Chapter 459: Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City
Except for the Golden Cicada Temple, which walked down the mountain road, Yixiu met many believers along the way, and all of them greeted them politely.
Then, he came to the mansion of Barry Azma, the lord of Rock Fire City.
As soon as Barry Atsma heard that Yixiu was coming, he immediately ran over in a hurry, and hurriedly saluted and said.
"Respected Master Ikkyu, four-star priest, Viscount Golden Cicada, my subordinates are here to greet you!!"
After saying that, Barry Azma got up on his feet, and Yixiu watched his behavior, and he couldn't help but feel a little like a world away.
Think that at the beginning, Barry Azma, as the lord of the city-state, held the power of life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in the city, except for the old priest, it can be said that he is under one person, above ten thousand, and he can do whatever he wants in the city?
Ikkyu still remembers the first time he met Barry Azma, standing in front of the parade stand, commanding tens of thousands of troops, and how high-spirited and unbeatable he was when he set off towards Handolochen.
But now it's different, Ikyu's identity has changed, and Barry Azma's identity has also changed.
The previous Ikkyu was just a person without any identity, and there was nothing left except for the support of the Windsor family.
And Barry Azma is a city lord, and in the end there is a whole city lord system, and there is a white bear viscount above him, and there is an earl above the viscount.
There is a world of difference between the two, but today Barry Azma is still the lord of a small city-state.
Mainly because in fact, in the last arms deal case, Barry Azma was obviously involved in the case, but with the help of Ikyu, he barely escaped responsibility.
But as a general's remark, Barry Azma's previous merits on the battlefield, as well as his great merits in assisting in the investigation of the case, are all in order to atone for the crime, and the two are equal, and Barry Azma is equivalent to not doing anything, no merit, no fault.
In the case that most of the people in the Yixiu system are overqualified, he can only squat in the original pit and cannot take another step forward, otherwise at least Barry Azma is at least a viscount.
So during this time, Barry Azma was also very puzzled, and kept thinking about why he didn't have vision in the first place, and chose to stand with Ikyu from the beginning.
But the big mistake has been made, and it is useless to redeem it.
But Barry Azma is a shrewd man after all, and although he has no chance of promotion now, he finds that he has a natural advantage over others.
is that he is still serving as the city lord of Rock Fire City, and in his opinion, the Golden Cicada Temple will not grow wings and fly, so basically the Golden Cicada Temple can only stay here.
In a sense, Barry Atzma is the closest to him in the Yixiu power system except for the monks of the Golden Cicada Temple.
As long as Barry Azma can help Yixiu well, and in the following days, manage the city well, accept some believers who come to take refuge, and even arrange the work of these believers, and so on, Barry Azma does not believe that he will one day be worse than the William family and others.
With this idea in mind for the time being, Barry Azma has been helping Yixiu to guide believers these days, in addition to dealing with the daily chores of the city, and even making people open up the wasteland, as well as the barren mountains that were eaten by locusts before, all the fertile land for planting cash crops.
And they gave these fertile fields to those who, first of all, had no regular income in the city, and who were willing to plough the fields and pay a certain amount of land tax.
Moreover, this land tax Barry Azma also designed very carefully, if according to the previous Atlantis or domestic regulations, there is no owner's land, or barren mountains and mountains, after development, it can be leased by the lord of the city-state where the area is located.
And this lease agreement clearly states that if you grow grain in the field, for example, the grain, and sell a total of 100 crystals, you will have to pay 20% tax, that is, only 80 in the end.
This system is basically no different from bloodsucking, and the system reformed by Barry Azma is one out of 100, which is much lower than the original.
Moreover, it is stated to everyone that the latest land tax received will not be privately appropriated by the city lord's mansion, but will be deposited into a special account, which is hung on the public account, open and transparent, and every entry and exit will be publicly displayed and well documented.
Moreover, this collected funds will also be used to set up a city foundation in the future to help some poor people who cannot eat, or disabled soldiers who have come down from the battlefield, lonely widows and other vulnerable groups.
Barry Azma's series of actions, Ichishu didn't pay attention to it on the surface, but in fact, everything was clear, and he also gave some guidance.
In the process, Ichishu acted as the main constituent of the ideological framework, and Barry Azma was in charge of implementing it, and during this time, Barry Azma seemed to outsiders as if he had opened a hanging, and he reformed many, many systems, and many bad habits in the original city-state, almost all of them were changed.
And most importantly, Barry Azma passed the Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City through the citizens' assembly.
