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Western Academy.

"Young Master, there are more than 1,000 students in the academy, and in a few years, these people will be the cornerstone of my Ming Dynasty's new Western learning."

Surrounded by a group of people, Xu Guangqi smiled and led Li Hongyu to inspect various institutions of the Western Institute, and the students along the way saluted Li Hongyu excitedly, one by one.

Since many students have been studying in the past two years, they have never seen Li Hongyu, who has been busy outside, and now it is natural for him to see the demeanor of his idol.

Li Hongyu is now not only the idol of thousands of girls in the Ming Dynasty, but also an out-and-out hero in the minds of the teenagers, and also the minister of Kuang Fu Sheji in the minds of the people.

The Western Institute was originally located in the courtyard of a large family in the county seat of Shanghai, but after the construction of the new city began, the construction of the site of the Western College in the new city began together with the Yamen of the Customs Department, which shows that Li Hongyu attached great importance to it.

At the beginning of last year, the construction of the Western Institute's campus in the new city was completed, and the students were finally able to say goodbye to the crowded dormitories and school buildings and move to a new school with bright and spacious facilities.

It is said that it is a new school site, but in fact this is the place that Li Hongyu first selected for the establishment of the Western College, and the courtyard of the big family in Shanghai County is just a transition.

The Western Institute is subordinate to the Department of Customs, so it belongs to the nature of the official school, but the conditions are more favorable than the official school, not only including room and board, but also receiving a living allowance every month, the welfare treatment can be described as unprecedented.

Of course, since the Customs Department spends money to train those students, then those students will naturally become staff members of the Customs Department after graduating from the Western Academy and serve the Customs Department.

Because the Western College does not need to spend money to eliminate the worries of the students, but also can be taught to seek a good future in the future, coupled with the vigorous publicity of the Customs Department, it has gradually attracted promising students from the thirteen provinces in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty to take the exam, making the college present a thriving and prosperous scene.

Unlike other colleges in the Ming Dynasty, the Western College also teaches science, classics, and righteousness, but only as one of the subjects, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.

Moreover, the teachers of the Western Academy accounted for the vast majority of foreigners, some of whom were deceived into coming to Daming to pan for gold, and others were trying to avoid punishment by the Inquisition.

Among those foreign teachers, there was one person who became famous, that is, the Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer Galileo, who Li Hongyu invited to give lectures in the name of Daming through the French merchant Forman.

Galileo was already the leader of the scientific revolution in Europe at this time, and was strongly suppressed by the Inquisition, and after receiving the invitation of the Ming Empire, a distant and huge Eastern empire, Galileo was surprised and excited at the same time, and resolutely decided to come to the East to teach his scientific ideas.

For this reason, a group of scholars in a worrying situation followed Galileo and traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to Daming.

When they arrived at the port of Shanghai, they were warmly welcomed by the local military and civilians, and the officials of the Customs Department personally greeted them at the wharf, which made Galileo and his party somewhat flattered, and they had never received such a grand official treatment in Europe.

In order to show his respect and importance for Galileo, Li Hongyu not only hired him as the vice president of the Western Academy, but also had the official position of a civil official of the fifth grade.

Because the Western Academy is a government-run school, the teachers in it are naturally also officials under the Yamen of the Customs Department, and they all have their own official ranks, and they receive the corresponding salaries every month, which is several times that of officials of the same level in the Ming Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that Li Hongyu in the south of the new city specially designed as a foreigner living block, all the buildings are built in accordance with the characteristics of each country, so it is called "Wanguo Street" by later generations, there are not only European buildings but also West Asian buildings, dizzying, fully showing the prosperity of the new city in Shanghai County.

Li Hongyu is very satisfied with the progress of the exhibition of the Western Academy, and in a few years, when those students in the academy graduate and step into the society, they will become the central force of the scientific and technological revolution, and then he can really breathe a sigh of relief.

As the dean of the Western Academy, Li Hongyu naturally had to take on the responsibility of teaching, from Confucian science and classics to Western astronomy and geography, these subjects were completely easy for him to grasp.

The students of the Western Academy naturally like Li Hongyu's class the most, Li Hongyu is the teacher of the emperor, and it is already a great honor to let the emperor teach.

What's more, Li Hongyu's class is easy and easy to understand, and he is naturally welcomed by the students, who have benefited a lot from listening to his class, and the theoretical knowledge he tells is more complete and systematic than that of Western teachers.

In Shanghai's new city, in addition to the Western College, there is another college where Li Hongyu is also the dean, that is, Yanhuang Medical College, which specializes in training medical staff.

Like Western Medical College, Yanhuang Medical College also implements a free system, and it breaks the routine to admit female students, accounting for one-fifth of male students, which can be described as an unprecedented thing.

If it is left in other places, it is indispensable to be gossiped by those stubborn old pedants, but Shanghai County has become a bridgehead for the Ming Dynasty to accept Western culture in recent years, not only there are many students who come to study and have avant-garde thoughts, but also the local people have accepted a lot of foreign things, and their minds have gradually become enlightened.

