16 milestones. The age of institutional refoundation. Each bloc builds, in these twenty-two years, the machine that will carry its wound for the following seventy — and none of those machines was designed to heal it.
Macro reference: the Surrender of Vehr 1815 · the Nine Banners 1821 · the real founding of the Military Orders 1822-24 · the Open Pit 1830 · Karentin-Alta 1836 · Hashmalian I elected 1837.
CLERICAL ORDER — 3 milestones
1818 · The Bull of the Salt
Aurelianus I decrees that all mineral extracted in the territory of the Order is the property of the Curia before it leaves the gallery. It is not nationalisation: it is priority — the mineral never comes to be anyone's.
Aggravates: it creates the monopoly on paper three years before the Nine Banners create it in practice. And it creates, in the same gesture, the company mining village, where the Order comes to lodge men who are not properly its employees nor properly its faithful. → The first master of a gallery to be told that the stone he dug up was never his.
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