Unlike the bustling cooking competition, the specially carved competition can only be described as deserted.
Although this is due to the remote location of the venue, more importantly, the hosts and referees of the special carving competition are both legal practitioners.
Xiongdu people's current attitude towards mages is quite negative.
In fact, it was not only the people of Xiongdu who had prejudices against mages. When the Northern Walkers swept through Demacia, most of the residents of the newly occupied areas did not have a good attitude towards mages.
However, people elsewhere have a bad attitude towards the Dharma Protectors, which is mostly caused by propaganda factors and traditional concepts, and will gradually ease in the future. But in the capital of Demacia, the situation is different, because here,
The mage has indeed caused quite a bit of damage.
The last time Silas escaped, the entire Forbidden Demon Prison was blown up. At that time, even Lux and Ino openly and secretly contributed to the situation, which could be regarded as an early screening of demon-contaminated people.
For the people of Xiongdu, they have seen the destructive power of mages with their own eyes. Although they dare not stand up and accuse the mages, they at least hide as far as possible.
In the majestic square, there was originally a proposal by the Archon to build a large projection, but because she was worried about the resistance of the people, Lux finally rejected the proposal, and finally only adopted the method of broadcasting via loudspeaker.
As for the special carving competition, with the appearance of the host and referees dressed as royal guards, the originally scattered audience quickly dispersed in twos and threes. Even the contestants who participated in the competition had somewhat unnatural expressions.
If they didn't really need a job and were worried about offending the new boss, I'm afraid these players might not be willing to compete in front of the Master.
Who is not afraid?
But people have to eat after all. Even among nobles, there are many moody and difficult people to get along with. Don’t we still have to keep in contact with them in order to make money?
Regarding the attitude of these people, the legal guardians are actually a bit awkward - in the north, the legal guardians are an envied profession, but after leaving the north, the public's attitude towards the legal guardians can be said to be getting more and more southward.
No, it can be said that we are tired of each other.
However, although the attitude of the contestants in the special carving competition was not very good, the person responsible for presiding over and judging the competition was quite enthusiastic.
It is even so enthusiastic that many craftsmen are worried and suspect that the other party has bad intentions.
So, why are the Dharma Protectors so enthusiastic?
Of course, they don't really have bad intentions - in fact, the main reason why they are so enthusiastic is because most of these contestants can be regarded as their future colleagues, and they are also going to enter the imperial guard establishment, and they are all their own people.
The Special Sculpture Competition is different from the competition organized by the Art Support Association, with relief and round sculpture as the main forms. It compares the level and speed of carving fine lines. What matters is not artistry, but efficiency and reliability.
Most of the participants in the special carving competition are craftsmen who have worked for various noble families and specialize in carving noble heraldic seals.
Moreover, unlike the sculpture competition, which has a fixed proportion of winners, the special sculpture competition is a skill level competition - the competition does not rely on the number of people to select the winner, but has a clear skill level division.
Within the specified time, whatever level of magic circuits can be carved from basic magic circuits to complex magic circuits will be judged as the level of magic circuit carving technician.
That's right, the main content of this game is to carve magic circuits on the forbidden magic stone!
Anyone who is familiar with the organization of the Archon knows that carving technicians who can accurately carve specific magic circuits on forbidden magic stones or other materials are currently the most important members of the Archon organization besides mages.
They also have an even louder nickname in the north, called Sequence Zero.
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Although the Zero Sequence appeared very late, its birth was actually a necessity for the Northern Territory and the Dharma Controllers.
In the past, when Forsbarrow was all started, the Archon was almost led by Kalja himself.
At that time, the most prominent thing about the Dharma Regulators was that they concentrated their efforts on large projects.
In a short period of time, artificial lakes were dug in the north, the Grand Canal was built, river courses were fixed, and new cities and ports were built. It can be said that earth-shaking changes have been achieved, and its development speed is not only rapid!
But in fact, this is not a normal situation.
