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Just like a modern undergraduate student, as long as they are not a bad student and actually meet the requirements of the curriculum, they could easily become an ordinary associate professor or full professor in the 19th century.

Of course, he's one of the less accomplished professors—he's a professor, but he can't compare to giants like Newton.

Going back another century, if there were universities, you would definitely be among the top professors, world-renowned scholars. The gap between the Covenant and modern Terra is more than just two centuries.

As a result, out of the ten questions, the entire college, including the best teacher and student, could only answer two. The remaining eight were basically all answered incorrectly. It was a standard open-book exam, and everyone did a terrible job.

Of course, they also lack practical experience and some ways of thinking and solid foundational skills that should have been cultivated in the earlier stages. Students who aspire to study biology and space ecology will consciously start to learn about related knowledge from junior high school or even fifth or sixth grade of elementary school.

AI and intelligent streaming, which permeate nearly 75% or more of the education system, will assess students’ talents and aptitudes over a period of more than ten years based on their growth and fine-tune educational resources according to their interests.

For example, students who are interested in this area and have a certain talent will have more opportunities to be exposed to it in their daily studies.

For example, visiting laboratories, organizing lectures by experts in the field, and providing more opportunities for school experimental classes, etc.

Of course, the adjustments are only minor, outside of general education; the main courses remain the same as everyone else's.

However, it turns out that, although people often believe they are not performing well enough, it is because they have not been given the opportunity.

But reality proves that most people are indeed mediocre, the difference being the degree of mediocrity. Even with this slight adjustment, not every student can succeed.

For example, Lao Xia, who aspired to starship engineering since childhood but was assigned to agriculture, is a typical example. He thinks he is an engineering genius, but the young lady and education leaders at all levels do not think so. They think that he has a better chance of graduating from university if he studies agriculture.

His failure in all his postgraduate entrance exams in engineering subjects proves that he really has no talent in mechanical engineering and starship engineering. As for the retro rocket club, that's purely a result of his childhood exposure and habit.

Simply put, it's nothing special; he's just skilled at it, and that skill is limited to this small area. If you asked him to design a rail-based agricultural facility, something would definitely go wrong.

As someone who failed the ecological environment design exam for a ring-track agricultural base station three times with zero marks and eventually gave up, he can now brazenly teach students, even on projects related to vertical farming and artificial ecosystems. This seems normal to outsiders, but to Lao Xia, it feels a bit strange and surreal.

What's even more surreal is that very few people could answer the questions he posed. Were they really that difficult?

Isn't it just about designing an artificial biological ecosystem that can theoretically operate stably for more than 200 years under ten specific environmental and data conditions?

Furthermore, in order to reduce the difficulty, they are allowed to use any large-scale engineering approach, but only in theory, and they are not allowed to actually put this thing into the quantum matrix to accelerate the simulation to see if it is actually possible.

But for the guys in the agricultural college, this is like asking a question for a human? If I can answer it, why don't I just become God?

Rather, the most magical thing is that we were able to answer two of them. This was mainly because one of the two questions was set in an environment close to a snowfield and the other close to a desert. In a sense, there were reference materials that we could copy. Even so, we still had to work together as a team to solve them.

Of course, the topic itself is a minor matter. In the process, everyone has gained a great understanding and made great progress in the ecological management of snowfields and deserts and the construction of artificial agricultural ecosystems. It can almost be treated as a serious scientific research project.

"So, in the end, you didn't take on a single student?" "No, in the end, I chose two tall guys from the short ones." Old Xia looked exhausted. "I forgot that their skill level was limited, and they didn't have any reference experience. After all, drawing on a blank sheet of paper is both the easiest and the hardest thing..."

The hardest part isn't how to answer the question, but how to even begin. It's like being given a planet and given only one requirement: to turn it into an ecological planet. How do you even start taking the first step?

The difficulty is no less than designing every aspect of a Mars terraforming project by yourself. You would feel numb just thinking about what to do first and where to start.

