Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 381: Seducing the Alchemist
As soon as Perfectoct realized the problem of the lack of alchemists in the North, he was actually trying to find a solution.

It is definitely too late to train them now, but a system for training alchemists needs to be established. At least this can cultivate talents for the future of the North.

Therefore, it was only natural that a specialized alchemy school was established in Chernobog, and at the same time, the school began to enroll students from the entire North and even the entire empire.

But distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. Even if the enrollment goes smoothly and apprentices who meet Perfectcot's requirements are recruited, it will take at least nine months to train an alchemy apprentice with a certain foundation into a qualified alchemist and pass the Empire's professional certification.

This training speed is only possible with the presence of the top alchemist Perficot and a group of alchemy professors from many universities in the empire.

Under normal circumstances, it would take at least five years of professional training for an ordinary person with a certain talent for alchemy to go from knowing nothing to becoming a qualified alchemist.

And this is based on the premise that the other party has the talent and can become an alchemist.

If one has poor talent or is simply not suitable to be an alchemist, it may take him or her ten or eight years to get started.

Under such circumstances, training a qualified alchemist is undoubtedly very costly and time-consuming.

This is also why before the Empire entered the Industrial Age, the Empire's alchemists paid great attention to teachers and factions, because only factions that are large enough have sufficient accumulation and can train alchemists with relatively more efficient efficiency.

For the alchemy faction, how to train new people for its own faction more efficiently is something that every faction pays close attention to.

After all, the recruited talents will never be as loyal to the faction as those who have been trained since childhood.

Even after entering the industrial age, the empire established a new education system, universities opened alchemy-related courses, and the alchemy department compiled alchemy-related textbooks in a relatively more systematic way and began to train alchemists more efficiently, but this still failed to completely break away from the traditional training model.

It's just that the factions or families of the past have evolved into the alchemy departments of various universities. In addition to normal classes, those professors still adopt the master-apprentice method to train new alchemists.

However, traditional things such as factions and masters and apprentices from the past are still preserved.

Perfect didn't express any opinion on this. Although she hoped to train new alchemists more efficiently to solve the problems she was facing now, since these traditions and status quo existed, there must be a reason for their existence, and she would still maintain the necessary respect.

After all, when it comes to education, whether the master is willing to teach is one part, and whether the apprentice is willing to learn is another part.

Since the current model can train qualified alchemists at a relatively acceptable efficiency, there is no need to carry out large-scale education reforms or other measures to subvert the original training model unless there is an urgent need.

But the problems facing the North still need to be solved, which is a headache for Perfectot.

Some people may ask, why not recruit alchemists from the empire itself?
In fact, if he could recruit them, Perfectcot didn't mind spending a lot of money. After all, money was not a problem for the lords of the North. Perfectcot could even offer titles as a bargaining chip to recruit talents. However, so far, there were only a few alchemists who could meet Perfectcot's requirements and obtain titles. The few who did not get the canonization documents of the pioneer knights did not get the title of honorary knight of the White Bear Knights.

As for ordinary alchemists, there are a group of them, but their number is really not enough.

Although Perfect made a request to the Imperial Center regarding this issue and asked the Empire to send more alchemists, the number of alchemists that the Empire itself could dispatch was limited, and the number that could be transferred over was also limited.

This made Perfect feel very unhappy, but he could only express helplessness.

Many alchemists in the empire do not belong to the imperial government, but open their own alchemy workshops. Most of these alchemists are more focused on their own research. They cannot be said to ignore the call or order of the empire, but at least they do not react too much.

If the Empire just needs them to produce something, it would be easy to deal with. Just like the last time when Perfect needed to make a thermobaric bomb, it was through the Imperial Center that all the alchemists and alchemy workshops in Langton were coordinated and the thermobaric bomb was produced in a very short time.

But if the Empire needs alchemists to come to the North to work, or to control robots to collect dust, few people would be willing to come.

After all, not only do they have to come to such a remote place as the North, but they also have to do the work of construction workers, which requires them to consume a lot of energy every day. This is not an easy job for alchemists.

Because of this, there were few responses to Perfectot's recruitment in the empire. The only ones who came were some formal alchemists who were not doing well, or apprentices who had not yet obtained professional certification.

Although being an apprentice is not a problem for Perfectcot, at most they can spend time on pre-job training, but the key is that even being an apprentice is not enough.

This made Perfecto very uncomfortable. She was an alchemist herself and she knew clearly what kind of people the alchemists in the empire were like. Without something attractive enough for them, there was no way to impress these alchemists who had neither money nor a keen interest in power.

This made Perfectoct feel a little regretful that he had thrown away the fantasy alchemy just like that. Otherwise, he could use the fantasy alchemy to lure them now.

However, after careful consideration, Perfect felt that he could still come up with something attractive enough to make those alchemists come to the North on their own initiative.

What she was going to take out was the systematic knowledge of modern chemistry of the original world.

This time she did not indulge in fantasy, but jumped back into the field of traditional alchemy. However, she did not strengthen traditional alchemy, but separated the discipline of modern chemistry from it.

Although Perfect was a liberal arts student before she traveled through time, fortunately she had good grades in chemistry, and she could remember most of what she had learned if she was willing to spend time to recall it, so she soon prepared what she was going to throw out.

(End of this chapter)