"Yes, I do. I would like to thank Your Majesty for such a good job. Claviyo said quickly. He was also in the capital when the Five Cities Academy was established, because in the end, although the officials had no choice but to find a good reason to stop it, it was so uproarious that even the officials in charge of the Fan Pavilion talked about it with others, so of course he knew about this school.

In his opinion, the Five Cities Academy is very close to the Italian university, although it is not divided into subjects like Italian universities, so each student has to learn a lot more, but the organization is very similar. At first, he suspected that there were Italians who came to serve the Ming Dynasty, but the results of his repeated inquiries were; He was the first European to come to Daming in all these years, and no Italians had ever come.

The students taught in this school are all the children of the nobles of Daming, and there are even several children of the royal family who have been separately distinguished in Daming, even if he doesn't want to stay in Daming now, but being able to teach the nobles of Daming and become one of their teachers is not only a very proud and proud thing, but also the capital after returning to Castile in the future, so he was busy agreeing.

Hearing Claviyo's urgent answer, Yun Xi smiled and said, "In that case, I will appoint you as one of the gentlemen of the Western Studies Class of the Five Cities Academy. ”

"One of them? Your Majesty, could it be that you have appointed someone else as a gentleman for this course? Hearing this, Claviyo asked.

"Naturally."

"Your Majesty, I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of it. Could it be that a European mission has recently come to Daming? ”

"Nope."

"And who is the other gentleman you appointed?"

"Celestial Cultist." Yun Xi smiled and said: "In the Ming Dynasty, not only Europe is considered the West, but the Central Asia and West Asia you are talking about are also the West for the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yun Hee decided to open the 'Western Studies Course', a course dedicated to the history, culture, and religion of Western countries, after the start of the new school year next year, and of course not only because Claviyo and his attendants came. Although Clavieux's attendants also had the status of knights or knights' attendants, the European nobles of this era were not unskilled, and it was not uncommon for people in the knightly class to not know how to read, and even the great nobles of some countries did not know how to read. It would be good for these attendants in Claviyo to remember the sermons often spoken by the local priests, and the gentlemen who came to take the Western study class would probably turn this course into an exchange of fighting skills between the East and the West. Of course, in line with the concept of not wasting human resources, Yun Xi will ask them to compete with the best players in the army and the guards, respectively, and learn the fighting skills of Western battlefields and private competitions.

Therefore, although there are a lot of people in Claviyo's party, the only gentleman who can contribute to teach the history and culture of Western countries is Claviyo; The vast majority of the gentlemen for this course will be mullahs from the Celestial Seminary in Samarkand City.

As early as the end of the Yiwu War last year, Shang Bing sent troops for the purpose of capturing Samarkand and ruling Central Asia in the name of pursuing the remnants of the Timurid Khanate and seizing the vicinity of Lake Balkhash, but in fact he sent troops for the purpose of occupying Samarkand and ruling Central Asia, Yun Xi instructed him: "After the capture of Samarkand, the mullahs of the seminary in the city must not be harmed, as long as they do not hinder the soldiers or disobey your orders." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." At that time, Shang Bing didn't understand this order, but he still agreed. Therefore, after he captured the city of Samarkand, he immediately sent soldiers to surround the seminary in the city, and after killing all the mullahs who dared to leave, he gathered the rest of the people and sent them back to the capital of Daming, and was about to arrive in early August.

Yun Hee was extremely happy when he heard the news. Both the Crucian Theological Seminary and the Celestial Theological Seminary were similar in organizational form, and derived from the Law School, the School of Medicine, the College of Letters, etc., and later the four oldest types of colleges evolved into the modern education system, including secondary schools and universities. The aristocratic schools of later Western countries began with secondary schools instead of primary schools, which is also related to the education system at this time.

Yun Xi intends to set up a modern education system, and has already set up a five-city school in accordance with the middle school of modern Western countries. But in his previous life, he was not a person from the education system after all, and he only relied on the memory of his more than ten years of schooling, and because he had to adapt to the actual situation at this time, the school that was finally established was not like a four. Yun Xi has always been afraid that the system he designed will go wrong and urgently needs professional guidance. So even though these professionals were Celestial Cultists, and it was possible for them to preach to their students, he couldn't care about it.

At the same time, Yunxi also wants to open a course directly called 'Western Studies Class', and let these Tianfang Mullahs teach. Although the Timurid Khanate has been wiped out, part of its territory is occupied by Shang Bing, the other part is occupied by the White Horde, the Blue Horde and other countries, and the rest is controlled by the remnants of the Timurid Khanate, but in the future, the enemies faced by the Ming soldiers must be mainly Tianfang Christians, supplemented by Crusaders, even if there are other enemies, it does not matter. If we want to deal with them more smoothly, we must understand their historical and cultural characteristics.

