"That's it. The Ancient Alliance has developed to this day, and it is too inefficient to recruit disciples in the same way as in the past."
"There needs to be a more stable source of disciples."
Zhang Shen summoned the top leaders of the Ancient Alliance and some family leaders who did not hold positions in the Ancient Alliance, and announced that he would establish a directly-administered college.
These senior executives and people in charge looked at each other in bewilderment. Except for a few people, no one else had ever heard of this news.
Especially the heads of these families, their expressions were complicated and difficult to understand for a moment.
According to Zhang Shen’s long-standing planning and practices.
Currently, everyone in the area governed by the Ancient Alliance can be considered a member of the Ancient Alliance.
It’s just that most of them are ordinary members, inconspicuous, and exist only as population resources.
Above this is the status of a disciple of the Ancient Alliance, which is similar to being a party member on Blue Star.
One needs to possess certain abilities and talents in certain areas to obtain the status of a disciple of the Ancient Alliance.
The examination is somewhat strict, and only those with a clean background are allowed to enter.
The top leaders of the Ancient Alliance will then select talents from among these disciples to form the Ancient Alliance’s combat forces and internal staff to handle daily affairs.
The rest are idle personnel with the status of Ancient Alliance disciples. They usually have the status of Ancient Alliance disciples, but are actually idle. However, when needed, the required talents will be selected from them, just like the previous expansion of the Ancient Alliance. The personnel vacancies after the expansion were selected from these idle disciples.
This system was established by Zhang Shen with reference to the sect system and national system of the Great Wilderness.
After all, the Ancient Alliance is not just a sect, it also controls a large population. It needs to combine the characteristics of both aspects to establish a special structure to meet the needs.
But the cultural and educational aspects are easy to say. In the past, the path of martial arts has always been controlled by various martial arts families, and those who can become disciples of the Ancient Alliance are mostly members of various families.
Especially the middle and high-level positions were monopolized by various martial arts families within the Ancient Alliance.
This is normal, the Ancient Alliance was established with the flesh and blood of these families.
What Zhang Shen can do now is to reverse this situation.
He wanted to take the matter of the origins of the Ancient Alliance's disciples from the various families into his own hands.
Otherwise, it is very likely that it will become too big to be removed in the future.
Each family is also aware of this matter. If Zhang Shen had proposed this matter in the early days of the establishment of the Ancient Alliance, there would have been some resistance.
But over the years, those older generations who could have a say in front of Zhang Shen have passed away.
Others who were qualified to give advice, such as Ye Ruohuo, Li Zhao, Zhang Yu, Li Zhong, etc., all stood on Zhang Shen's side.
In addition, Zhang Shen's strength and prestige have been growing in recent years. The heads of these families wanted to refute, but they dared not, and could not do it. They could only acquiesce in Zhang Shen's decision in frustration.
What else can I do if I can't resist? Just close my eyes and accept it.
But this is just the beginning.
This ancient alliance academy, named "Houde Martial Arts Academy" by Zhang Shen, requires that at least half of the students be civilians every year.
In addition to the mandatory requirements above, there are other requirements. First, only students under the age of 18 are temporarily admitted. Second, they are required to be at least proficient in language and characters and able to read martial arts manuals.
As for the specific age, it is not required, as long as you are under 18 years old when you enter school.
Zhang Shen made this rule based on his consideration that family warriors had already been familiar with poetry and books in their own schools at the age of four or five, while civilian warriors might not be able to master writing proficiently until they were fifteen or sixteen years old.
Relax the conditions and make mandatory requirements to provide civilian warriors with a path for advancement.
But there is only one Houde Martial Arts Academy, and it is destined to be not too large. Excluding the money allocated to family warriors and the more than half allocated to civilian warriors, there is not much left among the hundreds of millions of people in the Ancient Alliance today.
It can be said that only the most outstanding civilian warriors can break through the siege and be selected to enter the Houde Martial Arts.
College. It's not that Zhang Shen doesn't want to do more.
But practicing martial arts requires a lot of resources, and few families of civilian martial artists can afford such consumption. This is not like reading and writing, where you can't just pick up a branch and write and draw on the ground after you have eaten.
Practicing martial arts requires real resources and is extremely costly.
Just wanting an ordinary person to reach the limit of mortals and step into the realm of acquired warriors can bankrupt an ordinary family.
Those civilian families cannot afford it, so the Ancient Alliance has to pay for it.
Houde Martial Arts Academy, in its eight-year semester, teaches all knowledge from the mundane to the limit of the mundane, from acquired to the ninth level of acquired, and teaches a highly universal acquired top-grade technique and basic acquired top-grade boxing and kicking martial arts.
During these eight years, all needs for cultivation will be taken care of by the Ancient Alliance.
How much you can consume depends entirely on your own cultivation speed.
How much resources does this consume? An astronomical figure!
Even with Zhang Shen's family background, he would be frowned when he saw this.
They are all low-level resources, and they cannot sustain the large quantity. In addition, expenses have to be incurred every year. There are too many people, and it cannot be sustained at all.
The ancient alliance can be bankrupted by eating.
As for what will happen to these disciples after eight years of study
Ninety-nine percent of them will be absorbed by the Ancient Alliance and cultivated so vigorously that they can be used to do something. Only those who are really useless will be abandoned to fend for themselves.
This leaving oneself to fend for oneself is no joke. You won't even have the chance to become an idle disciple of the Ancient Alliance. In other words, you don't even have the qualifications to join the ranks of the Ancient Alliance disciples.
It can be said that once you enter Houde Martial Arts Academy, as long as you don't just eat and wait for death, you will be on the fast track in the Ancient Alliance.
