Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "It's my negligence, the research institute really needs to open more departments, do you think this is good, I add one more subject of literature and history and one subject of drama in the research institute." You stay in the graduate school for a while, think carefully about how to set up a department of literature and history, and then give me a suggestion that I should open a department of literature and history and drama, what do you think? ”

Zhang Dai shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the students have no fame, how can we know how to establish the literature and history department, the princes of the court and the central government, there are many outstanding scholars." However, the student's grandfather once established a drama troupe at home, and the student knew a little bit about it. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "It's not that you have outstanding literary skills to know how to establish the Department of Literature and History, but I just want you to see how the Department of Literature and History should be established as a person who loves literature and history. Since you also know drama, let's give an opinion together. ”

Zhang Dai saluted and stepped back. Another student in his thirties stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, student Xu Hongzu thinks that our geography department should go out for internships and investigate the mountains and rivers of various parts of our country, whether it is in the world or in the military, it will be useful, so all the classmates specially recommended the students to ask Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered a person, the famous traveler, so he asked, "What is your character?" ”

Xu Hongzu was very strange, bowed his head and replied: "The student's expression is Zhenzhi." ”

Zhu Youxiao thought, it turned out that it was not Xu Xiake. He said: "Your proposal is very reasonable, geography should indeed be more internship, you let your business apply to the dean and deputy mountain chief, make your own plan, and then show it to me." ”

Xu Hongzu didn't expect that it would be so easy to get the emperor's approval, and he was overjoyed and said deeply: "The students have thanked Your Majesty for your great kindness, and the students will definitely make the internship useful to the imperial court." ”

Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said: "The specific effect is secondary, I hope that when you intern, you can record what you have seen and heard on the way, and write a travelogue, so that everyone knows how beautiful my Daming rivers and mountains are, this is the most important thing." As for the military, we have special surveyors, and you should not be good at prospecting and mining, of course, it is better if you can find things that they have not discovered. ”

When Xu Hongzu was fifteen years old, he should have passed the children's exam, but he didn't get it. He was born with a quirk, and he wanted to go out to explore the mysteries of famous mountains and rivers, and wanted to paint the world's famous mountains and rivers as a general ambition, but because of his elderly mother, he couldn't bear to make the trip.

Xu's mother is open-minded and reasonable, and actively encourages Xu Hongzu to travel with confidence. In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, the twenty-two-year-old Xu Hongzu finally officially traveled, he traveled to Zhejiang and Fujian, and during the journey he heard that the Beijing Normal University was recruiting geographical talents, and he felt that it was inconvenient for him to travel alone, so he came to Beijing and was admitted to the geography class.

He thought that since he was a geography subject, he should naturally go around for a tour, but he didn't want to learn some geographical knowledge. He was not calm and wanted to drop out of school, and when he went to Si Ye, after Si Ye listened to him, he asked him to come to the emperor to explain his opinion, he came to inquire with the last glimmer of hope, but he didn't want to get such a good result.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao didn't know that Xu Hongzu was the famous Xu Xiake in later generations, and Xiake was his number rather than his word.

The last one was a forty-year-old Luo Tuo Shizi, and he said: "Your Majesty, the student Ling Meng was originally a student of the instrument department, but the student did not understand mechanical production, so he asked to withdraw from school. ”

Zhu Youxiao had vaguely heard this name, but he couldn't remember what this person was doing for a while. But since I've heard the name, I can't let it go. He smiled and said, "Since you don't know how to mechanics, why did you apply for the instrument department in the first place?" ”

Ling Mengchu said with a guilty face: "Your Majesty, the student is eighteen years old to fill the school as a supplement, but he has been to the exam many times, but he has failed to pass the exam, and he is still a deputy tribute. Because he saw that His Majesty had opened a new department to take a scholar, he wanted to change his course, because the student had done the printing of books, and wanted to learn the art of printing, so he was admitted to the instrument department, and he did not want to know how to make firecrackers or steam engines, and there was no printing technique, and the student was incompetent, so he had to apply for withdrawal. ”

When Ling Meng first replied, Zhu Youxiao racked his brains, but he still didn't remember what this person was doing, so he had to give up. Hearing him say that he was good at printing books, he said: "In fact, the matter of printing books is indeed related to the instrument department. In addition to making firearms and cannons, the equipment department can also make all kinds of machinery, and printing can also be powered by water power or even steam engines. Since you are interested in this, why don't you be responsible for the development of printing machinery? ”

Ling Mengchu thought for a while and replied: "Actually, students want to compile books more, and of course they are also interested in developing printing machines, so let's develop printing machines." ”

When he talked about compiling the book, he finally reminded Zhu Youxiao that he was the author of "The Surprise of the First Moment" and "The Surprise of the Second Moment".

He immediately said: "Since you are not very proficient in mechanical things, I am going to prepare to open two courses of literature and history and drama in the research institute, why don't you come to the literature and history department?" Printing machinery lets others do the research. ”

Ling Mengchu naturally couldn't ask for it, and asked, "Your Majesty, the student is willing to go to the Literature and History Subject." ”

Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "Zhang Dai, who has a geography department just now, also wants to enter the literature and history department, I want him to think about how to build the literature and history department, and now this task is also handed over to you, and we will hand over a proposal to me at that time." ”

Ling Mengchu was excited, and after thanking him, he went happily.

Zhu Youxiao called Bi Maokang, the director of the graduate school, and said, "I met a few graduate students today who wanted to drop out of the graduate school because they felt that there was nothing suitable for them to study. Therefore, I am going to open two new courses in the research institute, one is literature and history, and the other is drama, what does Bi Qing think? ”

Bi Maokang thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, it's okay to write a literature and history department, what is this drama department for, is it specially used to write miscellaneous plays?" Why not add drama to literature and history? There are also things that can be added. ”

Zhu Youxiao thought about it, isn't all drama literature, so it's not bad to add it. Bi Maokang also said: "Your Majesty, the six subjects of the institute do not include all kinds of talents, and when applying for the examination that day, it was said that those who have specialties in a certain aspect can apply for the examination, but after applying for the examination, they are limited to the six subjects, so naturally there will be students who feel that they cannot learn what they want to learn." Now that His Majesty has added two new subjects, some people will feel that there is no content they want to learn in the eight subjects in the future, so will they become nine subjects and ten subjects? ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Yes, I think so too, can Bi Qing teach me?" ”