The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 573 Academy
In this era, studying is not a simple matter. There was no paper in Europe at that time, and even in the current University of Tokyo, the use of paper is not yet popular.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty that paper books gradually became popular, which led to the prosperity of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty. Today's Dongda is in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period.

Nowadays, Europe uses parchment to record knowledge. This kind of parchment is much thicker than paper, and each piece of parchment requires at least one sheep to make. Its cost is very high.

A book requires dozens of sheets of parchment to make, and the resulting books are extremely expensive, thick and heavy, but can't record much. And such parchment books are not easy to preserve.

The cost of learning knowledge was extremely high, and only the nobles had this condition. Some of the books in Richard's hands were written by himself, and some were brought by polytheistic priests such as Aleiya.

Richard had counted that there were only a little over a hundred people in the entire territory who could read, and most of them were polytheistic priests and temple guards. The rest were basically nobles or those who served the nobles.

However, Richard was not too worried about these. Although there were not enough people now, a large number of scholars would come here in two years.

The Roman Empire now seems to be prosperous and peaceful, but next year, the Scourge of God, Aratis, will return and invade Italy and surround Rome. By that time, the nobles and scholars will probably flee Rome.

Richard only needs to guide them a little bit to gain a lot of talents. As for whether the extravagance and enjoyment of the Roman Empire will pollute the Rhine Province, Richard is not worried about this at all.

The productivity of Rhine Territory simply does not allow this, not to mention that with Richard here, these people can't make any waves. If they want to live here, they can only do things according to Richard's orders.

In Rome they were aristocrats, powerful and well-connected, but here they were just tools.

After screening, Richard established a small-scale school with only eight teachers and fifty students.

These fifty people were grassroots officials trained by Richard Shi. He was not prepared to rely entirely on these nobles and polytheistic priests to manage the territory.

According to his plan, he would train 50 to 100 students every year, some of whom would become grassroots officials and some would become grassroots generals in the army.

In fact, training such a small number of people a year is not enough for the Rhine Province, but the cost of training students is too high.

Even though books can be passed down from generation to generation, the teacher's salary and the expenses of various paper, pens, food, clothes, etc. are not a small amount.

In addition to these students, those who used the extraordinary bloodline potion and became knight nobles also needed to learn. Even if they became extraordinary, if they didn't have brains, they could only be considered a high-level soldier at best.

Richard also wanted these people to expand his territory, help him weaken the influence of monotheism, and win this battle of faith.

In the following time, Richard commanded the exiles to reclaim the land, trained the selected warriors, and was also responsible for the education in the academy.

In the evening, he would have to spar with Mia and Alea. Because Mia and Alea were not ordinary people, they had good physical fitness, so they could barely withstand Richard's sprint.

But even so, after a while, both of them felt that they couldn't stand it anymore.

"We need to talk." Mia stopped Alea and said.

"Okay." The two have always been in a competitive relationship, and they are still competing against each other vaguely.

Because Mia came first and her body structure is special, as the incarnation of the essence of nature, she has almost no flaws, so she has always been able to suppress Alea.

However, after Alea brought back a large number of people from Rome to assist Richard, Alea's status and position were improved. At least when Richard used her, he could stand up and kick.

"What do you want?" Alia asked.

Mia glanced at her and said, "I plan to arrange a few women to serve him."

"Do you have any objection?"

It was rare that Mia would take the initiative to consider her opinion, which made Alea feel that her status had been elevated.

Alea secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although it felt good to be fed every day, the feeling of being overfed now was not pleasant.

He smiled and said, "Of course, I am just one of your women, and you have no children yet."

"Of course I won't stop you from finding other women for me."

In the Roman Empire, customs here were very different from those in the ancient East, especially regarding women.

People here don't mind marrying widows. The sanitary conditions in ancient times were very poor, and childbirth for women was like going through the gates of hell, so the nobles here don't mind marrying widows, especially widows who have given birth.

Because having given birth before means that she can give birth smoothly, giving birth to an heir is very important to the nobles. Therefore, the nobles sometimes even go out of their way to find some women who have given birth to give birth to sons for them.

In this era, being able to produce is the most important thing.

