Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 691 Commanding All Industries
One day in the tenth year, Zhou Yi returned from a business trip to another city.

Sitting inside Heifu's core of light, he recalled the events of the past month.

This second five-year plan is divided into two main parts.

The first step is to establish the company's own school, enabling the company to be self-sufficient and cultivate new talent through an education system. This has been initially achieved.

Secondly, we should go out and have full exchanges with other regions, organizations and groups to learn from their strengths and generate more ideas through discussions.

As the company's chairman, Zhou Yi also insists on going out for study and inspection at least once a year.

Last year was heaven.

From the old empires, Zhou Yi learned methods for managing and coordinating multi-ethnic communities, as well as procedures for managing transient populations. These are internal skills that are not publicly disclosed in any form and cannot be seen at the data level.

This year he chose Ba Gong's Hundred Schools Plateau.

The Hundred Schools Plateau is known for its education industry. Although it does not have a total of 100 schools, there were 83 schools of various kinds when Zhou Yi visited.

These institutions cover almost all common vocational training: farmers, herdsmen, stonemasons, blacksmiths, carpenters, potters, mechanics, soldiers, tailors, barbers, repairmen...

Local institutions are named in numerical order, from the First Technical College to the Eighty-Third Technical College. The names are simple and straightforward, and the duration of instruction ranges from six months to one year, emphasizing practicality and speed.

It operates entirely like a training institution group.

Ba Gong also frankly admitted: "Mr. Zhou, these inspirations were also drawn from the old human education system."

"Advanced schools have too high requirements for local areas. They not only require a lot of investment in optical fiber, but also a large number of various high-precision equipment, as well as the most difficult high-quality teachers. The admission threshold is high and the tuition is expensive, so they have nothing to do with ordinary people."

"None of the Hundred Schools Plateau has them."

"So we take a different approach, focusing on practicality, so that students can quickly master a skill and then make a living with that skill."

"Although the profit from tuition fees is not high, it is still relatively stable. If the training fees are too high, most people cannot afford them. The number of schools has been expanding over the years because there are many people who need to make a living from them."

"Who wouldn't want to grow and become stronger in the education industry? It's just that our strength doesn't allow it. The longer we're in this industry, the more helpless we feel, because high-end education has long been monopolized by the five major central cities."

"It wasn't until your company emerged that the pattern of the previous decades was broken. Only a wasteland development company with the size, resources and reputation can provide elite higher education. We are just teaching some skills to make a living."

Zhou Yi waved his hand: "Don't say such things. Making a living and further education are both important. Our company used to be the same. We had to solve the problem of survival first before we could consider further opportunities."

"You have 83 colleges here, with 11000 students, which is quite remarkable. You can imagine how difficult it must be to manage them. You're very impressive."

Zhou Yi gave a thumbs up: "That's why I came here to learn from your experience."

Ba Gong laughed heartily: "Mr. Zhou, you are too kind."

It is a Spine Hunter, of the same race as the Sea Hunter, but its life level was already A from the start, belonging to the Skywalker class.

After interacting with Ba Gong, Zhou Yi truly realized that the other party was capable of running both the slave-based Motorcycle City and the education-industrialized Hundred Schools Plateau very steadily, demonstrating unique abilities.

No wonder the usually arrogant and proud Duke Mieding had a very high opinion of Ba Gong in the past.

It has a huge body, but it is quick-witted, unconcerned with trivialities, and possesses both a bold and magnanimous spirit and a very clear mind.

Whatever Zhou Yi said, Ba Gong could immediately follow his train of thought, and use that to expand on his own ideas, which in turn brought new inspiration to Zhou Yi. The two of them would generate all sorts of wonderful ideas through constant discussion.

Although most of it is just talk for fun and unlikely to be put into practice, the process itself is enjoyable and pleasant enough.

Over the course of a week, Zhou Yi, along with Vice Principal Sun Chonglai, Dean of Studies Nian Gao, and Chemistry Teacher Liang Xing, split up to visit 22 colleges, sit in on classes, and experience a day in the life of a student at these institutions.

His biggest impression throughout the process was that Baixiao Plateau truly emphasizes large quantities and satisfying portions.

The teachers here vary in quality, but they teach three classes every day without fail, three in the morning and three in the afternoon. Evenings are when the teachers assess the students' skills, essentially like submitting assignments, making for a full day.

During their time at the college, students are strictly managed. They are not allowed to leave the campus without permission and can only practice their craft in the workshop or return to their dormitory to rest.

This style reminded Zhou Yi of the famous Hengshui model.

Simple, direct, yet very effective.

If students graduate, they usually find it easy to get a job.

After all, the vast majority of places in this world are ordinary market towns. Those places need a lot of basic workers, and they can make a living by spreading out to various parts of the eastern and western continents.

Zhou Yi was also thinking.

The educational model of Mushroom Forest Elementary School is only suitable for internal company use.

In most places, there is a greater need for technical schools like Baixiao Plateau to provide vocational education with broader coverage for ordinary residents.

