"Your Majesty, there are currently only two locations in the Universal Academy, one is located in Yibeifang in the outer city, which is a branch of the Universal Academy, mainly to teach young children to enlightenment, as well as to impart some low- and middle-level knowledge, and this place has been renovated, and it will be able to enroll students after a while;

One is located in Triangle Lake, which is the headquarters of the Global Academy, and in the future, those who have outstanding abilities among the disciples of the branches of the Global Academy, as well as outstanding talents from all over the Ming Dynasty who can pass the assessment of the Global Academy General Academy, can go to the Triangle Lake General Institute to study.

There is a wide range of cutting-edge knowledge and research, such as the study of the manufacture of proprietary Chinese medicines and the teaching of surgical methods.

At present, the little nephew and the personnel sent there to acquire land, explore the terrain, and the construction has not yet begun. ”

"Triangle? Are you talking about the triangle near Tianjinwei? Emperor Hongzhi wondered.

"Hmm."

Li Zhaotong nodded, he was not surprised that Emperor Hongzhi knew about Triangle Lake, after all, one of the greatest achievements of Emperor Hongzhi for so many years was to control water, and three famous ministers of water control also emerged: Liu Daxia, Bai Ang, and Xu Guan.

Liu Daxia needless to say, this old brother is familiar to many people, and the most famous is the rumor that he burned the information of Zheng He's trip to the West.

Although Bai Ang and Xu Guan are not recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" led by Zhang Tingyu in the Qing Dynasty, the merits of these two brothers are not inferior to Liu Daxia at all.

Emperor Hongzhi knew about the triangle, probably from Bai Ang, because Bai Ang governed the Yellow River.

Bai Ang's method of controlling the Yellow River at that time used the theory of the water tank discharge experiment made by the famous traitor Xu Youzhen, namely:

Find two tanks of the same capacity, fill the same amount of water, one poke a large hole at the bottom, and one poke a number of small holes with an area equal to the large hole at the bottom, and start to release water, and the final result will prove that the water in the tank with several small holes will be drained first.

If Li Zhaotong had not been involved in this experiment, more than 400 years later, the physicist Smith of the United States would have done it again, and then used it as a theoretical basis to dig the famous Panama Canal.

Although Xu Youzhen is not a good thing, the theory of his water tank discharge experiment is correct.

Bai Ang was convinced of this.

Therefore, when the Yellow River flooded in the second year of Hongzhi, he chose to start construction on the Gubian River in Suzhou Prefecture, Yangwu, Henan, and built embankments along Yangwu to prevent the Yellow River from flowing north, and then dredged the Gubian River to divert the Yellow River into the Bianhe River.

Then, according to Xu Youzhen's theory, large and small rivers were artificially dug between the Bianhe River and the Huai River, connecting the Bianhe River and the Huai River, and diverting the water of the Yellow River from the Huai River into the sea.

However, there is a big loophole in his plan, that is, the Huai River's bearing capacity is limited, and once the flood is greater, the banks of the Huai River will inevitably be finished!

Bai Ang also discovered this loophole, so he went to the imperial court and opened up twelve rivers from Dongping to Qingxian in Shandong, bringing part of the Yellow River water into the Daqing River and Xiaoqing River into the sea.

It's a pity that this piece of music has been arguing in the imperial court for a long time, and only Liu Ji, the only one who has mixed into the Hongzhi Dynasty, is the only one among the papier-mâché three pavilion elders who supports Bai Ang, and the imperial court has no money, and in the end, it is not repaired......

This also has the story of the flooding of the Huai River in the sixth year of Hongzhi, and Liu Daxia was so tired of controlling the water in the Huai River Basin in northern Jiangsu that he vomited blood.

The triangular lake was formed by the flooding of the Daqing River, and the Hongzhi Emperor knew about it, which roughly originated from this.

After all, at that time, Bai Ang proposed to divert part of the Yellow River water from the Daqing River into the sea, and Emperor Hongzhi also needed to consider the issue of the Daqing River when they discussed the place.

The flooding of the Daqing River has formed a triangular lake, and if you want to have another part of the Yellow River, then there will inevitably be some disasters along the Daqing River, among them, the most uncomfortable is the expansion of the triangular lake.

So, it's not hard to understand!

As for why Li Zhaotong chose the headquarters of the Global Academy in the triangle, it is better to understand, because the triangle is connected to the Haihe River, and it can enter the sea from the Haihe River!

