Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2482 Draft Constitution
Two days later.

Xia Duo came to Severton again with three portals with uncorrected coordinates. Unlike the person who came to the Seven Towers last time, he had a cold attitude. He greeted him with a smiling face.

"Lord Xiaduo, Lord Horn would like to invite you to a private banquet tonight to discuss the cooperation between the Tower of Kiran and the Tower of Time on the bloodline sequencing project. I wonder what you mean—"

Xia Duo did not give a direct response, but instead asked, "Is Director Brundes coming to see me now as Kieran Tower?"

Last time in Zilan Tower, Xia Duo and Horn almost broke up. If Brundes said that he came here as Zilan Tower, Xia Duo would definitely let him go for a while.

Regarding such a question, Brundes smiled slightly, as if completely ignoring the differences between Xiaduo and the Seven Towers, and even said in a low voice:
"I came to welcome Lord Xiaduo as a director of the Austrian Federation, but I also brought greetings from the master of Kieran High Tahorn to Your Excellency."

"Well, I accept it!"

Xia Duo's attitude softened slightly, and then the two entered the headquarters of the Austrian Law Federation together. On the way to the exclusive lounge, Xia Duo asked Brundes:

"Is my teacher in the office?"

"Master Iolum went to the Tower of Gustav in the morning, and he hasn't returned yet."

"Is it."

Xia Duo said casually noncommittally, and soon the lounge was in front of him. Finally, Blunders couldn't bear it, and asked Xia Duo again, "About Lord Horn's invitation——"

"I have an appointment with the teacher tonight."

"What about tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow's matter, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

After finishing speaking, Xia Duo locked Blunders out of the lounge. Although he did not agree to Horn's invitation, he still cared a little bit about this matter. As soon as he came, Horn invited him to a private banquet. Apparently the drunken man didn't want to drink.

The purposes Xia Duo could think of were probably nothing more than two—one was to win him over, since it was a foregone conclusion that the Grand Arcanist would enter the Sevington Council, no matter whose plan he used.

But if the Seven Towers cannot retain their ruling status, then they are self-contained. In fact, there is no need to care too much about the opinions of others, but there is a high probability that the ruling status can be retained. For the sake of the overall situation, it is necessary to maintain good relations with all parties up.

Those who plan for the overall situation must be burdened by the overall situation. This is Xia Duo's long-standing understanding, but now he seems to be regarded as an unstable factor affecting the overall situation by the Seven Towers.

Therefore, another purpose of Horn's invitation to him was revealed without a doubt—demonstration, or beating, to show him the power of the Seven Towers, from various aspects, such as righteousness, interest alliance, actual combat power, and so on.

To sum up, in fact, in one sentence, the Seven Towers seem to have regarded themselves as the actual master of Netheril.

If we follow the historical palace script, after a few years, the Seven Towers may really be able to complete the plan of "cutting the vassal" step by step, take back most of the power to the center, and completely unify the entire Netheril.

But the reality is not a historical palace drama. Among other things, Xia Duo alone cannot give up the independent status of the territory. Unless he is allowed to control the center and preside over the grand plan to cut down the feudal clan, who will oppose himself?

……

In the lounge, within a few minutes of Xia Duo sitting down, Jenna came to the door in person to test Xia Duo's attitude towards the Seven Towers plan.

After several conversations, Xia Duo already understood Jenna's choice, and the other party agreed with the plan proposed by Qita, and tried to persuade him to accept it too.

"Since I first heard about the Seven Towers plan from the teacher two days ago, I have been thinking about it until now. I still have a lot of doubts about the plan proposed by the Seven Towers."

"What questions does Lord Xia Duo have?"

"In the communication, the teacher spoke more generally. I want to know the specific plan of the Seven Towers, including the details of the revision of the Severton Covenant, and the measures to deal with the planes such as Tianshui."

"That's it!"

Jenna smiled slightly, took out a finger-thick booklet from the large robe, handed it to Xia Duo, and then explained:

"This is the preliminary plan drawn up by the Seven Towers after consulting with Master Iolum recently. Lord Xiaduo may wish to take a look at it first. The Seven Towers will also discuss with the other great arcanists in the near future, but most of them have more or less already Knowing part of the content of the plan, they are very interested in the seven-tower plan."