Therefore, Zhou Yi and Ba Gong finalized a cooperation agreement.

The company invested 300 million yuan to jointly establish the "Oriental Vocational Technical College" with Baixiao Gaoyuan. The college will follow Baixiao Gaoyuan's existing successful experience and focus on cultivating vocational and technical talents.

Oriental College is based on the seven existing technical colleges of Baixiao Plateau, and the study period has been increased from a few months to a year and a half to two and a half to three years.

"My idea is that we entry-level professionals also need a path to advancement. Currently, neither the Eastern nor Western continents have such a mechanism or educational training method."

Zhou Yi said to Ba Gong, "For example, the most common type of farmer, we currently only have two categories: ordinary farmers and experienced senior farmers. It's not intuitive or detailed enough. Electromechanical Life has a professional competency rating system, but the relevant standards are specifically set up for Electromechanical Life."

"We need more universal standards so that people can understand and trust highly skilled professionals. Highly skilled professionals also need to have a high level of expertise to meet people's needs for a high quality of life and production."

Ba Gong understood immediately: "So, it's about establishing an independent professional rating system based on flesh and blood, and promoting it through our Eastern Academy?"

"Correct."

Zhou Yidao said, "The world is developing very rapidly now, and the specialization and subdivision of industries and professions will continue. The Legal Front has already clearly issued a strategic transformation announcement, which will promote the transformation of the electromechanical life group towards industrialization, large-scale production, and high precision, rather than the past model of competing for positions with humans and photonics..."

This grand strategy is known as the "Three Upgrades".

The legal team had a private conversation with Zhou Yi a long time ago to discuss related matters.

The advantages of electromechanical life are high efficiency and precision.

In the past, due to the high cost of energy, cities were unable to afford the fixed expenses of the electromechanical lifeforms, so the electromechanical lifeforms had to make a living on their own, which is a market economy model unique to the electromechanical lifeforms.

But these days are different.

After the Legal Front and the company joined forces, they first installed a floating heart, which significantly reduced energy costs.

For the large number of unemployed and impoverished people in the electromechanical field, this is almost tantamount to giving them a chance to survive.

By joining the development of Mars and the Moon, the Legal Front has gained access to a sufficiently abundant and inexpensive energy source. This energy comes from the Circular Flow and from cosmic rays collected by mantle bacteria, which is virtually inexhaustible for electromechanical life at present.

The objective conditions have met the requirements for the transformation of the electromechanical life group.

The Legal Front has long been planning and simulating a complete transformation of the past free market economic system into a planned economy model.

The Electromechanical City will allocate labor to every resident. Based on the city's needs and positioning, residents can choose to become professionals in various industries or, according to their individual needs, move to other cities to participate in work. Production and construction in all sectors will be centrally coordinated by each city, producing only what is needed. This avoids excessive product surplus and large disparities in individual assets, and concentrates the labor force of the Electromechanical Lifeforms on the city's overall direction—this is the [Three Upgrades].

Unlike humans.

Due to the inherent characteristics of the mechanism, electromechanical life is actually the most efficient aspect of a planned economy.

The problem in the past was that cities could not guarantee the survival of every resident.

Like impoverished families who could only send their children out to work, now that they're wealthy, they simply place their children in positions within the family business.

The three upgrades represent transformation and upgrading. In the specific research and development and production fields, large-scale projects such as [Cultivation], [Atmosphere Transformation], and [Celestial-Human Silicon-Based Gemstone Technology] all require the participation of many electromechanical life forms.

As a result, a large number of electromechanical professionals have withdrawn from the job market and focused on their respective fields, thus creating many mid- to high-level professional positions.

Ordinary people then have a chance.

This is also a favorable premise for the establishment of the Oriental Academy.

The academy primarily admits humans, whose greatest strengths lie in their ability to use tools and their imagination.

In the division of labor in society, being rated based on professional competence and receiving corresponding treatment and social recognition is a lifestyle that they are more accustomed to and can better utilize their abilities in.

Ba Gong also agreed wholeheartedly: "Advanced professionals are certified by the Oriental Academy, backed by a company, and have data and evaluation frameworks provided by the Legal Front for rating. Their acceptance will definitely not be bad."

"It is standard practice to rate professional skills according to EA."

There is just one small problem.

"Mr. Zhou, Baixiao Plateau has been deeply involved in technical training for many years. According to our investigation, even if these mid-to-high-level professional positions are released, due to local protectionism and conservative principles, they are likely to be taken by graduates from schools in other regions. In the short term, our Dongfang College graduates will find it difficult to be directly competitive."

Zhou Yi had already planned for this: "Don't worry. I plan to follow the policy of Mushroom Forest Elementary School and provide opportunities for outstanding graduates of Oriental Academy every year, recruiting excellent talents in advance."

"We will work with the development alliance and partners such as Yinshang Company, Shenwei Company, and Dead Sea Railway Company to recruit graduates of Dongfang College internally."