It can be said that 70% of the members of the Ancient Alliance will be recruited from Houde Martial Arts College, and the remaining 30% will be recruited from the Houde Martial Arts College.
Keep it as it is now, and absorb from all over the Ancient Alliance and from independent cultivators.
As soon as these mandatory requirements and regulations came out, the top leaders of the Ancient Alliance and the heads of various families were furious.
College is fine.
They actually forcibly recruited half of the civilian warriors? And they also gave them such great training
Even if it is family-style training, not every child in the family will be granted the acquired top-grade skills.
How could those people deserve such training
At first they were just a little uncomfortable, but at this moment, they began to feel strong resistance in their hearts.
"I know some of you will be unhappy, but this is a necessary process for the development of the Ancient Alliance."
Zhang Shen spoke up to express his attitude.
"If you think these people selected from hundreds of millions of people are not qualified to compete with you, then show your true abilities and beat them."
"If you have the ability to make every member of your family better than these civilian warriors, will those civilian warriors be able to cause any trouble?"
"I might as well tell you that I need talents and I will only use talents. I will use whoever is better and more valuable."
With just a few words, he suppressed these people's dissatisfaction.
Zhang Shen knew that they were not convinced and would definitely create obstacles and troubles for the civilian warriors in the future.
As long as they don't cross the line, he won't care. The hole has been torn open. Whether they can pass this road depends on the ability of the civilian warrior himself.
He is not a babysitter and it is just as he says.
What he needs is someone with outstanding abilities, who can withstand the test of time and fight his way out of battle.
If he can't even survive the internal struggle that is constrained by him, how will he cope with the even more cruel external environment in the future
It would be better to admit defeat and become an ordinary person or an ordinary little warrior in the ancient alliance system.
That's safer.
After the others had dispersed, Zhang Shen left behind Li Zhao, Ye Ruohuo, Xu Qing, the two Zhendan from the previous two forces, as well as Zhang Yu, Li Zhong and others.
These
They are the real pillars of the Ancient Alliance, especially the few True Dan, who are the ones who hold the real power of the Ancient Alliance.
Those people outside were just trying to cause trouble, but they were still within Zhang Shen's tolerance range.
But if these people are dissatisfied with this and take action secretly, no matter from which aspect, it will cause serious damage to Zhang Shen's plan.
Keeping them for a private talk was to warn and restrain them.
At the same time, we also need to discuss some things.
Some things related to Houde Martial Arts Academy.
First, the teacher’s question.
Who should be selected to be teachers in this college
Anyone who is not stupid can understand how beneficial it is to be a teacher.
Second, there is the issue of curriculum.
The superior acquired skills and fist and foot martial arts are the basis, but in addition to these, alchemy, weapon refining, battle array and other aspects also need to be taught.
Those who are not interested can go and have a listen, but what if you are interested and have talent
The Ancient Alliance now has a great demand for warriors who have proficiency in these hundreds of arts of cultivation.
The next question is how to arrange the martial arts path of these students after graduation
Leaving aside the mediocre ones, how should we cultivate those with outstanding talents
These are all problems.
Moreover, Houde Martial Arts Academy can only meet the needs of low-end martial artists and test the talents and partial qualities of students.
If one really wants to cultivate innate or true elixir masters, one can only let the ancient alliance's late innate warriors or even true elixir masters train them one-on-one.
This requires that Xu Qing and other True Dan masters be willing to select graduates from Houde Martial Arts Academy who are suitable for training.
This requires that they do not resist, otherwise if the teaching is not sincere it will not be possible to cultivate truly strong people.
There is another very important issue.
Houde Martial Arts Academy recruits more than half of its students from ordinary people for training every year.
How can we ensure that the ordinary people we recruit are the most outstanding young people among mortals
There is no guarantee that there won’t be someone who is selfish and does not recommend people with real potential and talent to enter the college.
How can we ensure fairness as much as possible and ensure that we can truly capture all the mortals with potential under our command
This part is Li Zhao's business.
The law enforcement team she is in charge of handles such matters.
It just so happens that after she achieved the true elixir, the power under her control should be expanded.
The law enforcement team was renamed the Supervisory Department to monitor the internal system of the Ancient Alliance, that is, all acts of corruption and lawlessness by those who hold the status of disciples of the Ancient Alliance.
Originally, Zhang Shen wanted Li Zhao to take charge of the external intelligence and combat departments as well.
But she rejected him mercilessly.
Li Zhao said frankly that he had too many things to do and could not be distracted too much.
Li Zhao saw clearly that his master wanted to adjust some of the structures of the Ancient Alliance.
But there were too few people available, and he himself was unwilling to take over, so he planned to betray her as his apprentice.
How could she agree to such a thing
You know, ever since Zhang Shen revealed the underground cave under Shanshuiju to her, her ambitions in martial arts have been growing higher day by day.
I don't want to spend too much time on these things. I just want to practice. I wish I could just stay in seclusion in the practice room for a thousand or eight hundred years.
Seeing that he couldn't trick his own disciple, Zhang Shen was helpless.
They had no choice but to distribute these to the few Zhendan and Ye Ruhuo who had just joined the Ancient Alliance.
In short, it is impossible for me to get in, absolutely impossible. How can I slack off even if I get in? How can I have time to practice
It would be good if I could spare some time to deal with the affairs of Houde Martial Arts Academy.
In the end, with Ye Ruhuo speechless and Xu Qing and the other two real people in surprise, Zhang Shen handed them many positions that were troublesome but had real power and great benefits.