Urban Sims

Ten days later.

Tianyang City.

Within the Hundred Cities Alliance, hundreds of important figures have arrived in this city through various modes of transportation.

Attend a meeting.

An important consultation meeting.

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

There are also directors of ten other ashram schools.

President, Vice President, and Minister of Transportation of the Hundred Cities Business Alliance.

Xia Hu, the commander of the rural protection army.

Feng Qing, leader 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, Jian Baiyi's son Jian Shiwu... these young people who are active in thinking and daring to think and act, if they do not participate in this meeting, they will not inherit this society. The spirit conveyed in this meeting, the ideal of establishing a country, and the cause of maintaining the prosperity of a country cannot be passed down 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 things, where should I start?

The party comes first. If you want to build a country, you must first establish a party.

This was easy to handle. Three days later, a party was established in Tianyang City. Its name was "Jianyuan Party". Yuan means "one" and can also be called "Jianyi Party", but "Yuan" is more euphemistic and nice to hear. .

There are also the party constitution, party platform, party emblem, oath of joining the party, etc., all of which have been completed in these three days, and they are basically written around the core terms of "founding the country" and "unification".

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

First, how does a country function?

Laws and people.

Depends on laws and people to operate.

But how are laws made? How do officials screen?

Laws are naturally formulated one by one based on actual needs to protect the interests of the vast majority of people.

As for officials, they can be selected through civil service examinations or elected by citizens or congresses.

It is not difficult to solve legal and human problems.

The most difficult ones are these three questions:

One, after the establishment of the country, where will the central finance and taxation come from?

Second, after the establishment of the country, how to form the army, how to gradually reduce the private armies 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 does the central government govern, how does it make the decrees passable and make the city-states obey, so that the decrees do not become mere decorations and no one lives.

The core of these three major issues is actually six words: establishing central authority.

There is no need for high authority, at least authority that can make the city-states obey.

"Difficult, very difficult!"

One person shook his head and said: "I have been to many cities. Some of the city lords of these cities are arrogant and domineering. They don't regard the people in the city as human beings at all. They can beat and kill them and do whatever they want. Some of them try their best to squeeze and use them like slaves and have inferior status. Oxen and horses are just tools for work, and the living situation of the people is extremely difficult."

"There are also some city-states that treat their people very well, but they will never tolerate outsiders interfering in their internal affairs. Even if they build a track through their territory, they will be obstructed. They will bargain and give enough benefits before they allow the track. Repaired..."

"I'm not talking about anything else, just talking about the army. If we want to take away their city-state's army, or suggest them to reduce their size, they will definitely oppose it and fight back strongly. Not only will it not reduce the number of soldiers, but it will strengthen it. Strength, extremely sensitive heart.”

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

"Yes, localism 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 stern face: "What trouble can there be? With the national army protecting them, they only need to leave some security forces behind, saving money and effort. Why should they oppose it?"

Feng Qing, the leader of the monks, was even more unkind: "There is no need to negotiate on this matter. They are just a bunch of weak ordinary people. If they don't accept it, we will fight! We have monks on our hands and we want to build a country. Which ordinary people's feelings should not be considered?"

"You must not think like that!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand to him, "To convince people by force is just a poor method after all. The result can only be verbal dissatisfaction, and it will leave a lot of hidden dangers. We should let them voluntarily give up some power."

"Voluntary? How many cities would be willing? I think the only way to gather the army is through our fists!"

At the conference table, there was a young man who also advocated convincing people with force, which attracted a lot of agreement.

Zhou Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head, pressing his hands to silence them.

"This matter of gathering military strength must not be carried out forcefully! I plan to conduct a few pilot projects first so that each city-state can see the benefits of concentrating power. If no benefits are seen, who is willing to hand over the military power in hand?"

"Of course, there are definitely people who are stubborn and won't let go, and the benefits may not necessarily impress them. For such people, it's okay to give them a strong beating, but the range of the beating must be a non-critical minority and cannot trigger triggers. 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 an entire country. Sooner or later Will be brought down by financial pressure.

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

After all, the central government is not just a "rice bucket" that only takes money but does not work. The central government can provide many services, such as protecting the country and the people, mediating conflicts, combating cross-border crimes, grabbing external interests, etc. Many things, Only the state can do it.

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

There is also the most important governance. The main purpose of the policies formulated by the country is for the overall development of the country and for the benefit of all city-states, rather than harming the interests of this city-state to meet the needs of other city-states... The existence of the country is still for serve the interests of the whole.

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

If the country handles these things well, naturally, all city-states will benefit from it, and even break through development bottlenecks and achieve take-off.

Therefore, as long as these benefits are explained clearly and thoroughly, the senior officials of each city in the Hundred Cities Alliance will definitely have a considerable number of insightful people who will become supporters and participants in promoting the establishment of this country, and even firmly maintain it. By.

There must be conservative forces with short sight, short knowledge, and short-circuited brains. These forces, Zhou Ming, will not do anything to them at first. They will mainly focus on persuasion, education, brainwashing, and inducement. When the general trend is formed, these people will gradually become a non-key minority and become a non-key minority. When it is possible to undermine the overall situation and harm collective interests, the end of these people will almost come.

After all, to build a country, some blood is always shed.