Arcane Lord

Soon, Iolum gave his opinion——

"I think it's feasible. I will put it forward at the next Grand Arcanist Joint Meeting. I believe the Seven Towers will agree. If you have any other suggestions, you can put them forward together. If it is feasible, I will also provide support. "

Xia Duo glanced at the pile of Tower of Time level 2 apprentice textbooks still on the tea table and made no further suggestions.

If nothing goes wrong at the next Grand Arcanist Joint Meeting of the Arcane Federation, it will be the day when Congenio officially steps down. By then, Iolum will surely have his own "three fires" for taking office, and Shado doesn't want to Too overwhelming.

And he didn't have many suggestions to make. For the time being, he didn't want to interfere too much in things outside his own territory until he could really participate and lead the change process.

No longer low-key, more just a necessary display of his identity as a senior arcanist to avoid misjudgment. At other times, you still have to hide your strength, bide your time, and accumulate strength.

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Then, Shado had an in-depth discussion with the two great arcanists on the issue of apprentice training. He could see that both Congenio and Iolum were very interested in the current academic training of the Tower of Time. However, due to their respective identities, they cannot operate effectively.

Therefore, they paid special attention to what Xia Duo said.

"Lord Shado, I probably understand what you are saying, but I have a question. After the three-year apprenticeship contract expires, if everything goes well, there will be hundreds more official mages in the Tower of Time. How are you going to arrange these people? ?”

A mage is not a rigid dead thing, but a living person. A living person must have various activities based on this profession, and all of these activities are based on various mage tower infrastructures.

In other words, just maintaining the existence of these mages will incur a lot of consumption, including the consumption of materials for daily practice and experiments, as well as the cost of maintaining infrastructure.

Iolum himself has no research in the business field, so until now, the more he looks forward to the academic training scene, the more worried he is about the possible disadvantages in that situation.

Sha Duo mentioned before that the Tower of Time can now barely maintain the training costs of these apprentices. Even if they become official mages, they can participate in production, but the cost of their existence is definitely greater than that of apprentices, and it is many times greater.

And can the excess products produced by the Tower of Time due to those official mages really be sold?

If it cannot be sold, then the tower will soon go bankrupt, and even if it is sold, if the price is pushed down too low, it will still be unsustainable.

This kind of issue actually involves the core of Xia Duo's reform and governance in the southern border. To be honest, he himself has been worried about this issue. Although he has various plans, no one can be absolutely sure about the future.

At this moment, this issue was mentioned again by Iolum, and Congenio also showed curiosity and wanted to hear. Shado thought about it and said this:

"Master, Your Excellency Iolum, regarding this issue, I have two main plans -

"One is to create a new consumption mechanism and establish an internal economic cycle, allowing those new mages to work and consume in the Tower of Time. Of course, this internal cycle also has a big loophole, and that is the Tower of Time itself. Resource limitations, if the Tower of Time does not have sufficient resources for recycling, it will be difficult to maintain, but at least it will be a relief.

"So, the second aspect is to dig deep into internal resources and introduce external resources. The undeveloped area in the south is so big, you can always find some useful mineral veins, and then use magic to mine, the efficiency may be far superior to ordinary humans or even dwarves, Dwarves; as for external resources, we still need to use these large numbers of formal mages, who will produce more low-cost goods and sell them to the outside world to supplement the shortage of internal circulation. "

Having said this, Shado revealed another piece of news that was not a secret to either Iolum or Congenio:

"At present, the Tower of Time has reached a preliminary strategic cooperation intention with the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce. In the future, the Tower of Time will sell more magic items through the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce and introduce more raw materials."

As for the implementation of new coins in the southern border, Xia Duo did not talk about it here.

After listening to Xia Duo's explanation, Iolum and Congenio fell into deep thought again, and the study became extremely quiet again.

There was only a small mithril ornament that looked like a pendulum on the desk not far away, making a clicking sound as it swayed.

After a while, Iolum's eyes showed excitement and eagerness to try, but as if he thought of something, he quickly calmed down and looked at Congenio.

The two sides confirmed certain information while looking at each other, and then Iolum slowly spoke and said to Shado:

"Lord Shado, the "academic training, internal and external dual circulation" development model you proposed does have very attractive development prospects, and is indeed very suitable for Netheril, but now I have to tell you a very realistic The problem, that is——

"Currently in Netheril, even the Morien Towers, which have the strongest academic atmosphere and are the most open-minded to knowledge, find it difficult to take the initiative to carry out such changes."

Shado listened carefully, not missing a word, and even considered it again and again. What Iolum said should be regarded as some kind of truth in Netheril.

It is difficult to implement academic training in the Morien Tower department, let alone other places, but what Iolum said seems to be more than that.

At this moment, Iolum suddenly asked: "Lord Shado, are you willing to be my student?"

"ah?"

Sha Duo was stunned immediately.

Isn't this a discussion about the future development model? Why did it suddenly turn to recruiting disciples? This turn of events was really big, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

Just when Sha Duo was wondering what Iolum meant by saying this, Iolum himself began to take the initiative to explain:

"Lord Shado, I am very optimistic about you and the future development of the Southern Territory, but such development is destined not to proceed in peace. Before I become a Grand Arcanist, I can temporarily become your teacher and block some unnecessary things for you. Malice.”

Hearing this, Xia Duo immediately understood Iolum's intention.

The wheel of the times is rolling forward, but those who lead the times may not necessarily be treated fairly in the contemporary era. This is just like the "Qin" in my hometown.

Later generations used Qin's method, but at the same time they slandered Qin's method in every possible way.

The same is true in Netheril. If academic training first appears in the Southern Territory and breaks the current balance, even if academic training can become mainstream in the future, it will definitely encounter backlash from the conservatives now.

Of course, this backlash may not necessarily be a "real person PK", but it is not guaranteed.