"Tsk! I actually ran to dig the foot of the wall here from this king! When he learned the whole story, Li Yuanji couldn't help but be amazed, and secretly said that Li Er really did it thoroughly, so he didn't want to see a capable person beside him? Subconsciously couldn't help but continue to taunt: "Does he want to perform a trick for this king as long as the hoe is swung well, there is no wall root that cannot be dug down?" ”

Li Yuanji's reaction made Ma Zhou a little worried, he had never seen Li Yuanji treat a matter with such an indifferent attitude.

or doesn't care, or scolds, this is Li Yuanji's character.

"What do you think?" Li Yuanji raised his head again and looked at Ma Zhou, who was at a loss.

"Minister...... The minister didn't have any ideas. Ma Zhou responded a little not calmly, and his heart was in a mess.

"!" Li Yuanji said unceremoniously, pointed at Song Zhong casually, and continued: "He said that he has no idea that this king believes it, but you, this king definitely doesn't believe it." ”

"Your Highness, the minister really has no idea of leaving His Highness." Ma Zhou felt that he had been misunderstood by Li Yuanji, and he suddenly felt aggrieved in his heart, and almost shed tears to explain.

"Do you know why this king would involve you in every project?" Seeing Ma Zhou's aggrieved appearance, Li Yuanji shook his head a little helplessly, a loyal and upright person is like this, you have to say anything directly, and you must not let him think that you have misunderstood him.

"To take over the Academy of Sciences?" Li Yuanji once mentioned that the dean of the Academy of Sciences will definitely be a member of the three grades in the future, on an equal footing with all departments, and the current Academy of Sciences is a small fight, which is nothing, but in the future, Li Yuanji is not suitable for the position of dean, so Ma Zhou, who followed at the earliest, is naturally the best choice.

"The Academy of Sciences is the court sooner or later, and the Academy of Sciences is not your final destination, the Academy of Sciences is small, but it has all kinds of organs, each project team is like a hundred divisions in the court, you have to be familiar with the work of each project, know how to operate, and so on in the future you can achieve the position of prime minister, you can copy this set of work methods, for you, it will allow you to adapt in a shorter period of time, faster into the work.

Everything has an experience, the Academy of Sciences is the place to train you, here, you will know the importance of science, if not here, you will never believe that only need to invest 100 times the financial resources, you can more than double the productivity of the people, Yuan Rang plough appeared like this, then in the future, the imperial court will invest 100 times, will it double the productivity?

Sometimes, what exists does not mean that it is right and suitable, and the purpose of the Academy of Sciences is to eliminate all those things that exist, so that they all become history, replace them with more advanced things, continue to improve on the basis of the advanced, and repeat and eliminate them, only in this way can Datang be ahead of foreign countries in all walks of life. Li Yuanji said earnestly.

Ma Zhou is a spokesperson trained by himself and a spokesperson cultivated for the Academy of Sciences.

With the development and growth of the Academy of Sciences, more and more advanced equipment has come out of the sky, and the imperial court will inevitably pay more and more attention to this product.

And his position is a little embarrassing, and it is absolutely impossible to continue to master the Academy of Sciences in the future, but he doesn't want the Academy of Sciences to be led crooked by some people, so he can only train a talent to speak for the Academy of Sciences and become the most loyal supporter of the Academy of Sciences.

Ma Zhou, who has participated from beginning to end and has the talent of prime minister, is naturally the most suitable candidate.

"Your Majesty personally came forward to recruit you, this king is very happy, because this king finally has a talent around him who can make His Majesty tempted, if you are sure to leave, this king will not stop you, wherever you go is to contribute to the Tang Dynasty, there is no need to stay in this small temple of this king for the rest of your life." Li Yuanji continued to persuade.

"I didn't want to leave, and I never had the idea of leaving." Ma Zhou knelt on one knee, Rao was as smart as him, and he had never seen Li Yuanji's true intentions for his arrangement.

If it weren't for Li Shimin recruiting himself today, Li Yuanji is afraid that he would not have said this.

Ma Zhou has a deep understanding of the importance of the Academy of Sciences, although the project he is directly responsible for is only night blindness, and the Academy of Sciences just invented the Yuan Rang plow, which is enough to make the world pay attention to the Academy of Sciences, this 'behemoth', Ma Zhou is not a person who gives up halfway, even if he wants to leave, he has to wait until the research on night blindness is completely over.

"As a friend, I have a sincere piece of advice, and I hope you will listen to it." Li Yuanji continued, the carving of Ma Zhou has not yet been completed, and he does not want Ma Zhou to leave at this time.

"Your Highness, please speak, Zhou will keep it in mind!"

