Lord of Arcane

Chapter 891 Demographic Factors Defrauding Funds

Even if the threshold for becoming a mage is very low, there are still a small number of people who have the potential to continue their studies. This is like Xia Duo's hometown.

It seems that college students are everywhere, and no one wants them everywhere, but after checking, it turns out that the undergraduate rate is only 4%!

In this world, it's hard to say whether spellcasters account for 4% of the population, let alone arcanists.

Judging from Xia Duo's personal experience and observations of many apprentices and mages in the Tower of Time, arcanists could actually be regarded as middle school students before.

Only becoming an arcanist is equivalent to going to university, and this process requires years of study and further study.

Even Xia Duo, with all the conveniences and the advanced learning methods brought from the earth, still took at least seven years to become an arcanist (counting the time on the projection plane).

Therefore, the actual proportion of arcanists, let alone [-]% of the population, even if it is only [-]%, Xia Duo would laugh.

If it is 600%, it means that even with the current population, the Great Xia Territory plus the Savile Territory can produce more than [-] Arcanists.

What kind of concept is this? Maybe the number of all Arcanists in Netheril combined is not so many!

Moreover, modern education on Earth requires huge investment, but here, in the current Savile and Great Xia territories, it is simply impossible for all the subjects to study off-duty at once, and they will continue to train for many years.

It is impossible to achieve leapfrog development.

Of course, Xia Duo's current ideas and actions, in the eyes of Nether people, may have been a proper leapfrog development.

But in his own opinion, this is just a step-by-step process under the guidance of advanced theories, and it is far from a leap.

Since we can't jump, we have to look for opportunities from the population, and from a long-term perspective, the population is also an invisible condition that any civilization with a limit to individual intelligence can't get around.

This is like the core industrial population on Earth. Before Xia Duo traveled, maintaining a relatively complete industrial system required tens of millions of core industrial population.

This is only the industrial population, counting other industries, the number will be even more.

Basically, countries with a total population of less than 5000 million do not even have a complete modern industrial foundation, let alone development. They can only hope for some unorthodox technologies in an attempt to occupy a place in the future.

But obviously, it is impossible for them to be the protagonists in the future.

Because if they can develop, populous countries can also develop, and even if they are slightly behind, they can catch up quickly.

Xia Duo even heard a theory that if the fourth industrial revolution is to break out, the core industrial population required will be in the hundreds of millions.

At the same time, there will be more and more subdivisions in the future, and the demand for scientific researchers will also increase.

Regarding the game of the future, big countries have always participated in it, and small countries have been selling. The "big" and "small" here can basically refer to the population in the modern society of the earth.

In this real magical world, perhaps the nature of the world is different from the universe where the earth is located, but the laws of development can also be used for reference.

Perhaps, the gods of this world have infinite wisdom, but on the road to becoming a god, individual wisdom is always not as strong as collective wisdom.

Furthermore, Xia Duo does not believe that God has infinite wisdom at all. If there is, it is omniscience, and omniscience can deduce omnipotence.

But it is clear that the gods are not omniscient and omnipotent.

As long as it is limited, it must be 1+1>1. Hearing both will lead to light, and partial belief will lead to darkness. The ancients on Earth all had such wisdom. How could Xia Duo be so arrogant that he thought that his own wisdom alone was enough to overwhelm everyone including him? A collection of more people too!

Sometimes it’s okay to joke around, but if you still think so when you’re alone in your heart and seriously thinking about your future development plans, that’s lack of understanding.

……

Walking to the door of the material department, Xia Duo has already determined in his mind the basic policy of introducing new population in an all-round way. Of course, the specific implementation steps need to be discussed in the long run.

Not only do you need to listen to the advice of many experienced people, but you also need to discuss it with Niya.

After entering the supplies department, Cecily greeted her quickly, as if she had been waiting here for a long time, "My lord, there is something I feel is necessary to say."

"Ok?"

Xia Duo looked at Cecily for a while, but the other party's formulaic expression made it difficult for him to capture any information, so he bypassed her, went to a seat inside and sat down, saying:
"What's the matter? I happen to have something to ask you too, so please tell me first!"

"wait a minutes."

Cecily turned around and took out a stack of loose parchment documents from the desk, and brought it to Xia Duo before saying:
"It's like this. During the month you left, the Tilak Research Office applied for a large amount of materials. Of course, I know that those are mainly for the manufacture of communication instruments, and they have already been approved. But in the long run, the Tower of Time will be destroyed again. Faced with a shortage of supplies!
"In addition, after the implementation of the "Management Standards of the Tower of Time Research Office", it is difficult for those middle-level mages to tamper with outsourcing tasks, so they all began to follow the example of Tilak and conduct research on new topics, so as to apply for materials from me, but they must not Most of the material was wasted or turned into their private property."

When it came to the end, Cecily finally no longer had the formulaic expression on her face, but had some scowling looks on her face, as if she was very dissatisfied with the actions of those middle-level mages.

While listening, Xia Duo casually flipped through the paperwork on the table, all of which were application records one by one, most of which were of course the Tilak Research Office.

Although the communication instruments can be mass-produced and have been handed over to the Magic Mechanic Office for production, the Magic Mechanic Office is equivalent to an outsourcing factory, requiring each research laboratory to place orders.

The communication magic weapon can be regarded as the product of Tilak's research room. Of course, when calculating the share, the Tower of Time takes the lion's share. After all, both the spell and the funds are provided by the Tower of Time.

But in name, Tilak Research Office still needs to apply for the materials of the communication instruments at the Magic Technician Office, which is considered a normal process.

After all, proceduralization, standardization, institutionalization, and clear responsibilities have always been a keynote that Xia Duo deliberately emphasized in the process of promoting the transformation of the Tower of Time.

Only in this way will it be more conducive to the transformation of the Tower of Time into a highly ordered modern organization.

……

The material application for Tilak's laboratory is not only used for the production of communication instruments, but also supplies for maintaining the normal remote transfer of the laboratory.

Xia Duo recalled the number of applications, and found that the number of applications had not changed much from their previous applications. It seemed that the Tilak Research Office had been in a stable state.

And under the paperwork applied by Tilak's lab, there was also an application paper from Leonard's lab that Cecily hadn't mentioned just now.

(End of this chapter)