Yuyuantan used to be the royal garden of the Jinliao period, the scenery is naturally beautiful, its water surface alone has reached more than 1,000 acres, the end of the ground is sparkling, poetic and picturesque.

However, because this place has been abandoned for more than 200 years, and the Ming royal family in order to build the South Garden, almost all the craftsmen and farmers who maintain the garden near the capital have migrated over, so at this time, the Yuyuan Lake is quite desolate, and the weeds on the edge of the pond are almost one person high.

Yang Cong seems to really have no intention of officialdom, and after the first draft of "The Principle of Knowing from Things" was presented, he gathered thousands of migrant workers to build a large number of buildings on the edge of Yuyuan Pond, not only to build a college, but also to build a house.

This mansion is obviously built for people to live in, and he not only plans to run a school in Yuyuantan, but even plans to bring his family to live there permanently!

His meaning is obvious, that is, to tell Yan Song that he really quit, and he doesn't even want to stay in the capital, so you can toss as much as you like.

How will Yan Song toss, he hasn't shown any clues at this time, but he really tossed hard in Yuyuan Pond, and the entire periphery of Yuyuan Lake has been surrounded by him with a tall wall, and the inside of the wall is full of pavilions and houses and palaces by the mountains and rivers.

This Yuyuan Lake itself has an area of nearly 1,000 acres, and then the surrounding range of a mile is all included, it reaches more than 3,000 acres, if all used to build a house, I am afraid that the entire Ming Dynasty, and even the largest house in the world today.

However, there is a taboo here, and that is that you cannot go beyond the current emperor.

For example, this mansion, you can't build it bigger than the palace, and the total area of the palace is only more than 1,000 acres, so the largest mansion in the capital and even all over the Ming Dynasty is about 1,000 acres.

Of course Yang Cong knew this taboo, he wouldn't give Yan Song a chance to clean him up, and the mansion he built for himself was only a hundred acres, but only he and his family lived in it, and others such as housekeepers, guards, maids, old mothers, and so on all lived in the small mansion around his mansion when they were fine.

In this way, even if it is more than 1,000 acres, others have nothing to say, after all, if it is not unified together, it cannot be regarded as a mansion.

As for the academy, he also built it bigger than other colleges, and the other colleges are at most a house, a school, and then some canteens, houses, thatched houses and other ancillary facilities, but he has built a lot of houses, many schools, and many houses, and there is no problem with hundreds of students living in them.

If you are interested in going in and taking a closer look, you will find that the university hall he built is not the same as the university hall of other colleges, and the university hall of other colleges is also a podium, and then dozens of tables are neatly placed below, and the university hall he built is particularly weird.

Many of the schools he built were built in the shape of workshops!

For example, in the metallurgical school, there are not neat tables, but furnaces and fine sand pools.

For example, the shipping school, which is even more incredible, is directly a dock!

What else is the astronomy hall, the geography school, the weapons school, etc., each one is weirder than the other, not to mention the schools in other places, even if it is the entire Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that there are so many weird places.

This guy, if other teaching gentlemen come, he will definitely be stunned, is this to teach or to open a workshop?

Wang Xuan, Tang Shunzhi and others saw these schools, but they were very excited and shouted that the construction was good!

Because they all know that what Yang Cong wants to teach is not a simple Four Books and Five Classics, but the truth or method of learning from things.

In Yang Cong's words, there is no shortage of students studying the Four Books and Five Classics in the Ming Dynasty at this time, and the entire Ming Dynasty, millions of readers, read almost all of the Four Books and Five Classics, and a few hundred or thousands less does not affect everyone to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and there are fewer readers who really learn the principle of learning from things.

In these years, anyone who has a way to read will choose to take the test to gain fame or work hard in the officialdom, who will delve into the things used by the common people or even low-level craftsmen, even if someone studies it, it is basically forced to have no choice, forced to be helpless.

For example, Wang Xuan, he is a craftsman himself, and he has repeatedly failed to try, and he is still just a lifter after taking the exam a few times, and he can't afford the cost of the exam, so he gave up the mind of the imperial examination and concentrated on studying the skills of the craftsman.

Another example is Luo Hongxian, such a champion Lang should have a bright future, but he met Xia Yan, a "jealous and jealous" person, who specializes in stepping on all kinds of champions, lists and flowers, he also saw that there was no hope of promotion so he locked himself in the duty room of Hanlin Academy, studied the map every day, drew the map, and if he could really get promoted and rise to the top, I am afraid that he would have thrown the map aside a long time ago.

In other words, today's scholars are basically reading dead books, and the purpose of reading is to gain fame, which is not as good as officialdom.

This is not good, you must know that the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, up and down, from the first grade to the ninth grade of the small officials, there are tens of thousands of people in total, that is to say, 99% of the readers are almost wasting time, and the readers are basically the business of tens of millions of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, such a waste of talents, how can the Ming Dynasty achieve rapid development.

Yang Cong wants to change the problem that most readers only know how to read dead books, and cultivate a group of people who know how to apply what they have learned and can learn from things, so that they can drive the atmosphere of learning from things.

His so-called knowledge of things is not a study of theory, but a focus on practice, that is, to do it directly and produce true knowledge from practice.

For example, metallurgy, that is, to take copper ore, iron ore, and even gold ore and silver ore to smelt, study smelting methods and the properties of various metals, and even experiment with alloy methods similar to bronze, in order to smelt more practical metals.

For example, in the shipping industry, it is to really participate in shipbuilding, and constantly study shipbuilding technology, in order to build more advanced warships.

The reason why he built the academy in Yuyuantan is also a major reason, because Yuyuantan is connected to other water systems, and boats can be built from here, and they can even go directly to the sea through the water system of the capital.

If other people knew that he wanted to do this, they would probably think that he was in the water in his head, but Wang Xuan, Tang Shunzhi and others didn't think so at all, because he had seen the power of new muskets, artillery, and even new warships.

They have long seen that swords, guns, swords, halberds or something will be eliminated, and the future will definitely be the world of gunpowder weapons, and at this time, delving into these so-called "new technologies" can continue to maintain the advantage of the Ming army in crushing the enemy.

They knew quite well that the so-called new muskets and artillery were actually developed on the basis of the Continental Franc cannon.

Yang Cong also said that those powerful countries in Europe are desperately studying these, and other people's warships have even broken into the Daming Sea area thousands of miles away, and Daming, no one has been to Europe yet, and even most people don't know where the European continent is!

This is quite terrifying, if those countries in Europe are driving more advanced warships than the Ming Dynasty, and rushing over with muskets and artillery that are more powerful than the Ming Dynasty, how can the Ming Dynasty resist?

Therefore, they are quite supportive of Yang Cong's ideas and practices, this physics school is going to be built like this, if you don't pay attention to Gewu, Daming will be overtaken sooner or later!