Chapter 246 School Graduation

After Benbolba learned how to make the water totem, Yang Yi and the other murlocs said goodbye to the tauren and the old murloc, and then returned to Ratchet Town.

With Old Blind Eye, the deputy mayor of Ratchet Town, Yang Yi was relatively relieved.

As soon as Yang Yi came back, Old Blind Eye came to him immediately.

"Lord, we have found more than 150 adult murlocs from Ratchet Bay these days. According to the Lord's instructions, Old Blind Eye has arranged them all to go to the farmland east of the town to help harvest ragweed." Old Blind Eye reported.

"Only 150 adult murlocs were collected from Ratchet Bay, which is less than the previous estimate." Yang Yi was a little surprised, but it was reasonable after thinking about it. After all, most of the murlocs who did not live in Ratchet Town at the beginning had other reasons, just like the old murloc who had lost a leg he met before, and finally did not plan to live in Ratchet Town.

"There are only about 500 acres of farmland in the town at present. Before the construction worker Gulu and his team build more farmland, the manpower of more than 100 fishmen should be enough for farming in a short period of time." Yang Yi said.

"Lord, these fishmen who were assigned to harvest ragweed have been complaining. Because the weather is too hot, the mucus on the fish scales dries quickly, and the fishmen are very uncomfortable." Old Blind said.

This is indeed a big problem.

The fishmen are indeed not suitable for staying on dry land for a long time. The previous fishmen farmer apprentices stayed in the vine jungle of gravel to grow mushrooms, and most of the time they did not need to be exposed to the sun.

Farming requires facing the loess and back to the sky. The sun above this barren land is very poisonous.

Knowing this, Yang Yi began to worry again.

In order for the population of Ratchet Town to explode in the future, the supply of food must be greatly increased.

Land farming and bay aquaculture are the two main directions for increasing grain production envisioned by Yang Yi, and both must be done simultaneously.

So Yang Yi said: "Farming is indeed hard for the murlocs, so let them hold on for a while. After all, this is just the beginning, and maybe some murlocs can find a way to adapt. After a while, if Ratchet Town gets some slaves, they will be arranged to farm."

Yang Yi didn't think of any better way for a while, so he could only arrange it this way.

If the next stage of the action against the murlocs of the Blackfin Clan goes smoothly, Yang Yi plans to let the captured Blackfin Clan slaves do farming.

For the time being, farming can only be decided in this way.

In addition to this matter, the old blind man brought good news.

"Lord, the first batch of murlocs in the murloc school have reached the time to leave school according to the plan."

"Time flies so fast, I didn't expect that there would be murlocs graduating from school so soon." Yang Yi sighed, and then he said: "Why not gather the murlocs in the town and hold a graduation ceremony."

"Graduation ceremony?" The old blind man didn't understand what this was.

"Yes, the graduation ceremony is a big event for our Ratchet Town. Go and gather the fishmen to the square first."

"Yes, Lord."

When Old Blind Eye heard Yang Yi say that the graduation ceremony was a big event for Ratchet Town, he immediately ran to make arrangements according to Yang Yi's instructions.

This time, due to the rush, Yang Yi only asked Old Blind Eye to gather the fishmen in Ratchet Town.

At this time, in addition to the combat fishmen responsible for guarding, the people who stayed in Ratchet Town were mainly the life professionals in the town, and the little fishmen.

After a bustling, nearly a thousand adult fishmen and more little fishmen slowly gathered in the central square of Ratchet Town.

These adult fishmen were okay. Most of them just looked around curiously after arriving at the square. The thousands of little fishmen started chasing and playing as soon as they arrived at the square, making a lot of noise and making a big fuss.

Yang Yi had expected such a scene, so Old Blind Eye quickly rushed to the scene with a large group of patrolling fishmen.

The arrival of these patrolling murlocs, in addition to teaching the noisy little murlocs a lesson, also has an important task, which is to distribute a portion of food to each murloc present.

For murlocs, what the graduation ceremony is about is not important, what is most important is to have something to eat.

The little murlocs are also foodies. When they heard that they could only get food if they stood quietly, they immediately turned into wooden figures.

As soon as the big move of distributing food was used, the noisy situation was immediately controlled and the scene quickly quieted down.

Yang Yi walked onto the platform in the center of the town with satisfaction, ready to host the first graduation ceremony of the Murloc School in Ratchet Town.

The Murloc School was built on the edge of the town center square, but due to the limited space of the school and the lack of a podium, Yang Yi temporarily used the town center as a podium.

"Today is the first graduation ceremony of the Murloc School. It is an important day for our Ratchet Town." Yang Yi shouted in a loud voice. His voice was loud enough and he didn't need a loud speaker to amplify it.

"The mayor said it well, everyone applaud." Benbolba stood at the front of the crowd, and when he heard Yang Yi pause, he immediately took the lead in applauding.

The other fishmen also applauded one by one.

"Okay, I have decided to name the fishman school now, and it will be called Ratchet Tide Academy." Yang Yi announced loudly.

Quack, quack.

