Ten days later.

Skyyang City.

In the Hundred Cities Alliance, there have been hundreds of big people who have arrived in the city through various modes of transportation.

Attend a meeting.

An important consultative meeting.

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

There are also the deans of ten other monastic colleges.

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

Xia Hu, the commander of the Township Protector Army.

Feng Qing, head of the Monks' Order.

There were also some young and outstanding juniors who also came to attend 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 dare to do things do not participate in this meeting, they will not inherit the spirit conveyed by this conference, and it will be difficult for them to pass on the ideal of building a country and safeguarding the cause of a country's prosperity.

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

So a thousand things, where should you start?

Political parties come first, and if you want to build a country, you must first establish a party.

This is easy to do, three days later, a party was established in Tianyang City, the name is "Jianyuan Party", Yuan has the meaning of "one", it can also be called "Jianyi Party", but "Yuan" is more tactful and good-sounding.

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

Then it's a matter of sitting down and discussing: how can we build a state?

How does a country function?

Rely on the law and people to operate.

But how are laws made, and how are officials screened?

Naturally, laws are formulated one by one according to actual needs, and the interests of the vast majority of the people are protected.

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

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

The most difficult questions are these three major problems:

First, after the establishment of the country, where did the central finance and taxation come from?

Second, after the establishment of the country, how to organize the army, how to gradually reduce the private army of each city-state, and make the national army have combat effectiveness and deterrence, so that it will not be reduced to a vase?

Third, after the establishment of the country, how can the central government govern so that the city-states can obey it, so that the decrees will not become ornaments, and there will be no birds.

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

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

"It's hard, it's very hard!"

One shook his head and said: "I have been to many cities, and the rulers of these cities are arrogant and domineering, and do not treat the people in the city as human beings at all, and they can be beaten and killed at will; ”

"There are also some city-states that are very good to the people, but they will never tolerate outsiders interfering in their internal affairs, even if they build a track through their borders, they will also be obstructed, bargaining, and give enough benefits, they will allow the track to be repaired......"

"I won't say anything else, just the army, if we want to take away the army of their city-state, or suggest that they reduce the size, they will also oppose it, and strongly react, not only will not reduce a single soldier, but will strengthen the force, and their hearts are extremely sensitive. ”

"So I think it's okay to form a national army, but don't expect the city-states to cooperate, especially not to attack the idea of their military strength. ”

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

Someone below nodded in agreement.

Xia Hu, the commander of the Township Protection Army, disagreed, and said with a calm face: "What trouble can there be? With the country's army to protect them, they only need to leave some security forces behind, saving money and effort, why should they oppose it?"

Feng Qing, the head of the monk group, was even more unceremonious: "There is no need to negotiate this matter, it's just a bunch of weak ordinary people, and if you don't accept it, you will be beaten! We have monks in our hands to build a country, and we still have to consider which ordinary people's feelings can't be achieved?"

"You can't think like that!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand at him, "Convincing people with strength is just a subordinate means after all, and the result can only be unconvinced, and it will leave a lot of hidden dangers, so let them voluntarily give up some power." ”

"Voluntary? How many cities will be willing? I think that the only way to gather the army is to rely on our fists!"

At the conference table, a young man also advocated convincing people, which also attracted a lot of approval.

Zhou Ming shook his head with a wry smile and pressed his hand, making them quiet.

"It is absolutely impossible to force the military to be carried out! I will first carry out a few experiments, so that the various city-states can see the benefits of concentrating their forces, but if they can't see the benefits, who is willing to hand over their military strength?"

"Of course, there must be people who are stubborn and stubborn, and the benefits may not necessarily impress them, for this kind of people, it is okay to beat them strongly, but the scope of the beating must be a non-critical minority, otherwise it will only cause chaos!"

In terms of finance and taxation, it is impossible to maintain a huge country, government agencies, and only a few cities to support them, although Zhenlin City is rich, it is impossible to come up with so much money to maintain the operation of a whole country, and sooner or later it will be dragged down by financial pressure.

Therefore, Zhou Ming is also thinking of a set of methods to make other city-states willingly pay 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, and the central government can provide many services, such as protecting the territory and the people, mediating conflicts, cracking down on cross-border crimes, and seeking foreign benefits...... There are many things that only the state can do.

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

And the most important thing is governance, the policy formulated by the state, the main purpose of which is to meet the needs of other city-states for the overall development of the country and for the benefit of each city-state, and not to the detriment of the interests of that city-state...... The existence of the state is still for the benefit of the whole.

For example, the establishment of a surface road network, a rail network, and an air channel network, as well as supporting water conservancy projects, irrigation projects, and industrial systems...... Only the state can do these things well.

If the state does these things well, it is natural that all city-states can benefit from it, and even break through the bottleneck of development and take off.

Therefore, 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 the establishment of this country.

There must be conservative forces with shallow vision, short-sightedness, and short-circuited brains, and these forces Zhou Ming will not do anything to them at first, and will focus on persuasion and education, brainwashing and temptation, and when the general trend is formed, this group of people will gradually become a non-critical minority, and may destroy the overall situation and damage the collective interests, when the time comes, the end of these people is almost coming.

After all, to build a country, there is always a little bloodshed.