After all, a total of two thousand extremely talented mages buried their heads without complaining or complaining of fatigue, digging soil and building embankments themselves to carry out infrastructure construction. Even the former Shurima Empire did not have such luxury.
Can you run faster with a supercomputer?
It is no exaggeration to say that Fosbarrow's success depends on the fact that the country's elite mages can be gathered together and can bend down to work on projects. If it were not for Demacia's consistent policy of banning magic in the past, this would definitely be the case.
Impossible.
Under normal circumstances, these legal practitioners should serve as senior technical personnel and special constructors of the project, specifically responsible for the design of the project and the construction of difficult parts, rather than going to work personally.
Special circumstances are destined to make it impossible to normalize.
Therefore, in recent years, as the functions of the Dharma Master have gradually become clearer, the business has become larger and larger, the number of project teams has increased, and the problem of insufficient manpower has gradually become clearer.
And as Lux raised his troops and went south, this problem was highlighted at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Let’s take the simplest example.
When Forsbarrow City was beginning to take shape, it underwent an update to its water supply and drainage system. For that update, Kalya provided the drawings, and more than 200 mages were responsible for the construction. With the help of Forsbarrow City,
The Forbidden Magic Stone System, in less than two months, renovated the entire water supply and drainage system of Forsbarrow.
Later, when Xinfucheng and Xinfugang were being built, three hundred royal guards worked hard for more than half a year in order to complete the water supply and drainage infrastructure from scratch.
Today, there are only more than 3,200 registered legal guardians in the entire northern territory.
What does this quantity mean?
This means that if we follow Forsbarrow's method and rely solely on the Archon to solve the problem, then it will take at least ten years to complete the water supply and drainage renovation of the major cities in Demacia.
During the ten-year period, all the registered mages only dug sewers and drew magic circuits in the sewers, and did nothing else.
This is obviously impossible.
Therefore, if you want other parts of Demacia to enjoy the same infrastructure as the Northern Territory, you must distribute some of the work that used to be done personally by the Archon, but is actually presided over by the Archon.
Of course, if it is just to maintain rule, the Northern Territory model does not need to be promoted nationwide.
In fact, among the Northern Walkers, Law Enforcers and Clerks, some people really have this idea. Although they dare not say it with their mouths, they also think in their hearts that there is no need to build the whole country like Fosbarrow.
Just as good.
Regarding this idea, Lux wrote an article to criticize it - this article was not a ghostwriting, but Lux's own summary.
The article points out that the Forsbarrow model and the Capital model are two completely different social orders. The aristocratic elite model that Demacia adhered to in the past was a model that was explored based on Demacia's history and was led by a small number of elites.
During the long-term maintenance process, although Demacia has made many self-innovations, it still inevitably led to the fragmentation of the country and the persistence and solidification of a series of wrong policies.
Especially after the Shurima trade began, investigations have clearly proven that most of the profits from the trade flowed into the pockets of the nobles, while the common people lost their way to upward mobility due to inflation and became increasingly poor.
This social order no longer meets the needs of Demacia now.
In contrast, the Forsbarrow model also values talents, but talents should not be completely separated from all Forsbarrow people.
Individuals and collectives complement each other. Without the support of the majority of Forsbarrow people and people in the north, Forsbarrow would not have reached this step.
In the article, Lux clearly criticized the "new aristocracy" trend for the first time, and once again emphasized the mission of the Northern Vanguard. The Northern Vanguard should not be the new Demacia aristocracy. The power of the Northern Vanguard and
Responsibilities must match!
Due to Lux's personal reputation and the unanimous attitude of the Big Three, this trend was temporarily suppressed.
Moreover, when the northern army sweeps across the country, victory can cover up all problems and dissatisfaction.
Finally, when they were about to enter the capital city, the Northern Walkers, Law Enforcers, and Clerks all expressed their approval of the idea of establishing a new order in Demacia. It was based on this premise that Lux slowed down her plans for the nobles of the capital city.
