Chapter 935: Light of Glory (Happy Chinese New Year)

The Light of Glory Academy was originally planned to be located in Bauhinia Collar, but later, considering the contradiction between the land used by the academy and the actual land acquisition of Bauhinia Collar, Edward changed his mind and moved the academy to Hungry Wolf Ridge. And considering the future promotion of the college, Hungry Wolf Ridge was renamed Guangming Ridge. Now that Guangming Ridge is recovering and vigorously promoting farming, the territory has recovered a lot of vitality in the past six months. The citizens who fled because of the tyranny of the Hungry Wolf Lord Truff have returned one after another after hearing the news. Coupled with the influx of large and small caravans who saw business opportunities, this territory has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes. .

Half a year of recuperation, of course, can't make all the residents rich, but at least in the cold winter season, they can eat and clothe warmly, and no one freezes to death. This is quite different from the past, but the biggest impact on the territory is not the farming policy and related preferential policies, but a college that was completed in Bright Territory. It was also because of the Light of Glory Academy that Hungry Wolf Ridge had a promising name.

The Light of Glory Academy is located in the south of the Bright Territory, just over an hour away from Fenrir City. According to Baron Edward's original plan, this academy building would fill the nearly thousand acres of land that Fenrir City had set aside. It's just that considering the current taxation and student issues in the territory, the college did not build according to the grand blueprint. Baron Edward divided this blueprint into three phases, and the currently completed college is only the first phase of the project. After that, it will be expanded according to the actual situation of the territory's taxation and students, but even so, the layout of the first phase of the completed college occupies about 200 acres. The building complex includes areas with different uses such as squares, bell towers, teaching areas, training grounds, and dormitories for teachers and students.

Even though the currently completed college is only a general framework, many functional areas still need to be further improved. However, the establishment of this academy in just a few months was unheard of in the southern border of the empire. For this project, Baron Edward devoted a lot of resources to Guangming Ridge, not to mention, even the army was transferred to Guangming Ridge to participate in the construction of the college under suitable circumstances.

This brings about incomparably bright business opportunities, among which, the college's building materials and construction are the most important. It's just that in view of the viscount's skills, although the merchants were moved by the smell, they didn't dare to make too much fuss about it, and they didn't dare to cut corners. In the early stage of construction, there was a construction caravan contemplating shoddy goods, but the head of the caravan was directly thrown into prison, and the merchant was severely fined for violating the commercial laws of the territory. Get some gold coins. It can be regarded as punishing those mercenary businessmen, and also letting people see that both Edward and the viscount attach great importance to this academy.

There are many academies in the empire.

Especially in the Northland, there are several admirable War Colleges. These war academies send an endless stream of officers and warriors to all parts of the empire every year. According to some statistics, at least 600 generals have emerged from those war academies in the past 300 years. As for officers at all levels, there are not many.

It's just that there are colleges in the north, but few in the south. Especially the commercial atmosphere in the south, coupled with the lack of force, so there is no War College. It's not that there are far-sighted lords who want to set up such a college in the past,

It's just that the cost involved is so high that the lords below the earl are often discouraged.

There is a God of War gun of similar nature in Tieqiang Ridge, but the specifications of the God of War gun are only less than half of the Glory Light, and the first phase of the project is used as a comparison. Moreover, this war gun academy is the same as those war academies in the Northland, and most of the recruited students are from the military system or aristocrats. After the completion of the Light of Glory, it was announced by Edward himself, and it was open to the citizens of all classes in the territory.

In other words, it doesn't matter whether you are a member of the military, a noble dude, or a commoner or a consortium family. As long as you want, you can go to the academy to sign up for the assessment. As long as you pass the assessment, you can become the first batch of students in the college. Moreover, as long as it is verified, those students from poor families can be exempted from tuition fees and receive monthly living allowances. But the condition is that these students must obey the assignment of the college after graduation. As for the assignment of the academy, it is nothing more than serving in the army or in politics, and the service period is five years. After five years, stay as you like.

In this way, the academy is tantamount to opening a Qingyun Avenue for the common people. As in the past, ordinary citizens either engaged in farm work, or joined the army with their heads on their waistbands. But now, not only do they have the opportunity to become a low-level military officer, they can even enter political and legal institutions, which was completely unimaginable before. Because these positions are usually stared at by the children of noble families, ordinary leaders can't even touch them, let alone intervene.

Of course, it is not so easy to achieve success. Just passing one of the college's assessments alone makes seven or eight out of ten applicants. But in any case, for ordinary people, it is an opportunity to change their destiny. As long as they are citizens of the right age, everyone will go to the academy to apply for the exam with the idea of ​​giving it a try. The college plans to formally open the school in spring, but this winter, the gate of the college was almost smashed by the students who came to apply for the exam.

