Chapter 2530: Legal System Construction and Remote Conference Proposal

After receiving the notification from the Seven Towers, Xia Duo and Niya did not stay in Nan Jing for long; the next day, they arrived in Seventon together and settled down at Weilan Manor.

The motion Niya submitted to Badijiaer had only one point: to restrict the lord's power to kill directly; unless it was a defensive counterattack against an attack, even slaves could not be killed at will.

What should a lord do if they want to kill someone? It is simple: follow the procedure. Based on the principle of territorial autonomy in the New Covenant, legislate first; one cannot execute without instruction, much less kill wantonly.

It does not matter if the territorial laws are a bit harsh, for example: death for looking directly at the lord, death for glancing sideways at the lord, death for ignoring the lord, and so on.

Of course, to cooperate with Niya, Xia Duo also submitted a motion: to open up the free migration of residents from all regions, though Xia Duo estimated that this one would not be easy to pass.

In the past, generally only free citizens in various parts of Netheril were qualified to migrate freely, but in practice, local lords rarely agreed to let residents obtain free citizen status, and even if they agreed, immigration still required the lord's consent.

People in the territories were basically restricted to the territory, especially the farmers who produced food and the craftsmen who manufactured tools and goods; only a small number of permitted merchants and Adventurers could freely leave the territory.

As long as free migration of residents was opened, Xia Duo could actually bypass the lords and send people directly to the Inner Land to recruit, or set up a lighthouse in Nan Jing and wait for people from the Inner Land to come and join.

Of course, in the past, the Inner Land of Netheril had little land and many people; many lords actually did not want to support so many residents, often finding a random reason to grant free citizen status to displaced farmers or beggars, and then banishing them.

But ever since the Princess's expansion plan was implemented, surplus population was no longer a burden, but rather capital for expansion; it is certain that the Inner Land will surely tighten the issuance of free citizen status in the future.

Xia Duo's motion was to open up free migration for all residents, which was even more impossible to realize, but this was just like what a Sage from his hometown once said—

In a room, if you want to open a window, everyone disagrees, but if you want to tear off the roof, others will agree to let you open the window.

Xia Duo certainly knew that it was very unrealistic to allow all residents in all parts of Netheril to migrate freely at this stage, so what he actually wanted was just to reduce the trivial procedures for free citizen migration.

At the very least, it was necessary to have each region determine specific immigration conditions, which could be changed by the lord through legislation in advance, but could not be changed anytime, anywhere, and at will.

Currently, there is no such thing as free citizens in Xia Duo's territory; there are only two types: prospective residents and official residents, but whether they are official residents or prospective residents, they can freely choose whether to leave.

It is just that if an official resident renounces their status, the next time they want to re-register, they can only start from being a prospective resident.

The reason for proposing this, besides echoing the motion Niya proposed to restrict lords from killing and facilitating the recruitment of new residents for Nan Jing, was actually Xia Duo consciously pushing for the construction of a legal system in various parts of Netheril.

And in this process, the mature and advanced Daxia Code would undoubtedly become an object of reference for lords everywhere; even if they could not learn the essence, just learning the point of "written law" would be enough to change the fate of many people.

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And besides reducing the restrictions on free citizen migration, Xia Duo also planned to recommend a remote conference system based on the Communication Mythallar to all Councilors and lords at this meeting.

In the future, Seventon Councilors would meet once a month, and plenary sessions would be held once every six months; although the lords and Councilors who were Great Arcanists could afford the Teleportation Array, it still cost money after all, and traveling in person every time was quite troublesome, and not everyone had the ability to use a Projection Avatar.

If there were a real-time remote conference system that could be used, wouldn't that be more worry-free?

Although the Communication Mythallar had not yet been built, and the remote conference system was only an idea, this did not hinder Xia Duo from taking it to the general assembly to promote it.

There was no public facility bidding system in Netheril now; as long as the Council accepted his plan, he would have no problem providing it for free.

This way, when selling Communication Magic Tools in the future, he could use this project for promotion—

Look, you are using the same technology for Communication Magic Tools as the Councilors and lords! They are all using it, are you still not using it?

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In Netheril, communication Spells were not uncommon, but integrating such a set of universal remote conference systems was likely the first of its kind.

There were benefits hidden in this; Xia Duo could propose it, and if others saw it, they could of course propose it too, but not everyone had a Communication Mythallar.

Based on the Communication Mythallar, a remote conference system could be built now, and there could be more new ways to play in the future; Xia Duo welcomed competition, but he was confident he could win.

If this motion to use remote conferences instead of physical meetings passed, and they agreed to use Xia Duo's plan, then the Tower of Time's Communication Mythallar business would soon usher in an explosive development.

In the future, even if he did nothing else, the Communication Mythallar alone could bring Nan Jing a steady stream of massive profits sufficient for Nan Jing to complete its primitive accumulation and achieve a Yaoyue of the era.

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During these two days at Weilan Manor, Xia Duo met with more than a dozen Councilors from the Tianshui Three Planes in succession, and communicated and exchanged opinions on the motions proposed by each other in advance.

As for the Councilors of the Main Plane, Xia Duo had been keeping in touch with them ever since the New Covenant was signed not long ago, and he had even been in contact these days with the Tianshui Three Planes Councilors who had face-to-face exchanges with Xia Duo on the day the new contract was signed.

Those who came to meet this time were mostly Councilors with whom there had been no face-to-face exchange before; after all, there were fewer than a hundred Seventon Councilors at this stage, and meeting each other to test each other's positions did not take much effort.

In the future, when there were more people and a stable political landscape had formed, there would be no need to meet everyone in person.

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On the night before the scheduled first meeting, Xia Duo sent off the last Councilor he met; after these few days, he already had a rough understanding of the Councilors of the Tianshui Three Planes.

Of course, it could not be ruled out that those people had also put on a disguise when meeting him, but this was actually not important; at their current status, verbal expressions were often more important than their true inner thoughts.

As long as a clear attitude was expressed, regardless of what the true inner thoughts were, those who gathered around would be people with similar attitudes or even allies.

And accordingly, those who opposed this attitude would not refrain from opposing just because of what one's true inner thoughts were.

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Returning to the Study, Niya immediately asked with concern, "How was it? What is Delacroix's view on the motion we submitted, support or opposition?"

"Support in principle," Xia Duo said calmly.

"What does that mean?"

"It means he approves of our idea, but will not vote in favor when it comes to voting."

"What kind of support is that!"

"It's not bad; you were there when Xislai came yesterday, and you saw what that guy's attitude was. This world does not revolve around us; I can even tolerate Xislai, so how could I not tolerate Delacroix's abstention, not to mention that he is actually still someone who can be won over."