Chapter 574 Expansion of Education

Summer comes with a heavy rain.

The dense rain fell on the glass window, making a crackling sound, and the scenery outside the window became blurred, and the town and the distant mountains could only be distinguished through the outline of color.

Roland stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the hazy city under the rain, with the singing still wafting in his ears.

He didn't expect that the combination of Echo's ability and the premiere of the play three days ago would have such an amazing effect.

At the end of the performance, the audience was silent, and the audience burst into tears—Roland thought that such a scene would only appear in later generations of high-end opera houses. Even a slightly grassroots movie theater will not have such an effect, let alone a group of ordinary people living in a backward era.

Even he, who was bombarded by various tear-jerking scenes, felt the tremor from the bottom of his heart.

That's the power of it.

Of course Roland knew what it meant to be able to sing inspiringly—in a protracted war, machines will not get tired, but people will. Even if guns and ammunition can be continuously transported to the battlefield, people will be overwhelmed by the pressure of survival with no end in sight. Especially when the situation is unfavorable and the casualties are heavy, this kind of emotion is extremely easy to magnify infinitely, and eventually the army loses its fighting spirit to win.

Historically, many methods have been thought up to improve the morale of the troops, such as providing soldiers with hot food as much as possible, airdropping ice cream, placing political commissars and chaplains, etc., but these are too demanding for Roland. To test the ability of logistics supply, it is difficult for the latter to cultivate a group of backbone members with firm beliefs and good at motivating others in a short period of time.

And Echo's ability allowed him to see a quick way to improve his aura.

Although it sounds absurd, cultivating idols is indeed more reliable than other methods.

Just as he was thinking, there was a knock on the office door, and Barov walked in.

"Your Majesty, the recent house purchase statistics are available."

"How is the result?"

"As you might expect," he excitedly spread out a list on the mahogany table, "Since the new play was staged, the number of people going to City Hall to apply for rent and purchase housing has increased significantly, and even marriage registration has also increased. A lot."

"Really?" Roland returned to the table to check Barov's statistics. It is not a purposeless entertainment. In addition to advocating the glory of labor and the greatness of construction, another point of view it contains is to link marriage with a stable home. Instead of allowing outsiders to slowly develop a sense of belonging, and allowing locals to accept these foreign visitors little by little through daily contact, it is better for him to define a simple standard to promote the integration of refugees from all over the world.

This standard is the house.

——It looks very rough, but it can save a lot of running-in time in extraordinary times.

If you want to gain people's approval, if you want to reap your own family, you must have a residence. Once outsiders have a permanent property, they will consciously maintain everything here. Of course, these concepts are not suitable to be stated directly, and they can be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people when they are put into dramas and told through stories.

It's like a diamond.

A classic advertising slogan that has been handed down forever pushed it to the position of the king of gemstones and a must for marriage, making people completely ignore its essence of being neither rare nor expensive.

At least the house still has a very high practical value.

For this reason, the goal cannot be set too far away, making people feel out of reach. You can apply for a rental house with one gold dragon, and you only need to pay another gold dragon as rent every year in the future. When the rent is equal to the selling price of the house, the house is automatically owned by the renter.

Of course, this goal cannot be achieved too easily. Even the cheapest single room requires 20 gold dragons, which means that it will take more than 20 years for handymen, temporary workers and other types of work to buy a room-and this kind of room can cost ten or more. It is less than five square meters, and there can only be a bed, a dining table and a toilet. In future generations, it will definitely be labeled as a black-hearted real estate developer.

All in all, according to Barov's statistics, the publicity was clearly successful.

Most of the rental applications come from the previous batches of refugees and serfs who arrived in the border area. Most of the requests for buying houses are artisans with higher salaries and down-and-out nobles who have brought their property before. Become a part of Neverwinter.

So Roland even thought about the content of the next new play, the theme of which was getting married and struggling to buy a big house.

"Good job," he rolled up the list and handed it to Barov, "The recent recruiting of refugees must continue to expand. Sufficient population is the guarantee for the development of Neverwinter, and other tasks can be temporarily made way for it. .”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The steward raised his beard with a smile.

"By the way, go and fetch Shujuan, I have something to explain to her."

...

"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?" She walked into the office wearing a white coat and a black dress, and a neat suit of books.

"I want to expand the scope of education to include those refugees who have just arrived in Neverwinter." Roland poured her a cup of tea. "If it is only for formal residents, they will have to wait at least a year before they can receive primary education."

"I'm afraid this is difficult to do at present," Shujuan said bluntly after thinking for a moment, "there are too many of them, the existing teachers can't take care of them, and the classrooms are not enough. If it is implemented according to what you said, the Ministry of Education will have to expand by at least two or three Double the manpower."

"I have a method that can reduce the pressure on teachers," Roland paused, "let them learn by themselves."

"Self-study?"

"That's right, open classes are held once a week, and only the most basic reading and writing are taught. The rest of the time is for them to practice by themselves through booklets with pictures and pronunciation. There are no performance tests, and there are no mandatory requirements. It's all about self-consciousness."

"This..." She subconsciously plucked strands of her rain-soaked hair, "It may not have much effect. Your Majesty, if there is no one to supervise, it is considered good if one person out of ten can learn it."

"Most of them are fine," Roland said with a smile, "I just want to give them a chance."

There will always be some people who will not be satisfied with boring and low-paying jobs, and are eager to achieve their goals faster. In order to prevent such people from going astray, we must guide them to achieve self-improvement in the right way.

In the future recruitment, the proportion of jobs that require literacy will be higher and higher, and the salary will be much higher than that of handyman. If you want to get a stable residence as soon as possible and get rid of poverty and hard work, self-learning to read and write will be a good choice.

Through this method, those who are motivated can also join in the construction of the city as soon as possible.

To maintain the vitality that a new regime should have, the most important thing is not to cut off the path of promotion from the bottom.

Roland deeply agrees with this.