In addition, even if monotheistic religions have many shortcomings, they can become the first and second most followed religions in the world, and they will still have great influence in the world until 600 years later, they must have merit, and Yunxi naturally hopes to be able to absorb their merits. So, Yoon-hee decided to open this course.

However, he had been hesitant about when to open this course, and felt that it was a bit early to open this course in the second grade, which is equivalent to the second year of junior high school in later generations; But after thinking about it repeatedly, I think it's better to try it first, and if it's really not suitable, let's talk about it. Although this is not worthy of the first batch of students, they were meant to be guinea pigs, and they should have a similar awareness.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Claviyo agreed. Of course, he didn't know what Yun Xishi was thinking, and he couldn't have predicted what would happen after he went to teach in the Five Cities Academy. Although he was not happy to have to take classes with the Celestial Sect, he would not refuse this job that had both face and became capital.

After saying this, Yun Xi didn't have anything to say to him, and chatted casually to make him retreat.

After Kraviyo retreated, Yun Xi was about to stretch his waist, when he heard Wang Xi say: "The official family, the slave remembers that the official family is not willing to pass on such crafts as advanced papermaking and movable type printing, and even the vassal kingdom canonized by His Majesty does not have a craftsman who knows movable type printing, why are you willing to hand it over to him?" ”

"You're right." Yun Xi was too close to Wang Xi, so he didn't care about his question, and replied, "I really don't want these two crafts to be passed on. ”

"But if I don't allow his followers to learn, won't his followers learn? Movable type printing was not much improved compared to block printing, and the principle was very simple, he only had to go to the bookstore to see movable type printing, and when he returned to Castile, he could study it. So I'm just pushing the boat with the flow. ”

"As for advanced papermaking," he said, he glanced sideways at the other eunuchs in the house, and Lu Yi immediately obediently led them out of the palace.

"The reason why I want to hand over the advanced papermaking technology to Claviyo is because at this time the West already has papermaking technology, although the efficiency of papermaking is lower, but it is also papermaking, and the Europeans are not stupid, they will improve themselves, and sooner or later it will be the same as the papermaking technology of the Ming Dynasty."

"Moreover, there is only one kind of paper made in European countries, and I will let the craftsmen give them only the advanced papermaking technology of hemp paper, so that they will not learn papermaking in the Ming Dynasty, and learn the methods of making straw paper and other papers."

Yun Xi's hand is very insidious. Historically, European countries will only make hemp paper, although the technical level of this papermaking technology has been raised to a very high level, but it has not been used to make paper from other materials, so that the raw materials for hemp paper are exhausted in Europe, and there is almost no paper available in Europe for a period of time. It was still painstaking to steal other paper-making techniques from the Manchu Qing Dynasty so that people would not treat waste paper as treasure.

After Claviyo and others left the Ming Dynasty, he would immediately take measures to make most of the craftsmen in the folk only make hemp paper, and slowly concentrate other papermaking techniques among the craftsmen under the royal family or nobles. "You just wait to buy paper from Daming at a high price." ’

In fact, he promised to teach movable type printing to Claviyo's retinue for a similar purpose. At this time, the technical level of movable type printing in the Ming Dynasty was not high, and Gutenberg and others independently discovered movable type printing as early as 1430 to 1440 AD, so this craft was not much for Europeans to learn, but it was possible to mislead them and make them go astray on the road of studying movable type printing. How could he not do such a thing, which did not hurt, but could be beneficial?

After saying this, Yun Xi glanced sideways, and saw that although it was past noon, it was not yet time, and there was still time for a nap, so he said to Wang Xi: "You have been with me for a while, you don't need to serve here, go and rest." ”

"It is the duty of a slave to serve the official's family." Wang Xi said immediately.

"Yes, yes, I know you want to be by my side. But now you are the great eunuch in charge of the entire palace, not the little eunuch who follows me, and there are many things in the palace arranged by you, so you have to ensure that you have enough time to rest. There have also been times when I slept less and worked more, and in the end I didn't have the energy, and I was almost half-asleep and half-awake to give the answer, and I couldn't believe that it was my own reply when I saw it later. ”

"So you have to go and rest right away. I'm going to rest for a while, too. You don't have to wait here. Yun Xi said.