“Every year, the wasteland development company will recruit at least five outstanding graduates from Oriental College based on their scores to work in various departments and their subordinate units. The number of people recruited by other parties will be determined according to their needs, but each party will not recruit less than one.”

Ba Gong was overjoyed: "That solves all the problems! Going to a vocational school is all about getting a good job, and that's undeniably attractive to them!"

Zhou Yi smiled slightly: "This is just the first step."

"Next, we will gradually invite other organizations and groups to recruit people at Dongfang College, and hold campus recruitment fairs twice a year, in spring and autumn. This will allow students to not only learn knowledge and skills, but also gain these truly valuable opportunities."

“Ryugu already has a lot of experience in this area, so we can follow their model.”

The overlord nodded repeatedly, "Good, good, good."

"There was a lack of leaders in vocational skills to begin with, so there is no obstacle for the Oriental Academy to establish unified standards in this field! From the perspective of professional standards, we can attract all kinds of professionals to come and study for further training in order to obtain promotions in professional rating."

"The previously chaotic and disorganized occupational recognition will now have a measurable and unified standard."

"By standardizing and regulating occupational practices, we have gained a voice in these positions that cover all aspects of society!"

"Mr. Zhou's move is upright and aboveboard, commanding all industries and firmly controlling the entire society from the ground up. Others may want it, but they cannot do it; they can only follow along!"

The other party exclaimed, "The company's actions are as swift, ruthless, and precise as ever, hitting the nail on the head."

Zhou Yi was speechless: "I didn't think that much about it. I just felt that since we've benefited from the era's dividends, we should also share some with others. Improving and standardizing professional and industry norms has a great positive significance for social order."

“Last summer, for example, many unscrupulous restaurant owners in Beike City raised prices arbitrarily and sold inferior products. This requires professionals to identify and judge these issues. For example, when it comes to food, professionals can immediately distinguish which items are good and which are of poor quality.”

"With a high degree of professionalization, these issues can be resolved and judged quickly, and many things can be handled quickly and efficiently. Social services will also become more high-quality and meticulous. This is beneficial to everyone in society, including ourselves."

Zhou Yi lived through the old human era.

Back then, he was annoyed by the frequent delays in food delivery, his hairdresser Tony could never cut the hairstyle he wanted, deliverymen never delivered to his door, and the small restaurant owner often picked his nose and teeth while cooking noodles... He felt there were problems everywhere.

But when the wasteland era arrived, that kind of life suddenly felt like paradise.

Services in the wasteland era weren't nonexistent, but they were a complete mess.

Even though this is considered one of the best restaurants in Shagang, I still found sand, dust, and hair in my takeout order. People have to give way to cars, and restaurant owners are indifferent to customers—these are all common occurrences here. The answer is, that's just how we Shagang locals are.

These all need to be improved.

Zhou Yi had long been dissatisfied with this kind of service attitude.

However, building a service-oriented mindset must be done gradually.

"...Mr. Zhou's noble character is truly admirable!"

He offered a flattering remark, but the overlord clearly didn't believe it.

The Spine Hunter hesitated for a moment: "However, according to the current plan, in addition to establishing the main campus in the Hundred Schools Plateau, our Eastern Academy also plans to establish a branch campus in Heavenly Dawn City, Twin Rivers Region, and Western Continent. Can we really accommodate so many high-level professionals?"

"What I mean is... only a minority can get jobs at companies or development alliance partners. What about the hundreds or thousands of professionals who graduate each year? Will the market become completely saturated in a few years?"

Zhou Yi had thought about this long ago.

"no need to worry."

"The new world will be fully open to all regions this year."

He said, “The new world is vast and can accommodate more people than the physical world. There are many old humans there now, and all sorts of conceptual beings vacation and roam around there. We need all kinds of professionals to provide them with new service experiences.”

"The Chinese region has been replicated over there, but the amount of computation is increasing rapidly. Further expansion and evolution will require the participation of countless professionals."

"For example, farmers are needed to cultivate the land, workers are needed to build houses, police are needed to maintain order in cities and villages, teachers are needed, sanitation workers are needed, chefs are needed to cook... It is another, more expansive world with infinite possibilities."

"The new world can produce a large number of extremely valuable fragments of consciousness. Both conceptual beings and dream demons would be willing to pay high prices for them. You understand their value without me having to explain it."

"Both the company and the lunar service company will offer generous compensation for various positions there."

"According to statistics, the current shortage is at least 7340 million people."

Ba Gong immediately turned from worry to joy: "So that's how it is... No wonder... Mr. Zhou is truly farsighted! The future of Oriental Academy is indeed limitless. I will immediately begin to work on the allocation and promotion of teachers!"

……

Blackthorn slowly descended onto the top of Emerald City's Building No. 1.

Zhou Yi pulled himself back to reality.

Ultimately, people's needs are quite simple: labor is for reward, for better resources and the environment. When they see hope, most people are happy to work and are not afraid of hardship.

The new world is hope.

(End of this chapter)