After quitting his job, Lu Yao, holding a thermos cup in both hands, took two slight steps around the house, humming under his breath the song “Good Day” that he had heard when he was a child.
-Today is a good day, hey, what the heart wants can come true, hey~.
The cold winter was receding, and the warm spring was not far away.
He clicked on Yao City.
As the big brother of all cities, I wonder if Yao City has made any progress during this time.
The viewpoint everything to Yao City, and the simulator popped up a bunch of reminders.
[Yao City has enacted: The Education Law]
[Yao Cheng made a clear stipulation that parents are responsible for giving their children a proper education. Otherwise, children have the right to not support their parents when they reach adulthood.]
[Because of the Education Law, Yao Cheng’s literacy rate increased dramatically and its fertility rate increased slightly.]
[Yao Cheng created a brand new social system: the Universal Theocracy.]
[Universal Theocracy, a social system that uses the pantheon as the core of society and the foundation of knowledge, and carries out the rights and duties of citizens based on the pantheon and theology]]
[Because of the creation of the Universal Divine Right, the knowledge of everyone in Yao City has slightly increased, the foreign population has increased, the attractiveness of the city has increased drastically, and the influence of the city has increased drastically.]]
Lu Yao was truly and completely surprised this time.
Yao City had actually used theology as the basis for a social system that had never existed before.
He clicked on the backstage and flipped to find the [Universal Theocracy].
The source of this one social system was the unique Temple Society’s way of managing the city.
Prophets served the gods and delivered oracles to the Temple Guild.
The temple council is responsible for many of the city’s specific secular affairs, with the head of the council being the final decision maker.
Since the Temple is derived from the Prophets, the focus is on maintaining the stability of the city, with a stable environment and a growing population being more important than rapid development.
Regardless of the changes in the outside world, even during the worst times of floods and beasts, Yao City always maintained a safe and stable environment.
During the period of high-speed development, cities such as Yancheng were naturally more attractive, but when faced with all kinds of pressure and turmoil, Yao Cheng became the best place to settle down and take refuge.
Nowadays, the population of Yaocheng has exceeded 160,000 without saying a word, which is the largest resident population among all cities. Yancheng, which had once completed a population reversal, had a city population of only 130,000, entering a new bottleneck.
At the heart of the Ecumenical Theocracy is a series of policies derived around the ancient oracles of the temple to increase population and faith.
These policies are also evolving with the times.
For example, the Education Law, a groundbreaking law eucalyptus was introduced to mandate education for newborns and also give a threshold for parents who raise children.
Yao City has supported this accordingly, and the city has built four sizeable initiation schools, located in the east, west, south, and north corners of the city, where basic literacy education for newborns is free.
Children as young as 8 years old can declare their enrolment, and the subjects studied include basic theology, Yao language, mathematics and history for a period of four years.
Upon completion of the initiation school, the best graduates continue their studies at the seminary free of charge.
The seminary today has subjects such as theology, medicine, mathematics, language, and history.
Among them, Yao City’s theology, medicine (the branch of magical pharmacology), and language are among the most dominant subjects, and have produced many talented people in the past.
Students who successfully graduated from the Theological Academy would be able to obtain the Temple’s Scholar Certification, and after becoming a full-fledged scholar, they could go and live in any city, and Yao City didn’t enforce any restrictions.
Lu Yao looked inside Yao City.
After formally establishing the social system of Universal Divine Right, the pace of life in this holy city had become even slower and more leisurely, and the academic atmosphere had also become strong.
A few pixelated little people strolled through the streets of the city, discussing various insights.
“Recently our White Castle is conducting a secretive experiment, it is said to be building the latest armour …… that is the [Holy Wish] from Templars, the Apostle adults are avoiding talking about it, and a lot of the teachers privately feel that it is likely to be true.”
“Really? Found the [Holy Wish]?”
“Of course it can’t be …… that kind of thing the Apostle Lords are refusing to reveal, there’s no way to find it. White Castle is trying to restore and mould it based on The Templars to see if a similar armour stomach can be built.”
“I thought it was real, eh.”
Another person said, “Don’t think too much about the Holy Wish, the authenticity is still up in the air. But magic pills are real! Our Pharmaceutical Academy is just working on a big project to create a transformation magic potion that can turn into a powerful transcendent in a short period of time, with the ultimate goal of being able to turn into a dragon!”
“Almost got it, you guys are even more outrageous than [Holy Wish].”
The man insisted, “Magic potions have a solid foundation and experience! As long as it’s verified through a lot of experiments, it’s doable ……”
Another person interrupted him, “Right, right. Magic potions do work, but how dare your testers say that a powerful new type of powerful magic potion will work immediately after it is invented?”