"Then the slave will step back and not disturb the official's rest." Wang Xi said with a smile and was about to retreat.

"That's right," Yun Xi suddenly remembered something again, and said to him: "By the way, you ordered the little eunuch and the guards, please ask Princess Ning Guo and Chen Ji to come to the Qianqing Palace at the beginning of the afternoon, and I have something to tell them." ”

"Yes, official." Wang Xi agreed, turned around and retreated. Yun Xi also went to rest.

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"Let's go and learn the craft from the craftsmen of the Ming Kingdom? No, I don't! In the Fan Pavilion, such a cry sounded, although because he shouted Castilian and others could not understand it, it still caused many Fan Pavilion officials and servants to scold: "It's noon, what's the name of the ghost!" Disturbing dreams! ”

"It's an order!" Claviyo looked at the people in front of him and said again in a serious manner.

"My master, if you command us to fight against the enemy, whether they are heretics or heretics, we will not hesitate to attack them; But it is an insult to us to learn the craft from lowly craftsmen. I can't take this order. A man of somewhat short stature said.

"My master, I think the same way as Red." Someone else said. Immediately afterwards, others chimed in.

"You don't know, in the Ming Kingdom, officials are selected from among the commoners, and the status of craftsmen is also very high, not as low as in our country, and people from craftsmen can also be officials and manage many civilians. So it's not an insult to you to let them learn the craft from the craftsmen. Claviyo added.

"My master, when we were chatting with the officials of the Fan Pavilion before, the officials of the Fan Pavilion told us that although the probability of the commoners of the Ming Kingdom becoming officials was much higher than that of the commoners of Colora, from almost one in ten thousand to one percent, it was still a very difficult thing; Although there were craftsmen as officials in the Ming Kingdom, this was only a special case, and the officials and wealthy people of the Ming Kingdom would still discriminate against the craftsmen. The man named Red said again. He also glanced at Claviyo as he spoke, but quickly returned to his normal expression.

Seeing that their attempt to trick them into voluntarily learning the craft from the craftsmen had failed, Claviyo thought about it, decided not to play tricks, and said directly: "If anyone is willing to learn the advanced papermaking and movable type printing from the craftsmen of the Ming Kingdom, when I return to Castile, I will hand over to you half of all the money I have obtained from the sale of the goods of the Ming Kingdom." ”

Yes, Claviyo's decision was to tempt with profit. He now has no fiefdom and can only tempt them with money. But it proved to be very effective. Hearing Claviyo's words, several of them were breathing heavily.

It's not a small prize, it's a big one! They all know how valuable the goods of the Ming Kingdom are in Europe, even a small bag of peppercorns can be exchanged for the same weight of gold! If you bring a cart of peppercorns back, you may be able to buy a viscount's fief from a certain nobleman! There are still leftovers! With so much money, no one can remain calm.

"My master, you must sign a pact with us before we can trust you." After a while, Red said. In Europe, the upper nobles made promises to the lower nobles, but there were many things that did not admit the accounts after the passage of time, although their situation was special, but they could not be prevented.

"Okay." Claviyo agreed without hesitation, and immediately took out a pen and paper to write down what he had promised, and signed his name.

Seeing that Claviyo had signed the contract, Red and the others no longer had any doubts, and agreed one after another: "We will learn the Seris language from you immediately, and when we can communicate smoothly with the people of the Ming Kingdom, we will go and learn the craft from the craftsmen." ”

"I assure you that, in addition to the riches I have promised, you will receive much more when you return to Castile!" Claviyo concluded.

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"Official, do you want to set up a Western study class in the Five Cities Academy?" Chen Ji said in surprise. On the other side, Princess Ning Guo also looked at Yun Xi in surprise.

"Not bad." Yun Xi said very calmly.

"Official, Daming still has so much knowledge worth learning, why do you want students to learn things from Western countries? How does this work for students? ”

"The so-called threesome must have my teacher, choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. This sentence is from Han Changli's "Shi Shuo", Aiqing must have heard it. This applies not only between people, but also between countries. ”

Speaking of this, Yun Xi suddenly remembered what he said to himself after capturing Timur, paused, and continued: "Although the Western countries lag behind our Ming Dynasty, they can establish a country, and the country has been established for thousands of years, and it will grow. I spoke with the generals of the Timurid Khanate, who were captured in the battle of Klaviyo, and found it to be meritorious. Therefore, Western studies were set up in the Five Cities School. ”

"I also value the students of the Five Cities Academy very much, and I will not delay them." Yun Xi finally emphasized.

