Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"Great achievements cannot be achieved overnight. It is a law of nature that the most beautiful things often come with difficulty."

——Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Quite unexpectedly, Pyrrhus discovered that his biggest gain in the Thessaly War might not be a well-trained combat force, but a highly qualified construction team.

When he was rushing to build the camp on the Onchistas River and the dam on the Pinios River, he recruited tens of thousands of craftsmen and peasants. Under their leadership, they learned to work as a team and operate various machinery such as heavy cranes, and most of them were willing to stay and continue to participate in the construction of Lamia.

Some people think that the income from work is much greater than farming, and they can pay to hire people to complete the spring planting and autumn harvest of their family fields; the other group of people are liberated Panisters, who are freed from slavery but have no After qualifying for land allotment, work is a good choice for them.

And the most important thing is that unlike the Thessalian Independence Army - although the army also supports him - the Independence Army belongs to the Supreme Council during non-war times and is not Pyrrhus's private army;

These people can be integrated into a construction industry chamber of commerce and completely controlled by Pyrrhus alone.

The first task Pyrrhus gave them was to build New Lamia into a city that was completely symmetrical along the central axis according to the drawings designed by him and Desiachus.This task is different from the simple civil construction work before. Once completed, they will have a certain ability to read and draw maps and gradually embark on a path of self-improvement...

According to the custom of the Greeks, the winter month spanning January to February in the Gregorian calendar was called the month of Poseidon.

At the national conference, Pyrrhus presided over the adoption of the constitutional Code of Tagus and established the dual system of Tagus-Supreme Council.

This is basically a parliamentary government, except that the Tagus has independent jurisdiction over justice and wartime command, and the Supreme Council is in charge of all daily administration and diplomacy. The two supervise each other. Both sides have legislative power, but both require the approval of the other.

Tagus does not serve a term of office.Each city-state decides how to select the representatives of the Supreme Council. In short, the three major classes of nobles, citizens, and slaves elect one respectively. At the same time, each city-state's population increases by one for every 1 people.

This was also how the first Supreme Council was elected.

In addition, a standing committee system has been established, with nine presidents elected by the Supreme Council to preside over administrative affairs during the recess.

Then he issued the "Tagui Decree", which divided the whole color Sali around the large cities of Lamia, Larissa, Philais, Pharsalus, Melipoa and Trica in the west. There are six regions, each with a Tagui and a Grand Council.

Tagui is appointed by Tagus, but he can also serve as a member of the Grand Council; the Grand Council is elected by each city-state under its jurisdiction - for some oligarchic and tyrannical city-states, it is basically concurrently or appointed by the ruler - However, citizens’ assemblies now generally have a high voice.

Both can file local bills.

Generally speaking, the autonomy of each city-state is still very large, but now it has a higher-level governance structure.

For the time being, he himself served as the Taguig of Lamia. Creon, who contributed the most, got Philae, and the most important Larissa Taguig appointed a man who had no presence at all in the war but whose family status was high. Arias, the old man of Sally, the remaining three cities were relatively unimportant, and Pyrrhus was left to relatively cooperative locals.

In addition, the northernmost Perhybia is still under military control, and a new region is likely to be established by then.

The previous responsibility of Tagus to mediate local disputes has been transferred to councils at all levels.

Pyrrhus's job was to lead the army during wartime, and review the major and felony verdicts submitted to him by Tagui in each district during peacetime, so he had some free time.

This was followed by the "Slave Protection Act", the "Citizen Promotion Act", and the "Nobles Canonization Act".

The "Slave Protection Act" applies to Panisters and "other general slaves". The relative status of Panisters is close to that of freedmen. Other general slaves only have some basic personal rights guaranteed; at the same time, slave owners are deprived of the right to lynching and replaced by The use of public institutions to implement the discipline and punishment of slaves meant that their power was retained to a considerable extent.

Even so, there was still strong opposition from nobles and slave owners, but the Supreme Council also had people from other classes participating, so it was still passed.

The Civil Promotion Act mainly deals with the granting and deprivation of citizenship rights.Military service, significant contributions, and the acquisition of talent can grant citizenship to slaves, freedmen, and foreigners; treason, blasphemy, and other serious crimes will disenfranchise, and the options include exile.At the same time, it was stipulated that Xenophon or other border residents belonged to the citizen class.

There is nothing controversial about this. After the War of Independence, the Thessalians have generally recognized the idea that slaves and foreigners can obtain citizenship rights through fighting.

The Decree on the Ennoblement of Nobles applies to the royal families of Thessaly, the tribal monarchs of Xenophon, and other nobles.This decree referred to medieval feudal obligations, which stipulated that nobles should provide corresponding cavalry in time of war according to the territory they owned.

In Thessaly now, according to the Supreme Council, there is no agricultural tax. It is levied by the regions below. Pyrrhus simply used military obligations to exempt them from agricultural taxes, which is equivalent to the region suffering a loss. Gusdeli.

This decree also opened the door for new nobles, including granting citizens noble status based on military merit, and recognizing real estate outside the inherent territory of the nobles as territory based on military merit.

At the same time, it also stipulates that Tagus has the authority to deprive his territory and deprive his noble title of authority under the authorization of the Supreme Council.

This law had both advantages and disadvantages for the nobility, but it was successfully passed with the push of some grassroots landowners who had made military achievements.

After three days of discussion, all proposals have been completed.

Because a complete stay-at-home system has not yet been established, everyone agreed to meet again in a year.

This concludes the Supreme Council.

During this month, Lamia successively held a series of festivals such as the first national meeting of the Supreme Council of All-Thessaly, the founding ceremony of the independent state of Thessaly, and the celebration of the re-establishment of the city of Lamia. The newly born city became a sea of ​​joy. .

At this time, the recruitment and rotation of the new standing army had been completed. A total of more than 5 people, including the independent army, volunteers and outstanding servants, gathered under the ruins of the old Acropolis of Lamia to participate in the commendation meeting.

In addition, there are urns containing the ashes of more than [-] people who died in combat or for other reasons.

Because it was impossible to find all the remains, especially those who died in the war of volunteers, and some had already been buried underground, most of them were empty.After the urns were covered with a red cloak, they were buried en masse under the foundation of Independence Square near the bay.

Pyrrhus then led eight other permanent representatives and other senior military generals to change the cloaks of all meritorious personnel.

This ceremony lasted almost a whole day.

When the sun was already setting in the west, a military review was held.

All the teams took turns passing the rostrum hastily built on the ruins of the Acropolis, and raised their arms to greet each other with more than 600 representatives of the Supreme Council.

There was also an unexpected surprise for Pyrrhus.

At the end of the conference, all the soldiers awarded Pyrrhus the title "oaet?0?2?0?9" amidst the cheers of the crowd.