Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2526 Legal Construction Teleconference Plan
After receiving the notice from the Seven Towers, Xia Duo and Niya didn't stay in the southern border for long. They came to Severton together the next day and stayed in Azure Manor.

There was only one motion submitted by Niya to Badigal, which was to limit the power of the lord to kill directly. Even slaves could not kill at will unless they were attacked and defended against counterattack.

What the lord should do if he wants to kill people is very simple. Follow the procedures. Based on the principle of territorial autonomy in the new covenant, first legislate, you can't punish without teaching, let alone kill wantonly.

It doesn't matter if the laws of the territory are stricter, such as looking directly at the lord, squinting at the lord, ignoring the lord, and so on.

Of course, in order to cooperate with Niya, Xia Duo also submitted a motion, which is to allow the free migration of citizens from all over the world, but Xia Duo estimated that this should not be easy to pass.

In the past, only freedmen in Netheril were eligible to move freely. However, in practice, the lords of various places seldom agreed with the lords to obtain the status of freedmen.

The people in the territory are basically confined to the territory, especially the farmers who produce food and the craftsmen who make tools and commodities. Only a few merchants and adventurers who are allowed to leave the territory freely.

As long as the free movement of the citizens is allowed, Xia Duo can actually bypass the lord and send people directly to the interior to recruit, or set up a lighthouse in the southern border, and wait for the people from the interior to come and join him.

Of course, the interior of Netheril used to be sparsely populated and many lords didn't want to support so many people. They often found a reason to give landless peasants or beggars the status of free people, and then expelled them.

However, since the implementation of the princess's pioneering plan, the surplus population is no longer a drag, but has become the capital for pioneering. If you want to come to the mainland, the issuance of free citizen qualifications will definitely be tightened in the future.

Xia Duo's motion is to let all the citizens move freely, which is even more impossible to realize, but this is just like what a sage in his hometown once said——

If you want to open a window in a room full of people, everyone will disagree, but if you want to lift the roof, others will agree to you to open the window.

Of course, Xia Duo also knows that it is unrealistic for all the citizens of Netheril to move freely at this stage, so what he actually wants is to reduce the trivial procedures of free people's migration.

At least one specific immigration condition needs to be determined by each locality, which can be changed by legislation in advance by the lord, but it cannot be changed anytime, anywhere and arbitrarily.

At present, there is no such thing as free people in Xia Duo's territory. There are only two types of free people, reserve people and formal people. However, both formal people and reserve people are free to choose whether to leave or not.

It's just that if the official citizen has lost his naturalization, the next time he wants to re-naturalize, he can only start from the preparatory citizen.

The reason for mentioning this point is that besides responding to Niya's motion to limit the killing of lords and facilitating the recruitment of new citizens in the southern border, it is actually Xia Duo's conscious promotion of legalization in various parts of Netheril.

And in this process, the mature and advanced Great Xia Law Code will undoubtedly become the object of reference for the lords everywhere. Even if they can't learn the essence, as long as they learn the "statute law", it is enough to change the fate of many people.

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In addition to reducing the restrictions on freedmen's migration, Xia Duo is also planning to recommend a remote meeting plan based on communication fanlocks to all councilors and lords at this meeting.

In the future, the members of the Severton Council will meet once a month, and the plenary meeting will be held every six months. Although the local lords and members who are grand arcanists will not be able to afford the teleportation circle, after all, it will cost money, and it will be more troublesome to travel in person every time. However, not everyone has the ability to use projection avatars.

Wouldn't it be more worry-free if there was an on-site teleconferencing solution available?
Although the communication fan lock has not yet started construction, and there is only one idea for the teleconference plan, this does not prevent Xia Duo from bringing this to the conference to publicize.

Does Netheril have any bidding system for public facilities? As long as the council accepts his proposal, it doesn't matter if he provides it for free.

In this way, when selling the communication instrument in the future, you can use this project as a publicity——

You see, you are using a communication magic weapon with the same technology as the councilor and lord!They are all using it, why don't you use it?
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In Netheril, communication spells are not uncommon, but it is estimated that this is the first time that such a universal teleconferencing solution has been integrated.

There are benefits hidden in it, Xia Duo can mention it, and if other people see it, of course they can also mention it, but not everyone has a communication fan lock.

Based on the communication fan lock, a remote conference system can be built now, 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 the motion to use teleconferencing instead of physical meetings is passed, and Shadow's plan is agreed to, then the tower of time's communication fan lock business will soon usher in an explosive development.

Even if you don't do other things in the future, the communication fan lock alone can bring a steady stream of massive benefits to the southern border, which is enough to allow the southern border to complete its primitive accumulation and make an era transition.

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In the past two days in Azure Manor, Xia Duo met with more than a dozen councilors from the three planes of Tianshui, and communicated and exchanged opinions on each other's motions in advance.

As for the councilors from the main plane, Xia Duo has been keeping in touch with them since the signing of the new covenant not long ago, and even the three Tianshui councilors who had a face-to-face communication with Xia Duo on the day the new contract was signed, he has also been in contact these days.

This time, most of the members who came to meet were members who had not communicated with each other in person before. After all, there are less than [-] members of the Sevington Council at this stage.

In the future, when there are more people and a stable political structure is formed, there is no need for everyone to have a special opinion.

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The night before the agreed first meeting, Xia Duo saw off the last councilor he met. Over the past few days, he had already had a general understanding of the councilors from the three planes of Tianshui.

Of course, it is not ruled out that those people also pretended to be when they met him, but this is actually not important. With their current identities, their words are often more important than their true thoughts.

As long as a clear attitude is shown, no matter what the true thoughts in the heart are, people with similar attitudes and even allies will gather together.

Correspondingly, those who oppose this attitude will not object because of what you really think in your heart.

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Back in the study, Niya immediately asked with concern, "How is it? What's Delacroix's opinion on the motion we submitted, support or opposition?"

"I support it in principle." Xia Duo said lightly.

"What do you mean?"

"It means he agrees with our idea, but he will not vote for it when he votes."

"What kind of support is this!"

"That's right. You were there when Sisley came over yesterday. You can see that guy's attitude. Not everyone in this world revolves around us. Even Sisley can tolerate me, so what? Delacroix's abstention, not to mention he's actually still up for grabs."

(End of this chapter)