【Seven Thousand Words.】

Chapter 552 [I'm not that great]

Chen Daolin has always felt that there are many strange phenomena in this Roland world.

The most concentrated manifestation of these strange phenomena lies in the magician.

From many perspectives, the magic civilization in this world actually has great potential, but the magician group always holds an uncooperative attitude. Simply put, magicians basically treat themselves as old men, and have to serve, coax, and then make these old men happy. Only when the old men occasionally have a little skill flowing out of their fingers to help you.

To give a simple example, from a military perspective, the help of magicians to the army should have greatly improved.

Not to mention how much combat effectiveness will the army improve when fighting, having a magician assisting the war will bring. An intermediate fire magician is almost equivalent to a movable human-shaped turret. For the Roland Empire, which is still in the era of cold weapons combat, such combat power can almost achieve a qualitative change.

But in fact? Most magicians are not willing to serve the army. Magicians are a privileged class that is even more noble than nobles. Even the imperial decrees clearly state these privileges. Even the emperor has no right to force magicians to serve the army. They can only rely on coaxing and serving to make the magicians happy. If they are happy, they will play with you. If they are unhappy, even if you are beaten by the enemy, the magicians will also watch coldly.

Not to mention the help of direct combat.

The role of magicians in the army can actually be reflected in many aspects.

To give the simplest example, the transportation of logistics supplies.

The logistics transportation of the army in the feudal era was an extremely painful thing. Relying on manpower and livestock transportation, long supply lines, transportation of materials and food, the consumption on the road was a number that was enough to make people collapse!

The northwest does not produce food. Once there is a major war, it is necessary to transport food from the inland area to the northwest. If it is transported by manpower and animal power, then transporting 100 kilograms of grain will cost about 70% along the way. People eat it, and horses need to chew it.

It costs a lot of people, chariots, horses, and transportation teams!

But it will be much easier to have a magician. Not to mention other magicians, at least they have an overwhelming advantage in the "moving" industry.

A magician with storage magic equipment, simply calculating transportation capabilities is enough to replace a transport brigade! Moreover, this is not the upper limit!

If a magician has an infinite storage ring, then in theory, the transportation volume is almost infinite.

Chen Daolin even did calculations, considering the magic power consumed by the magician when using storage rings or other storage equipment, as well as the magic limits of the magician himself... From the calculation of paper data, an intermediate magician, one person is enough to undertake all the logistics transportation work of a regiment-level army!

The number of magicians currently owned by the Roland Empire can definitely replace the logistics and transportation teams of the entire empire!

But the problem is... Until now, all the armies and logistics transportation of the Roland Empire were still using the most primitive methods: human and animal power.

Of course, hydraulic transportation can be used in areas near the river channel. But there is nothing else to do.

The reason is...the magicians have no concept of serving the country at all.

Most magicians are not willing to go to the army to be an honest porter.

Magicians are all noble... This kind of nobleness is reflected in that they need to eat and drink well, and they have to live like a master. They cannot obey orders, and they do whatever they want. The most important thing is that magicians have a kind of pride in their bones. They are magicians, a class above ordinary people, and even more noble than nobles. Their precious time is spent on magic research.

In fact, everyone in the empire's senior management is very clear about this, but no one can change the status quo.

So in Chen Daolin's view, the biggest problem of the Roland Empire lies in its wrong view of the status of a magician.

The status of the magician is too high, resulting in such a powerful force, which has no effect on the empire and society at all.

In theory, seven or eight intermediate magicians can take over the logistics transportation of a division's army, and it is more than enough!

Taking a division as an example, this can save about 4,000 people's labor consumption for logistics transportation! This is 4,000 people's labor!!

In addition to manpower consumption, it can also save about 60% to 70% of the food consumption during transportation! For areas such as Northwest where food is not rich in itself, how much benefit can such savings bring? Anyone with a brain can calculate it.

But few magicians would be willing to do this.

The magician cannot bear the constraints or orders - if you want the magician to help, you can come and ask me for help!

This can be seen from Carmen bringing people to the northwest.

The empire is in a big disaster, this is a big deal for a country. To be honest, this is a national war!

What is a national war? It is the key to the life and death of a country!

With Carmen's prestige in the Magic Academy, he could only bring out more than 60 magicians from the Magic Academy...most of them were just students.

Only these more than 60 people are willing to come out to serve because of Carmen's prestige. What about the others in the academy?

hehe!

Therefore, Chen Daolin has always been ridiculous about the current situation of the Roland Empire.

Where is the Magic Academy? Its full name is the Royal Magic Academy of Roland Empire!

All the expenses and expenses of the Magic Academy each year are all funded by the Imperial Finance! It is a school that relies on the public funds of the Imperial to support it.

Most of the people trained by such a school that is supported by Imperial Del public funds are unwilling to serve the country... So what is the significance of this kind of training?

Don’t forget that there is no tuition for the Magic Academy! In other words, all the students in these Magic Academy eat the country and use the country, spend the country... In the end, they are unwilling to contribute a little effort to the country.

What the hell is this not raising a group of ungrateful wolves?

Every year, if you invest more than one million gold coins, you can support a group of noble men? You have to take good care of them and comfort them along the hair...

You can't beat or scold you, or you can't say it.

Because these are all "traditional".

