There was silence in the cabinet again, and everyone knew that what Meng Chuanding said was correct.

The institution of the Royal Academy is like a freak to the whole of Daming.

Emperor Chongzhen had said that he would throw the Royal Academy to the cabinet, but the previous cabinet bosses didn't want it......

If you want it now, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't want to give it - the Royal Academy plus the Shaofu brings in an unknown amount of gold and silver to the treasury every year, even if it costs money like running water?

The money spent is the creek, and the money earned back is the Yellow River, which is more important? There is only one chance, and now the cabinet wants to get the Royal Academy in its hands, and Emperor Chongzhen is not willing to do it.

This creates a strange phenomenon.

Theoretically speaking, the Royal Academy, which should be under the control of the cabinet, is not involved in the cabinet at all, and the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry are constantly involved.

And since the Royal Academy was built, it has been in continuous expansion, especially the metamorphosis of the Agricultural College, and all the political envoys in the Ming Dynasty have some branches, and even the Jiaozhi Cloth Envoy Division and the Assam Political Envoy Division who have just been brought back already have their branches.

Of course, their so-called branch is more like a research base, and all kinds of seeds are planted in different places, and the branch is actually a bit underscale.

In addition, after the expansion of this behemoth again and again, its area has been countless times larger than that of the original Xiaohuangzhuang, and the surrounding people have migrated again and again, and still cannot meet the land needs of the Royal Academy.

Now Meng Chuanding has made the idea of splitting up the Royal Academy, which is undoubtedly correct in theory.

Because the Royal Academy is so big, and it's so well classified!

Not only Daming, but even in the whole world, the Royal Academy is second to none, no matter what the discipline, the Royal Academy can sit firmly in the first place.

But that's not a good thing.

At the very least, all the scientific research forces of the entire Ming Dynasty are concentrated in the Royal Academy, and other regions will create an extremely backward illusion, so it is better to split the Royal Academy, so that each region has its own top-notch aspect, and it is also convenient for the circulation of talents.

But when this thought was fed back to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen was spitting venom like a poisonous snake, and the target was Zhang Zhiji in front of him.

"They're stupid, you're stupid, aren't you? Well? Who told you that armor can't protect against bullets? What the armor can't defend against is my Daming's bullet, is the barbarian's bullet worthy of being called a bullet?

It's not that you haven't tried the firearms of the Spanish and Dutch barbarians, and they can't wear the armor defense at all, so they think about not wearing them at all because my Ming firearms can penetrate the armor? I tell you, dream! ”

was sprayed by Emperor Chongzhen's poisonous tongue to the point that he had nothing to love, Zhang Zhiji couldn't help but whisper: "Don't the European barbarians also have my Ming firearms?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen's face tightened, and he snorted coldly: "You tell me again?" What can the European barbarians do with the firecrackers? Without bullets, how much better could that thing be than a burning stick? As for bullets, do you think they can make them? ”

Emperor Chongzhen was angry and wanted to cry when he was reported by the military government - these bastards are too capable of death.

With the advent of the Chongzhen Type 19 single-shot rifle and rear-loading bullets, the weapons and a large number of soldiers in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies actually agreed that the armor should be canceled.

This is not true, but the key is to see who the opponent is - if the opponent is equipped with the same equipment as the Ming, then the damage taken while wearing armor may be greater than if not wearing armor.

But looking at the whole world, is there any military equipment of the same level as the Ming Dynasty? Armor is useless when shooting from a distance, but once it is within range of bows and arrows, knives and guns? Do you still want to play kite tactics?

Cold weapons and the primitive firearms used by those barbarians are difficult to break the armor that the Ming Dynasty is equipped with now, and the security of the soldiers is one more layer, and now you want to cancel the armor? When will the barbarians' firearms develop to the same level as the Ming Dynasty, let's talk about it - there is probably a gap of several decades!