As for Lao Xia, if it's just a paper project, without requiring him to cram this thing into a quantum matrix for deduction, and without limiting his workload to within the budget, he could write a beautiful plan full of the word "reliable" in one night—as for whether it can actually be done... if it could, would he have failed his postgraduate entrance exam three times in a row?

How do you plan to teach it?

“Teach normally. First, see what basic knowledge needs to be supplemented. Once it’s been supplemented enough, bring them into my current project to continue learning on the job. By the time we’ve secured the southern region, we’ll assign each person a local area to design and maintain a local-level ecological agricultural cycle. We won’t require any specific economic output-to-consumption ratio; just making sure it’s sustainable is enough.”

The doctor looked puzzled, his small eyes filled with great doubt. "At this level, I could immediately appoint them both as the top agricultural officials in the region. They could even start their own departments to mentor doctoral students. Aren't your expectations too high?"

"Not high, is it difficult?" Old Xia scratched his head. South Kazdel is a fertile place with well-developed industrial infrastructure. If he were to go there, he would only have a week to investigate, and then he would start drawing up the plans and project proposal. As long as things go smoothly, it would be resolved in a year.

“I originally wanted them to go to the Iberian border to manage the saline-alkali land there, but then I thought about it and realized that I hadn’t taught that part, and it was a bit too difficult, so I changed it. Is that too much to ask?”

"It's not unreasonable, but I suggest that if these two graduate, they should be considered to have earned their doctorates. Otherwise, you'll make the other professors with doctoral degrees feel like their intelligence has been insulted," the professor said with a wry smile, assuming that these two poor kids could actually graduate.

"By the way, why didn't you bring Xiao Qiu out today?"

"Her mother wouldn't allow it, saying it was too cold and she was afraid of catching a cold..."

"Uh..." "..." The doctor really wanted to say that neither the strong physique brought by the inherited golden chin genes nor the enhancement effect of the symbiote would affect him.

But neither of the men dared to talk to the mother of the child—just kidding, a mother tiger with cubs wouldn't listen to any nonsense!

[PS]

It's best not to ask me about the specific technical details of planetary terraforming. If I knew, I'd be supervising graduate students at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

[PS2]

Newton suffered bullying at school as a child because of his unfortunate birth, but inspirational stories will tell you that Newton became a great scientist through his own hard work and that no one looked down on him anymore.

The true history is that Newton chose to fight against school violence through school violence. He worked hard, became a high school boxing champion, and hurt the bullies.

Chapter 80

The Winter Festival is a very traditional but not fixed festival. For the Terrans, especially the Ursus, the arrival of winter means a difficult time, as the energy of the mobile city cannot provide heating while maintaining mobility.

Therefore, in order to accumulate enough fat and food to survive the long winter before the first snowfall, people in various places would bring out some of their stored foods that were not easy to store for a long time to hold feasts.

Consume as many calories as possible, otherwise, in winter, when it's difficult to light a fire and heat food, these raw meats will just sit and rot. In that case, you'll face the tragic scenario of dying from illness if you eat raw meat, or starving or freezing to death if you don't.

There are many different names and dates for this festival. For example, in Ursus, it is simply called the Winter Snow Festival, which takes place around mid-October. In the northern part of the Great Yan, it is in November, while in the south, it is in January, which they call the Early Spring Festival.

The festival is called the Holy Mountain Festival in Kjerag and the New Year Festival in Victoria, but they all share the same origin.

It usually starts around the time the local snow season is about to begin, and lasts for about 2-3 days.

Naturally, Kazdel was no exception. Even the penniless Theresis managed to squeeze out some money to send holiday greetings and extra supplies to the troops stationed at the front and in various places. As for how much of it actually reached the soldiers, that was a slightly more serious question.

Even the stingiest person, Xue Zhi, has approved large quantities of meat and flour in the past few days.

Of course, whether it's because too much meat was slaughtered and people rushed to sell it off wholesale while the temperature was dropping to avoid taking up valuable cold storage space and causing it to rot and go to waste is unknown.