The impact of the Light of Glory Academy is far-reaching. Not only the people of the territory are affected by it, but even the nobles of the territory feel the turmoil. What the aristocratic family is most worried about is the impact and changes brought about by the college students on the power structure of the territory in a few years. It is conceivable that when a large number of civilians flood into the circle of power that should belong to them, even though the upper levels of the power pyramid cannot be involved in the early stage, the impact on the noble children at the bottom is huge, even fatal.

We must know that the reason why those aristocratic children can sit in the existing positions in the power organization is only one or two out of ten of them relying on their own real talents and scholars, and more of them come from the shadow of the family. After Edward's first speech at the college, the Lord's Mansion of Dawn Castle was almost completely surrounded by nobles. But at that time, Edward only said coldly: "This matter is imperative. If you are afraid of being squeezed out, just ask your sons and grandsons to apply for the college. Don’t you dare to compete with them?”

After that, several lords who were vassals of Allen sent their school-age children to the academy to register for the assessment. Even Oss, the youngest lord of Fenrir City, also participated in the assessment of the academy and successfully became a freshman of the academy. With these big nobles setting an example, it is tantamount to supporting Edward's decision, and other nobles can't say anything, they can only follow the general trend.

Soon, the special practice of the Light of Glory Academy quickly spread throughout the southern border. Some people raised their hands to praise him, but more people laughed and were not optimistic about this academy. This is because according to the way the academy runs schools, even if it is an Earl's territory, it is difficult to maintain its operation. What's more, Allen is only a Viscount.

This morning, the students who were cleaning the gate of the academy saw a carriage without any markings slowly approaching. Several students looked at each other in blank dismay, they were all from poor families, let alone riding in a carriage, they had rarely even seen each other in the past. After successfully entering the academy, I finally saw the ostentation of those noble children. However, this carriage has neither logo nor decorations, and it seems that it is just from an ordinary wealthy family. But even so, it is not what they civilians can hope for.

Now the college is opening the door for poor students like them, exempting them from tuition fees, not to mention monthly living allowances. It also provides them with a large number of job opportunities in the college, most of which are the basic maintenance of the college. It is cumbersome but not onerous, and students can earn their own living without spending a single copper coin from the family during their studies. If they do more inspections, they can save some money to subsidize the family, which was completely unimaginable in the past.

For this reason, the students who were born as civilians respected Edward and the viscount from the bottom of their hearts.

The carriage drove through the gate.

The groom is a young man with eye-catching silver hair. He is dressed in ordinary clothes, just the narrow clothes and trousers common to ordinary soldiers, and is covered with simple light armor. He seems to be both a groom and a guard. The carriage stopped in an open space behind the gate of the college. The young groom jumped out of the carriage, opened the door, and got out of the carriage first, a woman in a cloak.

The woman was tall and tall. Although the cloak tightly covered her whole body, it was not difficult to imagine that there was a hot body under the cloak. It's just that when the woman got out of the car, she was dragging a big sword, and when the scabbard fell to the ground lightly, the ground was slightly sunken, so it was known that it was a heavy sword. The epee was carried on the back of the woman lightly and calmly, so the men passing by looked at the woman with less fiery eyes than before.

A woman who can dance with such a heavy weapon, even if she is not a master, is definitely not something ordinary people like them can afford.

Then another girl came down from the carriage, her long golden hair was tied into two ponytails, her green eyes were clear, her beautiful facial features and dignified temperament made one believe that she was a noble young lady. In this way, the combination of the female guard who is good at epee and the young and handsome groom seems reasonable.

It's just that from the perspective of outsiders, the groom doesn't seem to have the consciousness of being a servant. Instead of serving the young and beautiful hostess, he pointed at the academy and laughed out loud from time to time. It was also because the young lady had a good temper, she didn't reprimand her, but instead laughed lightly beside her. Only the female guard standing behind them spoke and acted quite appropriately. But in this way, it made the young groom even more rude.

People passing by can be sure that the blond lady should be a noble lady studying in the academy, and the other two are naturally attendants. The academy does not object to noble children bringing their entourage to school, but there are strict restrictions. And the follower must pay the same fee, no matter whether he is interested in studying or not. In this regard, the academy has no accommodations at all. Such a measure, while limiting the number of followers, also made a small fortune for the academy.

So it is not uncommon for the blond lady in front of me to bring two entourages.

As passers-by expected, the three of them stayed for a while before heading towards the teaching area along the main road of the college.

[Chen Ran wishes everyone a happy new year, and wishes everyone a happy new year. In the new year, be healthy and live a prosperous life! Today is three more, I hope you all enjoy watching. ]

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