Chapter 421: Topic Selection and Rule Making
Hence after the old wizard of the Plutarch family left, the three first-level wizards in the research team breathed a sigh of relief.
Locke's tough attitude is the only umbrella that can protect their research group, which does not have any senior professional titles.
After Locke's strong refusal just now, it is estimated that among the forty-five wizard apprentices negotiated before, no wizard mentor will dare to come to the door again, wanting to shirk and break the contract, and take away their students.
Wizard Montgomery said: "Lord Locke, for the wizard apprentices who are now in our hands, we will give the first-class wizard apprentices a monthly living allowance of three hundred magic stones, and the second-class wizard apprentices will be given a monthly living allowance of fifty magic stones."
"That is to say, our research team not only has to negotiate with the wizard mentors behind them in the initial stage, but also undertakes to distribute funds to each student every month. In other words, our research team has to pay a total of 21,000 magic stones to the wizards every month."
Locke nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
The Tacitus wizard said: "It may not necessarily be twenty-one thousand magic stones. Because there are more issues to consider. If the students are sick or injured, and they are responsible for some key data work, it is not good to ask them to repay the loans themselves and let them become debt slaves, right?"
"If we are in a team with senior professional titles, it is easy to change students, but none of the four of us have the authority to bring students, so students are very precious to us. Also, what if there is a first-class wizard apprentice who wants to break through to a formal wizard during this period of time?"
Tacitus wizard looked at Locke and said: "Lord Locke, you should consider formulating the rules of our research group. Many research groups have restrictions on what students can do. For example, they are not allowed to go out to work part-time while working in the research group. During a period of time, They are not allowed to advance to official wizards, or hand over the sacrificial potion to our research team after their mana reaches 800..."
Although the Tacitus wizard is also a civilian wizard, because he is older, he is more realistic than all the wizards present.
What’s more, these requirements are not excessive at all in the land of six towers.
Witch Barbara slapped the table angrily and stood up. "I hate this kind of family wizards the most. If we do this, aren't we exploiting students just like the family wizards in the land of six towers?" Tacitus said calmly: "First of all, you think too well of the students, Witch Barbara. Not every student is an obedient little sheep. Of course it is good to listen to our commands like that, and it will be good for both of us. "But in the land of six towers, too many students are short-sighted, and it is necessary to formulate rules within the research group. Without rules, there is no circle."
Even Montgomery fell into deep thought on this point and remained silent rarely. It seems that he also has some bias in his heart to limit the time for students to break through to the official wizard.
The wizard Tacitus said: "If students break through the first level of wizards at will, the disability and mortality rate will be very high. Once the breakthrough is successful, they may not stay in our research group. In other words, if the students try to break through the official wizards while they are in our research group, it will not benefit us at all."
"It is obviously very necessary to restrict them from trying to break through the official wizards during the Yunze Cup."
"Sir Locke, all this still depends on your choice."
Locke nodded slightly. He did not expect that there were so many issues to consider when setting up a research group. The future of the students needed to be considered, funding needed to be considered, the attitude of the collaborators needed to be considered, and even the rules of the research group needed to be established by oneself.
There are many rules that are unreasonable in the eyes of wizard apprentices, but they are beneficial to themselves and the research team.
The choice between them is a very difficult question.
This is also a problem that every new wizard mentor who has just become a junior mentor will encounter.
· New wizard mentors are basically formal wizards who have just become first-level wizards. They lack resources, articles, and teaching positions. Because of the lack of the above three, there must be a lack of students, equipment and venues, as well as a lack of access to the wizard's secret realm that is strongly linked to the teaching position.
This period is precisely the moment when the new wizard mentors most want to make some achievements in order to obtain certain magic resources.
Hence, the life of a new mentor at this stage is quite difficult.
It is easy to cause yourself mental problems.
Competing for resources, you have to study by yourself and guide students, you have to go out to promote projects and funds, and you have to work hard to meet various KPIs for faculty promotion.
Hence, many official wizards immediately started to mess up at this stage. Anyway, first-level wizards are high-quality assets in many wizarding lands.
Hitch Barbara was extremely dissatisfied with Montgomery and Tacitus. "You two, only those who have been caught in the rain will know the importance of someone holding an umbrella for you. You two don't need to be so desperate about this kind of thing."
Painful memories flashed across Barbara Witch's face.
She is among the countless civilian wizards who are prohibited from breaking through to formal wizardhood due to the abnormal requirements of the research team, so they are constantly working hard without sleep, squeezing every drop of labor from themselves.
This is who she once was.
