Chapter 71: New Institutions and Freedoms
The dwarven craftsman left Ziggy's office with a spark of inspiration in his head, and when they left, they both walked stiffly, for some reason, for the sake of their new slave master to improve their craftsmanship and release them from their weapons. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Why didn't Ziggy use them as slaves to forge weapons directly?
Because Ziggy deeply understands that the development of new weapons and new technologies requires the careful study of technical personnel.
And a slave he will not care, he will only do what his master commands mechanically.
After dealing with the two dwarven artisan slaves, Ziggy recruited several important village elders such as Daddy Chuck.
Now Daddy Chuck is full of red faces, needless to say that almost everyone in Grizzly Village is now well fed, and more importantly, due to the construction of the frozen earth wall, the villagers of the entire village have a great sense of security.
These were all brought by the village chief Zige.
Daddy Chuck thought to himself, now, perhaps, there is no need for him to deal with the affairs of the village, and it would be good to give all the power of the village to the village chief Zige in the future.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this time I called you here for the sake of those refugees. Ziggy saw that everyone had come, and said straight to the point.
"Yes, there are too many of them, where do we have so much food in our Grizzly Bear Village to raise them like this!" Immediately, a village elder raised the question that Ziggy had been worried about, which played into Zige's heart.
"So we can't raise them in vain, we have to let them work, only those who work in the village, and those who serve as soldiers can continue to stay in the village, so that we can screen out some people with strong work ability and combat effectiveness to join our village, so that our village will gradually become stronger and bigger. Ziggy said slowly.
"How is this screened?" asked a village elder.
"We can establish a household registration system, but anyone who has worked for a year, or who has made a meritorious service in the battle against the orcs, can join Grizzly Village and become a member of Grizzly Village. ”
Ziggy decided to imitate the green card immigration system of the United States, which really made the Chinese people hate, in addition to the strength of the United States, more importantly, he left the talents that the United States wanted, and shaved off ordinary people who just wanted to immigrate to the United States.
Such a system has put an end to many ordinary people who regard the United States as a paradise on earth, treat their motherland as a garbage heap, and desperately want to become Americans, and become a welfare burden for the United States.
To put it more bluntly, the green card system is like a sieve, screening out good talent and blocking useless matches.
At the same time, Ziggy wanted to establish a citizenship system.
Many people think that the Roman Empire was strong because of their army.
But many people forget one thing, hiding from the world immediately, and not ruling the world immediately.
The reason why the Roman Empire was strong, in addition to the fact that the hoplites of the Roman Empire were strong, was because of their civic system.
The so-called citizenship system means that citizens who have the right to citizenship have the right to own movable and immovable property such as land, the right to inherit marital property, the right to hold public office, and the right to participate in citizens' assemblies.
If you have citizenship, your property can be protected by the empire, and no one can deprive you of your property and personal freedom at will.
While citizens have so much power, citizens also need to pay taxes.
Who in the Roman Empire did not pay taxes?
Freemen and slaves were not taxed, but their personal liberty and property were not guaranteed.
This has turned tax payment into a noble glory in disguise, and to a large extent, stopped some tax evasion.
If a citizen doesn't pay taxes, they say, "This person doesn't pay taxes like a slave." ”
In this way, on the face of it, a citizen will feel that tax evasion is a thing as shameful as a slave.
And if you want to obtain Roman citizenship, it is not an easy thing, you need to contribute to the Roman Empire, such as joining the army to fight, and you can only obtain citizenship after you have a certain military merit.
Ziggy intends to combine the green card system with the citizenship system.
A new system was formed.
Grizzly Village under this system will become a settlement that any immigrant dreams of.
If it is a slave, then a slave can become a freeman if he has made meritorious contributions to Grizzly Village.
If you are a free citizen, or an immigrant, then you can become a citizen by making meritorious contributions to Grizzly Village.
If a person gains citizenship in Grizzly Village, then the Grizzly Village government, will protect your private property.
Under the protection of Grizzly Village, no one's private property will be taken away at will.
In this way, Ziggy said: in Grizzly Village, those who work hard will be rewarded and successful in society.
When a state or a regime protects the private property of its citizens.
When a person, through hard work in this country, gets his own rewards and successes, then this person has a sense of belonging to this country, then this person will regard this country as his home, and will sacrifice any price in order to defend this country.
Even the cost of life!
When Ziggy told all the village elders about the system he wanted to establish, even though most of them didn't fully understand the truth.
But all of them were impressed by the system!
If Grizzly Village had established this system, Grizzly Village would become a dream country.
Of course, in order to establish such a system, it is certainly not enough to just open a village council, and Grizzly Village must establish a complete legal system, a complete law enforcement system, and finally a complete population registration system.
The village council unanimously approved Ziggy's proposal, in fact, even if Ziggy's proposal is not so attractive, no one will oppose Ziggy's decision and proposal now, and now in Grizzly Bear Village, almost everyone is blindly following Ziggy.
Ziggy has unparalleled prestige in Grizzly Village!
To establish this system, we first need legislation, a complete legal system, and the most important thing is the constitution!
When the village council was convening, Ziggy wrote in public the first article of the first draft of the Grizzly Village Constitution:
Private property, sacrosanct!
After the meeting, almost all the village elders and village councillors who attended the meeting went home with excitement.
Soon the news of the sanctity of private property written by Ziggy spread throughout Grizzly Bear Village and refugee shanty towns.
After understanding the allure of this law and this system, no matter who they are, they are extremely enthusiastic about the construction and military service of Grizzly Village.
At the excavation and construction site of the stone walls of Grizzly Village, there was no whipping or shouting, but the construction of the project was in full swing, and the nearly two hundred construction workers had only one thing on their minds, and that was to work!
At the soldiers' training ground, the newly joined refugee soldiers and the original militia worked hard to train.
Everybody knows citizenship and everybody wants citizenship!
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Of course, due to manpower constraints and a lack of skilled stonemasons, the construction of the stone walls was still very slow.
As time passed, there was a promise that Ziggy had to keep.
That was Dwayne Johnson, Sigger's Minotaur slave, who had been hunted in the wild ten times and had met the conditions for Ziggy to set him free.
Ziggy needed to set him free.
On this day, Ziggy gathered all the minotaur and dwarven slaves and, in front of them, swung his sword and cut Dwayne Johnson's chains.
At this moment, these orcs and dwarf slaves were all shocked!
There was a thought that kept ringing in their heads: we can really be free!