"The affairs of a country are in sacrifice and war."
This was one of the famous sentences in China's ancient classic, Zuo Zhuan. It talked about the two most important things in governing a country, which were sacrifice and war. This record was about 572 BC. Lu Chenggong, Liu Kanggong, and Cheng Su joined forces to help Jin Li Gong attack the Qin Kingdom. During the sacrifice, Cheng Su was not respectful enough, and Liu Kanggong criticized him.
In this record, "sacrifice" not only included religious sacrifice, but also culture and education. Faith, culture, education, and war were indeed the most important things in a country in that era when agriculture was backward and there was no industry. Even in later generations, it was still an extremely important thing.
Even in a different world, it was still the same.
By the way, Sui Xiong did not know where this sentence came from. He remembered these words because in a certain game, there was a character whose background was painted with these words as decoration. That character was called Confucius. He was a kind and gentle educator. Well, he was used to using the "physical" method to educate.
In fact, there was a problem with the design of this character, because education and religion began to separate, with Confucius as the symbol …
Of course, Brother Xiong did not know this. He only remembered this sentence, and it made sense.
In this world, the distinction between education and religion was not obvious. There were not many scholars independent of religion, and even among the nobles, there were many illiterate people. It was not an exaggeration to say that the world was an education desert.
Because of this, Sui Xiong's technical school and Wall's promotion of stationery had such a huge impact. Wall could rely on the achievements of promoting culture and education to suddenly enter the true god level from the legend level, and in a short time, he was promoted to the mid-level divine power.
The people of this world had been longing for education for too long.
The Republic of Northwest was the country with the best education in the world. Illiteracy was basically eliminated in the country. Even the poor who did not have the time to study full-time would go to the literacy night school jointly run by the Church of Void and the Church of Knowledge at night to get a free literacy class. About a year of literacy classes was enough for them to know a few hundred simple words and write some simple sentences.
This level was naturally in the category of "low education level" in the Republic of Northwest. But in places like the Orc Empire, they were proper intellectuals and would be treated with courtesy.
In the army of the Republic of Northwest, the level of education was even higher. In fact, many families would send their children who had just reached adulthood to serve as scouts for three to five years. The main reason was that they would be able to learn some skills as soldiers. Among these skills, culture was naturally included.
The military system of the Republic of Northwest was like this: The army was divided into two major parts, one was the Patrol Army, and the other was the National Defense Army. Both recruited from the public, but the former was temporary, while the latter was permanent.
The patrolling army was generally made up of youths recruited from the civilian population. Their main tasks included patrolling the country's roads, chasing down bandits, maintaining public order, and helping with disaster relief. Because the security of the Republic of Northwest was very good and there were not many natural disasters, most of the time, besides their daily patrols, they would train and learn.
The National Defense Army was different. Not only did they train more intensely than the patrol army, but they would also take the initiative to attack from time to time under the leadership of the Knights to eliminate the dangerous monsters within the country.
The Republic of Northwest was located in the northwest of the Main Plane. It was formerly known as the Cinder Woods, a dangerous area that was overflowing with negative energy. Living creatures were almost extinct here, but magical creatures ran rampant. As soon as the sky turned dark, skeletons would run everywhere, and all kinds of magical creatures would emerge one after another. If one were to use the words in the game, the danger index would be estimated to be above five stars.
Although after the establishment of the Republic of Northwest, a large number of purification arrays had been promoted, basically eliminating the invasion of skeletons and other undead magical creatures around the residential areas, there were still many magical creatures that were not affected by the purification arrays. Most of them were ferocious and dangerous, and they needed to be eliminated by manpower.
In the beginning, the team to eliminate the magical creatures was personally led by "Red Flame Dragon" Josh. Every day, they would travel between the various towns of the Republic and wipe out all the magical creatures they encountered. Later, as the Republic grew stronger, so did the army. Now, every town had the National Defense Army stationed. They usually trained under the guidance of high-level warriors and mages. Once they learned that there were more dangerous magical creatures nearby, they would be dispatched to eliminate them.
The entire Republic of Northwest was covered with a number of detection arrays of various sizes. With the help of this kind of array, people could discover the magical creatures when they were still far away from the towns and villages. Moreover, on the periphery of every town and village, there were many special devices that could mislead the magical creatures. This was enough to buy some time for the National Defense Army to mobilize before the magical creatures caused damage to the people.
With all these arrangements, and most importantly, with the bravery of the National Defense Army, there had never been a case of a magical creature wreaking havoc or destroying a village or town since the establishment of the Republic of Northwest. In fact, after the official establishment of the National Defense Army, no magical creature could break through their defense and attack the residential areas of the people.
In this sense, the National Defense Army of the Republic of Northwest was strong enough to fully meet the needs of the country and the people.
But even so, the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Army, Leonard, felt very dissatisfied. He believed that there was no limit to progress. An excellent army should be like an excellent warrior, never complacent, always pursuing progress, and constantly climbing to greater heights.
So when he learned of the achievements of the northern army of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, he hurried over and witnessed the northern army's battle. He also secretly watched the northern army's training.
Afterward, he told the higher-ups of the Republic of Northwest what he had seen. The higher-ups of the Republic were shocked. After discussion, they unanimously decided that the training of the National Defense Army should be strengthened to reach or even surpass that of the northern army of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins.
After all, the Republic of Northwest had unique advantages. There was no reason for them to be inferior to others.
They had the world's most generous military budget, the world's best armaments, the world's most loyal and brave soldiers with the highest level of education, and the world's highest percentage of clergy. No matter how one looked at it, the foundation of the National Defense Army was stronger than that of the northern army of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins. As long as they adjusted their training, they would definitely be able to catch up!
All they needed was Sui Xiong's approval.
"I see …" After Leonard's explanation, Sui Xiong suddenly understood and nodded his head. "So … your preparations are all done? No wonder today's meeting was so efficient … "
Reynold smiled. "Yes, everything is ready. Just wait and see the results! We won't keep you waiting for long! "
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