"Compulsory education means literally. The territory has the obligation to provide basic education to the children of the territory. This is completely free. The teachers are completely provided by the military, including the students' book fees. They only need to send their children to school.

"Limited by the current conditions in the territory, most schools are half-day. After all, many older children are already doing half the work at home. Our next goal is to achieve full-time schooling." Sean answered patiently.

After hearing Sean's answer, not only Chancellor Abner and Sir Copperfield stared at each other this time, but even Grand Maester Antoine's eyes were as wide as Niu Ling's.

The lord paid for the children of his subjects to study and become literate. This kind of thing was also unheard of in the Ashan continent.

Isn’t the relationship between the subjects and the lord a relationship between serving and being served?

They have only heard of people doing this and that for their lords for free, but rarely hear of lords doing things for their people for free.

What Sean just said sounded like clouds floating in the sky, ethereal and untouchable.

Except they don’t believe it, they still don’t believe it, because all this has completely broken their cognition.

When we arrived at the Yongye Army, why did knowledge become so cheap?

"What's your enrollment rate in basic education?" Archmaester Antoine of the Council reluctantly restrained himself and asked.

At this point, they could no longer question Sean, because the boast he was making was too smooth. If they put everything together, it was really possible. Now they could only question how far the other party could achieve it.

"Enrollment rate is indeed a major difficulty in the implementation of basic compulsory education. We can only achieve it at the village and town level, and further down, some more separated families are temporarily unable to do anything. Secondly, not all families are willing to send their children to receive education.

Education, because older children can help with work at home.

Then there is the issue of girls’ education. Many families favor boys over girls, and even fewer are sent to receive compulsory education. According to last year’s statistics, the enrollment rate of boys was about 60%, and only less than 30% survived to complete five years of schooling.

Girls are even worse, not even one-third of this level.

We will continue to work on this and see what incentive policies we can come up with to allow those family heads to send their children to school." Sean sighed.

In his previous life, Sean had heard about the difficulty of persuading students to study in remote mountainous areas, but he had never experienced it personally.

In this life, as a lord, he had experienced it personally. Some smart subjects tried their best to let their children learn some knowledge and embark on a more glorious path.

However, there are always some stubborn or short-sighted people who use their children as free labor. In the past, they helped them hunt and do farm work. Now, the Yongye Army has many various factories in its territory, and various handicrafts are also in the territory.

It is booming under the leadership of the company, and I want my children to be workers and make money quickly.

As everyone knows, after working like this all their lives, most of these children are still workers. At most, they have grown from ordinary workers to skilled workers.

Of course, it's not that there aren't smart children who grow up while working and studying, but such children are still in the minority, and they obviously have to make more detours and put in more effort than those who have received basic education.

Even if the military leaders take tough measures, there are still many people who fight guerrillas with the government, which makes people hate them. It can only be said that the same rice feeds hundreds of people, and the same policies fall on different people, but the effects are different.

As the territory develops and grows, the population increases, and the situation becomes more and more complex. Weird things can happen. Naturally, more middle- and low-level administrative personnel with comprehensive abilities are needed. This is also the case in politics and law.

The reason for the establishment of the college.

"Huh!" President Abner took a long breath and said, "After listening to what the lord said, I no longer know how to answer, because all of this is something we have never heard of. I hope that the lord

Everything your Lord just said is true. I am not questioning your Lord's meaning, but what you just said, even if 30% of it is true, everything you do is setting a precedent and creating history.

This is something that has never happened before in the history of Ashan continent, and I can’t wait to see it all.”

"Calculating the time, we should arrive at our destination." Sean smiled without any intention of refuting.

Facts speak louder than words. When they arrive at their destination, Speaker Abner will discover how empty his words are. Real life is always more colorful.

Sean stood up and looked outside the watchtower and the ship, his smile became even brighter and he said: "What a coincidence, we have already arrived. Academy City welcomes you all."

Everyone followed Sean's gaze and saw that a city was getting closer and closer to them.

The orderly streets, the buildings with blue bricks and red tiles, and the bustling crowds were very similar to other towns led by the Yongye Army they had seen along the way.

There are also differences, that is, there are more three- and four-story buildings here, and the layout is relatively concentrated. There are construction teams busy outside the city, and identical buildings are rising from the ground.

After stepping inside, everyone's feeling was obviously different.

The clothes of the residents here are too clean and tidy. I can't say they are spotless. At least I don't see any unkempt appearance. The clothes on their bodies, regardless of whether they are new or old, whether they have patches or not, are all washed very clean, which makes them look pleasing to the eye.

The spacious streets are paved with bricks and stones and are swept cleanly.

Not to mention anything else, based on this alone, the wealth of the Yong Ye Army Leader has been exposed without a doubt, and everyone's doubts have begun to waver.

Wasn't Sean just bragging?

Is everything true?

This is too incredible.

"It's Panshi 1. I wonder what mission it's carrying out this time? Hey, look, the flag hanging on Panshi 1 seems to be different from usual."

