If the open source and throttling of the economy represent the direction of the empire in five years, then the reform of education will affect the empire for ten years or more.

It is conceivable that when this educational reform is carried out correctly, in twenty years' time, the Baltic Empire will have mushroomed talents, and the number of legends will proliferate.

The scene fell silent for a long time, and the entire hall was only the sound of the mermaid's heavy breathing in excitement, and on the contrary, the representatives of the mermaid and the kraken frequently looked at each other, hoping that the other party would stand up and question and oppose Alice's proposed policy.

However, in the end, none of them stood up and chose to oppose it, the Baltic Empire is Alice's empire, as said before, the ostensible democracy listens to their opinions, and in essence, the decision is still in Alice's hands.

Although the development of equal education for all races is a good thing that can strengthen the strength of the race and increase the number of talents within the race, the old vested interests will never be so willing to surrender their rights and interests and step down from the high seats.

Sometimes things are so full of contradictions, obviously as a representative of a race, knowing that everything he has can be obtained because of his own race, but when thinking about problems, he still can't help but prioritize his own interests and consider his own gains and losses.

Alice nodded, of course she knew that after this meeting, there was still a lot of resistance to the implementation of the policy, and the game had just begun, but the power between the two sides was not at the top of the same level at all, and the so-called struggle was not Alice wanting to lure out the poisonous snakes hidden in the dark, and then cleanly sweep away the insects in front of her.

After the economic, financial and educational issues, the third question that needs to be discussed, or which needs to be communicated to the ministers of the various departments, the heads of the territories and the representatives of the various ethnic groups, is the issue of agricultural development.

Agricultural development was not officially established in the Baltic Empire, when even the land of Jutland was not completely developed, there were still countless wild beasts in the forest, and Alice had only one tribe of rhinoceros and one tribe of harpies on the verge of extinction.

At that time, Alice began to vigorously develop agriculture, and she ordered the rhinoceros people to expand the fields on the land as much as possible, increase the cultivation of crops, and carry out experimental breeding of rhinoceros, cattle, sheep and other livestock.

It is precisely because of the various experiences accumulated at that time, after the establishment of the Baltic Empire, that these experiences were extended to various territories, so that those who had just joined the empire quickly mastered the skills of planting, so that the crops were almost in a state of harvest every year.

Since then, the development of agriculture has become more and more rapid, water conservancy facilities for irrigation have spread all over the river, artificial rivers dug by hand have expanded the planting area of agricultural products, and the emergence of waterwheels has made it easier to irrigate fields.

The use of various other tools and new technologies has led to a stepwise development of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Baltic Empire, but this development has been matched by the fact that there is no need for a large amount of labor to take care of the farmland.

When a large number of laborers are transformed into idle laborers, all kinds of problems arise in social order, and the factories in the cities have tended to be saturated, and the factory owners are unwilling to recruit these peasants, who cannot even operate the machines and do not know the written language, to carry out the sophisticated activities in the factories.

The factories of the Baltic Empire, most of which had been transformed from labor-intensive to technology-intensive due to the use of magic and technology, needed to recruit workers who knew a certain amount of skill, not farmers who needed training and which had not yet achieved much success.

What was discussed at this conference was ostensibly a problem of agriculture and peasants, but in essence it was a solution to the problem of a large number of idle and uneducated and unskilled labour.

In Alice's conception, the empire should organize these idle laborers to train, use the resources of the empire to increase the value of these people, and then order the factories under its command to accept these people according to a certain proportion to solve the problem of these idle laborers.

The idea is wonderful, but there are not many problems in implementation, the first is that the empire is now very tight in terms of teacher resources because of the need to carry out the national education program, and there are not so many teachers to educate these people.

Second, even if these people are trained, the factories still can't recruit as many workers because of their size, they can only accept a small part, and the rest is still a problem that needs to be solved.

Third, if all these people come to the factories of the cities, then the population of each city will be inflated, and the corresponding cities will not be able to serve such a large number of people in terms of public security and medical care, and then new problems will arise, such as the contradictions and conflicts caused by the differences in various interests between the original residents of the city and these immigrants will be difficult to solve.

It is for this reason that on the topic of the third meeting, Alice hopes to get a satisfactory answer from the people present, and can actually solve these problems.

"Can't factories take in too many workers? So why not build more factories or expand the existing ones?"

The representative of the Gnoll couldn't wait to come up with his solution.

"Yes, that's an answer to this problem, but if we do that, it will create new problems, our factories are now saturated, and we don't need to open more factories, because we only have so many raw materials to supply so many factories to make goods, and we need to think that we are producing enough things now that we need to open up new markets to consume our goods. ”

Alice patiently answered, such a problem is not so easy to solve, she needs a perfect solution, not tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, and using problems to solve the problem.

"How, then, do we have these people in the army? Didn't our army fight in Finland and Karelia this time, and there were attrition losses?"

