Vol 7 Chapter 1: Garad Morse

In 393 BC, on June 1st after the Great Greek War completely subsided, countless Dionysians flocked to the center of their union, Turui, to witness the formality of Davis in front of the Temple of Hades. The throne is called the king.
At that moment, the whole city fell into a carnival.
At this point, the Diaonian city-state alliance was renamed the Kingdom of Dionia, and King Davers claimed that the way of changing the Greek disorder was to reign as the king of the first year of the Kingdom of Dionia, and then proceeded from then on. Order year.
Time flies, and it has reached Denia for ten years (ie 383 BC).
The climate in August was very hot, but the tax official Gardemos of Prosmo, Naxos Town, still ran in the fields, in order to reconfirm the growth of the land and crops owned by each household. The amount of land tax payable by each household within the jurisdiction after the autumn harvest.
The tax paid by a Diaonian citizen can be a real thing, such as wheat, olive oil, grapes... or gold and silver coins, which requires the tax official not only to have a strong computing power, but also to be familiar with the price of market goods. . Moreover, when the tax collection is arranged, the number of staff must be sufficient to avoid mistakes. Therefore, in the past few days, not only will the Demo executives take away the public officials to assist the tax collectors in collecting taxes, but also increase the number of registered accountants in the jurisdiction. Writer, handed over to the tax officer.
Garad Moss was able to serve as a tax official, but at the most famous Turai school, he successfully completed the three levels of junior, middle and high school, and graduated with excellent mathematics, from the Devonian College. The scholar who is a school teacher hopes that he can enter the school and continue his studies, but he insists on living independently as an adult. Therefore, it is easy to pass one of the two most important public examinations called the Kingdom of Dionia. Official selection test (another test is a judge selection test, known for demanding a large amount of legal provisions and careful logical thinking).
After two years of busy work as a tax accountant and assistant, he was once again appointed as the primary tax officer of the Republic of Deonia with excellent performance and was appointed by the Kingdom Finance Department to Naxos in Sicily. This is the second year of his work here, and he is only 24 years old at this time, it can be said that there is a great future.
The Prosdemo region has five villages. Although it is located in the middle of the Alcantara River, near the foot of Mount Etna, the terrain is not very flat, but the land is more fertile (because of volcanic ash), so the population is not Less, there are a total of 452 households, 1822 people, 2680 acres of farming land.
After Garrad Moss took over as the tax official of Prosdemmo, it took him half a year to completely understand the situation in the area under his jurisdiction. Of course, the agricultural officer of Prosdemor also has detailed records in this regard. The tax official only needs to refer to his records to successfully complete the work of collecting land tax. But Garad Moss is a more real person, and he always has to confirm it with his own eyes, so his relationship with the Demo farmer is not very good.
"Adult, drink the sap, the weather is too hot." A tax collector who followed him picked up a water-filled skin and said as he wiped the sweat.
In these years, the Diaonia School has been established in most cities in the Kingdom. Many citizens who want to engage in public office have been greatly improved after they have studied in the school, and their literacy, writing and arithmetic skills have been greatly improved. Public examination. Citizens who are unable to pass the formal examination can also participate in the sub-assessment and serve as a small group. According to their service years and performance as the kingdom, there is still a chance to be promoted to a formal public office.
The two tax collectors who follow Garad Moss are local citizens. They pay a certain salary for the tax season during the slack season, and they have to go home to farmland during the busy season. In fact, they work part-time, and the Kingdom of Deonia relies on These part-time miners have supported the management of the most basic level of the entire kingdom. Therefore, every official who officially took office in the kingdom was accused by the officers during the apprenticeship: to respect the younger people under the leadership, otherwise the work will not be supported, and it is difficult to complete the task assigned by the superior!
"Thank you, Gabrinus!" Garad Moss thanked him, took the skin and drank a swig of water, and suddenly felt the dry throat moisturized.
"What's so thankful, thank you, I have to thank you, this time to help me answer some math problems!" Gabrinus is bent on participating in the next year's tax official exam, this time is working hard.
Garad Moss smiled and handed the skin back to him.
