Chapter 386 First Committee Member
As the parliament hall reopened, commissioners filed out and the general direction of the future development of the War Council was officially announced.
According to the national blueprint finalized by the plenary session of the committee, the War Council will focus on economic construction as its main development direction in the next ten years.
According to the plan, the committee will first use three years to implement a reconstruction plan for the entire committee's territory, comprehensively renovate and rebuild the territory under the committee's control, fully integrate it into the committee's system, and restore most of the productivity.
After three years of reconstruction work, the remaining seven years of economic planning will focus on upgrading the Commission's special planning in several areas.
First: concentrate efforts on agricultural and industrial construction; second, increase investment in people's livelihood and improve the living standards of all people in the committee.
In terms of industry, the War Committee will concentrate its main efforts on the Unique Machinery Industrial Zone, supplemented by necromancy and botany, to establish and expand the committee's overall national strength.
The light and heavy industries developed in a balanced manner, with short steps and fast progress, completing industrial construction consisting of more than 800 large and medium-sized construction projects and laying the initial foundation for the mechanization of the committee.
In agriculture, we will concentrate cultivated land, give full play to the committee's agricultural advantages, and vigorously promote large-scale mechanized farms to establish a foundation for the transformation of agriculture and folk handicrafts, gradually absorb folk farmers and handicraftsmen, and eliminate traditional agriculture and folk handicrafts.
As for people's livelihood, the committee will reduce people's cost of living as much as possible, while increasing investment in people's livelihood and continuously improving public services. It is expected that after the completion of the ten-year economic plan, all people in the committee will reach a basic level of food and clothing.
The War Council will reform the Council’s current unbalanced and somewhat chaotic education system, improve the Council’s education system, and establish a complete system for training extraordinary people and talents.
Advanced education does not use the academic year system, but rather the credit and assessment system. There is no academic year limit for higher education. To graduate, one only needs to complete enough credits and pass the review.
According to Roland's plan, the committee's education system will not separate general education from extraordinary education, but will develop them together. However, taking mental and age issues into consideration, Roland set the third year of basic education as the time for formal contact with the extraordinary.
As a person who received compulsory education from the Human Union, Roland believed that education should be the right and obligation of all citizens. However, although Roland could kill Kan Ozu, he could not create endless resources to satisfy all of this.
Therefore, taking into account the limited funds of the War Committee, the committee's reform bill only guaranteed free compulsory education for a maximum of five years of primary basic education, after which tuition fees would have to be charged.
Of course, for subsequent education, the tuition fees charged by the committee will not be particularly high. It will be enough to recover some of the costs. As long as there is not a big loss, a small loss and the committee can allocate some money is still acceptable.
Although the committee does not have sufficient funds, education cannot be neglected no matter how difficult the situation is. Therefore, many committee members believe that spending some money to get an extraordinary education is already a privilege for ordinary people.
You know, in the past, in Donnar, only the nobles could receive a complete extraordinary education. Ordinary people, no matter how strong they were, could only get one or two incomplete breathing and meditation methods and practice them on their own.
If the committee opens up extraordinary education, it can charge a lot of tuition fees. Ordinary people would be willing to do so even if it means selling everything they have. There is absolutely no need to implement free compulsory education at a loss.
Even if we want to implement free compulsory education, there is no need to implement it across the board. Can't we just follow the example of the Tower of Truth and select talented children from the public and train them intensively?
Although most of the committee members did not agree with compulsory education, under Roland's strong push, the reform plan was passed by the vote of all committee members.
In addition to economic and educational programs, the plenary session also passed bills related to politics.
The [Common Convention] of the first general meeting of committees was amended, added and streamlined, some of the war clauses were deleted, and it was transformed from a war program into an organizational program of the War Committee.
While retaining the statement of resisting the Green Tide, the War Council added that as a native force in Donar, it was destined to rule Donar. While denying the legality of the United Army, it declared that ruling Donar was the War Council's manifest destiny.