In the tradition of the Roland Empire, the magician should be the master and should enjoy all privileges.

Of course, it is not without contribution.

But in Chen Daolin's view, the only contribution of the Magic Academy to the Empire is that the laboratories and research institutes in those academies will occasionally study some new achievements, which can provide the Empire with some technical and productivity improvements.

But... in fact, this kind of result is very few and limited.

To be precise, the Roland Empire has not yet formed a true "magical civilization". Most magic has not played any role in the promotion of this society.

"If I were the Emperor of the Empire, the first thing I had to do was to close the Magic Academy - even if it was not closed, it would stop allocating funds to the Magic Academy and let them die on their own! More than one million gold coins a year! Why can't such a lot of money be done? Putting into production and military expenses can improve the national strength of the empire. Supporting a group of old men who only eat but don't do anything, and have to be careful to serve the coaxing. Isn't this sick?"

Sitting in his own laboratory, Carmen was shocked when Chen Daolin told Dean Carmen all about such a big remark!

Emotionally speaking, Carmen felt very harsh when he heard these words! After all, she was a senior executive of the Magic Academy and a beneficiary of this system. She was also a traditional magician who grew up under this "tradition" since childhood.

But rationally speaking, Carmen had to admit that what Darling said was actually... there was a bit of truth.

"Even if you keep a dog, you still know that you should guard the house for your owner." Chen Daolin curled his lips.

Carmen's face darkened: "That's all over. How can we compare magicians with dogs? Darlingchen, you are also a magician!"

"I didn't spend a penny on the empire, right?" Chen Daolin said lightly: "I am not a member of the Roland Empire. I don't owe this empire anything. But now I am guarding the borders for the empire - although I am forced to do so. What about those magicians who eat the country and take the country? Except for the more than 60 people you brought, everyone else is hiding in the imperial capital and being free and easy."

Carmen couldn't speak anymore.

Today, Carmen came to meet Chen Daolin, and first of all, we would like to discuss with him the progress of the production and production of the tidal magic engine in recent days. Another important thing is to discuss the idea of ​​the establishment of the "Northwest Branch of the Magic Academy".

Speaking of the founding of Northwest Branch, Chen Daolin immediately said such a big complaint.

In Chen Daolin's view, creating another Northwest branch is simply a fool.

The Empire had a military academy, which also had funding and expenses every year, but at least the Military academy had trained many military talents for the Empire, and these talents were used by the Empire and served in the military.

But what has the Magic Academy trained?

There are nearly a thousand teachers and students in the Magic Academy in the Imperial Capital?

Under Carmen's strong call, how many people have come to the Northwest to play? Less than one-tenth!

If you build another school like this, can you support it if you have too much money?

This is different from a real-world university.

In real-world universities, at least you have to pay tuition. After graduation, you can do whatever you want and make your own business.

But the Magic Academy doesn’t even have tuition fees, which means that the country spends money to train you.

And... the magician doesn't even have to pay taxes!!

As a citizen of an empire, he does not pay taxes, does not serve the country, and he also spends the country's money, and also enjoys various privileges... What is the significance of keeping such a person for a country?

Chen Daolin had no interest in this Northwest branch.

Now, in his opinion, at least the place in Rova City is his land of one acre and three-point area! It is his territory!

He was not interested in building another privileged school in his territory and cultivating a group of privileged classes.

Take your own place, spend your own money, and raise a group of people who only eat but don’t work? So what if you are a group of magicians? It can’t bring me benefits. What should I do with them?

"So what do you mean? Are you refusing to establish Northwest Branch?" Carmen's face looked very bad.

Although Carmen had to admit from a rational point of view that this guy's words made sense, they could not accept them emotionally after all - at least for a while, so the dean looked stern: "This is the resolution of the college committee! Don't forget that you are also a professor of the college. You cannot oppose the resolution of the committee! Moreover, these more than 60 people came to the northwest on the premise of this resolution."

Chen Daolin sighed and smiled bitterly: "Of course I know, so... this Northwest branch is not bad, but... it needs to be restructured!"

“Reorganized?”

"Yes. Must be reorganized!" Chen Daolin said coldly: "Continue to cultivate a group of privileged men who are willing to do nothing. I am not interested in creating such a school - whoever wants to do this kind of sucker will do it! So, if you want to build a school, you must create it according to my method. Otherwise, dean, I will say the ugly words in front. If you can't build a school according to my ideas, then this kind of old school should not be built in Luowa City... You can go to Mulan City to build a school."

"...You talk about your thoughts first." Dean Carmen suppressed the anger in his heart and said with a fire. If it weren't for Darling Chen being a holy rank, he might not have beaten this guy. The dean would have struck him with lightning. When will this strong-willed female dean be a good person to talk to?

"Reform! The meaning of reform is that at least from the first step of the creation of the academy, the privileged status of the magician must be changed! It is absolutely not possible to just eat and pay for money and not work!"

Carmen thought for a while: "But the magician's privilege is granted by the Imperial Code. You are not an emperor, so you cannot tamper with the Imperial Code at will."

"I'm not interested in changing the law of the empire, I don't have that power or that. I just want to reorganize the college - at least the Northwest Branch, I want to change the system."

"You talk about it first. How to change it." Carmen asked patiently.

"First of all, there are two types of students in the college: public and self-paid."
To be continued...