If Taoqiu wants to surpass Linzi, it must first surpass it in terms of cultural influence, which must make Taoqiu have an educational institution that can compete with Jixia Academy!

Dai Yan still has the identity of a bachelor and a doctor in the Qi Kingdom, and he has personally spent time in the Jixia Academy, and he deeply knows how powerful the Jixia Academy is!

Jixia Academy is home to elites and talents, and it is a well-deserved academic center today! Even in the entire history of China, in thousands of years of history, there are few schools that can really surpass the influence of Jixia Academy!

The results produced in the Jixia Academy are so powerful that it is the main battlefield of the entire Warring States Period, and the ideas that emerge from this debate finally lay the spiritual connotation of the entire Chinese civilization!

Moreover, in today's era, it was when Qi Wang Tian was in power, and this Qi king's fond of literary lobbying not only expanded the scale of Jixia Academy, but also greatly improved the status of Jixia Bachelors. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is not only a government-run academic institution, but also a government-run political advisory group!

It is no exaggeration to say that the current Jixia School is in its most glorious period with the current strength of Qi in the world!

Taoqiu is just one of the three capitals of such a small country as the Song State, although it is very rich now, but in terms of influence on the politics of the world, the Song State is far inferior to the Qi State. In Linzi City, the King of Qi sneezed, and the surrounding Yan, Zhongshan, and Song kingdoms all had to catch a cold!

With such a powerful force, where can Dai Yan, a nouveau riche feudal monarch of the Song Kingdom, be compared?

Fortunately, Dai Yan knows the principle of gradual progress, and he doesn't want to eat a fat man in one bite, and he will surpass Linzi all of a sudden, he just wants to surpass it in terms of cultural influence!

And such a goal is not difficult for Dai Yan to achieve.

Although the Jixia School Palace is very prosperous and is currently in the most glorious period in history, Dai Yan, as a traverser, still sees the hidden dangers behind the glory of the Jixia School at a glance!

Its biggest hidden danger is also its biggest advantage, that is, the status of the official school!

Since Jixia School is an official school, it must have official mainstream learning, which is Qi Huang Lao's theory, which first affects academic freedom and neutrality. And another more important reason, is that it is more than its official status, all its economic resources are supported by official funding, once the official does not support, or a little means, the economic support for the school palace is slightly reduced, and the school has to succumb!

As a traveler who is familiar with history, Dai Yan knows very well how the Jixia School Palace is weakened, after King Qi Min ascended the throne, unlike his father Qi Xuanwang, who likes literary lobbyists, he began to rectify the Jixia School Palace and drive out all the guys who eat white food. For this reason, it has also left an idiom of "indiscriminate filling" in history.

And without the financial support of the financiers, the Jixia School Palace did not contribute much to the country's policies, which naturally made the King of Qi Min, who was very happy, gradually lose confidence in the Jixia School, so it quickly lost political power. A group of scholars had to go to Qi and go to various countries. In addition, Linzi of Qi was conquered by the Yan army, and the Jixia School Palace also fell into ruins.

Even if Qi wanted to rebuild the Jixia School Palace again after the restoration of the country, and even invited an academic master like Xunzi to serve as a sacrificial wine again, but it could no longer restore the glory of the Jixia School!

In the final analysis, the biggest advantage of the Jixia School Palace is also its biggest drawback: it relies too much on the government.

Dai Yan came to this era, and he also spent time in the most prosperous Jixia School in the world, and he saw the modern universities of later generations, and he already had his own considerations on how to establish a truly influential educational institution!

When Taoqiu initially developed and the income of the Yi government began to increase, Dai Yan found the major merchants and factory directors of Taoqiu, and began to raise funds to establish a comprehensive university that was truly similar to that of later generations: Taoqiu University.

Dai Yan directly set up 5,000 acres of land in the Dataoqiu area, outside the east city of Taoqiu, near Heze, as the campus of Taoqiu University!

Such a vast area of land is actually more than the size of a city!

In this land set up by Dai Yan, there is a low stone mountain in the territory, which produces a kind of hard Luoshi, which is extremely beautiful, and the best products in it can even be directly used as jade to make jewelry! And this stone mountain is also called Xiaoluo Mountain.

Not far from Xiaoluo Mountain, there is the blue sea of Heze. Such a place with mountains and rivers and an elegant environment is the most suitable place for a university in Dai Yan's heart!

For the campus of Taoqiu University, Dai Yan paid 20 million yuan himself, which was almost equivalent to 1 million gold in the past, to build a new campus! And through the major businessmen and the director of the factory, Dai Yan raised another 30 million yuan as an investment in the new campus of Taoqiu College!

50 million money, in today's era, is almost equivalent to the financial and tax revenue of the entire Song Kingdom for more than 20 years, which is quite a huge amount of money! With such a huge amount of money slammed down, the brand new Taoqiu University Campus was built quickly!

The entire campus is roughly divided into college area, residential area and research area.

