Summer comes in a heavy rain.
The dense rain falls on the glass windows, making a crackling sound, and the scenery outside the window becomes blurred, and the town and the distant mountains can only be distinguished by the outline of color.
Roland stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the hazy city under the rain curtain, and the song "City of Love" still wafted in his ears.
He didn't expect the theatrical premiere three days ago to be so amazing with the ability of Echo.
At the end of the performance, the audience was silent, and the audience burst into tears - Roland thought that such a scene would only appear in later high-end opera houses. Even a slightly grassroots cinema would not have such an effect, let alone a group of ordinary people living in a backward era.
Even he, who was bombarded by various tear-jerking cameras, felt the tremor from the bottom of his heart.
This is the power of "Song of Resonance".
Of course Roland knew what it meant to sing an inspiration—in a protracted war, machines wouldn't tire, but people would. Even if guns and ammunition can be continuously transported to the battlefield, people will be overwhelmed by the pressure of survival with no end in sight. Especially when the situation is unfavorable and the casualties are heavy, this kind of emotion can easily be infinitely amplified, which will eventually lead to the loss of the army's fighting spirit to win.
There have been many ways to improve the morale of the team in history, such as allowing the soldiers to eat hot food as much as possible, dropping ice cream, installing political commissars and military chaplains, etc., but these are too demanding for Roland. The former is very To test the logistics supply ability, it is difficult for the latter to cultivate a group of backbone members with firm beliefs and good at inciting others in a short period of time.
And Echo's ability allowed him to see a quick way to improve his aura.
Although it may sound absurd, cultivating idols is indeed more reliable than other methods.
Just as he was thinking, there was a knock on the door of the office, and Barov walked in.
"Your Majesty, the recent house purchase statistics are out."
"How is the result?"
"As you might expect," he spreads a list excitedly on the mahogany table, "since the new play, the number of people going to the city hall to apply for rent, buy a house, and even register a marriage has increased dramatically. a lot."
"Really?" Roland returned to the table and checked Barov's statistics. "City of Love" is not a purposeless entertainment work. In addition to promoting the glory of labor and the greatness of construction, another point of view it contains is the link between marriage and a stable residence. Rather than letting outsiders slowly develop a sense of belonging and letting the locals accept these foreign visitors little by little through daily contact, it is better for him to define a simple standard to promote the integration of refugees from all over the world.
That standard is the house.
"If you have a house, you are your own person" - it seems very rude, but it can save a lot of running-in time in extraordinary times.
If you want to be recognized by people, if you want to harvest your own family, you have to have a home. Once outsiders have a permanent property, they will consciously maintain everything here. Of course, these ideas are not suitable to be stated outright, and they can be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people when they are put into a drama and told through a story.
like diamonds.
A timeless classic advertising slogan pushes it to the king of gems, a must-have position for marriage, which makes people completely ignore its neither rare nor precious essence.
At least the house still has a very high practical value.
For this reason, the goal cannot be set too far, making people feel out of reach. One golden dragon can apply for renting a house, and in the future, only one golden dragon needs to be paid as rent every year. When the rent paid is equal to the sale price of the house, the house is automatically owned by the renter.
Of course, this goal cannot be achieved too easily. Even the cheapest single room requires 20 golden dragons, which means that it takes more than 20 years for handymen, temporary workers and other types of work to buy a room—and this kind of room even costs 15 gold dragons. If it is less than square meters, you can only put a bed, a dining table and a toilet, and it will definitely be detained as a black-hearted real estate developer in future generations.
All in all, according to Barov's statistics, the promotion of "City of Love" was clearly a success.
Most of the lease applications came from the first few batches of refugees and serfs who arrived in the border areas. Most of the people who made the purchase requests were higher-paid craftsmen and poor aristocrats who had carried property before. When they lived here, they would be forever. Become a part of Neverwinter.
So Roland even thought about the content of the next new drama, and the theme was getting married and struggling to buy a big house.
"Good job," he rolled up the list and handed it to Barov, "and the recent recruitment of refugees will continue to expand the scale. Sufficient population is the guarantee for the development of Neverwinter City, and other tasks can temporarily make way for it. ."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The steward raised his beard with a smile.
"By the way, go and call the scroll, I have something to explain to her."
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"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?" Wearing a white and black dress, he walked into the office with a capable book.
"I want to expand the scope of education to include those refugees who have just arrived in Neverwinter." Roland poured her a cup of tea. "If it is only for regular residents, they will not be able to receive primary education until at least a year later."
"I'm afraid this is difficult to do at the moment," Shu Scroll said bluntly after thinking for a moment, "they are too numerous, the existing teachers can't take care of them, and the classrooms are not enough. If it is implemented as you said, the Ministry of Education will have to expand at least two or three. double the number of people."
"I have a way to reduce the pressure on teachers," Rowland paused. "Let them teach themselves."
"Self-study?"
"Yes, there is an open class once a week, and only the most basic reading and writing is taught. The rest of the time, they are allowed to practice on their own through booklets with patterns and pronunciations. There is no performance test or mandatory requirements. It is all based on self-consciousness."
"This..." She subconsciously twisted her hair wet by the rain, "it may not have any effect. Your Majesty, if there is no one to supervise it, it will be good if one of ten people can learn it."
"Most of them will do," Roland laughed. "I just want to give them a chance."
There will always be people who will not be satisfied with tedious low-paying jobs and want to achieve their goals faster. In order to avoid such people from going astray, they must be guided in the right way to achieve self-improvement.
In the future recruitment, the proportion of jobs that require literacy will be higher and higher, and the salary will be much higher than that of handymen. If you want to get a stable residence as soon as possible and get rid of poverty and labor, self-study reading and writing will be a good choice.
Through this method, those who are motivated can also join in the construction of the city as soon as possible.
To maintain the vitality of a new regime, the most important thing is not to cut off the path of promotion from the bottom.
Roland agreed with this.