When Davers led the mercenaries to recapture the city of Amendolara, Galademos was 15 years old because of the death of his parents, and he did not choose to be adopted by others, so he lost the opportunity to have a backer. However, there are not many Amendora men who have survived the invasion of the Lucanians, and even fewer of the next generation of Amendolara citizens who have held public office and performed well as adults, and out of fear that Amendolara will lose its influence in the kingdom in the future, the Amendolar patriarchs such as Strompoli, Scombras, and Cornerus have always deliberately cared for and cared for the next generation, such as Arcinis (unfortunately died young), Melisanda, Galademos, etc., are the objects of their attention.

It's just that the mayors of the kingdom nowadays, although much more powerful than when the alliance was first established, there are two and a half systems of officials in each city that they do not have jurisdiction over: the tax collectors, whether junior or middle-level, are directly subordinate to the kingdom's treasury, have the jurisdiction of the finance minister, and are directly responsible to the king; The other is the judge, who is appointed by the Supreme Court of the Kingdom to various cities, and is not interfered with by other people or departments, whether it is to hear cases or to adjudicate cases; There is also half of the military training officer, who is appointed by the training stations of each army corps, and is eventually under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the local administrator is not allowed to meddle in military affairs, but every time a city or region organizes large-scale military training, it involves countless citizens to put aside the labor of the farmland and leave behind the complicated official duties, which will inevitably create some disorder in local government affairs, and the two sides must coordinate and solve it, so the training officer and the local administrator are cooperative relations, and can only be regarded as half.

Although Strompori was unable to interfere in the tax collection, he sent a patrol team to arrest the most troublemakers and sternly warned the chiefs of Prosdemo that the disturbances in the village must be quelled immediately, otherwise he would forcibly remove the inactive village chiefs from their posts for "incompetence".

At the same time, he also wrote directly to the royal palace of Turii, reporting the ins and outs of the matter to King Davers in detail.

After reading it, Davers did not react much emotionally, but just called the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Merses, and forwarded the letter to him.

Mersis, who had been guarding the treasury for Davers for more than ten years, was so easy to provoke that he immediately sent his henchmen to Naxos to thoroughly investigate the truth, gather evidence, and prepare to file charges against Laodisian at a meeting of the Senate.

As soon as Mercis's men were embarking in the harbor, Laodisien received the news, and he immediately rushed to the palace to see Davers, and said sincerely that he had been in Turiy for a long time, and did not know much about the situation in Naxos's house, and that he was not very clear about the details of the tax, and that since the tax collector had pointed out the problem, he was willing to abide by the Tax Code and make double the compensation.

Thanks to Raodisien's timely relenting, the turmoil was quickly quelled: Mersis asked Davers to remove Naxos from his post as an intermediate tax officer for "dereliction of duty", and praised the Garrard model for "adherence to principle and devotion to duty" and gave him a handsome reward.

This spread in Naxos, leading many to believe that Galademos had been favored by King Davers, and no one ever made things difficult for him again.

At this moment, Galademos led the two tax collectors up the gentle slope and into the fields of the house of Laodisian.

It was the end of August, and the wheat was almost ripe, dyeing half of the hillside a golden yellow, and the scorching sun and heavy ears of wheat did not bend the stalks, and the murmuring water in the field gave them the strength to stand upright.

Seeing this, Galademoth couldn't help but feel happy: "This year seems to be another bumper year!" ”

"Since the rebuilding of Naxos, most of the past ten years have been good years, and Demeter and Persephone are really protecting us!" Cabanax said with a sigh.

"This is all thanks to His Majesty the great Davers! He is a son of Hades, so these two gods will always protect our kingdom! Gabrinus emphasized that as a young man from Naxos, he had a stronger sense of identity with the Kingdom of Dionia.

Since the incorporation of the eastern central coast of Sicily into the Kingdom of Dionia, the Hades faith has also spread. Because the Sicilian Greeks revered Demeter and Persephone, Hades' priests followed the customs and incorporated these two goddesses into Hades' divine lineage (Persephone was the queen of Hades, and Demeter was both Hades' sister and mother-in-law). So next to the temple of Hades built in the Sicilian territory of Dionia, there must have been a temple of Demeter, and Persephone was originally in the temple of Hades.

The Hades festival in September was followed by the harvest festival, where the people offered sacrifices to the two goddesses to thank them for their protection, and the festival later spread to Greater Greece.

