Urban Sims

Chapter 441 Consultation Meeting
ten days later.

Tianyang City.

In the Hundred Cities Alliance, hundreds of big shots arrived in this city through various means of transportation.

Attend a meeting.

An important negotiation meeting.

Among these big figures are Wu Ce, the deputy head of Zhenlin City, Zheng Fang, the principal of Daxian College, and Su Yuanlong, the vice president.

There are ten other deans of practice colleges.

The president, vice president, and minister of transportation of the Hundred Cities Business Alliance.

Xia Hu is the commander of the Home Guard Army.

Feng Qing, head of the monks.

There are also some young and outstanding juniors who also came to participate in this important meeting.

For example, Zhou Ming's two sons, Zhang Sheng and Zhang Jin, Su Yuanlong's son Su Changlong, and Jian Baiyi's son Jian Shiwu... If these young people with active thinking and daring to think and do things do not participate in this meeting, they will not inherit this The spirit conveyed in this meeting, the ideal of building a country, and the cause of maintaining a prosperous country are difficult to pass on from generation to generation.

After all, the older generation will wither, and the world will eventually belong to the young.

So there are so many clues, where should I start?
The party comes first. If you want to build a country, you must first form a party.

This is easy to handle. Three days later, a party was established in Tianyang City. Its name is "Jianyuan Party". .

There are also party constitutions, party programs, party emblems, party oaths, etc., all of which have been completed in these three days, and are basically written around the core terms of "building the country" and "unification".

Then we sat together and discussed: how to build a country.

First, how does a country work?
law and people.

Operated by laws and people.

But how is the law made?How are officials screened?
Laws are naturally formulated one by one according to actual needs, so as to protect the interests of the vast majority of people.

As for officials, they can be screened by civil service examinations, or voted by citizens or congresses.

It is not difficult to solve the problems of law and people.

The most difficult are these three questions:
One, after the establishment of the country, where does the central taxation come from?

Second, after the establishment of the country, how to form the army, how to gradually reduce the private army of each city-state, and make the national army have combat effectiveness and deterrence, so as not to become a vase?

Three, after the establishment of the country, how the central government governs, how to make the decrees accessible, and make the city-states obey, so that the decrees do not become a display, and no one is like a bird.

The core of these three major issues is actually still six words: establish the authority of the central government.

There is no need for a high authority, at least an authority that can make the city-states obedient and obedient.

"Difficult, very difficult!"

One person shook his head and said: "I have been to many cities. Some of the city owners of these cities are arrogant and domineering. They don't treat the people in the city as human beings at all. They beat and kill and dispose of them at will. Cattle and horses are just tools for labor, and the living conditions of the people are extremely difficult."

"There are also some city-states that are very good to the people, but they will never tolerate outsiders meddling in their internal affairs. Even if a track is built to pass through its territory, it will be blocked. They bargain and give enough benefits before they allow the track. Repaired..."

"I'm not talking about anything else, just take the army as an example. If we want to take away their city-state's army, or suggest that they shrink in size, they will definitely oppose it and strongly rebound. Not only will it not reduce a single soldier, but it will strengthen it. Strength, extremely sensitive heart."

"So I think it's okay to form a national army, but don't expect the cooperation of various city-states, especially don't think about their private army."

"Yes, nativism and local protectionism will cause us a lot of trouble."

Someone below nodded in agreement.

Xia Hu, the commander of the Home Guard Army, disagreed, and said with a sullen face, "What trouble can there be? With the national army protecting them, they only need to leave some security forces, saving money and effort. Why should they object?"

Feng Qing, head of the monk group, was even more blunt: "There is no need to negotiate this matter. It's just a bunch of weak ordinary people. If you don't accept it, you can fight! We have monks in our hands, and we need to consider the feelings of ordinary people if we want to build a country?"

"Never think that way!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand at him, "Convincing people with strength is only a low-level means after all. The result can only be oral dissatisfaction, and it will leave a lot of hidden dangers. Let them voluntarily give up some power."

"Voluntary? How many cities will be willing? In my opinion, to gather the army, we can only rely on our fists!"

At the conference table, there was a young man who also advocated using force to persuade people, and it also attracted a lot of approval.

Zhou Ming shook his head with a wry smile, and pressed his hands to make them quiet.

"For gathering military power, it is absolutely impossible to enforce it by force! I plan to conduct a few pilot projects first, so that the various city-states can see the benefits of concentrating power. If they can't see the benefits, who is willing to hand over their military power?"

"Of course, there must be people who are stubborn and persistent, and the benefits may not necessarily impress them. For this kind of people, it's okay to beat them hard, but the scope of the beating must be a non-critical minority, and it must not trigger Big mess!"

In terms of finance and taxation, it is impossible to maintain the government of a huge country with only a few cities supporting it. Although Zhenlin City is rich, it is impossible to spend so much money to maintain the operation of the entire country. Sooner or later Will be dragged down by financial pressure.

So Zhou Ming is also thinking of a way to let other city-states willingly spend money to support the central government.

After all, the central government is not a "loofer" who only takes money and does not work. The central government can provide many services, such as protecting the environment and people, mediating conflicts, combating cross-border crimes, and grabbing profits from abroad, etc. Many things, Only states can do that.

Naturally, if you want to enjoy these services from the state, of course you have to pay a certain "fee".

There is also the most important governance, the policy formulated by the state, the main purpose is for the overall development of the country and the interests of the entire city-state, not to harm the interests of this city-state, to meet the needs of other city-states... The existence of the country is still for the sake of Serving the interests of the whole.

For example, the establishment of ground road networks, rail networks, and airway networks, water conservancy projects, irrigation projects, and supporting industrial systems... Only the state can handle these things well.

If the country does these things well, naturally, all city-states can benefit from it, and even break through the bottleneck of development and achieve take-off.

So as long as these benefits are explained clearly and thoroughly, there will definitely be a considerable number of people of insight in the high-level cities in the Hundred Cities Alliance, who will become supporters, participants, and even staunch defenders of promoting the establishment of this country. By.

There must be conservative forces with short-sightedness, short-sightedness, and short-circuited brains. Zhou Ming of these forces will not do anything to them at first, and will mainly focus on persuasion, education, and brainwashing. When it is possible to undermine the overall situation and harm the collective interests, then the end of these people will almost come.

After all, building a country always involves shedding some blood.

(End of this chapter)