Zhang Zhiji also had to admit that what Emperor Chongzhen said made sense.

Now on the European continent, not only Jinyiwei has sent a large number of spies, but also the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has also sent a large number of spies there, focusing on their military movements and military equipment.

Judging from the current situation, the gap in military equipment between the two sides is about 20 years - unless the Ming Dynasty exports a large number of steam engines to Europe now to change this situation, it is basically hopeless.

And because the Ming Dynasty provided a large number of military equipment and instructors to the Holy Roman Empire, now the whole of Europe is shrouded in the shadow of the Holy Roman Empire, and almost everyone is trying to find a way to get more advanced firearms and artillery from the Ming Dynasty.

As for the research and development of this kind of thing, even if various countries have this heart, they don't have that time - Ferdinand III, who has suffered from more than 20 years of anger, doesn't plan to endure it anymore this time, and directly chooses to go back and scare the barbarians into wanting to live and die.

In this case, the barbarians in Europe can only choose to find a way to buy arms that are stronger or not weaker than the Holy Roman Empire, and then find a way to improve their own country's arms level after the Holy Roman Empire is brought back.

There is no way for Da Ming to give them this time.

When the Holy Roman Empire and those barbarians are defeated and can't support it, the Ming Dynasty is likely to intervene directly, and will wait until they improve their technological level?

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Zhang Zhiji, who was sprayed, and also smiled secretly in his heart.

Emperor Chongzhen is not terrible to spray people, but what is terrible is that he does not spray people - then it is very likely that he is using a knife to cut people.

The reason why Zhang Zhiji is being sprayed now is actually clear in the hearts of the big guys, this is not a big deal at all, as long as it has passed for a while.

After waving his hand and ordering Zhang Zhiji to get out of the house quickly, Emperor Chongzhen asked about Lu Xiangsheng's intention, and then rejected Lu Xiangsheng's idea of splitting the Royal Academy.

For example, Nanjing Central National University was the highest university in China during the Republic of China, and it was also the university with the most complete and largest departments in the National University of the Republic of China, which was later renamed Nanjing University.

It can be said that the first university in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was really not Tsinghua University and Peking University when Emperor Chongzhen was entangled in elementary school, but Nanjing University.

Nanjing University merged with Jinling University, Jiaotong University and other relevant departments in the adjustment of faculties implemented by the Celestial Empire, and became Nanjing University, Southeast University, Hohai University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Normal University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanjing Forestry University, and the Fifth Military Medical University.

After the adjustment, the scenery of Nanjing University is no longer there, and many artificially strengthened universities have a glamorous appearance, but in fact they have formed a monopoly of academic valves, and they can't do a lot of disgusting bullshit.

The Qiu-North dispute is a typical case.

Fields Medal winner Yau Chengtong directly bombarded his former student, a well-known professor at MIT, in two speeches, spraying this kind of thing, which made the then Emperor Chongzhen eat a big melon.

What is the specific inside story, Emperor Chongzhen, who has a limited technical level, has not been able to dig up more inside information and news, but this matter has always been kept in mind.

Now these guys in Daming are planning to split the Royal Academy, is it really a good reincarnation of heaven?

Heavenly way of fart! I am the way of heaven!

If you don't want to split it, you can't split it, and the progress of the construction of several other universities will be slower, and it's a big deal to wait for the students of Jingcheng University to graduate and throw them into the Royal Academy to study for a year or two, and then assign them to several universities.

Splitting up the Royal Academy now and relying on the split branches to support the universities can indeed strengthen some of this subject, but the combination of comprehensive universities is more likely to produce some chemical reactions, and it is more likely to get an academic explosion.

If the phenomenon of splitting and learning in later generations is a little too far away, then the Ming Dynasty itself also has this problem.

For example, the Donglin Party, as well as the various hills of Confucianism, are actually thinking about how to monopolize the right to speak in academics, and then reap benefits through this monopoly.

