Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1106 Leighton's Hesitation in the Lecture of the Code

"My lord, I just visited the ruins yesterday. Although it looks much calmer than before, there are still chaotic elemental magics that appear randomly. It is still very dangerous for ordinary people to work in such an environment."

For Layton's worries, Xia Duo expressed his approval, but said with certainty: "You don't have to worry about this, I will deal with it myself later, and it will be resolved by the end of this month at the latest."

In fact, after returning from [Projection Plane Birth of Comanthor], he has already started to deal with the issue of the ruins. In addition to doing it himself, Eberke also participated in the repair project of the magic net under his request.

In the past half a month, although Xia Duo was not in the southern border, he always followed the progress of Aberko's restoration and communicated with him from time to time.

It is true that Layton said that random magic appeared in the ruins. He did not deny this, but it was also true that he said that it could be resolved before the end of the month. Xia Duo did not explain too much about this.

Just pretend it was a decision, and then continued: "You can hand over the matter of the square to Cade, but there is one thing that needs to be watched by you personally. I don't worry about others."

"My lord, please give instructions!"

"It's about the territorial code. I don't require other laws for the time being, but the laws and regulations related to granting land, before the end of this month, I need all the citizens to memorize and understand."

"Yes, my lord, the task must be completed!"

"Oh? So confident?" Xia Duo was curious.

You must know that the legal provisions related to granting land are not as simple as a few sentences, but dozens of legal provisions involving private property, real rights, land, inheritance, transactions, taxation, etc.

And the most important thing is that Xia Duo asked all the citizens, not a few people, which made it even more difficult. The reason why he said this was just to make Layton pay more attention.

But unexpectedly, Layton agreed without hesitation, and seemed to be full of confidence.

"My lord, you confirmed the final version of the code before you left, so during the half month you were away, I held a lecture on the code at the night school of the territory, in which the land is the part that everyone cares about the most, and it is also the part that is talked about the most. , starting from tomorrow, the focus will be more clear, and it will definitely be completed before the end of the month!"

Speaking of this, Layton, who has always been serious and meticulous, couldn't help but feel a little elated. He suppressed the glory and excitement in his heart, and said:

"There has never been a territory in Netheril that has such a complete legal code as the Great Xia Territory, and there has never been a lord of a territory who is willing to explain the legal code to the people in such detail. Everyone is very enthusiastic! The current legal code lecture has already passed. It surpassed the literacy class and became the most popular course in the evening school!"

Leiden revealed his true feelings, and Xia Duo was also touched. Of course, Leiden may be excited because of the implementation of order, but Xia Duo was touched by another aspect.

There is a saying in his hometown called "Punishment cannot be known, but power cannot be measured", which is almost what he is thinking at the moment.

The Nether Lord may not have thought of enhancing his authority (with magic) in this way, but in fact it caused such a result.

But what about the people's own thoughts?
Xia Duo believes that based on this alone, if the current Great Xia Territory residents were to choose again, they would have a high probability of choosing to stay in the Great Xia Territory instead of going to other territories with unpredictable prestige.

Of course, this is also based on Xia Duo’s past reputation. If laws are not followed, law enforcement is lax, and violations are not prosecuted, then no matter how perfect the code is, it will be difficult to truly win the hearts of the people, implement order, and develop civilization.

The rule of power and violence is of course a kind of order, but it is a deformed order full of internal confrontation and consumption. From the moment it was born, the seeds of chaos and disintegration were planted.

This has nothing to do with morality, but it is closely related to development potential. Since he has been able to see the hidden dangers, Xia Duo generally would not choose this order unless in special circumstances.

Layton said that legal lectures are very popular. In fact, the citizens have already made a choice between "unfathomable" and "well-documented and law-based".

No one likes oppression by power. Where there is oppression, there will be resistance (active rebellion or passive passive). This is one of the reasons why Xia Duo insists on giving slaves the opportunity to be promoted.

In addition to slaves, other subjects, including spellcasters, can also obtain ascending passages within the framework of the order he designed.

Xia Duo was delighted and looking forward to the performance of the people in Leiden's mouth. At the same time, he was a little more sure about the land awarding ceremony next month.

"It's good if you have confidence. It's getting dark outside now. If there's nothing else to say, that's all for today. Go down and have dinner!"

With that said, Xia Duo got up and left from the chair behind the desk, and opened the only window in the study, which was different from the projection window of Tanya's study in Time, the scenery outside this window was extremely real.

It's just that there is no good scenery in the pioneering area. If you look around, you can see a dense mass of wooden houses with the same appearance, and there are flat farmlands in the distance, and there are a lot of unremoved roots and stones. land.

The forest is farther away, but at this time of year, the forest is nothing to look at. Evergreen trees and deciduous trees are mixed, green and gray, and very mottled.

He didn't hear the footsteps of Layton leaving behind him, and the scenery outside the window was not very pleasant, so Xia Duo simply closed the window again, walked up to Layton, and asked with a smile:

"What else can make it so difficult for you, Layton, to even speak?"

"grown ups--"

There was hesitation on Layton's face, perhaps because he rarely used this kind of expression, this hesitation also seemed a bit distorted, but he finally told the whole story under Xia Duo's gaze:
"The children in the territory who entered the Tower of Time to learn magic last year have not contacted their families for a long time, and their families are very worried about them, especially those who were not brought from Savile.

"In addition, there was not much work to do throughout the winter. In this case, the emotions of missing or worrying have been amplified a lot. In fact, the source of many security incidents recently can be traced back to this incident."

"I understand!"

Xia Duo knew why Layton was so hesitant. The matter of the Tower of Time apprentices was not within his scope of authority. Even if there were half of the apprentice's family, since this matter itself did not violate any rules, Layton did not Feel free to intervene.

If you really want to say whose responsibility it is, it can only be said that the psychological endurance of the parents of the apprentices is too poor, and they can't bear it if they don't contact each other for such a short time, and even caused a security incident because of this, it really shouldn't be!
But Xia Duo knew that he was also responsible for this matter, and he did somewhat ignore the fact that most of the people in the Great Xia Territory were not from the Savile Territory.

How much trust can be built in a short period of time from one place to another?

If you are close, you may not have any worries, and you may even feel at ease; but if you are far away and do not contact for a long time, then worry is inevitable.

(End of this chapter)