Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 254: Centralized Education

The Council discussed and planned it in detail tomorrow.

Until now, the education of new specialists was decentralized and quite chaotic. There was an amount of specialists needed, population counts, the amount of bees wishing to take a certain job, and these numbers were put together to the best of their ability by a respective Adviser in a local hive.

The training itself was done by instructors—Teacher Bees who went through training for a specific profession, or specialist bees who went through Teacher Bee training to take the title and its teaching speed bonus.

The entire system was imperfect, but worked so far. However, it meant that specialists were often trained by an instructor from the local hive; and then these specialists could become instructors themselves.

The quality of training gradually degraded, and it was especially noticeable in more high-intelligence professions.

To keep the quality of education high, I planned to establish universities—buildings specifically for training future instructors of instructors in all professions.

In the Grand University in Hive Supremo, the instructors will learn everything there was about their craft, then move to teach it to instructors in universities in sub-hives.

This way, there won't be over two generations of instructors, and the quality of education will be easier to control.

The system noted it, too.

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〔Centralized Education〕

Brainpower requirement: 50000

Drastically reduces the degradation of knowledge and improves speed of empire-wide implementation of technologies.

Improves the 'Teacher Bee' title to 40% bonus.

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The actual implementation of the universities would take some time, though. Time which was becoming a more and more sparse resource.

Building the places for training instructors was only a matter of days, and there were plenty of experienced Teacher Bees in Hive Supremo to place in the Grand University of Hive Supremo.

But it would take longer for these instructors to train enough smart, experienced bees from Hive Supremo to send as instructors in universities of sub-hives.

Training existing instructors from sub-hives was not recommended since many of them were too dull for it, and existing instructors in Hive Supremo were busy training new bees in Hive Supremo.

But I wasn't wasting time. I fixed my other mistakes. Together with the Council, I began reworking the Empire's bureaucratic system to be more efficient. I also flew all over the Empire, talking with my little princesses who became big Queens and explaining to them what they were wrong with.

In a few days while this was going on, the Oracles began warning me about disasters more and more often. There were more illnesses, and it felt like each new outbreak was worse than the last one. If not for Tabletina's strict countermeasures (as diminished as they were by their poor execution), entire hives could've been crippled.

But this was just a part of it. Evolved beasts that multiplied every day, even something as banal as bad weather…

"It's like for every fire we put out, two more start burning," I said after reading a report about a bold dragon attack on a sub-hive workers.

The dragon had evolved a venom immunity, and would've been free to gorge itself on a hundred of my granddaughters if a Warrior didn't stab it in the eye with a spear. The dragon was small enough that it crippled the beast, after which other nearby bees finished it off with their knives, hammers, spears and whatever else they had.

Eight dozen bees died in the attack, although the dragon was smaller than the black dragons tamed by bees.

"But there were no fires. If there were, our situation would've been even worse," Ambrosia said, puzzled. "Ah, it's a figure of speech?"

I shook my head and pushed the report away.

"Yes, and please, don't jinx it!" I looked at my Advisers with a dark expression that reflected my dark thoughts. "I don't know how many more of these 'little' incidents will happen in the future, but there has to be a limit to *how often* they could happen. Almost all of them are results of the rapid evolution of local creatures, and they compete with each other as much as with us. We just have to keep dealing with them one by one."

It was the price I paid for the existence of the Bee Empire.

"But, Father…" Workharder said, looking uncharacteristically timid. "We don't have enough resources to keep it all up!"