In the future, Li Zhaotong plans to build a shipyard and a ship repair yard here.

Why choose this place, and not the seaside, is simple, in order to deal with ship maggots!

Ship maggots are a creature that can cause serious damage to wooden equipment such as docks, stakes and boats in the ocean, but it is difficult for this creature to adapt to the freshwater environment.

Therefore, there is an anti-maggot method called biological anti-maggot method, which is to drive the sea boat into the river basin for a period of time, and the ship maggots will naturally die.

By the way, the triangle lake is also called the East Lake, and the corresponding West Lake does have it, but at this time it is called Baiyang Lake, which is the famous Baiyangdian Lake in the Xiong'an New Area.

As for why Li Zhaotong didn't choose the familiar Baiyangdian, it was because the Baiyangdian Lake during the Hongzhi period was almost dry, and some of the lakes had been silted to the ground, what do you tell him to do?

And Xidian is still too far from the sea.

On the contrary, there is no variable of Li Zhaotong, because the upstream reservoir has been built, the water has been cut off, and it is constantly drying up, forming the Dongdian of crop land, which is full of water at this time, and is close to the Haihe River, the largest river in North China, and not far from the seaside.

"Triangle Lake is still far away from Jingshi." Emperor Hongzhi, who knew very well where the triangle was, made a judgment.

"It's a little farther, but the most important item in the plan of the Global Academy in the little nephew is to study shipbuilding, because some medicines are only available overseas, such as the cinchona tree, the raw material for the miracle medicine for malaria, which is only available in the distant Golden Continent.

There is also a new grain corn with a yield of more than ten or twenty stones per mu, and only the Golden Continent has ......"

"Wait!!"

"What?!"

"Ten or twenty stones?!"

……

"Virtuous nephew, in front of me, you can't talk nonsense!"

Emperor Hongzhi almost gasped and warned, these ten or twenty stone of new grain corn can stimulate him!

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Zhang Mao and others were no better, one by one excitedly interrupted Li Zhaotong's statement, and stared at Li Zhaotong with heavy breathing, for fear that he would tell a little lie!

Because it's horrible, it's amazing!

At present, the yield of rice and wheat and other grain crops in Daming is only three or four stones per mu, but the yield of this corn in Li Zhaotong's mouth has increased several times per mu!

That's a lot of it!

If this can be planted by Daming......

That Da Ming...... Will there still be a famine?

Emperor Hongzhi is already imagining that he has been rated as a saint of the ages and an emperor of the ages in the history books, and is ranked alongside the three emperors and five emperors, Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty!

Even...... It is not impossible to surpass them!

And Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Zhang Mao and others are already imagining that they will go down in history, provoking the famous ministers in history Zhang Liang, Xiao He, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Yao Chong, Song Jing, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Liu Ji and others!

"Zhaotong, don't talk about it!"

Li Dongyang warned sternly with heavy breathing.

Li Zhaotong shook his head, a little sad and a little helpless, but more of an expectation for the future, and said:

"Your Majesty, Dad, Uncle, Uncle, what Zhaotong said is absolutely true!

This is Lao Tzu's thousand instructions, and it is a heavenly opportunity calculated by his old man at the cost of vomiting blood, so this is absolutely not wrong!

Even, Lao Tzu also said that there are two kinds of food crops in the Golden Continent, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and even these two food crops may have been brought back to the Franc machine from the Golden Continent to be planted.

The yield per mu of these two crops is about seven or eight stones, and if it is improved, it is not impossible for its yield per mu to exceed that of corn.

Corn, which is a powerful civilization on the Golden Continent, the myth of the Mayan civilization, is also their staple food, after their generations of cultivation, the yield is getting higher and higher, and now it may also be brought into the Franc machine by the Franc people.

However, whether it is the Francophone or the Golden Continent, it is too far away from our Ming Dynasty, far away from the ocean.

The ships built by the two major shipyards of Longjiang and Qingjiang in Daming are not suitable for ocean voyages, and it is difficult to reach the Franc machine or the Golden Continent, and bring back the corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cinchona trees and other sacred objects.

Therefore, the Universal Academy should study shipbuilding, improve shipbuilding technology, and build seagoing ships suitable for ocean voyages! Of course, even if a sea ship suitable for ocean voyages is built, the imperial court needs to agree to open the sea. ”

PS: It's finally time to get ready to go to the sea, so excited! Ask for a recommendation ticket to calm your mind!