“……”
Lu Yao watched from the sidelines and combined the various descriptions in the world’s backstage to make a simplified summary of the Universal Divine Right.
To put it simply, this system was the Yao City’s living culture that the Divine Hall had further improved with education as the core driving force and fairness of opportunity as the social foundation.
The residents of Yao City have less stressful lives, are better educated, use knowledge and skills as their core competitiveness, and are more developed in theoretical research and basic disciplines. The establishment of ecumenical theocracy further consolidated the status of the city as a centre of culture and faith.
After looking at Yao City from the sidelines, Lu Yao then looked at Yancheng.
As one of the twin cities, after looking at Yao City, one would always be unable to resist taking another glance at Yancheng next door.
Salt City’s urban construction was extremely outstanding, divided into districts.
There was a commercial area where bazaars and shops gathered, a residential area with orderly residential houses, a public building area where the Salt City Baths, Citizen’s Council, Library, Engineering College, and Spectre Lighthouse gathered, and a number of gardens and boulevards and communal zones for strolling. In terms of urban construction alone, it was even better than Yao City.
A prompt bar popped up in the simulator.
[Salt City created: Salt City Bonds]
[Because of the emergence of the Yancheng Bonds, Yancheng’s economic vitality has increased dramatically, and its ability to trade has increased dramatically.]
[Yancheng enacted: The Debenture Law]
[Because of the emergence of the Debenture Law, Yancheng’s law and order has been slightly improved, and its trade efficiency has been slightly improved.]
[Yancheng enacted the Invention Law.]
[Because of the Law of Invention, the attractiveness of Yancheng City has increased, and scholars have become active.]
[Yancheng enacted the Labour and Employment Law.]
[Because of the Labour and Employment Law, Yancheng’s foreign population increased.]
[Yancheng created a brand new social system: the city-state responsibility system.]
[The city-state responsibility system uses the city-state as the main body of investment for the residents, who bear the rewards and risks associated with the investment. The city-state was liable for debts with a legally defined range of property, with only a certain maximum amount of property as the limit of liability.]]
[Because of the creation of the city-state responsibility system, the morale of everyone in Salt City has slightly increased, the attractiveness of the city has increased dramatically, and the influence of the city has increased dramatically].
Lu Yao clicked through the details one by one.
The Salt City Bonds, the foundation of the City State Accountability System.
By selling bonds to the residents, Salt City raised a certain amount of money to be used for various business projects and constructions, and the proceeds gained were split proportionally to each bondholder.
The Claims Act was a binding of the bonds, further clarifying rights and obligations and delineating clearer legal rules for the commercially prosperous city.
The Inventions Act, on the other hand, clarifies the rewards for inventors and gives protection to inventors from infringement of their legitimate rights.
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The Labour and Employment Act was a tilt towards the workers, clarifying the minimum pay in the Salt City, and the rights that the workers must enjoy, as well as giving formal protection to the employed in the legal sense of the word.
The City State’s system of responsibility has its origins in the Transcendentalist Labour Practitioners’ Association of Saniro.
The emergence of the Transcendent Trade Union had a strong impact on the established order of the Yao world, and it was the first time that a body composed of Transcendents spoke for the labourers and defended their dignity and remuneration.
The voice raised by Saniro gave Salt City, the most commercially developed city, the most direct and severe challenge.
The labourers had more choices: if they wanted high pay, they could go to Crystal City and Uda City in the north, which lacked manpower; if they wanted more opportunities, they could go to Saniro to do something; if they wanted to live in peace, Yao City was the best choice.
After repeated discussions, the city council of Salt City decided to formally reform – not only to follow the trend, but also to go further, to turn the disadvantages of the past into the advantages of the present!
After repeated discussions in the council, and a great deal of input from scholars and citizens alike, the City State Responsibility System was born.
A portion of each resident’s reward in Salt City is paid out in the form of Salt City Bonds, which are also allowed to be traded privately.
The bonds have a variable return, are redeemed once a year, and must be booked in advance at the bond reception desk in the council hall, and cannot be changed once they are set.
This allowed there to always be a portion of people who could obtain a high return, the bond proceeds would stimulate the citizens’ motivation to work, and allowed the bonds to circulate, turning them into another kind of shadow currency.
Through this series of operations, Yancheng successfully broke free from the quagmire of sluggish development in the past and once again relied on a strong economic motor to stand at the forefront of the city, separating itself from its big brother, Yao City.
Lu Yao watched and ate two crisps.
The second season of Twin Cities, it’s on now, right?
I’m going to try to watch two episodes first.
