Arcane Lord

For Xia Duo, all the current problems in the territory can basically be solved by raising a hand, but he is more concerned about the long-term development of the territory.

It's not that he doesn't prepare many things in advance, such as winter clothes. In fact, if he wants, he can set up a Hengchun barrier in his territory, but he knows very well where the boundary between grace and arrogance lies.

Generally speaking, if the territory can be solved by itself, Xia Duo prefers to let the territory handle it first. Even if it is not handled well, it will not be too late for him to come back to take care of the problem.

If he has to use extraordinary means to solve everything, then is he creating civilization? Or are you keeping pets?

Xia Duo obviously has no intention of keeping pets.

…

Then, Xia Duo asked about some details about the current situation of the territory, such as the land granting ceremony, the construction of new villages, the resettlement of new residents, night school study, code promotion, and even the security of the territory, soldier training, etc.

Lai Dun gave detailed answers one by one——

"The land granting ceremony is still held once a month for 100 households at a time. However, considering the rapid growth in the number of residents in the territory, I have discussed with the chief officials of the territory to release the limit on the monthly land granting quota, and temporarily target 200 households. , and then make adjustments based on the actual development speed.

“The construction of new villages and the development of new land are almost tied together. At present, the territory development department has sufficient manpower, complete tools, and effective organization. The progress is increasing day by day. As of now, 70% of the five phases of development plan have been completed.

“It is expected that before the land freezes in winter, we can enter the 6th development phase.

“The resettlement of new residents in the territory is currently under great pressure, but it is still proceeding in an orderly manner. However, two consecutive large-scale influxes have limited the housing materials prepared by the territory.

"As of now, more than half of the new territory residents are still living in temporary and simple wooden houses. However, the territory's logistics department has mobilized a large number of manpower to strengthen their temporary shelters and reserve winter fuel. It should not be a problem to support them until the land thaws."

Lai Dun wanted to continue the introduction, but Xia Duo raised his hand, temporarily interrupted his report, and asked a detail that Lai Dun did not mention:

"How are the elderly and children among the new residents arranged?"

"Consider family only and stay with their families." Laiton said without hesitation.

This answer was satisfactory, but it was obviously not the answer that Xia Duo wanted. He then asked: "In other words, there are a considerable number of elderly people and children living in temporary residences? And the temperature will get higher and higher in the future. Low!"

"Yes."

After thinking about it for a while, I didn't think anything was wrong. I was with my family and had plenty of fuel. Although the food was a bit tight, it was not lacking. It was just that the accommodation was a little worse.

And this is compared with the formal citizens of the Great Xia Territory today. If it is compared with the past lives of the new (preparatory) citizens, it may not be worse than their past lives.

It should be said that except for the accommodation, everything else is definitely better.

But Xia Duo was definitely wrong. "Priority is given to arranging comfortable residences for the elderly and children, and young adults are assigned to temporary residences. Children are the future of the territory, and the elderly are the future of the people. They must be given preferential treatment."

"But they are just preparing to capture the people!"

“Preparing to lead the people is also leading the people!”

Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Laiton was indeed a competent consul, but sometimes he was too rigid. It was indeed his order to classify the new subjects as preliminary subjects, but there were more differences between preliminary subjects and formal subjects. It's the difference in citizenship rights.

Taking care of the elderly, children, and even all preparatory citizens is a concept of human rights that Sha Duo follows.

If it is simply understood that people other than formal citizens are not considered human beings, it would be a big mistake. Although there are indeed similar sayings and practices in this world, it may be said that the current bottom line of Netheril's morality and humanity is indeed a bit low.

But Xia Duo still has his own persistence.

He doesn't expect Lai Dun to understand him now. Some things still need to be slowly figured out in practice. Even if moral cultivation is not mentioned and only understood from a utilitarian perspective, Lai Dun will one day understand respecting the elderly and caring for the young and benevolent people. Invincible truth.

…

"Tell me about night school!"

"Yes, sir."

After being mentioned several times today, Laidun couldn't help but wonder if he had really done something wrong. He was much more cautious when he introduced next:

"The enthusiasm of the territorial citizens for the night school has never diminished. Even the new territorial citizens are shocked by the kindness and generosity of the lord. Now almost every day, new territorial citizens have passed the territorial language and legal assessment and become official territorial citizens. civil."

"Those should have a certain foundation, right?"

"Yes, many of them were originally freedmen in inland towns and had a basic literacy background. However, the territorial regulations are very different from other territories. They did put in a lot of effort to pass them."

"Yeah. Is there any more?"

"Also, many village chiefs suggested to me that they hope to extend the night school that originally started only after dinner to the daytime, and requested that more learning content be added."

Hearing this, Xia Duo became a little more energetic and asked Lai Dun: "Are they so enthusiastic about learning? What new content do they want to learn?"

"They want to do enlightenment classes with the kids."

After saying that, he looked at Xia Duo as if asking for instructions. This kind of thing is not within the scope of the consul's authority. Currently, the enlightenment classes for children in the territory before entering the Tower of Time are all in charge of the Master of the Tower of Time, and the Master of the Tower of Time is in charge of it. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archon, but in reality it only accepts orders from the Tower of Time.

Those Tower of Time mages will only obey if the orders and responsibilities do not conflict with the orders of the Tower of Time. Obviously, even the Tower of Time mages in charge of teaching have no right to decide whether to recruit more students for the enlightenment class.

However, Xia Duo was not angry at all. Instead, he laughed happily and praised the foresight of those official citizens who had already been allocated fields and did not need to continue to develop.

"The Female CEO's Almighty Soldier"

If night schools in the territory are "literacy + legal education", then the enlightenment classes for children in the territory can be regarded as primary "general education".

Although the word "general knowledge" does not seem to sound very loud, what if it is replaced by "generalist"?

Currently, before children in the territory reach the right age to join the Tower of Time, they need to receive education in geography, biology, language, mathematics, humanities, art, planes, and even magic.

Although the level of knowledge is still relatively simple, it covers a wide range of fields and is most suitable for broadening children's horizons and stimulating interest.

The purpose is of course to train new citizens and select outstanding talents. After they enter the Tower of Time, the apprenticeship stage will still be this general education.

Only when they become official mages will they consider their future development direction and enter the professional education stage.

Of course, this is only the current plan. In fact, Xia Duo's expected professional education should be after high-level mage, or to put it further, only those who become arcanists are eligible to choose to further their studies in magic.

Below the level of Arcanist, you can do whatever you need to do. A large and complex real society has various professional needs and can fully accommodate them.