Campaign for a New Dawn [Yong Ping Election]

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[!] Rice paper scrolls scribed in tight, swooping strokes are hung around Yong Ping and neighboring cities.

The red wax seal emblazoned with the golden roaring maw of the Long Dragon.

 

13th of Amber Cold, SA 35

 

With the stepping down of Li Xiu-Ying as Zhu, the first era of Twin Dragons has come to end. In the next, I offer to continue the work I have done as Chancellor - to put myself forward in service to the people as Zhu. Through pirate slavers on our shore, through tsunami wreaking terrible destruction on our city, I promise we can see through to a new dawn on Yong Ping.

 

It is my prerogative to prioritise our people’s religion within Yong Ping. I know the importance of Huajiao’s presence in any Easterner’s life from my time, especially now as a student of the Yujin Monastery. With this, I would remove the separation of faith and state. As surely the soundness of mind and self afforded by Huajiao, Tsaoism, Shidoism, Kami worship, and their respective schools shall benefit us- so too shall the renewed community found within.

 

With community in mind, I shall also be seeking to better support those who hold citizenship in Yong Ping. Work in the Yong Ping People’s Army (hereafter referred to as the YPA) of course affords free housing, food, and medical care to those in active service- however the aspect of military life does not appeal to all. There are two major changes I would wish to put forward. The first of which being that service in the YPA shall also afford one free tutelage sponsored by the state. The second of which is to make more clear to those in service that not all duties of the YPA are martial in nature. We have need of smiths, carpenters, cooks, and lorekeepers in the Long Keep. If you wish to avail of state services, the YPA is here for you, so you may be here for your community. Especially in these times, we must stand together against all threats.

 

Citizenship shall no longer be mandatory to live within the walls of Yong Ping, however it shall afford the holder better opportunities. The first shall be priority granted to housing, allowing citizens proper and suitable accommodation, as well as access to higher districts. The second shall be of course eligibility to seek employment in the YPA, and further any government office. With an ever burgeoning populace, more are always needed to fill the offices of the Jade State. The third is already written but worth noting, that citizens are afforded full rights as written in The Official Laws of the City State of Yong Ping. 

 

We have all lost much, our homes, property, Ancestral Heirlooms for some even. What we still have though, is each other. The work to rebuild shall be hard, but worth the effort to grow to new heights. As it was with the founding of Tai Ping, then Yong Ping, we shall rebuild ever greater. After all; no mud, no lotus.

 

 

Signed,

Tianrui Ren, Patriarch and Chancellor of Yong Ping

 

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Oijin prays for a stronger Yong Ping to rise from the big wave!

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I am General Ryu and I endorse this message.

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Spoiler

 

Yunya of the Chen Household endorses this campaign and continues preparations.