The warm wind is blowing, the spring is strong, the birds are dancing happily in the air, and the willow trees in the courtyard of the Guangming Academy have been penetrated, and the green leaves are beginning to show their edge.

For the implementation of the new policy of Dayue Kingdom, half of the old students of Guangming College have left this year, but the number of new students has reached the highest number in the history, and there are nearly 1,000 people.

Ever since Yang Yi decided to merge Guangming Academy with the Wuzhishan Research Institute and changed the nature of teaching in the academy, the number of new students in the academy has been increasing.

On the one hand, Xueguang College has differentiated from the original pure aristocratic institutions of higher learning into a wide range of vocational disciplines, which indirectly lowers the threshold for admission and greatly increases the inflow of students. On the other hand, in the past two years, the students of the college have gradually begun to enter the WTO and emerge in various fields, and the actual effect shows that Yang Yi's "alternative" teaching method has achieved remarkable results, which not only made many doubting voices gradually fade, but also spread the reputation of Guangming College.

Yang Yinai is the dean of the Guangming Academy, but he doesn't have much time to take care of the daily affairs of the college except for squeezing out limited time to teach, and basically the daily operation of the college is in charge of the vice dean Cai Zheng.

Cai Zheng, a native of Shuzhong who was over fifty years old, enjoyed a good reputation before Yang Yi came to Shuzhong, not only was he very talented, but also relatively well-versed in his thinking compared to the literati and scholars of the Daguang tradition, at least he did not think that the knowledge imparted by Yang Yi was a strange and obscene skill.

"There are 1,041 students who have come to our college to study this year, and it is worth mentioning that among the more than 1,000 people, in addition to our local students in Shuzhong, there are more than 60 Dayue people and 22 students from all over Daguang."

Cai Zheng followed behind Yang Yi and reported to Yang Yi expressionlessly.

Yang Yi nodded, he didn't mind the tone of Cai Zheng's speech, after all these years of contact, Yang Yi had long been accustomed to this old man's unsmiling and straightforward character.

Literati should naturally have the arrogance of literati, if Cai Zheng seizes the opportunity like Monkey Jian'er, I am afraid that Yang Yi will not dare to let him sit in the key position of vice president.

Hearing Cai Zheng's words, Yang Yi nodded and smiled: "It's a good thing, it shows that the brand of our college is getting louder and louder, and it may not be long before it becomes one of the few holy places for studying in Daguang." ”

Cai Zheng didn't show any excitement, but frowned and said: "It's just the students of the Great Yue Kingdom, how do those students from the Central Plains treat?" Among them, there are many students from Beijing and Jiangnan. ”

Yang Yi glanced at Cai Zheng and grinned: "Learning has no borders, since our signboard is recorded by talented people, naturally we can't separate individuals, otherwise everyone in the world will laugh at our little family." ”

While talking, the two came to the newly expanded teaching area of the college.

With the increasing number of students enrolled in Guangming College, the original school building has long been unable to satisfy, Yang Yi allocated a lot of money to expand the college in an all-round way, not only the teaching facilities are all new, but also hired a lot of great Confucians like Cai Zheng to come to the college as part-time teachers to teach traditional knowledge.

"No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how hard you are, you can't be miserable for your children." Yang Yi expressed his meaning in a clear sentence from his previous life.

Yang Yi walked into a teaching room, looked around at the brand-new teaching facilities, and nodded with satisfaction.

casually pulled over a student chair and sat down, Yang Yi raised his hand to signal Cai Zheng, who was already frowning, to sit down as well.

After Cai Zheng sat down, Yang Yi smiled and said, "Old Cai, I know what you are worried about, are you worried that these foreign students will not stay in our Shu after learning in our academy?" ”

Cai Zheng nodded solemnly and said, "Yes, the things in the Bright Academy are the future of Shuzhong, and they can't be easily given to others." ”

Over the years, Cai Zheng has been in charge of Guangming Academy, and he has gradually been fascinated by what Yang Yi has brought, from the initial incomprehension and questioning, to the gradual understanding of infiltration, and then to the final obsession, he knows how grand and huge the things brewed in this academy that are different from any institution in the world are brewing, and once the things in the academy are truly popularized, Shuzhong will usher in earth-shaking changes.

People are selfish, even the Great Confucians.

Yang Yi smiled: "Boss Cai, don't worry, my Yang Yi's things are not so easy to be stolen."

First, although the gate of our college is not limited to recruiting talented students, but some important disciplines are not accessible to everyone, such as the discipline involving gunpowder still has a strict threshold, and this is an iron law in a short period of time, without the consent of you and me, even if you have money, no matter how powerful people do not want to touch.

The second one... ”

Yang Yi paused for a moment, and suddenly asked rhetorically: "Old Cai, if you were asked to use one word to describe the knowledge of our academy, how would you interpret it?" ”

Cai Zheng's stiff and old-fashioned face did not change, but he blurted out: "Shocking." ”

"Da" Yang Yi snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, shocking." Since it is a shocking thing, do others dare to use it casually? For example, the main subject of our college, the art of arithmetic, is called the technique of obscenity in other places, and it is an unpopular knowledge, even if these foreign students learn this knowledge, who will look at him when they go elsewhere? Let's talk about our other major subject of political thought, Cai Lao, do you remember how you reacted when you first saw my article on 'Capitalist Enlightenment'? You always tear my textbooks to shreds, and call me a traitor, if I hadn't modified and downplayed the content related to the monarchy, I'm afraid you would have fallen away a long time ago. ”

Cai Zheng frowned and said, "Even now, the old man still thinks that what His Highness said is too rebellious. ”

"You see, even you, the dean, think that something terrible, can others dare to use? Even if I just talk about it on paper, if I want to take it out and really put it into practice, I'm afraid it will be impossible in a short period of time, or I wouldn't have gone to Dayue to do any new deals, you say, right? ”

Cai Zheng finally nodded and agreed: "If anyone dares to run away and say that the imperial power is not supreme, it is estimated that someone will cut off their heads before they can say anything." ”

"That's it, the really useful things of the Bright Academy can only be said and done in our Shuzhong, and no one dares to accept it when it comes out of this place." Yang Yi laughed.

Some things can't be done as you think, Yang Yi is a traverser, he knows which theoretical things are right and which are wrong, but others don't know. People's fear of the unknown makes them afraid to try, and these things are not a trick, but the lives of millions of people.

It may be that in the future, after Yang Yi's theory has achieved fruitful results and has become a foregone conclusion, people will follow suit, but now, no one dares to take this risk.