Building a university is not difficult for Stormwind.

After the destruction of Lordaeron and Dalaran, Stormwind City had gathered most of the outstanding scholars from the entire human world, and they used the royal library within the royal palace as a base to give lectures, debate and discuss issues for students in the library, and there was already the prototype of an early university.

However, this way of transmitting knowledge is not stable, and it can stop at any time due to the departure of scholars or the withering of schools, and what Claudia needs to do this time is to organize scholars and students into a stable organization, an academic institution that will not be interrupted by the decline of a dynasty or the departure of scholars.

Claudia's university will be divided into two colleges, the traditional college will be open to the children of nobles and wealthy merchants, teaching traditional courses such as philosophy, geometry, history, music, etc., and more importantly, the college of engineering, which will mainly teach mechanics and engineering, and train engineers for the needs of the kingdom.

After making her decision, Claudia summoned the philosopher Katy Nordlinger, the leader of scholars in the Royal Library, to ask him for his opinion.

Faced with Claudia's idea, Carty immediately expressed a warm welcome and gratitude after being surprised, but after the initial excitement, he also raised his own doubts: "Your Majesty, why do you have to set up an engineering college, the engineering school is easy to make ends meet, and there may not be students." ”

Claudia understood what the philosopher meant.

The nobility of this era attached great importance to education, and would hire various scholars as teachers for their children, such as Claudia, who had studied dwarven, Salas, arithmetic, and history with several tutors as a child.

Now that most of the students of the scholars in the Royal Library are the children of nobles and wealthy merchants, if a new academy were built and all the scholars were arranged to teach, even if the price was a little higher, the nobles and wealthy merchants would only welcome them with both hands--- their children could not only be taught by many top scholars at the same time, but also make it easier for them to socialize in the academy, and no one would object to this kind of good thing.

But the engineering school is different, most of the rich and noble people are not interested in engineering, and the children of ordinary people are not necessarily willing to spend money to come and study, so it is difficult for Carty to maintain, but Claudia has a different opinion on this:

"Don't worry, Nordlinger, the cost of the School of Engineering is very low in three years, Nomoregen has promised to pay salaries to these teachers within three years, and the problem of student origin is not difficult to solve, the kingdom will establish a lot of engineering facilities, a large number of engineering talents are urgently needed, all students can be assigned jobs as soon as they graduate, as for the tuition problem, ---"

Claudia groaned and gave a plan: "We can enter the school tuition-free, and after the students graduate and work, we will deduct part of their salary from their salary to pay off the tuition fees." ”

"Study first and pay later? This should work. Katy nodded in agreement, so there is no problem, although it doesn't cost money for civilians to learn the craft of eating these days, they also need to be apprentices and slaves for several years for the master, so the conditions given by Claudia are very generous, which is enough to attract a large number of mechanics' children to sign up and select.

After communicating with Katy, Claudia gathered all the scholars in the Royal Library two days later and announced the decision to establish the university, which was unanimously supported and approved by the scholars, and then the scholars decided to establish a new university within two weeks, and named the university Stormwind University.

After the establishment of the university has been decided, Claudia has set her sights on basic education, the gap between humans and dwarfs is not just a university, there is also a huge gap in basic education, dwarfs are a welfare society, the implementation of free education for all, every dwarf commoner is not only literate, but also has a good foundation in geometry and mechanics.

But the situation in the kingdom of Stormwind is completely different, and the basic education in the human kingdom is very bad.

In the Kingdom of Stormwind, more than sixty percent of the people are illiterate, and only thirty percent of the citizens know how to read and write in the common language of mankind, and as for basic knowledge such as arithmetic and geometry, in addition to nobles and scholars, only skilled commoners such as stonemasons and accountants can do it.

Determined to change this, Claudia summoned the current Archbishop Benedictas to the throne room to discuss basic education.

The reason why he is an archbishop is because in this era, the basic education of the children of the common people in the human kingdom is completely monopolized by the Holy Light Church, and sending their school-age children to churches, monastic schools or parish schools to receive religious education, understand the teachings of the Holy Light, learn to read, write and recite the Holy Scriptures, which is the responsibility and obligation of believers to the Holy Light Church stipulated in the Holy Scriptures.

It is precisely because of the Holy Light Church that human beings can have this thirty percent literacy rate, and in the North County, where the Storm Kingdom is the most devout believer, there is a literacy rate of nearly sixty percent.

