Lord of Arcane

Chapter 906 General Rules of the Regret Code of Rice
Near noon, Xia Duo put away his notes.

In addition to the meeting in the morning, he only did some derivation of the magic ring on paper. He didn't even start designing the experiment, so he felt that time passed so fast, which made people very uncomfortable.

However, when he saw the steaming home-cooked food sent by the logistics department, Xia Duo immediately forgot all his unhappiness.

Now the chef Cook in the territory has obtained his true biography, and he has even become blue. A braised venison, a stir-fried lettuce, and an egg custard, just smelling the taste makes people's index fingers move.

"Unfortunately, there is no rice!"

Xia Duo sighed while chewing the steamed bun.He can teach cooking methods, but rice is a staple food ingredient, if you don't have it, you don't have it, and you can't change it.

The so-called "a clever woman can't cook without rice" refers to this situation.

If you can find the legendary Karatu, you may be able to find rice. However, the difficulty of finding Karatu may not be less difficult than creating a crop similar to rice through magic.

Karatu is the name of Netherese, and the location of Karatu is referred to by "East" in Elvish language, and it also means "Oriental Kingdom".

According to the legend of the elves, the eastern country is ancient and mysterious, where it is magnificent and full of gold.

It's a pity that, except for the ancient high mage "Saint Nordel" who went there and brought back the legend of the Eastern Kingdom, no elves ever went to Karatu.

After thousands of years, only the people of Karatu came to Faerun continent, but no travelers from Lord Faerun went to Karatu, or in other words, they went but failed to return.

Naturally, it is impossible for Xia Duo to pursue the so-called oriental legend desperately just to eat some rice. This is really too brain-dead.

If it's for communication and trade, maybe it's okay, but Xia Duo doesn't want to waste his energy on things that are too illusory for the time being.

That's what Karatu is.

Mu Yan hadn't been able to find any useful clues in half his life, how could Xia Duo have the confidence to find them!It’s almost the same when you have free time in the future, so let’s forget it now!
……

After lunch, Layton personally delivered the minutes of the morning meeting. Xia Duo flipped through them casually, and already had a rough idea of ​​everyone's thoughts.

"Lighton, you don't need to deliver the meeting minutes yourself, so tell me! What else can you do?"

Layton hesitated for a moment, took out a stack of parchment from his arms, handed it to Xia Duo's desk, and explained: "My lord, these are some rough ideas I have on the territory law code, please identify it!"

"So fast!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Xia Duo realized that Layton must have been prepared before, otherwise how could it be possible to finish the meeting in the morning and hand in the manuscript in the afternoon!
With a hint of curiosity, Xia Duo opened the manuscript that Layton handed over. Layton's handwriting was very neat, and he felt like he was looking at print. This might also be a way to practice order.

Such thoughts flashed in Xia Duo's mind, and the handwriting was not the focus of his attention, but the content!
The first line of the manuscript reads "In the name of Xia Duo, Lord of Great Xia, establish order", followed by words such as "Only order can reach everything", "The Lord of Radiance bears witness".

There is also a tribute to Xia Duo's establishment of the Great Xia collar below. Xia Duo is really satisfied with these modified words, and he also thinks that these are necessary to exist.

But in his own study, when examining the essence of the code, it was not the focus of his attention.

After flipping through two pages of text that had nothing to do with the law, Xia Duo finally saw the text of the law that he was most concerned about——

"Xia Duo, the pioneer of the Great Xia Territory, has the irrefutable right to rule the Great Xia Territory, and it will be passed on forever!"

"Those who hurt others will be punished, those who murder will die, and those who rebel will implicate their relatives!"

"Private property is sacrosanct!"

……

Xia Duo looked at each article, and most of them were general provisions of a framework nature, involving many aspects such as legal system, criminal law, civil affairs, trade, marriage, inheritance, and trial.

Each of them is closely related to the actual operation of the territory, and many of them are the original words that Xia Duo once said, which were directly quoted by Layton.

After seeing the end, Xia Duo was very satisfied. It can be said that this is a guiding legal principle specially written by Leiden according to his will, and there is no content that disagrees with him.

Xia Duo is not good at law, but his experience before time travel also gave him insights far beyond those of Netheril natives.

After thinking about it carefully, he didn't find any contradictions, so he sorted out the manuscript, put it on the edge of the desk, and said to Layton: "I don't think there is any problem, the specific provisions will be expanded according to this!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Layton showed joy, saluted immediately, stepped forward and took back the manuscript.

"Then go get busy!"

"Yes."

Layton responded and left on his own.

……

Xia Duo was left alone in the study again, recalling the general legal manuscript he had just seen, he suddenly felt moved and took out a piece of loose parchment.

Then he used the [Transcription Technique] to print some of the legal provisions that he saw before crossing. Of course, these are Chinese characters, but immediately after, Xia Duo began to read them.

It's not difficult, he just translated it in the simplest Nether language combined with the actual situation of the current Great Xia collar.

The content is not important, the key is the form.

Xia Duo had seen the specific legal provisions of Netheril in Layton. It can't be said that it is very bad, but most of them are case-based, for example, what did someone do, what is the sentence, such a form.

If there is a discrepancy in the details, such as someone stealing 10 gold coins, but the law only says that stealing 9 gold coins will be punished with hard labor, then in the actual trial, the judge or the superior can do too much.

And Xia Duo hopes to use the range instead of the specific number, such as "the amount of money stolen within a certain range, how much will be sentenced".

This may weaken the authority of the judge, but it also makes the law clearer and conducive to stability.

……

Soon, Xia Duo indigenized some of the legal provisions of his hometown that he had read, and then cast a spell and sent them to Layton.

Of course, it wasn't that he deliberately wanted to show off the new usage of the teleportation technique, Xia Duo wasn't that boring to show it to a non-mage.

He was simply doing it to save time.

After doing this, he continued to study the magic ring.

……

In this way, three days later, Xia Duo was casting spells in the study to inspect the territory, when someone suddenly reported Atwood asking to see him.

Xia Duo immediately thought of the task he had assigned to him before, so he quickly asked Atwood to come over.

"Elder Atwood, have you finished reading the book?"

"My lord, I just finished reading it, so I don't dare to delay, so I hurried to see my lord!"

(End of this chapter)