In addition, while fully retaining the current political structure of the War Council, a new political structure, the Three Estates Parliament, was also added.
The Three-Level Parliament was a new attempt by the War Council to govern the local areas. As the area of land ruled by the War Council grew, the number of its members also increased.
In order to prevent the general meeting of committee members from having too many members in the future, the War Committee will establish a three-level parliament composed of local committee members and representatives at all levels, which will enjoy local supervision power. In the future, the members who will represent the local areas in the general meeting of committee members will also be elected by the three-level local parliaments.
At the same time, the War Council Organization Act, which confirmed the capital and organizational structure of the War Council, was also revised.
The previously established compromise system between the Central Bank Province and the Committee Province was abolished and replaced with a provincial system based on the Central Bank Province. The Committee Province was completely abolished and transformed into the Central Bank Province. At the same time, the Central Bank Province was fully merged to establish a large province that was more in line with the current situation of the committee.
According to the plan, the more than 50 central provinces of the War Council will be integrated and divided into seven new provinces.
Additionally, the War Council officially declared that the Green Tide was no longer a threat to Donnar.
After the threat was declared gone, the [War Council Provisional Law] that established the War Council's current military dictatorship line also automatically became invalid according to its provisions.
As a result, the position of chairman lost its almost unlimited power.
However, after the temporary law expired, the Second Plenary Session of the Committee also passed a new bill, the [Enabling Act].
The [Enabling Act] was simple. It was based on the [Provisional Law] and formally granted Roland almost unlimited power. It also declared Roland as the first member of the committee, whose status would override that of the chairman.
Even if Roland voluntarily gave up his position as chairman, as the first member of the War Committee, Roland still held unlimited power.
It can be said that the First Commissioner, the Emperor, and the Dictator are essentially the same, except for the different names.
Originally, the General Assembly of the Committee was planning to push Roland to the position of emperor. After all, in this world, the empire is the mainstream. There are almost no republics like the Committee. Even if there are, they are only small countries. The real powers in this world are all empires.
The War Council was originally a temporary government organized to fight against the Green Tide. Under Roland's strong rule, the War Council only maintained superficial peace, and in fact it was almost the same as a monarchy.
Furthermore, the people of the committee had already privately addressed Roland as "Your Majesty" and "King", and neither the government nor the people would feel dissatisfied with the reorganization of the War Committee into an imperial system.
Roland already possesses supreme political and military authority. As long as Roland nods, the committee can seamlessly transform into an empire.
Moreover, as a great figure who stood out and turned the tide during the turbulent times of Donnar, as long as Roland was willing, he could always raise the flag of the Central Kingdom again and rebuild the great empire of Donnar.
If Roland didn't like it, he could also imitate Littorio and build a new crown that belonged to him in Donnar. He could even claim the crown of the Kingdom of All Clans. Even if it was a dwarf crown, Roland could wear it.
However, although Roland was powerful and dictatorial, he still believed that he was different from the feudal nobles.
Although Roland knew in his heart that there was not much difference, he still did not accept their proposal and ultimately refused to wear the crown.
With the fig leaf of the first citizen as a cover, Roland could at least pretend that he was not the emperor.
In addition to these proposals that can be made public and have a relatively large impact, the plenary session of the committee also passed other scattered bills. However, most of them are simple basic bills with little impact.
In addition, the War Committee mainly promoted economic and educational plans internally, and did not carry out special publicity for political changes.
After the closing of the Second Plenary Session of the Committee, the committee members returned to their local areas and brought the news of the Second Plenary Session of the Committee to their local areas.
After the War Committee established new goals for economic development, the entire War Committee regained its vitality and became busy again.
When the War Council became active again, Roland left Apocalypse and headed for the buffer zone between Donnar and Sinnar.
After the War Council and the Border Noble Group completed the division of the buffer zone, Roland went there to quell the chaotic elements in the area assigned to the Council.