For the Holy Light Church, the cost of basic education is naturally extremely high, but the gains are also huge, and the children who have studied in the church will undoubtedly become devout followers of the church, and the church has expanded its influence, and more importantly, it has gained talents among the common people.

Every year, the children who enter the school will first undergo a qualification test to check whether they have the qualifications to become professionals, and those who are qualified will be sent to the nearby cathedral by the Holy Light Church to focus on training, and the Holy Light Church has produced many talents and become stronger and stronger for hundreds of years.

After meeting Benedictas and briefly greeting her, Claudia gets down to business, hoping that basic arithmetic and geometry courses will be offered in the convent and parish schools in Stormwind.

Benedictas undoubtedly expressed his astonishment at Claudia's words: "Your Majesty, does it not help the children to learn arithmetic and geometry to make them more religious in their obedience to the administration of the kingdom and their faith?" ”

"No," Claudia admits calmly, "but our future citizens need to master mathematics, which is both practical in life and a necessary step in learning other skills, and in the future there will be many factories in Stormwind, and the training of skilled workers cannot be separated from the foundation of mathematics." ”

Claudia's reasoning obviously failed to convince Benedictas, and after several rounds of verbal exchanges, he found that Claudia was more resolute, and he tactfully reminded the Queen Regent:

"Your Majesty, the church school is not currently equipped with a math teacher, and hiring a math teacher can require a lot of money."

"We don't need special scholars to be teachers for the children, we just need part-time teachers such as stonemasons who know basic math to teach the children, so the cost will be greatly reduced, and I will pay for it privately."

"In that case, well, Your Majesty, the people of Stormwind will appreciate your generosity."

Benedictas agreed, although he didn't understand Claudia's intentions, but anyway, the queen paid for it privately, and it was a gift from the queen to the children of Stormwind, as Claudia said, mathematics is extremely useful in life.

After Benedictas left, Claudia planned another sponsorship.

She plans to privately fund the construction of an orphanage school for the orphans of Stormwind City, where they can learn the knowledge she wants them to learn, such as mechanics, chemistry, and secondary mathematics, in preparation for the training of engineers and workers.

Establishing a flat orphanage school is much easier than building a university or tweaking the curriculum of Stormwind's church schools, and Claudia hires an engineering scholar in Stormwind to be the headmaster, and she is only responsible for paying for it.

After spending this money again, Claudia's private assets shrank a lot again, but she didn't care much, she didn't like to buy jewelry, and she didn't like to hold banquets like other noblewomen, and she usually had Varian's royal treasury on top of her daily life, and there was almost nothing to spend her own money.

In Claudia's opinion, it is entirely worth it to use the money saved from buying jewelry and holding banquets to buy education, which is the best way to help civilians---especially those who cannot cultivate, to get rid of poverty, and it is also an effective way for society to reduce the crime rate, many people commit crimes only because of ignorance and ignorance.

If she could, Claudia even planned to enact a law to make compulsory education for all, but she could only think about it, and if she did, everyone from the nobles to the commoners would oppose her.

The nobles obviously wouldn't agree to spend this unjust money, the council wouldn't be able to pass the hurdle, and besides, there was still a lot of child labor in Stormwind, and such a decree would undoubtedly reduce the number of child laborers and increase the cost of employment.

As for the common people, many of them are not aware of the importance of education, in their eyes children are valuable labor, they can usually earn money to subsidize the family, and sending them to school is not necessary in their eyes, and the obligation of the unreligious civilians to the church school is to escape, let alone compulsory education.

Therefore, Claudia's education reform this time is only limited to the establishment of universities, the establishment of orphan schools, and the adjustment of the curriculum of Stormwind's church schools, and what is needed for the time being is to obtain stable engineers and workers for the maintenance of the industrial infrastructure and technological facilities established by the gnomes in Stormwind.

In the future, Claudia will use the power in her hands to slowly promote the industrialization process of the Stormwind Kingdom.

For example, on the issue of building the air force of the Stormwind Kingdom discussed at the Imperial Council during this time, she revised Duke Grayson's proposal to use all griffon knights to form the air force, and instead joined a part of the helicopter force to undertake part of the air defense mission.

Joining a subset of helicopter units will increase the demand for engineering facilities and parts, and the progress of Stormwind's industrialization will be further accelerated by the increased demand.