"If you don't tell me, you really haven't noticed. It's a bit different from usual. Wow, isn't that the lord's flag? You don't even recognize the symbol of our lord?"

"Lord's flag? Real or fake? Let me go, it's really the lord's flag. So our lord is on the ship. Who said I don't recognize the lord's flag? It's just that I was too far away and didn't see it clearly. Where are you planning to go, lord?

?The royal capital of Valesta? Didn’t he just come back not long ago? Doesn’t he usually ride an eagle mount? Why did he take the building boat instead this time?"

"Maybe there is some important cargo that needs to be transported! Hey, that's not right. Our college town is a little off the waterway. How could Panshi No. 1 pass by here? It seems to me that it is heading towards our college town?"

"It really looks like, ah, he is really coming to our college city. The lord is coming to our college city. Why are you standing there in a daze? Hurry up and inform people!"

"Who should be notified?"

"Who else can I inform? Of course, it's the deans of the three colleges."

"I know, go right away."

"It's the lord, it's really the lord. The lord has come to our academy city."

"Lord, General McGee, General Tagore, General Erikson, and the three generals of the Yongye Army are here. Oh, the formation is really big enough. What are you planning to do? Recruiting officers at the military academy? That's not right.

, the technical college is entering the graduation season this year, and the military college has to wait for another year. Is it too impatient to come now? "

"Idiot, the three generals are obviously acting as guards today. The ones around the lord are the protagonists, right?"

"Three generals are being used at the same time. What are the backgrounds of those generals?"

"I don't know him. The only thing I can be sure of is that he must be a very powerful man, and maybe he is also a champion knight."

"It's very possible, so to speak, the lord is accompanying them to visit our academy city. Please cheer up and don't embarrass our academy city, and don't embarrass our lord."

Sean and his party landed at the port of College City, causing the entire port to be in a state of chaos.

Since Sean changed his mind temporarily and did not communicate with the college city in advance, everyone was inevitably panicked.

As for whether it can achieve a shocking effect, Sean is not worried at all from the series of reactions and performances of President Abner and others. It is not that the Yongye Army leaders are doing too well, but that their vision level is too low. In comparison, the college

The city is afraid of being in the clouds.

This was something Sean hadn't thought of before.

Looking at the citizens of Academy City who waved to Sean frequently, President Abner smiled and said: "Lord, you are really popular with the people, so supported and loved!"

"I just did what a lord should do." Sean smiled and waved, and replied, "It's not that I did it too well, but that they were too easily satisfied."

"The Lord's words will make countless lords die of shame, because they often stir up resentment among the easily satisfied people." Chief Speaker Abner couldn't help but shake his head.

I don’t know whether to say that Sean is too humble, or that the other lords are too poor.

"Everyone, come with me!"

Sean did not wait for the hosts of the three colleges, but directly led President Abner and his party to the destination.

He has come to these three colleges frequently. Since their establishment, he has always taken a few days to visit them every month.

As mentioned before, these three academies represent the future of Yongye Army Leader. Of course, he, the lord, must come here from time to time to get closer to the two parties, or to give a few classes, or to observe a few classes, or to follow the training.

For a few days, it was an inspiration and spur to teachers and students.

It's just that when I came here before, it wasn't as grand as this time. Most of the people came and went through black collars. Many people didn't notice it, and they only existed in legends after the fact.

Sean's words alone shocked President Abner so much that he even forgot to ask questions.

By the time they followed Sean into the academy and started touring, the shock had turned into numbness, and they could no longer think of words to describe their state of mind.

Because everything I saw before my eyes was even more exaggerated than what Sean described.

Every classroom was packed with people. When they went to watch, many students were engrossed in studying and were not aware of their group of outsiders.

Those who can stand out from hundreds of thousands of people and enter the three major colleges to study cannot be said to be all smart people, but they are definitely the hardest working and hardest-working among their kind. They all cherish this hard-won success.

Opportunities are like sponges, frantically absorbing the knowledge they have access to.

Every time he saw this situation, Sean couldn't help but sigh that they were the best group of people he had ever seen in his life. Seeing them, it seemed that he could see the prosperous future of the Yongye Army.

There were even a few classes where President Abner was entranced while standing outside the door. Some of the knowledge points and unique ways of thinking in them were something he had never heard of before.

It was not that he didn't know those knowledge points, but he had never seriously thought about them and studied them. After listening to them, he suddenly realized that it could still be done in this way and explained in this way.

Some are even beyond his understanding.

That was no longer shocking, but shocking.

Is this still the same hometown that I left?

Not only has the environment here become strange, but even the people have become extremely strange.

If they didn't have the same face as me, I would have thought that I was in the wrong place!

But what struck him as most incredible was the age of Yongye Army Leader.

Before they came, the Warlock Alliance had reorganized the intelligence on the Yongye Army Leader. According to the intelligence, it was only thirteen years since their establishment.
To be continued...