Yun Xi's reason is indeed reasonable, but Chen Ji is still unwilling to accept it. As he said at the beginning, the knowledge of the Ming Dynasty has not been learned much, and learning the knowledge of Western countries is putting the cart before the horse. "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that even if you want to learn the knowledge of Western countries, you should not start a Western study course in the second year. In my opinion, it would be more appropriate to introduce this course in the fifth or sixth grade. He argued.

"What Aiqing said is good," Yun Xi first affirmed Chen Ji's words, and then said: "I think that the students of the Five Cities Academy and the clans that the Royal Academy will be sealed to the westside need to learn about Western countries, does Aiqing think so?" ”

"Your Majesty is right."

"Then since Aiqing thinks that the students of the Five Cities Academy are too young to learn the knowledge of Western countries now, how about I open a Western study course in the Royal Academy?"

"Official, this, the minister thinks it's not appropriate." Chen Ji hesitated for a moment and said: "At the beginning of this course, both the professor and the students are not clear about what this course is going to teach and what to learn. ”

"Although he has never taught the curriculum of the Royal Academy, he has heard of the curriculum. The children of the royal academy were already extremely heavy on their schoolwork, and it would be inappropriate for them to waste their time on this chaotic course. ”

"But a course that has never been established before must have the problems that Aiqing said. If it is not set up in the Royal Academy, if it is not set up in the Five Cities Academy, where else can it be established? Guozijian or Jiangwutang? Does Aiqing think it's possible? Yunxi is also very straightforward in his speech.

"This," it is absolutely impossible for the Guozijian and the Lecture Hall to set up this course, and the recitals of the officials' admonitions can fill the table of Yunxi; Even if Yun Xi insists on setting up these two courses, the chaos of the first year will provide new ammunition for the officials who oppose it, and they will go even more crazy to admonish, and Yun Xi may not be able to sustain it.

And if you choose one of the two schools to sacrifice in the Royal Academy and the Five Cities Academy, it can only be the Five Cities Academy. The students of the Royal Academy are even more sophisticated. Therefore, "the ministers obey the holy decree of the officials." Preparations for the establishment of the Western Studies Course. Chen Ji finally agreed.

"It's hard work Chen Qing. But there's no need to rush. This school year will not be established, and it will be established after the start of school in early February next year, and if Chen Qing has no time to rest during this period of time, it is okay to postpone this matter for a few days. Yun Xi said again.

"Yes, official." Chen Ji's heart warmed and said.

"Second aunt, in addition to taking care of the women's school on weekdays, you also pay more attention to the affairs of the Wucheng Academy, and don't put all the burden on Chen Qing." Yun Xi said to Princess Ning Guo on the side.

Princess Ningguo was about to speak, but Chen Ji preemptively said: "This has nothing to do with Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of Ningguo, it is the minister who thinks that Her Royal Highness will not only take care of the women's school, but also serve as the vice principal of the Five Cities Academy, and he is much busier than the minister; Moreover, as a woman, Her Royal Highness is not as convenient as a man to go out, so the Five Cities Academy takes care of everything more. ”

"I understand your kindness. But you are so busy, things may not be handled well, and although Princess Ningguo has two hats, there are few things in the girls' school, and it has been set up for three or four years, and the rules are already very complete, so you don't have to worry about it like you. There are some things you just leave to her. Yun Xi said.

"Yes, official." Chen Ji agreed again.

After that, Yun Xi felt that he had nothing to tell the two of them, and was about to ask them to retreat, but Chen Ji said: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to ask Your Majesty for instructions." ”

"What?"

"Official, since the first inter-class Keju and football match was held in April, the remaining two matches have not yet been held, I wonder if Your Majesty plans to hold them?" Chen Ji asked.

When Yun Xi originally conceived the establishment of the Five Cities Academy, he planned to set up two classes, but later moved the people who would inherit the titles of the county king and below from the Royal Academy to the Five Cities Academy, and found that the total number of students had reached fifty, so he decided to set up three classes, two classes of seventeen people, and one class of sixteen people. Because the rule set by Yun Hee is that eleven people can play in each game, and a maximum of six people can be replaced, everyone in a class is mobilized.

The three classes will compete with each other to calculate the total score at the end of the school year. Because the competition had just been established and the rules were incomplete, Yun Xi decided that he would be the referee for the three matches in the first year, so Chen Ji asked him for instructions.

"It's too hot right now, wait until September, and the next race will be held in early September. The third race is scheduled for early October. Yun Xi thought for a moment and said.