Another reason is that the land area of the Ming Dynasty is too large, and the possibility of a population explosion in the future is also certain.

With the continuous retrieval of new territory, coupled with the continuous improvement of crops and animal husbandry in the Royal College of Agriculture and the Agricultural College of Jingcheng University, the land of Daming can feed more people.

At the same time, with the further development of medical skills in the two medical schools, the survival rate of newborns will be greatly improved in the future, and the mortality rate of young, middle-aged and elderly people will also be further reduced.

The combination of these two reasons will eventually lead to a population explosion, with the current population of 300 million heading directly to the threshold of 400 million or even 500 million.

As the population increases, there is a greater need for education.

To put it bluntly, the current universities of Daming are not even a fart in the face of the huge demand in the future, and what they need at that time is more social studies, county schools, government schools, and universities.

The education system corresponding to later generations is elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university.

There is nothing to say about sociology, now the most important thing in Daming is sociology, and the same is true for county schools and government schools, and it is the university that really restricts the development of Daming in science and technology.

The current positioning of the royal family, in addition to being similar to the black technology research base of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, should be a cradle, a cradle for cultivating lecturers from other universities, rather than rushing to split it up and then rely on each branch to build a few academic valves.

In the future, there will be some universities and colleges with particularly sophisticated majors, but at present, the most suitable thing is to build several other universities first, and then select suitable talents from the graduates of Beijing University to build.

In the end, it spread step by step, forming more universities, and finally reaching the point where each political envoy had a comprehensive university.

As for the problem of whether a certain university is outstanding in a certain field at that time, it has nothing to do with the current Emperor Chongzhen - it is estimated that by that day, Emperor Chongzhen will have already cooled down.

After habitually bending his fingers and knocking on the table for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly spoke: "Then Nanjing, Chang'an, and Luoyang universities will start construction at the same time, and when the construction is completed, people will be drawn from the graduates of Jingcheng University to teach."

As for the matter of splitting up the Royal Academy, Lu Aiqing dismissed it and no longer discussed it. ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the advantage of retaining the Royal Academy is obvious, and it doesn't matter if the other universities drag on for a few more years.

But the biggest problem at the moment is that after the continuous expansion of the Royal Academy, the area is getting larger and larger, and the land in Jingnan is almost unable to accommodate the behemoth of the Royal Academy.

If it drags on any longer, where will we go to find a place for the Royal Academy in ten or twenty years? At that time, Jingying is afraid that there will be a shortage of manpower just to guard the Royal Academy, right? ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "Regarding this matter, I will go back to Song Aiqing to discuss and see if some experimental projects that occupy too much land will be relocated outward."

But the matter of splitting up the Royal Academy, you don't even think about it, let alone split the Royal Academy for the sake of a few universities, that would be killing the chicken and taking the eggs! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's words have already reached this point, and Lu Xiangsheng also knows that there is no way to persuade him anymore, and there is no possibility of splitting the Royal Academy.

In this case, let's build the universities in Nanjing, Luoyang, and Chang'an first, and wait for two or three or even three or five years to complete the construction, and those students who have graduated from Jingcheng University can be assigned to be lecturers.

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "There are also various universities, don't worry about the area they occupy is too big, anyway, there are places in the Ming Dynasty that can build universities, and there is no shortage of those few acres of land, but it is the standard of the university, and it must be built higher, and it must not be built lower." ”

How big the role of the university is, even if others are not clear, Emperor Chongzhen is also very clear - no matter when, the most expensive will always be talents, whether it is high-end talents or a large number of low-end talents.

Moreover, it is cheap and efficient for student dogs to be used as scientific research coolies, and after a large number of student dogs are trained, those who are not qualified to enter the Royal Academy will eventually flow into the society, who knows if there will be a few big bulls in it?

Unless one day, Da Ming plays by himself and plays to his death, he will never have to worry about being surpassed or destroyed by other countries!