Arcane Lord

Thirty million gold coins cannot support a complete digital blue gold coin plan, but it is completely sufficient as a start-up capital, and it is even very generous.

Since Xia Duo himself controls one of the two major sources of income of the Northland Alliance, he just needs a legitimate reason for transferring funds.

So after determining the subsidy standards, he immediately went back to Everesca to quickly complete all the procedures. The only thing left was to allocate funds.

For him, the actual operation is just a matter of turning his left hand over his right hand.

…

Since the Alliance Demonic Disaster Prevention and Control Center took over the investigation and repair of the seven decay fields in Elam, Shado no longer needed to stay there for the time being. He had a lot of free time before the next sacrifice experiment began.

Taking advantage of this time, he regained awareness of his true nature. Multiple reports about the Midsummer Celebrations of the past few days had appeared on the information shelf in his study.

The first thing he paid attention to was the recruitment situation in Zhongxia. According to previous statistics, the current number of school-age children in the territory should be around 8,000, and the current number of apprentices and new mages in the Tower of Time is only more than 3,000 and less than 4,000. look like.

In other words, Daxia currently has very abundant potential for recruiting new people.

And his orders to Leiden and the various departments of the Tower of Time were to recruit as many students as possible based on the actual acceptance capacity of the Tower of Time.

Because once children of school age miss out on the admissions for that year, according to the admission rules of the Tower of Time, there is a high probability that they will only have the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time when magic education becomes more popular.

Unless he is so talented that he can become a new mage through self-study, then he can get a chance to enter the Tower of Time outside of the normal new rules.

But it is a pity that the current new mage assessment is no longer like the new mage in the old era. You only need to cast a spell to get certified. Instead, you need to pass two rounds of theoretical and practical assessments to obtain the new mage rank.

Without systematic training and practice, ordinary people may be able to acquire spellcasting abilities through self-study textbooks, but it is basically impossible to pass the assessment. Otherwise, what is the significance of the teaching organized by the Tower of Time?

But after reading this year's recruitment report, Xia Duo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. In the past mid-summer recruitment period, only 1,200 new apprentices were recruited. Counting the recruitment of new apprentices in the first half of the year, the total number was only 2,000.

This means that there are at least 6,000 people in the territory who have not had the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time! (School-age children specifically refer to 16-year-olds. There are new ones growing up every year ~ 17-year-olds are not recruited. Younger ones can go to enlightenment classes first)

After reading the reports from Leiden, Jose, Depak and others, Xia Duo realized that it wasn't that they didn't want to recruit more people, but that the Tower of Time really couldn't accept more people.

At present, the biggest shortcoming of the Tower of Time’s educational resources is the number of teachers. If 8,000 students are to be admitted every year, at least 200 teachers will be needed. On average, one teacher will lead 40 people.

However, in actual situations, it is impossible for one teacher to teach all the courses in a class, and considering each teacher's own areas of expertise, multiple teachers are needed for the same class.

Of course, one teacher can also be responsible for multiple classes.

Therefore, the actual teacher-student ratio is probably 15:1, or even 12:1.

Calculating the ratio of 15:1, plus the three-year cycle required for an apprentice to grow into a new mage, the Tower of Time needs to maintain at least 1,600 teachers.

There are an average of 530 teachers per grade, corresponding to 8,000 students per grade.

The current Tower of Time only has a total of more than 200 full-time teachers. It can be said that the gap is huge. This year, Rongxue and Zhongxia have recruited a total of 2,000 people. In fact, they are already under tremendous pressure.

Xia Duo really couldn't ask for more.

He can only think of ways to expand the teaching team and try his best to "transfer" those new mages to the teaching profession, and nothing else. However, he cannot force the new mages to give up the opportunity to further their studies and devote themselves to education.

He could only focus on encouragement and guidance, but this still made him extremely distressed.

In the long run, the education received by new mages at this stage may not be the best, and the growing environment and even their talents may not be the best, but Xia Duo dares to pat his chest and say that these people are definitely the hardest working people. !

Efforts may not necessarily raise the upper limit, but they can ensure a higher lower limit. Unfortunately, this group of talents who can be said to be the best in Xia Duo may be destined to become victims of the development of civilization.

This is the so-called "sacrifice a generation to lay a solid foundation for the modernization of magic"!

…

After reading the report on recruiting new teachers submitted by Leiden and others, Chateau wrote at the back and left instructions to "encourage and guide new mages to invest in education and expand the number of teachers as soon as possible."

He roughly looked through the remaining reports. He also gave instructions on the survey on the migrant population during the Midsummer holiday, the summary of other activities during the Midsummer Festival such as the motorcycle design competition, and the recent intermediate assessment results. .

But there was one report that he specifically singled out and planned to talk to Leiden in person.

That afternoon, Xia Duo left the Tower of Time and appeared in Linshui Town, which had just been renovated. Of course, the maintenance base of the Floating City on the west side by the river had not officially started yet.

After all, it is a huge magic facility that requires the participation of a large number of mages. Now most of the mages in the Tower of Time who are capable of participating in this project have full schedules, and it is difficult to find time to do this.

And the most important thing is that there is no special need for maintenance and repair in the two floating cities of Xiaduo now. This project can be put aside for the time being, and other more important things can be done first.

Xiaduo walked around Linshui Town in hiding. Linshui Town still maintained sufficient vitality after the festival. The only flaw was that the residential area only built houses, and many infrastructures were not fully completed.

In comparison, the workshop area in the east seemed much more complete, but Xiaduo was most familiar with the workshop area. He did not stay here for long, but went straight to the southernmost barracks.

He showed up here, and soon Simon and Leighton, who received the news, arrived one after another. The former was the commander of the territory guard, and the latter was the territorial governor.

"My lord, what do you want?"

"Let's talk about it when we get to Simon's office!"

"Yes."

Then Simon took Xiaduo and Leighton into the barracks. Without stopping to visit, the three of them went directly to Simon's office inside.

Xiaduo placed a report in front of Leiden and Simon and said, "Is this what you submitted?"

Leyden had to sort out and submit a lot of reports almost every day. He didn't have the ability to remember everything he saw. Looking at the report in front of him that was specially pointed out by Xiaduo but looked no different from the others, he showed a confused expression.

But before he could check the specific content of the report, Simon recognized it at the first time. Isn't this the report he submitted a few days ago? At that time, it was first handed over to Leiden. Now it appears in the hands of the lord. Did Leiden add something new?

"My lord, this report is indeed written by me. I handed it to Governor Leiden two days ago. I wonder what instructions your lord has for this report?"