This law stipulates that from now on, regardless of the class of people, the remuneration for their work must be linked to the results of their work, and also sets a minimum wage.
It is stipulated that each person must not be paid less than fifty bitcoins per day.
In this way, people's original income has been directly increased, you must know that before, a fifth-class person, who worked hard for a month and even went to the mine to mine, could only earn two crystal coins, that is, almost 200 bitcoins.
But these two hundred bitcoins can only barely live for them, and they can't even eat a meal of meat during the New Year's holidays, so they can only eat steamed buns to survive.
However, it is now stipulated that everyone's salary cannot be less than 50 bitcoins, so they can earn at least 3,000 bitcoins a month, which is at least ten times more than the original one.
Of course, this change is based on the foundation that the current Iwakusha City has achieved an economic leap through Ikyu Mountain Spring.
From a city-state that was mainly agriculture-based, it has become a new city-state system that combines foreign operations and agriculture.
Therefore, the economic conditions of the people in the city-state are much better than before.
With the money, Barry Azma demolished the original slum and built a multi-story house on top of it.
In the form of installment payments, all those houses were sold to the poor who had no houses to live in, as well as to outsiders.
At this time, the housing problem, which was caused by the sudden influx of people in the city, has also been properly resolved.
And Barry Azma also has several clear provisions on the issue of housing in the Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City.
The first is that some people can buy a house, and the second is that it will be given to the poor, and those who currently have a house in the city-state can buy it later.
In this way, it can ensure that most people can live in a house, and by the way, it also solves the problem of the appearance of the city.
Of course, the previous ones are all petty fights, spending more money and putting more thought into it, and it can be done.
The biggest change in the Provisional Statute of Rock Fire City, and the most satisfying thing about it, is that it also explicitly emphasizes the abolition of the judicial rights of the superior people.
This provision was originally a conventional law in the law of kings and nobles.
The previous rule was that if a fifth-class person was killed, he was a fifth-class person, a third-class commoner, or a second-class nobleman.
Then they only need to compensate a pig, a sheep, or a pig respectively as the capital to taste their lives.
The third-class people had to stay in prison for a hundred days, while the higher-class people only had to pay for the pigs and had nothing to do with the case.
However, the Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City stipulates that no matter what rank of person makes a mistake, they will be treated equally, without any room for negotiation, and they must avoid legal punishment by caste or rank, or by paying a ransom.
In the beginning, when the Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City was amended, it was opposed by many nobles, after all, this law had actually violated their basic rights.
And a large number of nobles said that they would appeal to the royal capital, accusing Barry Azma of violating the king's law and the nobility law and changing the law without permission.
Barry Azma replied to them with just one sentence.
"Dare to ask who the current fiefdom is? All the city-states in the Atlantis continent take care of themselves, and the city lord drafted the "Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City", which was unanimously passed by the citizens' assembly, what do you think?"
At that time, this sentence directly blocked the speechlessness of those nobles.
At that time, the nobles who called a large group of people to force Barry Azma to give up changing this law, and everyone was not stupid, and they had been fighting for so many years.
We all know that Barry Azma is saying that this is what Ikyu means, do you have any opinions?
In addition, according to the rules of the Atlantean city-state, each city-state actually had its own autonomy, and there was a group of laws to change, as long as the basic laws were subverted, such as supporting the king, obeying all the king's commands, supporting the priests, etc., the remaining laws of each city-state's citizens' assembly had the right to change independently.
This means that Barry Azma has changed the privileges of the nobles this time, and signed the "Provisional Covenant of Rock Fire City", which is completely in line with the rules of the city-state, even if he reports it, he will not be punished in any way, but will offend Barry Azma and Ichishu, why should they do it?
Therefore, after the meeting, the nobles hurried home, and then gathered the children of their families, and seriously warned them not to act recklessly in the future, otherwise they would not be able to save them.
Since that day, there have been many fewer bullies in the city, and there has never been a young master of a noble family, holding a dog in his hand, biting people indiscriminately on the street, and even biting people to death, as if nothing happened, in the case of family crying and grabbing the ground, looking at the deceased with disdain, and then throwing out a bag of crystal coins, patting his ass and leaving.
Since then, the security of Rock Fire City has been greatly improved, and everyone suddenly realized that everyone is equal as he talked about before, everyone's efforts should achieve corresponding results, and everyone is also qualified to live for themselves once, and people are dignified These values actually befell them one day.
And all this is the great change that has only happened in the past few days!!