After the military system, there is the academy system.
This system is now the largest talent training base in Yancheng. Mainly responsible for the junior, intermediate and advanced schools, as well as the Yancheng School.
Theoretically, a child from the Yan Kingdom would be sent to a junior academy for ten years of study when he was six or seven years old. Excellent students after graduation can generate their own magic power and become alchemists.
Then, these alchemists who are fifteen, sixteen, sixteen or seventeen years old will choose a certain Yancheng intermediate school, enter it, and start studying.
Nowadays, different intermediate schools have different characteristics.
Some are good at talismans, some are good at visualization, some are good at divination, and some are good at synthesis. Which school to apply for depends on your personal wishes and how many students the school will admit this year.
The academic system of the intermediate school is relatively free, and it doesn't matter how many classes or credit hours you have, and it doesn't even matter whether you are taking classes on campus or not.
Of course, it’s the school’s turn to decide when you graduate. In principle, once you understand at least one true meaning and become a warlock, you can successfully graduate.
It’s easy to get admitted but hard to graduate!
Some students of the Intermediate Academy are already over fifty years old. Looking at their age, they are already over eighty this year, but they have not graduated.
This kind of person has basically given up on studying. Whether he can graduate successfully depends on his fate. If you're lucky, maybe you'll get an idea while working, and you'll realize a certain true meaning, and then you'll have a breakthrough. If you're not lucky, if you don't have an epiphany in your life, then you'll just be an alchemist for the rest of your life.
Moreover, alchemists in Yancheng are not as rare as in the past.
A hundred years ago, an alchemist could be a small landowner in Yancheng. An alchemist could own a manor in a township, a large yard in the county, and a house in Yancheng.
Nowadays, there are so many alchemists in Yancheng, and those who rely on their own efforts to break through only account for 15% of the total population. However, the price of the Foundation Establishment Pill is not expensive, and you can still afford it with grit. Many people will continue to work hard until they are forty years old. If they still cannot become an alchemist on their own, then they will choose to use their savings over decades to buy themselves a Foundation Building Pill.
After giving birth to mana, he immediately became much younger and earned much more money every month.
Today's alchemists can no longer afford a house in Yancheng. You may not be able to afford a large house in the county. As for manors, manors in the suburbs are fine. If you build them yourself, the cost will not be much higher.
Today's Yan Kingdom seems to have a very large population, as many as 3 billion. However, Yan Kingdom has more than 500 counties under its rule, and the average population of a county is less than 6 million. However, the average area of a county is 60,000 square kilometers.
In addition, most of the population is concentrated in the county, and there are many open spaces in the wild. As long as you are not afraid of death or being attacked by wild beasts occasionally, there is no problem at all in drawing a piece of land in the wild and building your own manor.
In fact, this has become the choice of most people: the city is very crowded, the place to live is not big enough, and the environment is not good enough. The wilderness is very open, the environment is very good, and the place to live is large enough. There are many manors covering an area of one acre, and there are also many manors covering an area of ten acres.
Gradually, the powerful, or sorcerers, chose to build their own large manors in the wild.
Relatively poor ordinary people and alchemists lived in county towns or factories and worked hard to earn money.
As for the high-level academy, only warlocks can enter, and upon graduation, they become Taoist priests.
Taoist priests can already join Yancheng Academy.
Ordinary Taoist priests can join the Taoist priest's team, follow the Taoist priest to do projects, conduct research, take on tasks, and continue to grow.
Genius Taoist priests can join a team of real people to learn and grow.
After reaching Taoist priests, they are generally divided into two categories.
One is to make a living by following real people, and the other is to develop oneself and lead a group of friends to study a certain project together.
A very small number of extremely outstanding Taoist priests have even begun to go to the bond exchange to cheat on food and drinks.
With such a complete training system, Yancheng is what it is today.
Still taking the textbooks of the junior academy as an example, the more alchemists there are and the more people are studying the textbooks, then the average quality of the next generation's textbooks will increase compared to the previous generation.
The higher the average quality of the next generation, the higher the average quality of the teachers in the next generation's academy.
The average quality of teachers has improved, the average quality of teaching materials has improved, and children's home environment has become more suitable for learning. At this time, the average level of the next generation of children and alchemists will naturally be higher.
Every ten years, the teaching materials of Yancheng Junior Academy are significantly improved compared to ten years ago. This is actually not easy.
Sitting at the top of the academy is Uncle Changkong. Although this uncle is not yet a great master, he is deeply trusted by Jiang Hua, and Jiang Hua estimates that in a few years, he will become a great master. Sooner or later.
Sitting near Master Changkong were Zhuge Liang and other young men born around the first year of the Baijia family, as well as young heroes like Li Bing's son Li Erlang. If it hadn't been for today's meeting, Li Erlang might still be pretending to be Erlang Shen to fight against Chu. Where is the country’s local demon god? Jiang Hua even saw some young real people in their forties or fifties. Such a scene would never have been seen in the past.