For the trial, the professional technical competition will be held first.
For the mages, if they want to achieve this goal, they need to carry out internal reforms within the organization, and the most important step in internal reforms is to hand over things that mages used to do personally to non-magic casters.
So, what tasks have been done by the Dharma Masters themselves in the past, but can actually be done by others?
The most obvious is the drawing and carving of magic circuits.
As we all know, if you want to maintain the magic effect for a long time, the magic circuit is essential. This thing can guide the magic in a predetermined direction to achieve the desired effect. For example, in the water supply and drainage system, the inner wall of the water pipe is
A magic loop that stabilizes water flow needs to be drawn to minimize the impact of magic turbulence.
In Forsbarrow, all these works are done by the magicians, because they can naturally sense the magic power, and they will know whether it is right or wrong when carving.
However, the magic circuit can actually be carved by ordinary people. As long as the carving is up to standard, it can still be used. Compared with the Dharma Master, the main problem for ordinary people is that they cannot sense the magic power and do not know whether the carving is correct or not.
This can also be solved.
Just leave an Archon to maintain quality inspection. Even if ordinary people can't feel the magic power, they have to be slower and stiffer when carving, but the work of ten Archon in the past has been transformed into the work of one Archon and two.
The work of ten ordinary people is a huge progress in itself.
Although it seems that this division of labor reform is taking away the jobs of the legal guardians, most of the legal guardians can be said to agree with this situation with both hands and feet.
Because of the natural scarcity of legal guardians, most legal guardians have more meaningful and higher-paying jobs, and they are not willing to do such boring work.
If there really is someone who can help with these tasks, it can also free the Dharma Masters from these low-end industries!
In fact, the Dharma Controller had already made some attempts at this point when he was at Fosbarrow.
For example, in the shipbuilding industry, the shipyard will pre-carve simple magic circuits on the magic stone emplacements in the gun cabins to facilitate the subsequent installation of the magic cannon - the ones who carve these magic circuits are not the mages.
Within the Dharma Protector, this is how the Zero Sequence was born.
In other words, expanding the number of people in the Zero Sequence is the current top priority for the internal organizational reform of the Imperial Guard, and it is a direction that all the Imperial Guards agree on.
When Forsbarrow was there, members of the Zero Sequence came mainly from two directions.
The first type is jointly trained by the Master and the school. The selected students are all interested in magic, but have no magic talent. Starting from the fourth grade, they have to start learning some basic magic theories (mainly related to
to the theory of one's own safety), as well as magic-related work such as the production of forbidden magic stones and the carving of magical circuits of forbidden magic stones.
The first batch of jointly trained Sequence 0 students graduated last year. These students with professional skills can be said to be widely praised within the Regulators. The Regulators like these students very much, and some research groups have even recruited the most skilled among them.
Okay, I participated in the magic topic.
However, joint training also has its own problems.
On the one hand, the speed of training is limited; on the other hand, although newly graduated students have theoretical knowledge, their skills still need to be honed.
The other people in the zero sequence are complementary craftsmen with basic craftsmanship - their cultural level is not so good, but their skills are solid and reliable, as long as the controller provides detailed and understandable technical requirements.
, they can always deliver the finished product.
The talents in the two directions complement each other, which to a certain extent makes up for the problem of insufficient manpower of the legal masters, and plays an important role in the continued development of Forsbarrow.
But even so, the manpower of the zero sequence is still very insufficient, and the controller still has a lot of work that he needs to roll up his sleeves and do himself.
Now, as the northern army captures the capital, a large talent pool has finally opened its door to the Archon. At the meeting on the professional skills competition, the Archon immediately came up with their long-awaited competition plan.
The experience in the North has proven that people with carving skills can become magic circuit carving technicians after simple training. There are many nobles in Xiongdu, among whom they are responsible for carving manor interiors for nobles.
There should be a lot of heraldic seals, right?
There is a huge shortage of people on the Dharma Master side, so we are applying for special approval!
