ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 582 Tax Collector Galadmus

In 393 BC, on June 6 after the Magna Graecia War completely subsided, countless Dionian people flocked to Thurii, the center of their alliance, to witness Davos’ official victory in front of the Temple of Hades. Ascend to the throne and become king.

At that moment, the whole city fell into a carnival.

At this point, the Dionia City-State Alliance was renamed the Kingdom of Dionia, and King Daves declared that the chaotic chronology of Greece would be changed, and the year he ascended the throne as the king would be the first year of the Kingdom of Dionia. From then on, Sequential chronology.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is the tenth year of Dionysia (383 BC).

The weather in August was very hot, but Galadmus, the tax collector of Prosdmo in Naxos City, was still running in the fields, in order to reconfirm the land owned by each household and the growth of crops, and make a rough estimate How much land tax should each household within the jurisdiction pay after the autumn harvest.

The taxes paid by Dionian citizens can be in kind, such as wheat, olive oil, grapes... or in gold and silver coins. This requires tax officials not only to have strong calculation skills, but also to be familiar with the prices of market commodities. .In addition, sufficient manpower must be arranged when collecting taxes to avoid errors. Therefore, during those days, not only will the governors of various counties remove public officials to assist the tax collectors in collecting taxes, but they will also recruit additional accountants registered in the jurisdiction. , scribe, under the command of the tax collector.

Galademos was able to serve as a tax collector because he successfully completed the junior, middle and senior levels of study at the most famous Tulii School, and graduated with excellent mathematics scores. He graduated from the Mathematics School of Dionia Academy. The scholar who was a school teacher hoped that he could enter the academy and continue his studies, but he insisted on living independently as an adult as soon as possible, so he easily passed one of the two most difficult public office examinations in the Kingdom of Dionia - taxation. The official selection examination (another examination is the judge selection examination, which is famous for requiring the recitation of a huge amount of legal provisions and careful logical thinking).

After two years of busy work as a trainee tax officer and assistant, he once again formally took up the post of Dionia's junior tax officer with outstanding performance, and was appointed by the Kingdom's Finance Ministry to Naxos in Sicily.This is already his second year working here, and he is only 24 years old at this time, so it can be said that he has a great future.

The Prosdemo area has five villages under its jurisdiction. Although it is located in the middle reaches of the Alcantara River, close to 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 Few, with a total of 452 households, 1822 people, and 2680 acres of cultivated land.

After Galademos took office as the tax collector of Prosdemo, he traveled from village to village and spent half a year to thoroughly understand the situation of the fields in his jurisdiction.Of course, Prosdemo's agricultural officer also had detailed records in this regard. The tax officer only needed to refer to his records to successfully complete the work of collecting land tax.But Galademus was a serious person, and he always had to confirm something with his own eyes, so the relationship between him and the agricultural officer of Gadem was not very good.

"Sir, please drink some syrup. The weather is too hot." A tax collector who followed him picked up a water bag and said while wiping his sweat.

In recent years, Dionia schools have been established in most cities in the kingdom. Many citizens who want to engage in public service have greatly improved their literacy, writing, and arithmetic skills through studying in schools, and then participate in various departments. civil service examination.Citizens who cannot pass the formal examination can also take the secondary examination and serve as minor officials. Based on their years of service to the kingdom and their performance, they still have the opportunity to be promoted to formal public offices.

The two tax collectors who followed Galademus were both local citizens. They worked as tax collectors during the off-farming season and received a certain salary. During the busy farming season, they had to go home to cultivate the farmland. In fact, they held part-time jobs. The Kingdom of Dionia relied on These part-time clerks support all the management work at the lowest level of the entire kingdom.Therefore, every official who officially takes up public office in the kingdom is warned by the superiors during his probationary period: he must respect his subordinates, otherwise he will not be supported in his work and it will be difficult to complete the tasks assigned by his superiors!

"Thank you, Gabrinus!" Galadmus thanked him, took the skin bag, took a sip of water, and immediately felt that his dry throat was moisturized.

"What's there to thank you for? To say thank you, I have to thank you for helping me solve some math problems during this period!" Gabrinus wanted to take the tax officer exam next year and was studying hard during this period.

Galahadmus smiled and handed the skin back to him.

