Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 305 Teacher Recruitment
Sophia stood at the door, covering her mouth in disbelief. "This entire room is allocated to you?"

"Of course!" Ambichi felt the blush on his face wouldn't fade away anytime soon, so he could only smile shyly. "It's Room 12, Floor 2, Building 3, Fengshou Community. Remember not to get lost. The houses in this area are all built exactly the same, and it's easy for new residents to get lost."

Compared with the houses of other residents in the territory, the house allocated to Ambichi is actually not that big. It is just an ordinary one-bedroom and one-living room with a separate bathroom and kitchen, a living room and a bedroom of less than eight square meters.

Although it was not spacious, it was fully furnished. On one side of the wall of the living room and bedroom, there were two thick brass pipes half embedded in the wall. Sophia could feel the hot steam emanating from them even when standing one meter away.

She didn't feel cold at all in this room, apparently because of these two strange pipes embedded in the wall.

"This is the residential complex's HVAC system, the work of the lord's alchemists and spellcasters." Ambiqi smiled and pointed at the heating pipes on the wall, explaining with some pride, "Without these miraculous magical creations, staying indoors during the winter in the wasteland would probably make you sick. But with them, the room is so warm you need to take off your heavy coats."

"The lord's magical creation... can actually be freely enjoyed by the common people in the territory... Ambichi, this is unbelievable." Sophia was surprised, and subconsciously picked up and folded the dry clothes that her fiancé had deliberately hung next to the heating pipe, which made Ambichi feel even warmer in his heart.

He rushed into the small kitchen and took out some frozen and hard cheese from the cupboard, as well as a "staff meal" he brought back from the farm after get off work yesterday - half a pound of bread that was also a bit dry and hard, but it was white bread baked with refined flour.

He had just been working for less than a week and was not yet eligible to receive a salary. His kind boss lent him thirty gold dollars for emergency use, but also provided him with a lunch every day on the farm.

"You haven't eaten anything on the way here, right? Just fill your stomach first. I'll bring you some new food after I get off work tonight."

Sophia looked at her fiancé's awkward expression and couldn't help but smile and comfort him, "Don't worry about our future, Ambichi. When we were just registering to enter the city, didn't the city hall official casually mention that the territory is short of people for all kinds of work right now? I'll go out tomorrow to see if there are any suitable opportunities..."

Ambichi was silent for a moment, thinking about his fiancée who was originally hired by the wife of a baron to be a tutor for his children in his hometown of Mill Town. She was respected and treated well when she entered and exited the noble mansion every day, and her living conditions were much better than they were now. If it weren't for him, she wouldn't have to come to the Frontier Territory and go out to find a job to make a living in the middle of winter.

After learning that Sophia was coming to the pioneer territory to live with him, Ambichi secretly inquired with his indigenous colleagues after get off work. He learned that farm workers earned 80 gold yuan a month. As an apprentice deputy team leader of the breeding department, he would receive an additional subsidy of 20 gold yuan after being officially hired. Although part of the rent and heating costs would be deducted for renting the house allocated by the lord, the salary he could get was a real 100 gold yuan.

According to local colleagues, the prices in the Pioneer Territory have always been very stable. A local bachelor can live a very good life with 50 gold yuan a month. He can have food and wine every day, and there is still a lot of savings left to buy some exquisite daily necessities and go out for entertainment.

But providing for the needs of two people was a bit of a stretch. Filling their stomachs was naturally no problem, but Ambichi wasn't content with just being able to support his fiancée. He saw the warm clothes the local indigenous people wore every day, the light vehicles they rode to and from work, and the delicious and novel foods that were always waiting in long lines at the convenience market...

He wanted Sophia to enjoy it all, so that he would be worthy of her running to him so recklessly.

"I will work twice as hard...you..."

Before he could finish his words, there was a sudden knock on the door. Ambiqi quickly opened it and found two clerks in City Hall uniforms standing outside. "Does Ms. Sophia Kenny live here?"

"Yes, please...what can I do for you?"

The clerk pulled out a thick brochure from under his arm and handed a thin leaflet to Ambichi. "Ms. Sophia's registered occupation when entering the city is as a tutor. According to regulations, she is considered a special talent, so we've come to inform her. Please go to the job market at the Territory City Hall tomorrow afternoon to participate in the Pioneer Territory Public School teacher recruitment..."

"School? The Pioneer Territory actually founded a school?" Sophia poked her head out in surprise. "Is it responsible for educating the children of the lords and vassal nobles?"

The two clerks looked at each other and laughed, "They are not nobles. They are teaching the children of ordinary people... We don't have any nobles here."

Sophia was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding. "Commoner children? What can they teach... etiquette? Music? Theology?"

The clerk shook his head and pulled out a new leaflet, handing it over. "Of course, it's about teaching them to read and write. You can take a look at the public school's daily schedule. On the reverse is the salary for entry-level teachers. If you're willing to accept it, please go to the job market tomorrow on time for the interview."

After a brief introduction, the two hurriedly left for the next house, leaving Ambichi and Sophia standing at the door in confusion.

"Teaching the children of commoners to read and write? What's the point? Are we going to make them all knights or noble squires under the lord?"

Sophia patiently took the two-page flyer in her hand and sat on the chair in the living room to read it carefully.

It seems that the teaching content of this territory's public school is not complicated. As a junior teacher, you only need to be responsible for the most basic literacy education courses - that is, to let the civilian children learn to read and write. Apart from that, there is nothing complicated.

This was too easy for a noble tutor like Sophia.

"The salary of a junior teacher is actually 120 gold yuan? It's higher than the salary of me, the trainee deputy team leader of the breeding group of the Ministry of Agriculture!" Anbiqi keenly glanced at the part that he was most concerned about, and said in surprise.

Sophia smiled and said, "That's great, Ambichi! I didn't expect someone would offer me such a well-paid job right after I arrived in the Frontier Territory... You're right, everything here looks much better than our hometown, Mill Town!"

(End of this chapter)