" given to him by the League, and the land in Naxos that he had purchased from the legionnaires through Antonios' connections, and that they had been rewarded for their military exploits.

The land was not allowed to be bought and sold, but the land that was later rewarded could be bought and sold, because of the distance, and the owner could not take care of it and had to sell it, for example, the legionnaires who lived in Turiyi or Amendolara were given land in Sicily, and it took nearly three days just to take a boat, not to mention that if you want to take care of the land there, you have to send a henchman to work here all the year round, which is laborious and laborious, so it can only be sold to citizens who are also Dionia.

Of course, the Great War ten years ago allowed Dioonia to gain enough vacant land in Greater Greece, and most of the land awarded to the legionnaires was in Greater Greece, and for some of the outstanding legionnaires, an additional acre or two of land in Sicily was awarded. The price of these lands was not cheap, but Raodisien had money, and if it were not for the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, who were in charge of buying and selling the land and supervising the transfer of land, who found out that he had raised the price of the land too high and bought too much land, the amount of land that Laordisian owned in Naxos would have been more than the current 78 acres.

Last year, after Galademos took office in Naxos, he had some conflicts with the family of Laodisian, because he found that the tax collectors of Prosdemmore had collected less land tax on the family of Laodisian. Originally, most of his family's fields were halfway up the mountainside, and it was relatively difficult to get water to irrigate the fields, so when the tax amount was initially set, most of his family's fields were designated as middle and low-class farmland, so the land tax was low.

However, Galademos found that eight years ago, Naxos built a large waterwheel by the Alcantara River, and since then the river water can easily irrigate all the fields of the Raodysian family, solving the water problem, and the harvest of the mountainside farmland is even better than that of the flat farmland, but the land tax of the other family is still levied every year according to the previous standard, the key is that this waterwheel was not built by the Laordisian family at their own expense, but was built at public expense at the suggestion of the Naxos Council to the city administrator.

Therefore, Galademos believed that it was necessary not only to re-establish the amount of tax paid on the land of the family of Laodisian, but also to make up the amount of tax owed in previous years.

When Galadermos informed the Laordisians of this decision, it caused an uproar, and not only did they refuse to pay more taxes, but the remaining housekeepers also moved to put pressure on the chief executive to criticize the tax office for charging indiscriminately. Even the people of the village were incited to protest against the new tax collectors who were too strict and oppressed them Sicilians (in fact, Galademos weighed the wheat and other crops he paid too seriously when collecting taxes, and did not allow shortages of catties and taels), which made Galademos's tax collection work impossible to continue.

Moreover, Galademoth's direct boss, the mid-level tax collector of Naxos City, was worried that discovering this long-term mistake would show his incompetence and affect his future because Galademos suddenly opened the "lid", and at the same time, the friends he had made in Naxos City in recent years also spoke well of Laodesien's family, which made the tax official not only severely criticize Galademos many times, but also vetoed his proposal to "revise the tax amount of Laodisian's family and make it make up the arrears".

The incumbent administrator of Naxos is Strompori, a hard-line but traditionally conservative Amendora patriarch who would not succumb to the pressure of local legislators, not to mention that Galademos is also an Amendolar.