Show egyptian monarch was first wheat dictator the first recorded wheat dictator w was as chenku monarch of egypt who apparently considered it hla his most worthy wo arthy claim to tame fame having 1 I was lord and overseer oversee of southern grain 1 engraved on his tomb A study on food control for forty six centuries was made by mary alary 0 lacy librarian of the united states department of agriculture and this la Is the most ancient cle t deed of price lazing fixing which she ehe unearthed from the musty masty tomes the story of the pharaoh anal his treasurer joseph who ran the first recorded wheat corner la Is known to nil all bible renders readers but he was in 1700 EL B 0 centuries later than the egyptian method of control was by the monarch owning all the land similar to the government ownership in the soviet union today china as early as 1122 B a 0 had a system of crop and price control chiefly concerned with rice the government bought the surplus after inspecting each field and deciding how much each former farmer might keep it bought at a normal price in surplus years and sold at the same price in short years protecting the farmer fanner in one and the consumer in the other |