At the end of September, it is late autumn, when the crops have been harvested and the autumn wheat has been sown. The sky in late autumn becomes so serene that it becomes high and blue. And the white clouds are like a flock of sheep, and if you look closely, they are like marshmallows. The sky seemed to be washed by the sea, as light as a feather.

In late autumn, the leaves withered and yellowed, and fell to the ground one after another, like a yellow carpet, only the large patches of pale green in the wheat field declare its new vigor and strength, and it has the taste of independent cold autumn.

At this time, the autumn is crisp and the climate is pleasant, for ordinary farmers, it is the best time of the year, first of all, just harvested, no longer worry about food; Secondly, there is no need to worry about flooding at this time, let alone starvation and cold; Thirdly, if they could not go out of the conscription, the peasants who had come down in their leisure time could still go to the city to find a job and earn some silver to subsidize their families.

Therefore, this time is also the most energetic season in the countryside.

And now Hejia Town is like a big construction site, full of people, the original households have more than 2,000 households, more than 10,000 people, and now tens of thousands of people have come to build the city wall around, plus the merchants and hawkers who come and go, there are as many as 70,000 people. The surrounding roadside is full of small shops, small restaurants, and a busy and bustling scene.

Just a few days after Liang Yuesong set off from Juzhou to his hometown in Shaanxi, He Zhiyuan leveled a field of dozens of acres in a valley in the mountains east of Hejia Town. Then, from the construction site to find the people, a few days of hard work to build a circle of walls, and then the south of the wall to open a gate, on the left side of the door to hang a white paint on the long wooden card, He Zhiyuan personally wrote a line of big characters "Juzhou Academy of Sciences".

This place is the Juzhou Academy of Sciences that He Zhiyuan wants to establish, and now it is preparing to build three research institutes: the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Chemistry, and the Institute of Optics. Wang Zhixue, Li Zhigang and Ren Guiqi led his team to conduct corresponding research.

The reason why we chose such a remote place is completely due to safety considerations. It is very dangerous to engage in scientific research. Like the steam engine of the Institute of Physics, the game is powered by steam, and it is going to explode. If it had been placed in the city, the explosion would have affected the neighbors. The chemical research institute is even more dangerous, and maybe what kind of poisonous gas and venom will be produced, leaking out, and the whole town will suffer.

So for the sake of safety, he still placed the Academy of Sciences in the valley east of the city.

Although the site of the Academy of Sciences is available, houses, experimental facilities, and equipment can be replenished one after another. But people are a big problem, the Institute of Physics took Liu & his son to study machine tools, and Ren's ancestors and grandchildren were engaged in optical research. There are more people in the Institute of Chemistry, but there are only more than a dozen Taoist priests doing it. There are fewer people in the Optical Research Institute, only Ren Guiqi and his grandson are polishing various lenses.

Obviously, if these people want to make big results, it is unlikely that they will be able to achieve great results in the short term. However, it is still possible to produce some small results.

So He Zhiyuan pointed out the research direction to them, Wang Zhixue and their research direction has long been determined, the big goal is to study the steam engine, and now it is necessary to study various machine tools first. Ren Guiqi and his grandson's goal was the study of astronomical telescopes and microscopes. Li Zhigang and his juniors and disciples first came up with three acids and two alkalis.

Now the lack of people has become the biggest problem, and the people on the construction site are not completely in place

The brick workshops are even more short of people, and since the construction of the city walls began, the supply of cement and green bricks has been very tight, and now both workshops are producing in two shifts around the clock, barely enough to meet the needs.

Not only the lack of people in the workshop and the construction site, but also the vocational and technical college is even more embarrassing, the enrollment notice has been posted in the state for more than ten days, and there are a lot of inquiries, but there are less than ten people who have really signed up. This made He Zhiyuan and Zhou Fuliu very surprised, it is said that the state government has promised to give preferential treatment of exemption from forced labor and taxes, and the college can also study for free, and it doesn't cost a penny to study here, and food, housing, tuition and miscellaneous fees are all free, such a good condition should be rushed, but things are so strange, it is very different from what He Zhiyuan thought.

There must be a reason for this. In order to solve this problem and change this situation, it is necessary to find the cause and prescribe the right medicine.

He Zhiyuan decided to set up a table at the gate of the state school and go to enroll students in person. Drop by and have a chat with the people who come to inquire and hear what they think.

On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month of September, He Zhiyuan took Ma Deyu and two senior students from the Hejiazhen School to the door of the state school, set up two tables, put pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to publicize the enrollment. Living like the pheasant university that enrolled students at the gate of the high school in later generations, He Zhiyuan did not lament in his heart that this school had not yet opened, and it was reduced to the pheasant university of the Ming Dynasty.

Soon after He Zhiyuan put the table, a shabby-dressed, raw young student came to consult, this person was about twenty years old and thin, which was exactly the type He Zhiyuan wanted to recruit.