"The last one is left, and we can return to Meyaro after we check it out." Another tax collector Kabanaks euphemistically urged him to be ten years older than Galalinus and experienced a young age. The turbulent period in which Kosos was destroyed, coupled with his age, so he did not have the same kind of advancement. He only hoped that he would always farm and collect taxes like this, and the days would be full and peaceful, and the year-end assessment would be better. Ok, that means honor and more rewards. In this case, he only got it once last year. He understands that it is the credit of Garad Moss. Looking at this year's situation, the Pros de Mo taxation office they are responsible for is likely to be rewarded again, so although he is tired of following the young tax official, he is still willing to listen.
The last one! Garad Moss looked at the front, and the mood was a bit complicated.
Because the identity of the last household is not simple, it is the veteran of the Kingdom of the Royal Family, La Odesian.
La Odesian was originally a famous family of Naxos. During Dionysius’s tenure as Syracuse, he was exiled to Lijim, and later followed the first leg of the Dionynia to Sicily. One of the leaders of the exiles of the Thassos made a great contribution to the final defeat of Syracuse and the access to the Catania plains. Later, Naxos was incorporated into Dionia, and La Odesian became a Dionia veteran with his achievements and influence in Naxos, and he married his daughter to the then The head of a military regiment, the strength of the Dionysian Senate, and the confidant of King Davers, Antonios, is a profound background.
La Odesian became a veteran and moved to Turui. The home in Naxos was not sold because there was a five-acre "place" that the Alliance gave him, and he passed Antonios. The land in Naxos that was purchased from the Legionnaires who were rewarded for their military merit.
The land is not allowed to be bought or sold, but the land that is later rewarded can be bought and sold. This is because the distance is too long and the owner has to take care of it and has to sell it, such as the Legionnaires living in Turui or Amendola It is divided into the land of Sicily. It takes nearly three days to get on the boat. Not to mention the need to take care of the land there. It is also necessary to send a confidant slave to work all the year round. It is both laborious and laborious, so it can only be used. Sold to citizens who are also Dionynia.
Of course, the war of ten years ago allowed Dionia to gain enough vacant land in Greater Greece. The rewards for the Legionnaires were mostly in the Great Greece. For some outstanding Legionnaires, an additional Sicily was awarded. Two acres of land. These land are bought and sold, and the price is not cheap, but La Odesian has money. If it is not the land department official responsible for land sales and supervision of land transfer, he finds that he has pulled the land price too high and the amount of land purchased. Too many euphemistically persuaded that La Odesian had more than 78 acres of land in Naxos.
Last year, after Gardemos went to Naxos, he had some conflicts with La Odesian’s family, because he was serious about the land tax of the tax collectors of the Proudiansian family. There is less levy. Most of the fields in his home were on the mountainside. It was relatively difficult to water the fields. Therefore, when the initial tax payment was made, most of his fields were set as middle and lower farmland, so the land tax was lower.
However, after investigation, Garad Moss found that eight years ago, Naxos built a large waterwheel on the Alcantara River. From then on, the river can easily irrigate all the fields of the La Othian family. The problem of water, the harvest of the mountainside farmland is even better than the farmland on the flat land, but the land tax on his family is still levied annually according to the previous standards. The key point is that the water tanker is not built by the La Ossian family himself. It was the proposal made by the Naxos Parliament to the city’s chief executive and was built at public expense.
Therefore, ~EbookFREE.me~ Garad Moss believes that it is necessary not only to re-establish the tax amount for the field of La Odrian's family, but also to pay the amount of tax owed in the past few years.
When Garad Moss informed Rao Di Xi'an of this decision, it suddenly caused an uproar. The other party not only refused to pay more taxes, but also the housekeepers stayed in the activities, allowing the parliament to pressure the chief executive to criticize the tax office. toll. Even the people in the village were incited to protest against the new tax collectors who were too harsh and oppressed the Sicilian (in fact, Garad Moss was too serious to weigh the crops and other crops that were turned over, not allowed. This lacks the weight of two), which makes the tax collection work of Garad Moss impossible to carry on.
And Gardamos’s immediate superior, the mid-level tax official in Naxos, suddenly opened the
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because of Garrad Moss, fearing that the discovery of this multi-year mistake would seem incompetent and affect the future. At the same time, the friends I met in Naxos in the past few years also said good things for the La Ossian family, which made the tax official not only severely criticized Garad Moss, but also rejected him to "modify La Oddi." The proposal for the tax amount of the Xi'an family and for making up the arrears.
Naxos’s incumbent chief executive is Stromboli, a hard-working but traditionally conservative Amendola Lama who will succumb to the pressure of local lawmakers, not to mention Garad Moss or Amendola people.