Even if the threshold for becoming a mage is very low, there are still a few people who have the potential to further their studies. This is just like Xia Duo's hometown.
It seems that college students are all over the streets, and there are so many of them that no one wants them anywhere. But after checking, I found out that the bachelor's degree rate is only 4%!
In this world, it's hard to say whether spellcasters account for 4% of the population, let alone arcanists.
According to Sha Duo's personal experience and his observations of many apprentices and mages of the Tower of Time, arcanists could actually be regarded as middle school students before.
Only becoming an arcanist is equivalent to going to college, and this process requires many years of study and further study.
Even with Shado, with all the conveniences and advanced learning methods brought from Earth, it still took him at least seven years to become an arcanist (including the time in the projection plane).
Therefore, the actual proportion of arcanists, let alone 4% of the population, would make Xia Duo laugh even if it was only 1%.
If it is one percent, it means that even with the current population, the Daxia Territory plus the Saville Territory can give birth to more than 600 arcane masters.
What kind of concept is this? Maybe the total number of arcane masters in Netheril today is not that many!
Moreover, modern education on Earth requires huge investments, but here, today's Saville and Daxia territories are simply unable to allow all the territory's citizens to study off-duty at once, and the training will continue for many years.
It is simply impossible to achieve leapfrog development.
Of course, in the eyes of the Nese people, Xia Duo's current ideas and actions may already be a leap in development.
But in his own view, this is just a step-by-step process under the guidance of advanced theories, and it is far from a leap.
Since you can't jump, you have to look for opportunities from population. And from a long-term perspective, population is also an invisible condition that any civilization with limited individual wisdom cannot circumvent.
This is like the core industrial population on Earth. To maintain a relatively complete industrial system before Xia Duo traveled through time, tens of millions of core industrial people were needed.
This is just the industrial population. If other industries are included, the number will be even greater.
Basically, countries with a total population of less than 50 million do not even have a complete modern industrial foundation, let alone development. They can only rely on some side technologies to try to occupy a place in the future.
But obviously, the future protagonists cannot be them at all.
Because what they can develop, countries with large populations can also develop, and even if they fall behind slightly, they can catch up quickly.
Chateau had even heard of a theory that said that in order for the Fourth Industrial Revolution to break out, the core industrial population needed would be in the hundreds of millions.
At the same time, there will be more and more subdivisions in the future, and the demand for scientific researchers will also increase.
Regarding the game of the future, big countries have always participated and small countries have their say. The "big" and "small" here can basically refer to the population in modern society on earth.
In this real magical world, perhaps the nature of the world is different from the universe where the earth is located, but the laws of development can also be learned from each other.
Perhaps, the gods of this world possess infinite wisdom, but on the road to becoming gods, individual wisdom is always not as strong as the collective.
Furthermore, Chateau simply does not believe that God has infinite wisdom. If he did, he would be omniscient, and omniscience can infer omnipotence.
But obviously, the gods are not omniscient and omnipotent.
As long as it is limited, it must be 1+1>1. If you listen to both, you will be enlightened, but if you believe only, you will be dark. The ancients on earth all had such wisdom. How could Xia Duo be so arrogant as to think that his own wisdom is enough to surpass everyone including him?
There is a gathering of more people!
It's okay to joke sometimes, but if you still think so when you are alone in your heart and seriously thinking about future development plans, it is short-sighted.
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Walking to the door of the Materials Department, Xia Duo had already determined in his mind the basic policy for the comprehensive introduction of new people. Of course, the specific implementation steps needed to be considered in the long term.
Not only do we need to listen to the advice of people with many experiences, but we also need to discuss it with Niya. He can't just slap his head here and do it.
Entering the supplies department, Cecily quickly greeted her. She seemed to have been waiting here for a long time, "Sir, there is something I feel it is necessary to say."
"Um?"
Chateau looked at Cecily for a moment, but her formulaic expression made it difficult for him to capture any information, so he walked around her, sat down on a seat inside, and said:
"What's the matter? I happen to have something to ask you, so you can tell me first!"
"wait a minutes."
Cecily turned around and pulled out a pile of loose parchment documents from the desk, brought it to Shado, and then said:
"It's like this. During the month you left, Tilak Research Laboratory applied for a large amount of supplies. Of course, I know that those are mainly for manufacturing communication instruments and have been approved. But in the long run, the Tower of Time will
Faced with a shortage of supplies!
"In addition, after the implementation of the "Tower of Time Laboratory Management Regulations", it was difficult for those mid-level mages to interfere with outsourced tasks, so they all began to follow Tilak's example and conduct research on new topics in order to apply for supplies from me, but absolutely
Most supplies were wasted or became their private property."
At the end of the sentence, Cecily's face finally no longer had the formulaic expression before, but had a somewhat angry look on her face, as if she was dissatisfied with the actions of those mid-level mages.
While Xia Duo listened, he flipped through the documents on the table. There were application records on them, the most numerous of which were of course the Tilak Research Laboratory.
Although the communication magic weapon has been mass-produced and has been handed over to the Magic Mechanic's Department for production, the Magic Mechanic's Department is equivalent to an outsourcing factory and requires various research laboratories to place orders.
The communication magic weapon can be regarded as a product of Tilak Research Laboratory. Of course, when calculating the share, the Tower of Time accounts for the majority. After all, both the spells and the funds are provided by the Tower of Time.
But nominally, the communication equipment materials from the Magical Mechanics Department still need to be applied for by Tilak Research Laboratory, which is considered a normal process.
After all, proceduralization, standardization, institutionalization, and clear responsibilities have always been a keynote that Xia Duo deliberately emphasized in promoting the transformation of the Tower of Time.
Only in this way will it be more conducive for the Tower of Time to transform into a highly ordered modern organization.
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Tilak's laboratory's application for materials, in addition to the production of communication instruments, also includes materials to maintain the laboratory's normal teleportation.
Xia Duo recalled the number of applications and found that there was not much change from the number of applications they had applied for before. It seemed that Tilak Research Laboratory had been in a stable state.
Under the application documents for the Tilak Laboratory, there was also an application document for the Leonard Laboratory that Cecily had not mentioned just now.