There is less than a week left until the annual Feast of Winter Veil.

As winter goes by and the temperature rises, the rainfall gradually increases, and it is often drizzling.

With the nourishment of warm rain, strands of tender green fluff gradually emerged in the mountains, forests and plains.

Outside Crescent City, a total of twenty guard knights were guarding a carefully modified high-end travel carriage, which was slowly driving on a gravel path in the field.

Rosen sat alone in the car, his eyes slowly sliding over the sparsely distributed bitter winter wheat fields that were still growing well on the farmland on both sides of the road.

Bitter winter wheat is cold-resistant. It is planted in early October of the previous year and harvested at the end of April of the following year.

The wheat yield is okay, but the flour ground from it tastes terrible, with a slightly bitter taste, and can only be used to make a living.

But because of the rebellion at the end of last year, even these bitter winter wheats were not planted well. If he hadn't brought back a large amount of food, many people on the island would have starved to death this year.

But even if the crops were planted well, the grain production on the White Sturgeon Island was still slightly insufficient, so some had to be imported from the Shire County every year to make up for the shortfall.

But this year, Rosen doesn't plan to do that: "Once the first batch of murloc killers are formed, we will start to eliminate the murlocs in the East China Sea."

The vast sea area in the east is the intersection of the cold ocean current from the far north and the warm current from the south. It is extremely rich in various aquatic products and it is a huge golden fishing ground.

With the acquisition of this fishing ground, the people of the White Sturgeon Island will have a large amount of seafood on their tables, including marine fish, seaweed, lobsters, etc., as well as pearls, corals, underwater minerals, etc., which will immediately increase the total amount of various resources in the territory by an order of magnitude.

While I was daydreaming, the voice of the Guards Captain Alia came from outside the carriage: "Lord, it seems to be raining again."

Rosen looked at the sky, which was gray and windy, but fortunately the temperature was not low and the wind was warm, so he said, "Speed ​​up, don't let the instructors of the academy get wet in the rain."

"Yes, Lord~"

The team immediately sped up, and the carriage suddenly became much bumpier.

The team continued forward on the plain, and after about 2 kilometers, they drove onto a slightly higher but very barren gravel slope.

The sloping ground has been roughly leveled and enclosed with the latest tempered yellow clay to form a huge area of ​​about 2,000 acres.

Of course, due to construction time constraints, only the foundation of the retaining wall in most areas was laid, and only one gate was actually built.

When the convoy got closer, they saw a specially made black clay tablet standing in front of the gate, with the words "The First School of Magic on the Island" written in golden fonts.

There are already many people waiting at the door.

These are all mages, and also the academy's spell instructors.

There are more than 400 of them in total, most of whom are local civilian mages on the island, and a small number are formal civilian mages hired from Shire County.

Although the magical achievements of this group of mages were ordinary, only a few of them reached the advanced level.

But they have all been carefully selected. Each of them has a gentle and patient personality and a solid foundation in magic, making them the perfect people to be enlightenment mentors.

Today, Rosen, the Minister of Education and the first president of the college, will conduct his final inspection before the start of school.

When there were still more than a hundred meters left to the gate, Rosen got off the carriage in advance to show his respect for the college mentors.

When I got off the car, I found a long new red carpet on the ground.

Although it was a red carpet of average quality, it looked quite eye-catching compared to the half-worn or even patched clothes worn by many magic instructors.

Rosen frowned and said to Alia, "Have someone put the blanket away. Don't do these nonsense things in the future. Just take the road that is available."

"Yes, lord."

Alia had lived with Rosen in Dawn City for ten years, and had led a simple life for ten years. She was not used to the flashy style of the nobility.

Someone was immediately sent to take away the red carpet.

Without the red carpet, the uneven dirt road was revealed, which suddenly seemed a lot quieter.

Rosen put on a black wide-brimmed leather hat, put his hands in the pockets of his leather windbreaker, and strode towards the college gate on the slightly sticky mud road.

Probably because of the red carpet incident, the mages who were welcoming us at the gate looked listless, with their heads slightly lowered, as if they were afraid of being scolded.

Rosen stood at the door, looking around at the mages, and said seriously with the second ring group mind voice: "All magic teachers, I need you to remember one thing."

"In my academy, there is only one standard for evaluating the achievements of a magic instructor, and that is who has taught outstanding students!"

"Whoever has students with strong magical powers, students with good magic skills, and students who receive the best care and attention will receive higher honors and higher treatment."