While the two of them sighed, Galademoth was carefully examining the boundary markers on the edge of the field and estimating the area of the field with the naked eye.

"Laodecien, 78 acres of good land, good harvest ......," Calademos finally confirmed.

Gabrinus was busy drawing on papyrus booklets.

Galademos looked at the fields of the Raodisian family again, and was slightly surprised: most of the laborers in the fields were Sichael!

The wheat harvest is about to be harvested, and it also needs to be guarded: first, to drive away the flock of birds that steal food; the second is to prevent the destruction of wild beasts and man-made; Third, in the event of continuous cold winds or other natural disasters, it is necessary to rush to collect them urgently.

The size of the farmland of Laodisian's family required a lot of caretake, and the difference in the attire between the Sicaels and the Greeks was immediately apparent.

"My lord, many of the land-rich families of Naxos employ Sikers as labourers during the harvest season, and even the city artisans like to hire them, as well as the port's labourers...... Who calls them pay cheaper and are not subject to the laws of the kingdom. Seeing Galademos's doubts, Cabanax hurriedly explained that his family lived in another Demo, in the northwestern part of the Naxos territory, bordering the Sikers, and therefore had a better understanding of the situation: "And the Sichaels are not like us, their land is concentrated in the hands of nobles and chieftains, and the common people become their hired farmers, and it is more difficult to feed a family with the rations they earn for a year, so it is better to come to Naxos as hired laborers." I have heard that some of the Sikerians also want to register at the Registrar of the Town Hall and want to become citizens of our Kingdom, but unfortunately the friendship agreements signed between the towns and the Kingdom of Siker stipulate that 'the Sikerians shall not be accepted as citizens of Theonia'......"

"Not all Sichael towns are like this, I have heard that the city of Kepharoition in the far middle of Sicily also allocates land to its people, just like us in Dionia, and even many of the Sichaelians from other city-states have rushed to Kepharoition." Gabrinus said.

Cabanax retorted, "I heard that Kefaro Ition is a small mountain town, how much land can it have?!" It would be nice if it could solve the land of its own people. Many more Sichaels are still working as labourers and hired hands in Naxos, Sikuli, Catanay, and Leotini. You must know that several tribunes in the city have repeatedly protested to Lord Strompori, believing that these Sikerians have taken the livelihood of the freemen registered in Naxos, and demanding their deportation......"

"The tribunes protested every year against the problems of the Sichkels, and even heard that they had made a proposal to His Majesty Davers at the Tribune assembly in Turiyi, but they did not see much change—" Gabrinus was interrupted by Galademoth: "We do what we are doing, and do not discuss these irrelevant matters!" ”

"Yes, sir." The two of them woke up, not because they were discussing the high-ranking King Davers, but because they were afraid of being heard by the tribunes of Naxos, who, in order to demonstrate their own values, tried to protect the rights and interests of commoners, reserve citizens, and even freemen, quarreled with the local council and the town hall from time to time, and they did not want to provoke these "mad dogs".

"Let's go, go back." Galademoth turned to descend the hill.

At this time, Gabrinus suddenly pointed ahead and said, "My lord, two slaves have come out from behind the mountain. ”

Galademos turned his head to look, and saw two almost naked and dark-skinned men on the top of the hill hurrying down, but when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, they saw the three Galademoths standing in the field, dressed in Bolton (the Bolton of the Kingdom officials has a special color and stripes, which can be distinguished at a glance), and immediately stopped, their faces showed a panicked color, and finally turned and ran to the top of the mountain.

"Stop!" Galademoth was suspicious and immediately shouted.

Who knew that the two of them ran faster, how could the three officials in Bolton catch up, and in a blink of an eye, the two slaves ran over the top of the hill and disappeared without a trace.

"Damn it!" Gabrinus looked at the lush mountains behind him, cursed, pulled up the corners of his clothes, wiped the sweat from his face, and handed the water bladder around his waist to Galademus.

Galademoth unscrewed the cork, but instead of drinking it immediately, he asked, "Whose slave is this?" ”

"It must be from the Laodisian family!" Cabanax analyzed: "Your Excellency, you see, this mountainside to the foot of the mountain is all the fields of the Raodisian family, completely blocking the way up the mountain, if it were the slaves of other families, they would not go here at all, but these two slaves walked directly towards the field before they saw us, and they were not worried at all about being stopped by the slaves of the Raodisian family. ”

Galademoth nodded, groaning and asking, "Why did they see us running?" ”