Above the mage

Chapter 791 A Long and Arduous Road Ahead

"Ahem..." Gao De glanced at Flora, who was already daydreaming and half asleep beside him, and coughed lightly as a reminder.

Flora suddenly raised her little head, looked around blankly, and finally her clear eyes looked at the source of the sound.

Seeing that she had come to her senses, Gao De continued, "Currently, the food system in the North is still too simple."

"Although the Livestock Office is working to fill the meat shortage, even if it does, the supply of fruits and vegetables remains a major gap."

"While continuing to expand the production and planting scale of Northwest Barley No. 1 and No. 2, Lady Flora should also take the lead in trying to establish three-dimensional agriculture in Flora Forest, and introduce and cultivate vegetables and herbaceous crops that can coexist with the magic tree."

"Cold-resistant vegetables are still very few, so under normal circumstances, cultivation is the main focus. Lady Flora will have to work hard on this."

Gao De stopped using terms and concepts that she couldn't understand at all, and instead focused on his area of ​​expertise. Flora immediately woke up and tilted her head to listen attentively.

Faced with Gaode's request, Flora was not intimidated and readily agreed.

Flora's authority in the field of farming needs no further explanation.

So Gaode only gave a brief explanation, and seeing that the little guy agreed, he was relieved and let it go.

He continued, "The Ministry of Agriculture's last question concerns the Livestock Office."

Quentin immediately straightened his back.

"The breeding cycle is long and extremely difficult; this cannot be rushed," Gao De affirmed first, then offered his advice.

"But your current breeding logic and operating model are still too extensive, relying too much on experience and lacking systematic planning."

"I'd like to offer a few optimization suggestions, which you can then implement in your specific circumstances."

Although this is a supernatural world, the underlying concepts and logic are actually interconnected.

Therefore, Gaode's modern scientific breeding concepts and industry management experience from his previous life can be fully applied to animal husbandry in the Northern Territory.

"The most important thing for the breeding department to work more smoothly and systematically is scientific breeding."

"One is to establish a germplasm resource archive, number each breeding animal, and then record its weight, endurance,..."

Detailed records are kept of all data, including breeding cycles and feed consumption, ensuring that each animal has its own file and the data is traceable.

"The other is bloodline registration."

"Each breeding animal must not only have its parents recorded, but also its grandparents, siblings, etc., all of which must be marked and registered to avoid inbreeding."

"Inbreeding happens naturally in the wild, but in artificial captive environments, where the population size is small, problems can easily arise if you don't deliberately avoid it."

"The livestock office is full of professional animal trainers. You all have experience with these theories. For example, I know that the Frostwolf clan has a taboo against wolves sharing the same den."

"But these taboos are ultimately fragmented experiences, lacking a systematic approach and unable to be widely adopted."

"I suggest you immediately begin establishing a bloodline record for the beasts, and record it together with the previous resource data into the database of the Heart of the North."

"All germplasm files and bloodlines are uniformly entered into the Heart of the North database and linked to Wanwei's conditional filtering function."

"Without data to support it, breeding is a matter of luck and experience, with an extremely low margin for error; with complete data, breeding becomes a calculable and predictable systematic project..."

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"The Ministry of Agriculture is the foundation of the North's economy, and it has the highest priority. The City Hall will spare no expense in terms of budget and will fully support it."

Gaode Maps made the final decision, determining the allocation of resources to the department with a single sentence.

This is the biggest change in the city hall's workflow since the North completed its currency reform and marketization.

Prior to this, the North had always used the tribal-era system of communal meals.

Without currency, wages, or market-based allocation, people's labor received no clear reward, and the difference between working more and working less was minimal.

The work relies on government orders, resulting in varying levels of enthusiasm.

All construction was carried out in a command-driven manner, which sounds nice to say that they were just following orders, but in reality, it was rigid and passive.

Waste of resources and sluggish efficiency are inevitable.

Now, the monetary reform has been fully implemented.

The monetary system has reached everyone.

All workers receive a fixed salary and performance bonuses, and the channels for earning income from both manual and technical jobs are fully open.

Work has shifted from passively obeying government orders to proactively creating value, and resources have shifted from being allocated equally to being allocated based on performance and disbursed as needed.

The city hall subsequently implemented a budget approval system.

All departments are required to submit budget applications for all projects, ensuring that every consumable item, every industrial investment, and every engineering expenditure is traceable.

It not only eliminates the misuse and unnecessary waste of resources from the tribal era, but also allows for precise allocation of resources to key projects.

