Chapter 3238: Summary of the Stage: Military Reform

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

Since Xia Duo himself controls one of the two major sources of income of the Northern Alliance, he just needs a legitimate reason to transfer funds.

So after determining the subsidy standard, he immediately returned to Evereska and quickly completed all the procedures. The rest is to allocate funds.

For him, the actual operation is just a transfer from left hand to right hand.

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Since the Alliance Magic Disaster Prevention Center has taken over the investigation and repair of the seven decay fields in Elan, Xia Duo does not need to stay there for the time being. Before the next sacrifice experiment begins, he has a lot of free time.

Using this time, he turned back to realize the main body again. Many reports on the Midsummer Celebration a few days ago have appeared on the information shelf in his study.

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

In other words, the current Daxia Territory has a very abundant potential for recruiting new students.

And the order he gave to Leighton and the various departments of the Tower of Time was to recruit as many students as possible based on the actual acceptance capacity of the Tower of Time.

Because once the children of the right age miss the recruitment of new students that year, according to the recruitment rules of the Tower of Time, they will most likely have the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time only when magic education is further popularized.

Unless he is talented enough to become a new wizard through self-study, he can get the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time outside the normal recruitment rules.

But unfortunately, the assessment of new wizards now is no longer like the new wizards of the old era, who can be certified as long as they cast a spell, but need to pass two rounds of assessments of theory + practice to obtain the new wizard rank.

Without systematic training and practice, ordinary people may be able to obtain spellcasting ability by self-studying textbooks, but it is basically impossible to pass the assessment. Otherwise, what is the meaning of the teaching organized by the Tower of Time?

But after reading this year's recruitment report, Xia Duo was still a little disappointed. The midsummer recruitment that just passed only recruited 1,200 new apprentices. Counting the recruitment of new apprentices in the first half of the year, there were only 2,000 people in total.

This means that at least 6,000 people in the territory have not been able to get the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time! (Children of the right age refer to 16 years old, and there are new ones every year~17-year-olds will not be recruited, and younger ones can go to the enlightenment class first)

After reading the reports of Leighton, Jose, De Park and others, Xia Duo realized that it was not that they did not want to recruit more people, but that the Tower of Time really could not accept more people.

At present, the biggest shortcoming of the educational resources of the Tower of Time is the number of teachers. If 8,000 people are to be enrolled every year, at least 200 teachers are needed, and on average one teacher teaches 40 people.

But in reality, it is impossible for one teacher to teach all the courses in a class, and considering the areas of expertise of each teacher, multiple teachers are needed to correspond to the same class.

Of course, one teacher can also correspond to multiple classes.

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

If we calculate it at a ratio of 15:1, and add the three-year cycle for an apprentice to grow into a new mage, the Tower of Time needs to maintain a teacher scale of at least 1,600 people.

On average, there are 530 teachers per grade, corresponding to 8,000 students per grade.

The current Tower of Time has only more than 200 full-time teachers, which can be said to be a huge gap. This year, the two enrollments of Melting Snow and Midsummer recruited a total of 2,000 people, which is actually under great pressure.

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Xia Duo really couldn't ask for more.

He could only find a way to expand the teaching team and let those new mages "transfer" to the teaching profession as much as possible, rather than other things, but he couldn't force the new mages to give up the opportunity to further their studies and devote themselves to the cause of education.

He could only encourage and guide them, but this still made him feel very distressed.

In the long run, the education that new mages receive at this stage may not be the best, and their growth environment and even their talents may not be the best, but Xia Duo dares to say that these people are definitely the most hardworking!

Hard work may not necessarily increase the upper limit, but it can guarantee a higher lower limit. Unfortunately, this group of talents, which Xia Duo thinks can be said to be the best, may be destined to become victims of the development of civilization.

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

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After reading the report on recruiting new mages submitted by Leighton and others, Xia Duo wrote a note at the back, "Encourage and guide new mages to invest in education and expand the scale of teachers as soon as possible."

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

But there was a report that he specifically picked out and prepared to meet with Leighton in person.

That afternoon, Xia Duo left the Tower of Time and appeared in Linshui Town, which had just completed reconstruction. Of course, the floating city inspection and maintenance base on the west side of the river had not yet officially started construction.

After all, it is a huge magic facility that requires a large number of mages to participate. Now the schedules of the mages in the Tower of Time who are capable of participating in this project are mostly full, so 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 maintains sufficient vitality after the festival. The only shortcoming is that the residential area has only built houses, and many infrastructures have not been fully completed.

In comparison, the workshop area in the east seems much more complete, but Xiaduo is 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.

"Sir, what do you want?"

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

"Yes."

Then, Simon took Shado and Leighton into the barracks. They didn't stop to visit, and the three of them went straight to Simon's office.

Shado put a report in front of Leighton and Simon and said, "Is this what you submitted?"

Leighton 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 Shado 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, he gave it to Leighton first, and now it appeared in the hands of the lord. Did Leighton add something new?

"Sir, this report was indeed written by me and handed it to Governor Leighton two days ago. I wonder what instructions you have for this report?"