At the front-line standoff, the bell rang for mealtime. The sentry, who had been on duty all day, looked exhausted as he handed over his shift to his comrade before heading towards the mess hall.

A train is parked beside a makeshift track, with its side carriages unfolding up and down to reveal a steaming kitchen inside, somewhat resembling the design of a crepe vendor on the street.

These dining cars could provide food for an entire division, equipped with various cooking utensils and large cold storage facilities, ensuring that troops could obtain sufficient nutritious meals in areas with railway lines.

"Come help me move things, it's all set up today." As soon as I entered the cleared canteen area, I saw the squad leader calling me. Metal pipes stretched open the canvas roof, turning it into an open-air canteen.

"What's up?" The patrol squad, armed with guns and sporting white hair, peeked in cautiously. "Any meat?"

"Go away, go away! You all eat from the best stove, when is there ever a day without meat?" The cook waved his spatula and chased the guy away from the stove.

"By the way, we caught some game, should we cook that too?" The patrol team has hunting duties, which doesn't violate military discipline.

In addition to defending against enemies, they also had to defend against wild animals that would come to the railway tracks to forage for food during the winter when there was no food, as well as animals such as pikas that would damage the temporary airport, and so on.

"Forget about that stuff, there's not much meat and it doesn't taste good..." After all, most wild animals aren't very tasty, especially since they don't go hunting specifically for plump and delicious prey. They just hunt whatever they see, mostly rodents and rats, and occasionally they might encounter wolves or other dangerous beasts.

"Smack!" The head cook slammed a large, bright red chunk of meat out of the refrigerator onto the cutting board. "We're having roast beef today. This is some good stuff sent from the rear. You starving ghosts have probably never eaten anything like this in your lives."

"Hey, who do you think you are? I eat like this every day at home!"

"Nonsense!" There are quite a few people here who can eat meat every few days at home, but not many can eat it every day. And there are probably very few who can eat top-quality beef every day. Many people only enjoy the weekly ration of one pound of beef for the first time in the recruit camp.

"If you're so capable, why don't you guys stop throwing bones and meat onto the battlefield? You've become so rich in a couple of days that you don't know what you believe in anymore? The higher-ups have said it several times: don't insult the enemy. They're human too. So, all the bones this time must be collected. The higher-ups are planning to use them to make bone meal for other purposes. Don't waste them."

The dropping of bones, candy wrappers, cigarette butts, and empty cans has become a major problem on the front lines, causing immense psychological damage to the enemy.

However, this also exposes the troop and firepower points on the front lines. Just by observing the density of the trash, one can almost determine how many people are there and their supply situation.

However, some intelligence is better left unknown than known. Leaking it can be more damaging than keeping it secret – what could be more terrifying than the enemy having a large number of people and ample supplies?

Yes, that's when the other side is so bored that they resort to throwing bones to provoke you into a fight—that's a level of high morale.

This certainly dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's morale—as long as they still had any—

However, this also caused several of the tactics devised by the command to lure the enemy out to fail, as the opposing defenders seemed to think, "If I even acknowledge you, I'll consider it a loss."

"Besides roast beef, there's also lentil and pork soup, beef stew with tomatoes, a large plate of lamb chops, and plenty of fresh fish soup. In short, we have all kinds of hearty dishes today!"

"What's going on up there? Are they just trying to kill themselves?"

The reason is actually due to the economic downturn. Various high-end ingredients are extremely difficult to sell, and after adding the transportation costs, they will lose money. It is more cost-effective to dump them than to transport them to Longmen for sale.

If it weren't for the large number of group employees in Longmen, which forced the maintenance of a transportation route and allowed the group to offset transportation costs through its large-scale consumption, thus enabling the sale of some "affordable food," the situation in the market would have been even worse.

Xia's Group's affordable food stores are always packed with people because they are the only stores in the entire Dragon Gate that haven't raised prices significantly, making them affordable for ordinary people.

