Start with Island Lord

There is less than a week left until the annual Winter Veil Festival.

Winter is gradually going away, the temperature is getting warmer, and the rain is gradually increasing, often with drizzle.

Moistened by the warm rain, strands of tender green fluff gradually appeared in the mountains, forests and plains.

Outside Crescent City, a total of twenty guard knights guarded a carefully modified high-end traveling carriage, driving slowly on a gravel-paved field path.

Rosen sat alone in the carriage, his eyes slowly passing over the sparsely grown bitter winter wheat fields on both sides of the road.

Bitter winter wheat is cold-resistant and can be planted in early October of the previous year and harvested in late April of the following year.

The wheat production is okay, but the flour produced has a very poor taste, with a slight bitter taste, and can only be used for subsistence.

But because of the rebellion at the end of last year, even these bitter winter wheats were not planted well. If he hadn't brought back a large amount of food, many people on the island would have starved to death this year.

But even if the crops are well planted, the food production on Paddlefish Island is still slightly insufficient, so some must be imported from Shire County every year to make up for the shortfall.

But this year, Rosen doesn't plan to do that anymore: "When the first batch of murloc nemesis have formed their combat power, we will start to wipe out the murlocs in the East China Sea."

The large area of ​​​​sea to the east is the intersection of the cold ocean current in the extreme north and the warm current in the south. It is extremely rich in various aquatic products and is a huge golden fishing ground.

With the acquisition of this fishing ground, the people of Paddlefish Island will have a large amount of seafood on their tables, such as sea fish, seaweed, lobsters, etc., as well as pearls, corals, underwater minerals, etc., and they will be able to capture all kinds of resources in the territory at once The total amount is pushed up by an order of magnitude.

While he was daydreaming, the voice of the Guards Captain Alia came from outside the carriage: "Lord, it seems it's going to rain again."

Rosen looked at the sky. It was gray and the wind was a bit strong, but fortunately the temperature was not low and the wind was warm, so he said: "Speed ​​up, don't let the instructors of the college get caught in the rain."

"Yes, lord~"

The team immediately sped up, and the carriage suddenly became a lot bumpier.

The team moved forward on the plain. After walking for about 2 kilometers, they drove onto a slightly higher but very barren gravel slope.

The sloping ground has been roughly leveled, and a huge area of ​​about 2,000 acres has been enclosed with the latest tempered yellow clay.

Of course, due to construction time issues, only a foundation was laid for the retaining wall in most areas, and only one gate was actually built.

As the convoy approached, they saw a special black clay stone tablet erected in front of the gate. On the tablet were the words "Island's First Academy of Arts" written in gold letters.

There were already many people waiting at the door.

These are all mages and magic instructors of the academy.

There are more than 400 in total, most of whom are local civilian mages on the island, and a small number are official civilian mages hired from Shire County.

Although the magic achievements of this group of mages are very ordinary, only a few have reached advanced levels.

But they have all been carefully selected. Each one has a gentle and patient personality and a solid foundation in magic. He is perfect to be an enlightenment instructor.

Today, Rosen, the Minister of Education and the first dean of the college, will conduct his last inspection before the start of school.

When there were still more than a hundred meters away from the gate, Rosen got off the carriage early to show his respect for the instructors of the college.

When I got out of the car, I saw a long new red carpet on the ground.

Although it was a red carpet of average quality, compared with the half-worn or even patched clothes worn by many spell instructors, it looked quite dazzling.

Rosen frowned and said to Aaliya: "Have someone put the blanket away. Don't do these silly things in the future. Just take whatever road you have."

"Yes, Lord."

Aria had stayed with Rosen in Dawn City for ten years and lived a simple life for ten years. She was not used to the ostentatious style of the aristocracy.

Someone was immediately sent to put away the red carpet.

Without the red carpet, the uneven dirt road appeared, and it suddenly seemed a lot deserted.

Rosen put on a black wide-brimmed leather hat, put his hands in the pockets of his leather windbreaker, stepped on the slightly sticky dirt road, and strode toward the college gate.

Probably because of the red carpet incident, the mages who greeted them at the gate were in low spirits and lowered their heads slightly, as if they were afraid of being scolded.

Rosen stood at the door, looked around at all the mages, and said seriously in the voice of the second-level collective mind: "Fellow magic instructors, I need you to remember something."

"In my college, there is only one criterion for evaluating the achievements of a spell instructor, and that is who has taught outstanding students!"