As a place close to Donnar, the chaotic elements in the area directly assigned to the committee are not particularly strong, and Roland can handle it with his own efforts.
Of course, Roland would not solve the problem by himself this time. He had already established the War Committee and trained so many spellcasters. Did he have to deal with it alone? Wouldn't Roland have trained so many spellcasters in vain?
In fact, before the second plenary session of the committee was held, the War Committee had already sent out spellcasters to make preparations in advance. Roland was only now going over to activate the arrangements made by the spellcasters.
Through space magic, Roland quickly arrived at the committee's border wall.
After arriving at the border wall, Roland did not rush to the buffer zone. Instead, he looked at the field reports and arrangements submitted by the spellcasters through the communication device, and briefly inspected the border wall.
As the only passage between East Nar and West Nar, this side of the border wall has always been very prosperous.
Especially after the establishment of the War Committee, the War Committee took the initiative to expand its business exchanges with Sinnar and spies and agents from the outside world with various intentions. Therefore, the flow of people coming and going on this side of the border wall is very amazing, and nearby cities appear to be more prosperous.
Although the flow of people has increased the danger level on this side of the border wall, with the presence of the Wind Knight Primarch Legion stationed there, outsiders dare not really cause trouble.
Anyone who shows up to cause trouble will be quickly suppressed by the Wind Knight. After the bloody repression, they will look at the dried bodies of ordinary people and the bodies of extraordinary people who are still alive hanging on the border wall.
Even extraordinary people from outside dare not challenge the authority of the committee. Even if they want to cause trouble, they will learn about the Golden Rule in advance. At the same time, they will stay away from the border walls and places where the committee’s troops are heavily stationed as much as possible to reduce the possibility of being killed by the committee.
Therefore, when Roland was on patrol, he saw a thriving scene near the border wall.
After completing the inspection, Roland also read the reports submitted by the spellcasters in detail and understood and mastered their arrangements in the buffer zone.
Afterwards, Roland began to use the arrangements of the spellcasters to alleviate the chaotic elemental environment in the buffer zone.
Since the buffer zone was crowded with people, Roland did not directly attack the entire buffer zone, but divided it into several areas to deal with it slowly.
For security reasons, the committee will send soldiers to isolate the area to be handled, making sure that no one is inside the area before Roland handles it.
Although clearing the chaotic elements in the buffer zone is not a big deal, the committee still banned all non-official onlookers for various reasons.
Even at the border gate with the heaviest flow of people, the committee carried out a forced clearance and closed the entire area for three hours. It was not reopened until Roland completed the cleanup and the spellcasters cleared all traces.
One of the main reasons for doing this is that Roland came to the buffer zone to clean up the chaotic elements in order to prepare for the committee's future plans in advance.
Roland cleared the area from the southernmost area to the north. During the clearing, Roland also cleared out several secret passages leading to the nobles in the border areas according to the committee's plan. At the same time, he also cleared out passages leading to various important locations deep in the buffer zone.
After these passages were cleared, Roland set up a formation to cover them all up.
The trade agreements previously signed between the Border Noble Group and the War Committee will circulate through these secret channels in the future.
Although the trade between the two parties was legal and compliant, the border nobles who had lost some trust in Ginza chose to adopt a secret trade method out of caution.
In addition to clearing out the secret passage, Roland also conducted an in-depth cleanup in the northernmost area. In addition to clearing out the chaotic elements close to the committee, Roland also set up a secret formation deep inside.
This secret formation will quietly clear the buffer zone between the War Council and the Northern Kingdom over the next few years, disguising it as the natural dissipation of the Chaos Elements.
Now that we have ideas about the Northern Kingdom, we naturally have to deal with the buffer zone between the War Council and the Northern Kingdom.
As for why they are so cautious, it is mainly because they do not want the Northern Kingdom to realize that the committee may take action against them.
Although the Northern Kingdom is not strong, it would still be a bit troublesome if it gave up internal strife and resisted the committee with all its strength.
(End of this chapter)