Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3238: Summary of the Military Reform
Thirty million gold coins cannot support the complete digital blue gold coin plan, but it is completely sufficient as start-up capital, and even more than enough.

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

So after determining the subsidy standards, he immediately returned to Evereska and completed all the procedures quickly. All that was left was the allocation of funds.

For him, the actual operation is just a matter of transferring money from left hand to right hand.

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Since the Alliance's Demonic Disaster Prevention Center took over the investigation and repair of the seven decay sites in Elan, Shado no longer needed to stay there for the time being. He had a lot of free time before the next sacrifice experiment began.

Using this time, he regained consciousness and found that several reports on the Midsummer Celebrations of the previous few days had appeared on the shelf in his study.

The first thing he paid attention to was the recruitment of new members in mid-summer. According to previous statistics, the current number of children of school-age in the territory should be around eight thousand, while the number of apprentices and new mages in the Tower of Time was only more than three thousand, less than four thousand.

In other words, the current Daxia territory has abundant potential for recruiting new members.

The orders he gave to Leiden and the various departments of the Tower of Time were to recruit as many students as possible based on the Tower of Time's actual acceptance capacity.

This is because once children of the appropriate age miss the annual admission, according to the Tower of Time's admission rules, they will most likely have no chance to enter the Tower of Time until magic education becomes more popular.

Unless he is talented enough to become a new wizard through self-study, he will be able to get the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time outside the normal rules for recruiting new members.

But unfortunately, the assessment for new mages nowadays is no longer like that of the old era, where one could be certified just by casting a spell. Instead, one needs to pass two rounds of assessment, theoretical and practical, to obtain the new mage rank.

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

But after reading this year's recruitment report, Xia Duo couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. In the midsummer recruitment that just passed, only 1200 new apprentices were recruited. Including the recruitment in the first half of the year, the total number of people was only 2000.

This means that there are at least 16 people in the territory who have not been able to get the opportunity to enter the Tower of Time! (Children of the appropriate age refer to those aged 17. There are new children every year. Those aged will not be admitted. Younger children can attend the enlightenment class first.)
After reading the reports from 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.

Currently, the biggest shortcoming of the educational resources of the Tower of Time is the number of teachers. If 8000 students are to be enrolled every year, at least 200 teachers will be needed, with an average of one teacher teaching 40 students.

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

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

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

If we calculate based on a ratio of 15:1, and considering that it takes three years for an apprentice to grow into a new wizard, the Tower of Time will need to maintain a teaching staff of at least 1600 people.

There are an average of 530 teachers per grade, corresponding to 8000 students in each grade.

At present, the Tower of Time has only more than 200 full-time teachers, so the gap is huge. This year, the two enrollment sessions of Melting Snow and Midsummer recruited a total of 2000 people, which is actually under tremendous pressure.

Xia Duo really couldn't ask for more.

He could only think of ways to expand the teaching staff and let as many new mages as possible "change careers" to teaching professions, rather than anything else, but he could not force the new mages to give up the opportunity for further studies and devote themselves to the cause of education.

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

In the long run, the education that the new mages at this stage receive may not be the best, and their growing environment and even their talents may not necessarily be the best, but Xia Duo dares to say with confidence that these people are definitely the most hardworking!
Hard work may not necessarily raise the upper limit, but it can guarantee a higher lower limit. Unfortunately, this group of people, who Xia Duo considers to be the most talented, may be destined to become victims of the development of civilization.

This is what is called "sacrificing a generation to lay a solid foundation for the modernization of magic"!
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After reading the report on recruiting new teachers submitted by Leighton and others, Xia Duo wrote a note at the back, saying "encourage and guide new masters to engage in education and expand the teaching staff as soon as possible."

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

But there was one report that he singled out and planned to discuss 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 the participation of a large number of mages. However, the schedules of the mages in the Tower of Time who are capable of participating in this project are mostly full, and it is difficult for them to spare time to do this.

And the most important thing is that there is no special need for inspection and maintenance for Xiaduo’s two floating cities now. This project can be put aside for the time being and other more important things can be done first.

Xia Duo walked around Linshui Town in hiding. After the festival, Linshui Town still maintained plenty of vitality. The only drawback was that the residential area had only built houses, and many infrastructures were not fully completed.

In comparison, the workshop area in the east seemed much more complete, but Xia Duo was 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 governor of the territory.

"Sir, what are your orders?"

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

"Yes."

Then, Simon took Chateau and Leighton into the barracks. Without stopping to visit, the three of them went straight to Simon's office inside.

Xia Duo placed a report in front of Leighton and Simon and said, "This is what you submitted, right?"

Leighton had to organize and submit a lot of reports almost every day, and he didn't have the ability to remember everything he saw. Looking at the report in front of him, which was specifically pointed out by Xia Duo 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 immediately. Isn't this the report he submitted a few days ago? He gave it to Leighton first, and now it appears in the hands of the lord. Could it be that Leighton added some new content?
"Sir, I did write this report and handed it to Governor Leiden two days ago. I wonder what instructions you have for this report?"