The young man stood at his desk and picked up a copy of the college's introduction materials, reading them carefully. After reading it, when he was still hesitating, He Zhiyuan asked: "May I ask this son, how to call him?" ”

The man replied cautiously: "Under the surname Yue Ming, the name is promoted, and the word is negative." Dare to ask Mr. is the teacher of this academy? ”

He Zhiyuan then asked: "Exactly, please ask Mr. Zhixuan." Do you have any questions that I need answered? ”

Before the student met, he looked younger than him, but he was richly dressed, obviously not an ordinary student, so he asked politely: "May I ask this gentleman, if you come to your institute to study, how long will it take to graduate?" Can I continue to take the hospital examination after graduation? ”

"The duration of the college is one year, and you can graduate in one year. After graduation, he will be assigned to work in various workshops or yamen in the state, and after three years, he will decide to stay according to his wishes. He Zhiyuan replied truthfully.

The student then asked: "It is said in the materials that once the examination is passed, all readers who come to the academy will be exempted from forced labor and taxes. Is this a lifetime waiver? ”

"As long as you work in a delegated unit, you can be exempted." He Zhiyuan replied.

"Is this exemption stipulated by the imperial court?"

"It's a rule of our state government." He Zhiyuan replied truthfully.

"Thank you, sir, I have no problem."

"If there is no problem, Mr. Xuan can fill out a registration form." He Zhiyuan took out a form of his own design and said.

Yue Jinsheng said without hesitation: "No, I don't want to come to your hospital to study yet." "I'm leaving.

As expected, it was in vain. He Zhiyuan hurriedly said: "Mr. Negative Xuan, please stay, please ask if you are dissatisfied with our college."

Square? ”

Yue Jinsheng stopped and looked at He Zhiyuan with a look of wanting to say something. He Zhiyuan continued: "Mr. just say it directly, there is no need to shy away from it. ”

Yue Jinsheng thought for a while before he spoke: "This kind of regulation of your academy may be difficult to recruit students. ”

"May I ask why readers are reluctant to come here to read with such generous conditions? What is the reason? He Zhiyuan asked curiously.

"Although the treatment of your college is very good, it doesn't cost a penny to study in the college, and the treatment of three taels of silver a month after graduation is also very attractive. But this is not enough to attract young students. First, you must be under the age of 25, which is a great time to study for the exam, and if you come here, you will not be able to take the exam again until at least four years later, so you will waste four or five years of time. No reader wants to waste four or five years trying to earn this money. Second, the preferential treatment that came here to read is only a regulation of the state government, and there is no emperor's holy decree, if the current governor resigns, it is difficult to say whether the successor governor will still recognize this preferential treatment. If it is all canceled, it will make these people miserable. Third, the knowledge learned in your academy is all miscellaneous studies, not Confucian orthodoxy......"

"Oh, Master He, it turns out that you are here, let's find it easily." A servant ran sweating profusely and hurried over and said.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" He Zhiyuan asked the officer.

"That's a great thing. Lord Liang played the graduation students of the vocational college for the sake of the increase in life, and the emperor agreed. The officer said.

He Zhiyuan was very surprised to hear the news, Lord Liang had never told him about it, and he had never asked for it. Even Liang Wensheng was surprised that the imperial court could agree to this recital.

At this time, Yue Jinsheng, who was standing on the side, heard it really well, but he was still not at ease, so he asked He Zhiyuan: "May I ask this gentleman, so that the students who graduate from this academy in the future will be born, and they can directly participate in the township examination?" ”

"Yes, of course it's true that there is the emperor's imperial pen." He Zhiyuan said excitedly.

"Sir, give me a form, I want to sign up." Yue Jinsheng also said excitedly.

The official said, "Master He, there is one more thing. Please hurry back to the yamen with you, the herald is still waiting for you at the yamen. ”

"The emperor's decree to me?" He Zhiyuan was stunned again.

"It's a dictation. He Gongzi, you are now Jane in the heart of the emperor, and the future is immeasurable. Let's get out of here. The official urged.

"Okay, I'll leave right away." He Zhiyuan stood up and tidied up his clothes. Go with the official to the state office.

Yue Jinsheng, who filled out the registration form, looked at He Zhiyuan, who had already gone away. Only then did he remember that he didn't have the name of the gentleman just now, so he asked Ma Deyu: "May I ask who the gentleman was just now, it seems that the official said that he was in the emperor's heart?" ”

"He Zhiyuan from Hejia Town, don't you know?" Ma Deyu asked in surprise.

"Huh? He is the strange son of the dream? Why didn't you tell me? ”

"You haven't asked?"

After that, the news of He Zhiyuan's arrival in Dixin and the news that the graduation of the vocational college was an increase immediately spread in Juzhou.

(End of chapter)

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