Chapter 359 The Dignity of Abstract Things

After Zhao Yuxi returned to Guyuan City, she was busy drawing blueprints, and Gu Tingzhou was responsible for finding someone who could turn the blueprints into reality.

Neither the Sky City nor the Tower can be built by one person overnight. In order not to delay the wedding, Gu Tingzhou looked for suitable staff, purchased relevant materials, and sent them to Hujiang City.

After finishing the blueprints of the Sky City and the tower, the two rushed to Hujiang City.

Zhao Yuxi chose to hold the wedding near Dongting Lake, which saved her the trouble of digging a lake and storing water. There were green trees near the lake, so she occupied several thousand acres of land, which saved her the trouble of planting trees. However, there were no mountains near the lake, so she still needed to find someone to dig soil and build a mountain, which was essential.

Zhao Yuxi stood on the road beside the lake and looked at the people digging the earth: "We will hold our wedding here next month. To be on the safe side, the mountain, the tower, and the sky city must be completed this month."

The tower and the sky city are easy to build. If there is no time, you can move the tower from other places here and renovate it according to the drawings. But it would be too much work to build a mountain out of thin air. The first thing Gu Tingzhou found was a lot of people whose element was earth. He asked them to dig and pile up the earth, and finally built the "base" of the mountain.

"I asked them to build the mountain first, then the tower, and finally the sky city. The sky city is being assembled in Jujiang City and will be shipped over once it's finished."

"Thanks to you, I can concentrate on drawing the blueprints during this period. I haven't started investigating the paradise yet. Let's investigate it slowly after we get married."

The drawings drawn by Zhao Yuxi were extremely detailed, not only indicating the order of construction, but also the progress of each period. If the progress of a certain period could not keep up, which work could be omitted, which work could be done more roughly, she also pointed out. Because of this, Gu Tingzhou no longer needed to explain the various specific requirements to the staff. It was all in the drawings, and everyone understood everything after looking at the drawings.

"Yes. With your blueprint, it will be easier for them to do things. I heard that the Sky City is almost finished. They use four large ships to form the bottom layer of the Sky City. I also found the people responsible for supporting the Sky City. They can control gravity within a certain range to keep the ship suspended."

During this period, Gu Tingzhou has been busy with these things. He follows up, supervises, and keeps track of the construction progress of Sky City and the tower at any time, and adjusts related work in a timely manner according to people's progress.

"It's a huge project to transport the Sky City here. Even if we move it down the river, it's not easy. I'll ask the people from the Academy of Sciences for help. What do you think about the clothes? If you don't want to wear a suit, you can still wear traditional clothes."

"Do I have to dress so seriously?" Gu Tingzhou rejected those serious clothes and serious occasions from the bottom of his heart: Zhao Yuxi cancelled the serious occasions, why couldn't she also cancel the serious clothes? We walked into the palace of marriage wearing the most ordinary and daily clothes, isn't that good?
"Not necessarily. If you don't want to wear it, then don't wear it. Clothes can't determine whether it's serious or not. If someone says something bad about us, we'll use a dignity order to make them receive the punishment they deserve. What do you think about expanding the dignity order? As long as someone brings up the issue of trampling on friendship or love, we'll put them on trial."

Gu Tingzhou had considered it, and he had also read the detailed expanded decree written by Zhao Yuxi. But no matter how he looked at it, he vaguely felt that the new decree was unreasonable: the scope of the new law was too large, and the intensity of the crackdown was too great. If the punishment was strictly in accordance with the words written in the new law, it would not improve the moral level of the world and restrain the behavior of the world. Instead, it would make them feel endless malice, and then stimulate their hatred and their ferocity. This is really playing a joke on the lives of ordinary people.

"I feel that the expanded decree is not detailed enough. Trampling on love has many forms and methods, and the forms, methods and degrees vary. A more precise punishment should be set based on these degrees."

Gu Tingzhou didn't want to hit Zhao Yuxi too hard: the shortcomings of the expanded decree are far more than "not detailed enough". Since ancient times, few people have been punished for betraying or selling out their friends, let alone being punished for trampling on friendship. Moreover, how many things in real life can rise to the point of trampling on friendship? Trampling on friendship mostly causes psychological harm to people, and this kind of harm is difficult to quantify accurately.

Zhao Yuxi can quantify, but can others do so? Zhao Yuxi can implement this decree perfectly, can others? It is barely justifiable for her to use this decree to treat her friends, but it is ridiculous for her to let others use this decree to treat their friends in the same way.

In addition, there is one most important point. Trampling on dignity can send people to life imprisonment, trampling on friendship can also send people to life imprisonment, and trampling on love is also the same.

Although the three behaviors correspond to different numbers and probabilities of life imprisonment, this will give people a very bad impression, that is, dignity, friendship, love and other things are "harmful". If you are not careful, you will lose your freedom and wealth.

To put it more seriously, people will "involuntarily" reject friendship and love. People have to enjoy the dignity of being "manipulated" by the dignity-maintaining order. What dignity is there in such a life?

"More accurate punishment? I do need more accurate punishment. In a few days, the old law will be withdrawn. I will hold a meeting with my assistants and stationmasters. This time, the participants will not be limited to one city, but nine cities. They can actively speak up, express their opinions, help me add new laws, and help me set more accurate punishments. Don't worry, I won't issue the decree immediately after it is written. I will wait until the wedding is over before issuing it."

"Can we postpone it for a while? Until next year? I don't want our wedding to have anything to do with the decree. Besides, we can use this time to do more cases and make people realize that trampling on friendship and love is very dangerous. After that, we can issue the decree?"

Gu Tingzhou's plan was to delay it for a month or two, and then next year, he would think of other reasons to delay it for another month or two, such as not having enough cases. Perhaps time would help her erase this idea. The decision he made in the heat of the moment would not last long.

Gu Tingzhou's attitude was not very strong, at least not a strong opposition, but his resistance to the new law was obvious. He didn't want to see me issue a new order, so I had to wait until the time was right and he changed his mind.

"It's fine to postpone it. But on the 15th of this month, I will revoke the Dignity Order, and on the 16th, I will send it to nine cities."

Gu Tingzhou is clear about the effect of the dignity maintenance order. There are indeed fewer cases of dignity being trampled on in Guyuan City. First, they live in the city and rarely see dignity being trampled on. Second, the number of such cases handled by the institute's staff every day has decreased. This is the effect of the law. Of course, the law still has disadvantages, but compared with its benefits, it is not worth mentioning.

"Will it also be sent to Qichuan City? Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying do not support this decree, right?"

"Even if they don't support it, they still have to send it out. I've asked my assistant and secretary to prepare for a meeting on November 11. We won't participate in the meeting, and we'll just leave these small matters to them."

(End of this chapter)