"Whose students have strong magic power, whose students have good magic skills, and whose students receive the best care and attention, will receive higher honors and higher treatment."

"As for everything else, I don't care. Do you understand?"

He spent a lot of money to build this academy to train talents in magic.

What he needs is a mentor who focuses on cultivating talents, not a sycophant.

"Yes, Lord."

The instructors shouted back.

Rosen then looked at the female mage with gray hair and a kind face at the front of the line, and warned her in a serious voice.

"Mrs. Fishery, as the Executive Vice-President, you must remember my words especially and never treat me the same way that the Shire County treats the nobles."

The female mage's face showed deep fear, and her body even trembled slightly: "Yes, Lord, I will keep your teachings in mind."

She wanted to bow and kneel, but she failed to do either, which made her look awkward.

Seeing that she had impressed the other party enough, Rosen relaxed his expression.

"Okay, Mrs. Fisher, don't worry about these etiquettes, take me to visit the new academy."

The other party was a civilian senior mage, who was hired from Xialin City with a high salary of 200 Oggs a year. She was a very famous magic enlightenment lady in the city.

Maybe her magic achievement was only average, but she was kind-hearted and had rich teaching experience.

Therefore, Rosen valued her very much.

And there were more than 50 mages like her in the academy.

Their level was obviously much higher than that of the local island mages, and their salary was of course high, starting at 50 Oggs a year, and providing free food and accommodation.

As for the island mages.

Rosen gave an average salary of only 30 Oggs, and only paid a small half of the money, and the other half was deducted with various materials.

The local mages didn't have much objection to this.

First, their level was indeed not as good as the other party. Second, the island is still in a natural economic model of using things for things, and the importance of gold coins and other currencies is far less than that of real materials.

In their eyes, if there is any trouble on the island, materials can be eaten and used, but gold and silver can only be used for viewing.

However, Shire County has already developed a commodity economy model, with a developed market, and money can buy a lot of things.

Rosen's salary is very high, even in Shire County, so the Shire County wizards are also very satisfied, and even secretly despise the island wizards, thinking that the other party is a country bumpkin who has never seen the world.

Both sides' ideas come from their own living environment, and neither is wrong. What the lord has to do is to govern according to people and achieve the optimal allocation of resources.

"I understand, lord."

Mrs. Fei Xieli finally restored the calm demeanor that a senior wizard should have.

"In the academy, just call me the dean."

"Yes, dean."

So, under the leadership of this respectable vice dean, accompanied by hundreds of magic instructors, Rosen began to visit this island academy that was urgently built with a lot of manpower and material resources.

As expected, the first batch of students in the academy will be very large, with a total of 22,000 people.

This includes all teenagers under the age of 20, and a small group of young people under the age of 30 who have been proven to have excellent magic talents but have missed their youth.

After the start of school, a full-time teaching model will be adopted.

In addition to laying the foundation for meditation, specific skills are directly instilled, and time is not wasted on pondering deep principles, striving to produce a group of magicians with professional skills in the fastest time.

As for new ideas such as freedom and democracy, there is no mention of that, but the traditional idea of ​​"loyal lord, loyal island" is instilled.

It is very similar to the vocational school in the previous life.

Walking in this hastily built academy, Rosen saw a series of simple single-story bungalows.

This is because it is the first time to use the new material of tempered yellow clay, and there is not much experience in using it.

"Dean, this is the teaching area, with a total of 100 classrooms, each of which can accommodate 100 students."

"Because there are many students and few classrooms, we will temporarily adopt a rotating class model."

Rosen stood at the door and observed that the classroom was empty. There were no tables, only small benches, and a writing board made of tempered black clay on the top.

Fortunately, the lighting conditions are good.

One is because the windows are relatively large, and the other is that there is a rune lightning lamp hanging on the roof that is always on.

It is enough to achieve this in a short period of time, and even if many things are produced on the island, it has cost Rosen more than 40,000 Oggs of funds.

Of course, it will gradually improve in the future.

"How are the books distributed to students?"

Mrs. Fisher immediately reported: "The clay board book "Island Enlightenment Volume" has been distributed to three people. It is expected that everyone will have one copy within a month."

The book was compiled by Rosen himself, and it contains the most basic but also the most effective knowledge, which is guaranteed to be suitable for everyone.

The reason for using clay books is that paper books are too expensive. Rosen cannot afford to buy more than 20,000 books at once.

So currently only the magic instructor has paper books.

