Chapter 906 The regret of rice, the general provisions of the code
As noon approached, Xia Duo put away his notes.
In addition to meetings all morning, he only did some on-paper derivation of spell leveling. He hadn't even started designing the experiment yet, so it felt like time flew by so fast, which made people very unhappy.
However, when he saw the steaming hometown dishes sent by the logistics department, those unhappiness were instantly forgotten by Xia Duo.
Now the chef in the territory, Cook, has got his true inheritance, and he is even better than his previous master. He makes braised venison, stir-fried lettuce and egg custard. Just smelling it will make people want to eat.
“Too bad there’s no rice!”
Xia Duo sighed while chewing the steamed buns. He can teach cooking methods, but rice, a staple food ingredient, is not there and cannot be changed.
The saying "It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice" refers to this situation.
If you can find the legendary Karatu, you may be able to find rice. However, the difficulty of finding Karatu may not be any less difficult than creating rice-like crops through magic.
Karatu is a name in Nese language, and the location of Karatu is referred to as "East" in Elvish language, which also means "Eastern Kingdom".
In elven legends, the eastern country is ancient and mysterious, and it is magnificent and filled with gold after all.
It's a pity that, except for the ancient high mage "Saint Nodel" who went there and brought back the legend of the eastern country, no elves have ever been to Karatu since then.
After thousands of years, only people from Karatu came to the continent of Faerun, but no travelers from Lord Faerun went to Karatu, or in other words, they went but failed to come back.
Naturally, it is impossible for Xia Duo to pursue the so-called Eastern legends at all costs just to eat some rice. This is really too stupid.
If it's for communication and trade, then maybe it's okay, but Xia Duo doesn't want to waste his energy on things that are too illusory just yet.
Karatu is like this.
Mu Yan has been unable to find any useful clues for half his life, so where does Xia Duo have the confidence to find them? It will be more like looking for them when he has free time in the future, so forget it now!
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After lunch, Leiden personally delivered the minutes of the morning meeting. Sha Duo flipped through them and already had a rough idea of everyone's thoughts.
"Leiden, you don't need to send the meeting minutes in person, so tell me! Is there anything else?"
Leiden hesitated for a moment, took out a stack of parchment from his arms, handed it to Shado's desk, and explained: "Sir, these are some of my rough thoughts on the territorial code, please identify it!"
"So fast!"
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Xia Duo realized that Leiden must have been prepared before, otherwise how could he finish the meeting in the morning and submit the manuscript in the afternoon!
With a trace of curiosity, Chateau opened the manuscript handed over by Leiden. Leiden's handwriting was very neat, and it felt like he was reading printed text. This may also be a way to practice order.
Such thoughts flashed through Xia Duo's mind. The handwriting was not the focus of his attention, but the content was!
The first line of the manuscript reads "In the name of Lord Xia Duo of Bactria, order is established", followed by words such as "Only order leads to everything" and "Witnessed by the Lord of Glory".
Below, there is also praise for Xia Duo's act of establishing the Great Xia Territory. Xia Duo was indeed very satisfied with these decorative words, and he also believed that these were necessary to exist.
But in his study, when examining the essence of the code, it was not his focus.
After flipping through two pages of text that had nothing to do with the law, Xia Duo finally saw the text of the law that he cared about most——
"Xia Duo, the pioneer of the Great Xia Territory, has irrefutable rule over the Great Xia Territory and will inherit it forever!"
"Those who hurt others will be punished, those who kill will die, and those who rebel will have their relatives implicated!"
“Private property is sacrosanct!”
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Xia Duo looked at each article and found that most of them were framework general articles, involving legal system, criminal, civil, trade, marriage, inheritance, trial and other aspects.
Each one is closely related to the actual operation of the territory, and many of them are the original words that Sha Duo once said, which were directly quoted by Leiden.
At the end, Chateau was very satisfied. It could be said that this was a guiding legal principle specially written by Leiden according to his will, and there was no content that went against his opinions.
Shado was not good at the law, but his experience before traveling gave him insights far beyond those of the natives of Netheril.
After thinking about it carefully, he didn't find any contradictions, so he organized the manuscript, put it on the edge of the desk, and said to Leiden: "I don't think there is any problem. The specific provisions will be expanded according to this!"
"Yes, sir!"
Leiden looked happy and immediately bowed and stepped forward to take back the manuscript.
"Then go and get busy!"
"yes."
Leiden responded and left on his own.
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Xia Duo was once again left alone in the study. Recalling the summary legal document he had just seen, he suddenly felt something in his heart and took out a piece of loose parchment.
Then he used the [Transcription Technique] to print on it some of the legal provisions he saw before traveling. These were of course Chinese characters, but immediately afterwards, Xia Duo began to read them.
This was not difficult, he just translated it in the simplest Nese language combined with the actual situation of Daxia collar.
The content is not important, the key is the form.
Shado had seen the specific legal provisions of Netheril in Leiden. It was not that bad, but most of them were based on cases, for example, what someone did, what was the sentence, this kind of form.
If there are differences in the details, for example, if someone steals 10 gold coins, but the legal provisions only say that stealing 9 gold coins will be sentenced to hard labor, then during the actual trial, the judge or the superior can do too many things.
Xia Duo hopes to use a range instead of a specific number, such as "the amount of money that is stolen within a certain range will be punished."
This may weaken the authority of the judge, but it also makes the law clearer and is conducive to stability.
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Soon, Shado localized some of the legal provisions of his hometown that he had seen before, and then cast a spell to transmit them to Leiden.
Of course, this was not his intention to show off new uses of the teleportation technique. Showing these to a non-mage would not be boring for Xia Duo.
He just wants to save time.
After doing this, he continued to study spells to increase his level.
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In this way, time quickly came to three days later. On this day, Xia Duo was casting spells in the study to inspect the territory, and suddenly someone reported that Atwood was asking for an audience.
Sha Duo immediately thought of the task he had assigned him before, so he quickly asked Atwood to come over.
"Elder Atwood, have you finished reading the book?"
"Sir, I just finished reading. I don't want to delay, so I'll come to see you right away!"