"Finally there is one last household left. After the investigation, we can return to Mearo." Cabanax, another tax collector, urged tactfully. He was ten years older than Galarinus and had experienced Nasa in his youth. During the turbulent period when Xosos was destroyed, coupled with his old age, he was not as motivated as his colleagues. He just hoped that he could farm and collect taxes forever like now, live a fulfilling and peaceful life, and it would be even better if he could get "excellent" in the year-end assessment. Well, that means honors and more rewards.He had only experienced this kind of situation once last year, and he understood that it was all due to Galademos.Judging from this year's situation, the Prosdemo tax office they are responsible for is likely to receive awards again, so although it will be tiring to follow the young tax official, he is still willing to obey.

The last one!Galademos looked ahead, feeling a little complicated.

Because the identity of the owner of the last household is not simple. He is Laodicean, the senior member of the Kingdom’s Senate.

Laodicean was originally a famous family in Naxos. When Dionysius was the tyrant of Syracuse, he fled to Ligium. Later, he landed in Sicily with the Dionysian First Army and served as Naxos. One of the leaders of the Xosian exiles, he made contributions to Dionia's final defeat of Syracuse and its acquisition of the Catania Plain.Later, Naxos was merged into Dionia. Due to his achievements and influence in Naxos, Laodicean became the patriarch of Dionia, and he also married his daughter to the then No. [-] Antonios, the commander of the First Legion, a powerful member of the Dionia Senate, and a confidant of King Davos, has a profound background.

When Laodissian became a senator, he moved to Thurii, but his home in Naxos was not sold because there were five acres of "allotment" allocated to him by the alliance and his property through Antonios. Relations purchased land in Naxos from legionnaires who were rewarded for their military exploits.

The allotments are not allowed to be bought and sold, but the land awarded later can be bought and sold. This is because the owner cannot take care of it and has to sell it because of the distance, such as the legionnaires who live in Turii or Amendolara. After being allocated the land in Sicily, it would take nearly three days just to take the boat. Not to mention that if you want to take good care of the land there, you have to send a confidant to work here all year round. It is laborious and troublesome, so you can only use it. Sold to citizens who are also Dionia.

Of course, the war ten years ago allowed Dionia to obtain enough free land in Magna Graecia. Most of the land rewards obtained by the legionnaires were in Magna Graecia. Some legionnaires with outstanding performance were additionally rewarded with a piece of land in Sicily. Two acres of land.The prices for these lands are not cheap when they are bought and sold, but Laodissian is rich. If it were not for the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture who are responsible for land sales and supervising land transfers, they discovered that he had raised the price of the land too high and the amount of land he purchased. To put it mildly, the amount of land Laodissian owned in Naxos was by no means more than the current 78 acres.

Last year, after Galademos took office in Naxos, he had some conflicts with the Laodicean family. Because he was serious about his work and found out that the tax collector of Prosdemo had taxed the land of the Laodicean family in the past. Less collections.Originally, most of his family's fields were on the mountainside, and it was relatively difficult to get water to irrigate the fields. Therefore, when the tax amount was initially determined, most of his family's fields were classified as middle- and lower-class farmland, so the land tax was low.

However, after investigation, Galademos discovered that eight years ago, Naxos had built a large waterwheel by the Alcantara River. From then on, the river water could easily irrigate all the fields of the Laodicean family, and solved the problem. Regarding the water problem, the harvest of the farmland on the mountainside is even better than that of the farmland on the plains. However, the land tax on his family is still levied according to the previous standards every year. The key is that the waterwheel was not built by the Laodicean family themselves, but It was built at public expense on the recommendation of the Naxos Council to the city administrator.

Therefore, Galadmus believes that not only must the amount of taxes be re-established for the Laodian family's fields, but also the amount of taxes owed in the past few years must be paid.

When Galademos notified the Laodiceans of this decision, it immediately caused an uproar. Not only did the latter refuse to pay more taxes, but the steward who stayed behind also engaged in various activities, allowing the parliament to put pressure on the chief executive and criticize the tax office for being careless. TOLL.Even the people in the village were incited to protest against the new tax collector who was too harsh and oppressed the Sicilians (actually Galadmus weighed the wheat and other crops turned over too seriously when collecting taxes and did not allow This made it impossible for Galademos to continue collecting taxes.

Moreover, Galademus' direct superior, the mid-level tax official of Naxos City, worried that discovering this mistake for many years would show his incompetence and affect his future because Galademus suddenly opened this "lid". At the same time, the friends he had made in Naxos in the past few years also spoke favorably of the Laodicean family. This led the tax collector to not only severely criticize Galademos many times, but also veto his attempt to "modify Laodicea." Xi’an family’s tax amount and let them make up the arrears” proposal.

The current chief executive of Naxos is Stromboli. How could this tough but conservative elder of Amendolara succumb to the pressure of local parliamentarians? What’s more, Galademus is still Amendolara. people.

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