Last year's flood on the Nunn River was perfect, so this year is a bumper harvest, although there is not much land, but the yield is still good, the entire Holy Cat State is going all out to harvest, in order to save manpower, as soon as possible to complete the swamp project, Menes did not send engineers, but mobilized the entire family to participate in the harvest.

All members of the Menes family were dispatched, some were responsible for harvesting, some were responsible for transportation, some were responsible for bookkeeping, and Menes themselves were involved in the harvesting, so that the nobles of the entire Holy Cat State were helpless to participate in the harvesting work.

The most annoying thing is that he actually eats with a group of untouchables, and the major nobles have to avoid the untouchables as much as possible, how can the nobles eat with the untouchables, only Menes squats under the big tree with the villagers every day and eats the flatbread.

At the beginning of the period, the villagers were also very uncomfortable, they had to kowtow when they saw Menes, and they didn't dare to eat, but they gradually got used to it after being stopped by Menes a few times, and the lord was approachable, and he kept talking to everyone during the meal, and he cared about everyone's living conditions.

At work, I sang songs with everyone to boost everyone's morale, and the army of the territory was also mobilized to harvest grain, saying that the army is the people's army, the people's soldiers, and they must serve the people.

The land of the Kemmer Kingdom theoretically belongs to His Majesty Pharaoh, and generally cannot be bought and sold casually, and belongs to a complete state-owned system, but in practice there are many differences.

First of all, there were large royal domains, the output of which went to His Majesty Pharaoh, and there were no taxes, and the peasants were obligatory labor.

The second is the temple estate, which belongs to the holy city's land, and is also labored by the peasants without compensation, but there is a tax, which is normally 30 percent, and the rest of the harvest goes to the temple of the holy city, which is managed by the high priest of the temple.

Then there is the land of the state, which is distributed to each family according to the capitation and is redistributed every year after the flood season, and the land is cultivated by the farmer, and the harvest after paying taxes goes to the farmer, but this kind of land is so small that it is impossible to feed so many people.

The last kind of land is semi-privately owned, and is basically occupied by the great nobles, such as the Menes family, which occupies a large amount of this kind of land, which is regarded as the land of the Menes family, which is generally leased to the farmer, and in addition to paying taxes, the remaining harvest has to pay another 30% of the harvest to the Menes family, and then the farmer himself.

In this case, the life of the farmer is very difficult, and it is difficult to feed and clothe the farmer after daily hard work, and there are still some people who do not have land, so they have to come out to do other things to support the family, such as working as a servant, washing clothes, carrying water, emptying toilets, and becoming soldiers!

According to the regulations of previous years, the royal field should be harvested first, then the temple field, then the lord's farmland, and finally the peasant's national farmland.

This year, Menes changed the order, harvesting the peasants' farmland first, followed by the lord's farmland, as for the king's field and the temple field harvesting last, this way the farmer likes, lest the harvest be slow, and then he will suffer losses, and the nobles are whispering, in case it is too late to harvest the king's field to see how you Menes explain to the pharaoh.

Menes doesn't care, anyway, I'm a loser, I can do whatever I want, and Menes will definitely finish it on time if he calculates the schedule.

Menes wanted to intercept the harvest of Wang Tian and Miaotian this time, but before she could act, she received a letter from her father, requesting that the temple property and the Wang family's harvest be transported to Baicheng and the Holy City as soon as possible.

Menes weighed it and finally decided to compromise and act according to his father's wishes, after all, he was not strong enough at the moment to balance the forces of the two sides.

As for the taxes on the temple and the state, Menes did not intend to pay them, and this was not Menes' idea alone.

In the past ten years, because of the decline of royal power, in fact, many lords have done this, and they must ensure their own interests and strength in order to survive in this era of declining royal power, not to mention Menes, a poor territory far away from the emperor.

Agricultural taxes were actually confirmed before reclamation, and the scribes estimated the harvest according to the flood situation of the year and the amount of land cultivated, and then recorded the amount of taxes.

Menes is much fairer and collects taxes according to the actual harvest, which has the advantage that if the farmers can have a better time in a disaster year, and the state taxes are less, but in a good year, the state taxes are actually more, and Menes thinks that the future production will be more, so this method is more beneficial to the territory.

Farmers also like it, more work and more rewards, the country should have more harvests, and pay less taxes if the harvest is bad.

The process of collecting taxes took place in the square, and the farmers transported their grain according to the plan, handed it over to the tax collector for registration, and then sent it to the warehouse.

The tax revenue of the Kemmer Kingdom is basically based on physical goods, and there is very little currency, so the whole tax process can see a lot of livestock, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep are in the list of taxes, which is very detailed, which also causes the whole tax process to be very complicated, only the people who have been engaged in this kind of work for a long time can figure it out, so the government needs to raise a group of staff all year round, resulting in a large and bloated government personnel.

Kemmer is an agricultural government, so taxes are concentrated on agricultural products, if the future continues to move towards commerce and industry, this way of tax collection must be changed, become more commoditous, for Menes, this way of tax collection is too troublesome, his idea is to collect money, of course, it is impossible to do it now, if you do not collect in kind, Menes has money, many things can not be bought, this is not a highly commoditized, market-oriented society.

The reform of the government system needs to be done slowly, and if you go too fast, you will fall, and the people will not be able to accept it.

In any case, this year is a good harvest, the villagers are full of joy, and the temple is also preparing for a large celebration, which has not been held for several years, and finally a good harvest is to be done vigorously, and the gods also like the joyful praise of the people.

In previous years, the celebrations were mainly temple-based, and basically temple ceremonies and some temple dance performances were performed to please the gods.

This year, Menes plans to please the people, and the villagers will finally have a good harvest, so they should celebrate well, give the people a chance to forget the suffering of the world for a while, improve everyone's confidence, and also show the prestige of their lordship.

However, Menes is also very greedy for money, so this celebration, all the materials and money that need to be spent are not responsible for the temple out of the territory, who calls the temple so rich, and it is also nominally a praise to the gods, this matter Jett does not object, although Jett also belongs to the staff under the temple system, but Jett has always been separated from the Holy City in this kind of thing.