Xia Duo took the booklet in his hand, the cover had no words, and it wasn't too thick, but just based on the content it involved, Xia Duo felt a little heavy, knowing in his heart that it would probably be Netheril's next few decades or even hundreds of years. order.

Judging from the fact that Jenna was able to obtain this booklet, she must have received the task of the Seven Towers in advance. Xia Duo suddenly realized that Jenna just said that other great arcanists also understood the content of the plan.

Maybe there are lobbyists like Jenna among those people.

"It really took so much effort!" Xia Duo sighed inwardly.

Then he opened the booklet, and inside was the current original text of the Sevington Covenant, which had lasted for hundreds of years, but he remembered that the original text of the Sevington Covenant did not have many words and did not require much paper.

Realizing this, Xia Duo immediately turned to the back. Sure enough, except for the original oath of the covenant on the first page, there was an annotation revision from the first article.

And it was almost a note-by-line revision. Xia Duo didn't start to read carefully from the front, but quickly flipped through it. As expected, the back was still the same, so he revised the old Severton Covenant note by line, and added a lot of content.

For example, in the page that Xia Duo turned later, the original text of the current covenant is a description of the independent status of the territory, and there is only a dry sentence "The independent status of the territory is inviolable, and the internal affairs of the territory are all determined by the lord."

However, there are too many amendments and supplements, almost expanding this principle of independence into specific legal provisions, including independent premise, independent content, independent restrictions, and rights and obligations arising from independence, etc. ,

In these unusually familiar words, Xia Duo saw the shadow of the Great Xia Code, or this is the draft constitution of Netheril based on the Great Xia Code!

Compared with the current old covenant, the most added content of the new covenant is the description of the New Severton Council, which is indeed similar to what Iolum revealed before.

The only manifestation of the seven towers retaining their ruling status is the post of Speaker, whose responsibilities are to convene or respond to requests to convene deliberations, preside over meetings, and be responsible for the permanent institutions under the Sewington Council, etc.

The speaker is elected within the Seven Towers, and there is no difference in power settings between the other unselected controllers and the Grand Arcanists outside the Seven Towers.

The deliberative principles of the Severton Council are also very simple, with only a few basic procedures—moving, seconding, stating issues, debating, voting, and announcing results.

When voting, the minority obeys the majority. Due to the independence of the Netheril territory, most of the issues discussed in the Severton Council are public affairs, and a small number of them are conflicts that need to be resolved.

According to the provisions of the new covenant, if two-thirds of the grand arcanists agree and the remaining one-third do not object, the quick decision procedure can be initiated, and a resolution can be passed without a lord's vote.

If it is not the case above, the lord's vote is required, and the result of the lord's projection has a higher priority than the grand arcanist's vote.

Xia Duo can see that the Seven Towers has spent a lot of effort to deal with the emergence of a large number of great arcanists after the connection of the planes to dilute the Seven Towers' right to speak, but this system design is also very desirable in Xia Duo's view.

After all, to a large extent, the lord can be regarded as the representative of ordinary people. Both the new covenant and the old covenant mention the lord's duties, but the old covenant has duties, but there is not much content to restrict the lord.

It can be said that in the era when the old covenant was signed, the lord was still an advanced representative, and it could also be said that the old covenant itself was a covenant between lords, so naturally it would not restrict the lord's own power too much.

But the new covenant—in Xiaduo’s view, it can already be called the existence of the Netheril Constitution—has clearly proposed the punishment of the lord who violated the covenant.

Of course, since the new covenant is still a principled document, there is no mention in the covenant of how to punish violating lords, but it is possible to initiate related motions in the Severton Council based on these contents of the new covenant.

For example, if Xia Duo sees a certain lord in the mainland wantonly killing his subjects, he can file a motion in the Severton Council to deprive that lord of his lord status.

A motion proposed by a grand arcanist can directly enter the discussion procedure without going through the seconding process, while a motion proposed by other lords needs to be seconded by at least ten lords or one grand arcanist before entering the discussion procedure.

……

After reading all the content of the new covenant, Xia Duo has already foreseen the order of Netheril in the future, and continues to read the booklet in his hand. The latter is mainly about the treatment and placement plan for the descendants of the pioneers of the plane such as Tianshui in the Seven Towers. and some other solutions to the problems raised by Iolum.

　Overtime added 700 words

　
(End of this chapter)