Arcane Lord

After the elves of the Tia Merchant Group left, Shado sent a message to Doom and Larian respectively, asking them to help investigate the situation of the Tia Merchant Group, especially the Sinon Chamber of Commerce.

Afterwards, he sat in the reception room and sorted out the recent situation. The construction of a public computing resource pool was a foregone conclusion, but it also involved many interests and attracted a lot of prying eyes. This was an issue that required his careful consideration.

The second is the establishment of the Peacekeeping Department, which serves as the headquarters of the alliance's standing mage corps. However, Xia will not need to worry about this at that time. Countries will definitely be able to carry out checks and balances like a public computing resource pool network.

The only point worth paying attention to is the final selection of the commander. Xia Duo also has a certain say in this. After all, the most effective way to coordinate operations at this stage cannot bypass the Lingsi Network, that is, he cannot be bypassed.

It is certainly impossible to choose someone who is hostile to him or someone he is hostile to. Otherwise, if there is an emergency in the future, wouldn't it be possible to lay hidden dangers in advance?

Finally, of course, there is the so-called Alliance Advisory Committee, which should be regarded as a department with real power. Currently, there are only five members in this committee——

In addition to Shado, there are also three directors of the Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory, namely Brad from Everriska, Doom from Netheril, and Maglor from Yerlan.

The remaining one is Plastino from Cormanthor, the head of the super-demon incident monitoring and investigation department previously established based on the Demon Restriction Treaty in the North.

It can be seen that the members of this newly established advisory committee are all heads of important institutions or departments currently under the Northland Alliance. It is conceivable that if the head of the Peacekeeping Department and the combat commander are elected in the future, there is a high probability that they will also be included. Come to this committee.

This advisory committee only has two authorities. One is the authority to contact alliance representatives. In other words, alliance representatives must leave contact information for members of the advisory committee who can be contacted.

The reverse is not necessarily true, but if the representative cannot contact the consultant, the actual significance of the consultant will disappear.

And this also involves another authority of the consultant, which is very simple and crude, very straightforward-convening an alliance meeting!

In this way, the representatives of the five countries are checked and balanced, because the daily affairs of the alliance are decided by the representatives of the five countries, both nominally and in fact.

Of course, subordinate agencies and departments must also obey the orders of the representatives of the five countries.

But now, the heads of important subordinate agencies and departments have become alliance advisors. If the orders of the representatives of the five countries are unreasonable, they can choose to convene an alliance conference to argue.

It may not matter if the representatives of the five countries have passed the argument. At most, it will be a loss of face. But if they cannot argue, the heads of the agencies and departments may be removed through consultations by the representatives of the five countries.

However, even if the identity of the person in charge is removed, the identity of the advisory committee members will not be lost. This identity is permanent, as long as they do not do something extraordinary frequently.

This is also a check and balance method negotiated by various countries. The number of representatives from the five countries is too small, and two or three representatives may conspire to make decisions that are not beneficial to other countries, so more checks and balances are needed.

Shado is of course happy to see this situation. After all, Netheril can be considered weak in the alliance.

Before the signing of the magic-restriction treaty, Cormanthor was the first to instigate it, and then Ellan agreed and Elfaran acquiesced, so Netheril had to hold its nose and admit it.

After all, it would be more disadvantageous to withdraw from the Northland Alliance than to sign this agreement.

But now, after the establishment of the advisory committee, the alliance system has become more mature, exchanges and cooperation between countries have become increasingly frequent, and the alliance of small countries has gradually taken shape. No party can say that it has withdrawn from the alliance.

Regarding the treaty itself, although Netheril may not necessarily be able to counterattack immediately, it can also counterattack in other ways and reciprocate.

If Comansor and other countries cannot accept it, they can only make concessions on the magic restriction treaty.

Of course, the current situation is that all countries need to make major adjustments to the Mystery Lock due to centralization reforms, and in fact they have frequently violated treaties.

In other words, the treaty proposed by Cormanthor to restrict Netheril is now a dead letter.

In order to maintain the authority of the alliance, various countries have decided to redo the magic restriction treaty, but no useful results have been reached yet. However, before the final result appears, the alliance conference specifically passed a resolution to temporarily invalidate the treaty.

However, Shado is not optimistic about the renewal of the Demon Restriction Treaty. Netheril is currently in a stage of rapid development, and countries such as Cormanthor are also showing signs of revival. How can such a thing as the Demon Restriction Treaty be allowed under such circumstances? It affects your own development status!

If the five countries do not agree, it will be useless no matter how willing the other small countries are.

Of course, this is also an opportunity for other small countries. The magic restriction treaty is indeed of no use to them who were willing to isolate themselves in the past. However, since the establishment of the Northland Alliance, isolation has long been no longer the mainstream, and open exchanges are.

Magic exchanges, cooperation and even further development cannot bypass the magic restriction treaty. Now that the treaty is temporarily invalid, the shackles that hinder the cooperation of small countries and overtake in corners will be lifted.

In Xia Duo's view, small countries should seize this opportunity. Otherwise, when the five countries reach consensus and the shackles are dropped again, small countries may no longer have the opportunity to rise.

This is similar to the carbon peak on the earth. Only advanced industrialized countries are qualified to talk about carbon peak or even carbon neutrality. However, developing countries, even those still in the early stages of industrial development, need development most, and It’s not about pursuing any environmental protection indicators.

In a sense, these environmental protection indicators are a conspiracy used by advanced countries to restrict the vigorous development of backward countries, because advanced countries have reached their peak to a certain extent, and what they fear most is the catching up of latecomers.

Of course, we must try every means to prevent it.

Xia Duo once heard a saying in his hometown that the biggest wish of rich people is not to become richer, but to prevent others from becoming rich.

Because after wealth reaches a certain level, the happiness brought by increasing it is limited. But if you watch other people become as rich as you, what's the point of having money yourself?

Therefore, getting rich first will not necessarily lead to getting rich later. On the contrary, it is more likely that he will try his best to prevent others from getting rich. Otherwise, his existing wealth will become meaningless.

Of course, these are all measures of money society.

Although not all rich people are bad, money as a measure itself is biased. There is no difference between the wealth gained through hard work and the exploitation of others, right?

When a society does not need to use money as a standard to measure a person's value, money can return to its original attributes. Only then can the more original attributes of people's talents and qualities be revealed.