Chapter 154: Writing Textbooks

Uncle Powell pays great attention to Adrian, but not to his daughter.

Especially for a daughter without extraordinary talent, the relationship is even more ordinary.

Flora is already 19 years old, but Uncle Powell has not planned a marriage for her, as if he has forgotten this daughter.

Flora is a member of the Harland family branch, and her succession to the title ranks in the top ten.

She herself does not have the blood of a knight, so it is very difficult to marry a noble. If she insists on marrying a noble, she can only choose from the crooked melons and cracked dates.

Besides, Richard is now short of available talents, and he is not willing to marry this cousin.

He introduced Jennings, the young squadron leader of the territory, to Flora.

Flora is very satisfied with Jennings, and after notifying Uncle Powell, Powell did not refuse.

The customs in most areas of the Dawn Plane do not have the habit of dating, and the level of social development cannot support the luxury of free love.

Marriage in this world is very simple, and it can be settled after meeting once.

The higher the family background, the less autonomy one has in marriage. Only geniuses like Richard and Sophia have some say in marriage.

Flora and Jennings met a few times and decided to get engaged. Their wedding was scheduled for February.

In order to recruit talents, Richard offered a very high salary to elementary school teachers.

Ordinary teachers earn eight silver coins a month, two months of vacation a year, three days off each month, nine months of work a year, and an annual salary of eight gold coins, which is higher than the highest paid soldiers in Harland Territory.

A soldier's annual salary is only eight gold coins. Soldiers have few vacations, training is very hard, and they have to face various dangers.

Relying on high salaries, they recruited several students that the church did not like.

Flora's salary is three times that of a teacher, reaching two gold coins per month, slightly higher than the deputy squadron leader.

With such a high income, plus the blood of the Harland family, marrying Jennings is definitely a step up for him.

The tuition fee of Riverbank Primary School is not cheap. The annual tuition fee is one gold coin, which is even a heavy burden for ordinary families.

Except for the middle and upper classes of the territory, there are no free people who can take care of it for the time being.

There are more than 160 students in the primary school, the oldest are already 15 or 16 years old, and the youngest are only 7 or 8 years old.

These children are basically illiterate.

Their fathers were almost all slaves and refugees. Relying on their own talents and the more opportunities for the initial establishment of the territory, they were promoted by Richard and achieved a class leap.

Most people who climbed the class generally have higher IQs and stronger abilities than ordinary people, and they attach great importance to education.

More than 160 children were sent to school out of more than 200.

The remaining 40 or so children are probably all those who have brothers and sisters in school at home, and they did not go to school because the burden was too heavy.

Even for territory managers and low-level officers, a gold coin is not a small amount of money.

There are only six teachers in the Riverbank Primary School. Because the number of teachers is not enough, the principal Flora also teaches in person.

After the start of school, Flora has prepared the compilation of law and geography textbooks.

Law and geography are courses only available in senior grades, and there are no textbooks for the time being.

The laws of the Harland Territory are temporarily copied from the laws of the Kingdom of Grant, and they can be revised slowly in the future.

A noble lord has the right to make laws in his own territory.

However, the lord's law cannot conflict with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Grant.

The purpose of the law course is mainly to train judges for the territory.

It is actually very difficult to write legal textbooks. Flora needs to read a lot of legal books to find out the provisions suitable for the Harland territory.

The writing of geography textbooks is also very difficult and requires a lot of map information.

Flora has read almost all the maps collected by the Harland family.

The mountains, canyons, rivers, and castles of the territory are all engraved in Flora's mind.

The geography course is mainly for drawing maps. After learning to draw maps, officers of the same professional level will be promoted first.

With the accumulation of knowledge, Richard will open a middle school in the future, learn more geographical knowledge, and start geology courses.

With the development of geology, it will be easier to find mines.

If the geology of the Dawn Plane wants to develop, it may be inseparable from the help of magic. Flora has no talent for magic, and it is difficult to do magic experiments. At most, she can only complete the writing of elementary school textbooks.

Can magical geology develop? To become the new development direction of the magic civilization of the Dawn Continent, it is estimated that it will depend on the research of the next generation of magicians.

Richard attaches great importance to Riverbank Primary School, and even found Sophia and Wendy to participate in the compilation of textbooks with Flora.

The textbooks for literature and mathematics were very simple at the beginning, and only needed to copy the textbooks of church schools.

These two textbooks were handed over to six teachers and were completed before the start of school.

Law and geography are new courses taught at Riverbank Primary School. The textbook compilation work may last for two or three years. Richard and the other two have other things to do, so they can only share some simple work. The main work is still done by Flora.

Flora compiled the textbooks, and Richard's brother-in-law Roger was also preparing the first edition of the code of Grant Territory.

In recent years, Richard has mainly used military law to govern the territory.

Military law is very strict and not suitable for the sustainable development of the territory.

Roger is proficient in the code of the Kingdom of Grant and has served as an auditor in the south.

He is the most knowledgeable person in the territory in terms of law. Although he is very busy as a civil official, he still has to work overtime every night to compile the Code of Harland Territory.

In order to relieve himself of pressure, Roger wrote a letter to his brother Otto, hoping that Otto could come back and help his brother-in-law govern the territory.

In the letter, Roger was very optimistic about the development of the Harland family and introduced the situation of the Harland family.

Otto served as a judge in Nolan, and he was a real legal professional.

If Otto was willing to come back, Richard would appoint him as the chief justice of the Harland territory.

Anne followed Sofia to learn magic. Children with magical talents such as Bonova, Connie, and Alice temporarily needed to learn a year of writing before they could start practicing meditation.

Riverside Primary School enrolled 163 students this year, and divided them into four classes according to age.

Because the students were all illiterate, the knowledge taught in the four classes was actually the same.

Because of the different ages, the children's comprehension ability, learning progress, and learning habits will also be different. The younger children are more playful, and the older ones have basically experienced hardships and are generally very studious.

After a period of time, the teaching progress will be faster.

Counting Flora's seven teachers, teaching more than 100 children, the teacher's task is a little heavy, and Richard is also preparing to recruit a few teachers.

In order to attract talents, Richard offered teachers a high salary. Six teachers plus Flora would earn 72 gold coins a year.

If a few more teachers were recruited, the salary expenditure might exceed 100 gold coins.

In addition, it takes money to build a school. Desks, chairs, benches, blackboards, and chalks all cost money. Even if he charged high tuition fees, Richard actually did not make money running a school.