Arcane Lord

And Vader's ambitions go far beyond that. He even wants to recruit students throughout Netheril, not just within the territory of his student Yusnar!

This once again exceeded Sha Duo's expectations, but Sha Duo did not pour cold water on Vader. With such a more radical person in front, the pressure on him would be much less.

If it can create a trend for other lords to follow, that would be even better.

"If you have made up your mind, you can send a group of articulate mages over, and I will arrange for people to train them into qualified full-time teachers. Consider it a little help from me in your career!"

"Are you willing to help me train full-time teachers?"

When Vader heard this, he was immediately overjoyed. He originally only had the idea of ​​allowing him to visit and understand the education popularization mechanism of the Tower of Time, but he did not expect that he could directly send people to participate in it.

This will definitely speed up the process of popularizing education under his command.

"It is the obligation of allies to help each other, isn't it? Of course, the training fee cannot be less." Sha Duo said with a smile.

These words made Vader stunned for several seconds, and then he sighed and said with emotion: "I am not as good as Lord Shado!"

Afterwards, Wade declined Sha Duo's invitation to stay and visit the Culture and Art Festival. He couldn't wait to go back and select full-time teachers. As for culture and art, he didn't really care.

If there is any art in this world, then in his eyes, magic is the only art.

…

After finishing the meeting with Wade, Shado did not go to see the next guest. Instead, he was alone and thinking quietly. He was thinking about the various impacts that helping Wade establish an education system. .

This is not just as simple as training a few full-time teachers, but also includes at least a set of basic teaching materials that can be put into use immediately, and even many details of the entire education system.

Because the situation at the Tower of Time is not yet open to the outside world, the outside world can only indirectly speculate based on the situation of recruiting new people in the territory, but Vader is different.

If you want to set up a magic academy, or school, for the entire Netheril, it will be fine if you don't achieve any results. Once you achieve some results, it may attract a large number of imitators.

When he was in his hometown, Xia Duo had seen a saying more than once, which said - I have only seen a country that became poor and perished because of its education!

It can be seen that the establishment of education is beneficial to social development, and only those with vested interests will be afraid of this kind of enterprise that can easily create new classes.

Chateau and Vader are both vested interests, but they are both quite special. Chateau himself does not have much authoritarian thinking, while Vader only pursues (magic) technological breakthroughs and does not care much about others. of what.

But what about the other lords of Netheril?

Those who are more enlightened may not think too much, and will join the camp of popularizing education as long as they see the benefits; but those who are conservative, even if they see the immediate benefits, it is not difficult to imagine that the growth of the mage class will affect their current authority. cause weakening.

The mages of Netheril in the past were not selected from top to bottom based on their talents. To a large extent, they were only related to their origins!

Earlier, as long as one was born in the Seven Towers, no matter how hard one tried, he could still become a mage; later on, the descendants of lords from all over the world were far more likely to become mages than ordinary people.

Even if ordinary people have the opportunity to enter the Mage Tower and come into contact with magic, there are still various obstacles waiting for them.

Taking Xia Duo's own personal experience as an example, in the traditional mage tower, during the apprenticeship stage, you can only listen to lectures, but cannot ask questions. All kinds of consumables and infrastructure necessary for the learning process are inseparable from money!

It can be said that in the past, in traditional mage towers including the Tower of Time, apprentices were basically just consumables and tools for making money, and the chance of becoming a mage was pitifully low.

Even if you become an official mage, you have just escaped the fate of a low-level consumable, but you have become a relatively high-level consumable. The first step for a new mage is to choose a mentor and choose someone who will exploit you.

There is a high probability that he will quarrel with his mentor for the rest of his life. When he is finally qualified to accept an apprentice, will he be willing to hand over the knowledge and experience he has gained with so much effort and financial resources to his apprentice for free?

There is a saying in Xia Duo's hometown that "it takes many years for a daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law." Even if people who grow up under this apprenticeship system become mentors and can control their own destiny, it will be difficult to escape the inertia of this system.

In fact, this issue goes beyond the scope of liberalism and conservatism, but rather the inherent conservative tendency of this old system.

One can imagine how much turmoil it will cause in Netheril once the academy system is made public.

In addition, Sha Duo also had to consider another issue, which was how to arrange the large number of new mages brought by the academy system.

For example, Vader probably wouldn't think about this issue. He might just think about collecting the talents he needs through popular education, and that would be enough.

But Xia Duo needs to consider what will happen if a rapidly expanding emerging class cannot get what it wants.

Chaos is almost an inevitable outcome.

In the Southern Territory, Xia Duo also promoted the popularization of education and the civilianization of magic, thereby creating enough social division of labor to accommodate the increasing number of new mages.

But will other territories do the same?

If we do this, where will the cost come from? You must know that in order to promote the civilian use of magic, Xia Duo artificially transferred a large amount of wealth to the people. Do other lords have such courage?

Even if there is, it is unrealistic to support the entire territory by oneself. Development problems must still be solved through development. But once development is setback, will those lords be willing to popularize education or promote magic for civilian use?

This problem seems to have nothing to do with Shado, but the development of Daxia Territory cannot be separated from the wealth and resources obtained from other places in Netheril. Once problems arise elsewhere, it will actually be difficult for him to survive alone.

At least with the current size of Southern Territory, it is difficult to be alone.

"Vade, Vader, I hope you can find a feasible path!"

Shado planned to use Vader as a pathfinder first, to test the reaction of the lords from various places in Netheril, and also to see the problems that might be encountered after the emergence of the magic school, and then deal with it.

Anyway, he himself doesn't want to directly confront the conservative forces of Netheril. It's not that he can't, but there is clearly a better way, so why bother with tit-for-tat?

…

After that, Xia Duo met with many councilors one after another, as well as some lords who came here to meet them. Xia Duo also met in person, but they met together. He really didn't have the time and energy to meet and negotiate with them one by one.

As for those guests who came in a private capacity, Xia Duo no longer received them, but asked Lai Dun to entertain them. Whether they wanted to live in the ground territory of Linshui Village or in the floating city, they would try their best to satisfy them.