Chapter 328 Riven's Management Experience
How to change Ionia is a very big question.
The answer given by Levi, or the key point of solving the problem he first mentioned, is:
"The first step is to summarize and learn from the past work experience of the Ionia branch, improve the leader training system, comprehensively strengthen the construction of the member cadre team, and quickly cultivate a large-scale, well-staffed, combat-ready, organized, and faith-based leader cadre team."
"Uh..." Riven, Fia and others who were concentrating on taking notes couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
What Levi said was indeed true. But...
But this is just bullshit, right?
"The leader needs to develop believers and train cadres as quickly as possible—" Li Wei said seriously: "I don't need to tell you how important these things are. Everyone knows it in their hearts."
"But I still want to emphasize it here because..."
Because a large cadre team with reliable beliefs is the foundation for the success of everything he said later.
Ionia is different from Zaun. It is vast and has a large population.
The amount of administrative work that leaders will have to face here in the future will probably be unimaginable.
"Even in that small city of Zaun..." Levi frankly used the shortcomings of his own work as an example: "When the Leader was carrying out a comprehensive transformation of Zaun society, we also encountered many problems."
"All this is because we, the leader, expanded too fast and took too big a step."
It took less than half a year from the birth of the Leader to the advent of the Goddess to help the Leader take over the entire Zaun.
During the past six months, as Piltover and Noxus have always been in a strong position, people have generally doubted the future of the Leader and have refused to accept the Leader's propaganda and development for various reasons...
Therefore, when the Leader took over Zaun, he only developed less than 100,000 shallow believers and nearly 10,000 Leaders.
Among these 10,000 leaders, there are only about 2,000 to 3,000 who have the opportunity to practice and train in front-line positions and can be considered grassroots cadres with work experience.
Such a small number of grassroots cadres with work experience are responsible for the comprehensive transformation of Zuan City with a population of 2 million.
If it weren't for Janna's faith test to provide a backup, and if there weren't 10,000 loyal and reliable leaders who could quickly fill out the cadre team and prevent those with ulterior motives from getting into the association... then this grand Zaun transformation, when it comes to the execution level, who knows what kind of chaos it might cause.
"Fortunately, we have managed to get through these two months." Li Wei used the word "managed".
Two months have passed since the goddess came to the world. Zaun has finally completed its initial social transformation and is gradually getting on the right track of development.
The Leader's work in Zaun was generally successful.
But the process is not easy.
But Ionia...
"Ionia is dozens of times larger than Zaun. Zaun is just a city, but Ionia is a continent with hundreds of towns and tens of thousands of villages."
"To completely transform this continent, we probably need at least hundreds of thousands of loyal and reliable leaders."
"So we must not be as impatient when doing things here as we were in Zaun."
Levi specifically emphasized the construction of the cadre team here, asking the comrades in Ionia to calm down first and not be overwhelmed by excessive enthusiasm for the struggle.
Before we develop a cadre team that is sufficient to meet the needs of grassroots work, we must not take too big a step in transforming society.
If it were a world without magic, to train such a large and reliable grassroots team from scratch, it would take at least a dozen years of development, fighting and tempering.
In Runeland, with Janna's help, things might be much faster, but even with the most optimistic estimate, Levi:
“This will take us at least three to five years.”
“So I hope everyone will not regard it as a task that needs to be completed urgently, but as a great mission that we need to devote the first half of our lives to, and treat this cause carefully and seriously.”
Levi reminded in a serious tone.
"Yes!" Riven and the leaders all nodded seriously with a solemn expression.
They all took Levi's words deeply to heart.
Li Wei mentioned the issue of cadre team building here, in addition to cooling down the comrades who are too enthusiastic, he also wants to make some specific suggestions:
"Comrade Riven, in fact, regarding the issue of strengthening the propaganda of the leaders' beliefs and strengthening the construction of the cadre team, you have already given better answers than me in the practice over the past month."
"I say this to summarize your past experience so that it will be easier to promote it in future struggles."
"Huh? Riven was suddenly praised and seemed a little flattered: "President Levi, how can I...how can I compare to you?"
"No, I'm not being polite." Li Wei said directly: "In terms of developing believers and training cadres, you are really much better than me."