After the Ministry of Agriculture's report concluded, the second speaker was Elsa, who presented her report to the Ministry of Education.

She also serves as the Vice Minister of Education.

If you ask why the report was given by the deputy minister, where was the minister?

...I'm listening to the deputy minister's report.

Education is a core area that Gaode has valued highly since the early days of Phoenix's development, when the North was not yet unified. He regards it as one of the most important cornerstones for the rise of the North.

Elsa has also put a lot of effort into this area and has achieved gratifying progress.

"The Northern General Education Academy is currently undergoing continuous expansion, and the first and second General Education Academies in Ironforge have been completed and put into use."

"With the support of the Shadow Class system, compulsory education for mages has achieved almost 100% coverage of the school-age population in the North." Elsa's voice became clear and bright as she reported logically.

"All school-age children in the entire region have been uniformly included in the public legal education system, truly realizing the initial goal of universal enlightenment, universal learning of law, and universal extraordinary compulsory education."

This is an educational system unique in the entire Mage plane.

The core concept is Gaode's vision of "law for all".

It shattered the aristocratic class's absolute monopoly on extraordinary cultivation, no longer determining one's future based on bloodline or birth.

Standardized general education courses and free basic spiritual resources have given everyone the qualification to touch the extraordinary.

Elsa frowned slightly and spoke solemnly, pointing out the most pressing development bottleneck: "Compulsory education is the earliest and most mature systemic project implemented in the North."

"To this day, the first batch of students who have completed the full general education program have successfully graduated."

"Among this group of students, some who are exceptionally talented and diligent have even taken advantage of the benefits of compulsory education to apply for weak-effect Silver Star Dew, successfully breaking through the shackles of apprenticeship and advancing to the first-ring mage level. They already possess the qualifications for advanced studies as regular extraordinary beings."

She paused for a moment at this point: "But a gap has already appeared in our education system."

"Currently, the Northern Territory's faculty and resources are only sufficient to support basic education at the general education level, and there is no corresponding secondary advanced education system to support graduates."

"At present, the number of students graduating in the first batch is limited. We can still barely make up for it by having senior monks temporarily open classes and teach in small groups. However, the number of students graduating in each subsequent batch will increase exponentially, and the gap will be widened indefinitely."

"The secondary advanced education system must be implemented and formed before students graduate in batches, but the specific direction and structure still need to be discussed in the long term."

Gao De nodded in deep agreement.

Compulsory education is merely the starting point on the path to extraordinary achievements.

After graduation, students will need to pursue advanced studies to maximize the effectiveness of the Dharma Master's compulsory education.

However, he was also well aware that building a two-tiered progressive education system was far more difficult than general compulsory education.

The current general education system in the North is essentially a standardized enlightenment for the entire population.

All students follow the same curriculum, pace, and assessment. The goal is simply to popularize literacy, basic mathematics and physics, rule of law and politics, and common sense about magic, as well as to teach basic cultivation methods and general magic tricks, thus achieving the enlightenment and intellectual awakening of the entire population.

With a solid content base, a fixed framework, and easily mass-trained teachers, coupled with film-based courses to assist in teaching, the barrier to entry for setting up such a program is extremely low.

However, the advanced secondary education follows a refined, professional, and vocational training path, making it vastly different in terms of difficulty to build.

The students have different talents and aspirations.

Some people have exceptional combat talent and are well-suited for the Battle Mage path;

Some people have mediocre combat talent, but decent mage talent, making them suitable for engineering, agriculture, infrastructure, and other related fields, i.e., production mages.

There are also people who are not good at orthodox spellcasting at all, but have outstanding talent in secondary professions, and can specialize in extraordinary secondary professions such as potion making, alchemy, runes, beast taming, and magical plants.

The North needs all three types of talent.

However, their cultivation paths, growth systems, and career directions have nothing in common.

This means that secondary education cannot use the same teaching model as the general education stage, and must be broken down into disciplines and subdivided into majors.

The biggest weakness in the North right now is precisely this: a severe shortage of teachers.

Battle mages are alright.

The other two categories, among which the production mage category was pioneered by Gaode and is unique to the North. It is still under development and is not yet mature, let alone having qualified teachers.

As for extraordinary secondary professions, the talent pool in the North is extremely weak, except for a few areas such as beast taming.

It could even be said that there was none; it was developed from scratch, and naturally, there was an extreme lack of talent.

Furthermore, higher education is not like compulsory education, where you simply build a school and call it a day.

Its school construction requires many supporting facilities.

