After the Imperial Court decreed that local governments could build their own university halls, local universities were built in various places.

In the following ten years, more than 50 university halls were built.

In the affluent Jiangnan area, for example, more than 10 university halls were built in 10 years.

Perhaps, the faculty and R&D funds of these university halls are not as good as those of the six departments and the royal university halls, but they also have their own characteristics, and they are not covered up under the glory of the subordinate university halls, but shine from time to time.

Compared with the university hall, the construction of primary and secondary schools is also in full swing.

It took ten years for Da Zhou to extend the primary and secondary schools to every township in Da Zhou.

It took 20 years for the Great Zhou to extend basic education to every village in the Great Zhou.

Perhaps, the teachers in the primary schools in those remote villages are not strong, and it may be good for the children in the village to know a few more words and count.

What's more, these primary and secondary schools located in the countryside will accept donations from the local gentry from time to time, and the conditions are not as bad as imagined.

The Squire is a very strange being.

You have to say how good he is, he is the most powerful wave of people who exploit the grassroots peasants.

But if you want to say that he is not good, they will pay for the construction of bridges and roads in three years.

Now the squires of the Great Zhou have declined, this is only relative to power, but the wealth in their hands is still very amazing.

Most of these squires have now been transformed into successful merchants, but some of their temperaments are difficult to change.

For example, many squires have a good reputation, and for the sake of their own reputation, they are willing to pay money to build bridges and roads in their hometowns.

But now, there is one thing that can get a better reputation than repairing bridges and roads, and that is to support the education of their hometown, so they are still happy to donate to the primary and secondary schools in their hometown.

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In March of the 21st year of Tai'an, the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty officially set sail from the Guangzhou Naval Base.

According to the established navigation plan, the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty departed from Guangzhou Province and reached the Persian Gulf region via the Nanyang, Tianzhu and Arabian Seas.

After staying at the Great Zhou Army Base in the Persian Gulf for a period of time to replenish supplies, it continued westward through the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean Sea to southern Italy.

After a slight pause, the fleet circled the Strait of Gibraltar and arrived at Franco, where it began to make friendly visits and military exchanges with neighboring countries such as France and England.

After that, the Royal Navy will cross Oceania to the east coast of North America, and then head south through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America to the Pacific Ocean.

After reaching the Pacific Ocean, the First Fleet will pass through Easter Island, Desey Island, the Society Islands, and Christmas Island. The Hawaiian Islands, Wake Island, Guam, Ryukyu Islands, and finally back to the Matsue Prefecture Naval Base.

The two-year voyage included exchanges with the navies of European countries and the study of the climatic and environmental conditions of the oceans, as well as field visits to Guam and the Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific Ocean and a number of islands in the South Pacific.

In fact, after occupying Anzhou and New Zealand, the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty once formulated an expansion plan, and also successively occupied the surrounding Solomon Islands, Fiji Islands, Tonga Islands, Kermadec Islands, Auckland Islands and Chatham Islands.

However, not long after occupying these islands, Da Zhou resumed peace negotiations with European countries, and the Royal Navy's Pacific expansion plan arrived here, and it could only end without a hitch and officially declare bankruptcy.

Fortunately, the occupied islands were not returned to Europe in subsequent peace talks.

In fact, when it comes to the root cause, European governments were not aware of this at that time, so they did not talk about this issue.

Now, although Zhang Lingyang does not want to go to war with European countries, he has been coveting those islands in the Pacific Ocean for a long time.

Therefore, the Royal Navy's First Fleet was dispatched this time, and Zhang Lingyang's real purpose was to investigate how many of those islands in the Pacific Ocean were now occupied by European colonists.

If it is not occupied, then I'm sorry, these islands will be the Great Zhou in the future, such as the Hawaiian Islands, if Zhang Lingyang is not mistaken, the Hawaiian Islands are still under the rule of the local natives, so there is no need to look at the faces of Europeans when they are occupied.

But if it was already occupied by Europeans, then Zhang Lingyang was willing to buy those islands with silver.

It's all a place where some birds don't, Zhang Lingyang believes that it won't cost a few silver, and those islands will belong to the name of Da Zhou.

Besides, most of those islands in the Pacific Ocean today are colonies of the first batch of colonists like Franco, and they are not the territory of France and England.

Zhang Lingyang firmly believes that Francois and other countries will not offend Da Zhou for the sake of islands that do not have much output.

If these islands completely belong to the Great Zhou, then sorry, the Pacific Ocean in the future will completely become the backyard of the Great Zhou.

Even, Zhang Lingyang had already thought about it, and when the land around the Great Zhou was divided, he would divide those islands in the Pacific Ocean to his descendants.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and it is better than not having to seal it.

Here, the Royal Navy's First Fleet is sailing, and over there, the Royal Second Fleet is not idle.

At the behest of Zhang Lingyang, the Second Fleet of the Royal Navy set out from Tianjin, passed through the port of Incheon in Goryeo, the island of Hokkaido in Fuso, went north to Sakhalin Island in Dazhou, and then passed through the Bering Strait to Alaska in North America.

Once it reaches the barren land of Alaska, the Second Fleet will continue south to Canada.

Today's Canada is occupied by France, but only in the south.

The vast northern region, Zhang Lingyang believes that it has not yet become a colony of France.

Although on the map of France, the whole of Canada is your colony of France.

But I'm sorry, you have no inhabitants in northern Canada, and you don't have any troops stationed there, so why do you say that it is your colony?

Of course, if you encounter a French colony, it is easy to say that wherever you encounter it, you will take it as the dividing line, and the northern region will be under the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou, and the southern region will be under the jurisdiction of France.

Even, Zhang Lingyang still thought about whether he should secretly migrate to the west coast of North America, and then completely occupy the west coastline of the Americas, so as to completely turn the Pacific Ocean into the inner lake of the Great Zhou.

It's just that no one in the Great Zhou has ever set foot on the territory of the Americas, and all of this has to go through a detailed investigation before a decision can be made......