Chapter 275 - Ming Elite Academy

After spending an entire week with Lord Yueliang and Ruoshan as "Honeymoon Period", Li Ming finally returned to her daily life.

Everything was ready before the full moon arrived along with the Moon Immortal's birthday.

For the first time in eternity, the Moon was sparkling during the night as everyone celebrated Lord Yueliang's birthday who was too overwhelmed after seeing the changes on his land.

After the birthday was over, Li Ming started taking care of officially starting the Academy.

She called a meeting of all the parents asking for their permission.

Of course, everyone was more than happy to agree with her idea. The people of the Dongji Village already considered her as their Master while the citizens of the Han Empire viewed her as an Immortal who carried a pure and kind heart in her.

Ever since she returned from the Guixian Academy, Li Ming became the most powerful cultivator of the Han Empire. Her close relations with the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince of the Imperial family, along with her friendship with all the Young Masters and even Young Misses of the noble families, made the Imperial family and the noble families respect her as they had seen her kind and noble nature with their own eyes.

The normal citizens respected her just as much as the Imperial and noble families.

After receiving permission from the parents, Li Ming called a meeting of the students to tell them about the good news.

Since it was currently the month of August, she decided to officially start the Academy in September.

The term would start in September and would continue till June and after their final exams in June, the students were allowed to return to their homes for two months, July and August.

Along with that, Li Ming also allowed the parents to visit the Academy once in three months if they wanted to see their children.

She also planned to conduct parent-teacher meetings at the end of every term so that the parents could see exactly how well their children were performing.

The students and parents were more than happy with her plans. It was the first time they heard that the parents were allowed to meet their children so often and would even get to see their performances.

The news about the Ming Empire opening an Elite Academy on the Moon spread like fire all over the mortal realm.

All the high official families around the Qi continent suddenly started fighting to get seats for their children. 

Even the Imperial families of various Empires were trying to find out about the entrance exams.

Li Ming almost got a headache with all the ruckus that was caused by these morons.

It was not until the Ming Elite Academy officially announced that there would be no entrance exam for new students since they already had more than five hundred students studying under their academy, did the ruckus stopped.

Everyone was left in complete shock when they learned that even before the Academy officially started, it gained over five hundred students.

This news made everyone feel helpless as they realized that they were late in grasping seats for their children.

During the third week of August, the Ming Elite Academy released another official statement with information about the topics that were a part of their education system.

At first, everyone was shocked to see that along with cultivation and martial arts, the Academy had classes like - cooking skills, Stitching skills, Wood, Clay or Iron Crafting, Jewelry Making, Farming Skills, Husbandry skills, Music, Dancing, Writing, and Speaking Skills, and many more.

Initially, no one understood exactly what the Academy was trying to do by providing such kinds of classes but when the Ming Academy released another statement two days later, the shock and surprise only increased to another level.

The new statement provided the answer that the people were looking for. There was brief information about how the Ming Empire was training children for the last few years in the areas which the children liked the most.

There was a list of students name who surpassed the age of eighteen and were now working under the various businesses of the Ming Business Empire.

The list showed the skill that a particular student decided to pursue, their cultivation level, and the salary that the Ming Empire provided them for their skills.

The surprise that everyone received after realizing that nearly ninety percent of the students on the list of those hundred and forty-seven students, were of Great Elder Cultivator rank only increased their helplessness.

It was hard to find children or even elder people in the Han Empire with such a high level of cultivation, but the Ming Academy succeeded in nourishing more than a hundred students who were already on Great Elder Cultivator Rank in their late teens.

Not only that but the people were also surprised to see that all the students on the list were earning more than fifty silver taels each month, with a bonus of hundred taels at the end of every year.

It was even more than what the officials of the fourth and fifth rank of the Han Empire were earning.

There was even a mention that a group of students with high and unique skills was even promoted as either managers or supervisors of various shops under the Ming Business Empire.

The salary of this batch of students was somewhere between three hundred to five hundred silver taels per month with additional bonuses.

This time there was no mention of names but the list did mention that some of these students were even on higher cultivation ranks than the Great Elder Rank.

The uproar that these official statements created throughout the Empire and even the entire Qi continent left everyone in great shock.

No one dared to question the authenticity of the official statements for two reasons. First, everyone had seen the achievements of Miss Li and the grandiose of the Ming Business Empire, and Second, because the official statement mentioned about Miss Li conducting a personal meeting in front of everyone with those who doubted the sincerity of the statements where she would provide proof for every single statement of the Academy.

No one wanted to enter into the bad books of the Ming Business Empire. In short, no one wanted to become an enemy of Miss Li.

Just like Li Ming predicted, the statements released by the Ming Elite Academy not only helped in creating a good image of the Academy among the citizens but it also succeeded in completing her main mission.

Even though cultivation was still viewed as a priority in the Qi continent, but for the first time, the people were realizing that the lives of the young generation were not limited to that.

The Ming Academy brought the biggest hope to the lower class people when they realized that their children could finally fight fairly for a better future.