For example, alchemists need alchemy workshops, plant growers need plant gardens, and battle mages need fighting arenas, etc.

Each of these tasks requires a massive investment of resources, time, and manpower.

"In addition, the enrollment rate for adult literacy courses is also steadily increasing, but the growth rate is slow and the upper limit is obvious." While Gao De was thinking, Elsa continued her report.

This was actually within Gaode's expectations.

The adults in the North are all people who have just come from the primitive tribal era, and the pragmatic survival mentality is ingrained in their bones.

Their daytime work had already exhausted most of their energy.

It's actually quite difficult to have the focus and self-discipline to study at night.

Even if they still have energy, they would prefer to take on odd jobs assigned by the city hall, or do some other work.

Is it more worthwhile to earn a few more copper coins than to learn a few more characters?

This mindset is actually difficult to change in a short time and requires some external motivation.

"At the same time, the first batch of adult students who have completed literacy courses have mastered basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills and are no longer satisfied with the basic literacy courses. They have a strong need for advanced learning, but the Ministry of Education does not currently offer any corresponding advanced courses to support them," Aisha added.

After listening to Elsa's report, Gao De nodded slightly.

He looked up at Elsa and said in a calm tone, "With our current resources, we certainly don't have the ability to build a complete secondary education system in one step."

"But development cannot wait. We should do as much as we can first, and improve as we go."

"Immediately begin the preparatory work for the University of Phoenix as a secondary education system."

Gaode immediately made a decision and established the overall framework: "University construction, faculty recruitment, and education system building will be launched and carried out in parallel."

"The university will then be divided into three colleges to provide education in three areas."

"First, establish a Battle Mage Academy."

"We will not only train orthodox battle mages, but also comprehensively subdivide specializations."

"Encompassing main combat and offensive mage classes, healing mage classes, logistics mage classes, reconnaissance mage classes, and other related fields, covering all subdivided roles across the entire chain of battlefield combat, healing, protection, reconnaissance, and logistics, continuously providing the Northern Frontier with extraordinary combat power..."

"Secondly, establish a Production Mage Academy. It will recruit students with decent spellcasting talent but poor combat skills, specializing in production spells and corresponding production knowledge."

"Specializations are further subdivided based on areas of expertise, such as the Agricultural Mage specializing in planting, breeding, soil improvement, and frost and pest control, or the Engineering Mage specializing in engineering and infrastructure, etc., using magic to empower production and livelihoods in the North..."

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"Third, establish the Extraordinary Vice Academy. This academy will accept students with exceptional talent for vice-position and cultivate extraordinary vice-positions for the Northern Territory."

"The three academies each have their own responsibilities, covering three major areas: combat, ordinary production, and extraordinary production, forming a complete education system."

"In adult education, the enrollment rate is low and the enthusiasm for learning is poor. The root cause is not that the public is stupid, but that there is no immediate benefit and no practical feedback."

"To change the prevailing trend, we need two things: propaganda and guidance, and incentives. The latter is the key."

"The Ministry of Education will immediately launch short-term vocational training programs for adults, which are fully aligned with the high-paying and stable job positions currently in demand in the North."

"For example, we provide specialized skills training for forest rangers and farm managers in Flora's Forest."

"The special training program implements a system of free enrollment, merit-based graduation, and certification for employment."

"All students must first complete the basic literacy course and pass the assessment before they are eligible to enroll in further education."

"Those who successfully complete the course and pass the skills assessment can directly apply for corresponding positions based on their graduation certificate."

Upon hearing what Gao De said, Elsa's eyes lit up, and she understood the purpose of this move.

The introduction of vocational training programs has essentially opened up a path for ordinary people to increase their salaries through learning.

Forest rangers and farm managers are well-paid and respectable jobs, making them highly desirable positions in the eyes of people in the North.

In order to qualify for the job, people from the lower classes will voluntarily push themselves to complete literacy courses.

This completely broke the deadlock of people's unwillingness and reluctance to learn.

At the same time, the advanced needs of the first batch of literacy graduates were also perfectly met.

Adult education has been upgraded from basic literacy to advanced vocational skills training.

Of course, these are just preliminary ideas, and there are still many details and challenges to overcome in their implementation.

Education is a long and arduous task... Gao De understood this, and after a moment of reflection, he continued, "We will discuss the specific details later."

He nodded to Elsa, then looked at Pierre, who was sitting at the back of the conference room, and called out to him directly: "Pierre, why don't you report on the achievements of the Ministry of Construction during this period?"

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