Hearing the name, the fishmen in the audience immediately applauded.

Yang Yi was very satisfied with the warm applause, and he was also very satisfied with the name of Ratchet Tide College. Just now, he thought hard and finally didn't name it Ratchet College directly.

"Clap your hands and don't fight. The fishmen who perform well can get another food after the graduation ceremony." Yang Yi said.

Wow!

The applause was thunderous and lasted for a long time.

The fishmen shouted long live the mayor, and the graduation ceremony reached its climax.

When the applause and shouting finally stopped, Yang Yi asked the old blind man to lead the graduating fishmen to the platform in the center of the town.

The fishman school in Ratchet Town, that is, the Ratchet Tide College, has actually been built for a year and a half. Yang Yi originally planned to let the fishmen graduate after one year of study, but because the school had just been put into operation for the first half of the year, the teachers and students of the school were not all there, so the first graduation was delayed for a year.

There are about two hundred little fishmen graduating this time, most of whom are three to five years old.

One and a half years is actually very short for school study. By the time these little fishmen graduate, they have mastered some basic knowledge and learned some crafts from the town's professional fishmen.

The most important thing is that through learning, these little fishmen have learned to read and write. Although they don't master many words, they can at least read and write simple notices.

It is gratifying that the illiteracy rate of the fishmen in Ratchet Town has a chance to drop below 95%.

In order to reflect the importance of the graduation ceremony, Yang Yi decided to personally issue graduation certificates to each graduating little fishman.

The graduating little fishmen went on stage in teams of ten, and Yang Yi distributed a shell to them in turn.

This shell was specially made by Yang Yi for the town's water forger, and it was used as a graduation certificate for Ratchet Tidal College.

The shell is made of ungrown small hard-shell clams. The hard-shell clams are hard and easy to preserve for a long time, which is just right for graduation certificates.

The purpose of breeding hard-shell clams in Ratchet Town is to provide water forgers with clam shell shields, so the small shells are picked out from the farm early in the morning.

The clam meat from the hard-shell clams is called [fishy clam meat]. As the name suggests, it is not suitable for consumption, so these small hard-shell clams are basically thrown away after being picked out.

However, the murlocs have a natural habit of collecting seashells. For a long time, seashells were even used as currency for murlocs, so these clam shells were picked up by the murlocs and piled up in the murloc huts.

Yang Yi saw that the shells of these small hard-shell clams could be used, so he asked the water forger to take them to the water forging and process them into graduation certificates.

Water forging is a special forging process, and there is no other place in the entire Kalimdor continent. Therefore, although the shell graduation certificate is only simply water forged, it is not easy to imitate.

The first group of ten fishmen who came on stage to receive their diplomas included Benbol Ba and Mojimus. These two little guys finally graduated from school, while the Guji Gudong sisters will have to wait until this time next year to graduate.

Benbol Ba and Mojimus came forward first, and there was a large turtle shell on the ground, with light yellow ink in the shell.

"Dip your right palm in ink and then print it on a shell." Yang Yi explained.

"Boss, why do you print your handprint on a shell?" Benbol Ba asked curiously.

"You are the one who talks too much. You just print it when I tell you to." Yang Yi scolded.

Mojimus had no objection at all. As soon as Yang Yi finished speaking, he used his right hand to dip the turtle shell full of ink, and then pressed it steadily on a small hard-shell clam.

When Mojimus moved his hand away, a yellow palm print was clearly printed on the small hard-shell clam.

Well, Yang Yi looked at the effect and was very satisfied.

The light yellow ink in the turtle shell is [Moonlight Ink], which is named because it emits a faint light yellow light under the moonlight.

[Moonlight Ink] is often used by low-level inscription masters to draw inscription scrolls and carvings. A small bottle of [Moonlight Ink] is sold for 5 silver coins.

More than 20 bottles of [Moonlight Ink] were poured into this big turtle shell. Yang Yi was determined to spend a lot of money this time.

After being reprimanded by Yang Yi, Benbol Ba immediately followed Mojimus and printed his handprint on another clam shell.

Since there were about 200 murloc graduates, the process was very simple. The murlocs went on stage in teams and printed their handprints one by one, waiting for Yang Yi to personally issue them with graduation certificates before going down.

Yang Yi issued graduation certificates one by one, and at the same time used the Lord's Eye to look at the attribute information of these murlocs.

Finally, Yang Yi discovered that, except for the two A-level murlocs, Benbolba and Mojimus, there were 18 D-level murlocs among the approximately 200 murlocs, 100-odd E-level murlocs, and the rest were F-level murlocs.

These were the murlocs that Yang Yi had selected with the Lord's Eye when they enrolled. Otherwise, the proportion of G-level murlocs in the murloc tribe would be more than half, which means that even if more than half of the murlocs were given a certain amount of training, most of them could only stay at the level of apprentices.

"Just wait until the next class. There are many good seedlings among the next class of murlocs, and many of them are likely to be the descendants of the old blind and the Black brothers." Yang Yi could only comfort himself in this way. .