In the morning, because he wanted to help Tang Ruowang preach, he went to the craftsman's workshop for a long time, and Li Zicheng went to the school in the afternoon to teach the students.

He doesn't want to implement a half-day teaching system, as long as people are in Xining, try to find time to teach in the school, there is really no time, so they can only let the students review the old lessons by themselves, there are Sun Mengjie, Li Dan, the two Zheng, Fu class leader, Li Zicheng is not worried about them being playful, after all, the school is closed now, and it is impossible to go out, at most it is in the small courtyard of the school.

After dinner, Li Zicheng took He Xiaomi, and went to visit John Tang.

John Tong lived in the small hall of the central government, but with the gradual increase in the number of Catholics, he would move to the church sooner or later.

"Mr. Li," John Tang heard that Li Zicheng was visiting, so he hurriedly opened the door and came out to greet him, "Mr. Li, please come inside, Anglita, serve tea!" ”

Li Zicheng laughed and walked into the small hall, "Mr. Tang, how is it, how many believers have you accepted today?" ”

"Mr. Li, it's really you," Tang Ruowang stretched out his thumb to Li Zicheng, "It would be nice if I met Mr. Li earlier, don't hide it from Mr. Li, the number of believers registered today has reached two hundred and sixty-three, hey, it's really ......" His eyes seemed to show four pupils, and his pride was overflowing.

"I just said, as long as you listen to me, you can increase to 500 believers in a year, maybe the goal of 1,000 believers can also be achieved," Li Zicheng is also happy, as long as John Tang can stay in Xining, his knowledge will be squeezed out sooner or later, Li Zicheng is not lacking the knowledge in John Tang's mind, but John Tang can connect the knowledge on his drawings with the people of the Ming Dynasty very well, "How about it, what are your plans for the next step?" ”

"The next step, naturally, is to consolidate these believers, and then influence their families and relatives through them, as Mr. Li said, and strive to reach 500 believers within a year."

If this goal can be achieved, it will far surpass the missionaries who arrived in Daming at the same time as him, and even more than the sum of their achievements in terms of numbers.

Tang Ruowang suddenly thought that these believers would only appear under Li Zicheng's interference, and if Li Zicheng's assistance was missing, all this would be like a flash in the mirror, and it could come to naught at any time, and he hurriedly said: "Mr. Li is so helpful, but what does he need to serve?" ”

Li Zicheng smiled slightly: "Mr. Tang, we are friends now, helping me is to help yourself," seeing that John Tang didn't seem to understand, he continued: "Mr. Tang uses believers to expand God's influence, which is indeed a good way, but they are just old people and children, not the head of the family, and the next goal should be set on adults!" ”

"What's a good idea for Mr. Li?"

"Of course, it is still very difficult to get adults to join Catholicism directly, so take a step back and work the children, and when they grow up, they will become the elite of the local Catholic Church, not only will they not drop out, but they will also become the backbone of missionary evangelism."

"Mr. Lee means ......"

"Mr. Tang, why don't you understand?" Li Zicheng rolled his eyes, "Let's put it this way, what made you decide to come to Daming to preach?" ”

"Naturally, it's a seminary," John Tang finally understood, "Mr. Li is saying that a seminary should be established in Daming?" ”

"Naturally, it is not possible to set up a seminary, and now the people of Daming have not yet fully accepted God," Li Zicheng gradually induced step by step: "However, you can be in Daming, Austria, and the rest of the places I am afraid that it will not work now, or Xining, open an academy of sciences, so that students can receive scientific education, you are the teachers of the academy of sciences, while teaching science, you can also correct their conduct, and preach God by the way, once these students grow up, Who can guarantee that one or two of them will not appear among them? ”

"Ah...... Yes, Mr. Li's suggestion is really good," John Tang's eyes suddenly flashed with a glittering look, but disappeared in an instant, "Mr. Li, we have no land, no teachers, and even no teaching materials, will the people believe us?" ”

"Of course not," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "So we need our help, of course, many things need to be solved together." ”

The two sides immediately began substantive discussions.

The name of this college, for the time being, is called "Xining Science and Technology Higher School", Li Zicheng is the president, and concurrently serves as a visiting professor, at a convenient time, he goes to teach in person, Tang Ruowang as the executive vice president, responsible for the daily teaching and management of the school, the teacher is Tang Ruowang and his two assistants Anglitta and Boke, of course, the textbooks used by the students, need to be written by Tang Ruowang, but need to be recognized by Li Zicheng.

With only three teachers, Li Zicheng plans to study at 40 in the first term, mainly men between the ages of 13 and 15 who are close to adulthood.

The first phase is mainly an intensive class, with a duration of only one and a half years, the purpose is to allow them to mature early and embark on new jobs, although they cannot completely copy John Tong's knowledge, but they can at least be brainwashed by John Tang to accept some emerging scientific knowledge, which is sometimes more valuable than scientific knowledge itself.