It is also the past of Montgomery and Tacitus.
But now, these two people have to ask so much of the students in their research group, which is really too much.
witch Barbara sneered and said: "Every student's mental power reaches 800. According to regulations, the association will issue them a bottle of sacrificial potion. Just two of you, do you still want to learn from other research groups in the land of six towers, covet the sacrificial potions in the hands of those students, and sell the sacrificial potions that should belong to the students at high prices?"
"Or we are fishing for them and squeezing their labor force with the potions that should belong to them. But the two wizard gentlemen probably forgot that we are not the wizard mentors of those students, and we do not have the teaching position of lecture mages."
"According to convention, the promotion potions should also belong to their original wizard mentors."
Locke glanced at the three people who were already having a dispute, and frowned.
He needs to balance interests and morality, and most importantly, control the hearts and minds of the research team.
There is no benefit in continuing their conflict. Locke glanced at Witch Barbara, weighed the pros and cons, and chose the path that was most error-free.
Locke said: "Okay, let's stop the discussion. Barbara Witch, don't be so excited. The two wizards just gave me a reasonable suggestion."
Locke said: "This is me holding a group meeting."
Locke tapped his fingers on the table to emphasize his authority, and used his eyes to signal to Barbara Witch to calm down.
Witch Barbara immediately felt apologetic. She was quite convinced of Locke. After all, Locke could protect her in the Plutarch family.
This is something that all other wizards are unable to do, or are unwilling to do.
Hitch Barbara saluted Locke and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Locke. I shouldn't be so emotional, especially in front of you."
Locke nodded slightly. "When discussing issues in the future, we need to be calm. We are not enemies."
"But comrades who cooperate with each other. The competition is like a battlefield. Only if we work together can we win this game, otherwise we will have lost at the starting line from the beginning."
Locke looked at the three wizards and said: "I thought about it carefully. Now, students are not restricted. When working in my research group, it is forbidden to break through to the first level of wizards.”
Locke said: "I think it would be better to establish a reasonable system and a reward system. We can let students develop the habit of backing up and organizing data. I have thought of this a long time ago, so I found an outstanding wizard apprentice in general studies in advance to join our team and let him record our team's data." This can avoid many potential problems in our research group in the future. The second step is to establish a reward system. I will set up one or two places for outstanding students in the research group and use my own money to subsidize them. "
Locke said: "I think it is more appropriate to use this positive incentive method to encourage students to work hard than to use punishment and restrictions to squeeze students' labor."
Locke himself was a little unsure. After all, this was just a conjecture. If the details of the research group system were to be formulated, he would also need to think about it.
In short, these are questions that I did not need to think about when I was a wizard apprentice.
His systems are also based on Lilith's cabin.
The Healing Hand Treatment Center in Lilith's Cottage, just by getting a few reward spots, a group of potion masters can start seriously treating those wizards, just to compete for four reward spots at the end of the year.
This system has been completely abolished in the land of Six Towers. Almost all honorary titles have become tools for family wizards to abuse their rights and make deals.
For this reason, the positive incentive system of the Six Towers Land has long since collapsed. So of course the wizard mentors in the Land of Six Towers can only use all the rights they have to intimidate and exploit those students.
If a student does not want to be exploited at will and resists even a little bit, he will immediately be marked as inferior assets by the wizard tutor here, and then these students with inferior assets will be traded with other wizard tutors, and the students will be seconded, and a certain exchange of interests will be reached between them.
When Locke said this, Tacitus and others nodded immediately.
Hitch Barbara's eyes brightened slightly. "It's a good idea to store and classify documents in advance. It's much more useful than blindly squeezing students." Tacitus and Montgomery also nodded.
Tacitus said: "This is not bad. Maybe it will be better than my suggestion. Anyway, you can adjust it at any time in the future."
It's just that Tacitus and Barbara Witch seem to have begun to have some problems with each other. One feels that the other's ideas are too emotional and somewhat idealistic, while the other feels that the other's character has problems and may one day betray them, so it is not worth trusting.
Locke coughed and said to everyone: "There is another crucial issue at the moment, which is topic selection."
"We have to choose which tactical-level magic plant category to develop. The common tactical-level magic plant categories are multi-person controlled tree men, multi-person controlled mushroom heads, large magic vine platforms..."
"We have to choose at least one category for development."
"Topic selection is very important. If you choose the wrong one at the beginning, the value of all subsequent efforts will be greatly reduced. Therefore, you need to choose the topic carefully. Do you three have any good ideas?"
(End of this chapter)