As mentioned before, it took the leader half a year to cultivate less than 100,000 shallow believers from scratch. And this was achieved only with the help of a cheat, which is a very good result.
Later, when Janna was born, she brought great shock to the world, and the enthusiasm of the residents of the Twin Cities to learn Janna's thoughts became unprecedentedly high.
But even so, because Zuan was newly settled and everything was going well, the leader had too much grassroots work to deal with and could not devote much energy to propaganda work...
Therefore, in the two months since the goddess came to the world, the leader has only cultivated 10,000 more devout believers and 300,000 shallow believers in the two cities.
Most of the remaining residents of the Twin Cities were still day-to-day people who didn't care much about politics and theory. Their closeness to the Wind Leader and their yearning for Janna were still just gratitude to the "savior" and worship of the gods.
Of course, as Zaun's development gradually gets on track, the belief in Goddess Janna will surely spread rapidly in the twin cities at an exponential rate in the future.
But this is the take-off stage after the start... All things are difficult at the beginning. It has never been easy to develop believers from scratch.
But Riven...
This girl had only been in Ionia for a month , but she had already developed thousands of leaders and tens of thousands of shallow believers almost out of nothing.
Li Wei praised her as the "performance champion" of Leader, which is really not an exaggeration at all.
"But..." Riven was embarrassed: "This is not my credit."
She didn't really do anything special.
The Leader's pamphlet was originally imported along with the goods from Zaun and was sold everywhere in Barue.
The residents of the province of Baruo were so enthusiastic and proactive in learning Janna's ideas because they were forced by Noxus.
In Zaun, Janna theory is almost a non-compulsory educational course.
Ordinary people, of course, don't like to go to class. Even if there is a teacher to guide them, they won't learn very fast.
But in the province of Barou...
Learning Janna's theory is like adding safety insurance to your own life.
The Noxian butcher knife was at their necks, and if they didn't learn, they might die, so naturally everyone tried their best to learn.
So, in the final analysis, the credit for "encouraging learning" still has to go to the Noxians.
"It seems useless to summarize this kind of experience, right?" Riven said with a strange expression.
"Haha." Li Wei laughed: "Of course, the 'successful experience' I mentioned is not this."
In developing believers, Riven really relied entirely on Noxus's assistance and did not use any new tricks.
But when it comes to cultivating grassroots cadres, she has actually found an effective way.
"How did you manage to resettle tens of thousands of war refugees in such a short period of time, starting from scratch?" Levi asked.
"I..." Riven thought for a moment: "I didn't use any special tricks."
"I just used the Thread of Faith to select reliable candidates to serve as cadres, and then used the military organization I learned in Noxus to implement semi-militarized management of these refugees."
"That's right!" Li Wei said encouragingly, "The military and the people are one. That's why you can quickly pull out a large cadre team."
Zaun's Leaders Association has never been a military organization.
Before seizing power in Zaun, the Wind Leaders Association was more like a giant corporation.
After completely conquering Zaun, the Wind Leader Association directly transformed into a political entity.
It has an army, but the number is not large. Its national defense mission mainly relies on the "nuclear deterrence" provided by the goddess Janna.
But the team that Riven assembled in Ionia was completely different.
From the very beginning, it was a militarized organization that integrated the military and civilians, and was half military and half civilian.
10,000 refugees means 10,000 soldiers, that is, 1 division, 3 brigades, 9 regiments, 27 battalions, 81 companies, 243 platoons, 729 squads...
There are thousands of officers at all levels.
As long as this frame is erected and held up——
Among these 10,000 refugees, at least 1,000 grassroots cadres have been successfully born and tempered through front-line work.
In times of war, they are the officers of the troops.
In peacetime, they can quickly transform into grassroots administrative cadres in the base area.
Although the specific work contents are different, the principle is to manage, control and mobilize people.
Officers and cadres can completely transform into each other.
Thus, a large team of grassroots cadres was trained in an orderly manner from among these tens of thousands of refugees .
"Your experience cannot be learned in Zaun." Levi looked at Riven encouragingly and said, "But in Ionia, Noxus, and the countless battles we can foresee in the future, there will still be a lot of room for you to play."
"So I need you, Comrade Riven—"
"I need you to use your own methods to recruit a larger cadre team in Ionia!"