Of course, Li Zicheng paid for all the expenses of opening the "Xining Science and Technology Higher School", and unlike the Xining Girls' School, these students did not have food, but Wei Li promised their parents that once they graduated, they could come to Wei Li to work, at least they would be a small official, and if they had outstanding grades, they might also become official officials.

Since all the money for the establishment came from Li Zicheng, he naturally had to control the school, or at least the direction of the school: not mainly theology, but science.

Such a school can be a win-win situation for Li Zicheng and Tang Ruowang, at least both parties can achieve their own goals.

Starting from the second day, the information that "Xining Science and Technology Higher School" is about to open has spread among the people, especially in Xining City, and it is even more popular, the people value not the school itself, but the way out for the students, as long as they have studied for a year and a half, they can enter the Weili to become a clerk, and even becoming an official is not entirely a dream, for the people who have been living at the bottom of the society for thousands of years, this is tantamount to giving their children a chance to "jump the dragon gate".

Unfortunately, there are too few places, only forty people.

After three days of transmission, on the twenty-second day of the first month, Li Zicheng personally selected the students, and the criteria for his selection were clever, just like when he asked Sun Mengjie to choose the students from the girls' school, because they were all intensive training, the learning tasks would be very heavy, and it would be difficult to graduate on time if the learning ability was weak.

Now is not the stage of compulsory education, Li Zicheng ignores the so-called poor students, what he needs is the right talent.

However, when Li Zicheng selects students, he takes care of different types of families, and the diversity of the identities of this kind of students is convenient for creating a greater influence among more people, especially the poorest families, who also occupy a certain amount, so that poor families have greater expectations for life.

Of course, the premise is that you have to follow Weili.

On the 26th of the first month, after the selection of forty students, officially began to teach, Li Zicheng, Tang Ruowang, the two vice principals, have met with the students, and then Li Zicheng taught the first Chinese class, of course, for the time being, or follow the traditional teaching method of the Ming Dynasty, although pinyin Zhuyin is more convenient to learn, but Li Zicheng does not have a lot of time to teach, his main energy, or in military and political affairs, as well as he as a treasure Xining Girls' School.

In addition to waiting for information from all sides, he took advantage of his free time to focus on the Xining Girls' School, and in the morning and afternoon, Li Zicheng would go to the school to teach, hoping that the students would complete their studies as soon as possible.

Of course, at night, Li Zicheng will still look at John Tang's latest book "Telescope Theory", he does not expect to build a space telescope, but at least after the appearance of glass, he can build a military telescope.

In addition, Li Zicheng was busy creating people, and Sun Mengjie's successful conception made him begin to feel that what came with him was only the soul, and the body was still "Li Hongji", which was completely in tune with the women of the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Mengjie is pregnant, and now she doesn't need too many bullets, it's enough to have a gun, Chen Qiudie is too small, Cheng Huan is still reluctant, and she can't bear the burden of spreading branches and leaves for the time being, Li Zicheng's main energy is still on Song Yulian.

After Li Zicheng's enlightenment and threats, especially Sun Mengjie is pregnant, and Chen Qiudie still has no movement, she is also a little anxious, and has stopped taking medication, but the time is too short, and I don't know what the effect will be for the time being.

The first to break Li Zicheng's quiet life was not the craftsman's workshop, but Liu Yunshui, who was far away in the Nian Bo Institute.

In the message, Liu Yunshui told Li Zicheng that after the Huangshui and Datong rivers merged, they were jointly emptied into the Yellow River, and that at the confluence of the three rivers, the imperial court had set up a thousand-household house, the Sanchuan camp, which was flat and rich in water, which met the standard of arable land that Li Zicheng had always searched.

Li Zicheng found a map of the march of the Nian Bosuo, and the Huangshui and Datong rivers really merged in the territory, and then flowed into the Yellow River in the southeast.

"Delta!" Li Zicheng suddenly came up with this term in his heart, the river in the confluence of the place, will generally impact a large amount of sediment, so will wash out a flat land, here should be an important grain production area, due to the population is relatively concentrated, there is even a large industrial city, such as the Yangtze River estuary of Shanghai, the Pearl River estuary of Guangzhou, the Qiantang estuary of Hangzhou.

Although the Huangshui and Datong rivers are not as good as the flow of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, with the addition of the Yellow River, the amount of water should not be a small number, and it should be a natural agricultural land.

Li Zicheng searched in his mind, what kind of super city is there here in the history of later generations, but he was disappointed, such a good area, it is impossible to give birth to a mega city, is this place not suitable for farming? Can't gather a large population?

He decided to go to the confluence of the three rivers to see for himself.