However, since the group's own consumption costs are limited, after deducting the portion used to maintain the group's employee canteen, the quantity available for sale is not large. Therefore, not everyone can buy it every day.

One benefit of the economic downturn is that the efficiency of Xia Group's employees has increased exponentially. Every employee, on their way to work, sitting in the company's bus, looks at the working people and homeless people on the roadside and feels a deep sense of fear and gratitude to every known deity—Xia Group has not yet started layoffs!

Although salaries have been reduced, there have been no layoffs, and the employee cafeteria is still providing enough inexpensive meals to feed the whole family, which is quite remarkable in this harsh winter.

Similarly, given this situation, the new urban area of ​​Longmen, around the group's production facilities, is one of the few places where a bit of life and the remnants of prosperity still remain.

Although most luxury stores and high-end shops have closed down, discount supermarkets, snack bars, and ordinary entertainment venues are still able to stay open.

The group's employees are always on edge when they go to work, fearing that their department supervisor might suddenly come over and say, "You can pack your things and go home."

However, contrary to their expectations that the group would eventually have to lay off employees, the topic of large-scale expansion was actually being discussed upstairs at headquarters.

In short, they established a branch office in the reclaimed territory of Kazdel to provide agricultural planting guidance, fertilizers, seeds, and various agricultural machinery nearby, and also set up a production base, since the Sarkaz people's cultural level is truly...

Therefore, it is necessary to recruit a group of engineers and technicians from Lungmen. Fortunately, during the Great Depression, their recruitment costs and resistance to leaving Lungmen's comfort zone have decreased significantly.

"We will establish a branch office and production and sales base in Montenegro, Sur, and the Tiber River region. In addition to the farmers and basic staff recruited locally, each base will need at least 2,000 employees, mainly mechanics, agricultural technicians, and some R&D personnel. According to the boss, the number may be even higher if supporting facilities are also needed. This time, we want to recruit at least 30,000 people. Can Lungmen provide that?"

"Yes, of course we can, we definitely can!" The newly appointed official in the new district was practically jumping for joy. Even if it wasn't possible, it was definitely possible. Anyone who dared to cause trouble for the Xia Group on this matter would be dealt with accordingly!

The economic and employment situation in Longmen is already in a terrible state, and at this time, someone is actually talking to him about a "big business" of 3 jobs.

Although these people will go to work in other places, their families will stay in Longmen to spend money. Even if the whole family moves, Longmen will not receive this tax or the increased business revenue. But at least the burden will be reduced by 3 households. With fewer people looking for work, the chances of the remaining people finding jobs will increase!

As for the issue of a declining consumer population, he couldn't worry about that now. He just wanted to get through the immediate crisis first before thinking about long-term problems.

"I'm leaving the task of maintaining order to you."

"Yes, the Guard Bureau is on standby at any time and will absolutely not allow the recruitment event to go wrong in the slightest!"

If anything goes wrong, that new branch chief can just get the hell out of here. If I can't survive, this guy can't survive either.

In addition to recruiting in Lungmen, a large number of workers were also recruited in Syracuse, mainly to be sent to the mountainous areas.

After all, Syracuse is also mountainous, and it seems that there are quite a few talented people in mountain management and forestry.

"The company is hiring again!" A well-informed person shouted as they ran into the cafeteria. The cafeteria, which had become more and more like a cold and lifeless tomb every day, suddenly came alive. Everyone was peeking around, asking, "Really? How many are they hiring!?"

Are you really going to hire someone?

"We have new business again!?"

In this depressed era where layoffs are everywhere, if a group is hiring, it means that it is short-staffed and even needs to supplement its staff, so it will not lay off employees, or at least not on a large scale.

Of course, some slackers may be weeded out, but for most hardworking people... it means that their jobs are safe for at least a period of time.

"The HR department has already posted notices for a total of 3 positions. They say they're going to expand into a new business base in the south, build a new factory and branch offices, and not only are they hiring, but they're also supposedly selecting a group of veteran employees to fill management positions!"