Dai Yan built a total of six independent college districts, namely the Academy of Sciences, the School of Ink, the College of Agriculture, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Taoism, and the Famous College. In the college area, in addition to these important colleges, Dai Yan also built important buildings such as the auditorium, the Debate Hall, the library, the gymnasium, and the dining room.

In the dormitory, it is divided into teachers' residences and student dormitories. In this regard, Dai Yan is very clear about the delineation between the two, the two accommodation areas are completely separated geographically, and the style of construction is also completely different!

Dai Yan was extremely attentive to the teacher's residence, and he even personally referred to the villa shapes he had seen in later generations, and built a villa with exquisite shapes, and the interior decoration was also designed with reference to the standards in the palace of the Song Kingdom in this era!

As for the student dormitory, it's very simple, it's similar to the crowded four-person dormitory in later generations! For Dai Yan, a crowded dormitory, although there will be trivial quarrels and people like Maccabie, but more can make students have brotherly feelings! This is very useful for strengthening the cohesion of students towards the school!

At least Dai Yan himself has experience in this area: after graduating from college, everyone communicates the most and has the deepest feelings, and there is no one more than college roommates!

The inequality between the teacher's residence and the student dormitory not only conforms to the relationship between teachers and students in this era, but also implies Dai Yan's expectation of students' struggle. Of course, it's hard to say how much of this is Dai Yan's resentment about the crowded dormitory when he was in college!

For the university's scientific research area, Dai Yan set it extremely secretive, directly designated it as an independent institution, and even sent the most elite soldiers to defend it!

All the buildings on the campus, Dai Yan is well integrated with the surrounding terrain, so that they are integrated, thus forming a quiet and elegant environment. After the completion of Taoqiu University, with its beautiful environment, it can make Dai Yan, a traveler, feel a trace of the humanistic atmosphere that can only be found in later universities.

Taoqiu University has not only invested heavily in the hardware of the building, but also spared no expense in the software of the soul of the university!

Dai Yan's goal is to build a truly comprehensive university, and such a university must have a sufficient number of scholars!

Dai Yan himself founded the scientific school, and the Yang Zhu school, which itself had Mohist, peasant, and even Taoist branches, swore allegiance to him, and the faculty of Taoqiu University was already extremely good in this era!

However, Dai Yan is still not satisfied with such a teacher! For this reason, he personally went to Mengyi in the Song Kingdom, and personally invited Zhuangzi and Hui Shi, who fell in love with each other, to Taoqiu University!

When Dai Yan arrived in Mengyi, it was the time when Zhuangzi's wife died, and Zhuangzi not only did not look sad, but sat like a dustpan and sang with his feet open. Such an attitude directly angered Hui Shi, and reprimanded Zhuangzi for being too much and too unkind!

However, Zhuangzi had his own thoughts, and he said to Hui Shi: "My wife is dead, can I not be lamented by this!" Think about the fact that human beings were originally lifeless, not only lifeless but also formless, not only formless but also lifeless. Mixed with weeds, it becomes vigorous, and from vitality to form, and then to life, and now it becomes dead, just like the change of the seasons in spring, summer, autumn and winter. People are sleeping peacefully between heaven and earth, but I have to cry for her in sorrow, I don't think it is reasonable, so I didn't do it! ”

Even though he was the ancestor of the famous school and the first logician in Chinese history, Hui Shi could not understand such a broad idea. And Dai Yan, who rushed to Mengyi to attend the funeral of Zhuangzi's wife, was also unable to understand such thoughts!

However, Dai Yan knows one thing deeply, a madman and a genius are only in the middle of the line! Of course, Dai Yan could not have thought that a bull like Zhuangzi was crazy, and he sent out the most sincere invitation to Zhuangzi to teach at Taoqiu University.

Because Zhuangzi had previously rejected the invitation of the king of Chu to the throne, Dai Yan was not sure about inviting Zhuangzi, but only mentioned the basic treatment to him: Taoqiu University would not restrict Zhuangzi's freedom of action, and he could have a gift of 1,000 yuan per month. The university will hire him to be the dean of the Faculty of Letters, to have the right to take apprentices at the University of Taoqiu, and to teach anything!

In these requests, Dai Yan did not mention any of the titles, but Zhuangzi agreed to such conditions. When Dai Yan asked Zhuangzi why he agreed so easily, Zhuangzi replied: "These conditions of yours can make it easy for me to survive, I rely on this new academy, and I can spread my knowledge, so natural things, why should I refuse?" ”

As for Hui Shi's invitation, it seems to be easier. This former Wei Xiang, since he had such a period of "being conceded" in Wei, has lost confidence in his political career, so his greatest wish now is to spread the famous doctrine he created.

Especially when he knew that his biggest academic rival Zhuangzi was going to give lectures at Taoqiu University, he immediately agreed to Dai Yan to teach at Taoqiu University.

As a result, in addition to Dai Yan himself, there are also Zhuang Zhou, Hui Shi, Yang Zhu, Tian Jiu, Xu Xing and other truly famous university scholars in the world, and Taoqiu University has begun to emerge!