"As for everything else, I don't care at all. Do you understand?"

He spent a huge amount of money to build this academy to train talents in magic.

What he needs is a mentor who focuses on cultivating talents, not a flattering sycophant.

"Yes, lord."

The mentors responded loudly.

Rosen looked at the female mage with gray hair and a kind face at the front of the line and warned her in a serious tone.

"Mrs. Fisher, as the executive vice president, you must remember my words. Do not treat me the same way that the Shire County treats the nobles."

The female mage showed deep fear on her face, and even trembled slightly: "Yes, Lord, I will remember your teachings firmly."

She wanted to bow and then to kneel, but she failed to do both properly and felt very embarrassed.

Seeing that he had left a deep enough impression on the other party, Rosen's expression slowed down.

"Okay, Mrs. Fisher, forget about all the formalities and show me around the New College."

The other party was a civilian senior wizard who was hired from Xialin City with a high salary of 200 Oggs a year. She was a very famous magic enlightenment lady in the city.

Maybe his achievement in magic is only average, but he has a good heart and rich teaching experience.

So, Rosen values ​​her very much.

There are more than fifty Shire County wizards like her in the academy.

Their level is obviously much higher than that of the local island mages, and their salary is of course also high, starting at 50 Oggs a year, and free food and accommodation are provided.

As for the island wizard.

The average salary given by Rosen was only 30 Ogg, and only a small half of it was paid, while the other half was deducted from various materials.

The local wizard didn't have much objection to this.

First, their level is indeed not as good as the other side. Second, the island is still in a natural economic mode of goods for goods, and the importance of gold coins and other currencies is far less than that of real materials.

In their eyes, if something goes wrong on the island, the supplies can be eaten and used, but the gold and silver currency can only be used for viewing.

However, Shire County already has a developed commodity economy model with a well-developed market, and money can buy a lot of things.

The salary offered by Rosen was very high, even in Shire County it was a high salary, so the Shire County mages were very satisfied and even secretly despised the island mages, thinking that they were country bumpkins who had never seen the world.

The ideas of both sides are derived from their respective living environments, and neither is wrong. What the leader needs to do is to formulate policies based on the individual needs and achieve the optimal allocation of resources.

"I understand, Lord."

Mrs. Fisher finally regained the calm demeanor of a senior wizard.

"In the academy, just call me Dean."

"Yes, Dean."

As expected, the college's first batch of students would be very large, totaling 22,000 people.

This includes all teenagers under the age of 20, as well as a small group of young people under the age of 30 who have been proven to have outstanding magical talent but have missed their youth.

After school starts, a full-time teaching mode will be adopted.

In addition to laying the foundation for meditation, we directly instill specific skills without wasting time pondering the underlying principles, striving to produce a group of mages with professional skills as quickly as possible.

As for new ideas such as freedom and democracy, not a single word was mentioned. Instead, the traditional idea of ​​"loyal lord, loyal island" was infused.

It’s very similar to the vocational schools in my previous life.

Walking in this hastily built college, Rosen saw a number of simple single-story houses.

This is because it was the first time we used this new material, tempered yellow clay, and we did not have much experience in its use.

"Dean, this is the teaching area. There are 100 classrooms in total, and each classroom can accommodate 100 students for classes."

"Because there are many students and few classrooms, we are temporarily adopting a rotation model for classes."

Rosen stood at the door and observed, and found that the classroom was empty. There were no tables, only small benches, and a writing board made of tempered black clay on top.

Fortunately, the lighting conditions are good.

One reason is that the windows are relatively large, and the other is that there is a rune lightning lamp that is always on hanging on the roof.

It was good enough to achieve this in a short period of time. Even though many things were produced on the island, it still cost Rosen more than 40,000 Oggs of funds.

Of course, it will gradually improve in the future.

“How are the students’ books being distributed?”

Mrs. Fisher immediately reported: "The clay tablet book "Island Enlightenment Volume" has been sold to three people. It is expected that everyone will have one copy within a month."

The book was compiled by Rosen himself. It contains the most basic but also the most effective knowledge, guaranteed to be suitable for everyone.

The reason for using clay books was that paper books were too expensive, and Rosen could not afford to buy more than 20,000 books at once.

Therefore, currently only the magic instructors have paper books.

Naturally, the students' pens are charcoal pencils, and the paper is a blank clay slab, or simply mud.