Naturally, the students' pens are charcoal pencils, and the paper is a blank clay board, or simply mud.

After looking at the classroom, the next thing is the cafeteria.

"Currently, there are 100 large pots in the cafeteria, using black stone as firewood. The daily staple food of students is boiled potatoes with salt, and the supplementary food is various vegetable stewed meat soup, mainly vegetables, and as much meat as possible."

Because they knew that the leader would come to inspect, the cafeteria had prepared food samples.

Rosen looked at them one by one, and after Alia confirmed that the food was fine, she asked someone to scoop a small bowl of vegetable soup for him.

He looked at the food and saw some animal oil floating on the soup, some minced meat, and some food aroma.

Under the terrified eyes of the crowd, he ate a few bites and felt that the taste was not delicious, but it was still edible, and the cleanliness was also good, and he could taste some meat.

"Not bad. Do it this way in the future, it can only be good, not bad. Most students are growing up, they must be very hungry, so make sure to give them enough."

After saying that, he drank the remaining vegetable stew in the bowl in a few gulps, and after handing the small bowl back, he could see Mrs. Fisher looking at him with a surprised look.

Not to mention the big noble families in Shire County, even the wealthy common people would disdain to eat this kind of big pot stew.

Rosen knew why she was surprised, and he completely understood it, because the standard of living in Shire County was indeed much higher than that on the island.

He seized the opportunity and said loudly: "Remember, every student in the college is a citizen of the island."

"My duty as a lord is to ensure that every island citizen can have enough to eat, and to eat as well as possible on the basis of being full."

"So, I will come to the college cafeteria at least one day a month and eat the same food as the students. I will come randomly, so don't think about dealing with me specifically."

Mrs. Fishery was not surprised but instead bowed her knee and said, "Yes, Dean."

She originally thought that the baron was following the trend of reorganizing new colleges in mainland China when he started this college. Even if he was willing to do it, he would be limited by his vision and attitude, and it would eventually become a superficial effort.

But now, she is not worried.

Afterwards, under the guidance of Mrs. Fishery, Rosen visited the student dormitories, drinking water wells, and even the toilets.

Finally, more than 400 magic instructors gathered together to give a lecture on school requirements, and this was the end of the first inspection of the academy.

It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon when we got on the carriage and left again.

The rain that had been suppressed all morning finally started to fall, but it was just a drizzle and had no big impact.

In the carriage, Rosen took out his clean leather boots and put them on. The muddy leather boots were naturally hung on the shelf outside the carriage.

"Lord, the college's expenses for a day are quite a lot."

Aaliyah's voice came through the car window.

"It's quite a lot, but if you invest a bit of money now, you will get at least ten dollars back in the future."

It even accounts for more than 30% of the island's current total expenditure, and because a large number of young people go off-duty to learn new skills, the island's labor force has been greatly reduced.

In order to squeeze out more resources for the academy, he and Selena both announced cuts in daily expenses to set an example for the upper echelons of the archipelago.

Anyway, save what you can.

Because high-quality citizens are the foundation of modern countries.

If you don't do it and others do it, you will have to be beaten hard in the future, and you and your people will have to work for others!

Therefore, he will not only do this in Paddlefish Island, but he will also do this in Weilan if he succeeds in taking control of Weilan in the future.

If Weilan wants to quickly catch up with the quality of the citizens of the various kingdoms in the Wit Continent, she must tighten her belt and take this powerful medicine to strengthen her foundation.

"Lord, there seems to be someone standing under the tree in front of us."

Rosen was stretching when he heard this and said, "This is not a wilderness. There is someone who is not normal."

He had noticed that person a long time ago, and he looked normal from a distance.

"She seems to have sprained her ankle and is sitting on the roadside rubbing her ankle."

Following Aaliya's words, Rosen's heart suddenly moved slightly, and he had a strange feeling. This was the unique sensitivity of a high-level mage.

‘No, not an ordinary person! ’

To be able to escape his ordinary observation and not notice anything unusual until he was more than 200 meters away, this person must be very extraordinary.

What he came out this time was his true form, so he didn't dare to be careless.

He immediately said to Laifu: "Release the fortune divination technique twenty times to find out the good and bad luck." ’

The alien mage divines fate, but his soul is from the earth, so he asks about good or bad luck.

A few seconds later, GPT, which was trained by people on earth, returned the results.

"Most divination results show that 'meeting noble people on the road will bring good fortune'."