After being forced to step down, the once-annoying nun eloped with me.

...

"I'd better not tell my friends. She's probably just faking it," Elena muttered to herself. "That elf really knows how to use any means necessary, just to keep Yang Hao in this suite..."

But then I thought, is there a problem with this?

The ruthless Black Dragon outside has already brought over Miss Siren. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows they harbor terrifying thoughts about their friend.

So, it would be a good choice if Yang Hao could stay in the suite to rest... But, is it really possible that Yang Hao wouldn't leave his room even once during the two-month voyage? Impossible.

Thinking this, Elena muttered to herself, "Fin might not be able to keep up the act any longer either..." But then she thought, "If Fin can't keep up the act, then it seems like I can't either—"

...

Forget it.

Not suitable.

The synthetic doll dressed in a black and white dress shook her head, plopped down on Yang Hao's bed, closed her eyes, and remotely controlled the affairs of the Eden Kingdom through her own magical network.

However, while handling political affairs, Elena secretly used her magical skills to contact Her Majesty the Nun who was working in the Purple Palace, intending to express her concern to Her Majesty and improve her image in her eyes.

[Inquiry: Your Majesty Theresa, how have you been lately?]

Elena patiently waited for Theresa's reply, but what she received instead was Lalumia's message:

[Little Theresa is keeping Anna and the others company while they rest. She's doing well lately, nothing's happened. So you don't need to worry.]

"..."

While feeling helpless about Lalumia's interference, on second thought, it also suggests that Lalumia's control over the United Nations is beyond what most people expected...

Elena silently chose to abandon her plan to make underhanded moves in front of this deity, after all, she still owed Lalumia a lot of favors.

However, just to be on the safe side, Elena still inquired about Lalumia's domestic development. Overall, things were relatively peaceful.

...

If we ignore the recent cases of male partners being hospitalized in polygamous families, then there is indeed no problem.

But in the end, Elena still just couldn't understand...

Why do some men prefer to fake illness and be hospitalized rather than deepen their relationships with their wives?

It's just that it might not stop even several times a night, is it really necessary to hide like this...?

At this moment, the tiny synthetic doll was unable to comprehend the state of living beings; she simply observed the world from the perspective of an Edenian, as always.

After all, for the Edenites, if their bodies break down, they can simply replace them—if the citizens of the United Nations wanted the same, their current technology could easily transform them into magical dolls for survival through unmanned operation...

However... the Edenians respect the opinions of other citizens—after all, even their own magical dolls have problems.

Speaking of that question—

Elena was relieved that the 400 remaining "seeds" capable of bearing children could finally live peacefully in this world.

Five days from now, once everything is ready, the seeds will be able to awaken from hibernation with the help of the magical dolls and learn everything about this world as quickly as possible.

While it's unclear whether they can find a suitable partner according to their own wishes, this is ultimately a good start.

"..."

But then again...

Even the seeds that had no hope of ever reappearing in this world can now have the chance to find their own happiness... Ah.

Why can't I try harder? But if that puts my friends in a difficult position, wouldn't that be too shameful?

Elena was gripped by self-doubt. And just then, the elf, who had even resorted to magic to make her vomiting seem more realistic, finally came to her senses...

Perhaps the elf also realized that using her "sickness and weakness" to restrict Yang Hao's travel was no longer an option.

Therefore, she decided to go straight into work mode and use "work" to help Yang Hao interact with the people of Isgard as normally as possible... but before that.

She needed to confirm Yang Hao's current thoughts first...

"So... Yang Hao, what are your current thoughts?"

Sitting upright on Yang Hao's bed again, the elf, who was quite weak from vomiting, rinsed her mouth with juice and leaned on Elena's shoulder, sighing as she asked.

Faced with his wife's question, Yang Hao, who had sat back down on the sofa, simply shook his head.

"For now, the problems in Isgard may be more serious than I imagined—after all, the gap between the rich and the poor is unprecedented. Even the Roman Empire wasn't that big."

"Ah."

"However, I highly commend Miss Margarita for not being foolish enough to directly kill wealthy people. I'm even more surprised that she recognized the problem lay in [upward mobility] and [educational resources]..."

"So, you think highly of Miss Margarita?"

The elf's words already hinted at a danger. However, Yang Hao clearly didn't grasp the deeper meaning in his wife's words, only nodding worriedly and saying, "She's my formidable rival. In a sense, she might also be someone who understands me, like Benjamin."

"After all, in this era... there aren't many people left who truly understand the importance of education and upward mobility..."

Starting with this statement, Yang Hao recounted a discussion he had with Benjamin Roman in the past.

That was when Benjamin had just united the surrounding tribes and was about to engage in a decisive battle with the main force of the barbarians.

At that time, Benjamin posed a good question to Yang Hao: If they continued fighting, the Roman Empire's proposal was a done deal—but their people were unlikely to become wealthy from the war, and were more likely to be exploited by the military nobility or large landowners who would follow. Faced with this problem, what should we do?

At first, Yang Hao thought that Benjamin simply felt that the people couldn't share in the prosperity and happiness with him, and that's why he had this idea.