The people who asked the question were the fish-people from the Baltic Sea, and population pressure has always been a problem for a reproduction race like them, and their method is often very crude, that is, to consume these unfrupulous and problematic populations through war.

"We can't do this, our warriors are all warriors who have been trained and cultivated since childhood, and it takes a lot of our resources to train a qualified warrior, and now we warriors have also experienced such a great feat without legends, with mortal armies, with mortal equipment, and with mortal technology to defeat powerful dragons. ”

"It can be said that our army has now been reborn and has become the strongest in the true sense of the word among the various forces in the Northland, but if these hastily trained people who can barely hold weapons rush into our army, it will be like pouring water into milk, and it will completely destroy the combat effectiveness of the entire army. ”

"Our army is a collective army, not an individual army, and such a thing will only reduce the combat effectiveness of our army, and it will not achieve any beneficial growth. ”

The fish-man and the gnoll's suggestion of a seemingly practical solution to the problem was refuted by Alice on unquestionable grounds, and the few who wanted to speak fell silent, because the plan they were about to propose had similar problems, and they were using problems to solve them.

"Has no one been able to come up with a workable approach, or have you lost even the courage to make a proposal?"

The long silence made Alice irritable, and she suddenly slammed the table and stood up, her chest rising and falling violently, and her fair face turned pink for a moment.

In this conference hall, the people who can participate in this meeting are all people who Alice has personally selected and has high hopes to share, including people like Alia, who she has taught for a long time.

Now everyone except the gnoll and the fish-man remained silent on this issue, she did not believe that the others had not thought of a solution to this matter, she could only attribute it to the hearts of these people, either because they were afraid of failure, or because they were afraid that their proposal would be rejected, or because they had other ideas, so they refused to make suggestions.

"Alice, I would like to add to the suggestion that the Gnoll has just made, the first topic is about financial openness and throttling, when our internal market is developed, and the market problems in Scandinavia are solved, and other markets are expanded, then there will be a phase where our goods will be in short supply. ”

"At that stage, we can expand the size of the factory, or build more factories to house these people, and for the sake of social stability, we will reduce the use of new technologies and new equipment and magic in those new factories, so that these new factories can recruit more people to solve this social problem. ”

"In addition, in our new territories, Finland, Karelia and Rus, there will be a lot of infrastructure to be built, as well as repairs to the previously damaged cities, which can also solve the problem of idle labor if we reduce the participation of spellcasters and use a lot of ordinary workers. ”

"At the same time, this has the advantage that our spellcasters will be freed from these ordinary labors, they will be able to spend more time and energy in the library, in their labs, and more time to increase their power. ”

"You see, sometimes our empire has such problems because we are moving too fast, and our people and some things in our empire can't keep up with the speed of the empire. ”

"As long as you take a little time and give those who are left behind a chance to buffer, then these problems are not difficult to solve, on top of these things, patience is still needed when you should be patient, impatience is never the solution to the problem, now we are holding this meeting here, it is not that you can be willful, lose your temper casually. ”

At this time, Semiramis was the only one who could put forward such a constructive opinion and reprimand Alice, and what she said was actually very reasonable, and Alice could not refute it with any words.

"But, Semiramis, there is an urgent need to solve this problem, and from the information we have at our disposal, there is a sharp rise in incidents in the countryside and in the pastures. ”

Alice was silent for a moment, and then retorted in a tone of voice that was a little lower.

"Ahem, but your proposal can at least solve our problems in the future. ”

Seeing the flash of red light in Semiramis's eyes, Alice quickly changed her words and realized that in such a public place, Alice still needs to take into account Semiramis's face and mood, after all, Semiramis is the empress of this empire no matter what.

If there is a conflict between the master of this empire and the king of this empire because of such a thing, even if such news does not spread, only in a small area of the empire's upper echelons, but about the discord between the two, it will definitely cause many people to associate with it, and there will be a lot of unnecessary contradictions, even if it is confirmed that this is a misunderstanding in the end, the losses that have been suffered at that time cannot be regarded as not happening.

"Now, now, don't we need to build a lot of schools? I think this idle labor can be used for that. ”

Semiramis calmly said another way to solve the current problem, and while the two were having a conversation, the others were holding their breath as much as possible, not wanting to attract the attention of the two.

"Well, I don't think you have any other questions, Alice. ”

"Uh...... Ahem, no. ”

Alice coughed twice, hiding the embarrassed expression on her face.

"Alright, let's move on to the next issue that needs to be discussed, and I think that's the one you're most concerned about, the question of the gathering places of the various races within the Empire. ”

As soon as Semiramis's voice fell, everyone present raised their heads and looked at her closely.

Before she knew it, Semiramis replaced Alice as the moderator of the meeting, and no one objected to this, even Alice nodded earnestly and listened to her words.

After all, she and she are in every sense of the word, not distinguishing each other.