"I approve of you leaving, if you wait for another two years, even if you don't take the initiative, I will also find a way to send you away, but now, I still hope that you can stay, at least for another three years, Datang Academy of Sciences, what you have come into contact with now is just the tip of the iceberg, national construction, not overnight, but in the long term, I hope that when you leave, you will be the kind of talent who can take charge of yourself, not the current state of semi-finished products." Li Yuanji said seriously, he really regarded Ma Zhou as a friend.

Ma Zhou knelt on the ground again, unlike before, this time Ma Zhou knelt on both knees, and even snapped his head towards Li Yuanji, and said with tears in his eyes: "As long as His Highness doesn't dare to leave, the minister will only serve His Highness in this life and this life." ”

Li Yuanji's kindness to himself is no longer the same as ordinary kindness, but the grace of recreation, like the kindness of regenerating parents.

Ma Zhou, who was an orphan when he was a child, has been subjected to countless ridicule and abuse, white eyes and disdain in his life, but here in Li Yuanji, he has not only been trusted and reused, Li Yuanji has also cultivated himself so attentively, Ma Zhou suddenly felt that it was a huge mistake that he did not directly reject Li Shimin just now, and it was an unforgivable mistake.

What about the Emperor? What you give me can only be a high-ranking official, but here, what I get is rebirth, like a phoenix nirvana.

……

Li Yuanji didn't expect that his heartfelt words would make Ma Zhou so moved, although he was moved, but he was also helpless, what if he was cultivated and Ma Zhou refused to leave? In that case, unless he rebels, Ma Zhou will never be able to become the prime minister, and Ma Zhou, who is not the prime minister, will naturally have no right to speak, and the Academy of Sciences will still be led crooked by some people.

But whatever the future holds, this step must be done right now.

"It's a three-story building?" Listening to Li Yuanji's explanation, Ma Zhou looked at Li Yuanji in shock.

"Yes, three-storey, but it depends on whether the steel can keep up, and if it can, it's not impossible to build four or five floors." Li Yuanji nodded affirmatively.

Everyone wants to build a one-story house, but at the beginning, they didn't think of this stubble at all, and the idea of setting up a school was still born when Li Yuanji was in Fengzhou, but the early planning of Taipingfang has been completed, leaving only a small piece of space for backup, the place is not big, and it is not even as big as the palace.

If you want to build a school in a big place, what else can you do other than use a multi-storey building?

"It's not safe, is it? The main body of the structure can be made of concrete bricks, but what about between floors? It can only be replaced by wood, according to His Highness's idea, a classroom should seat fifty students, and there are desks or something, it doesn't matter if it is poured once or twice, but over time, the wood will inevitably rot, and it will not be dangerous at that time? Ma Zhou shook his head again and again in denial, this is too troublesome, and it is not safe, it is better to find a new piece of land to build a new school.

"Don't be so troublesome, it's all made of concrete, plus a lot of steel, just let you smash it with a hammer on it, and you can't smash it for a while." Without the floor slab, Li Yuanji could only use the more material-intensive concrete pouring method, but steel became the biggest problem.

"Steel?" Ma Zhou felt that he was already messy, even iron in the Tang Dynasty was a rare object, and Li Yuanji even had to use even more rare steel, even if there were, it was not enough to even build weapons, how could the imperial court use it to build a house for you?

"Seeing that you haven't been to the Academy of Sciences recently, don't you know that the Academy of Sciences has developed a new method of ironmaking? The yield of steel is already more than 100 times higher than that of the previous method. During the time of the expedition, the aluminum ordered by Li Yuanji was finally found, and the craftsmen followed the process to make it into powder, and then made coke and bellows, which was a simple method that improved the efficiency of ironmaking and steelmaking.

The two of them talked about building a school, and Ma Zhou realized that Li Yuanji, who stayed in Chang'an every day and had not yet gone on an expedition, knew a lot about the progress of the Academy of Sciences, which made Ma Zhou feel very embarrassed and somewhat disappointed Li Yuanji's expectations for himself.

But in the end, Ma Zhou remembered that he had overlooked the most important issue.

"What do you teach in this school? Where do you recruit students from? ”

"Mainly teach some miscellaneous studies, the purpose is to train talents for the Academy of Sciences, even if they fail to meet the selection requirements of the Academy of Sciences when they graduate, with the knowledge they have learned in school, it is enough to find a decent job in Chang'an. As for the students, they will first recruit some literate people, and then recruit some younger and illiterate people to teach them to read and write, and then only recruit children over the age of seven. To put it bluntly, Li Yuanji's definition of this school is a technical school, teaching all kinds of technical knowledge, but there are some general knowledge, even if the technology does not meet the requirements, you can also find a job in the accounting room outside.

In school, basic mathematics is compulsory, as is bookkeeping.

"We will be regarded as an alternative ......" Ma Zhou was speechless for a moment, who would want to go to such a school?