Chapter 208: Preparation for the establishment of the Great Zhou Royal Academy
Because of the rebellion of the gentry in Jiangnan, Zhang Lingyang's original intention to send the 'Great Confucian' of the Hanlin Academy to Wara has been delayed until now, and the trip has not been possible.
Now that he finally had his hands free, Zhang Lingyang set his sights on the Hanlin Academy.
Of course, there is also the emperor Zhou Hexiang.
Originally, Zhou Hexiang had already returned to his hometown and lived in his hometown.
is so good that he can't die, Zhou Hexiang is involved in something that shouldn't be involved.
If you want to say that you killed Zhou Hexiang, others will say that Zhang Lingyang is ruthless and unjust.
Who made Zhou Hexiang the emperor of the two dynasties and served as Zhao Chenxi's teacher?
But if you don't kill Zhou Hexiang, with Zhou Hexiang's prestige, once he stirs up the wind and water in the court, he is afraid that Zhang Lingyang's dragon chair will not be comforted.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Lingyang decided to ask Zhou Hexiang to follow the 'Great Confucians' of the Hanlin Academy to Wara to teach the children there the Four Books and the Five Classics.
Of course, by the way, I will also tell about the glorious history of the Great Zhou. Let the children of Warat understand that the strength of Da Zhou is not something that they can match.
In this way, after more than ten years have passed, not everyone in Warat yearns for the Great Zhou, so as to successfully become a part of the Great Zhou.
Well!
Just like someone in later generations crying for their father and mother, they want to join the US imperialists.
What's more, the nomads on the steppe can not be swept away.
Even now Da Zhou has beaten Warat to the point of losing his armor and even slumping.
However, there is no guarantee that other more powerful nomads will be born in the steppe in the future.
With the talent of Han Wu and the strategy of Tang Zong, didn't he completely remove the threat from the northern grasslands?
Zhang Lingyang doesn't think he has the ability of Emperor Qin and Han Wu.
In fact, the most successful policy towards the nomads on the steppes was the Manchu Qing.
No matter how much we do not want to see the Manchus, the Manchus are undoubtedly the most successful in their policies towards the steppe peoples.
This, historically, is indisputable.
Before leaving, Zhang Lingyang summoned Zhou Hexiang and the 'Great Confucians' of the Hanlin Academy into the palace and sternly admonished a few words.
Of course, carrots and sticks are indispensable during the period.
After all, once these 'Great Confucians' stir up trouble in Warat, I am afraid that the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty will not be peaceful.
For this reason, Zhang Lingyang said that he would take good care of their families.
How to 'take care'?
Naturally, Zhang Lingyang has the final say.
If they are obedient, they will naturally have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
But if these people want to play any conspiracy, Jinyiwei's edict is still empty!
Zhang Lingyang believes that with his own warning, these people will definitely 'teach' the children of the grassland well in Warat, and they will not think about everything all day long.
Even, just in case, Zhang Lingyang also installed Jinyiwei's secret agents among these people.
If you just focus on the country, Jinyiwei is indeed a little useless.
What's more, through a series of previous actions, Zhang Lingyang has already set his sights on the land outside the Great Zhou and the fertile Nanyang region.
Today, the whole of Southeast Asia, with the exception of a very small number of Great Zhou vassal states such as Cochin and Burma, has become a colony of the European powers.
For this situation, how could Zhang Lingyang, who came from later generations, not take precautions?
But Zhang Lingyang did not move.
Because Zhang Lingyang is waiting.
Waiting for Wilson and Victor to arrive again.
Once Wilson returns to Da Zhou, they will bring the latest European technology to Da Zhou: the steam engine!
Once there is a steam engine, Zhang Lingyang's naval strategy will also begin to be deployed.
Otherwise, why do you think Zhang Lingyang sent Feng Xi with the royal army to participate in the counterinsurgency on those broken ships?
Although primitive warships are easy to build, each ship, especially a sea ship, can be built for at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.
There is more advanced technology waiting for him to use, how could Zhang Lingyang spend that unjust money?
But before that, Zhang Lingyang still has one more thing to do, that is, to build the Royal Academy.
A few days ago, the English envoy Wilson sent a letter to the English merchants who came and went to the Great Zhou, saying that he had already found a group of experts, scholars, and skilled workers in Europe, and that he would be able to reach the Great Zhou in three or five months.
As soon as experts and scholars arrive, Zhang Lingyang will set off a wave of science and technology in Dazhou.
Therefore, early on, Zhang Lingyang ordered Sun Sheng to find a piece of land under the mountain in the western suburbs of the capital.
Eyeliner, everything is ready, just waiting to start construction.
Of course, the Royal Academy is still the architectural style of the Great Zhou.
After the college is completed, the more important thing is to recruit students.
But the Great Zhou has always pursued the principle that everything is inferior, but reading is high.
If you want to recruit well-educated people to study science and technology, I am afraid that it will be a little difficult in Da Zhou.
But if you are illiterate, even if you enroll, you won't be able to learn anything useful in the short term.
Therefore, Zhang Lingyang issued a decree to let literate and hyphenation under the age of 18 voluntarily come to the capital to report to the Royal Academy.
Although there were very few people who knew how to write and hyphenate in the Great Zhou, it was only relative to the hundreds of millions of subjects of the entire Great Zhou.
This does not mean that there are really fewer people who are literate and hyphenated in Da Zhou.
If you calculate carefully, there are many people who can read and hyphenate.
There are many people who can read and hyphenate, but those who have merit and fame are one in a hundred.
Especially those scholars from poor families, if they want to gain fame, unless they are gifted, it will be hundreds or thousands of times more difficult than those gentry families.
There's no way around it.
Even in later generations, the monopoly of knowledge was not uncommon, let alone in the Great Zhou during the feudal period?
No matter how strong Zhang Lingyang's ability is, he can't change this situation.
Therefore, Zhang Lingyang wanted to pass the Royal Academy to give the children of the poor a chance.
After all, for the gentry, the imperial examination was the right way.
But the children of the poor family are different, their path to promotion is very narrow, and there are only a handful of talented people in the examination, let alone lifting people and jinshi in the examination.
Therefore, once Zhang Lingyang gave them another way to advance, the children of the poor family would definitely flock to them.
So Zhang Lingyang set the threshold of being under the age of eighteen.
After all, in any era, once you get older, your ability to accept new things becomes poor.
In addition, once people become adults, their ideological and world views will become mature, and they are afraid that it will not be so easy to accept those Western technologies.
That's why Zhang Lingyang set the threshold of eighteen years old.
But if you think about it carefully, even so, there are more than 100,000 people under the age of eighteen in the entire Great Zhou.
But why didn't Zhang Lingyang set other thresholds after that?
This is Zhang Lingyang's cleverness......