On a certain day of the tenth year, Zhou Yi returned from a business trip from afar.
Sitting inside Hei Fu's Light Core, he reflected on the scenes of this month's journey.
This second five-year plan is divided into two major parts.
The first is to establish the company's own school, allowing the company to have the ability to self-sustain and train new talents through its educational system, which has been initially achieved.
The second is to reach out, enabling the company to engage in full exchanges with various regions and organizational groups, learning from external strengths and generating more ideas through discussions.
As the chairman of the company, Zhou Yi also insists on going out for at least one study tour each year.
Last year, it was the Heavenly Kingdom.
From that old Empire, Zhou Yi learned the management and coordination methods of multiethnic residential coexistence and the processes of managing the floating population. These will not be announced in any form; they are inner strengths that cannot be seen at the data level.
This year, he chose Lord Dominator's Hundred Schools Plateau.
The Hundred Schools Plateau is famous for its educational industry. Although it does not have a hundred schools, as of Zhou Yi's visit, there were 83 various institutions.
These institutions cover almost all common vocational training, including farmers, herders, masons, blacksmiths, carpenters, potters, mechanics, soldiers, tailors, barbers, and repairmen…
The local schools are named in numerical order, from the First Technical College to the Eighty-Third Technical College, simple and straightforward, with a learning period ranging from six months to a year, focusing on practicality and speed.
It's entirely operated like a group of training institutions.
Lord Dominator also frankly said, "Mr. Zhou, these were also inspired by the old human educational systems."
"Advanced schools have high demands on locality. Not only do they require a significant investment of Light Seeds, but they also need a vast amount of various high-precision equipment and the hardest to find, high-quality teachers. The admission threshold is high, tuition fees are expensive, and it's not related to ordinary people."
"The Hundred Schools Plateau has none of this."
"So we take another route, focusing on practicality, allowing those who come to learn a trade quickly, enabling them to make a living with that skill."
"Although the tuition profit is not high, it's still stable, as most people cannot afford expensive training fees. The number of schools has been expanding year after year due to many people's needs for making a living."
"Who doesn't want to be mightier in the educational industry? The fact is, the longer one is in this line, the more helpless one feels because advanced education has long been monopolized by the Five Great Centers."
"Until your company emerged out of nowhere, breaking decades of existing patterns. Only a scale, resources, and prestige like that of the Wasteland Development Company can facilitate elite higher education; we are just teaching practical skills to earn a basic living."
Zhou Yi waved his hand, "Don't say that. Both making a living and further studies are important; our company also started by solving survival issues before we could think about going further."
"You have 83 colleges here, with more than 11,000 students, which is quite an achievement. The difficulty of management is also imaginable, very impressive."
Zhou Yi gave a thumbs up, "That's why I came here to learn from and study with you."
Lord Dominator laughed heartily, "Mr. Zhou is too kind."
It is a Hunter, of the same clan as Lie Hai, but its Life Level has long been A, belonging to the Skywalker class.
In his interactions with Lord Dominator, Zhou Yi realized that it could manage both the slave-holding Mechanical City and the educationally industrialized Hundred Schools Plateau, steadily walking on both legs, truly having unique abilities.
No wonder the always proud Duke Destructive, in the past, also had high regard for Lord Dominator.
It had a gigantic body but a quick mind, not stuck on trivialities, a mix of boldness and grandeur while maintaining a very clear head.
Whatever Zhou Yi said, Lord Dominator could immediately follow and expand his thoughts, bringing new insights to Zhou Yi. Just their discussions led to constant sparks of ideas.
Although most of them were just for fun and unlikely to be realized, the process itself was enjoyable and rewarding. Follow current novels on novel fire.net
Spending a week, Zhou Yi and Vice Principal Sun Chonglai, Director Nian Gao, and Chemistry Teacher Liang Xing acted separately, inspecting 22 colleges, auditing classes, and experiencing a day in the life of a student there.
The overall experience gave him the greatest impression that the Hundred Schools Plateau indeed focuses on quantity and sufficiency.
Here, the teacher levels vary, but daily there are three classes in the morning and three in the afternoon, unfailingly. In the evening, it's time for students' skills to be assessed by teachers, akin to submitting assignments, making the day full.
During school, there is strict management of students; leaving school without permission is prohibited; they can only practice their crafts in the workshop or return to the dormitory to rest.
This style was reminiscent to Zhou Yi of the famous Hengshui model.
Simple, crude but very effective.
If students can graduate, employment is generally easy.
After all, most of the world consists of ordinary towns. Those places need many basic professionals, dispersing across the Eastern and Western Continents to earn a living with no major issues.
Zhou Yi was also contemplating.
The education model of Mushroom Forest Primary School only fits internally within the company.
The majority of places need more of these technical schools like the Hundred Schools Plateau, providing wider coverage vocational education for ordinary residents.
Hence, this time Zhou Yi and Lord Dominator finalized a collaboration.
The company invested 3 million Light Seeds to jointly establish the "Eastern Vocational and Technical College" with the Hundred Schools Plateau. This college will adhere to the successful existing experiences of the Hundred Schools Plateau, focusing on vocational and technical training.