King-Chapter 1088 - 159: Soldier Training Academy

Mass recruiting so many people at once turned training into a major issue. Teaching staff could only be drawn from the military, and their qualifications weren’t even considered.

The selection criteria of ’easy entry, strict exit’ doomed the training to be extensive. Beyond teaching the fundamentals of Cultivation Methods and sharing experience, there was no need to trouble oneself with educating a bunch of roughnecks about imparting doctrines, imparting knowledge, and solving doubts.

It wasn’t only military officers of serfs’ sons and daughters with limited education, even officers from lesser noble families didn’t have much higher levels of learning.

In a situation with limited resources, many families of lesser nobility focused on training only their eldest sons, while the others received only the most basic education.

Someone like Hudson, whose several brothers all received a noble education and completed their fundamental Knight training, and could even obtain Life Essence, was already considered from a well-off family.

If even the world of the nobles was this brutal, one could imagine the training of the Knight Corps Reserve.

So-called intensive training in practice only meant slightly better food, ensuring nutritional needs for training, and slightly stricter daily management.

One couldn’t be too optimistic about access to more training resources. Hudson certainly didn’t have the luxury to provide training resources for over twenty thousand people all at once.

It wasn’t just a matter of money; such a massive amount of training resources simply wasn’t available for sale. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

The training resources on the market were scattered and also pricey.

Backed by the Black Stone Mountain Range, the Mountain Domain could produce some training resources, but the wild resources were too scarce, and cultivating them artificially required time.

Although training resources were limited, Hudson benefited from the Koslow Family’s widespread marriage alliances in terms of human resources.

In addition to the talents selected from the territory, there was also a group of lesser nobles related to the family supplying their progeny.

If they couldn’t train them on their own, sending them to a relative’s family for training was quite common in the Noble World.

Of course, this training wasn’t free; they needed to work for Master Hudson to repay their debt upon reaching adulthood.

Coming to work was not a loss; after all, the noble children had to work for the Major Nobles upon reaching adulthood anyway.

Sending their progeny over in advance not only saved a significant expense but also helped foster relationships, laying the groundwork for future development.

"Family members" were labeled as "direct lineage" from the start and under the same conditions, their promotion would certainly be faster.

The entire Alpha Kingdom operated in this way.

The Private Knight Corps under the Major Nobles consisted of a few Noble Children, some Knights who came seeking refuge, and the rest were the progeny of middle and small nobles who depended on them for survival.

Under normal circumstances, these people were sufficient for everyone’s needs. If the times were peaceful for decades, there would even be an excess of talent, and there would be no need to deliberately select more from the general populace.

If it hadn’t been for the development of the Near East and the threat of war, Hudson would not have lacked fundamental talent following the established patterns.

From the development perspective of his territory, he simply couldn’t afford an army of several thousand Extraordinary Troops; the large base was mainly for screening the Elite.

The Knight Corps Reserve enrolled over twenty-five thousand people, but that didn’t mean the final selection would have as many. Only outstanding trainees could stay till the end and serve in the Knight Corps.

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"Duke, sending all these people to academies is just too grand a scale, isn’t it?"

Jose said with a bitter expression.

With a grand gesture, Hudson made a Soldier Training Academy appear in the Mountain Domain.

It was supposed to be called a Magic and Martial Arts Academy, but for fear of attracting unnecessary troubles, he deliberately lowered its profile.

To select talent from serfs was already outstanding, but training them into Strongmen would draw far too much hatred.

This wasn’t just from the outside; even the nobles who depended on him and members of the Koslow Family would come out in opposition.

After all, as part of the interest-entrenched group, no one wanted to add competition for their livelihoods.

Yielding to good advice, Hudson decisively changed the name to "Mountain Territory Soldier Academy."

Truthfully, prestige didn’t matter.

Just looking at the teaching force of this academy was enough to dispel most people’s concerns. It genuinely was an academy for training Elite Soldiers and had nothing to do with a Magic and Martial Arts Academy.

The academy’s instructors were nothing but Low-level Knights pulled from the military to make up numbers, and the only one who could be considered a Strongman was Hudson, the principal.

Even the worst Magic and Martial Arts Academy on the Continent had students with average strength better than these instructors.

The situation in the Magic department was even sadder, with Magic Apprentices becoming teachers. It was less about training Magicians and more about training Workers.

Hudson could no longer hold back after tasting the sweet profit margins of Magic Potions. Uniquely characteristic Ha’s Potions were being developed incessantly.

To cover his tracks and improve production efficiency, Hudson created the Single Ingredient Production Method for Potion, where the territory’s Magicians would only participate in one stage of the production.

No matter how much the process was simplified, they were all hand-crafted Potions, naturally requiring Workers.

The cost of recruiting Magicians from the outside was too high, and it was easy to introduce spies from various powers, so he simply decided to raise them himself.

After all, the initial phase was all about learning basic theory, and the cultivation cost wasn’t high. The real money-burning took place after they became Magicians.

Hudson was playing the "beggar version" of talent cultivation, focusing solely on cost-effectiveness. As long as the training was short, cheap, and the numbers sufficient, it was acceptable.

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