After visiting the classrooms, the next step is the cafeteria.

"There are currently 100 large pots in the canteen, using black stones as firewood. The students' daily staple food is potatoes boiled in salt, and the supplementary food is various vegetable stews with meat soups, mainly vegetables, with as much meat as possible."

Knowing that the leader would come to inspect, the cafeteria had prepared food samples.

Rosen looked at them one by one, and after Alia confirmed that the food was fine, he asked someone to scoop him a small bowl of vegetable soup.

He looked at the food and saw some animal oil floating in the soup, some minced meat, and could smell some food aroma.

Under the terrified gazes of the crowd, he took a few bites and felt that the taste was not delicious, but it was still eatable and clean enough, and he could taste some meat flavor.

"Not bad. Just do it this way in the future. It can only get better. Most of the students are still growing and will surely eat a lot. Make sure to give them enough."

After saying that, he drank the remaining vegetable stew in the bowl in a few gulps. After handing the small bowl back, he could see Mrs. Fisher looking at him with a surprised look.

Not to mention the great noble families in Shire County, even the well-off commoners would disdain to eat this kind of food stewed in a big pot.

Rosen knew why she was surprised and could fully understand it, because the living standard in Shire County was indeed much higher than that in the island.

He seized the opportunity and said loudly: "Remember, every student in the academy is a citizen of the island."

"My duty as a lord is to ensure that every citizen of the island has enough to eat, and that they eat as well as possible."

"So, I will come to the college cafeteria at least one day a month from now on and eat the same food as the students. I will come randomly, so don't think of dealing with me specifically."

Mrs. Fisher was not surprised but respectful. She knelt down and saluted, saying, "Yes, Dean."

She originally thought that the Baron was setting up this academy to follow the trend of restructuring new academies on the mainland. Even if he was willing to do it, he would be limited by his vision and attitude, and it would eventually become a superficial effort.

But now, she is not worried anymore.

Afterwards, under the guidance of Mrs. Fisher, Rosen visited the students' dormitories, drinking water wells, and even the toilets.

Finally, more than 400 magic instructors gathered and gave a speech on the requirements for running a school, which concluded the first college inspection.

It was already past two in the afternoon when we got on the carriage again and left.

The rain that had been held back for the whole morning finally started to fall, but it was just a drizzle and did not have much of an impact.

In the carriage, Rosen took out a pair of clean leather boots and put them on. The pair of muddy leather boots were naturally hung on the rack outside the carriage.

"Lord, the academy's daily expenses are quite high."

Alia's voice came in through the car window.

“It’s a lot, but if you invest one dollar now, you’ll get at least ten times the money back in the future.”

It even accounts for more than 30% of the island's current total expenditure, and because a large number of young people are leaving their jobs to learn new skills, the island's labor force has been greatly reduced.

In order to squeeze out more resources for the academy, he and Selena both announced cuts in daily expenses, setting an example for the upper echelons of the archipelago.

Anyway, save wherever you can.

Because highly qualified citizens are the foundation of a modern country.

If you don't do it, others will do it, and you will be beaten up in the future, and you and your people will have to work like slaves for others! Therefore, he will not only do this on the White Sturgeon Island, but also do it in Weilan if he can successfully take over Weilan in the future.

If Weilan wants to quickly catch up with the national quality of the kingdoms in the Witt continent, he must tighten his belt and take this powerful medicine to strengthen his foundation.

"Lord, there seems to be someone standing under the tree ahead."

Rosen was stretching when he heard this and said, "This isn't the wilderness. It's not normal for someone to be here."

He had already spotted the man, and he looked normal from a distance.

"It seems she twisted her ankle and is sitting on the side of the road rubbing her ankle."

As Alia said this, Rosen's heart suddenly moved slightly, and he had a strange feeling, which was the unique sensitivity of high-level mages.

'No, not an ordinary person!'

He was able to avoid his ordinary observation, and he only sensed something unusual when he was more than 200 meters away. This person must be very extraordinary.

He is coming out in his true form this time, so he can't be careless.

He immediately said to Lai Fu: "Use the fortune-telling technique, count twenty times, and check whether it is good or bad."

The wizard from another world predicts fate, but his soul comes from Earth, so he asks about good or bad luck.

A few seconds later, GPT Laifu, trained by Earthlings, gave feedback.

"Most divination results show 'meeting a noble person on the road, very good luck'."

(End of this chapter)