When the summer of Chongzhen's seventh year came, he did not rush to take a boat south from Tongzhou after coming to the capital, but came to the special garden that had been established in the old palace of Beihai five years ago. After the expedition, almost all the top 1,000 craftsmen who remained were gathered here. Among them, there are many skilled blacksmiths, smelters, skilled carpenters and live coppersmiths, and there are also people who know how to polish lenses in this era.

Of course, the core of the garden is more than 2,000 hard-working and serious children. Most of them are only about seven or eight years old, and the seniors who are responsible for educating these children are very rare eleven or twelve-year-old girls, forming a rare spectacle of this era.

As the saying goes, you can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people. In order to prevent possible accidents, Xiao Xuan first set up a temporary camp in a place above the head of the capital, and then sent many officers and soldiers to conduct a careful inventory in the Forbidden City, and finally moved all the children and even craftsmen by the Beihai Lake to the area around the new camp.

Those seven or eight-year-old children didn't know Xiao Xuan himself, but the more than 40 "seniors" and teachers who were still older children were all excited when they saw Xiao Xuan returning, and many of them even shed tears.

Xiao Xuan let go of the core secret guard and the other idle people all withdrew for the time being, and said with a somewhat serious expression: "It's been four or five years in the blink of an eye, have Huang Dou and Xu Guangqi and others embarrassed you these days?" Is there an old-fashioned teaching gentleman or a parent, yelling at you, or scolding or even embarrassing things? ”

"No, Uncle Huang Dou is still a good person, obviously different from others. It's just the way of teaching in the yard, especially when only girls of our age start teaching and educating people, Xu Guangqi doesn't seem to be used to it, but that's it... ”

"Yes, not far from Beihai College, it seems to be another place in the capital It is said that a special new academy has also been built, similar to here, but most of them are just adults...

Hearing that these children were still not afraid to call others by their names, especially some obvious superiors, and some unique language habits were also retained, Xiao Xuan's heart was relieved. However, at this time, I was somewhat worried that because of the overindulgence and willfulness of a few years, these children would waste their necessary careers.

"Although you are not selected according to the brightest standards, character is also important. However, it should be a lot better than its peers. If you haven't really wasted these years. How did you master the basic knowledge of the tutorial outline? It won't be used for water frolic and fun in the name of engineering practice, will it? Don't be fooled, how is the progress, I want to check? Not only do you need to master that knowledge, but of course you have to prove the process and experience. At this time, Xiao Xuan also asked the children solemnly.

Unexpectedly, the children seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and took out some thick study notebooks. Of course, all of them are mathematics and science courses in the last year.

What Xiao Xuan didn't expect was that in just over four years, these children, who were supposed to be around the fifth grade of primary school, had already reviewed the knowledge related to analytic geometry. Much of this knowledge is at the forefront of the Catholic Church. In terms of physics knowledge, these children are also very proficient in kinetic momentum calculations and even middle and high school courses such as the parabolic principle. Many things may have been separated by too much time, and even Xiao Xuan looked a little rusty.

However, this progress also made Xiao Xuan a little worried, worried that these children were just mastering knowledge for the sake of mastering knowledge for a short period of time, just like the later Chinese-style education that was not suitable for this era, and neglected the desire and ability to cultivate interests and even hands-on practice.

Therefore, he continued to ask with suspicion: "You can't be busy with mathematical proofs for the past few years, right?" What are the results of the exchange and learning with the craftsmen and masters? Dozens of people are not going to just do the tasks I said for a few years, and not many of them are still decent innovations, right? And the daily schedule over the years, I'll take a look... ”

Xiao Xuan asked about many other aspects of the children's life and study in the past few years, and even spent a lot of time summoning each child individually in the following period, and some worries were finally put down. At the same time, I am also glad that Huang Dou, who once dominated the situation in another plane, did not plan to make waves during the time he left, but was a "people's teacher" or "people's principal" in a down-to-earth manner according to an attitude that was quite in line with his own heart

In the past few years, Huang Dou has led the children to try out a lot of things, including better spectacle lenses, very simple sights, thermometers, altimeters, and even manpower submarines. The manpower propeller boat, which is very difficult to manufacture in batches, may be due to the gathering of skilled craftsmen at Beihai Academy at this time, and it was actually trial-produced. In terms of firearms, after a few years, quite a few more advanced military equipment, such as the Ferguson rifled cannon, the drum shield, and the more sophisticated manpower crossbow, were also manufactured. Of course, the production volume is not too large, usually no more than ten pieces per piece. Of course, Xiao Xuan understood that this was not only because it was too difficult to achieve mass production, but also because Huang Dou and others knew that it was Xiao Xuan's test of himself and avoided suspicion.

At this time, Xiao Xuan's suspicions were also put down a lot. At least for himself at this moment, as long as Huang Dou leaves Beihai Academy to conduct research in another place in the future, then the potential threat to himself is almost zero. Xiao Xuan understood that if it weren't for Huang Dou, but for the "excellent gentlemen" of other natures in this era, it would be impossible for him to maintain his educational philosophy of Beihai College.

Therefore, after seeing Huang Dou alone, he didn't see the outside world as before, and bluntly praised: "It seems that I was a little too careful in the past." I didn't expect you to be such a down-to-earth and serious person... ”

At this time, Huang Dou did not shy away from saying: "I used to be a teacher living in modern times, but I was tired of the job that I once had high hopes for. But here I realized that when I got rid of a lot of the complicated things and pressures of modern times, and was really able to teach according to my own philosophy, it was such an attractive thing... ”

(End of chapter)