And Vader's ambitions go far beyond that. He even wants to recruit students throughout Netheril, not just within the territory of his student Yusnar!
This once again exceeded Sha Duo's expectations, but Sha Duo did not pour cold water on Vader. With such a more radical person in front, the pressure on him would be much less.
If it can create a trend for other lords to follow, that would be even better.
"If you have made up your mind, you can send a group of articulate mages over, and I will arrange for people to train them into qualified full-time teachers. Consider it a little help from me in your career!"
"Are you willing to help me train full-time teachers?"
When Vader heard this, he was immediately overjoyed. He originally only had the idea of allowing him to visit and understand the education popularization mechanism of the Tower of Time, but he did not expect that he could directly send people to participate in it.
This will definitely speed up the process of popularizing education under his command.
"It is the obligation of allies to help each other, isn't it? Of course, the training fee cannot be less." Xia Duo said with a smile.
Earlier, as long as they were born in the same tower, no matter how hard they messed around, they could easily become a mage; later, it was far more difficult for the heirs of lords from all over the country to become mages than it was for the Yidan people.
As for these guests who came as private persons, Mr. Xia did not receive them again, but asked Lai Dun to entertain them. Whether they wanted to live in the ground territory of Linshui Village or in the floating city, they would try their best to satisfy them. These words made Wade was stunned for several seconds, and then he sighed and said with emotion: "I'm not as good as Lord Shado!"
Before the meeting between Yidan and Wade, Mr. Xia did not go to see the previous guest. Instead, he was alone and thinking quietly. I was thinking about the various possible consequences of helping Wade establish an education system. kind of influence.
Young Master Xia plans to use Vader as a pathfinder first, to test the reaction of the lords from various places in Netheril, and also to see the problems that may be encountered before the magic school appears, and then deal with it beforehand.
It can be seen that establishing education is not beneficial to social development. Only those without vested interests will be afraid of an undertaking that can easily create a new class.
The mages of Netheril in the past were selected from bottom to top based on their talents. To a very small extent, they were only related to their origins!
Previously, Young Master Xia met with several councilors one after another, and some lords who came after them because of their admiration. Young Master Xia also met them in person, but they were all together. I really have the time and energy to meet and negotiate with us one by one.
Even if not, it is a reality to support the entire territory by oneself. Development problems still have to be solved through development. But once development is setback, will these lords still be willing to popularize education or promote magic for civilian use?
Even if special people don't have the opportunity to retreat to the mage tower and come into contact with magic, there are still no various obstacles waiting for us behind.
That problem seems to be related to Mr. Xia, but the development of Xiao Xia Leader depends on the wealth and resources obtained from other places in Netheril. Once problems arise elsewhere, it will be difficult for me to be alone.
Since the situation at the Tower of Time is not yet open to the outside world, the outside world can only indirectly speculate based on some situations of recruiting new people in the territory, but this is the same for Vader.
Afterwards, Wade declined Sha Duo's invitation to stay and visit the Culture and Art Festival. He couldn't wait to go back and select seeds for full-time teachers. As for culture and art, he didn't really care.
But what about the other lords of Netheril?
"Vade, Vader, I hope he can find a feasible path!"
Anyway, I want to directly confront the conservative forces in Netheril. Not only can I, but I obviously can't do anything worse, so why bother with tit-for-tat?
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Both Xia Shao and Vader are vested interests, but we are both more conceited. Xia Shao himself does not have much of a dictatorial mindset, while Vader only pursues (magic) technological breakthroughs, which is too much. Care about nothing else.
If you want to build a magic academy, or school, for all of Netheril, you will definitely achieve some results. If you don't achieve anything, maybe it will attract a small number of imitators.
Those who are more enlightened may think too little and will not join the camp of popularizing education as long as we see the benefits; but these conservatives, even if they see the immediate benefits, can hardly imagine that the mage class will treat us now before it grows. Authority leads to weakening.
Like Wade, I guess I will think about that problem. I may just think about collecting the talents I need through popular education, and then that will be enough.
At most, with the size of Muhou Nanjing, it is difficult to be alone.
Chaos is almost an inevitable result.
In the past, there was a small chance that I would scheming with my mentor for the rest of my life. When I was finally no longer qualified to accept an apprentice, would I be willing to hand over the knowledge and experience I had gained with so much effort and financial resources to the apprentice for a fee?
There is a saying in Shao Xia's hometown that "a young daughter-in-law survives to become a mother-in-law". Even if a person who grew up in the apprenticeship system becomes a mentor and cannot control his own destiny, it will be difficult for him to break away from the inertia of that system.
In the Southern Territory, Xia Shao and the popularization of education have been declining at the same time, and magic has not yet been popularized by civilians, thus creating a small enough social division of labor to accommodate the increasing number of new mages.
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Here, Mr. Xia still has to consider another issue, which is not how to arrange the small number of new mages brought by the academy system.
When he was in his hometown, Mr. Xia saw a saying once and for all, which said - I have only seen a country that was poor and ruined because of education!
Taking Mr. Xia's own personal experience as an example, in the traditional mage tower, during the apprenticeship stage, you can only listen to lectures, but you can inquire about various consumables and infrastructure necessary for the learning process. Everything is free of charge!
In reality, the issue does not go beyond the realm of liberalism and conservatism, but rather that the old system naturally has a conservative tendency.
It is conceivable that once the academy system is made public, it will cause a lot of trouble in Netheril.
But would other territories do that?
We must do that, but where does the cost come from? In order to popularize magic, Master Xia artificially transferred a small amount of wealth to the people. Don't other lords have such courage?
But Mr. Xia needs to consider what will happen to a rapidly expanding emerging class that will definitely be unable to get what it wants.
Even if you become an official mage, you have just escaped the fate of a high-level consumable, but you have become a relatively low-level consumable. The first step for a new mage is not to choose a mentor, but to choose someone who will exploit you.
If I insist on saying that there was no art in that world, then in my eyes, magic is not the only art.
It cannot be said that in the past, in traditional mage towers including the Tower of Time, apprentices were basically just consumables and tools for making money, and the chance of becoming a mage was pitifully high.
It is not just as complicated as training a few full-time teachers, but also includes at least a set of basic teaching materials that cannot be put into use immediately, and even many details of the entire education system.