The first school Liu Zhang inspected was the county school in Fu County, where the former state was located, and in order to get the real situation, he did not inform Zhao Wei, the county guard of Guanghan County, and entered the city under the escort of Dian Wei and several others. He lied that he wanted his child to apply for school, but the child never left his family's side, and the child's mother was not very relieved, so he asked him to come and see the situation of the county school, and if he could, let the child come to apply for the exam next year. The principal didn't doubt Liu Zhang's words, and sent someone to accompany him around the school.

After understanding, Liu Zhang learned that Guanghan County School covers an area of more than 50 acres, has 25 classrooms, can accommodate 800 students, and has built student dormitories according to the full number of students. However, there are only two classes in the second and third grades, four classes in the first grade, 270 students, six teachers (less than one teacher per class, which means that at least two classes will be self-taught), and 11 other staff members. It is said that there are less than 200 students, and there is no need to build a school of this scale, but Liu Zhang knows very well that now Shu School is starting, and it is difficult to recruit students, but in a few years, many students will graduate from each county school every year, and when they apply for the county school, the scale of students will increase greatly, so Liu Zhang ordered that when building a school, the scale of students should be fully estimated in a few years.

Liu Zhang came to a classroom, and the teacher in his forties was talking, "Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao." Bandit retribution, always think it is good, ......" Liu Zhang looked at the situation in the classroom, about thirty students sat on the ground, listening attentively to the old handsome's lecture. Strangely, there were no desks, no pen, ink, paper, and inkstones in front of each student, only a two-foot sand pit.

After the teacher carefully translated and explained, he put down the bamboo slip in his hand, wrote the "Book of Songs, Weifeng, Papaya" word by word on the blackboard with lime, and annotated the translation together, and then asked the students to follow the book to strengthen their memory. When the sand pit space is full of words, after thinking carefully, the student takes a wooden ruler and smooths it out, and then writes......

It wasn't until after half a pillar of incense that the teacher asked the students to stop, and after asking a few questions, it was time for the end of class.

Liu Zhang left the school silently. Using wooden sticks as pens and sand as paper is still a method that Liu Zhang came up with, although paper has long appeared, but the output is very low, the price is relatively very expensive, and it is only popular among the powerful. However, Liu Zhang implements a compulsory education system, and the amount of money spent every year is very huge, and he cannot afford to popularize the use of paper in Yizhou for the time being, so he can only replace it. Of course, as a later generation, he knows a raw material that is suitable for papermaking, cheap, short growth cycle, and has a large distribution in Yizhou - bamboo! He has already ordered a large number of people to plant, and purchased a lot of bamboo, the paper mill has also been successfully trial-produced, this year will be mass production, soon should be able to meet the demand, maybe also export, increase Yizhou business tax!

Liu Zhang spent a month inspecting Guanghan County, Qianwei County, and Shu County, and the last stop of the inspection was Yizhou College, the highest university in Yizhou!

The college was not built in Chengdu, and according to Liu Zhang's order, the college was located in Jiuzhaigou, which was famous in later generations. The academy covers an area of 1,000 acres, and in order to ensure the safety of the academy, Liu Zhang deliberately stationed a battalion of nearly 1,000 elite soldiers around.

The college is divided into four parts: the College of Liberal Arts, the Military College, the School of Medicine, and the College of Science and Technology.

Zheng Xuan, dean of the Faculty of Arts, is a contemporary Confucian invited by Liu Zhang to Cai Yong and Xun, who were invited from Xuzhou after thousands of mountains and rivers. Zheng Xuan, the word Kangcheng, after Zheng Guo, a student of Confucius, a literary sage, a master of scripture in the late Han Dynasty, with ten thousand words, was called Zheng Xue by later generations. Historically, he took refuge in Xuzhou to gather disciples to give lectures, and thousands of students were among them, including Zhao Shang, Cui Yan, Gongsun Fang, Wang Ji, Guoyuan, Xi Wei, etc.

Liu Zhang, president of the Military Academy, thought about it for a long time, and finally ordered Huang Quan to serve concurrently.

Medical school doesn't need a headache, Zhang Ji and Zhang Zhongjing are in charge.

The College of Science and Technology is divided into two departments, military and civilian, aiming to develop a variety of advanced weapons and a variety of tools to facilitate the production and life of the people. Ma Jun, one of the most famous inventors in ancient China, once invented the waterwheel, the silk weaving machine, the crossbow, and the water turn hundred operas...... According to the historical records, he also reproduced the guide car, which was called "the world's famous skill" by the world.

Military conquest was Liu Zhang's most important move to unify the Han Dynasty, so he first inspected the Military Academy.

Today's Military Academy is divided into the Infantry Section, the Cavalry Section, the Sailors Section, and the Staff Section (later the Intelligence Section). Among them, the infantry scientists have the largest number of scientists, with a total of 274 junior and intermediate commanders and 48 social recruitment cadets. followed by the Staff Section, with 160 cadets; again the Sailors Section, with one hundred and five cadets; The smallest number was the cavalry section, with only seventy-seven people. The academy stipulates that each section is taught separately on weekdays, three days a month are mixed to learn joint operations, and all students are organized to conduct joint exercises on the last 10 days of each quarter.

The military academy has a strong faculty, Liu Zhang specially hired Yan Yan, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others as visiting professors in the army, and often came to teach students, although Liu Zhang did not find famous figures in history in the roster of the academy, but there are Yan Yan, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other worldly good generals to point out, this group of students will definitely leave a heavy mark for themselves in history!

Then, Liu Zhang looked at the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Medicine, and the College of Science and Technology, and finally found Cai Yong.

Liu Zhang looked at the elder who was about to become his father-in-law, and he was a little shy at first, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and asked about the situation and difficulties of the college.

Cai Yong expressed his opinion without reservation.

At present, there are more than 53,800 students in Yizhou, 3,700 in county schools, and 1,968 in state schools, but the number of teachers is seriously insufficient, with only more than 1,300 teachers, and at least 500 teachers need to be hired to maintain it. And with the deepening of the policy in the future, the number of students will increase greatly, and the number of teachers will be even larger, especially in county schools and state schools, which have extremely high requirements for teachers' ability, and the scale of students will increase greatly with the enrollment of the first batch of graduates of county schools, and the pressure on teachers will be heavier; There are not enough books for students to read, and now the school uses the simple books mainly collected by the local government, and some of them are donated by local nobles, and the teachers are not yet able to make a book for each person, let alone the students, most of them only rely on rote memorization in class, and cannot review through books after class, what they have learned is easy to forget, and the quality of learning is not high; There is no uniform textbook, and the content taught in the same grade may be very different in every school! Now the main problems of the academy are these three, and the others can be overcome.

After Liu Zhang listened, the first question he also had a headache, how many scholars are there in the Han? And how much knowledge is enough to teach others? Especially in county and state studies, Liu Zhang would not dare to hire without very profound knowledge, otherwise he would not really become a misguided child? He couldn't think of a solution, so he had to invite Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan, Xun and other great Confucians to invite talents from all over the world to enter Yizhou; The second and third issues Liu Zhang said not to worry, he will solve them next year. He had already made up his mind that when paper was mass-produced, he would "invent" printing and print books and textbooks for teaching purposes.

Liu Zhang stayed in Yizhou College for three days, and after fully understanding the situation of the college, he returned to Chengdu, and there were more Cai Yong with him, and the wedding date between him and Cai Yan has been set, and on the eighth day of the next month, Cai Yong has to rush back to Zhang Luo's daughter to get married.