Chapter 574: Expansion of Education

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The dense rain fell on the glass windows, making a crackling sound, and the scenery outside the windows became blurred, and the town could only be distinguished from the mountains in the distance by the outlines of the colors.

Roland stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the hazy city under the rain curtain, and the song of "City of Love" still floated in his ears.

He didn't expect the premiere of the play three days ago to be so amazing with the ability to echo.

At the end of the performance, there was silence and tears in the audience's eyes, which Roland had expected to be seen only in the high-end opera houses of later generations. Even a slightly grassroots cinema would not have such an effect, let alone a group of ordinary people in a backward era.

Even he, who was bombarded with all kinds of tear-jerking shots, felt a tremor from the bottom of his heart.

This is the power of the "Song of Resonance".

Roland, of course, knows what it means to be able to sing inspiringlyβ€”in a protracted war, machines don't get tired, but people do. Even if guns and ammunition continue to be transported to the battlefield, people will be overwhelmed by the pressure to survive with no end in sight. Especially when the situation is unfavorable and there are heavy casualties, this kind of emotion is very easy to amplify indefinitely, and eventually leads to the loss of the fighting spirit of the army to win.

Historically, many ways have been devised to improve the morale of the troops, such as feeding soldiers as hot food as possible, dropping ice cream, installing political commissars and chaplains, etc., but these are too demanding for Roland, the former is very testing of logistics and supply capabilities, and the latter is difficult to cultivate a group of backbone elements who have strong beliefs and are good at encouraging others in a short period of time.

And the ability to echo gave him a quick way to increase his momentum.

Although it may sound absurd, it is indeed more reliable to cultivate an idol than other methods.

Just as he was thinking, there was a knock on the office door, and Barov walked in.

"Your Majesty, the statistics of recent house purchases are out. ”

"The result?"

"As you might expect," he excitedly spread out a list on the mahogany table, "since the new drama was staged, there has been a huge increase in the number of people coming to the town hall to apply for rents, to buy housing, and to register marriages. ”

"Really?" Roland returned to the table, checking Barov's stats. "City of Love" is not an untargeted piece of entertainment, in addition to promoting the glory of labor and building greatness, it contains another idea that links marriage to a secure home. Rather than allowing outsiders to develop a sense of belonging, and allowing locals to accept these strangers little by little through daily contact, it is up to him to define a simple criterion to promote the integration of displaced people from all over the world.

This criterion is the house.

"If you have a house, you are your own person" - it seems very rough, but it can save a lot of run-in time in extraordinary times.

If you want to gain people's approval and harvest your family, you have to have a place to live. Once the outsiders have a permanent property, they will consciously maintain everything in the place. Of course, these ideas are not suitable for being said directly, and they can be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people when they are put into a drama and told through stories.

It's like a diamond.

A timeless classic advertising slogan pushes it to the position of the king of gems, a must-have for marriage, making people completely ignore its essence of being neither rare nor valuable.

At least the house has a high practical value.

For this reason, the goal cannot be set too far away, making it feel unattainable. You can apply for a rental house with one golden dragon, and you only need to pay another golden dragon every year as rent in the future. When the payment of rent is equal to the sale price of the house, the house automatically goes to the renter.

Of course, this goal cannot be too easy to achieve, even the cheapest single room requires 20 gold dragons, which means that it takes more than 20 years for handymen, temporary workers and other types of work to buy one - and this kind of house is not even 15 square meters, only a bed, a dining table and a toilet, and it will definitely be labeled as a black-hearted real estate developer in future generations.

All in all, according to Barov's statistics, the promotion of "City of Love" was clearly a success.

The vast majority of lease applications came from the first few groups of displaced and serfs who had arrived in the frontier areas, and most of the requests were made by well-paid artisans and down-and-out aristocrats who had previously carried their possessions, and when they settled there, they would become part of Neverwinter forever.

So Roland even thought about the content of the next new play, and the theme was to get married and struggle to buy a big house.

"Well done," he said, rolling up the list and handing it to Barov, "and the recent recruitment of displaced people will continue to expand, as the abundant population is the guarantee of Neverwinter's development, and other tasks can make way for it for the time being." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. The steward laughed and cocked his beard.

"By the way, go and call the scroll, I have something to explain to her. ”

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"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?" walked into the office in a white dress and a black dress, dressed in a smart book.

"I want to expand education to include homeless people who have just arrived in Neverwinter. Roland poured her a cup of tea, "If it were only for the official residents, they would not be able to get their primary education until at least a year later." ”

"I'm afraid it's impossible to do it at the moment," said Shujuan after a moment of thought, "there are too many of them to take care of the existing teachers, and there are not enough classrooms." If it is implemented as you say, the Ministry of Education will have to expand its staff at least two or three times. ”

"I have a way to reduce the stress on teachers," Rowland paused, "and let them learn on their own." ”

"Self-taught?"

"That's right, once a week, there is an open class, only the most basic reading and writing are taught, and the rest of the time they are allowed to practice on their own through a booklet with pictures and pronunciations, no performance tests, no mandatory requirements, and all on their own initiative. ”

"This ......," she subconsciously pulled her rain-soaked hair, "it probably won't work." Your Majesty, if there is no supervision, it is good that one out of ten people can learn it. ”

"Half of them," Roland laughed, "I just wanted to give them a chance." ”

There will always be people who will not be satisfied with boring and low-paying jobs and want to achieve their goals faster, and in order to avoid such people going astray, they must be guided to achieve self-improvement in the right way.

In future recruitment, the proportion of literate jobs will be higher and higher, and the pay will be much higher than that of handymen, so if you want to get a stable place to live as soon as possible and get rid of poverty and hard work, self-taught reading and writing will be a good choice.

Through this method, it can also allow those who are motivated to join the construction of the city as soon as possible.

The most important thing to maintain the vitality of a new regime is not to cut off the path of promotion from the bottom.

Roland was convinced.