After receiving the notice from the Seven Towers, Shaduo and Niya didn't stay in the south for long. They came to Severton together the next day and stayed at Azure Manor.
There was only one motion that Niya submitted to Badigal, which was to limit the lord's power to directly kill people. Unless they were attacked and defended, even slaves could not kill at will.
What to do if a lord wants to kill someone? It's very simple. Follow the procedures. Based on the territorial autonomy principle of the New Covenant, legislate first. You can't kill without teaching, let alone kill indiscriminately.
It doesn't matter if the territorial laws are stricter. For example, looking directly at the lord is punishable by death, looking sideways at the lord is punishable by death, ignoring the lord is punishable by death, and so on.
Of course, in order to cooperate with Niya, Xia Duo also submitted a motion to open up the free movement of citizens from various places, but Xia Duo estimated that this would not be easy to pass.
In the past, only freemen in Netheril were generally eligible to move freely. However, in practice, local lords rarely agreed to allow their subjects to obtain the status of freemen. Even if they agreed, the lord's consent was still required if they wanted to immigrate.
People in the territory are basically restricted to the territory, especially farmers who produce food and craftsmen who make tools and goods. Only a few permitted merchants and adventurers can leave the territory freely.
As long as the people of the territory are allowed to move freely, Xia Duo can actually bypass the lord and directly send people to the mainland to recruit, or he can set up a lighthouse in the south and wait for people from the mainland to come and defect.
Of course, in the past, the mainland of Netheril was sparsely populated, and many lords did not want to support so many subjects. They often found any reason to give landless peasants or beggars the status of freemen, and then expelled them.
But since the implementation of the princess's development plan, the surplus population is no longer a drag, but has become a capital for development. If you come to the mainland in the future, the issuance of free citizen qualifications will definitely be tightened.
Xia Duo's motion is to allow all territorial citizens to move freely, which is even more impossible to achieve, but it is just like a sage in his hometown once said -
In a room full of people, if you want to open a window, everyone will disagree. But if you want to lift the roof, others will agree to open the window.
Of course, Shado also knows that it is unrealistic to allow all the people in Netheril to migrate freely at this stage, so what he actually wants is to reduce the trivial procedures for the migration of free people.
At least it is necessary for each locality to determine a specific immigration condition, which can be changed by legislation in advance by the lord, but it cannot be changed anytime, anywhere and at will.
Currently, there are no free citizens in Xia Duo's territory. There are only two types: preliminary citizens and formal citizens. However, both formal and preliminary citizens can freely choose whether to leave.
However, if you are a formal citizen who denaturalizes, you can only start as a preliminary citizen if you want to re-naturalize next time.
The reason for mentioning this was not only to echo Niya's motion to restrict the killing of lords and to facilitate the recruitment of new citizens in the southern border, but also because Shado was consciously promoting the establishment of legal systems in various parts of Netheril.
In this process, the mature and advanced Bactria Code will undoubtedly become a reference for lords everywhere. Even if they cannot learn the essence, just learning the "written law" is enough to change the fate of many people.
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In addition to reducing restrictions on the migration of freedmen, Chateau is also preparing to recommend a remote meeting plan based on communication mystery locks to all councilors and lords at this meeting.
From now on, the members of the Sevington Parliament will meet once a month, and the plenary meeting will be held once every six months. Although the lords from various places and the members who are grand arcanists will not be able to afford the teleportation circle, it will cost money after all, and it will be troublesome to travel in person every time. , and not everyone is capable of using projected avatars.
Wouldn't it be more worry-free if there were on-site remote conferencing solutions available?
Although the communication lock has not been built yet, and the remote conference plan has only one idea, this does not prevent Xia Duo from taking this to the conference to promote it.
Is there any public facilities bidding system in Netheril now? As long as the council accepts his plan, he will have no problem providing it for free.
In this way, when selling communication instruments in the future, you can use this project to promote——
You see, you are using a communication device with the same technology as the councilors and lords! They are all using it, why don’t you?
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Communication spells are not uncommon in Netheril, but this is probably the first time such a universal remote conferencing solution has been integrated.
There are interests hidden here, Xia Duo can mention it, and if anyone else sees it, they can of course mention it, but not everyone has the communication mystery lock.
Based on the communication puzzle, it is now possible to build a remote conference system, and there will be more new ways to play in the future. Xia Duo welcomes competition, but he is confident that he can win.
If this motion to use remote meetings instead of physical meetings is passed, and Shado's plan is agreed to be used, then the Tower of Time's communication mystery business will soon usher in an explosive development.
Even if nothing else is done in the future, the Communication Mystery Lock alone will bring a steady stream of massive benefits to the Southern Territory, enough to allow the Southern Territory to complete its primitive accumulation and make an era jump.
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During the two days in Azure Manor, Chateau met with more than a dozen councilors from the three sides of Tianshui, and communicated and exchanged opinions in advance on the motions proposed by each other.
As for the councilors from the main plane, Xia Duo has been in contact with them since the new covenant was signed not long ago. Even the three Tianshui councilors who had face-to-face communication with Sha Duo on the day the new contract was signed have also been in contact with him these days.
This time, most of the people who came here to meet were members who had never communicated with each other in person before. After all, there were less than a hundred members of the Severnton Assembly at this stage. It would not take much trouble for two to meet and explore each other's positions.
In the future, when there are more people and a stable political structure is formed, there will be no need for everyone to see each other on the same page.
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The night before the agreed first meeting, Xia Duo saw off the last congressman he met. Over the past few days, he had a general understanding of the three congressmen from Tianshui.
Of course, it is not ruled out that those people disguised themselves when meeting him, but this is not actually important. In their current status, verbal expressions are often more important than their true inner thoughts.
As long as a clear attitude is expressed, no matter what the true inner thoughts are, people with similar attitudes and even allies will gather around.
Correspondingly, people who oppose this attitude will not object just because of your true inner thoughts.
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Returning to the study, Nia immediately asked with concern, "How is it? What does Delacroix think of the motion we submitted? Does he support or oppose it?"
"Support in principle." Xia Duo said lightly.
"What's the meaning?"
"That means he recognizes our idea, but will not vote in favor of it when it comes time to vote."
"What kind of support is this!"
"That's right. You were also there when Sisley came over yesterday. You also saw that guy's attitude. Not everyone in this world revolves around us. Even I can tolerate Sisley, so what? Even if Delacroix abstains, let alone he can still fight for it.”
(End of chapter)