Therefore, with the title that Li Hongyu is the dean of Yanhuang Medical College, many families in Shanghai and surrounding areas, especially poor families, have sent school-age girls to Yanhuang Medical College.

Originally, someone proposed that the name of the medical school be "Daming Medical College", but Li Hongyu politely refused, after all, the Customs Department is only one of the major yamen of Daming, how can its subordinate institutions use the word "Daming"?

You must know that only the front of the Customs Department is qualified to add the word "Daming", the full name is "Daming Customs Division", and if the medical school uses the word "Daming", it is arrogant.

Besides, Li Hongyu didn't want the medical school to have too much contact with the Ming Dynasty, otherwise wouldn't it become embarrassing after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and he would have to change his name, so it was better to use the word "Yanhuang", even if it was a change of dynasty, it didn't matter.

Because the affairs of the Customs Department, mainly overseas trade, have been on the right track, Li Hongyu has become much more relaxed and has concentrated his energy on teaching, and promoting the scientific and technological revolution can now be said to be his top priority.

As for the situation in the capital, Li Hongyu is now waiting to see what happens, how can the Emperor of the Apocalypse endure it for five years make people spoil the big thing he has been waiting for for a long time?

In Li Hongyu's view, now that the Emperor of the Apocalypse has arranged the court properly, it can be said that everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, as long as the Emperor of the Apocalypse is given a reason to do it, then the Donglin Party, which is proud of the spring breeze in the court, will definitely suffer a head-on blow.

Since it was not clear whether Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other key members of the Donglin Party and other radical factions could escape this time, Li Hongyu went to visit him before leaving Beijing.

Although the two sides belong to different camps, the relationship between them is very harmonious, especially Yang Lian, who has always been very important to Li Hongyu and takes good care of him, Li Hongyu has to resign from him, otherwise I am afraid that the next time I will be separated from yin and yang.

In the greetings with Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, Li Hongyu once euphemistically advised them to stop in moderation, anyway, now that the Donglin Party has taken charge of the government, do not chase and kill officials of Qi, Chuzhe and other factions, let alone try to challenge the imperial power of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but unfortunately with little success.

The reason why Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others became the leaders of the radical faction of the Donglin Party was naturally because they adhered to the "********" viewpoint and acted rather radically, so they could not listen to Li Hongyu's advice.

Li Hongyu is very helpless about this, now that the Donglin Party is in full swing, it can be said that he is proud of the spring breeze, where will he take his advice to heart, I am afraid that he can't wait to get rid of those traitorous ministers in the court and dominate the court.

On the surface, it seems that the Donglin Party is in charge of the government as "the people are in charge of the dynasty", but in fact, in the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the outside world, it is to control the government, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Xianggong, now that the gate of the new city has been built, should you give the new city a name?"

That night, when Li Hongyu was flipping through the official documents of the Customs Department in the study, Yang Li'er walked in with a cup of hot tea and smiled, and said after putting it on the table in front of him.

"This city is near the sea, so it's better to call it Haicheng." Li Hongyu took the teacup and took a sip, and then replied to Yang Li'er with a smile, he had already prepared for this.

"Haicheng?" Yang Li'er tasted it when she heard this, then nodded with a smile, "Good name, this name will definitely resound throughout the world in the future." ”

This is not Yang Li'er's words to compliment Li Hongyu, but Haicheng has now become the center of communication between the East and the West, and with the exhibition of Haicheng, its name will surely spread to the four seas.

After finishing speaking, Yang Li'er suddenly covered her mouth with her hands, and then walked out of the door quickly and leaned over and retched.

Li Hongyu's face suddenly turned happy when he saw this, but he naturally knew what was going on, so he hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and chased it out, gently patting Yang Li'er's back with his hand.

"How many months?" After Yang Li'er finished retching, Li Hongyu looked at her with a smile and asked, it was obvious that Yang Li'er's performance at this time was a pregnancy reaction.

"Two months." Yang Li'er's cheeks flushed, and she replied shyly, she should have told Li Hongyu about this happy event after a while, but she didn't want to "betray" her because of the pregnancy reaction.

"It seems that Xianggong is lucky!"

Li Hongyu immediately laughed when he heard this, and his smile looked a little proud, in terms of time, it was exactly the time when he had a round house with Yang Li'er.

In this way, only Youlan's stomach has not moved in his concubine rooms, after all, Youlan accompanied Zhao Xin back to Xiaoliuqiu when he first came to Yangzhou, and the time between the two was only two short nights since they got married, so it is normal that there is no movement, and when he has the opportunity, he will definitely make up for what he owes before.

After hearing Li Hongyu's words, Yang Li'er's cheeks couldn't help but become more rosy, and she couldn't help but lower her head involuntarily, but she felt extremely sweet in her heart, and only when she had a child could she and Li Hongyu be considered complete.

(End of chapter)