"Do you have a suitable target? With your status, not everyone is worthy of you." Mia asked.

"How about a polytheistic priest?" Aleiya asked. "The status is good enough, but what about his appearance?" Mia asked.

"She won't look bad either. As a priest, she must have good looks. After all, if she is ugly, the gods will hate her." Aleyya said.

"But there is still a question, that is, can they have children?" Mia asked calmly.

"Uh" Alea was speechless.

In fact, it was difficult for both Aleiya and Mia to reproduce, this was determined by their bloodline, witches were naturally difficult to reproduce. The same was true for Mia as a natural spirit.

In the mythological era, it was not that there were no natural spirits and witches giving birth to offspring, but at that time, the rules of the world did not have such strong restrictions, and the gods could all give birth to sons.

But after the end of the mythological era, the gods no longer gave birth to offspring, not even demigods, and nature spirits and witches gradually lost their fertility.

According to the rules of this world, it is almost impossible for witches to give birth to offspring.

Mia and Alea didn't know that as long as Richard wanted to reproduce, he would have a way to do it, not to mention that they were witches, even if they were gods.

It is nothing more than setting up restrictions to seal the divinity in the blood of the gods and give birth to children like normal people.

“How about this, we continue to send those witches and priestesses over. They can’t give birth to any offspring anyway, so let them serve the Lord.” Mia said after thinking for a moment.

"Then go to Rome and see if there are any daughters of Roman nobles who are suitable. You can find a way to bring them here. Of course, if there are suitable noble ladies, that would also be fine."

"Okay. I'll go back and take a look." Alia said after thinking for a while.

You can't be careless when choosing a woman for your Excellency. You must be very selective. She must be good-looking, have a high enough social status, and have a good personality. As for whether she has given birth to a child, that's a plus.

Richard didn't know that his two women were planning to make him a thief.

But even if I knew, I wouldn’t care. I’m just riding a bike, as long as the bike is good.

"By the way, would you like to consider a political marriage?" Alea suddenly said.

In the Roman Empire, political marriages were very common, and many nobles were involved in political marriages, like the former Roman Emperor Octavian, who not only married a divorced woman, but also helped this woman's ex-husband obtain a higher position.

If this situation happened in the University of Tokyo, it would absolutely destroy one's worldview, but in the Roman Empire it was perfectly normal.

"You'd better not!" Mia refused directly: "We don't have the right to help the leader choose the marriage partner."

"But you can ask the Lord." Mia said with a smile.

Aleiya also reacted, rolled her eyes and said: "This is something you need to consider, I dare not make a decision for you."

When it was night, Richard finished another round of cycling. During the intermission, Mia and Alea told Richard what they had discussed.

Richard did not refuse.

It would be nice to try out other witches, and it would be nice if those Roman ladies could stand up and pedal.

However, what he was thinking was that when the Scourge of God arrived at the city, he would go to Rome and bring back a group of noble ladies for his enjoyment. Of course, in addition to his enjoyment, some of them would also be distributed to the generals under his command.

These people followed him to fight, and they also needed to start a family and a career. Ordinary people or Germanic women did not have the status or vision to do so, but these Roman noble ladies were just the right match.

In the following period of time, Richard monitored the training of his knights. During the following period of time, he once again selected fifteen people from these people.

Then, the blood fusion experiment was conducted on these fifteen people. Because many blood fusion experiments had been conducted before, the following experiments were also very smooth.

After the fusion of bloodlines, each of these knights possesses physical fitness far beyond that of ordinary people.

Of course, these people have not awakened any magical abilities. Compared to the physical body, this world has a greater suppression on extraordinary abilities such as magic.

If a witch wants to cast a spell, she needs at least dozens of seconds or even a minute to prepare, and she also needs the help of a lot of spellcasting materials.

The power of the spell that is finally cast is also limited.

The two saints created by Richard did not use magic, but divine arts. Because of the existence of the Creator, although their divine arts were suppressed, they were much stronger than those witches.

The strength of a witch is not even as good as that of a well-trained soldier. Of course, if they are given enough time to prepare, their lethality is still considerable.

(End of this chapter)