Chapter 358: Unbelievable
Then, on the way into Yizhou City, Wei Zheng saw too many scholars.
These scholars are still those people.
It was hard for Wei Zheng to imagine why the people of Yizhou City were so eager to learn.
Moreover, he was able to say four sentences that made Wei Zhengdu extremely moved.
Although Wei Zheng did not travel all over the entire Tang Dynasty, he was sure that there could be no second place in the entire Tang Dynasty where there would be such an atmosphere of learning.
After entering Yizhou City, Wei Zheng once again heard a news that shocked him.
It turned out that the King of Shu actually opened a Yizhou University in Yizhou City.
But all the children in Yizhou can be sent to the school to study.
And this school, not only does it charge tuition, but even students go there, and there is free room and board.
What made Wei Zheng even more shocked was that in just one Yizhou, there were as many as six or seven thousand children enrolled in school.
There are so many parents who send their children to school.
Although there is no tuition fee and free room and board, in Wei Zheng's opinion, it is still unimaginable.
Because, in the countryside now, there is the greatest shortage of labor.
How can many people be willing to send half of their children and half of their labor force to school?
With such a mood, Wei Zheng couldn't help but go to Yizhou University.
I heard that Yizhou University is in the direction of Xincheng.
And at this time, Wei Zheng also understood.
It turned out that those officials impeached the king of Shu for building a palace for himself, but they were actually building a new city, not a palace for themselves.
At noon, Wei Zheng came to Xincheng.
In the new city, Wei Zheng couldn't help but marvel again.
The first thing that surprised Wei Zheng was the road in the new city.
The roads of the new city are naturally paved concrete roads.
The wide and neat cement road is completely beyond Wei Zhengde's cognition.
Walking on this cement road, Wei Zheng had a feeling of unreality.
Wei Zheng also specially studied the cement road and found that the cement road was much stronger than the ordinary official road.
It can be said that if it were not for man-made sabotage, or for a major natural disaster.
Then, there shouldn't be any problems with this cement road.
If this kind of road can be promoted throughout Datang, it will greatly improve Datang's transportation capacity.
After walking into Yizhou University and seeing the teaching building of Yizhou University, Wei Zheng couldn't help but marvel again.
This school building is actually three stories high!
Well, the tall buildings of Datang, not for nothing.
There are even a lot higher than that.
For example, Li Bai later wrote a famous poem.
The dangerous building is 100 feet high, and you can pick the stars by hand.
I dare not raise my voice, for fear of frightening the people in heaven.
However, the high-rise buildings of Datang are very different from the teaching buildings he sees now.
The teaching building that Wei Zheng sees now covers a very large area.
And the bottom three layers are actually completely consistent.
This architectural style is really unheard of and unseen.
Is it really sturdy when built like this?
What surprised Wei Zheng even more was how this building could leave huge holes.
Why is there such a hole?
With these holes, won't there be air leaks in the school?
When it rains, doesn't it leak?
Won't these schoolchildren fall out of these holes?
It's very inappropriate that this school is built like this!
Finding such a major safety hazard, Wei Zheng couldn't help but run over.
On closer inspection, it turned out that these were not holes.
Instead, it's filled with a layer of crystal!
Well, in fact, the installation is glass.
But Wei Zheng had only seen mirrors, and he didn't know that mirrors were made of glass.
Therefore, this glass is regarded as crystal.
This discovery made Wei Zheng secretly speechless.
This King of Shu deserves to be called the first loser of the Tang Dynasty.
How much does this crystal-inlaid window cost?
But fortunately, these are all out of the pocket of the king of Shu, not the people's fat and people's ointment.
In view of this, Wei Zheng did not have much of a bad impression of the King of Shu.
And after watching the course taught at Yizhou University, Wei Zheng was also deeply worried.
These four books and five classics are just that, and this is also a serious study.
But what exactly is physics and chemistry?
In the imperial examination, there were no subjects of physics and chemistry at all.
Isn't teaching children this knowledge misleading?
Wei Zheng wrote this down with him, and decided to report it to the emperor truthfully after he went back.
However, after a private interview with Weifu.
Wei Zheng found that there seemed to be little use other than the railway.
In addition, the construction of the teaching building is too extravagant, and the physical chemistry taught is outside of misleading children.
The other impeachments of the King of Shu are complete nonsense.
Seeing what he wanted to see, Wei Zheng decided to find the King of Shu directly and ask for something in person.
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Not long after, Wei Zheng appeared in the palace of the king of Shu.
In the face of this iron-faced selfless and poor Qin, Li Su, the king of Shu, gave the highest standard of reception.
However, Wei Zheng was not interested in all this.
Wei Zheng asked Li Su two questions directly.
The first question is, what is the purpose of this railway being built so narrowly, and wasting a lot of manpower and material resources, and wasting a lot of steel?
Especially in Datang, where the steelmaking technology is seriously not up to standard, wasting so much steel is an extremely shameful performance in their opinion.
At this time, even Wei Zheng thought that the king of Shu should hand over this steelmaking method and apply it to other places, instead of wasting it here.
However, there will naturally be people fighting about this matter, but he doesn't need to talk too much.
In the face of Wei Zhengde's inquiry, Li Su replied: "Zheng Guogong, this king has spent countless money, manpower and material resources to build a railway, how can it be useless? When the railroad is built, the king will build a train. ”
"This train, which runs on railroad tracks, can transport hundreds of thousands of catties of goods. It can transport tens of thousands of people and reach Chang'an from Yizhou in one day. ”
Hearing Li Yu's words, Wei Zhengde couldn't help but show an extremely ridiculous expression on his face.
This King of Shu blows, it's boundless, right?
How is this possible?
Well, it's no wonder Wei Zheng.
Who would have believed that a train would have such a carrying capacity until they had seen it with their own eyes?
Wei Zheng couldn't help but say: "What the King of Shu said, it's unbelievable, right?" ”
Li Su smiled slightly and said, "Dare to ask Zheng Guogong, has this king ever lied?" Spoke big? After the railway is repaired, Zheng Guogong will naturally be able to see the carrying capacity of the train at that time. ”
"It's-"
Don't say it, the King of Shu has created too many miracles, and he has never bragged.
Could it be that the King of Shu can really make this kind of train not on?
If that's the case, it's really - it's terrifying!