The entire conference lasted more than three days, and the matters raised grew increasingly numerous.
Leo was building a framework—the foundational framework of a nation. If the Revolutionary Army had possessed only a rudimentary framework for operating a modern nation before this, then now it had truly entered the realm of a modern state and begun functioning efficiently and swiftly.
This meeting first firmly established the Revolutionary Army's path of "[To forge iron, one must be strong oneself]."
Next, it affirmed the Revolutionary Army's past efforts and laid out expectations for its future.
Then, it set the Revolutionary Army's unwavering course of progress and its core principle of serving the people.
Finally, every law was refined in detail. Leo would put forward proposals, everyone would vote on them democratically one by one, and a systematic process would ultimately bring them to a unified consensus.
When the conference closed, everyone began preparing proposals for the next conference—this was also a newly established rule. From national policies and strategies down to legal provisions for individual departments, all could be proposed at these conferences. Departments could also submit proposals to one another—after all, modern governance was systematic, and anything systematic required coordination, cross-departmental cooperation, and communication among multiple departments.
Take the relationship between the police department, law enforcement, the procuratorate, and the courts. Beyond communication and cooperation, they loved and hated one another, and sometimes they practically wanted to kill each other.
The grievances and tangled emotions involved were something only those in the field could understand.
In short, the Revolutionary Army encouraged departments to communicate and cooperate with one another. If that gave rise to new departments, so much the better—it could greatly improve the nation's governance and operational capabilities.
At the same time, the Revolutionary Army remained extremely wary of the