But he soon realized that Benjamin was genuinely worried about the entire country. After all, a nation's strength is merely a facade if its people are not wealthy.

In the end, newly established nations will soon accumulate a swarm of worms due to their superficial prosperity and eventually fall into decline. The best way to prevent this outcome is naturally to find a way to make the people rich.

When people become wealthier, the economy will naturally improve. Once the economy is thriving, industry and scientific research will naturally have something to do—but as the saying goes...

How can people become prosperous?

Yang Hao pondered for a long time, and finally, after seriously considering the history of Earth, he said:

"Education, and the flow of social classes."

If education is the foundation for people to create and acquire wealth, then social mobility is a necessary condition for people to become wealthy.

There's not much to say about the former. Ignorant people don't accept education, so naturally they only know how to acquire wealth through ignorant means.

Perhaps they take advantage of the harsh, remote terrain to rob and kidnap, or perhaps they use various despicable and insidious means to steal, rob, or even desecrate graves. In short, without education, they will only ever know these almost meaningless and heinous acts.

But if one receives an education, everything changes. Although it only provides people with a new possibility of making a living, change is always better than no change.

However... this cannot be accomplished in the short term. According to Yang Hao's rough calculations at the time, it would take at least twenty years for Roman to achieve significant results in education after establishing his empire.

"After all, the older generation is stubborn and will not change, while the new generation is too young and needs to be nurtured and grown... Considering the chaos in the early days after the founding of the country, especially the obstruction of the nobles who control a large amount of high-quality educational resources... Twenty years is only the best possible time."

“I know. Just go ahead and do it. I'll handle the political aspects—and what else?”

With the education plan resolved, the next natural step is the issue of social mobility.

Unlike the relatively normal social mobility on Earth, for Roman at that time, social mobility was practically non-existent.

Like a sealed jar, in order to allow fresh water to enter and stagnant water to flow out... Yang Hao's proposed plan is bound to be a major undertaking that will inevitably require cutting into the flesh of the future Roman Empire's aristocratic and landowning class.

"With education, people will inevitably compete with others if they want to make a name for themselves. Competition within the same class can filter out high-quality human resources for us, but the problem is, if we want them to do better jobs, they will inevitably compete with people from the upper class... Brother, do you think noble landowners would let poor country bumpkins steal their jobs?"

"Impossible. I know them best. Even if I were willing to hand over my throne to a more capable country bumpkin, they would spontaneously stop me..."

"So, class mobility is fixed. Peasants can only ever be peasants, and nobles, no matter how down on their luck or how incompetent they are, are still nobles... If there is no class mobility, even if people in the lower classes acquire knowledge, they will always remain people in the lower classes."

In this situation, we must have a reasonable oversight system... We need to regularly screen out unqualified current officials and replace them with better newcomers. Similarly, we must do the same in other areas... otherwise our country will soon become stagnant, unchangeable garbage.

"...Is there a plan?"

Not yet.

"As before, once you come up with a plan, work hard to implement it. As for the political matters, I'll handle them."

The conclusions Yang Hao and Benjamin reached back then are still applicable to Isgard. After all, no matter where you are, once social classes are fixed, it's almost impossible for the lower classes to become wealthy—so barring any unforeseen circumstances, Yang Hao will make some adjustments and transfer the plan originally intended for Roman to Isgard.

His only concern now is that this plan will undoubtedly lead to a surge of talent in Isgard within twenty years. If Miss Margaret is indeed as far-sighted as he imagines, then Isgard's rapid development in the future is a foregone conclusion...

Is this really good?

After all, the demonic calamity is ten years from now... Ten years from now, if Ysgard and the United Nations survive together, there's a chance they'll become enemies...

Although the probability may be less than one in a thousand, does Yang Hao really want to risk the safety of his own country to seek development for Isugard?

...He sighed. But just as he was fretting, Fen said with a strange expression: Why are you worried about this?

"Why worry? After all, the population difference is huge. They'll produce talent much faster than we do in the future, so..."

"Alas. So my husband, have you forgotten that Ysgard is now a dog with a noose around its neck?"

"...It seems so?"

This sentence suddenly made Yang Hao realize something.

Yes.

There are talented people, only talented people.

Only talented people.

What's the use of having only people?

In terms of organic chemistry majors at universities around the world, is there a shortage of talent? Definitely not!

But the problem is, some things are useless without people... Take organic chemistry, for example, people are one thing.

The most critical issue is whether or not we have money and resources.

Some universities have spent hundreds of billions of yuan to produce groundbreaking products.

Some universities have talented people but no money, so they have to secretly borrow experimental materials from other universities. By graduation, they can't even produce a single product, which is a sad and lamentable history of wasting seven years of their lives.

So, are talented people useful?

Of course it's useful.

But if you have no money and no resources, what can these people do?

There's nothing I can do.

Is there a lack of talented and capable people in this world who can only farm because they don't have enough money?

Even if there are upward mobility channels, is there a real shortage of highly qualified people who, due to the competition among themselves, can only end up working in factories tightening screws or delivering food after being eliminated?

There's definitely no shortage.