After looking from left to right again, Jiang Hua knocked on the small clock in front of him. People who were chatting or doing other things immediately turned to Jiang Hua.
"It's not a big deal to summon you all today, but Yancheng now has a large population, a vast territory, and its strength has greatly improved compared to the past. It's time to take a step further and become a great vassal state. Therefore, I would like to ask you, what do you think?"
After hearing this, Uncle Yu stood up without saying a word and began to recall from eight hundred years ago, emphasizing the orthodoxy of Yancheng.
Some people were surprised when they heard these words: Your Yancheng has a history of only over 800 years and almost 900 years? Is this too short?
In the eyes of many big nobles, Jiang Hua's background is just a mud-legged person, not a noble at all.
You must at least have a history of tens of thousands of years and have at least one county as a fiefdom. Only such a person can be considered a real noble.
"Back then, when Uncle Chao launched the Taoist Extermination Order, Yancheng was still just one county."
"Under the leadership of the Lord, Yancheng became Yanjun, and the Lord also changed from a county magistrate to a general. At that time, the old minister also became the county magistrate."
"Later, the Lord became the Lord of Salt, and Yancheng became an independent lord."
"Then, the Lord became Uncle Yan, and Yancheng became the Kingdom of Yan."
"Today, Yancheng has strong soldiers and horses, a population of 3 billion, and more than 500 counties under its rule. Yancheng's civil, political and military skills are far superior to those in the past. It is the right time to become a Marquis of Yan!"
After expressing his attitude, Uncle Yu sat down.
What Uncle Yu said was not direct enough, but what Uncle Yan said was very direct: "Except for a very few, all of us here are real people, first generation, spiritual treasures, and spiritual roots. With such strength, they can compete with a hundred It’s comparable to the state of Jin years ago. Not to mention the Marquis of Yan, I think the Duke of Yan can do it!”
"Why don't we just get it right in one step and have it be settled directly?"
"Why didn't you say anything and just declared yourself king? You haven't even learned to walk yet, so you just want to run away!"
"That makes sense. Let's just invite Jin and Chu to call each other king. We recognize Jin and Chu as kingdoms, and they also recognize us as kingdoms."
"Haha, then according to your idea, let's just invite Qin and Qi again, directly recognize them as principalities, and call them Qi Gong and Qin Gong from now on? And then the master will be called king? When he calls himself emperor in the future, he will directly be called Duke of Qi. Now that I have become Emperor Yan, I can successfully inherit the reputation of my ancestor Yan Emperor, how great!"
"What you said makes sense!"
"It makes sense! Look what you said out loud. Will anyone admit it?"
"What you said also reminded me that although times have changed, the thoughts in many people's minds are still stuck in the past. So, how about we destroy Emperor Zhou, raise Luoyang City, and then destroy Jiuding I give it to everyone so that everyone knows that the era of Emperor Zhou is completely over!"
"are you serious?"
"Do you think I'm joking?" Liu Ba shouted at the top of his lungs.
Who is Liu Ba?
He was the first township chief to come to Yancheng when the Taoist extermination order was issued.
He even brought all his family members directly to Yancheng to show that he would live and die with Yancheng.
At that time, in order to accommodate Liu Ba's family, Jiang Hua approved a street for Liu Ba with a wave of his hand.
Nowadays, Yancheng has been expanded several times, but Liu Ba's family still occupies this street. Relying on this street, Liu Ba made a fortune collecting rent every day.
Later, Jiang Hua waved his hand and rewarded Liu Ba with the fruit of an innate spiritual root. Today, Liu Ba is already the ultimate minister and Taoist priest with a longevity of ten thousand years.
Who doesn't know that he is Jiang Hua's confidant.
Liu Ba was shouting so loudly at the top of his lungs. Was this Liu Ba's intention or Jiang Hua's idea?
Thinking of this, someone began to reason slowly with Liu Ba, trying to persuade Jiang Hua who was behind Liu Ba.
"Emperor Zhou is the emperor after all, and he has a lot of background. Let's not say whether we in Yancheng can defeat him. Even if we can defeat him, what should we do if the damage is heavy?"
"So, let's bring Jin, Chu, Qin, and Qi together!"
"By the way, the Kingdom of Wu also needs to be involved. As long as other vassal states are willing, they can send their masters to witness the end of Emperor Zhou."
"But what about the benefits? Why did they agree?"
"The destiny of the Great Zhou has been exhausted. If you destroy the Great Zhou, you can obtain the destiny that promotes the development of the times. After obtaining the destiny, those real people and the first generation who have already understood the way ahead can take a further step. Isn't this good enough?"
"After the end of the Zhou Dynasty, Jiuding completely lost its master, and other princes could completely refine it. Isn't this reason enough?"
(End of chapter)
