Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1568

This is not to encourage mutual criticism, but to let all members dispel concerns, open their minds, and be honest with each other, so as to be aware, tell the truth, and see real results.

In fact, as early as the study group period, Xia Duo encouraged the group members to speak freely, and the same method was also applied to the governance of the territory, which is the link of "remembering bitterness and thinking about sweetness" in the territory new life movement.

As for the formal introduction of the criteria of "criticism and self-criticism", it will be after the establishment of the Jin Society. Xia Duo believes that the truth will become clearer and clearer, and this is also an important means to strengthen and standardize the internal atmosphere of the Jin Society.

For the time being, Xia Duo has not come up with a formal process similar to the "Democratic Life Meeting", but this principle is reflected in all aspects of the daily life of the Academy.

Its most notable manifestation lies in the ability to speak freely, on the premise of adhering to ideals and beliefs, and adhering to the basic line.

……

"The last issue, due to the increasing number of members of the Advancement Society, the current system can no longer adapt to the current situation in terms of internal affairs, so it is necessary to establish a more efficient organizational structure.

"Here, I propose to elect a five-member committee to be responsible for the daily decision-making of the academy. Of course, important issues should be discussed in group meetings."

In the list of topics distributed to the participants, it was written that the initiator of this topic was Dean, but in fact it was initiated by Xia Duo.

This is why Xia Duo didn't want to interfere with everyone's judgment because of himself. Now he is more and more understanding of some things in the history of his hometown.

However, Dean has been Xia Duo’s spokesperson for many years, and his proposal will largely be regarded as Xia Duo’s meaning. Therefore, on this issue, even though Dean mentioned "speak freely" many times, there are very few speakers in the end .

One of the reasons for this is that the Advancement Society already has a de facto daily decision-making group. Proposing this now is just to make that daily decision-making group more legitimate.

But I'm afraid it's more because of Xia Duo.

This made Xia Duo feel a little disappointed. He hoped that every member of the Academy would not be superstitious about authority and have the courage to dare to break it. But the fact is that he also knows that authority is inevitable in any system, and it just falls on himself.

"Ugh--"

There is no doubt that the issue passed unanimously.

As for the subsequent election of members of the five-member committee, it really did not exceed Xia Duo's expectations. The final five-member committee is almost still the current daily decision-making group——

Dean, Sammy, Devine, Edridge.

Just one more tilak.

As for David, his ability and reputation are not bad, and he was also nominated this time, but within the Academy, his qualifications are still far behind Tilak.

Moreover, David devoted himself to his own laboratory, and paid far less attention to the internal affairs of the Academy than Tilak, and his final defeat was also a true manifestation of "the eyes of the masses are discerning".

As for Xia Duo, as the president of the Advancement Society, he is not in the five-member committee.

The so-called "committee of five" is just a common name, and the official name should be "Daily Affairs Decision-Making Committee of the Academy of Advancement". Xia Duo is not in charge of daily affairs management, so naturally he is not among them.

However, the "Committee of Five" will directly follow his instructions. This system reform actually clarified Xia Duo's direct leadership over the Advancement Society.

Although Xia Duo was called the president in the past, the organizational form of the association and the study group period did not change much. Only adjustments were made to the membership rules, and there was no essential difference in terms of membership privileges.

This makes the Progressive Society closer to a loose club of clubs, and Xia Duo's leadership and instructions to the Progressive Society, as well as others' obedience and following, are more due to the authority of the founder, Xia Duo.

But now it has been clarified in the form of a system, which has to be said to be a major progress.

From then on, Jinhui can be regarded as a formal political organization.

……

When the five-member committee is elected, the topic session of this group meeting is considered to be over. From the review of the past at the beginning, to the handling of the topic session, and then to the last session of the meeting——

Looking ahead.

In this link, everyone speaks freely, constantly describing various possible changes in the future, good, bad, neither good nor bad, as long as they think of it, they can say it.

Some of these speeches are based on the future ideal country scene Xia Duo constructed for them, some are deduced based on reality, and some are completely out of their own imagination.

For example, a member proposed a conjecture that a fortress-style floating city may appear in the future. The reason is that the destructiveness of magic is easier to obtain, and living on the ground is not as safe as living in the sky.

This almost coincides with Xia Duo's idea of ​​building a floating city.

Another member suggested that it might be possible to link everyone's thinking together through some kind of magic, so that many unnecessary internal frictions can be avoided.

Xia Duo had also thought about this idea, but this member put forward it more radically. He believed that as long as everyone's thinking is transparent, there will be no darkness, and an unparalleled joint force will be formed.

And his idea has been recognized by many people, and of course it has also been opposed by many people.

Xia Duo listened to the discussions and debates with great interest, and from time to time recorded some ideas that even he thought were very important.

The reason why I want to record it on paper is to remind myself that after all, the premise of memory tracing is to be able to think of such a thing.

If you can't think of it, it will only be touched when it happens to go back to the relevant memory, so as to deepen the memory, so it's better to pick it out from the beginning.

This is also a way to deepen memory.

Before integrating all the subconscious and superficial consciousness, Xia Duo could not ignore the difference between consciousness and memory, as well as the difference between short-term memory and long-term memory.

……

After the meeting, it was almost evening. Early the next morning, Xia Duo called Dean to his original residence on the sixth floor.

In the reception room, Dean was a little restrained, Xia Duo sighed slightly in his heart, and offered to make a cup of tea for Dean, and then asked about the second topic yesterday:
"What do you think about the development of the Advancement Society into the territory? I see that you abstained yesterday. Let's discuss it in private."

"Xia Duo, I—"

Dean was about to get up, but Xia Duo pressed him down, "I still hope to see the Dean who talked with me under the apple tree in the Arcane Garden, not the current Dean. It's a business thing, but it doesn't change our private friendship."

Dean was silent for a while, then nodded, and expressed his thoughts: "I have no objection to the development of the Advancement Society to the territory, because I have been there personally, and it is simply the best hotbed for the Advancement Society's thinking. But Savile’s leadership is not good, there is no realistic basis, and forcing it is counterproductive.”

"That's it?" Xia Duo was speechless.

Could it be that because there is no clear which territory it is, many people think that the two territories are going on at the same time, so they voted to abstain.

Then this is too oolong!
"Because of that, I'm sure many of those who abstained from the vote shared my views."

During the speech, Dean also implicitly expressed his dissatisfaction with those radicals and conservatives, which made Xia Duo see a more real Dean.

(End of this chapter)